Astronaut Mark Kelly once smuggled a full gorilla suit on board the International Space Station. He didn't tell anyone about it. One day, without anyone knowing, he put it on. (source: Reddit) pic.twitter.com/v7aVunL7QF— SPENCE, TODD (@Todd_Spence) January 9, 2022
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 02:22 (two years ago) link
i have watched that video SO many timesfkn hilarious
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 02:25 (two years ago) link
Rolling Obituary Thread 2023
^ death of Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham
― koogs, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 12:01 (one year ago) link
I hadn't checked in with LM5's YT channel in awhile and completely lost a day watching his Top 100 Space Moments video series. Really well done and even with footage I hadn't seen before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYIiMRdcIAQ
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 07:14 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbMRyri3q8I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cimWUVqQy70
Fell into another YouTube hole - this time on the Homemade Documentaries channel. Outstanding quality with footage I've never ever seen before. Charlie Duke himself started commenting on his Apollo 16 doc. His Voyager doc is better than anything I've seen come out of NASA.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 05:08 (eight months ago) link
RIP Ken Mattingly, bumped from Apollo 13, eventually flew to the moon on Apollo 16, stayed around for a couple of shuttle flights. (Gary Sinise played him in Apollo 13), 87.https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/former-astronaut-thomas-k-mattingly-ii/
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 2 November 2023 21:40 (five months ago) link
aw RIP
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 November 2023 03:59 (five months ago) link
^ Frank Borman obit and links posted by Elvis T
― koogs, Sunday, 26 November 2023 10:32 (four months ago) link
Borman did release his own book in 1988: Countdown: An Autobiography - iirc it's pretty much a downer. If you read his NASA oral history interview, he's the super-intense military guy who you want commanding the first crewed flight of a Saturn V to the moon (when Anders sees Earthrise and starts taking pictures, Borman immediately says "hey, that's not scheduled") - but his own book is the super-intense military guy trying to figure out why his home is broken, why his wife is an alcoholic, and why the Eastern Airlines unions really hates his guts. Spoiler alert: he hates their guts too.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 11:07 (four months ago) link
I have heard several interviews with Borman. He came across as someone who spared no one's feelings, including his own, and gave not an inch to sentiment. Even his description of seeing Earth from space was prosaic. He did have a lot of interesting stories, though.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 22:50 (four months ago) link
i guessed "manned" isn't strictly correct: https://crookedtimber.org/2024/02/19/death-lonely-death/
anyway, an evocative post from a site i only very rarely check these days, abt the tin can we threw furthest
― mark s, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 12:49 (two months ago) link
Poor voyager
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 20:44 (two months ago) link
y'all have seen The Farthest right?https://www.pbs.org/the-farthest/
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 22:48 (two months ago) link
This one is good too. I drive past the office building featured in this a couple times a weekhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6L9Du_IFmI
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 22 February 2024 08:31 (two months ago) link
Love The Farthest.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 23 February 2024 00:43 (two months ago) link
What video is that, Elvis? Stupid YT is geoblocking it.
it's the trailer for It's Quieter In The Twilight - a 2022 doc about Voyager's flight team. It's streaming in a couple of different places, but you can find it on the torrents
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 23 February 2024 03:53 (two months ago) link
Cheers!
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 23 February 2024 04:39 (two months ago) link
I think I posted this one before? The Homemade Documentaries YT channel has been making space documentaries that are routinely superior to any of the NASA ones - especially his Voyager one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M62kajY-ln0
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 23 February 2024 04:45 (two months ago) link