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In sci.physics, Randy Poe

wrote
on 4 Nov 2003 12:13:02 -0800
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The Ghost In The Machine wrote in message ...

I was in kindergarten or first grade when I saw the TV
broadcasts (I remember the teacher or someone bringing in
the TV stand, that's about it).

Where? In my time zone (Eastern US) it was about 8 pm
when they landed, close to 10 pm when they finally stepped
out of the LEM. Much to my annoyance, I was having a
great deal of trouble staying awake by then.

Good question. In that case I've no clue *what* we
were watching -- although I was on the East Coast
at the time.

(It's possible the teacher taped it. I can only guess now.)

Here's the vital statistics. Any of these ring a bell?

Apollo 11: Landed 20:17:40 UT (4:17:40 p.m. EDT) July 20
1969. Armstrong stepped onto the surface at 02:56:15 UT on
July 21 (10:56:15 p.m. EDT).

Apollo 12: Landed 1:54:35 EST Nov 19 1969. Performed a
number of experiments in two EVAs from 6:32 am-10:28 am
Nov 19 (EST) and 10:54 pm Nov 19 - 2:44 am Nov 20 (EST)

Apollo 14: Landed 5 February 1971 UT 09:18:11 (04:18:11 a.m.
EST). Among other things, they put down the corner cube
reflectors used for laser ranging.

Apollo 15: Landed 30 July 1971 UT 22:16:29 (06:16:29 p.m.
EDT). Included the lunar rover, the hammer & feather
gravity experiment, and a satellite in low lunar orbit.
Placed another corner reflector with the rover.

Apollo 16: Landed 21 April 1972 UT 02:23:35 (20 April
09:23:35 p.m. EST). Lunar rover, lunar satellite,

Apollo 17: Landed 11 December 1972 UT 19:54:57 (02:54:57
p.m. EST). Last Apollo mission. Apparently left a TV
camera to film the takeoff, as there is a quicktime movie
of the takeoff on the NASA site.

Source for all this stuff: The evil conspirators at
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo.html

- Randy

Randy Poe wrote:

Apollo 15: Landed 30 July 1971 UT 22:16:29 (06:16:29 p.m.
EDT). Included the lunar rover, the hammer & feather
gravity experiment, and a satellite in low lunar orbit.
Placed another corner reflector with the rover.

This was the first time that video of the launch from the
Moon's surface was transmitted to Earth. I saw it live on
TV at almost exactly 1 PM. Five hours later, I watched a
replay on the 4 PM news. That was an interesting day!

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

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In sci.physics, Jeff Root

wrote
on 5 Nov 2003 11:23:23 -0800
:
Randy Poe wrote:

Apollo 15: Landed 30 July 1971 UT 22:16:29 (06:16:29 p.m.
EDT). Included the lunar rover, the hammer & feather
gravity experiment, and a satellite in low lunar orbit.
Placed another corner reflector with the rover.

This was the first time that video of the launch from the
Moon's surface was transmitted to Earth. I saw it live on
TV at almost exactly 1 PM. Five hours later, I watched a
replay on the 4 PM news. That was an interesting day!

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

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Hmm...if that is the case then I would have already moved
to the West Coast. Peculiar.

Well, like they say, as one gets older one loses three things.
The first is one's memory, and the other two I forget... :-)

But yeah, we went there. It apparently is an interesting
(if extremely hostile) place to visit. :-)

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