DSKY-DSKY Him Sad: Official ILB Thread For The Heroic Age of Manned Spaceflight

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i've read and enjoyed gravity's rainbow but i dunno if 'fantastic action-adventure movie' would be my main choice of descriptor for it

called "the designer" like someone's called the godfather

the CHIEF designer no less!

never read the first circle, i'll add it to the list

bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 20 August 2015 08:22 (eight years ago) link

Apollo 18 is on Netflix but expiring on the 2nd, so watching now. Thanks for the extensive reporting, bg.

Exile's Return To Sender (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 August 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link

Cool. If you like that, you might like a design-oriented book called Spacesuit.

Bon Iver Meets G.I. Joe (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 September 2015 10:58 (eight years ago) link

ooo, that does look interesting. cheers!

bizarro gazzara, Friday, 4 September 2015 11:00 (eight years ago) link

five months pass...

"The Eve of the Last Apollo," by new ILB fave Carter Scholz.

Thank You For Cosmic Jive Talkin' (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 February 2016 18:27 (eight years ago) link

Then there this, which mentions that story, and has a quote from it that I can't find: http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/16/books/one-small-shelf-for-literature.html?pagewanted=all.
Haven't really read but I don't quite dig the tone. Also, can't find the quoted line from the story in question in the story itself. Perhaps it was edited out later.

Thank You For Cosmic Jive Talkin' (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 February 2016 00:24 (eight years ago) link

It's not a good line! ''We took one step out of the cradle; we put our foot out - and drew it back. . . . I think what it is is that space is really fucking hard, and expensive, and we have too many other problems down here" would be more accurate.

ledge, Sunday, 21 February 2016 09:55 (eight years ago) link

Yup

Thank You For Cosmic Jive Talkin' (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 February 2016 10:15 (eight years ago) link

You should read, ledge. Especially since he took your note and deleted that sentence.

Thank You For Cosmic Jive Talkin' (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 00:53 (eight years ago) link

"sputnik: the shock of the century" by paul dickson is a fun book that anyone who loves space age stuff would probably dig. lots of details about early rocket history that i never knew, plus inevitable entertaining anecdotes about how ppl reacted to sputnik (isaac asimov said it was what convinced him to stop writing science fiction and start writing popular science!).

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 01:07 (eight years ago) link

three months pass...

Albums that never were and never will be:
Prince Major Nelson - Cosmic Rain
Cocoa Beach
Harem Pants
Little Red Sputnik/Little Red Mercury
Jeannie Talk 2 NASA
Gemini (Evil Twin)
Saturn V
VAB VI
RK Eye C Bust of Apollo
Anna Banana River
Star City
Gumdrop vs. Spider
Light Dis Candle
Tranquility Bass
Lovelace Clinique
Og
Flame Trench
I Would Fly 4 U
n Orbit
Kapton America
Drogue
Swimming Lee
I Wanna Be Your Rover
Reg o' Lith
Nurse D
spaminacan
Dr. Rendezvous
Steel Eel
Heat Shield
EVA
PLSS PLSS PLSS
Fit 2 Fly

Cry for a Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 June 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link

( I didn't know where to post that so I posted it here)

Cry for a Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:18 (seven years ago) link

three months pass...

Also just saw that Margaret Dean Lazarus is co-writing the memoirs of an Apollo astronaut: short interview with her here https://medium.com/the-ribbon/author-interview-margaret-lazarus-dean-a027b36fa2c9#.8avlganc8

I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 22 September 2016 01:33 (seven years ago) link

Wonder which of the Apollo astronauts hasn't already written a memoir. Let's see.

Gravity Well, You Needn't (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 September 2016 01:47 (seven years ago) link

Um, Scott Kelly, born in 1964, was not part of the Apollo program. Would be interested to read her novel.

Gravity Well, You Needn't (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 September 2016 01:53 (seven years ago) link

Argh, i wondered if i had misremembered, and the link was down and i could not check, so i thought it would be fine, and here i am. Ashamed.

I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 22 September 2016 02:38 (seven years ago) link

The novel is very good, btw

I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 22 September 2016 02:38 (seven years ago) link

Argh, i wondered if i had misremembered, and the link was down and i could not check, so i thought it would be fine, and here i am. Ashamed.

C'mon, it's no big deal. Even Homais nods, as somebody said.

Gravity Well, You Needn't (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 September 2016 02:46 (seven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Wonder which of the Apollo astronauts hasn't already written a memoir. Let's see.

John Young needs to write one.

Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link

I find it hard to believe he didn't.

Sketches by T-Boz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 21:50 (seven years ago) link

It seems to be named after a song by a recent Nobel-prize recipient.

Sketches by T-Boz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 21:52 (seven years ago) link

blowing in the wind -- an inexplicable late-life turn to conspiracy

difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link

Eh, not quite.

Sketches by T-Boz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 22:54 (seven years ago) link

Mentioned third post in

Sketches by T-Boz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 23:35 (seven years ago) link

two months pass...

Hello, space-nerd checking in finally

I got "We Seven" for Christmas, haven't started it but timing turned out bittersweet with Glenn's passing.

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 06:04 (seven years ago) link

that's the one that reprints the life magazine articles from the time of the mercury missions right? always meant tog et around to reading that one but i haven't yet, so looking forward to seeing what you think about it

gene cernan's passing has reminded me that i don't think we've talked about the last man on the moon anywhere else on ilx have we? i watched it when it came to netflix and thought it was a decent overview of the man and his career but it could have done with being longer - there was lots of stuff i'd have liked to have seen more on, and i wish there was more input from jack schmitt. i'm fascinated by the amount of important work he and cernan did on the moon during apollo 17, and their justified frustration that their discoveries were never followed up by other missions.

in other space-dork news i'm going to see chris hadfield lecture on friday. saw him (and met him!) last year and it was fantastic - he's such a charismatic ambassador for space

How To: Make the perfect summer jorts (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 09:48 (seven years ago) link

exciting! i enjoy him in the interviews & other stuff i've seen - full report plz

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 21:01 (seven years ago) link

I'm ashamed that I haven't posted more in this thread - (long story, all IRL nonsense) but James Redd nagged me over here after Gene Cernan's passing was noted on the obit. thread.

It worked like this - my mom was a mid-level apparatchik in the O.C. political establishment - somewhere in the early 70s she met Skylab astronaut (and O.C. resident) Jerry Carr at a function and got us (mom, dad, & me) VIP passes to see the launch of Apollo 17. I was seven years old and liked NASA more than ice cream - nevermind that we also flew on a Pan Am 747, my dad and I hung out at the plane upstairs bar. We also went to Disney World, but fuck that shit compared with a Saturn V launch.

After the mission was over the A17 crew took a meet-and-greet around the states and somehow my mom got us into the California stop. I can't really remember what I asked Cernan - I was way too self-conscious. Nevertheless everyone signed my stuff. I just unpacked everything at my new place and have to get it framed.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2U1aSWUoAAkm5r.jpg

I watched The Last Man on the Moon - it's not necessarily a memorable documentary, but it is worth watching. It's entirely possible that the only answer to "what was it like to walk on the Moon and how did it change you?" will be whatever we can piece together from what these guys say and I'd watch it for that reason alone.

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 27 January 2017 10:13 (seven years ago) link

wow.

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 27 January 2017 10:30 (seven years ago) link

Yeah, wow, thanks.

In Walked Bodhisattva (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 January 2017 11:55 (seven years ago) link

holy shit elvis, that's amazing. that's gonna look fantastic in a frame.

We also went to Disney World, but fuck that shit compared with a Saturn V launch

seeing the saturn v on its side at kennedy space centre last summer was one of the more stunning things i've ever set eyes on in real life - i can't even imagine how incredible it must have been to see one of those things take off.

the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 27 January 2017 14:57 (seven years ago) link

thanks elvis! what an incredible experience.

in other news: 50th anniversary of Apollo 1 tragedy today :/

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 January 2017 03:57 (seven years ago) link

thanks elvis! what an incredible experience.

in other news: 50th anniversary of Apollo 1 tragedy today :/

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 January 2017 03:57 (seven years ago) link

Very envious and impressed

I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Saturday, 28 January 2017 06:40 (seven years ago) link

four months pass...

weirdly tempted to chip in some cash for that

heck i've even been an 'oyster pirate' (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 08:26 (six years ago) link

four months pass...

Greatly enjoyed the first four stories I read this weekend in The Dream Life of Astronauts, which are set on Merritt Island and read like a mix of New Yorker stories written by a Southerner like, say, Padgett Powell, with Ballard's Memories of the Space Age. Which may not be quite accurate and will probably put you off reading it but perhaps I can describe better upon reading the rest of the stories.

Two-Headed Shindog (Rad Tempo Player) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 October 2017 04:11 (six years ago) link

Did not know of that book, but now i want

Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 2 October 2017 09:10 (six years ago) link

three months pass...

RIP John Young

The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:04 (six years ago) link

;_;

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:44 (six years ago) link

dammit :(

pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link

Crap

Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 7 January 2018 01:35 (six years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Curious about this new Apollo 8 book

The Sound of the City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 01:39 (six years ago) link

One of the most haunting radar images I think we'll ever see...the Space Shuttle Columbia debris field, 15 years ago today. pic.twitter.com/5Ba8IdBFLZ

— Matt Lanza ⛄️ (@mattlanza) February 1, 2018

mookieproof, Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link

oof :(

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:04 (six years ago) link

fuck that’s a real gut-punch

your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link

it's the trailer for It's Quieter In The Twilight - a 2022 doc about Voyager's flight team. It's streaming in a couple of different places, but you can find it on the torrents

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 23 February 2024 03:53 (two months ago) link

Cheers!

Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 23 February 2024 04:39 (two months ago) link

I think I posted this one before? The Homemade Documentaries YT channel has been making space documentaries that are routinely superior to any of the NASA ones - especially his Voyager one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M62kajY-ln0

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 23 February 2024 04:45 (two months ago) link


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