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

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RIP Chris Kraft?(person with a great real name)

? Was fat-fingered misfire of the gas jet

Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr.

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.

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.

same tbh

The astronauts donned the BIGs, jumped into the raft, and, as rehearsed, began spraying and scrubbing themselves down with disinfectant.

20k mph

Apollo 16's John Young on the perils of digestion in space: pic.twitter.com/BZ7oOMTgV3

— Caustic Cover Critic (@Unwise_Trousers) July 24, 2019

I believe there a section of, um, Carrying the Fire devoted to this sort of thing

https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02320/b4_2320129k.jpg

(just hadn't seen this photo before)

get a load of these these nerds, smdh

VERB 73

Or
DSKY, Return to Earth now, please.

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.

imagine getting back from the moon and the first thing you have to do after splashdown is make small-talk with nixon

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

That picture is great.

Adam West and Neil Armstrong, separated at birth.

Ha, exactly

Stand by for ullage.

It looks to me, looking out of the hatch, that we are venting something out into space.

https://i.gifer.com/ObML.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5VRo5MBUXY

https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/apollo-flight-controller-101-every-console-explained/

Are you a Pod or a MOCR?

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

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.

/streetteam

https://i1.wp.com/theapollo11.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/apollo-star-list.jpg

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2019/07/15/apollo-11-50-year-anniversary/

https://wehackthemoon.com/people/ramon-alonso-computer-science

Tindallgrams to thread!

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-Tindallgrams.html

(complete with 1969 paper bikini adverts)

RIP Al Worden

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.

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.

Folks who have this thread bookmarked should check out RetroSpace HD on YouTube. Lots of vintage footage up there that I haven't seen at all such as this, the Apollo 9 LEM docking sequence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke8R4zc18Kk

Not a book & i think it’s been mentioned itt already but if you get a chance I really recommend “For All Mankind”, Ron Moore’s series on Apple+

So much nerdy NASA/Apollo detail
INCLUDING: (spoiler) a fkn Sea Dragon launch in the final episode 😃

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_(rocket)

Michael Collins' Carrying The Fire is on sale in the various e-stores for $2.99 right now. Well worth reading,

I highly recommend this book, which I have owned in multiple formats, even though I haven’t properly read it yet/pvmic

https://youtu.be/LWLadJFI8Pk

Ah fuck, anyway, that's a deepfaked short film of Apollo XI failure with Nixon giving Saffire's dead astronauts speech.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/science/nasa-space-launch-system.html

Just watched In Event of Moon Disaster, thanks. So Michael Collins was able to crew the return trip all by his lonesome?

And RIP Michael Collins. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/science/michael-collins-third-man-of-the-moon-landing-dies-at-90.html. Hope things are going swimmingly on the FarOther Side.

well, shit

;_;

Time for an unofficial Carrying the Fire book club?