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edbermac

(15,940 posts) Tue Dec 24, 2019, 07:41 PM Dec 2019

Remember it well.

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51 years ago today. (Original Post) edbermac Dec 2019 OP

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1. We are still benefiting from the technology developed for our moon missions. ...

Tue Dec 24, 2019, 11:34 PM

Dec 2019

Fulfilling JFK’s goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade was an amazing feat.

I watched the landing on the moon and I fully expected we would have a moon base in another decade and a base on Mars today.

Apollo 11 moon landing: top 15 Nasa inventions
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/5893387/Apollo-11-moon-landing-top-15-Nasa-inventions.html