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   JFri said, 4 months ago

   And some people thought the moon landing was a hoax? Happy 40th anniversary to the first steppers on the moon Apollo 9 crew!

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   Yukoneric said, 4 months ago

   That was an indescribable day.

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   cdward said, 4 months ago

   Apollo 9? That must be a reference to something I’m unaware of. Could you elucidate?

   Meanwhile, even though I was just a kid, I remember the magic of the day.

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   vlechtja said, 4 months ago

   stay on the moon penguins and come back after 2012

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   Dry said, 4 months ago

   JFri, it was a hoax wasn’t it? (snerk)

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   DigitalFrog said, 4 months ago

   I didn’t know the Apollo mission computers ran on LINUX?

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   crazyolnick said, 4 months ago

   I was at Tay Ninh base camp in Vietnam at the time. Had a little battery operated TV and we all got to watch the landing.From all of the hootin and hollerin you’d thought we just won….

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   Joe Allen Doty said, 4 months ago

   I was in the US Army’s 196th Light Infantry Brigade and at Tay Ninh, South Vietnam for several months in 1967. We could see “Black Virgin Mountain” rising above the flat plain near the Cambodian Border.

   They moved us up to Chu Lai in late April that year.

   I was a Clerk-Typist for JAG officers at HQ. I was with Americal Division when the Tet Offensive happened in 1968. Several of the hooches (living quarters) were burned down in my company due to a rocket attack by the VC.

   If I remember correctly, I was at a reunion picnic on the day of the landing on the moon. One of the guys brought a portable radio and turned it on.

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   cleokaya said, 4 months ago

   I was on a farm in Alberta, with a bunch of relatives watching on a small black and white TV in the kitchen. I even took a picture of the TV screen.

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    Just plain Steve said, 4 months ago

    I was at the family cottage in Point Roberts WA. I took pictures of the TV screen too!

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    StradMan37 said, 4 months ago

    Reminds me of the old Muppet Show routine (with a slightly different cast-o-characters),

    PENGUINS IN SPAAAAAACE!!!

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    Ushindi said, 4 months ago

    jfri: I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the figures, but a science article in The Daily Galaxy just reported that 6% of the population of the United States, or roughly 18 million people, still don’t believe the moon landing really happened, that it was a hoax. Very sad. (I was at a ball game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, watching the Dodgers-Giants. When the lander touched down, they stopped the game to announce it, and all the players came out on the field and cheered along with the fans)

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    stonehenge1951 said, 4 months ago

    uh, JFri…It was Apollo 11 not 9…….