The Great Hall was built for an exhibition sponsored by Martin Marietta called Rendezvous in Space, which culminated with a live demonstration of a docking between a model “space taxi” and an orbiting laboratory, suspended from the ceiling above. The show began with a documentary film produced by Frank Capra (his final film.) Narrated by Danny Thomas, featuring Mel Blanc (uncredited) as the voice of the moon.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 14:10 (six years ago)
CBS feed appears to have stopped. but there's a 4 hour rewind window if you want to see the launch 'as it happened'. (also, miss universe trails)
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 15:22 (six years ago)
Happy Launch Day ilx crew <3https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2f/fa/42/2ffa423d88da1f8f4007a96fc7c9f013.gif
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 00:30 (six years ago)
:)
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 00:39 (six years ago)
Update 1 on moon documentaries go/no-go PBS American Experience “Chasing the Moon” three parter = GO so much awesome footage AND voiceovers, no talking heads 😃covers similar ground to the Donovan book
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 03:21 (six years ago)
one of the voiceovers is Khrushchev’s son
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 03:26 (six years ago)
lot of close-ups where you're thinking "so how much of this so-called lunar module is not just made of baco-foil?"
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 July 2019 13:05 (six years ago)
Chasing the Moon has been showing on bbc4 in 6 parts over 3 nights, last pair tonight.
First two I found dragged a bit, too much about cold war and racial politics in Gemini / Mercury and didn't even get to Apollo. Second two were better, Apollo 1 audio was shocking but it finished with a great bit on the Apollo 8 wives.
I'll repeat my recommendation for 13 Minutes To The Moon podcast on BBC world service which has a ton of detail. The impatient can listen to episode 10.
I'm also finding the channel 4 realtime live stream on YouTube really relaxing - 6 days(!) of audio feed, the odd bit of video now and then.
― koogs, Thursday, 18 July 2019 16:08 (six years ago)
saw Apollo 10 today, the capsule anyway. apparently it's been in the science museum on loan since '76 but i must've overlooked it all these times.
look at his happy little face:
https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Apollo-10-Nasa.jpg
― koogs, Friday, 19 July 2019 19:45 (six years ago)
aw! hey buddy
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 19 July 2019 21:28 (six years ago)
🌚
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 July 2019 21:35 (six years ago)
Chasing the Moon is worth it just for the footage that hasn't really been shown anywhere else in any systematic way. Somehow I hadn't known that Ed White's wife took her own life.
13 Minutes To The Moon is great but my best experience right now is to put on the new expended reissue of Eno's Apollo album with the realtime mission audio from https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/ over it.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 20 July 2019 04:20 (six years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4cn93H6sM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc1SzgGhMKc
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 20 July 2019 04:21 (six years ago)
https://www.space.com/neil-armstrong-apollo-11-landing-view-video.html
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 20 July 2019 04:23 (six years ago)
Guys, I am afraid this anniversary is giving me space fatigue, the same as the first time around.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:03 (six years ago)
Give me a reading on that alarm 🚨
take yr protein pills and put yr helmet on
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:10 (six years ago)
Flight we’re GO on the alarm
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:12 (six years ago)
https://cbsnews2-cbsistatic-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2019/07/11/a1daa795-333b-4fd4-8b34-5f2efee60418/thumbnail/1280x1662/cdba68fdb7e6cb31cd5f6be6814812fe/codes.jpg
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:13 (six years ago)
we’re breathing again
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:14 (six years ago)
Everything’s going swimmingly
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:15 (six years ago)
Hey, this is just like a simulation
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:24 (six years ago)
Be advised there's lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.Well, there are two of them up here.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:30 (six years ago)
ILX, Tranquility Blecch here.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:43 (six years ago)
(With that I killed all life on the thread )
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 00:08 (six years ago)
lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 July 2019 00:13 (six years ago)
We’re on attitude hold
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 01:09 (six years ago)
https://www.deseretnews.com/images/top/main/61881/61881.jpg?width=853&height=450
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 July 2019 02:15 (six years ago)
he's on the porch!
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 21 July 2019 02:52 (six years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY0Wqf6gHJk
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:07 (six years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNLZntSdyKE
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:08 (six years ago)
One small blecch for a mayne, one giant steen for a history mayne
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:41 (six years ago)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_5imOMXYAATZgv.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 21 July 2019 18:10 (six years ago)
RIP Chris Kraft?(person with a great real name)
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 00:20 (six years ago)
? Was fat-fingered misfire of the gas jet
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 00:21 (six years ago)
Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 01:25 (six years ago)
RIP. That was a dude who got things done. There’s a doc on Prime about the Apollo mission control guys and Kraft seemed like the epitome of an oldschool hardass boss. Even in old age he seemed like he still could put a verbal walloping on you if he wanted to.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 02:03 (six years ago)
not long now til splashdown.
currently 17k nautical miles from earth and about to hit 10,000 mph, ten thousand. i guess they have been travelling downhill for 3 days with no wind resistence.
― koogs, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 14:43 (six years ago)
same tbh
― Welshy's Lean Bulk - ****loads of pics (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 14:44 (six years ago)
The astronauts donned the BIGs, jumped into the raft, and, as rehearsed, began spraying and scrubbing themselves down with disinfectant.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 15:08 (six years ago)
20k mph
― koogs, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 16:23 (six years ago)
Apollo 16's John Young on the perils of digestion in space: pic.twitter.com/BZ7oOMTgV3— Caustic Cover Critic (@Unwise_Trousers) July 24, 2019
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Thursday, 25 July 2019 02:21 (six years ago)
I believe there a section of, um, Carrying the Fire devoted to this sort of thing
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 July 2019 03:15 (six years ago)
https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02320/b4_2320129k.jpg
(just hadn't seen this photo before)
― koogs, Thursday, 25 July 2019 11:23 (six years ago)
get a load of these these nerds, smdh
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 July 2019 11:26 (six years ago)
VERB 73
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:16 (six years ago)
OrDSKY, Return to Earth now, please.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:17 (six years ago)
We are live here at the Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) on the USS Hornet as President Nixon stands outside the window and jokes with the three astronauts.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:59 (six years ago)
imagine getting back from the moon and the first thing you have to do after splashdown is make small-talk with nixon
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 July 2019 14:00 (six years ago)