But as the remote-controlled TV cameras set up by the astronauts on subsequent moon landing missions would document, a lunar liftoff was in many ways more spectacular than a liftoff from the Cape because of its almost inaudible gracefulness. You never hear the main engine, because of the vacuum of the lunar atmosphere. All you hear is a little thump-thump-thump kind of sound. Bean says that the thumping nevertheless helped dissipate the intense anxiety he had felt throughout the countdown and made him realize that the wisest thing to do was to sit back, relax, and try to observe the visual drama of lifting off from the moon.
As we lifted off, I could see these sparkling things being blown off the insulation of the descent stage. It looked like the ripples you see when you drop a rock in a pond of water, this metallic insulation going out in concentric rings. It looked like those rings just went on forever. Excerpted from For All Mankind. All rights reserved. Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature.
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Close to the Lithub Daily Thank you for subscribing! Popular Latest. The Atlantic Crossword. Sign In Subscribe. Composite Image: Wikimedia Commons. Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops.
My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. The troops, the air, and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery.
But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice. These two men are laying down their lives in mankind's most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding. Can we safely move the deadline — the target date in — to a hard deadline of ? Pearlman pointed to the July 10 exploration-program shakeup at NASA that included reassigning Bill Gerstenmaier, who had led the agency's human spaceflight programs since And was it based on his raising objections out of safety or a technological basis, or was there some other motivation?
In a phone message left with Space. This group examined the fatal space shuttle incident in and identified technical and managerial causes behind the incident.
An independent technical authority with a different reporting structure can stop work on any project at any time within NASA, Bridenstine said, adding that "the rest of the NASA workforce" has a voice. He said that NASA is working to make sure the cost of the lunar missions and the schedule are realistic and preserve the astronauts' safety. As for Gerstenmaier, Bridenstine described him as "a great American who has done great work for our nation and our country.
Government Accountability Office. In a recent interview with The Washington Post , Bridenstine said he felt a change in leadership was necessary to meet the goal, while adding that there was no tension between himself and Gerstenmaier ahead of the reassignment. The Apollo 11 contingency speech came about weeks before the mission's launch, when an Apollo 8 astronaut raised concerns at the White House about the possibility of disaster.
The Apollo 8 astronaut was particularly worried about what could happen if the astronauts were stranded on the surface, Launius told Space. The contingency speech didn't receive widespread attention until after Jim Mann, then a journalist for the Los Angeles Times, found a copy in the National Archives in Mann published a story about the speech in , just in time for Apollo 11's 30th anniversary, and Safire wrote a response in The New York Times the same year.
Safire lamented that in the 17 years after Apollo 11, "we took space triumph for granted. Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice. They will be mourned by their families and friends; they will be mourned by their nation; they will be mourned by the people of the world; they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown.
In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of man.
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