And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, May 20, 2023
Ultimate Saturn V Launch - Best one ever. When that USA slides by I'm tempted to jump up and fist pump.
There used to be, I don't know if it's still there it was 40+/- years ago when I saw it, a Saturn 5 lying on its side at the Air and Space museum in Huntsville, AL. Quite impressive.
My father was stationed at Echterdingen Air Field when Apollo 11 went to the moon. We watched the first moonwalk on German TV. My father got us up early in the morning to watch. After that, Americans were viewed with awe.
Even the little anti-Americanism we had seen had evaporated. Germans thought we could do anything. Little did any of us know that the US would decline so rapidly.
An awesome sight indeed! Is anyone shooting footage of Musk's Atlas rocket from these kind of close up angles?
ReplyDeleteWas that Werner von Braun the Nazi responsible for thousands of English deaths and rewarded with the perfect life in America?
ReplyDeleteHe was a scientist, not a policy maker or enforcer…
DeleteHe was an engineer, not a scientist. Huge difference.
DeleteHe was a manager.
DeleteAmerica won the space race because our German scientists were better than the Russian's German scientists.
DeleteOne of the greatest acts of a nation now gone to pot…
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ReplyDeleteWow. I never appreciated the grandeur watching this on TV. And never thought it would all go to hell.
ReplyDeleteWe used to do impressive shit, now look at us.
ReplyDeleteThere used to be, I don't know if it's still there it was 40+/- years ago when I saw it, a Saturn 5 lying on its side at the Air and Space museum in Huntsville, AL. Quite impressive.
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Those moon shots were a triumph of American engineering. As an American engineer, I still get a lump in my throat when I see those videos.
ReplyDeleteMy father was stationed at Echterdingen Air Field when Apollo 11 went to the moon. We watched the first moonwalk on German TV. My father got us up early in the morning to watch. After that, Americans were viewed with awe.
ReplyDeleteEven the little anti-Americanism we had seen had evaporated. Germans thought we could do anything. Little did any of us know that the US would decline so rapidly.
look up the history of the Higgins Boat, corruption in procurement has been with us forever.
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