35 Years Ago - Apollo 8

Pat Flannery wrote:

Old, huh? I saw John Glenn go up on TV. The first time. :-)

Pat

Envy, envy. Though it's Gemini that I really wish I had been able to see
at the time.

It just does not feel 35 years ago, the memories are so clear. I'm 41
now, time flies. My boss was born a couple of days after Apollo 11
landed. In fact no-one else where I work can remember the landings at
all! We bought our TV just a couple of months before Apollo 8. I don't
remember any of the buildup to the flight at all. I do remember mum
calling me to the tv asking if I want to see a rocket taking off. It was
in the last phases of the countdown. After that came all the coverage
which seemed quite comprehensive here in the uk. I still have a
scrapbook of some of the cuttings for the later flights from the Radio
Times, the UK equivalent of TV Guide. If anyone is interested I might
scan some of them and upload to some webspace I have.

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On 23 Dec 2003 16:02:37 GMT, Andrew Gray
wrote:

Nah, you're old if you saw John Glenn on TV the very first time. And
you're scary if you can remember it g

I remember seeing Grissom go up on TV. I remember Sputnik 2!!


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OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote in message . ..
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 04:12:02 GMT, Jud McCranie
wrote:

On 21 Dec 2003 19:24:27 -0800, (ed kyle) wrote:

The third Saturn V with Borman, Lovell, and Anders on Apollo 8
lifted off 35 years ago today, Dec. 21, 1968.

And I was at the Cape.

...You. Lucky. *******.

OM

It's the second time in as many days as I read you using exactly those
words... The other time around is about the Beagle 2 projet manager I
think!
:-)

Care to tell us an annecdote in which -we- can call you the lucky one?
:-)

In article , Dave
Downing wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:

Old, huh? I saw John Glenn go up on TV. The first time. :-)

Pat

Envy, envy. Though it's Gemini that I really wish I had been able to see
at the time.

It just does not feel 35 years ago, the memories are so clear. I'm 41
now, time flies. My boss was born a couple of days after Apollo 11
landed.

I was born a couple of days after the *other* Columbia landed... ;-)

(STS-4, I think)

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-Andrew Gray

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 02:02:18 +0100, edo
wrote:

If the Earth had too moons like Mars,
witch Apollo mission would have been
sent to witch moon?

Which ever one was built by Morton-Thiokol.

John Maxson

On 23 Dec 2003 15:16:59 -0800, (Remy Villeneuve)
wrote:

Care to tell us an annecdote in which -we- can call you the lucky one?
:-)

....I had a threesome last weekend, if that'll work.

OM

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If the Earth had too moons like Mars,
witch Apollo mission would have been
sent to witch moon?

Apollo woud of gone gone to mars or a earth crossing asteroid.

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 07:22:35 -0600, Pat Flannery wrote:

Old, huh? I saw John Glenn go up on TV. The first time. :-)

Heck Pat old son, I saw Shepard and Grissom before Glenn, and would have
seen Gagarin if they would have telecast his flight!

I even convinced my Boy Scout troop to build a full size Mercury capsule
mock-up complete with an astronaut (silver painted coveralls stuffed with
newspaper and topped with a football helmet IIRC) for the "Skills of
Scouting" show at the armory.

Remy Villeneuve wrote:

...You. Lucky. *******.

Care to tell us an anecdote in which -we- can call you the lucky one?
:-)

Have you so soon forgotten about OM's job at the Gentlemen's Club?

To quote Pat Flannery from Sep 2002:

How the [redacted] is [OM] pulling off an operation this cool, the Texas
swine?!

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Dave Michelson

Dave Downing wrote:

Pat Flannery wrote:

Old, huh? I saw John Glenn go up on TV. The first time. :-)

Pat


Envy, envy. Though it's Gemini that I really wish I had been able to
see at the time.


I'll tell you one thing- I'll remember watching that motor shutdown on
Gemini 6 on TV for the rest of my life...I knew right off the bat that
something was very wrong, and sat back in fixated horror waiting for the
inevitable explosion...you got to see _lots_ of rockets blow up back in
those days.

Pat