Comments | katherine09: In search of the men who fell to earth

katherine09

In search of the men who fell to earth

Sep 01, 2008 09:33

It's no secret that I'm slightly obsessed with Space, but I recently I picked up a book called "Moondust" about the Apollo astronauts. It had nothing in it about the technical achievement of reaching the moon, the only objective was to see how traveling a quarter million miles away from our home changed the men that came home. The answers were ( Read more... )

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herskyofstars September 1 2008, 18:43:14 UTC

I work at an independent kind of retirement community. One of the gentleman there had alot to do with NASA. He had models he made and presented to NASA up in his apt, He had autographs and letters framed from John Glenn and Buzz Aldren and others..I was always so fascinated. He also had fan mail sometimes.. made ME feel cool !

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katherine09 September 2 2008, 17:50:15 UTC

That IS really cool! I was in line at the grocery store the other day and this older man behind us had a NASA cap on with a bunch of pins on it, and I really wanted to ask him about it! People seem to have forgotten about our space heroes of the 1960s. Modern astronauts venture 200 miles away from earth, they went 250,000 to the moon! And the energy and labor and luck it took to get there, it almost seems magical. I've always wanted to work in a retirement community, their stories are amazing! You're lucky to hear them :D

herskyofstars September 2 2008, 20:35:13 UTC

Oh the stories are fantastic indeed. All these lives and stories. the best part of the job for sure.

adaptor September 1 2008, 22:08:12 UTC

I love how in that last picture the one man appears to be reaching back up to the moon.

Thanks for sharing! :-D

katherine09 September 2 2008, 17:42:15 UTC

glad you liked it!

that man is actually Neil Armstrong! now that you mention it, it does look like he'd reaching for the moon.

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katherine09 September 2 2008, 17:41:05 UTC

Thanks! That's so interesting that the director wanted them to read that, I thought it would be a book nobody had heard of! I bought In the Shadow of the Moon, I just love it-- I still haven't seen Sunshine though. I need to!

I'm going to this Space Convention on February, and a lot of the early astronauts are going to be there, I'm so excited :D