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SheilaT

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1. Many years ago, on NPR,

Mon Sep 28, 2015, 12:10 AM

Sep 2015

someone said that if Christopher Columbus had had people filming his voyage, we would still be looking at those films, all these hundreds of years later.

I still cannot completely get over the fact that we got to watch the moon landing live, as well as that first moon walk.

And yes, how amazing would it be to watch the eclipse of the moon from a station there. Someday, someday.

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If the Apollo program had continued [View all] DavidDvorkin Sep 2015 OP

Many years ago, on NPR, SheilaT Sep 2015 #1

I found artists' conceptions of that view online DavidDvorkin Sep 2015 #2

Yep. Wouldn't it have been amazing? SheilaT Sep 2015 #3

Would the 1492 media have filmed massacres of the indigenous? JackRiddler Sep 2015 #5

Maybe. SheilaT Sep 2015 #9

Unknown to whom? JackRiddler Sep 2015 #10

One of my professors had boxes and boxes of papers on an Apollo Venus orbit mission Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #4

Yeah, one of the proposed Apollo Applications Missions was a Venus flyby. Warren DeMontague Sep 2015 #8

He said the human concern was insanity or drug dependence Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #14

If 1970's battery technology was better.. A HERETIC I AM Sep 2015 #6

Oddly, my daughter and I just watched the Dr. Who episode about it tonight. byronius Sep 2015 #7

I don't think it would have continued - they were too afraid of leaving dead bodies up there Baclava Sep 2015 #11

epic men of flesh and blood Facility Inspector Sep 2015 #12

like this edhopper Sep 2015 #13