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Moon Landing 35th Anniversary

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20 July 2004, 05:40 AM
dandelion
Moon Landing 35th Anniversary
http://landing.msn.ancestry.com/article/moon/moon.aspx?...617&sourcecode=12180
20 July 2004, 10:40 AM
Braling II
Thanks, Dandelion.
At his talks, Mr. Bradbury often recounted his experience of being scheduled as a guest on , I believe it was, the "Tonight Show" the night of the moon landing. Does anyone know of a printed version of this anecdote?
20 July 2004, 01:28 PM
Nard Kordell
Braling II

Well, it was not the 'Tonight Show', but the 'David Frost Show. You can read about this on the following link. Scroll down a bit to get to the part of Ray's Frost Adventure:
http://www.nationalbook.org/nbaacceptspeech_rbradbury2.html



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20 July 2004, 04:40 PM
Braling II
Nard,
Thanks so much for that.
I seem to remember him mentioning someone like "...that great astrophysicist Charo..."
rather than Sammy Davis Jr, but it's a great anecdote. To think; as long as man has been on earth, he's looked at, wondered, mythologized, even written songs about the moon. Then, at last, after uncountable generations, to actually TOUCH it...
21 July 2004, 06:03 AM
dandelion
Ha, I thought of David Frost on the anniversary day, as well as the oft-repeated remark, "They can put a man on the moon, but they can't--" Too bad Dennis Miller was too young to be hosting a show then. He'd have appreciated the opportunity he had there.
20 July 2022, 10:14 PM
dandelion
Happy moon landing day!