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Offline mako88sb

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Re: Viking landing 40 years ago today
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2016, 02:52:37 PM »
Watched the TV broadcast that evening.  It was a gleeful moment with all the guys in the control room wearing Viking helmets. :)
Looked forward to the lab, carried in the craft, analysis of the "dirt".
Truth needs no defense.  Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.
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