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
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
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 21 March 2020 23:36 (four years ago) link
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 detailINCLUDING: (spoiler) a fkn Sea Dragon launch in the final episode 😃https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_(rocket)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 April 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link
Michael Collins' Carrying The Fire is on sale in the various e-stores for $2.99 right now. Well worth reading,
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 06:23 (three years ago) link
I highly recommend this book, which I have owned in multiple formats, even though I haven’t properly read it yet/pvmic
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
https://youtu.be/LWLadJFI8Pk
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 09:03 (three years ago) link
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
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 March 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
Just watched In Event of Moon Disaster, thanks. So Michael Collins was able to crew the return trip all by his lonesome?
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 March 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
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.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
well, shit;_;
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 19:32 (two years ago) link
Time for an unofficial Carrying the Fire book club?
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
Too soon maybe
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
Found this interesting link through an ex-ILB0r whose significant other has the same name as the author: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/dear-columbia-apollo-11-astronaut-michael-collins
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 April 2021 13:16 (two years ago) link
Well damnit if I haven't been completely sucked in by FOR ALL MANKIND. Despite the odd moment of cheesiness, it's just a lovely bit of reconstruction/extrapolation.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 03:20 (two years ago) link
yeah it’s pretty great - i love the characters!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 03:56 (two years ago) link
Having the dude from Patriot isn't hurting
I'm sure I have said this before, but anyone who is in this thread and hasn't read Jed Mercurio's ASCENT is really doing themselves a massive disservice.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 10:48 (two years ago) link
I didn’t even know what that was, had to MC Serch it.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link
it's awesome.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 14:51 (two years ago) link
I guess it’s streaming somewhere
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link
Apple TV? Do people have that?
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 14:57 (two years ago) link
sorry I mean the book Ascent! haven't see the other thing
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 15:12 (two years ago) link
Yeah, thought that book was great too, the Kennedy one not so much.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
the Michael Collins book is 99p in the Amazon daily deal in the UK today
― koogs, Monday, 5 July 2021 01:22 (two years ago) link
The Moon: MISSION CONTROL: FIDO, GUIDO AND RETROTime Magazine interview with Chris Craft and company from August 1, 1969.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 July 2021 05:03 (two years ago) link
Maybe not really an interview.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 July 2021 05:04 (two years ago) link
oooh thx
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 July 2021 05:05 (two years ago) link
“2.5 million bits” = 312.5 kilobytesfkn wild
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 July 2021 05:13 (two years ago) link
Don’t know where I should put so I am putting it here.https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/jeff-bezos-flies-to-space-on-blue-origin-rocketJordan Bimm otm.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
Here is his original article, with a slightly different, um, spin. https://www.barrons.com/articles/billionaires-space-flights-are-changing-the-arc-of-aerospace-history-51626735785
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
It is kind of interesting that Wally Funk just went up, but still…
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:33 (two years ago) link
Anyway seems there is already a thread dedicated to that topic, so as you were.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link