also i wanted to know the answer to the question here: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/2496/where-were-the-various-apollo-lunar-modules-lms-discarded
― mark s, Thursday, 11 July 2019 14:03 (five years ago) link
yeah, the contrast of the sheer staggering scale and power of the saturn v rocket on one hand and the extreme fragility of its human and technological payload on the other will never stop being fascinating to me
standing underneath a saturn v filling an entire giant hangar at kennedy space centre and contemplating its two million components is one of the very few genuinely awe-inspiring moments of my life
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 11 July 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
the real answer to 'where were the various apollo lunar modules discarded' is, of course, in a dumpster behind elstree studios once kubrick had finished filming
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 11 July 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
moon: reallanding: realspace: still fake
― mark s, Thursday, 11 July 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
a galaxy brain take fit for a galaxy which does not exist
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 11 July 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
Watching this National Geographic thing now.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 00:29 (five years ago) link
Meh, just skipped right from Apollo 8 to 11. Now another commemorative Bud ad featuring “Spirit in the Sky.”
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 00:53 (five years ago) link
:/
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 July 2019 04:02 (five years ago) link
It was pretty much all contemporary news(reel) footage, no modern day talking heads, which means in particular no Irishman wearing polycarbonate lunar visor sunglasses, just every once in a while a tiny bit of text to clarify something. Too many commercials, not much information, new or otherwise but it was still nice to soak up some of the vibe. Neil Armstrong doc afterward looked more interesting but I had to stop watching.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 04:10 (five years ago) link
i have dvr’d a few PBS moon docs airing this month, hopefully one or two of them will be good
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 July 2019 04:23 (five years ago) link
Please let us know.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 04:50 (five years ago) link
i will give go/no-go updates soon
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 July 2019 05:20 (five years ago) link
:)
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 09:50 (five years ago) link
happy moonday everyone 🌚
― mark s, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 10:07 (five years ago) link
🌝
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 10:10 (five years ago) link
B-b-but isn’t it in four days?
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 10:11 (five years ago) link
"Sponsored by Kellogs"
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 10:26 (five years ago) link
so much moon stuff on tv, all the major channels are running bits. it's hard to keep i all straight.
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 10:28 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnFlx2Lnr9Q
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 10:41 (five years ago) link
CBS live streaming the original footage on youtube, complete with sub-thunderbirds models.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYnF31el-ik
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 13:49 (five years ago) link
(complete with 1969 paper bikini adverts)
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 13:51 (five years ago) link
(ha, i missed the actual launch by 23 minutes)
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 13:53 (five years ago) link
Speaking of sub-thunderbirds models, over the weekend I was just thinking of a perennial school or Cub Scout trip taken to the Hall of Science in Queens where they showed a film about space travel - Frank Capra’s last, apparently- followed by a cut from film to real life in which two such models docked high above our heads.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
https://nysci.org/installing-rendezvous-in-space/
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
The Great Hall was built for an exhibition sponsored by Martin Marietta called Rendezvous in Space, which culminated with a live demonstration of a docking between a model “space taxi” and an orbiting laboratory, suspended from the ceiling above. The show began with a documentary film produced by Frank Capra (his final film.) Narrated by Danny Thomas, featuring Mel Blanc (uncredited) as the voice of the moon.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 14:10 (five years ago) link
CBS feed appears to have stopped. but there's a 4 hour rewind window if you want to see the launch 'as it happened'. (also, miss universe trails)
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
Happy Launch Day ilx crew <3https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2f/fa/42/2ffa423d88da1f8f4007a96fc7c9f013.gif
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 00:30 (five years ago) link
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 00:39 (five years ago) link
Update 1 on moon documentaries go/no-go PBS American Experience “Chasing the Moon” three parter = GO so much awesome footage AND voiceovers, no talking heads 😃covers similar ground to the Donovan book
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 03:21 (five years ago) link
one of the voiceovers is Khrushchev’s son
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 03:26 (five years ago) link
lot of close-ups where you're thinking "so how much of this so-called lunar module is not just made of baco-foil?"
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 July 2019 13:05 (five years ago) link
Chasing the Moon has been showing on bbc4 in 6 parts over 3 nights, last pair tonight.
First two I found dragged a bit, too much about cold war and racial politics in Gemini / Mercury and didn't even get to Apollo. Second two were better, Apollo 1 audio was shocking but it finished with a great bit on the Apollo 8 wives.
I'll repeat my recommendation for 13 Minutes To The Moon podcast on BBC world service which has a ton of detail. The impatient can listen to episode 10.
I'm also finding the channel 4 realtime live stream on YouTube really relaxing - 6 days(!) of audio feed, the odd bit of video now and then.
― koogs, Thursday, 18 July 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
saw Apollo 10 today, the capsule anyway. apparently it's been in the science museum on loan since '76 but i must've overlooked it all these times.
look at his happy little face:
https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Apollo-10-Nasa.jpg
― koogs, Friday, 19 July 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
aw! hey buddy
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 19 July 2019 21:28 (five years ago) link
🌚
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 July 2019 21:35 (five years ago) link
Chasing the Moon is worth it just for the footage that hasn't really been shown anywhere else in any systematic way. Somehow I hadn't known that Ed White's wife took her own life.
13 Minutes To The Moon is great but my best experience right now is to put on the new expended reissue of Eno's Apollo album with the realtime mission audio from https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/ over it.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 20 July 2019 04:20 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4cn93H6sM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc1SzgGhMKc
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 20 July 2019 04:21 (five years ago) link
https://www.space.com/neil-armstrong-apollo-11-landing-view-video.html
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 20 July 2019 04:23 (five years ago) link
Guys, I am afraid this anniversary is giving me space fatigue, the same as the first time around.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:03 (five years ago) link
Give me a reading on that alarm 🚨
take yr protein pills and put yr helmet on
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:10 (five years ago) link
Flight we’re GO on the alarm
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link
https://cbsnews2-cbsistatic-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2019/07/11/a1daa795-333b-4fd4-8b34-5f2efee60418/thumbnail/1280x1662/cdba68fdb7e6cb31cd5f6be6814812fe/codes.jpg
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:13 (five years ago) link
we’re breathing again
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:14 (five years ago) link
Everything’s going swimmingly
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link
Hey, this is just like a simulation
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:24 (five years ago) link
Be advised there's lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.Well, there are two of them up here.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:30 (five years ago) link
ILX, Tranquility Blecch here.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 July 2019 23:43 (five years ago) link
(With that I killed all life on the thread )
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 00:08 (five years ago) link