Thursday, 8 December 2016

Beautiful memories and beautiful music

Do yourself the favour to go to this post on my FB page. From there, look at the video. It is so special! Today it came up as one of my good memories.

At 4:13 you see the remains, covered in perpex, of the space ship that had returned to Earth during one of the Apollo missions. If I remember correctly, this one is from the Apollo 11 mission, i.e. the one in which Amstrong, Aldrin and Collins had returned to Earth in July of 1969 after the first moon landing. This is the only part that returned to the earth from the 110 m high Saturn V rocket that had to lift everything against Earth's gravitational force. Remember that any object must have a minimum speed of 11,3 kilometre PER SECOND (read again!) before it can escape Earth's gravity. Perplexing technological miracles in the presence of heavenly music!