Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

I take a lot of things for granted in being forty-six years old. Things that younger generations can’t relate to.

For instance, there are billions on the Earth with no memories of man walking on the moon. I was nine when Apollo 11 took place, and it was a big impact on my life, to say the least. Later, I thrilled to the Lunar Rover bouncing around on the rough moon’s surface, and by my early teens had basically taken it for granted that we would be putting men on the moon every now and then.

Well, we all know what happened. The program ended early, and we stopped sending men to extraterrestrial locations.

That somber thought inspires today’s pick: Apollo Lunar Surface Journal.

This NASA site contains the complete transcripts of all six missions that reached the surface, as well as the infamous one that didn’t.

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