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

Watching this National Geographic thing now.

Meh, just skipped right from Apollo 8 to 11. Now another commemorative Bud ad featuring “Spirit in the Sky.”

:/

It was pretty much all contemporary news(reel) footage, no modern day talking heads, which means in particular no Irishman wearing polycarbonate lunar visor sunglasses, just every once in a while a tiny bit of text to clarify something. Too many commercials, not much information, new or otherwise but it was still nice to soak up some of the vibe. Neil Armstrong doc afterward looked more interesting but I had to stop watching.

i have dvr’d a few PBS moon docs airing this month, hopefully one or two of them will be good

Please let us know.

i will give go/no-go updates soon

:)

happy moonday everyone 🌚

🌝

B-b-but isn’t it in four days?

"Sponsored by Kellogs"

so much moon stuff on tv, all the major channels are running bits. it's hard to keep i all straight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnFlx2Lnr9Q

CBS live streaming the original footage on youtube, complete with sub-thunderbirds models.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYnF31el-ik

(complete with 1969 paper bikini adverts)

(ha, i missed the actual launch by 23 minutes)

Speaking of sub-thunderbirds models, over the weekend I was just thinking of a perennial school or Cub Scout trip taken to the Hall of Science in Queens where they showed a film about space travel - Frank Capra’s last, apparently- followed by a cut from film to real life in which two such models docked high above our heads.

https://nysci.org/installing-rendezvous-in-space/

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.

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)

Happy Launch Day ilx crew <3

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2f/fa/42/2ffa423d88da1f8f4007a96fc7c9f013.gif

:)

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

one of the voiceovers is Khrushchev’s son

lot of close-ups where you're thinking "so how much of this so-called lunar module is not just made of baco-foil?"

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.

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

aw! hey buddy

🌚

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4cn93H6sM0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc1SzgGhMKc

https://www.space.com/neil-armstrong-apollo-11-landing-view-video.html

Guys, I am afraid this anniversary is giving me space fatigue, the same as the first time around.

Give me a reading on that alarm 🚨

take yr protein pills and put yr helmet on

Flight we’re GO on the alarm

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

we’re breathing again

Everything’s going swimmingly

Hey, this is just like a simulation

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.

ILX, Tranquility Blecch here.

(With that I killed all life on the thread )

lol

We’re on attitude hold

https://www.deseretnews.com/images/top/main/61881/61881.jpg?width=853&height=450

he's on the porch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY0Wqf6gHJk