Comments on: To the Moon https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/05/to-the-moon-1/ Tue, 10 May 2011 00:20:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Rdue https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/05/to-the-moon-1/#comment-502746 Tue, 10 May 2011 00:20:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/05/to-the-moon-1/#comment-502746 Shame odumbo is more interested in funding the agw scam and muslim outreach rather than space science.

]]> By: Larry Ayers https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/05/to-the-moon-1/#comment-502745 Sun, 08 May 2011 13:42:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/05/to-the-moon-1/#comment-502745 I was in the second grade in 1961, and May 5th is my birthday. My mother contacted the grade school in Cedar Rapids, IA, which I attended and got permission for me to stay home from school to watch the launch on our B&W TV.

Naturally I was thrilled to watch the live coverage of Alan Shepard’s ascent out of the atmosphere.

]]> By: scidog https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/05/to-the-moon-1/#comment-502744 Fri, 06 May 2011 05:47:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/05/to-the-moon-1/#comment-502744 tin can?..my brother and i were so impressed by the launch that we painted up a bunch of tin cans black and put Freedom Seven type names on them.then on our summer at the family cottage in Canada where you could buy fire crackers,big ones!” we blew can after can off the beach and into the lake for a splash down and recovery.

]]> By: nexplorer https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/05/to-the-moon-1/#comment-502743 Thu, 05 May 2011 20:51:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/05/to-the-moon-1/#comment-502743 Check out the digital archive of the original Mercury missions images that was released today by NASA, if you haven’t seen it already: http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/

]]> By: daedalus2u https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/05/to-the-moon-1/#comment-502742 Thu, 05 May 2011 20:50:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/05/to-the-moon-1/#comment-502742 It is interesting how non-funny that line is now. I don’t think that any main stream commedian uses anything like it. (but I don’t watch any tv and don’t watch any live comedy either)

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/05/to-the-moon-1/#comment-502741 Thu, 05 May 2011 17:32:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/05/to-the-moon-1/#comment-502741 I’ve spent much of my adult life trying to FORGET the Honeymooners. And I was almost there! ALMOST THERE!!!!

]]> By: NewEnglandBob https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/05/to-the-moon-1/#comment-502740 Thu, 05 May 2011 16:13:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/05/to-the-moon-1/#comment-502740 You forgot to mention Ralph Kramden. “To the moon, Alice; to the moon”.

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