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- crh3f, on 07/06/2009, -5/+31comments underneath:
"This is fiction not facts. Buzz Aldrin was asked to swear on the Bible that he did go to the Moon... but he refused. Youtube it."
jayil, london, uk
STFU and go continue your nervous twitching somewhere else... - SkippyBiffles, on 07/05/2009, -1/+19MacGyver would be proud.
- vmos, on 07/06/2009, -0/+17"the one vital breaker needed to send electrical power to the ascent engine"
I can't help thinking that pretty much every component in that thing was vital to their survival - fmasterdragon, on 07/06/2009, -0/+15Anyone else thinking about the inanimate carbon rod?
- thcobbs, on 07/06/2009, -0/+12Lets see Jayil say that to Aldrin's face.
Oh wait, someone already tried that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOo6aHSY8hU - chadsexingtime, on 07/06/2009, -1/+11in rod we trust
- Burmanator, on 07/06/2009, -0/+8except the radar apparently
- megamod, on 07/06/2009, -0/+8Buzz Lightyear...to infinity and beyond!!!
- ewang, on 07/06/2009, -0/+6Probably because the 40th anniversary of the moon landing is coming up on the 20th.
- Skurt, on 07/06/2009, -0/+5It would be because his book is out July 9, so he is making the book tour and his publisher is trying to garner interest so there will be more sales.
- grey580, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4It was on the floor of the lander.
- bshock, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4These men were among the greatest heroes of my childhood. But unlike any other such heroes, their abilities and accomplishments have only become more impressive to me as I get older.
- p51d007, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4Met him a couple years ago at an airshow. Really a nice guy to talk to.
I hope he wills the felt tip pen, circuit breaker and the story behind it to the cosmosphere when he
dies. http://www.cosmo.org/ - TechnoRabbit, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4Actually, stuff like that is a myth. They use common every day items in space. They need a permanent black felt tipped pen? They're not going to develop their own, they're going to buy an off the shelf model because it works just fine. The vast majority of cost NASA has on projects is testing, training, and support crews with the rest being the actual hardware to get into space and survive the trip. The incidentals like pens, pencils, etc. are all very cheap.
- RogerStrong, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4They only used the suits out on the surface and during landing and take-off. When the door wasn't open, the LEM was pressurized with air.
- Jektal, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3Wow... Buzz Aldrin has really been in the news a lot lately...
- groo68, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3You'd think with something that important they would have packed a spare.
- quincymd, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3"And even though it smelled of wet ashes, Neil and I tried tasting some Moon Dust. It was like nothing I'd ever tasted before, popping in my mouth with cracks and explosions. And tasted of cherry. So we shovelled buckets of the stuff into the Lander and we've been selling it to the kids ever since."
- grey580, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3Moon Dust is a hell of a drug!
- jamdogg, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2I'm not sure jayil saw your reply to his/her comment.
- thcobbs, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2Except there were no paper clips, chewing gum, or newspapers involved.
- latinjones, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2I love that clip. That was actually the incident where Aldrin was asked to swear on the bible that he did go to the moon...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Sibrel - mjparme, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html
- protogenxl, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2But they had Swiss Army Knives
- dafragsta, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2"but he refused. Youtube it." I think it might have been a joke. Everyone knows that there are a bunch of loonies who believe we haven't been to the moon.
- protogenxl, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2Don't tell this guy
http://www.youtube.com/WhiteJarrah - quanta88, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1For more stories about the bad ol' days of spacefaring, I recommend reading "Failure is not an option". They were really flying in the seat of their pants.
One crazy story is about how Apollo 11's computer actually crashed while they were landing on the moon. A buffer overrun due to the may calculations required. No sweat, Buzz and Neil just calmly rebooted and everything was roses.
Buzz briefly mentions this in this article regarding turning off the rendezvous radar to save processing power. - Johnagain, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1"Within seconds we were streaking high above the moon’s surface" - so they got naked on the way back?
;~) - EvilGrouse, on 07/06/2009, -1/+2Umm, didn't we know about this 40 years ago?? Lame.
- cyrix, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1God...that's so damn satisfying.
- kingp, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1It's called "Falling...with Style".
- jaimequin, on 07/06/2009, -0/+0what are you talking about?
- Wingin, on 07/06/2009, -1/+1This is interesting in really weird way. It reads like a little piece of science fiction, but it really happened - and ages ago at that.
- twinklyJesus, on 07/06/2009, -3/+1It was a Flair
- banski, on 07/06/2009, -3/+1It was a multi million dollar felt tip pen
- SookIt, on 07/06/2009, -6/+1Pics or it didnt happen.
- LarkStew, on 07/06/2009, -9/+3A multi billion dollar space project saved by a felt tip pen... I wonder what make it was?
- furbyboy, on 07/06/2009, -10/+1How did he smell it??? He was in a space suit........on the moon!!
- psunut5, on 07/06/2009, -13/+1And if that didnt work, they were going to be forced to leave the craft and walk to 7-11 a few miles away. I mean they werent really on the moon right!?
- PhonicUK, on 07/06/2009, -29/+1tl;dr
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