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I thought the moon shot was a big marketing ploy by Heinz
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Ditto but my age was 5 months.Actually it was all arranged byJFK as he knew that day, was one of those days that should be celebrated for ever by mankind.
Thankfully he did not live to see how this critical event was overshadowed by the celebrations.
So while a very grateful Exfarmer still thanks him to this day , for the firework show, the rest of the world has forgotten, except for my facebook friends of course, and even a couple of members of my family, that this was all arranged to alert the world, I had come of age
i had a fergi 35 a two furrow 10 inch plow a set of harrows and an albion seed drill no fork lift grain in sacks firt in sacks small bales and a pitch fork milked cows into buckets (no pipe line) fed corn out of a barrow with a scoop used to muck out with a fork and a shovel into a wheel barrow and push it up a plank , dream on all you young uns with power steering radios and air con
Six of the Apollo missions landed 12 astronauts on the moon. The original programme of landings were undertaken at huge expense & it was felt that there was little else to be achieved by further manned flights. The modern approach is to use autonomous vehicles for space exploration as this represents a far lower risk & costs are significantly lower due to not needing to provide life support for a bunch of meatbags.And yet they went all that way ???
Odd no ones ever been back
yes i remember Erick Bailey and his brother Brian I used to do his ploughing and combining the first time i met Erick was in the seventies he was driving past on his t 20 with a fergi scufle on the back dressed in corduroy trousers and collarless shirt and flat cap he looked as if he had just come out of a time warp from the mid fifties he stopped had a chat and drove off this happened a few times over the years and i never knew who he was then one day i was ploughing for Brian and he came across the field for a chat and left i said to Brian who the feck is that? he said my brother i dont think George Mason appreciated having him as a neighbourNot quite 50 yrs ago more 40 ish a little farm i helped out on was still using a seed drill or maybe a seed dropper which had metal wheels and little rotating dishes that a shaft with fingers flicked the seed or fert off .It was pulled by a diesel mf 20 or a canvased cab IH something 34 maybe a 434 ?Always got paid by potatoes .Do you remember Eric Bailey @bumkin next door to George Mason by Rhode Pool .