( I didn't know where to post that so I posted it here)
― Cry for a Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:18 (eight years ago) link
http://apollo11.spacelog.org/page/04:05:22:37/
― Gravity Well, You Needn't (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 September 2016 01:04 (eight years ago) link
Also just saw that Margaret Dean Lazarus is co-writing the memoirs of an Apollo astronaut: short interview with her here https://medium.com/the-ribbon/author-interview-margaret-lazarus-dean-a027b36fa2c9#.8avlganc8
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 22 September 2016 01:33 (eight years ago) link
Wonder which of the Apollo astronauts hasn't already written a memoir. Let's see.
― Gravity Well, You Needn't (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 September 2016 01:47 (eight years ago) link
Um, Scott Kelly, born in 1964, was not part of the Apollo program. Would be interested to read her novel.
― Gravity Well, You Needn't (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 September 2016 01:53 (eight years ago) link
Argh, i wondered if i had misremembered, and the link was down and i could not check, so i thought it would be fine, and here i am. Ashamed.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 22 September 2016 02:38 (eight years ago) link
The novel is very good, btw
― Gravity Well, You Needn't (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 September 2016 02:46 (eight years ago) link
John Young needs to write one.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link
I find it hard to believe he didn't.
― Sketches by T-Boz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 21:50 (seven years ago) link
It seems to be named after a song by a recent Nobel-prize recipient.
― Sketches by T-Boz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 21:52 (seven years ago) link
blowing in the wind -- an inexplicable late-life turn to conspiracy
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link
Eh, not quite.
― Sketches by T-Boz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 22:54 (seven years ago) link
Mentioned third post in
― Sketches by T-Boz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 23:35 (seven years ago) link
Hello, space-nerd checking in finally
I got "We Seven" for Christmas, haven't started it but timing turned out bittersweet with Glenn's passing.
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 06:04 (seven years ago) link
that's the one that reprints the life magazine articles from the time of the mercury missions right? always meant tog et around to reading that one but i haven't yet, so looking forward to seeing what you think about it
gene cernan's passing has reminded me that i don't think we've talked about the last man on the moon anywhere else on ilx have we? i watched it when it came to netflix and thought it was a decent overview of the man and his career but it could have done with being longer - there was lots of stuff i'd have liked to have seen more on, and i wish there was more input from jack schmitt. i'm fascinated by the amount of important work he and cernan did on the moon during apollo 17, and their justified frustration that their discoveries were never followed up by other missions.
in other space-dork news i'm going to see chris hadfield lecture on friday. saw him (and met him!) last year and it was fantastic - he's such a charismatic ambassador for space
― How To: Make the perfect summer jorts (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 09:48 (seven years ago) link
exciting! i enjoy him in the interviews & other stuff i've seen - full report plz
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 21:01 (seven years ago) link
I'm ashamed that I haven't posted more in this thread - (long story, all IRL nonsense) but James Redd nagged me over here after Gene Cernan's passing was noted on the obit. thread.
It worked like this - my mom was a mid-level apparatchik in the O.C. political establishment - somewhere in the early 70s she met Skylab astronaut (and O.C. resident) Jerry Carr at a function and got us (mom, dad, & me) VIP passes to see the launch of Apollo 17. I was seven years old and liked NASA more than ice cream - nevermind that we also flew on a Pan Am 747, my dad and I hung out at the plane upstairs bar. We also went to Disney World, but fuck that shit compared with a Saturn V launch.
After the mission was over the A17 crew took a meet-and-greet around the states and somehow my mom got us into the California stop. I can't really remember what I asked Cernan - I was way too self-conscious. Nevertheless everyone signed my stuff. I just unpacked everything at my new place and have to get it framed.
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2U1aSWUoAAkm5r.jpg
I watched The Last Man on the Moon - it's not necessarily a memorable documentary, but it is worth watching. It's entirely possible that the only answer to "what was it like to walk on the Moon and how did it change you?" will be whatever we can piece together from what these guys say and I'd watch it for that reason alone.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 27 January 2017 10:13 (seven years ago) link
wow.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 27 January 2017 10:30 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, wow, thanks.
― In Walked Bodhisattva (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 January 2017 11:55 (seven years ago) link
holy shit elvis, that's amazing. that's gonna look fantastic in a frame.
We also went to Disney World, but fuck that shit compared with a Saturn V launch
seeing the saturn v on its side at kennedy space centre last summer was one of the more stunning things i've ever set eyes on in real life - i can't even imagine how incredible it must have been to see one of those things take off.
― the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 27 January 2017 14:57 (seven years ago) link
http://www.earthtothemoon.com/apollo_10.htmlhttps://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR4U0J4RDIVNqhCva25E8vmuJCk0q05EQ9rUkOyyCQuHIekYHEAHouston, this is Snoopy! We is GO and we is down among 'em Charlie!
― In Walked Bodhisattva (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 January 2017 03:15 (seven years ago) link
thanks elvis! what an incredible experience.
in other news: 50th anniversary of Apollo 1 tragedy today :/
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 January 2017 03:57 (seven years ago) link
Very envious and impressed
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Saturday, 28 January 2017 06:40 (seven years ago) link
http://hackaday.com/2017/05/29/re-creating-the-apollo-dskys-display/#more-258907
― koogs, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 08:24 (seven years ago) link
weirdly tempted to chip in some cash for that
― heck i've even been an 'oyster pirate' (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 08:26 (seven years ago) link
Greatly enjoyed the first four stories I read this weekend in The Dream Life of Astronauts, which are set on Merritt Island and read like a mix of New Yorker stories written by a Southerner like, say, Padgett Powell, with Ballard's Memories of the Space Age. Which may not be quite accurate and will probably put you off reading it but perhaps I can describe better upon reading the rest of the stories.
― Two-Headed Shindog (Rad Tempo Player) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 October 2017 04:11 (six years ago) link
Did not know of that book, but now i want
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 2 October 2017 09:10 (six years ago) link
RIP John Young
― The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:04 (six years ago) link
;_;
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:44 (six years ago) link
dammit :(
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
Crap
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 7 January 2018 01:35 (six years ago) link
Curious about this new Apollo 8 book
― The Sound of the City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 01:39 (six years ago) link
One of the most haunting radar images I think we'll ever see...the Space Shuttle Columbia debris field, 15 years ago today. pic.twitter.com/5Ba8IdBFLZ— Matt Lanza ⛄️ (@mattlanza) February 1, 2018
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
oof :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:04 (six years ago) link
fuck that’s a real gut-punch
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
the OPEN DSKY thing i mentioned above launched on kickstarter last week (and is already at 250% of goal)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/438986934/open-dsky-apollo-50th-anniversary-make-100
― koogs, Friday, 2 February 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
why do i want that
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 February 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
Why wouldn’t you?
― The Sound of the City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2018 01:49 (six years ago) link
tru
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 3 February 2018 08:21 (six years ago) link
RIP Al Bean :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 May 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
RIP
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 May 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
O bum
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 27 May 2018 05:21 (six years ago) link
He was top of my list of Apollo astronauts I would have loved to meet. Such a quirky, enthusiastic, genuine-seeming person. There’s a lovely quote in the obituary about how he & Walt Cunningham were bffs & ate cheeseburgers together once a month <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 May 2018 06:50 (six years ago) link
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/astronaut-footprint-moon-warming-180969362/
― And Nobody POLLS Like Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 June 2018 02:02 (six years ago) link
That is mental.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 15 June 2018 02:30 (six years ago) link
wow
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 June 2018 05:13 (six years ago) link
There's some great stuff in NASA's historical archives, my fave is the oral history project - long interviews with everyone before they pass away A recent fave of mine are the 2004 interviews with Joe Engle - the X-15 pilot who got bumped from Apollo 17 by geologist (and later Senator and climate-change denier) Harrison Schmitt. More to the point, Engle talks about the life of being a badass-casual Air Force fighter/ test pilot - dogfighting & partying with Yeager, hand-wringing over stick-and-rudder vs. spam-in-a-can space travel, flight-testing every goddamn thing at Edwards, rolling the X-15, having to pee while you're in the middle of an abort, getting the phone call from Slayton, training for not going to the Moon and then finding a place in NASA and picking the Space Shuttle because it had wings and a stick-n-rudder.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 28 September 2018 02:42 (five years ago) link
ooo cool, thx elvis!
kinda heartbroken to hear harrison schmitt is a climate change denier, he and gene cernan are maybe my favourite apollo duo
― heteroflexible pansexual polyamorous relationship anarchist (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 28 September 2018 09:30 (five years ago) link