What it was like to hang out with Neil Armstrong over the past couple of years.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 02:21 (eleven years ago) link
Read a whole bunch of books about the Apollo program because of this thread and a few more are still waiting.
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 02:24 (eleven years ago) link
what did you read? recommendations plz
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
(xp)That was awesome. Thanks, Chris.
After the good book with the title Moonshot, the one by Dan Parry, I read Moondust, by Andrew Smith, where he interviews all the surviving moonwalkers and tries to find out what it was like- rave review from Arthur C. Clarke and J. G. Ballard! Then Andrew Chaikin's A Man On The Moon, which is kind of a standard work that narrates all the Apollo missions which, although it has its longueurs when they are on the ground, does a really good job once they are in flight. Then the most excellent How Apollo Flew to the Moon, by W. David Woods, which goes into as much technical as you could want without reading the actual NASA manuals. Paged through Al Worden's Falling to Earth, saving up Mike Collin's Carrying The Fire, which is supposed to be the best of the "nose cone histories."
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
Mike Collins. Lately my apostrophes have started floating in microgravity.
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
Did not read Gene Cernan's book or Chris Kraft's, nor Deke!, although the last is supposed to be pretty good. Nor 2012's Forever Young.
Also, please feel free to help answer this important question if you can: Apollo 8 anniversary RFI: which astronaut brought along "Sleepwalk" on his spaceman Walkman?.
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
this is p cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9HdPi9Ikhk&feature=youtu.be
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
*Bump* to RIP the Last Man, Gene Cernan.
― Moog and Stan (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 01:07 (seven years ago) link
Rip lance armstrong, inventor of the trumpet
― Treeship, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 01:20 (seven years ago) link