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"The achievements of Apollo were so bold and our subsequent efforts so timid that the energy of those years seems like a youthful dream" -- Edwin Eugene ("Buzz") Aldrin, Jr. (b. 1930-01-20; landed on the moon (with Neil Armstrong) 1969-07-20)

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2009-07-20:

"We were young, and we were fearless and, after all, nobody had ever told us young engineers that we couldn't successfully land humans on another planet. So we did it." -- Sy Liebergot, electrical, environmental and communications officer (EECOM), Black Team, Mission Control, on the Apollo 11 lunar landing 40 years ago. Quoted in "The Untold Story of NASA's Apollo 11 Moon Mission", Popular Mechanics, June 2009.

[ http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4319065.html]

(submitted to the mailing lisy by Jeffrey L. Copeland)

Past week has been very good and very bad. Not trying to go to 3LF; shouldn't drive that far on toy spare, so when I do drive that far it'll be to ask Mom for money to replace tire. Way behind on Pennsic prep. Three long journal entries mostly-written but not quite finished before other stuff got in the way; will try to get those done (maybe separately, maybe merged) in next few days. Wanted to head to Mom's earlier but head hurts; not sure I want to try to cope w/rush hour, which I'll be driving into if I start pulling myself together now. Feeling very fuzzy-brained; being in quieter environment would help, but not feeling well enough to drive to one.