Remembering Tranquility Base.
It’s been 39 years since we heard those famous words announcing that humans had finally reached another world:
“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”
On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon.
When mission commander Neil Armstrong finally took the “small step,” I was watching in the Fillmore West in San Francisco. In a corner of the huge concert hall they had a large screen showing man’s first steps on the moon. The activities at Tranquility Base fit right in with the light show.
Where were you when Armstrong took that the “giant leap for mankind?”
The following video shows the Eagle’s descent and landing, Armstrong’s first steps on the moon, activities at Tranquility Base, and the Eagle’s return to the orbiting Columbia:
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
One gauge of a great country is its
phred (Diary) Sunday, July 20th at 9:14AM EST (link)scientific achievements. I was age 14 when Apollo landed at Tranquility base. My father was a printer at a newspaper. He brought me a newspaper from work that day. The huge headline read “Man Walks on the Moon.” I still have that issue. I’m still just as proud of our nation.
Liberalism: Equally shared misery.
But,
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Sunday, July 20th at 9:24AM EST (link)now, we are about to enter into a Black Hole in the history of America… The Obama Presidency. We must prevent it from happening.
PS: Oops. Sorry for that racist scientific term.