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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:31:46 PM EDT
I remember staying up late with my parents waiting on that "candle to get lit", and then drifting off to sleep. Mission control, for some odd reason, would get right down to the last couple of minutes and hold the launch. Dad would wake me up about 30 seconds right before the launch. That rocket lifting off, was AWESOME!
B&W TV. I will never forget those days. Inspired me to become who I am today. Thank you M&D. Thank you NASA, also. 
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:32:35 PM EDT
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Sure did, watched them in school too.
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:33:01 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:36:17 PM EDT
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Glued to the TV.
I had so many Revell Saturn V rocket models in my bedroom it was hard to walk around.... |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:38:06 PM EDT
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Sure did, watched them in school too. Dad bought this home 
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:40:52 PM EDT
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I did for as long as they were broadcast. Apollo 11  Apollo 14    |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:41:15 PM EDT
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Yeah, Mercury and Gemini too. A family vacation was at Canaveral to watch a Gemini launch.
Also I worked at an electronics factory that made relays for SkyLab and the solid fuel boosters on the Shuttle. |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:42:21 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:43:41 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:43:43 PM EDT
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I have watched every launch that I could from Mercury to the present. I was very pissed off the later Apollo missions did not get the attention they should have.
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:43:49 PM EDT
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Before the first moon landing, I was totally fascinated with the whole thing. I was a young kid but I read everything I could find about it. It was by far the thing I was most excited about in life for the couple months leading up to the moon landing. Back then we had full service gas stations and a lot of them had promotional stuff to give away having to do with the moon landing and I begged my mother to get gas at places that had stuff like a paper model of the LEM, or books, or whatever. It was all I talked about.
On the night of the moon landing, I could barely contain myself. I was planted in front of the TV. The landing took place pretty late at night EST and I fell asleep in the chair. I woke up and it was all over. I couldn't believe it. I asked my parent's why they didn't wake me up ? It was then that I realized that they didn't take anything I did or said seriously. I can't describe the feeling I had at that moment other than to say that I am pissed off about it to this day over 40 years later. Not that I missed the moon landing, but that my parents didn't give a shit. I am actually embarrassed to a degree to post this, but........it's true. |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:43:55 PM EDT
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yes
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:44:23 PM EDT
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In front of the only TV in the house, an old B&W model. Same one we watched Nixon resign on. Still have the original Nat Geo from later that year.
ETA: Pic. Looks bad, but the mag is pristine. The scratches and wrinkles are on the plastic cover my dad put on it at the time...about 46 years ago. RIP dad. Still think of you most every day. 
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:44:53 PM EDT
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Little before my time but I am absolutely transfixed by Apollo footage.
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:45:37 PM EDT
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Glued to the TV.I had so many Revell Saturn V rocket models in my bedroom it was hard to walk around.... I think Estes made a Saturn 5 model rocket years ago. Believe it might have been a skill level 5. 5 was the hardest of all of them to construct. Then again, you probably already know this. 
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:46:02 PM EDT
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... I did
It was the catalyst for the career I'm in now |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:46:19 PM EDT
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Absolutely! You didn't grow up during that time and not watch the Apollo missions. |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:46:59 PM EDT
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I think Estes made a Saturn 5 model rocket years ago. Believe it might have been a skill level 5. 5 was the hardest of all of them to construct. Then again, you probably already know this.
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Glued to the TV.I had so many Revell Saturn V rocket models in my bedroom it was hard to walk around.... I think Estes made a Saturn 5 model rocket years ago. Believe it might have been a skill level 5. 5 was the hardest of all of them to construct. Then again, you probably already know this.
When I was a kid, I lusted after that rocket daily. As an adult, I saw one in a store and instantly bought it. I got home and thought, what the hell am I doing buying this, and gave it to my nephews 
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:47:53 PM EDT
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Apollo and the Vietnam War were the only interesting things going on.
I was born in '63. |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:48:13 PM EDT
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Sure did, watched them in school too. Dad bought this home http://i364.photobucket.com/albums/oo86/poolman58/IMG_6414.jpg Your photo is a force to be reckoned with. I have never seen that. Was that a ticket to the event or an advertisement flyer to the event? |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:49:38 PM EDT
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Yes. And the earlier missions, too.
My parents took me to Mitchell, IN, where they were having a parade to honor Virgil "Gus" Grissom after his historic flight. I was fairly young, but I remember Grissom seated in a convertible and waving to the crowd, and the Air Force or Air Guard jets screaming overhead. |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:50:19 PM EDT
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Before the first moon landing, I was totally fascinated with the whole thing. I was a young kid but I read everything I could find about it. It was by far the thing I was most excited about in life for the couple months leading up to the moon landing. Back then we had full service gas stations and a lot of them had promotional stuff to give away having to do with the moon landing and I begged my mother to get gas at places that had stuff like a paper model of the LEM, or books, or whatever. It was all I talked about. On the night of the moon landing, I could barely contain myself. I was planted in front of the TV. The landing took place pretty late at night EST and I fell asleep in the chair. I woke up and it was all over. I couldn't believe it. I asked my parent's why they didn't wake me up ? It was then that I realized that they didn't take anything I did or said seriously. I can't describe the feeling I had at that moment other than to say that I am pissed off about it to this day over 40 years later. Not that I missed the moon landing, but that my parents didn't give a shit. I am actually embarrassed to a degree to post this, but........it's true. that's pretty shitty 
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:50:47 PM EDT
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Your photo is a force to be reckoned with. I have never seen that. Was that a ticket to the event or an advertisement flyer to the event? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Sure did, watched them in school too. Dad bought this home http://i364.photobucket.com/albums/oo86/poolman58/IMG_6414.jpg Your photo is a force to be reckoned with. I have never seen that. Was that a ticket to the event or an advertisement flyer to the event? Looks like a vinyl record cover. |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:51:12 PM EDT
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Watch them? I was glued, the moon landing was just 2 days from my 10th birthday. Those astronauts were my real life heroes.
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:51:23 PM EDT
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I did for as long as they were broadcast. Apollo 11 http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b358/cbarzyz/apollo11-1.jpg Apollo 14 http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b358/cbarzyz/apollo14-1.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b358/cbarzyz/apollo142-1.jpg http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b358/cbarzyz/apollo141.jpg That last photo. Gives me chills looking at it. Can you imagine being the guy that earned the trip & his feelings, on top of that rocket? 
Were those photos taken with a Polaroid? |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:55:22 PM EDT
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Before my time, but when I was at NASA, I bought a medallion made with metal that was flown to the moon on an Apollo missions. Probably 0.00000001 grams of it alloyed, but still I think it's cool and I like it.
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:57:12 PM EDT
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I was able to watch the preparations and lift-off on TV and then step outside and watch the real thing as it climbed and eventually disappeared out of sight.
The sound, even from 15 miles away was incredible. I worked on the Cape at the time but had nothing to do with any interesting programs. Just to be there was a privilege. |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:57:18 PM EDT
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I remember the build up and then the moon walk. It was summer so me and my friends would watch all the NASA reports. Finally the big moment! It was evening on the West coast. The whole family and my Grandpa were watching.
Outside, it was dead quiet, no traffic, nothing. Everyone was inside watching. |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:58:10 PM EDT
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Watched them in school . They wheeled in a black and white TV .
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:58:44 PM EDT
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yep.
I remember Armstrong stepping out. I had a newspaper with the headline and pic, but that's long gone. |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:58:48 PM EDT
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Yeah, Mercury and Gemini too. A family vacation was at Canaveral to watch a Gemini launch. Also I worked at an electronics factory that made relays for SkyLab and the solid fuel boosters on the Shuttle. This is getting good!
Morton Thiokol maybe? |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 9:58:55 PM EDT
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Your photo is a force to be reckoned with. I have never seen that. Was that a ticket to the event or an advertisement flyer to the event? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Sure did, watched them in school too. Dad bought this home http://i364.photobucket.com/albums/oo86/poolman58/IMG_6414.jpg Your photo is a force to be reckoned with. I have never seen that. Was that a ticket to the event or an advertisement flyer to the event? It's a record album |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:00:16 PM EDT
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I remember seeing what must've been the last one on TV. Not the launch, but I remember my dad watching the news and seeIng pics from the moon.
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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:01:21 PM EDT
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The days of Space Food Sticks and Tang
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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:03:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The days of Space Food Sticks and Tang  |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:03:58 PM EDT
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I guess I'm really old, i remember all the Gemini missions that came before... on an old B&W Hoffman tube TV.
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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:05:13 PM EDT
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Was at EM "A" school at Great Lakes when Apollo 11 touched down on the moon.
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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:06:17 PM EDT
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It was amazing back then. Now people take it as an everyday thing.
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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:07:14 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:07:21 PM EDT
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I guess I'm really old, i remember all the Gemini missions that came before... on an old B&W Hoffman tube TV. Remember the tube testing machine at Radio Shack? |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:09:07 PM EDT
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I guess I'm really old, i remember all the Gemini missions that came before... on an old B&W Hoffman tube TV. Remember the tube testing machine at Radio Shack? Yes I do, the old man was always running down to Walgreen's to use it. |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:09:23 PM EDT
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That was before my time. I do remember very clearly though my mother telling me to get out the door or I will miss the bus to school. I remember arguing with her that the shuttle was about to launch in a few minutes and I wanted to see. She agreed to drive me to school so I could watch. Then it blew up.
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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:09:26 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:09:28 PM EDT
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Remember the tube testing machine at Radio Shack? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I guess I'm really old, i remember all the Gemini missions that came before... on an old B&W Hoffman tube TV. Remember the tube testing machine at Radio Shack? I do. |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:11:19 PM EDT
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I guess I'm really old, i remember all the Gemini missions that came before... on an old B&W Hoffman tube TV. Remember the tube testing machine at Radio Shack? I've got one of the suitcase testers...somewhere. |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:13:35 PM EDT
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And we can't for get Astronaut Jose
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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:13:56 PM EDT
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I flew model rockets, too. |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:15:43 PM EDT
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Remember the tube testing machine at Radio Shack? My folks had a friend one block over that was a TV repairman in his spare time. He always came to the house with a big freaking case that opened like a tackle box with rows of new tubes, and a tester in the bottom. Move the TV away from the wall and fiddle around with the tubes a bit, boom, good as new. $5, or less. |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:18:47 PM EDT
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I have watched every launch that I could from Mercury to the present. I was very pissed off the later Apollo missions did not get the attention they should have. I think politics somewhere put the rocket missions in the MSM, on the back burner. That is all I can recollect. |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:20:42 PM EDT
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Yes
Roy |
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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:21:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Remember the tube testing machine at Radio Shack? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I guess I'm really old, i remember all the Gemini missions that came before... on an old B&W Hoffman tube TV. Remember the tube testing machine at Radio Shack? Radio Shack, hardware stores, drug stores, smoke shops... there were tube testers all over the place in the 60s |
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