RIP Al Bean :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 May 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
RIP
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 May 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
O bum
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 27 May 2018 05:21 (six years ago) link
He was top of my list of Apollo astronauts I would have loved to meet. Such a quirky, enthusiastic, genuine-seeming person. There’s a lovely quote in the obituary about how he & Walt Cunningham were bffs & ate cheeseburgers together once a month <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 May 2018 06:50 (six years ago) link
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/astronaut-footprint-moon-warming-180969362/
― And Nobody POLLS Like Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 June 2018 02:02 (six years ago) link
That is mental.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 15 June 2018 02:30 (six years ago) link
wow
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 June 2018 05:13 (six years ago) link
There's some great stuff in NASA's historical archives, my fave is the oral history project - long interviews with everyone before they pass away A recent fave of mine are the 2004 interviews with Joe Engle - the X-15 pilot who got bumped from Apollo 17 by geologist (and later Senator and climate-change denier) Harrison Schmitt. More to the point, Engle talks about the life of being a badass-casual Air Force fighter/ test pilot - dogfighting & partying with Yeager, hand-wringing over stick-and-rudder vs. spam-in-a-can space travel, flight-testing every goddamn thing at Edwards, rolling the X-15, having to pee while you're in the middle of an abort, getting the phone call from Slayton, training for not going to the Moon and then finding a place in NASA and picking the Space Shuttle because it had wings and a stick-n-rudder.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 28 September 2018 02:42 (five years ago) link
ooo cool, thx elvis!
kinda heartbroken to hear harrison schmitt is a climate change denier, he and gene cernan are maybe my favourite apollo duo
― heteroflexible pansexual polyamorous relationship anarchist (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 28 September 2018 09:30 (five years ago) link
:/
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 September 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
Hadn't noticed that this came out: https://iansales.com/2016/11/18/apollo-quartet-5-a-visit-to-the-national-air-and-space-museum/
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-hidden-figure-space-program-20190101-story.html
Oceanside resident Shelby Jacobs, 83, is responsible for one of the most iconic video images of NASA’s race to put a man on the moon in the 1960s.It’s the oft-seen, slow-motion color footage of a ringlike section of the Saturn V rocket separating from the Apollo 6 spacecraft and spinning slowly away toward Earth, 200,000 feet below.Yet for all of his 40 years working his way up to the executive level on the Apollo and space shuttle programs, Jacobs, who is black, faced near-constant discrimination from his white colleagues and was never paid as well as other engineers doing the same work.To avoid rocking the boat, Jacobs kept a low profile in his working life. But in recent years, he has stepped into the spotlight to serve as a role model for minorities and women who face workplace discrimination.
It’s the oft-seen, slow-motion color footage of a ringlike section of the Saturn V rocket separating from the Apollo 6 spacecraft and spinning slowly away toward Earth, 200,000 feet below.
Yet for all of his 40 years working his way up to the executive level on the Apollo and space shuttle programs, Jacobs, who is black, faced near-constant discrimination from his white colleagues and was never paid as well as other engineers doing the same work.
To avoid rocking the boat, Jacobs kept a low profile in his working life. But in recent years, he has stepped into the spotlight to serve as a role model for minorities and women who face workplace discrimination.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 3 January 2019 03:59 (five years ago) link
Shel-by! Shel-by! Shel-by!
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 3 January 2019 06:50 (five years ago) link
"Taschen teams up with NASA for an archival look into the great beyond"
https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/taschen-nasa-archives-publication-060219
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
ooooh
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 20:00 (five years ago) link
hell yespreordered a copy
― Backdoor Pathway To Making Human Penis Started With A Wallaby (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 20:09 (five years ago) link
speaking of which, have we talked about this astonishing-looking apollo 11 doc anywhere else on ilx? cuz i am fucking psyched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Co8Z8BQgWc
― Backdoor Pathway To Making Human Penis Started With A Wallaby (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
me & mr veg are going to see it in IMAX
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 20:58 (five years ago) link
:D
jealous tbh
― Backdoor Pathway To Making Human Penis Started With A Wallaby (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 21:11 (five years ago) link
we have tickets for this Saturday at 1:45pm
I'm going to space, basically
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 05:40 (five years ago) link
the Apollo 11 doc is insanesome of the footage is of things you’ve seen a hundred times on tv but seeing it HUGE in imax and so pristine with the audio matching, it’s like watching it in real time, it was wild. even the liftoff becomes new again...it’s like watching an A-bomb explode in your face, it put me back in my seat in a way i wasn’t expectingand good lord all that 70mm found footage is glorious. there’s a good rundown of the cool behind the scenes work that went into it here https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/12/apollo-11-50th-year-anniversary
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 March 2019 02:08 (five years ago) link
ooh and easter egg breakdown here if you need more convincinghttp://www.collectspace.com/news/news-030119a-apollo11-documentary-film-details.html
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 March 2019 02:10 (five years ago) link
Wow
― Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 March 2019 02:20 (five years ago) link
god I wanna see this so muchin the meantime my copy of the nasa archives arrived and i clearly hadn’t read the description too clearly or thought too much about what it being a taschen production would mean because i was shocked at just how massive and heavy it is - it comes in a box with a carrying handle ffsit is absolutely incredible to look at though, just gorgeous
― Backdoor Pathway To Making Human Penis Started With A Wallaby (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 3 March 2019 09:22 (five years ago) link
I had missed this a couple of years back - it's wonderful and features some of the Apollo 11 production team:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMDdaNLc8DU
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 3 March 2019 11:28 (five years ago) link
We haven’t mentioned yet the thing about one of the space nerds involved in this being Feist’s brother.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 March 2019 02:28 (five years ago) link
YES! Very cool
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 March 2019 03:07 (five years ago) link
I forgot to say that the Apollo 17 video above is also directed / edited by Todd Miller and features Ben Feist's work; it's like a short form of how I expect the Apollo 11 feature will be. Cool soundtrack too.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 4 March 2019 04:46 (five years ago) link
So there’s a new book out...
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5744977b22482e4393b418c2/t/58ac8feb03596e6e757048f6/1537304200387/ This one? I have it on the way, will report when I get it.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 01:31 (five years ago) link
https://www.apollopresskits.com/
― koogs, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 14:54 (five years ago) link
🖼 This one? I have it on the way, will report when I get it.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 March 2019 01:39 (five years ago) link
Has a blurb from Mike Collins about it being the best Apollo book,
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 March 2019 01:41 (five years ago) link
holy fucking shit
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 4 May 2019 06:28 (five years ago) link
?
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 May 2019 06:35 (five years ago) link
ran the doc tonite
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 4 May 2019 06:53 (five years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2
13 Minutes To The Moon
"How the first moon landing was saved. The full story of the people who made Apollo 11 happen and prevented it from going badly wrong."
specifically the 13 minutes before touchdown of Apollo 11, which were sketchy.
― koogs, Friday, 17 May 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
(that's from the bbc. iplayer radio stuff traditionally wasn't region-locked but i'm not sure whether that's true with the new sounds thing. oh, but it's World Service, so maybe it's ok.)
― koogs, Friday, 17 May 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
I can download it in Australia. Looks good. ANy idea how many parts it will be? It; doesn't seem to say anywhere.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Monday, 20 May 2019 00:03 (five years ago) link
I *think* he says it's 10 parts somewhere within it, but I can't see that info anywhere else.
― koogs, Monday, 20 May 2019 09:20 (five years ago) link
(Episode 2 is up and 3 is listed for next week but no details beyond that)
― koogs, Monday, 20 May 2019 09:25 (five years ago) link
episode 5 (briefly) talks about the DSKY system
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz4dn
Ep.05 The fourth astronaut13 Minutes to the Moon
The computer that got us to the moon. The size of a briefcase, there had never been anything like it. Apollo 11 was “the first time software ran on the moon”. This is the story of the world’s first digital portable general purpose computer. The work of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, helped give rise to the digital age.
― koogs, Monday, 17 June 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
I know this isn’t booksrelated but it’s super coolhttps://m.sfgate.com/business/technology/article/Restored-Mission-Control-comes-alive-50-years-14057766.php#photo-17770659
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 June 2019 21:39 (five years ago) link
No worries, VG, thread has long since widened its scope to included non-book-related discussion.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 June 2019 22:21 (five years ago) link
also in book related news, just started reading Shoot The Moon
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 June 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link
i watched this with a friend last night at DOCUMENTARY CINEMA. bertha doc-house documentary cinema: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_(2019_film)
it has no talkings heads* and is basically entirely stitched together out of archive footage from ground (cape kennedy and houston) and space (A11, columbia, eagle, the moon), the narrative also told only as a quilt of voices from the time. lots of split screen, plus some data readouts (time, speed, distance as they tick over at key moments). it goes from just before the launch to just after splashdown, in with some time-dilation (cuts, at least sly slow-down) bot only a very few flashbacks, one exception being kennedy's full "we CAN go to the moon speech from 8 yrs earlier), played in full at the close, as the astronauts re-emerge to the public eye down here
the thing i learnt: — as he orbited alone ("as lonely as anyone since adam" acc.the overvoice) while neil and buzz pootled around on the dusty ground, he GREW A MUSTACHE TO KEEP HIMSELF COMPANY. it's a shocker too, but lol, well done him
*lol one of the trailers was for a doc abt pavarotti and it included a TH of (wait for it) bono. i told my friend (who'd suggested i come) that if THIS doc featured bono i would stand up, punch him and leave the cinema at that point. however it did not
― mark s, Thursday, 11 July 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link
haven't seen this yet (saving it for a screening on the date of the 50th anniversary like a proper space dork) but mike collins' autobio carrying the fire is grate
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 11 July 2019 13:53 (five years ago) link
how did i only just notice that the 50th anniversary of the moon landings is also the date of my wedding anniversry, wtf
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 11 July 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link
uh oh
― mark s, Thursday, 11 July 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link