Hi Dan and all, On one of the other Apollo missions, I had received some of the different times that the Apollo service module and command module would be over the terminator and possibly visible. I had a fairly good telescope at that time and looked and was able to see what appeared to be a dot of very faint light crossing over so the contrast was good. As the space craft continued orbit it would disappear in the shadow of the moon. Best Regards! --AL Mitterling Quoting DAN <hawkstal...@gmail.com>:
I well remember sitting with my family as a teenager while watching the first moon landing. During Apollo 8's first trip to the moon there were rumors that one would be able to see the craft crossing the moon's terminator. I peered through my Tasco refractor in vain, while entranced by the reality that astronauts were orbiting out there.Special times. DAN Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note® 4, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: almitt2--- via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> Date: 5/13/19 11:58 AM (GMT-05:00) To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Eugene Shoemaker Responsible for TV
Coverage of Apollo 11 Moon Walk Greetings Paul and all, Couldn't read the whole article as there were ads popping up and keeping me from doing so but read a bit of the info there before I gave up. Might have been present in the article but Eugene Shoemaker helped train the Apollo Astronauts at Meteor Crater so they would have knowledge of what too look for on the lunar surface. He was a candidate for the Apollo Program to be a geologist that would travel to the moon. Due to an aliment he was disqualified. I'm sure everyone knows that he was the first to finally get the attention of human kind that an impact on Earth could be devastating after he and his wife along with David Levy discovered Shoemaker/Levy 9 which impacted Jupiter. I spent just a little time with him at the Texas Star Party when I went some years back and before his death. The televising of the first Apollo Moon landing was a great thing. I was a teenager and enjoying watching anything about it I could. The TV images weren't crystal clear but were enough for us see what was going on, watching the astronauts climbing down the ladder to the lunar surface. Many people viewed this as a stunt which it was not. It was a highly calculated scientific endeavor with good odds. The fact it was repeated successfully 6 times and almost 7 times with the help of many talent individuals on the ground supporting the astronauts, showed it was not a stunt. I made it down to the Apollo 17 launch (which was a night launch) and was able to see the last Apollo Moon mission off before returning to school. Hard to believe that the Apollo 11 landing has almost been 50 years now. After the trip, NASA took some of the Moon samples and encased them in a plastic for display for viewing by people all over the Earth. I went to see a display shortly after the trip in South Bend, Indiana. Still have the picture of the specimen. It was a great era! Best to all! --AL Mitterling ______________________________________________ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
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