Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 22:50:21 -0700
From: Mark Eidemiller (skylab@e-44-z.net)
Subject: Space1999: Anyone remember that one small step....

Hi, gang:

July 20, 1969.....at (around) 11:20 in the morning.....American astronaut
Neil Armstrong took that "One giant leap for mankind" off the landing pad
of the Lunar Module Eagle, and entered into history.

Where were you (if you were around then) when man stepped on the moon?

I was a dutiful fourteen-year-old space nut, sitting cross-legged before
our television set, surrounded by models of the Saturn V, lunar module, and
command module, and sucking in every moment of it with fascination.

PS: If anyone wants to read a good novel, try Voyage by Steven Baxter.
It's an excellent look at what would have happened if the space program had
continued with the strength it had in the 60's.  (The key event is a manned
Mars landing in 1984.)

Later, gang....



From: LKJ1999@aol4tag.com
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 06:55:29 EDT
Subject: Re: Space1999: Anyone remember that one small step....

I was six years old! And i was on the Planet Earth...

Chas P.              LKJ1999



Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 12:37:28 -0400
From: Patricia Embury (Patriemb@sprint44mail.com)
Subject: Space1999: Anyone remember that one small step....]

I remember watching it on tv with the rest of the family.  My brother was
sitting in front of the set with a tape recorder, taping the audio!



Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 18:20:52 -0700
From: Mark Eidemiller (skylab@e-44-z.net)
Subject: Space1999: Alan Shepherd

Condolences to the family, friends, and fans of American astronaut Alan
Shepherd, who died today at age 74.

Besides having the notoriety of being the first American in space, he also
possessed a unique sense of humor -- during the Apollo 14 moon landing, he
used a makeshift Nine iron to hit golf balls from the surface of the moon.

I can just picture that: "Oh, nuts.  A five mile chip shot!  Look -- a
crater in one!"

It would have also been interesting to see someone on Alpha find one of them.

Koenig: "Victor.  Where did you get that?"
Bergman: "Oh, this?  I was walking out by Area seventeen and nearly tripped
over it."

A toast, to an original.....



Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 23:06:43 -0400
From: Tom Miller (tmiller@north44net.org)
Subject: Re: Space1999: Alan Shepherd

Well Put, my friend.  A real great HERO.  We should be proud of what he
accomplished for a humanity.

Tom



Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 23:26:41 -0600
From: Robert Gilbert  I can just picture that: "Oh, nuts.  A five mile chip shot!  Look -- a
> crater in one!"

Yes! Hahahaha!

> It would have also been interesting to see someone on Alpha find one of them.
> Koenig: "Victor.  Where did you get that?"
> Bergman: "Oh, this?  I was walking out by Area seventeen and nearly tripped
> over it."

Don't you wish something like that actually happened --- either nobody in the S99
cast/crew/management thought of it or they didn't do their homework (which brings
up another good question: why was there Sparks whenever anything blew up in
Space?  Surely they must've known there would be none --- although --- I suppose
it was just another way of making it look un-Star Twreck)!

> A toast, to an original.....

Amen to that Brother!



Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 22:31:27 -0400
From: Zarf Vreex (zarf@inter44log.com)
Subject: Re: Space1999: Anyone remember that one small step....]

>> Where were you (if you were around then) when man stepped on the moon?

I was three years old and still conducting stress tests for the Johnson &
Johnson diaper division.

Zarf
"If it ain't broke, you didn't hit it hard enough the first time."


Famous Quotes that were better left unsaid....

"Houston, I have to urinate."
  Alan Shepperd, 1963

"What would this country be without this great land of ours?"
  Ronald Regan,  1984

"640k should be more that enough for anybody."
  Bill Gates, 1985

"God is dead."
  Friedrich Nietzsche, 1880

"Nietzsche is dead."
  God, 1900

"The pen is mightier than the sword."
   Benjamin Franklin, 1776

"That depends on where you stick the pen and how hard."
   Lance Lawrence, 1986

"I don't swim in your toilet, so don't pee in my pool!"
  Zarf Vreex, 2364

On the sixth day, God created the platypus. And God said
"let's see the evolutionists try and figure this one out".