Tumblr Pulls Some Choice Apollo 11 Quotes

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Eric Lund
May 10, 2020 11:00 PM EDT

While everyone involved in the moon landing knew the impact of what they were doing, you couldn't expect them to be all business all the time. When you think about it, a trip to the moon is a lot like a long car ride with your bro. Tumblr remarks on some of the less on-brand quotes from the Apollo 11 mission. For some other interesting junk, here's a tumblr thread on the fastest manhole cover ever, the first soldier to take way too many military grade amphetamines as well as some other nuggets of gold from Tumblr's busy brains.

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    Text - weaver-z How the media depicts the Apollo 11 mission: "THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN- ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND." APOLLO -NEIL A. ARMSTRONG
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    Text - Actual quotes from the Apollo 11 mission: Collins: I'd like to enter Aldrin in the oatmeal eating contest next time. [Bruce McCandless, in Mission Control]: Is he pretty good at that? Collins: He's doing his share up here. McCandless: Let's see. You all just finished a meal not long ago, too, didn't you? Aldrin: I'm still eating. McCandless: Okay. Does that, that ... Collins: He's on his-he's on his 19th bowl.
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    Text - Collins: Menkent. God, what a star. Aldrin: Nobody in their right . Collins: Menkent's good ... Aldrin: ... nobody in their right mind would pick that one. Collins: ... Menkent's a good star. Collins: That's a horrible window. It's too bad we have to shoot through this one, but- oh, boy, you could spend a lifetime just geologizing that one crater alone, you know that? Armstrong: You could. Collins: That's not how I'd like to spend my lifetime, but-picture that. Beautiful! Aldrin: Yes, the
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    Text - Collins: We're trying to calculate how much spaghetti and meatballs we can get on board for Al Bean [the lunar-module pilot for Apollo 12]. Garriott: I'm not sure the spacecraft will take that much extra weight. Have you made any estimates? Collins: It'll be close. Garriott: 11, Houston. The medics at the next console report that the shrew is one animal which can eat six times its own body weight every 24 hours. This may be a satisfactory baseline for your spaghetti calculations on AI Bea
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    Text - [Fred Haise, in Mission Control]: Apollo 11, Houston. Collins: Go ahead. Haise: Roger, Mike. We recommend the left VHF antenna for VHF. Haise: And this is your friendly backup CMP. Have a good trip, and [garbled] remember to come in BEF [blunt end forward]. Collins: You better believe. Thank you kindly. Collins: We can see the moon passing by the window and it looks what I consider to be a correct size.
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