Happy Apollo Day!

[pumpkinpi]

How are you celebrating?
I'm spreading the greatness at the Mall of America.

I have been immersed in Apollo for months, developing a planetarium shoe and activities and events, so there is so much about it on my mind. But I'm on a break so I'll keep this short. I have been following apolloinrealtime.org Or synchronizes audio, video, and facts of the entire mission. This morning, 12 hours before Armstrong's EVA, I heard him say "One small step....blah..." He was still composing what he was going to say!

[Sigma_Orionis]

Very Cool

[geonuc]

I celebrated by having a couple of beers with a younger friend and talked about what a momentous occasion the moon landing was for us oldsters.

[Thumper]

Do those planetarium shoes come in pairs?
I watched about 5 hours of programming I DVR'd. Got about 5 to go. Great to see some archival footage that I'd not seen before. Mrs. T had some questions and it was great to be able to answer them for her.

[Rommie]

We spent Friday night in Portsmouth, NH on an evening trip so we didn't have to argue about who couldn't sample the beer, but it was super hot so we headed inland to the lake, and I got sunburned, and then it got cloudy so no chance of stargazing. Woo, summer!

Bf on the other hand found a Dutch archival video on YouTube of the moon landing and watched that- apparently it was lost for 40 years because they deleted the tapes, but it resurfaced when an amateur recording was found, so that's neat. And lots of chatting about it with older family members over dinner- seems like there's some optimism we'll be back sooner over later, because the return date is getting so much closer (ie no longer "20 years in the future"). I sure hope so, because I can imagine few things more depressing than celebrating the 100th anniversary in 50 years and still wondering when we'll return.