Apollo 12: A Heartstopping Launch

Apollo 12: A Heartstopping Launch

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• Apollo
• 12
• Heartstopping
• Launch
• Space
• Moon
• Luna
• Espacio

[Thinkcity]

Where are all you "hoax" and "fake" commentators? Shouldn´t you be here with your silly "fake launch", "fake thunderstorm", "fake lightning", "fake Apollo program" comments?

Hey guys, where are you? Please post something - I need a good laughter.

[tracyterry]

it would happen to that goofball Conrad

[charliegoodboy]

I am pleased to announce that the Moon Hoaxer Movement is dead, save for a few lingerers, and most of them are teenagers who will eventually receive an education. The majority of the last adult holdouts are foreigners with weird accents and a taste for unusual foods

[giannivee1]

I bet Pete Conrad's pucker factor was at Max Puck on that one. Flyihng on the world's largest rocket and it gets struck by lightning...ha ha...they were a brave bunch of guys. W really don't give them enough credit. Sadly we lost Pete a few years back, died on a motorcycle, If i remember the news wires correctly. Survived a moon rocket, dead on a motorcycle...something to think about. Thanks Gianni

[irish89055]

doesn't sound like a Jack King Apollo launch commentary... launching in that weather was up there with the Challenger stupidity

[jakfuki]

Another good argument showing that the Apollo spacecraft was/is the safest ever,and it's not bad for making a pitstop at the moon. Hell, the shuttle would have been reduced to nothing if it had ever been hit by lightning (unless I'm mistaken). Apollo is still better than anything the Russians ever built. I mean, after putting twelve men on luna firma, nobody else's rockets can touch that feat.

[GGE47]

They never tried that again.One other thing went wrong.Alan Bean pointed the tv camera into the sun as they were taking it from the LM to set it up on a tripod and it burned out the lense.No more tv after that and it was in color.At least I saw Pete Conrad take his first step on the moon.He jumped over the footpad fraom the first rung of the ladder and just about fell down.He said"That might have been a small one for Neil but it was a big one for me."

[TennisUK11]

@tracyterry yep!!!...why wasn't he first on the moon, he would have given us a something to remember! I remember an interview when someone asked him what it was like to stand on the moon...he answered "Super, really enjoyed it!" LOL. He had the right stuff before they had a name for it.