Re: [IRCA] Apollo 13

[Ira Elbert New III <ien3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

     I would like to think my Parents had me in front of the TV to watch Armstrong and Aldrin, but I never asked them. I remember watching a daytime Apollo launch at school when they wheeled in a TV on a rolling cart. Today, we can just show things from a computer or television feed on a screen in our classrooms. 
     I also remember staying home from school to watch the first launch of the Space Shuttle. I have it on an audio cassette somewhere. We were in Cape Canaveral for the last Shuttle launch and I have that on a video tape that I shot. A scanner beneath the camera provides background audio with a feed from Mission Control. 

Ira Elbert New, IIIWatkinsville, GeorgiaProudly Serving You Since 1964.

> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 07:30:37 -0600
> From: thills@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: drummer1965usa@xxxxxxxxx; irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Apollo 13
> 
> OK, now I feel old.
> 
> I remember Gemini launches and spacewalks not to mention staying up late 
> to watch Armstrong step off the ladder and blow his line.
> 
> Tim Hills
> Sioux Falls, SD
> 
> On 11/3/2012 22:14, Rick Dau wrote:
> > Hate to make you feel older than you are, Ira, but I know you were older than six.  The last mission in the Apollo program was Apollo 18, which docked with Soyuz in the summer of 1975.  I mention that because it's the ONLY Apollo mission that I remember watching on TV back when it was happening.  :)
> >   
> > 73,
> > Rick Dau (not quite older than dirt yet)
> > South Omaha, Nebraska
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >   From: Ira Elbert New III <ien3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: HardCore DX <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 10:53 PM
> > Subject: Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Apollo 13
> >   
> >
> >       Thanks. I was only six when the Apollo Program came to a close. I didn't know about the material being broadcast, but I do have fun reading over the transcripts from time-to-time. I don't know if the scenes were added for dramatic purposes or not, but it has always puzzled me whenever I see it. I meant to ask a long time ago and seeing it tonight on BRAVO made me think about asking. I'll ask Ron Howard the next time I see him. :)
> >
> > Ira Elbert New, IIIWatkinsville, GeorgiaProudly Serving You Since 1964.
> >
> >
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