Fifty years since the moon landings

[sycamore54321]

It will be 50 years ago later this month since the first moon landing. I wasn’t born. I’ve always imagined though, what it must feel like to look up at the moon and know that there were people there. Do any MNers recall it? Was it scary or awe-inspiring? What did it feel like?

It seems so odd to me that this huge milestone took place half a century ago, and then abruptly stopped almost as suddenly as it had begun a few years later. And since then, loads of other exciting space stuff but nobody else has ever stood on something that wasn’t of our planet.

Lack of money and interest. Why spend 10s of billions on space exploration when you can spend 100s of billions on wars?
Wait till the Chinese get to the moon, the US government will be demanding that NASA get back to the moon ASAP.

Ah, yeah I get what you mean.

I’d love to know more about the technology used to keep their oxygen supply going on the moon walks

Top scuba divers could do with it

I’d love to know more about the technology used to keep their oxygen supply going on the moon walks

It'll be somewhere on the NASA site - almost everything is. Very few secrets about the tech they used to get to the moon.

To people earlier asking how they managed to get there without computers, here are the calculations. (And I join in with the 'fuck off' for those doubting the achievement, including that of Margaret Hamilton.)

Oops, missed out the word 'modern' before computers there.

I was 9. We had to sit cross legged on the floor for hours in the school hall for hours to watch it on the black and white TV. It was the most boring thing I can remember, and I didn't have an exciting childhood.