Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for July 20, 2024

Fifty five years. It seems like only yesterday. And I can still remember it so vividly. Wow. Sure makes me feel old.

“…or did he?”

Proceed with your favorite Conspiracy Theory.

It was only a small step for a man.

And I’ve spent most of those 55 years longing for a manned Mars mission. But it looks like that’s not gonna happen.

Does it also count a giant leap?

This fake news. There ain’t no steenky fit bit back then.

Like most of us old-timers, I remember watching this on television. But I also remember the Apollo 10 mission, which occurred only two months before the actual moon landing. Apollo 10 was the dress rehearsal flight, and it did everything Apollo 11 would do, except for landing on the moon’s surface.

1 small step = 1 giant leap

A feat that neither the Russians nor the Chinese have been able to replicate

I watch the launch as a member of the press. Yes, I’m old, but I took pictures.

50 years ago today, my wife and I made a giant leap and got married. 50 years on the way to happily ever after

It is a sorry comment humanity when…..

….it could be theoretically possible to have counted every single step man has taken on the lunar surface since then.

Six missions. Twelve men. Eighty hours total, including time spent in the LEM.

How many total steps do we have in our Lunar Fitbit? I’d say less than 10,000. We’ll be generous and say 100,000.

That number should be in the hundreds of billions of steps. We should have been to the Moon and never left. People should have died there by now. Children should have been born there. By now the Moon should be thriving with human life.

We are cowards. Cheap cowards. Our absence on the Moon is merely a matter of money, and we have a government that prints money.

They had fitbits then? LOL :D

55 years later and exploration is in the doldrums…

I am listening to a youtube interview with Margaret Hamilton who worked on the software that got them there. Don’t forget the brave women who made this possible!

Good luck, Mr. Gorsky…

And Good Journey, Neil!

Screw outer space and other worlds. Save the Earth, for God’s sake and for the sake of your grandchildren’s children.

Who took the picture?

The first words on the moon were, “It’s soft and I can kick it.”

I was almost 15. Great memory.

Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon, Neil before him!

Gah! Reminding me of my age again! I’ll never forge watching that on my family’s piece-o-crap B&W TV.

I always thought we should have done something to preserve those first footprints. With no erosion on the Moon, they could have been viewed by tourists for thousands of years. Think how exciting it would be to see the actual footprints of the early New World explorers.

He got his leaps in.

People born on that date are eligible for senior discounts at some businesses.

The movie “Fly me to the Moon” is pretty good.

“It’s a gray, powdery substance.”