6 thoughts on “Apollo 45th Anniversary”

1. Sometimes Buzz makes sense; sometimes not so much.

   In this case, his “four-point plan” starts with bringing China onboard. That makes it a non-starter right there.

2. Where were you…

   … a ten y.o. in Tacoma WA waiting for dad to come back from Viet Nam.

3. I was -9…missed out on everything. I got excited when Bush put us on a path back to the moon…I’ve more or less given up any hope of seeing a moon landing in my lifetime. Not even anything very exciting going on that would get my kids interested…

   1. My earliest memory of the space program is watching the Apollo 17 splashdown with my grandfather, who said “Well, that’s the last of them”. I wonder if he didn’t know about Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz, or if he thought they didn’t count.

      Anyway, I’m commenting just to say that a) I expect to see a lunar landing in my lifetime, and I’m older than the other Bob, and b) my four year old repeatedly asks for SpaceX’s Grasshopper 250m Test “Ring of Fire” video(*), so contrary to the other Bob, there is already something exciting going on for at least one kid.

      (*) I tried playing the video without sound, and I tried playing “ring of fire” without the video, and neither were what she wants — she wants the “Ring of Fire” video as SpaceX released it.

4. Judging from Patton Oswalt’s bleary eyes, his mind was certainly blown.

   Me, I can’t remember where I was because I was only 2.5 years old. I’ve been told I was propped up in front of the TV, but honestly have no recollection whatsover of the event. Probably more than Patton, though…

5. Seven years old standing on the front porch beside my father, who could remember the first airplane he ever saw, looking up at the moon in awe of the fact that two Americans were standing on it’s surface.

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