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Moon Quotes Past and Future.
« on: 11/19/2007 02:34 am »
I was looking at a thread in a differant forum about first words on Mars. It got me to thinking about the quote from apollo I liked most and what I would say if I were to climb down the ladder of the lunar module.

It's no contest I think the best like was that of Capt. Pete Conrad. "that may have been a small one for Neil, but it was a long one for me."

My quote would be: "Hey Pete I found your car keys!"

What is your favorite quote from the lunar surface and what would you say if you got to be the one to take those steps on Orion.

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RE: Moon Quotes Past and Future.
« Reply #1 on: 11/19/2007 11:17 am »
Even if they were apocryphal, I like Gene Cernan's final words just before the ascent engine ignited in Apollo 17.  

"Okay Jack.  Let's get this mother outta here."

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Re: Moon Quotes Past and Future.
« Reply #2 on: 11/21/2007 07:13 pm »
Quoting loosely:

"Oh, my seat belt's loose! ... OK, it's fixed"

Jim Irwin, Apollo 15

Scott and Irwin saw a really interesting rock on the way back from their last EVA. Knowing that Mission Control wouldn't allow them to stop to pick it up, they "accidentally" pointed the LRV's TV antenna away from Earth, Irwin unbuckled, got out, grabbed the rock, and got going again. Noone on the ground realised what was going on until after they got back to Earth, and someone noticed an extra sample, promptly named "Seat-Belt Rock". (Scott and Irwin were the real first two geologists on the Moon, and I don't think Jack Schmitt would disagree. :) )

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Re: Moon Quotes Past and Future.
« Reply #3 on: 11/22/2007 06:49 am »

Thats' quoted very loosely i've dug throught the apollo surface journal but can't seem to find it.. anyone can?

 

I like the one on Apollo 12 when Pete and Alan tried to take a picture of themselves using a timer on the camera. Nobody knew the've secretly planned this picture and that the've took a timer with them. Below is taken from the apollo lunar surface journal

133:54:09 Conrad: Al, I'll tell you what let's do. Get right over here, and we'll park all of our gear, take ourselves a little rest, go over your photo plan, and then we'll have at it.

[Pete's statement about going over the "photo plan" may be a reference to the secret timer, although it may also refer to their official photography of the Surveyor. They won't get serious about looking for the timer until about 134:00:50, once they've had a good look at the Surveyor and have described its condition to Houston.]

[Conrad - "He asked us to take a rest, and we gave him a lot of smoke."]

[Bean - "We told him, 'Yeah, we're resting'."]

[Jones - "What were you doing?"]

[Conrad - "We were trying to find the timer."]

[Jones - "Tell me about the timer."]

[Conrad - "The timer goes on the Hasselblad; and nobody knew we had it."]

[Bean - "It was a little auto-timer."]

[Conrad - "We were going to put the camera on the stake (the extension handle which could be mounted on the HTC to give a steady camera mount) and both of us were going to walk over to the Surveyor and have our picture taken."]

[Bean - "The timer went off in 30 seconds or something."]

[Conrad - "And we knew that PAO (Public Affairs Office) would put that photograph out before they'd put anything else out. Then somebody was going to ask the question 'Who took the picture?'"]

[Bean - "But we couldn't find the timer."]

[Jones - "Because of all the dust in there."]

[Conrad - "I found it later, packing the rock box."]

[Bean - "It was right on the top."]

[Conrad - "Yeah, 'cause I dumped the bag."]

[Bean - "You dumped the bag in the rock box, and there it sat."]

[Conrad - "We had a whole rock bag full of rocks, by this time. Plus broken camera, plus whatever. So it was buried."]

[Readers should note that, in both checklists, the initial Surveyor activity is "Perform D.P." which means "dual photo".]



 

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Re: Moon Quotes Past and Future.
« Reply #4 on: 11/22/2007 05:00 pm »
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Hoonte - 21/11/2007  11:49 PM

Thats' quoted very loosely i've dug throught the apollo surface journal but can't seem to find it.. anyone can?


I was a bit wrong; it was the end of EVA 1, and Scott got out (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_15,_Lunar_surface ):

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Mission Control announced that it had decided to cancel a planned stop at a crater named Flow due to time constraints. As such the astronauts boarded the Rover and drove back past Elbow and on their way to the LM. About 125 meters before a crater named Rhysling, Scott spied a large piece of vesicular basalt sitting by itself. Not wanting to just leave it there, he stopped the Rover. The stop was unplanned so he just told Mission Control his seatbelt had come loose, but quickly got off the Rover, ran over to the rock, using his collection tongs for a calibration in the photos, took a sample and got back to the Rover. During this time, Irwin distracted Mission Control by describing the surrounding craters. It was not until the sample boxes returned to Earth that the stop was discovered.

Simon ;)

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Re: Moon Quotes Past and Future.
« Reply #5 on: 11/22/2007 05:24 pm »
I think the best would be "Hey, what the hell is THAT?!! AHHHH!!!" and cut the microphone.... :D
"If I wanted to lead a bunch of robots that could only follow orders, I would have joined the Army!"
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