See what others have said

Note from Michelle: This section is for comments from michellemalkin.com's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that I agree with or endorse any particular comment just because I let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with my terms of use may lose his or her posting privilege.

Comments

1. #1
   On July 20th, 2010 at 9:03 pm, jamesgreenidge said:

   It really IS “One small step for A man” if you listen closely.

   James Greenidge
   Queens NY

2. #2
   On July 20th, 2010 at 9:13 pm, Doug Powers said:

   On July 20th, 2010 at 9:03 pm, jamesgreenidge said:

   It really IS “One small step for A man” if you listen closely.

   Well if you want to nitpick, the whole landing was faked in an Arizona soundstage! (I just thought I’d be these people to it)

3. #3
   On July 20th, 2010 at 9:18 pm, happyscrapper said:

   Ah, the memories!! I had just recently met my future husband, who lived down the hall in my apartment building. We watched that momentous event together. Three months later we were married. Looks like our marriage outlasted the space program.

4. #4
   On July 20th, 2010 at 9:27 pm, ThackerAgency said:

   U-S-A U-S-A!

   that was before I was born, and I can safely say that at least from that moment on, I’ve been proud to be American.

   America ROCKS! Nobody else has been there.

   If they want to get there, THEY need US. America doesn’t need any other country. We don’t need coalitions. We don’t really need government.

   We are America! We succeed! We achieve! We show the world what success is.

5. #5
   On July 20th, 2010 at 9:31 pm, Kevin K. said:

   Those were exciting days!

   I remember Apollo 8, the reading of Genesis, to the later missions 15+ with the lunar rover.

6. #6
   On July 20th, 2010 at 9:34 pm, cubbiegal said:

   since I wasn’t born until October of 1970 I didn’t get to see it. LoL
   My husband’s manager is conservative-yet she insists that moon landing was staged.
   When I husband asked her to elaborate she just said that it was obviously fake.
   *shrugs*

7. #7
   On July 20th, 2010 at 9:40 pm, Doug Powers said:

   In the comments section of the video I linked to concerning hoax claims, somebody wrote about a Mythbusters episode in which they tested all the claims of the people who say the landing was staged and found all their “evidence” of a hoax to be untrue — I haven’t seen that particular episode though.

   Of course, the next accusation would be that the government paid off the Mythbusters to say so.

8. #8
   On July 20th, 2010 at 9:44 pm, zorro said:

   May God the Father Almighty continue to Bless our country…

9. #9
   On July 20th, 2010 at 9:51 pm, twofoot said:

   This is, without a doubt, the best nation the world has ever seen. We went from Kill Devil Hill to Apollo 11 in less than seventy years.

   Does anyone honestly think that could have happened in any other country on earth?

10. #10
    On July 20th, 2010 at 9:52 pm, bjc said:

    *I remember that Sunday night as a kid like it was yesterday; Couldn’t get enough of that stuff; The reality of it set in watching the Earthrise from Apollo 8; You knew then that big stuff was a brewing.

11. #11
    On July 20th, 2010 at 9:52 pm, Hangfire said:

    Did they have to file an Environmental Impact Statement with the EPA?

12. #12
    On July 20th, 2010 at 10:04 pm, Azygos said:

    EPA did not come along I think until 1972. Prior to that a little known government agency my father worked for did the environmental surveys.

13. #13
    On July 20th, 2010 at 10:07 pm, zorro said:

    (I just thought I’d be these people to it)

    Wow.

14. #14
    On July 20th, 2010 at 10:13 pm, mikeg said:

    i remember it like it was yesterday… Not sure we could do something like that now, too many “risks” and certainly no foresight in this administration.

15. #15
    On July 20th, 2010 at 10:28 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    We had family come over all over the place including Canada. I had an Edmund scientific 3″ reflector telescope at the time and spent a lot of time looking at the moon hoping to see a glint or flash of light. As if…

    By the time Armstrong actually took the walk, more than half of us were asleep. Not me though. Still one of the three biggest days of my life.

16. #16
    On July 20th, 2010 at 11:36 pm, love2rumba said:

    I remember the Moon Landings very well. Apollo 11 happened when I was about 5 and 1/2 years old on July 20, 1969. This country has come a long way down from that year.

17. #17
    On July 20th, 2010 at 11:51 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Watched it all in a batallion day room at Fort Riley Kansas. A memory for a lifetime.

18. #18
    On July 20th, 2010 at 11:54 pm, purplepeep said:

    As with the assassination JFK, I vividly remember where I was and what was I was doing when Apollo 11 landed. But I suspect that’s true of most folks who were around for either of those events.

    Watching those fuzzy pictures from the moon – as Doug sez – it’s still amazing to relive 41 years later.

19. #19
    On July 20th, 2010 at 11:57 pm, d1carter said:

    Thanks Doug, and Happy Birthday to your son…

20. #20
    On July 20th, 2010 at 11:59 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Everyone held their breath. It was amazing.

    If we went to the moon in ten years can we throw Obama out on his a$$ in four?

    It was so long ago, even Democrats were Americans.

21. #21
    On July 21st, 2010 at 12:00 am, hadsil said:

    Hard to believe it was a Democrat President who championed our country to greatness to reach the moon. Now we have a President who is just an eclipse.

    Note to NAACP: That is what’s known as a joke. No relation to the color of an eclipse is intended or implied.

22. #22
    On July 21st, 2010 at 12:15 am, Kevin K. said:

    I found this link from the Daily Telegraph newspaper. The NASA footage synced with the sound. Still incredibly wonderful.

23. #23
    On July 21st, 2010 at 12:23 am, purplepeep said:

    AlohaGuy said:

    Everyone held their breath. It was amazing.

    What makes it more amazing (and human) is that the onboard computer was leading the module to a landing in a field of boulders. Armstrong had to take over and do some seat of the pants flying in the last minute or so to make a safe landing.

24. #24
    On July 21st, 2010 at 2:32 am, Arnold said:

    I remember the Moon program very well and was sorry when it ended.

    I used to work beside someone who believed the landings were faked – I pointed him to this site but I don’t think he had the courage to visit.

25. #25
    On July 21st, 2010 at 2:37 am, rightisright said:

    my heart still swells with pride when I think back to that time and that specific moment when they landed.

    Hard to believe as a country we have been back sliding almost from that moment in time to now…we have plunged downward, no leaping forward in the political world.

    God Bless America

26. #26
    On July 21st, 2010 at 2:44 am, rightisright said:

    Do the doubters really believe the government could really get that many people to all tell the same lies for all these years?

    Mr. Brietbart needs to make another $100,000 offer to anyone who can prove the landing was a farce…any takers?

    crickets

27. #27
    On July 21st, 2010 at 3:17 am, graysonret said:

    It was am amazing time to live, watching the space program from Mercury to Apollo. We all sat glued to the TV to watch the landing not knowing how close they aborted the mission due to low fuel and a “1202″ computer alarm.

28. #28
    On July 21st, 2010 at 9:42 am, spaceycakes said:

    Sheila Jackson-Lee: I can see Mars from my house!

29. #29
    On July 21st, 2010 at 10:01 am, shooter said:

    should be “Gene KraNz retired NASA director of operations,”
    He was also the unmatched heroic Director for Apollo 11 that said “Failure is not an option”.
    Many many heroes back then.

    I was ten yrs old and remember it very well. They landed on the moon earlier in the day and were supposed to sleep or something and not ‘walk’ until the next day, but Mission Control couldn’t keep them in so they came out and walked a few hours later.
    I remember being called in from playing hide & Seek to watch LIVE the first step.
    We could not believe someone was on the moon, it was so fantastic and so unreal all at the same time. We’d go out and look up, then rush back in to watch more.
    NASA, Neil, Buzz, Mike, Gene THANKS FOR EVERYTHING.

    now, off to mecca to make muslims feel good.
    What a flippin JOKE.
    Obama, how could you do that to these people?

30. #30
    On July 21st, 2010 at 10:08 am, granite said:

    I watched the mooon landing that night…the summer before senior year in high school.

    Of course, this – or, I may be off by one day – is also the anniversary of TeddyKennedy’s leaving a 29-year-old girl to suffocate in the submerged, overturned car off the bridge at Chappaquiddick.

31. #31
    On July 21st, 2010 at 10:08 am, granite said:

    Sorry.
    …mooon landing….

32. #32
    On July 21st, 2010 at 10:21 am, cicerokid said:

    On July 20th, 2010 at 9:40 pm, Doug Powers said:
    In the comments section of the video I linked to concerning hoax claims,

    I confess. We made that video with a bunsen burner and funnel.

33. #33
    On July 21st, 2010 at 10:23 am, jrgdds said:

    I was seven when an American, Neil Armstrong, took mankind’s first step on the Moon. I vividly recall my dad calling my brother and I into the house to watch the black and white TV image of an American setting foot on the Moon. With all of the world events that have happened since then, I am still in awe. It is probably the one event in my lifetime that made me most proud to be an American.

    God bless America!

34. #34
    On July 21st, 2010 at 10:34 am, GJCorby said:

    I was nary 2 months old at the time of the landing. But I remember as a child having NASA moon landing coloring books. When I was older making models of the Saturn five and the lunar module (LM). I even made a model rocket of the Saturn 5 and the earlier Mercury Redstone-3 The first U.S. manned space flight.
    Viva NASA. May it’s glory days still be ahead as we celebrate it’s past monumental achievments.

35. #35
    On July 21st, 2010 at 10:39 am, Lan Astaslem said:

    I *still* get a tear in my eye thinking about the amazing courage displayed by everyone involved.

    This is, quite seriously, my earliest memory. I had just turned 4; my brother was 5. I clearly remember our mother putting us in front of our little black-and-white TV, and telling us that this was a very important historical moment, and for us to always remember it. I still do…

36. #36
    On July 21st, 2010 at 10:49 am, Mister P said:

    It only reminds me how NASA turned into a quasi-military operation and lost its way. We haven’t been to the moon in about 35 years.

    How in the heck did we do it with ’60s technology and computers the size of a room?

37. #37
    On July 21st, 2010 at 10:51 am, roadrage said:

    On July 20th, 2010 at 9:51 pm, twofoot said:
    This is, without a doubt, the best nation the world has ever seen. We went from Kill Devil Hill to Apollo 11 in less than seventy years.

    Does anyone honestly think that could have happened in any other country on earth?

    I fear that great moments such as the moon landing are a thing of the past for the US. Our days as pioneers and and innovators are over. We’ve gone from basking in greatness to wallowing in mediocrity. The next person to walk on the moon will be Russian or Chinese.

    As someone said here on a previous thread, NASA is:
    Not
    About
    Space
    Anymore

38. #38
    On July 21st, 2010 at 10:52 am, plymouthacclaim said:

    OK, I wasn’t born until 1976, so the Challenger is my main space memory.

    If the govt doesn’t screw this up, we may go back to the moon via Virgin Galactic.
    http://www.virgin.com/travel/news/vss-enterprise-makes-first-crewed-flight

39. #39
    On July 21st, 2010 at 11:10 am, spaceycakes said:

    Our days as pioneers and and innovators are over

    Welcome to Atlas Shrugged.

40. #40
    On July 21st, 2010 at 11:23 am, madshark said:

    On July 21st, 2010 at 10:01 am, shooter said:
    should be “Gene KraNz retired NASA director of operations,”
    He was also the unmatched heroic Director for Apollo 11 that said “Failure is not an option”.

    I think you meant Apollo 13 instead of 11.

    I believe that it was author Michael Crichton that said that one never would have believed it if someone in the 60s predicted that man would land on the moon and then eventually abandon all moon missions in a few years.

41. #41
    On July 21st, 2010 at 12:08 pm, plymouthacclaim said:

    I believe that it was author Michael Crichton that said that one never would have believed it if someone in the 60s predicted that man would land on the moon and then eventually abandon all moon missions in a few years.

    If you ask the conspiracy freaks, it’s because we met ET on the moon and he told us to go back to Earth.

42. #42
    On July 21st, 2010 at 1:49 pm, jrgdds said:

    Our days as pioneers and and innovators are over

    The American spirit gets battered and bruised on occasion as we have under our country’s current “leaders”. America and Americans are exceptional due to us exercising our God given Freedom. The ship will be righted in due course, and our pioneers and innovators will re-emerge. Don’t bet against it.

43. #43
    On July 21st, 2010 at 2:25 pm, GJCorby said:

    On July 21st, 2010 at 11:23 am, madshark said:
    On July 21st, 2010 at 10:01 am, shooter said:
    should be “Gene KraNz retired NASA director of operations,”
    He was also the unmatched heroic Director for Apollo 11 that said “Failure is not an option”.
    I think you meant Apollo 13 instead of 11.

    Gene Kranz never said “failure is not a option.” that is just a Hollywoodization
    of the Apollo 13 incident though he liked the line from the Ron Howard movie and used it as the title of his autobiography published in 2000.
    He was Director from 1965 (starting with Gemini 4 through Apollo 17 (last Moon/Apollo Mission.)
    Promoted to Deputy Director of NASA Mission Operations in 1974 to 1983 and culminated his career as Director of NASA Mission Operations in 1983 finally retiring in 1994.

44. #44
    On July 21st, 2010 at 2:59 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    I was a rookie Airman standing in the Command & Control Room at NORAD Cheyenne Mountain listening to the AF talk to NASA real time and watching it on these huge screens that “looked” into space. For being just a “kid”, I was blown away….

45. #45
    On July 21st, 2010 at 3:30 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    How in the heck did we do it with ’60s technology and computers the size of a room?

    Actual adults worked on these projects – not 35 year old basement dwellers and entitlement sponges.

46. #46
    On July 21st, 2010 at 4:24 pm, roadrage said:

    Anyone who wants a good read, you have to read Kranz’s book. The man is a true American hero. “The Right Stuff”, both the book and the movie are excellent too.

47. #47
    On July 21st, 2010 at 11:49 pm, Random63 said:

    Nixon and the democrat congress threw away the Moon the first time, and now Obama and the Democrat Congress thew it away for a second time. What a shame and waste. Congresswoman Kosmas, who represents Kennedy Space Center sided with Obama and is now going to lose in November. KSC workers had never really been political, but they are now. Even Senator Bill Nelson knows he is going to get thrown out in 2012 for siding with Obama.

    Check out RV-103 and click on the Space category for a former KSC worker’s view.

48. #48
    On July 22nd, 2010 at 3:01 am, Tantor said:

    I remember my folks saying it was OK to stay home from high school to watch the fuzzy black & white video of men walking on the moon. Neal Armstrong took his first steps after 1 AM, Iowa time.

    Maybe a year later, the Apollo 11 command module was trucked around America for display. I stood in line in Des Moines to see it up close. It didn’t have a plastic coat protecting it like it does now at the Smithsonian. You weren’t supposed to touch it but of course I did. I saw there was a little chip of the scorched heat shield loose and I pried it off with my fingernail and put it in my pocket. I lost it almost immediately, which is why historical artifacts must be protected from idiot kids like me.

49. #49
    On July 22nd, 2010 at 3:57 pm, GJCorby said:

    On July 21st, 2010 at 3:30 pm, AlohaGuy said:
    How in the heck did we do it with ’60s technology and computers the size of a room?
    Actual adults worked on these projects – not 35 year old basement dwellers and entitlement sponges.

    Also OSHA did not exist so some of the nanny state safety regulation didn’t hinder progress. Welcome to the blubble wrap generation, everyone must be bubble wrapped least we get a boo boo.