The anniversary is tomorrow, so I wonder, is anyone else still thinking about that grainy television show on July 20, 1969?
The landing was nearly cocked up, though we didn’t know it at the time. Something about the guidance computer. But they fixed it on the fly, and finally, they got the module on the surface of the moon.
Armstrong deployed the ladder, the cameras, and then slowly descended to the surface of another planet. It was everything we imagined it might be.
He let go of the ladder, and then uttered the words that so traumatized my generation:
â€Oh, my God, what is that thing?”
Inspired by Michael Collins.
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