https://padlet.com/15113231/Bookmarks Made with the best of intentions en-us 2022-03-09 16:55:49 UTC 2025-10-29 05:31:17 UTC hello@padlet.com 15113231 https://padlet.com/15113231/Bookmarks/wish/2086520644 2022-03-09 17:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/15113231/Bookmarks/wish/2086520644 15113231 https://padlet.com/15113231/Bookmarks/wish/2088710343 July 16, 1969, this was the day that Apollo 11 launches, this is the day which I become part of history. I am a former US Air Force Cornel so I have flying experience which helped me pilot the Apollo 11 Lunar Module. I was very excited to have the opportunity to go to space with a team that I have come to know as good friends and maybe even consider family. As we boarded the spacecraft I could feel my heart racing, I heard the roar the engine makes as it kicks on and then I felt an intense shaking as we ascended into the air. As we broke through the atmosphere it was a dark infinite abyss with only light from the giant sun being the only source of light. Earth from the point of view of space is magnificent. The bodies of water, clouds, and tiny chunks of land being the only thing visible from this far away. ]]> 2022-03-10 16:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/15113231/Bookmarks/wish/2088710343 15113231 https://padlet.com/15113231/Bookmarks/wish/2088754383 2022-03-10 16:54:12 UTC https://padlet.com/15113231/Bookmarks/wish/2088754383 15113231 https://padlet.com/15113231/Bookmarks/wish/2088763284 It was on July 20, 1969 I recall the landing of Apollo 11. I was very excided, looking around the spacecraft I could see Neil looking a little uneasy so I tried to lighten the mood with my excitement. I practiced for this moment of feeling weight less, I practiced doing extravehicular work during underwater zero-gravity training. That training helped my body adjust and give my mind a sense of what it will be like weightless in space. I found the experience of weightlessness to be one of the most fun and enjoyable, challenging and rewarding, experiences of spaceflight. Having the feeling of being weightless might have been the best thing I endured during that flight.]]> 2022-03-10 16:58:52 UTC https://padlet.com/15113231/Bookmarks/wish/2088763284 15113231 https://padlet.com/15113231/Bookmarks/wish/2105607167 2022-03-21 15:38:08 UTC https://padlet.com/15113231/Bookmarks/wish/2105607167 15113231 https://padlet.com/15113231/Bookmarks/wish/2105630111 July 24th was the day we returned to our home, Earth. It took all about 2 days, 22 hours and 56 minutes for the Apollo 11 aircraft to land safely on Earth. I can recall the moment where returning to Earth and the difference in the weightlessness feeling. Returning to Earth brings a great sense of heaviness. The best comparison to the feeling of breaking through the barrier is in some ways like returning from a rocking ocean ship. That was the day my life changed and I became famous and part of history and I wouldn't want it any other way.]]> 2022-03-21 15:48:00 UTC https://padlet.com/15113231/Bookmarks/wish/2105630111