[meteorite-list] Eugene Shoemaker Responsible for TV Coverage of Apollo 11 Moon Walk

From: DAN <hawkstalker_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 19:51:18 -0400
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That's an amazing experience. I always wondered if anyone actually saw an Apollo orbiting.?It sounds like in a few years we might have another chance to make a similar observation, and this time I have a scope which is likely up to the task.Cheers,?DAN?


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From: almitt2--- via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Date: 5/13/19 6:27 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Eugene Shoemaker Responsible for TV Coverage of Apollo 11 Moon Walk

Hi Dan and all,On one of the other Apollo missions, I had received
some of the different times that the Apollo service module and command module
would be over the terminator and possibly visible. I had a fairly good telescope
at that time and looked and was able to see what appeared to be a dot of very
faint light crossing over so the contrast was good. As the space craft continued
orbit it would disappear in the shadow of the moon.Best
Regards!--AL MitterlingQuoting DAN
<hawkstalker at gmail.com>:



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>

> I well remember sitting with my family as a teenager while watching

> the first moon landing.?During Apollo 8's first trip to the moon

> there were rumors that one would be able to see the craft crossing

> the moon's terminator. I peered through my Tasco refractor in vain,

> while entranced by the reality that astronauts were orbiting out

> there.Special times.

> DAN?

>

>

>

> Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note? 4, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone

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> Date: 5/13/19? 11:58 AM? (GMT-05:00)

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> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Eugene Shoemaker Responsible for TV

 

> ? ? ? ? Coverage? ? ? ? of Apollo 11 Moon Walk

>

> Greetings Paul and all,

>

> Couldn't read the whole article as there were ads popping up and

> keeping me from doing so but read a bit of the info there before I

> gave up.

>

> Might have been present in the article but Eugene Shoemaker helped

> train the Apollo Astronauts at Meteor Crater so they would have

> knowledge of what too look for on the lunar surface. He was a

> candidate for the Apollo Program to be a geologist that would travel

> to the moon. Due to an aliment he was disqualified. I'm sure everyone

> knows that he was the first to finally get the attention of human kind

> that an impact on Earth could be devastating after he and his wife

> along with David Levy discovered Shoemaker/Levy 9 which impacted

> Jupiter. I spent just a little time with him at the Texas Star Party

> when I went some years back and before his death.

>

> The televising of the first Apollo Moon landing was a great thing. I

> was a teenager and enjoying watching anything about it I could. The TV

> images weren't crystal clear but were enough for us see what was going

> on, watching the astronauts climbing down the ladder to the lunar

> surface. Many people viewed this as a stunt which it was not. It was a

> highly calculated scientific endeavor with good odds. The fact it was

> repeated successfully 6 times and almost 7 times with the help of many

> talent individuals on the ground supporting the astronauts, showed it

> was not a stunt. I made it down to the Apollo 17 launch (which was a

> night launch) and was able to see the last Apollo Moon mission off

> before returning to school. Hard to believe that the Apollo 11 landing

> has almost been 50 years now. After the trip, NASA took some of the

> Moon samples and encased them in a plastic for display for viewing by

> people all over the Earth. I went to see a display shortly after the

> trip in South Bend, Indiana. Still have the picture of the specimen.

> It was a great era!

> Best to all!

>

> --AL Mitterling

>

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