"When we left Earth"

I'm aware of it but haven't seen it yet.

I have.

It's not as good as I had hoped.

It doesn't seem to capture the feel for that era, at least to me anyway.

I will keep watching to see if it gets better though.

It brought back alot of memories from my childhood. But yes, not as detailed/enthralling as I had hoped. WAY TOO MANY commercials!!!! But better than nothing at all, and most of the worthless programming on TV today.

Intruiging to think if the manned space program had continued along the same path at the same pace since the Apollo days. 

Agreed, better than nothing at all.

It also reminds me that we lost something in the in the 1970's when the apollo program ended.

Kinda a dream shattering experiance.

As a child I was fortunite enough to play in a real Apollo capsule trainer that was donated to our local  air and space musium.

If we stayed at the pace we were at we would be on our way past Mars.

russianfist wrote:

Agreed, better than nothing at all. It also reminds me that we lost something in the in the 1970's when the apollo program ended. Kinda a dream shattering experiance. As a child I was fortunite enough to play in a real Apollo capsule trainer that was donated to our local  air and space musium. If we stayed at the pace we were at we would be on our way past Mars.

I haven't seen the show, but I did see where scientists have found ice crystals on Mars today.

If its water, all you need is some electrical equipment and sunlight to synthesize fuel.

From there, the stars...

bilbirk wrote:

russianfist wrote: Agreed, better than nothing at all. It also reminds me that we lost something in the in the 1970's when the apollo program ended. Kinda a dream shattering experiance. As a child I was fortunite enough to play in a real Apollo capsule trainer that was donated to our local  air and space musium. If we stayed at the pace we were at we would be on our way past Mars.   So why should we be. To ME I think it was a waste of time. But Thats my opinion. I was not ever really into the space thing back then. Can somebody explain why we had to go other than to beat the Russians? Thanks all

When Sir Edmond Hilery was asked why he climbed MT Everest he said "because it was there".

It is our nature to explore and see what we don't know about.

Just remeber, people used to think the world was FLAT and if you sailed to the edge you would fall off.

It's good to be open minded to see what is out there.

As for the space race we were shadow boxing with the Russians.

We couldn't nuke each other but we could blacken each other's eyes pretty good.

bilbirk wrote:

russianfist wrote: Agreed, better than nothing at all. It also reminds me that we lost something in the in the 1970's when the apollo program ended. Kinda a dream shattering experiance. As a child I was fortunite enough to play in a real Apollo capsule trainer that was donated to our local  air and space musium. If we stayed at the pace we were at we would be on our way past Mars.   So why should we be. To ME I think it was a waste of time. But Thats my opinion. I was not ever really into the space thing back then. Can somebody explain why we had to go other than to beat the Russians? Thanks all

I can't think of a reason better than because it was there. As far as a waste of time, the space race increased technology at a high rate. Had we continued who knows what increases in battery technology, recycling technology, hydroponics, materials, power production etc we would have seen.

Cosmic J wrote:

GPS technology. Satellite mapping. Global satellite communications. The Hubble telescope. Global climate data. Verification of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Mylar 'space' blankets. Tang...

Ooooooooooo Tang, yummy

I forgot that one..........LOL

Aaronw wrote:

bilbirk wrote:  russianfist wrote: Agreed, better than nothing at all. It also reminds me that we lost something in the in the 1970's when the apollo program ended. Kinda a dream shattering experiance. As a child I was fortunite enough to play in a real Apollo capsule trainer that was donated to our local  air and space musium. If we stayed at the pace we were at we would be on our way past Mars.   So why should we be. To ME I think it was a waste of time. But Thats my opinion. I was not ever really into the space thing back then. Can somebody explain why we had to go other than to beat the Russians? Thanks all   I can't think of a reason better than because it was there. As far as a waste of time, the space race increased technology at a high rate. Had we continued who knows what increases in battery technology, recycling technology, hydroponics, materials, power production etc we would have seen.

Been watching it all day with my stepson and my two grandsons. Had to answer a lot of questions for the little ones. about all the comercials.

Can't help but hope that I'm around if/or when we find out that we are not alone in this universe (of ours?). Think of all the deflated egos.

Jim

You know, the sad thing is that a lot of people feel that way. They never saw the real impact on technology, science, education, and most importantly on the way the country felt as a whole.  All this was going on during Viet Nam and offered a bright hope to those struggling through the war.  During this time, 2001 A Space Odyssey came out as well.  Think about it, they created the movie before we ever saw the earth from out of orbit!  Uncanny to the point I felt is was a contract with us on what was to come.  So, here we are in 2008 still unable to get out of earth orbit for about 40 years...we made it from zero to the moon in less than 10!

If you want to read a fascinating prsentation on why people lost interest, take a look at the Gen Y presentation given to NASA management.  It is excellent and I have been using it extensively in my company with a lot of impact.

 I'm still dreaming and hoping but at this point, I realize I will not live to the see the things I felt 2001 promised me.  It is sad and has actually made me move more towards sci fi modeling.  I can control what happens there 

Astronaut Buck wrote:

During this time, 2001 A Space Odyssey came out as well.

Arthur Clark certainly thought we'd (people) be living on the moon by now!