One small step for a man... (Don't fancy doing it. Just do it.) - by Rogue Keeper
R Soul on 20/7/2009 at 17:10
Happy Birthday Moon :D
quinch on 20/7/2009 at 18:49
Cheers for the gravity, Moon.
I'm pretty sure the Moon landing is my earliest memory. Now I'm depressed. :(
demagogue on 20/7/2009 at 19:12
Rock on.
And we got there before anybody else!
And by "we", I mean humans of course.
Also, I can just imagine MJ is doing the moon-walk up there right now.
Rogue Keeper on 20/7/2009 at 21:20
So you don't believe there is an obscure black monolith buried deep beneath the Tycho crater?
Kolya on 20/7/2009 at 22:45
Not if I haven't shopped it in myself, gotta be careful with the shadows...
Tocky on 21/7/2009 at 04:17
This was the most amazing thing ever. I remember watching as the LM glided along over the surface and it seemed to take forever with the moonscape rolling along underneath. I had thought it would land straight down but the animations showed it going sideways of the surface. How would they keep from rolling it? They had one shot.
Everyone was quiet and leaning forward, even my little brother was slackjaw still. Mom had her hands tightly squeezed together and Dad his balled into fists. My sisters were crosslegged on the floor with the concentration of Shaolin monks. A string of firecrackers wouldn't have made us turn our heads.
The LM straightened. It was by no means a sure thing. They had already had problems with the onboard navigation computer. Dust that had been there ages began to scatter.
"The Eagle has landed."
Dad jumped up expelling his pent breath in a triumphant yahoo and shaking his fists in the air. Mom began to clap. My sisters began to jump and dance. All of us were on our feet grinning like monkeys and laughing with relief. We did it. Not they did it. Humanity did it. We were on the moon.
I went onto the porch and looked up at the moon. Men were up there. The momentousness of it I cannot explain. All my spaceman fantasies could not compare. Then my brother came out and stood beside me and said "I can't see them." I was about to tell him what a goof he was for thinking he could when Dad stepped into the moonlight and looked up with us. "They are there," he said. We stared up at it for the longest time.
Shug on 21/7/2009 at 06:12
Very well told Tocky, speaking as someone who didn't come around for quite a while after all this happened
nicked on 21/7/2009 at 06:29
If I'd have been alive then, I'd have been a dickhead who deliberately didn't watch it and made out I didn't give a shit. Just as well I wasn't really, cos it's a pretty impressive achievement.
