Hey, this is just like a simulation
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
ILX, Tranquility Blecch here.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
(With that I killed all life on the thread )
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 00:08 (four years ago) link
lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 July 2019 00:13 (four years ago) link
We’re on attitude hold
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 01:09 (four years ago) link
https://www.deseretnews.com/images/top/main/61881/61881.jpg?width=853&height=450
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 July 2019 02:15 (four years ago) link
he's on the porch!
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 21 July 2019 02:52 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY0Wqf6gHJk
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNLZntSdyKE
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:08 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_5imOMXYAATZgv.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 21 July 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
RIP Chris Kraft?(person with a great real name)
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 00:20 (four years ago) link
? Was fat-fingered misfire of the gas jet
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 00:21 (four years ago) link
Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 01:25 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
same tbh
― Welshy's Lean Bulk - ****loads of pics (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
20k mph
― koogs, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
VERB 73
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
OrDSKY, Return to Earth now, please.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:17 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
20 people in the quarantine with them when they got back to the facility. neil had his birthday in there
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4s73HuWD5UTT5XXPxKLpGC-650-80.jpg
― koogs, Thursday, 25 July 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
That picture is great.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 July 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
Adam West and Neil Armstrong, separated at birth.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 03:42 (four years ago) link
Ha, exactly
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 August 2019 00:20 (four years ago) link
Stand by for ullage.
It looks to me, looking out of the hatch, that we are venting something out into space.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 August 2019 01:52 (four years ago) link
https://i.gifer.com/ObML.gif
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 August 2019 02:16 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5VRo5MBUXY
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 August 2019 02:52 (four years ago) link
https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/apollo-flight-controller-101-every-console-explained/
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 August 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
Are you a Pod or a MOCR?
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 August 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
This story of the too-close Service Module during reentry is, um, sobering. The new book it comes from is pretty well done, from what I have read so far. https://amp.businessinsider.com/classified-apollo-11-anomaly-threatened-to-crash-first-moon-astronauts-2019-6
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 05:11 (four years ago) link
The author conducted new interviews with a few dozen engineers as well as taking a deep dive into the archives. She does a great job of telling new stories from the engineering/ systems perspective as well as more familiar stories, such as the one about Neil Armstrong going back to the office after he bailed out of the LLTV.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 05:49 (four years ago) link
/streetteam
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 05:50 (four years ago) link
https://i1.wp.com/theapollo11.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/apollo-star-list.jpg
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2019/07/15/apollo-11-50-year-anniversary/
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 12:42 (four years ago) link
https://wehackthemoon.com/people/ramon-alonso-computer-science
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
Tindallgrams to thread!
― Another Fule Clickin’ In Your POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 00:03 (four years ago) link
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-Tindallgrams.html
― Another Fule Clickin’ In Your POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 02:10 (four years ago) link
(complete with 1969 paper bikini adverts)
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 November 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link
RIP Al Worden
― Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 March 2020 01:03 (four years ago) link
I posted this on the obituary thread but it's worth reposting here. I love this story from Al's book
I extended the mass spectrometer on a large boom, trying to sniff out any hint of lunar atmosphere or escaping volcanic gas. Scientists particularly thought that areas of lunar sunrises and sunsets might concentrate stray gases. They would be extremely tenuous, and that is where we ran into trouble. The spectrometer mostly picked up particles that we brought from Earth. We'd strayed clouds of urine along our flight path all the way to the moon, and these urine dumps continued in lunar orbit. My frozen pee is probably sprinkled all over the moon. Add rocket engine exhaust, and it is no wonder our mass spectrometer had trouble finding anything else.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 20 March 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
Thanks. I remember reading a more academic discussion of the Apollo Missions that was somewhat dismissive of the “nose cone histories” aka the astronaut memoirs. I know Carrying the Fire is supposed to be the best but Al’s book was really good in lots of ways.
― Robbie Shakespeare’s Sister Lovers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 March 2020 00:37 (four years ago) link