[cctalk] Re: OT: Moon (Was: PDP-8/L $15,000

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Aug 29, 2023, at 8:28 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> I was worried before the first lunar landing, because prior to sending 
> passengers, they had never previously managed a soft landing, nor take-off 
> from anywhere but Earth.

That's only partly true.  The Surveyor craft had made (unmanned) soft landings, 
which helped rule out the "miles of moon dust" worry.

> Then, one of the Sci-Fi magazines included a very short story (a couple of 
> paragraphs), in which the capsule settled down onto the moon, and immediately 
> sank irrevocably below kilometer thick layer of dust.

        paul