July 20, 1969: One Small Step ... One Giant Leap ...

[warrior1]

[Botany]

1. Flat out stud bolts made that mission happen

I saw the Apollo 11 command capsule @ the Smithsonian a few years ago ..... damn it was small

[warrior1]

2. This is interesting and what people take for granted.

Apollo-11 Computer


RAM (Random Access Memory) 2 Kilobytes.


ROM (Read Only Memory) 36 Kilobytes.


Processing speed 1 Megahertz.


Number pad in stead of Keyboard.


Power supply needed: 70 watt.


Today's Personal Computers


Random Access Memory 512 mega bytes. (RAM)


Read Only Memory (ROM) 512 Kilobytes.


Storage capacity 80 GigaBytes.


Processing speed 3 Gigahertz.


Power supply needed 250 watt.


Summery

RAM of todays personal computers is 256,000 time greater than Apollo-11 computer.

ROM is 15 times greater

Modern computers are 3000 times faster in processing a task.

[Botany]

5. I remember just staring at the size of the capsule ...

..... the service module gave em more room but it was really small the seats were jammed together



Remember that when apollo was flying they were still checking the math w/ slide rules.

[LiberalEsto]

6. That was the Stone Age

back when we were all stoned

[RT Atlanta]

3. 42 years ago tonight!

Armstrong back in LM after the EVA:





Aldrin back in the LM after the EVA:


Cheers to a magical accomplishment in the history of human exploration!

"We came in peace, for all mankind."

[warrior1]

4. I remember where I was

when they got to the moon. I was standing in line outside of a theater on Mather AFB. I was still light out and I remember looking up and being amazed that there where people actually on the moon.

[hunter]

7. My grandfather was one of the many, many engineers who made that happen.

It's amazing what human beings can accomplish when we're not shooting, slashing, torturing, starving, and bludgeoning one another.

[ThatsMyBarack]

8. Sorry I wasn't even conceived yet!

My sister was one month and two days old!

[proud patriot]

9. I was born may 29th 1969

so I was around

[msedano]

10. i'd just arrived in korea

when the battery invited the local farmers onto the post, to the bar, to see the moon landing on AFKN t.v. Near-total cultural dislocation. Just the day prior, I'd been driven up the valley to Hwaak-ni, suffocating the stench of human shit fertilizing the rice paddies. Families planting and nurturing their crops, using oxen to pull wooden plows.The ville had no electricity or phones nor plumbing.

It was bright daylight in Korea--i understand you in the states watched it at night? I sat next to a fellow dressed in homespun hemp clothing and watched as a guy from my country, walked on the moon.

[sdfernando]

11. I remember watching on the black & white

TV...was the best birthday present I ever got, not the TV the man on the Moon part. :)