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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
I can guarantee there are pictures from Bing & Google of your house. High resolution and straight down. In fact your house gets photographed several times each year. The tax collector uses it to see if you built a pool or added a building in the back yard. If it is outside it can and will be photographed.
I found this old photo in the pile of photos I have been digging through. This is me on my bycicle next to the Apollo 11 "moon module" that kept the world safe from the moon bugs. Neal Armstrong waved at me. This was just a few blocks from our house at Hickam AFB in Hawaii. They loaded the module in an Air Force cargo jet and flew back home.
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Two thumbs up, awesome. Word, groovey, far out.
I was a huge fan of astronauts growing up. We didn't have as much cool new stuff going on at the time, but I loved reading books and watching vids of the first twenty years.
I made it a point to see a shuttle launch, kept trying to get family to go and it kept not working out. Last shuttle launch I drove down for it. Had a decent chance of being delayed, but I wasn't gonna take the chance of missing it. Ended up launching on time. Same launch pads and assembly building as the moon rockets. Shuttle main engines are the same as well.
Sound travels faster through water than air, so you can see a wave of fish jumping out of the water coming at you over a minute before you ever hear the shuttle.
It amazes me the stupidity of the people today who think we didn't go to the moon...