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The Eagle Has Landed

  Maybe if we tell NASA there’s some rare Pokemon up there, we can get them to go back.

 

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Maybe if we tell NASA there’s some rare Pokemon up there, we can get them to go back.

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  1. KenH

    I think you’d have better odds asking Elon Musk to run the mission. Last time NASA tried to re-design a LEM, they had some abortion with 5 engines because of “safety” and “redundancy” . One wonders how the hell we ever survived in caveman days, huh?

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  2. Casey

    In 1966, NASA accounted for nearly 4.5% of the federal budget. If they enjoyed the same proportion today, it would be $146 billion, compared to $18 billion actual.
    You can accomplish a lot with that kind of spending, especially when you aren’t concerned with follow through. The Apollo program was designed to put men on the moon, period. It was successful. After Apollo 17 the Nixon administration cut the program, and NASA made sure all the eggs (payloads)were in a single basket, the Shuttle.
    And that worked out so well…

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  3. tljhound

    We were told of the moon landing as we operated somewhere along QL-20 in III Corps, I can’t recall exactly where. But I do remember that day or the next a villager, a wizened old guy, think Ho Chi Minh, was trying his damnedest to make a little money off us by offering haircuts. He didn’t speak any English other than “Numba One” and we didn’t have an interpreter but he waved around his scissors and comb and snipped the air with his hand powered shears. There were no takers but he was persistent and friendly and scored a few American cigarettes.
    Somehow it all turned into a pantomime attempt to tell him an American had landed on the moon. Pointing to the sky, making rocket ship noises, drawing pictures in the dirt of the Earth, Moon, a rocket and its trajectory and then little stick figure men on the Moon, we all did our best. He did eventually get it, I think, his face lit up at first but then his expression changed and he walked away. I thought then and still do now that he enjoyed it all, probably because he thought we were laughing with him, but then he decided it was all bs and we were laughing at him.

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  4. Quartermaster

    I was living near Stuttgart, Germany when the landings took place. There a number of Germans that had made it known they did care for our presence. The day after, we saw none of that as they held us in Awe. As one German put it, “Americans can do anything.”
    To bad it didn’t last, the euphoria, or awe as the Dims did all they could to drub our good name throughout the world.

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