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

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/

aw RIP

Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

^ Frank Borman obit and links posted by Elvis T

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.

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.

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

Poor voyager

y'all have seen The Farthest right?
https://www.pbs.org/the-farthest/

This one is good too. I drive past the office building featured in this a couple times a week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6L9Du_IFmI

Love The Farthest.

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

Cheers!

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