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23 Last Day on Earth
1969 Lunar Lander LEM
1
It was in July of 1969.
In the Army and on the floor,
Watching the Saturn Five lift off,
Through the TV I heard the roar.
2
Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins,
With a bomb weight of Sixty tons,
Aluminum skin, titanium frame,
And liquid oxygen.
3
Sixty tons going up,
One ton for the splash,
Everything but the Command Module,
It was orbited, burned, or crashed.
4
Except for the LEM that is,
Their taxi to the moon,
The decent module takes them down,
And they landed about noon.
5
Twenty-one hours later,
It was time for them to go,
The ascent module blasted off,
For the orbital docking show.
6
The ascent module was set free,
And Huston sang a joyful tune,
That only leaves the LEM alone,
Still sitting on the moon.
7
The LEM’s last day on Earth,
July 16 was the day,
But it didn’t crash and burn you know,
And on the moon it will always stay. Today's story recounts the Moon Landing in 1969. I was in the Army and going through training at the time of the landing. I've always been interested in the amount of stuff we shoot into space that never comes back, or it is burned or orbited out there forever. But the decent stage of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) left the Earth on July 16 and is still on the moon.
23 Last Day on Earth
1969 Lunar Lander LEM
1
It was in July of 1969.
In the Army and on the floor,
Watching the Saturn Five lift off,
Through the TV I heard the roar.
2
Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins,
With a bomb weight of Sixty tons,
Aluminum skin, titanium frame,
And liquid oxygen.
3
Sixty tons going up,
One ton for the splash,
Everything but the Command Module,
It was orbited, burned, or crashed.
4
Except for the LEM that is,
Their taxi to the moon,
The decent module takes them down,
And they landed about noon.
5
Twenty-one hours later,
It was time for them to go,
The ascent module blasted off,
For the orbital docking show.
6
The ascent module was set free,
And Huston sang a joyful tune,
That only leaves the LEM alone,
Still sitting on the moon.
7
The LEM’s last day on Earth,
July 16 was the day,
But it didn’t crash and burn you know,
And on the moon it will always stay. Today's story recounts the Moon Landing in 1969. I was in the Army and going through training at the time of the landing. I've always been interested in the amount of stuff we shoot into space that never comes back, or it is burned or orbited out there forever. But the decent stage of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) left the Earth on July 16 and is still on the moon.
