Comments on: The Most Important Race Of All http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-most-important-race-of-all/ Speed is Life Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:04:51 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: jerrycruz http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-most-important-race-of-all/#comment-594 jerrycruz Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:55:16 +0000 http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-most-important-race-of-all/#comment-594 hi george, great curveball with this article...one of my favorite movies is The Right Stuff...although I was not even born when the space race was full on, I was amazed on the great lengths it took to even be in Earth's orbit...now, what about some IndyCar racing? Great article...keep up the good work! hi george, great curveball with this article…one of my favorite movies is The Right Stuff…although I was not even born when the space race was full on, I was amazed on the great lengths it took to even be in Earth’s orbit…now, what about some IndyCar racing?

Great article…keep up the good work!

]]> By: oilpressure http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-most-important-race-of-all/#comment-593 oilpressure Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:49:57 +0000 http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-most-important-race-of-all/#comment-593 ...The Pagoda Speaks! …The Pagoda Speaks!

]]> By: Roy Hobbson http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-most-important-race-of-all/#comment-592 Roy Hobbson Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:37:12 +0000 http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-most-important-race-of-all/#comment-592 "Forgive me while I veer slightly from the usual subjects involving IndyCar racing" WHY I NEVER!!! And you call yourself an IndyCar blog??? This is preposterous, and I won't stand for this type of rubbish. Good day, Mr. Phillips. “Forgive me while I veer slightly from the usual subjects involving IndyCar racing”

WHY I NEVER!!! And you call yourself an IndyCar blog??? This is preposterous, and I won’t stand for this type of rubbish. Good day, Mr. Phillips.

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]]> By: oilpressure http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-most-important-race-of-all/#comment-590 oilpressure Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:26:03 +0000 http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-most-important-race-of-all/#comment-590 Justin: You are correct and I have made the corresponding correction in the article. Thanks for pointing it out. -- GP Justin:

You are correct and I have made the corresponding correction in the article. Thanks for pointing it out. — GP

]]> By: Justin http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-most-important-race-of-all/#comment-589 Justin Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:26:00 +0000 http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-most-important-race-of-all/#comment-589 Hey George, Love your articles. Each and every one is heartfelt and well-spoken. Like you, I am as much space buff as Indycar buff and I just wanted to point out one minor mistake in your article (and it is not one that diminishes it in any way). Apollo 9 also remained in Earth orbit (you mistakenly stated Apollo 7 was the last to remain before Apollo-Soyuz & Skylab), albeit with the lunar module as well as the CM. Keep up the good work George! I look forward to more great articles. Justin Tampa, FL Hey George,

Love your articles. Each and every one is heartfelt and well-spoken. Like you, I am as much space buff as Indycar buff and I just wanted to point out one minor mistake in your article (and it is not one that diminishes it in any way). Apollo 9 also remained in Earth orbit (you mistakenly stated Apollo 7 was the last to remain before Apollo-Soyuz & Skylab), albeit with the lunar module as well as the CM.

Keep up the good work George! I look forward to more great articles.

Justin
Tampa, FL

]]> By: oilpressure http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-most-important-race-of-all/#comment-586 oilpressure Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:36:13 +0000 http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-most-important-race-of-all/#comment-586 Kohl - I started to touch on how Armstrong has chosen to distance himself from that accomplishment, but decided not to. It's sad that he has become so reclusive and so disdainful of that event. My two favorite Apollo astronauts were Alan Shepard (Apollo 14) and Jim Lovell (Apollo 8 & 13); mainly because of the way they carried themselves AFTER their astronaut days. -- GP Kohl – I started to touch on how Armstrong has chosen to distance himself from that accomplishment, but decided not to. It’s sad that he has become so reclusive and so disdainful of that event. My two favorite Apollo astronauts were Alan Shepard (Apollo 14) and Jim Lovell (Apollo 8 & 13); mainly because of the way they carried themselves AFTER their astronaut days. — GP

]]> By: Kohl http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-most-important-race-of-all/#comment-585 Kohl Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:30:22 +0000 http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-most-important-race-of-all/#comment-585 Although too young to remember most of the space exploration I have grown up a few miles from Neil Armstrongs current and birth home. Every July the town starts to buzz and the Space Museam that bears his name welcomes thousands of visitors. He, unfortunatley, is not as open to all of it. He has been hiding in his house for several years and won't answer questions from anyone. Sadly he has become just another legend. Although too young to remember most of the space exploration I have grown up a few miles from Neil Armstrongs current and birth home. Every July the town starts to buzz and the Space Museam that bears his name welcomes thousands of visitors. He, unfortunatley, is not as open to all of it. He has been hiding in his house for several years and won’t answer questions from anyone. Sadly he has become just another legend.

]]> By: Tom http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-most-important-race-of-all/#comment-584 Tom Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:16:03 +0000 http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-most-important-race-of-all/#comment-584 Great post George, Alas, I am too young to remember the glory days of the Apollo program. I do remember the very tail end of it. By then it seems it had become a ho-hum affair, and America had turned it's gaze in upon itself for the duration of that aberration of a decade we call the 70's. I few years ago I picked up a documentary on the Apollo 11 mission from the Library to watch with my kids. They were 7 and 6 at the time. After watching the footage of that enormous Saturn V lumbering into the heavens my son turned to me and said "Dad, I don't think I want to be an astronaut. It looks too dangerous" Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins are true giants of history. We forget just how dangerous these missions were, and what a triumph of engineering, science, technology, and good old fashioned "cojones". Great post George,

Alas, I am too young to remember the glory days of the Apollo program. I do remember the very tail end of it. By then it seems it had become a ho-hum affair, and America had turned it’s gaze in upon itself for the duration of that aberration of a decade we call the 70’s.

I few years ago I picked up a documentary on the Apollo 11 mission from the Library to watch with my kids. They were 7 and 6 at the time. After watching the footage of that enormous Saturn V lumbering into the heavens my son turned to me and said “Dad, I don’t think I want to be an astronaut. It looks too dangerous”

Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins are true giants of history. We forget just how dangerous these missions were, and what a triumph of engineering, science, technology, and good old fashioned “cojones”.

]]> By: Jim in Wilmington http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-most-important-race-of-all/#comment-583 Jim in Wilmington Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:09:58 +0000 http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-most-important-race-of-all/#comment-583 Great article. The Christmas Eve braodcast & the reading of Genisis I, verses 1 - 8 is the most moving moment I have ever experienced watching TV. I still get goose bumps tinking about it. The whole program was a stupendous achievement. Jim Great article. The Christmas Eve braodcast & the reading of Genisis I, verses 1 – 8 is the most moving moment I have ever experienced watching TV. I still get goose bumps tinking about it. The whole program was a stupendous achievement.

Jim

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