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Jul 18, 2019,12:11 PM
 

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Although Apollo 11 takes center stage this week, The Quote of the Century, or of Eternity if you ask me,

 
 By: Ron_W : July 18th, 2019-11:35
Credit picture Nasa; astronauts Haise , Lovell and Swigert is from the Apollo 13 crew when Jack Swigert spoke his immortal words ; ‘I believe we’ve had a problem here’, followed by Jim Lovell’s ‘Houston, we’ve had a problem’. So understated and profession...  

It’s really incredible what they did with what they had and what they knew (or didn’t know).

 
 By: Jay (Eire) : July 18th, 2019-12:51
It’s not my thing and wouldn’t be a curiosity of mine but I did listen to approximately 4 hours of a podcast earlier this year which patched together the dialogue between the astronauts and the ground in a really coherent manner to tell this story. It was... 

Epic!

 
 By: ChristianDK : July 18th, 2019-20:12
The mindset of those men is very inspiring! Thank you for reminding us.

But they had...

 
 By: FlyingSnoopy : July 18th, 2019-22:22
one great watch that helped them at 5he right moment! Cheers