I need to receive the foot in mouth award. The key word I read past was "They RETURNED to the moon six..." I'll just go back to the my radios and hide.
Sent from Rick's iPad2 > On Jul 20, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Rick Walter <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was not going to post but since no one else has, I thought there needs to > be a correction to a statement made in case some younger people are reading > the thread. > > Phil said: > "Good analogy, actually. They returned to the moon six times (succeeding > on five) because they had excess hardware originally built in the > expectation that the first attempts would fail." > > There were actually seven manned missions to the moon. Six succeeded. Apollo > 13 never landed on the moon and returned to earth safely. Apollo > 11,12,14,15,16, and 17 landed. 12 American astronauts walked on the moon. > > Sent from Rick's iPad2 > _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
