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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2020 18:51:07 GMT
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Post by paulmuaddib on Aug 5, 2020 19:59:58 GMT
Pretty cool Glen. Your only two years older so I know you remember the excitement of the space race of the sixties. It was so phenomenal back then. We sort of take for granted all of this now. And kids today have so many other things to occupy their minds I doubt many get as excited as we did. Thanks for posting.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2020 20:45:03 GMT
As Vietnam and other factors escalated, the school room shows became a thing of the past once Gemini was in full swing (at least in PA at the time). The Mercury shots were attended by all in elementary classes when I grew up in CO. The initial days sitting in a gymnasium, as the Boulder school had no auditorium (K-2). Years 3-4, the next building had b&w sets in each classroom. By Apollo, I was in a tiny school in the woods of NH with no tv at all. Radio was my newsfeed after hours excepting breaks from school. The moon landing was on my 15th birthday. We are blessed now with as much as we want to take in. Despite current news, NASA had been plugged back in during the past administration after the shuttles were mothballed and there is now progress daily. The Mars project as well has very long legs. With Musk and worldwide techno growth, we are slowly but surely moving forward. I don't know if you remember the TV series en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_About_Time_(TV_series)It embodied what the early SpaceX rockets looked like and the slow ascents, descents. I will live out my life without seeing the George Jetson and Blade Runner lifestyles but future generations will see some of it. Cheers GC
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Post by treeslicer on Aug 5, 2020 21:42:28 GMT
I'm much more reminded of this show, the first sci-fi that I ever saw on TV, Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, that started me on a lifelong scientific and aerospace path.
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Post by paulmuaddib on Aug 5, 2020 22:13:45 GMT
Glen, treeslicer, I did not see either of those shows but saw many others (tv and movies) and most of the spaceships landed vertically. I’ll not see any of that either nor the destruction of the human race, whichever comes first. Right now (as it always has I suppose) it looks like a neck to neck race to see which is going to win. I actually got to see Apollo 15 launch in Florida. Boy Scout troop traveled across the state. First time I saw the coriolis effect in person.
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