You have to get this Apollo 11 Moon Mission widget – it is awesome

Stephen Pate, NJN Network, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, July 14, 2009 with story from ComputerWorld

Where were you when Neil Armstrong put the first foot on the moon? Do you remember when President Kennedy spoke those stirring words “We chose to send a man to the moon.”?

I remember both. Kennedy’s decision changed the world in ways we can’t imagine.

It was the demand for smaller computers in the Command Module and Lunar Lander that created the demand for the micro electronics we take for granted today.

They went to the moon with less computer technology than the device in a modern toaster.

If you want to relive the events in real time, get the widget from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum –

I’ve had it installed since 7 pm when I started a hard drive upgrade.

At first I thought helicopters were outside my window. Then I heard voices.

It’s the soundtrack of the pre-launch.

As I write it is it is T minus 35 hours to launch of Apollo 11, the first flight to the moon 40 years ago.

This is going to be exciting.

OK I’m a space nut. I have been to Cape Canaveral twice, got the t-shirt, the jacket, the videos. I have an early laser-disc of the IMAX movie about the mission The Dream is Alive. I bought a sub-woofer in 1989 just to hear the rockets roar and rumble.

The American landing of a man on the moon is one of the greatest adventures of man. We have learned so much from it. Many of our scientific and computer innovations can be traced to Apollo.

Get the widget. Re-live the excitement.



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