TheMcGuffin, on 15 December 2010 - 07:36 PM, said:
Speaking of happy images, here's one of Von Barun being carried through the streets of Huntsville after the successful moon landing. Of course, one could argue about the morality of his transition from Nazi technocrat to all-American hero, but there are many happy pictures from this 1969 landing.
http://www.google.co...iw=1024&bih=619
And others...like the next one....
27 November, 1969
And then there's these happy guys, 9 February, 1971...
That guy in the center....I'd have loved to se anyone approach him with the idiotic ideas we see today about Moon hoaxes and such crap.
that man was (at that time) captain Alan Shepard (USN...U.S. Naval Academy, 1944), Chief of the Astronaut Office and America's first man in space. He would in a couple years be Rear Admiral Shepard, and he was a man of integrity, a supreme Naval Aviator, and you simply didn't screw with this man. He could make you cold with a single stare, commanded the utmost respect, and if there were any shenanigans involved with the Apollo Program, that man would've spoken, loudly, brashly, and would've exposed everything without a skipped beat anywhere. That man...was integrity exemplified, and he would've told any one who suggested he participate in a hoax to go "****" themselves...from a Manager to the Secretary of the Navy to the President of the United States.
Al has been gone for 12 years.
May you have good tailwinds Admiral!