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Aldrin Joins Armstrong
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Published: 2019-07-19 16:53:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 7556; Favourites: 190; Downloads: 0
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Fifty years ago, tomorrow:"Aldrin Joins Armstrong," 12" x 16" transparent watercolor on Arches 140 lbs. cold-press painting of mine.Related content
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I'll reply to the "love" comment, LOL. Thank you very much.
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Congratulations on your DD! Β Just last night I was watching about this on youtube, and yes, I believe they went to the moon!Β
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Thanks, and I hope you'd believe it...the evidence is simply overwhelming. There are even high-def photos taken from lunar orbit by various satellites from multiple nations of the six landing sites, and you can clearly see the decent stage of the LM, plus rovers (Apollo15-17), rover tracks, various instruments, flags, etc...all over the place.
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Oh I agree!Β I think many people still don't believe it because it is hard to believe that we have cell phones that have more memory than those people had back then.Β But I think we had help too...
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That was an important part of history, no doubt about that, and they had to take a significant number of risks going up like thatπ
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There were countless risks, from before launch even to final splashdown. Earlier missions helped pave the way, and lessen many of those risks. The landing was by far the most dangerous part of the whole mission, and it was a very close thing, as it turned out. Almost no one expected Apollo 11 to go as well as it did, however. Most "experts" put the chances of a successful mission at less than 50%, with about a 33% chance of crew death. When they were planning the coming missions just a year before, most thought the first successful mission would be either Apollo 12 or 13...almost certainly not the first try with 11. Apollo 7-10 were very successful, however. I still think Apollo 8 was probably the single biggest risk of the whole space race...first to leave Earth orbit, etc.
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There is a plausible but dubious story that Aldrin "hotwired" the Eagle on the Moon, because the console casing was damaged in the landing and they either couldn't or wouldn't trust it to fire normally.
Which if it is true, if one takes legal definitions to their logical extremes, makes Armstrong first on the Moon but Aldrin the first interplanetary space pirate...
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It isn't dubious at all.Β A simple, but important accent engine switch broke off, and he used a pen shoved in there to move the broken switch. There was no "hotwiring" involved.
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So none of the spectacular language a story acquires when it has been retold a couple of times, but very much true at the core?
The best kind of story.
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I only had a problem with the word "dubious," which implies false.
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I can see that. Not native English, so habitually use it as "embellished"; not the same gravity.
Do you know if there is an official account? Those I have heard disagreed on the details, like when exactly the mishap occurred, what was damaged and how severely.
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Very nicely done!!
Congratulations on your much deserved DD!Β 
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Thank you...it was sold to a mother of a man who helped build the LM, and she gave to him as a Christmas gift.
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"Here men from the planet earth first set foot upon the moon July 1969 A.D. we came in peace for all mankind."
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Where have I seen that before? lol
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That was the plague they left on the moon.
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Yep, that's why I wrote "LOL" It's possible that plaque will outlast humanity itself.
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Β Β Congratulations on your much deserved DD!Β Β
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Thank you.
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I think itβs good that weβre now resuming human expansion. This is just proof that if we can men to the moon 50 years ago, we can certainly accomplish that now
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Tomorrow we go back to lamenting that the space programmes have largely stalled. But today, we celebrate.
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Wonderful!Β Hard to believe that was all 50 years ago
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Thanks, David...and I agree!
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