I remember Space Oddity being the theme tune to the moon landing (well, along with Also Sprach Zarathustra). Most people had never heard of David Bowie, but just as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became famous, so David Bowie first entered the world's attention with, what must have seemed at the time, a novelty hit. From little acorns.....

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After 40 years People still believe man landed on the moon... I would like to check the original footage but they taped over it!!!!!!!

NASA believes these photos disprove that old canard:

http://www.space.com/news/090717-lro-apollo11-images.html

You never know the real story.

I wasn't born WAY back then Nibbler! (Heck - I only JUST remember when Courtney Love shot Kurt Cobain).

I think it is way cool that Mr Jones Junior is so much in the news (for the first time), regarding a movie set in space, exactly 40 years after Mr Jones Seniors song about space was heard by so many peeps (for the first time)!

Love

Sonny

I was in junior school in 1969 (like my avatar) - I remember the event well and I was in change of an Apollo 11 wall display in class, but I didn't appreciate the true significance of this historic event.

What really hits me today is that these men went to the moon in a bit of kit that was built before the Austin Allegro!

Not sure what an Allegro equivalent would be for our foreign friends - just think crap 70s car.

<< Not sure what an Allegro equivalent would be for our foreign friends - just think crap 70s car >>

Anything automotive built by the American car industry?

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The infamous Allegro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQbba0aUUgo

Only two cars are as bad as the Allegro

the Marina and the Princess...ALL Leyland.

and with Arthur Fowler at the wheel too!



Tits and Explosions

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Austin Princess - I have to confess to having once owned one of these beasts.

In 1969 man went to the moon in Apollo 11.

In 1979 my Austin Princess had trouble getting to the end of the street......


Incidently, I've had some seriously crap cars over the years.....

Mini Van - 1966 model - bought in 1977 for £120.

Ford Zephyr

Hillman Imp

Austin 1300

Mark 3 Cortina (x2)

Austin Princess

Austin Ambassador

Triumph TR7

Ford Sierra

Rover 416

Rover 216

Mitsubishi Shogun

Bowie connection? None really other than the fact that each will have had Bowie blasting from the stereo (which, in the case of the first three cars, was an eight track which was transplanted from car to car).....

I saw a Hillman Imp two days ago.Usually the only cars you still see on the road of that age are Minis,Beetles and VW camper vans.

That thing's a lot more substantial: my local science and technology museum has a duplicate of the lunar lander, and it's not much more than a Mylar tent with a bit of engine at one end. It's amazing that intelligent men trusted their lives to that thing.

And Mission Control was doing their calculations with slide rules - calculators were years away. I think they still had sextants.

You never know the real story.

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God bless The Onion! Pride and joy of my hometown, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.

That was one of my fave headlines over the years. Others include:
Christ Returns To NBA -http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50097
...and...
Clinton Threatens To Drop Da Bomb On Iraq -http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29620

Here in Britain we had The Sunday Sport with headlines such as Double Decker Bus Found on the Moon.It seems to be a tabloid style wank mag now.Shame.

The difference being that The Onion is a well-written satirical publication while The Sunday Sport was always a soft porn rag full of crap.

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It's got good articles Dennis.

Dennis?

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Dennis Patterson.
I live in an Aufpet fantasy world.
Wayne said that to Dennis when he was reading Playboy.

Ahhh, I'm with you. Canny.

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I used to live in Crouch End in North London (which is full of arty types) in the late 80s and I occasionally used to see Dennis (Tim Healy) in one of the local Greek Cypriot shops, buying taramasalata.

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Well thanks for shattering my illusions.You'll be telling me next Oz is posh.

Well I used to live in Newcastle in the early 90s and I don't know about him, but his house is very posh.

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i once drove a talbot...samba? i think that was the name. jeezus, the humiliation.

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The association continues...local radio talk show intros their moon-landing commemoriation with "Space Oddity." This may not be the last time.

I must ask my Uncle Bob for his rememberances...he's the last living rocket scientist in the family.

You never know the real story.