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I wish we could experience something similar today,
The distances we're exploring now preclude any real-time TV event like the Moon landing, but....We have pictures from the surface of Titan!!
That is NOT pic from the surface of Titan, no such pic exist yet. It is a pic from the surface of Mars. Titan is covered in a form of ice, and no probes have yet tried to put down their, although that will hopefully change in the next few years.
I seem to remember the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft orbiting Saturn and releasing the Huygens probe to the surface of Titan. Not trying to be contrary, but I think this is an image of Titan.
To have "figured it out" in about a decade is amazing.I remember countries taking ads out in Time magazine congratulating the US on the accomplishment.
Next Sunday CNN will be showing their made for TV documentary Apollo 11. I watched it on pay for view this weekend and was blown away by the restored film. I was just a ten year old kid watching the lunar landing on a grainy black and white TV with my family gathered around the television. It is hard to believe that it was 50 years ago.I clearly recall building the Saturn 5 model kit my uncle bought me for Christmas in 1968 and my school friends and I building the Mercury and Gemini model kits and reading everything we could about the space program. In 1967 my family went to Expo 67 in Montreal and took in the American and Soviet pavilions with the impressive space craft displays. The documentary uses original film to tell the storey of the thousands of people and hundreds of contractors who made it happen. I also just finished the book 'Shoot for the Moon', it traces the space program from Sputnik to Apollo 11, again a stunning achievement. What NASA accomplished is probably the greatest technical achievement mankind has ever reached. I wish we could experience something similar today,