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

yeah it’s pretty great - i love the characters!

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.

I didn’t even know what that was, had to MC Serch it.

it's awesome.

I guess it’s streaming somewhere

Apple TV? Do people have that?

sorry I mean the book Ascent! haven't see the other thing

Yeah, thought that book was great too, the Kennedy one not so much.

the Michael Collins book is 99p in the Amazon daily deal in the UK today

The Moon: MISSION CONTROL: FIDO, GUIDO AND RETRO
Time Magazine interview with Chris Craft and company from August 1, 1969.

Maybe not really an interview.

oooh thx

“2.5 million bits” = 312.5 kilobytes

fkn wild

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-rocket

Jordan Bimm otm.

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

It is kind of interesting that Wally Funk just went up, but still…

Anyway seems there is already a thread dedicated to that topic, so as you were.

ILX, Tranquility Blecch here.

we’re breathin again

Everything’s going just swimmingly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZSuakXj8xI

Has anyone ever read Gene Kranz's book?

I have thought about reading it before, but was kind of put of by the title ;)

My new favorite term I learned from Gene Kranz is battle short or battleshort.

Put off not put of.

Maybe this has already been linked or you already know everything in it but still:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-07-03-mn-11574-story.html

that was a good one!! thx for sharing

i saw Gene’s Apollo 11 flight vest in the Air & Space museum when we visited, it was as cool as seeing Armstrong’s suit

also made me a little ;_; when i realized oh yeah that Neil was still alive when they wrote that

protect gene at all costs

never previously noticed the op, but i am now going to brag that i worked in a minneapolis bookstore with margaret lazarus dean 25 years ago

she was great but unfortunately my most visceral memory of her is being at a party at her house when her cat ran out into the street and was killed

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:(

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fuuuuuuuuuck

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51uYTHpYv4L._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Anyone read this?

Not I, no.

nope

Today I went on a college tour with daughter #2 and at one point the guide said “two of our alumni worked for NASA as astronauts. They flew to the Moon and the International Space Station!” I don’t think it will come as a surprise to the readers of this thread that I asked him if he was sure about the first part of that last sentence and that I was a bit skeptical when he said “Yes!”

lol

“the moon” soundstage maybe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOe5rB8o0To

shatner's bassoon

https://securebooks.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Star-Trek-icon-William-Shatner-rockets-into-space-in-flight.jpg

(apologies, didn't realise this was ilb. still, looks like nobody cares about the unheroic space age)

It’s technically on ILB, but no worries. It has been repurposed for wider usage.

mr veg gave me Andrew Chaikin’s “A Man on the Moon” for Christmas :D

Excellent. Although be forewarned that it does take its time, um, getting off the ground.

Roger.

Can I get a readout on that POLL rollout alarm.

we got you. we’re go on that alarm

:)

I’m only a little way in but god Chaikin is such an effective writer, and structures the narrative so well to keep you wanting to read more - i love that he’s not drowning you in backstory, keeping The Guys front & center, what theyre thinking/feeling & just kinda peppering in backstory where it’s important/illuminating

Yeah, that is definitely the most detailed telling of the story that I came across but he totally keeps things moving along.