https://padlet.com/21117921/Bookmarks The Original Buzz Lightyear en-us 2022-03-09 21:00:55 UTC 2025-12-21 20:26:28 UTC hello@padlet.com https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Super-Bowl-53-Toy-Story.jpg?w=1600&quality=86&strip=all 21117921 https://padlet.com/21117921/Bookmarks/wish/2089158568 January 9, 1969.
The Backup crew for Apollo 8 were Armstrong and I. For around six months we had trained for that. Around Christmas time in 1968, Apollo 8 flew to the moon. It was the first flight to orbit it. Often it is remembered for its Christmas message the astronauts on board sent — reading from the Bible while in moon orbit. Soon in early January 1969, crews had already been assigned to Apollo 9 and Apollo 10, so the backup crew for Apollo 8 would be the primary crew for Apollo 11. This was confirmed by the announcement of our selection. Mike Collins joined our crew in early January. If Apollos 9 and 10 tested the Lunar Lander successfully — first in Earth orbit and then in lunar orbit — then Apollo 11's mission would be to land on the moon. We knew all of this, but we were most relieved when the announcement made it official.]]> 2022-03-10 20:57:49 UTC https://padlet.com/21117921/Bookmarks/wish/2089158568 21117921 https://padlet.com/21117921/Bookmarks/wish/2089165977 July 20, 1969.
Earth was four times the size of a full moon seen from Earth being on the moon. It was a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky. It was a large distance, considering the challenges of the voyage home. The surface of the moon is nothing similar to here on Earth. It lacks any evidence of life. It consists of fine, talcum-powder like dust mixed with a complete variety of pebbles, rocks, and boulders. Many pebbles, fewer rocks, and even fewer boulders naturally make up its surface. The dust is a very fine, overall dark gray. And with no air molecules to separate the dust, it clings together like cement. If you examine it under a microscope, you can see it's made up of tiny, solidified droplets of vaporized rock resulting from extreme velocity impacts, like an asteroid from outer space hitting the surface over millions of years.I expected the unexpected and went with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing — "magnificent desolation." Magnificent for the achievement of being there, and desolate for the eons of lifelessness.]]> 2022-03-10 21:04:27 UTC https://padlet.com/21117921/Bookmarks/wish/2089165977 21117921 https://padlet.com/21117921/Bookmarks/wish/2089174617 July 21, 1969. 
It was an extremally eye opening freedom found at being weightless. It requires thoughtful readjustment. I found the felling of being weightless to be one of the most fun, challenging and rewarding, things of being in space. Returning to Earth makes everything seem so heavy. In some ways it's not too different from returning from a rocking ocean ship. The feeling of of a lot less pull down to Earth made it seem necessary for a slow-motion movement.  It was more challenging and productive to concentrate on the remedies, and leave things that couldn't be solved to happen without thinking about them. The human mind has a habit of being dark and thinking of the worst possible scenario but we kept quite calm.]]> 2022-03-10 21:12:35 UTC https://padlet.com/21117921/Bookmarks/wish/2089174617