"On July 11 the astronauts went before Charles Berry for
a final health scrutiny, and were passed fit. Six miles away,
on the launch pad, the report was "no problems." Emphasising
the quickening tempo was the departure on July 12 of the
primary recovery ship, the USS Hornet ASW aircraft carrier,
from Pearl Harbour, to take up station in the Pacific and
await the splashdown of the command module, due on July 24." *
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40 years later, the overwhelming majority of countries on Earth still couldn't do that if they wanted to.
Posted by: Rob | July 13, 2009 at 09:45 AM
Yeah. We have the technology, but I'm not sure that we can do it now either. Forty years ago, if you had told a certain 8-year-old boy that there would be no colony on the moon by 2009, he would have been astonished.
Posted by: Dave E. | July 13, 2009 at 11:19 AM