37 years ago today - Houston we have a problem

[BOSSHOG]

On 13 April 1970, Apollo 13 was almost to the moon when a liquid oxygen tank exploded. They didn't make it to the moon but the astronauts did get back to earth safely.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. I remember that. I also remember when the guys on Apollo

1 died in the fire on the landing pad. Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee. Very, very sad.

[Xipe Totec]

7. My old Lodge in Houston sits across from Ed White Elementary

Hard to forget Apollo 1.

[Octafish]

25. I'll never forget.

My heart still aches.



(From left) Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II, Roger B. Chafee. Three great Americans.

[jojo54]

2. It makes us happy to see how far we've come since then......

........up until January, 2001 anyway.

[BOSSHOG]

4. There is a NASA Center

about 15 miles from here and they have a museum. Very neat stuff.

[Squatch]

3. Today's Friday the 13th. Weird.

[BOSSHOG]

5. I checked the 1970 calendar

13 April was on a Monday. If it were on a Friday I don't think I would have posted this. I'm too damned supersticious for my own good.

[BOSSHOG]

9. Delete

wrong location

[Monkeyman]

6. Thanks Boss

[dogday]

8. Strange, I was 13 when that happened nt

[BOSSHOG]

11. If the calculator

in my head is correct, you'll hit the big Five-oh this year. Welcome to the club, we are mostly harmless. 50. Its the new 28.

[dogday]

15. Thanks for reminding me Boss

I will hit the big 50 on Christmas Day....

I look forward to being a Grandmother one day...


:hi:

[MonkeyFunk]

10. I remember that

anybody else old enough to remember when they'd wheel TVs into the classroom to watch all the Apollo launches?

[BOSSHOG]

13. I do, I do

NASA was awesome in the 60's.

[dogday]

16. I lived in Orlando, they used to bring us outside and

we could see the launch from there.... It was pretty darn kewl...

[MonkeyFunk]

17. wow

that musta been something!

I remember my parents waking us up in the middle of the night to come down and watch the first men walk on the moon.

Yes, as bosshog said, NASA was cool in the 60s.

[The Blue Flower]

18. I do

And, because I was a grade school student in Orlando then, as soon as we saw the missile lift off on tv, we'd run outside and be able to see the actual shot heading up into the clouds. It still gives me chills to remember the sun reflecting off of the capsules.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

12. I remember that very well also. Commander Lovell's brother

lived in our parish in Chicago. In fact, his brother was a very good friend of my Dad's.

I was a senior in HS and by this time of the year "senior syndrome" had set in with a whole lot of us. We were messing around in one of our classes and Sister Laura brought all of us up pretty short with her comment about "acting our ages and please remember what the Lovell family is going through right now".

Thank God those three brave men got home safely...

[BOSSHOG]

14. I remember

Sister Martha Marie slapping the shit out of me for no apparent reason in the fourth grade a very long time ago.

[MonkeyFunk]

19. There was a reason

but the Lord works in mysterious ways.

[yardwork]

20. I like the movie based on these events - the scientists were heroes

I pointed out to my young children that in this particular true story, the heroes who brought back the astronauts alive were "nerdy" scientists working night and day in the lab to develop calculations and strategies to bring back the craft.

Too often, violence and brute strength and use of weapons are glorified as the problem-solvers in our society. It was good to remember that lots of times, the unsung heroes are the ones using intelligence and skills.

Oh yes - I remember when it happened, when the teachers wheeled the big old black-and-white TVs on carts into the classroom, when Apollo 1 caught on fire, when Neal Armstrong put his foot on the moon. I remember.

[kestrel91316]

21. I just watched the movie and the TV documentary for the first time

a month or so ago............thanks to Netflix, lol.

I was a teen at the time so I don't remember it being such a big deal. Boy, what I missed! Loved the movie (Tom Hanks is the BEST!), and the documentary was a great way to get up to speed on background first.

Duct tape and plastic bags.............wow

[Parche]

22. Apollo 13

13's all around

I love that movie

[azmouse]

23. For some fascinating reading on the Apollo space program

I'd recommend A Man On The Moon by Andrew Chaikin.

I got to meet Capt Lovell in 1999. That was such a thrill for me. I remember watching all the moon shots when I was a little girl and to meet an astronaut was incredible.

[uppityperson]

24. Only reason I could watch the movie is I remember those days and how it worked out

I am getting old.