A few days’ progress on the Saturn V launch piece, finishing the tower and the rocket, the exhaust using Ferris Wheel Press PLAITED GOLD TRESS, and foreground pad structure in ATLAS IRON ORE.
🎄🛰️🌑 Aujourd'hui c’est le 55e anniversaire de l'une des photographies spatiales les plus célèbres : le “Lever de Terre” photographié la veille de Noël 1968 par Bill Anders de la mission #Apollo 8
In spite of the joke that NASA spent a million dollars developing a pen that could write in space, while the Soviets just used a pencil.
In reality, US astronauts used pencils, crayons, and grease pencils, as did Soviet cosmonauts. None were an adequate solution.
Paul #Fischer, of Fischer #Pen Company, had been working on a pen that could write upside down or in any other position, something useful for many jobs, and offered it to NASA at a discount of $3 per pen.
When the Soviets eventually turned up asking for pen, they had to pay full retail.
🚀 First dibs for Mastodon peeps: I’m selling an unassembled Open DSKY (Apollo guidance computer user interface) kit which includes all electronics (including Arduino nano) and 3D printed parts and laser cut components to build an Open DSKY.
Are you kidding me? Either quit posting updates for it or else let the very next update be the ability to use a custom API key so it can get back to actually working again. #apollo#apolloapp
The man who, in all likelihood, saved the lives of the three Apollo 13 astonauts - and probably the remaining Apollo missions.
Hell, possibly even NASA itself. Losing 3 astronauts to die in space, with its attendant publicity, could well have destroyed the agency.
"Mattingly, who knew the spacecraft intimately, worked with engineers and others as they analysed the situation and scrambled to find solutions and pass on instructions to the crew."
He later orbited the moon, but in 1970 he was bumped from the Apollo flight after being exposed to measles. Then, from mission control, he helped it avert disaster.
TODAY (10/31) for Halloween 🎃 a new online talk series run by the London Science Museum & #JAXA Space Education kicks off at 12:30 UTC (9:30pm JST) and it's ALL ABOUT SPOOKY SAMPLE RETURN MISSIONS FROM BEYOND THE VOID!
OK, I completely fabricated the spooky part. But it'll be really cool.
The first talk is on the #Apollo Moon samples with people from #NASA Johnson, the Science Museum and #Smithsonian.
APOLLO JUSTICE IS DOING FINE!! If it please the court, we have new evidence to submit about the lawyers, friends, and rivals of the Wright Anything Agency ac...
Did you know that in #ancient#Athens some men had to suffer as scapegoats for angry #gods ?
The Thargelia was an annual #festival for #Apollo & Artemis. While various rituals were performed, one involved choosing one (or two) very #ugly men, feeding them & either beating them & throwing them from a cliff, or casting them out of the city.
The 2 sacrifices were given necklaces of black figs & white figs - representing the #sacrifice from the men and women of Athens respectively.
A Scotsman and business writer named Bertie Charles Forbes founded Forbes magazine in 1917 and was famous for epigrams on the business of life. [..] Forbes died in 1954, long before the current batch of plunderers had begun amassing their fortunes and depleting the treasure of others. But he knew their kind when he said: “The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.”
Ken Mattingly, Astronaut Scrubbed From Apollo 13, Is Dead at 87 (www.nytimes.com)
He later orbited the moon, but in 1970 he was bumped from the Apollo flight after being exposed to measles. Then, from mission control, he helped it avert disaster.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy - Release Date Trailer (www.youtube.com)
APOLLO JUSTICE IS DOING FINE!! If it please the court, we have new evidence to submit about the lawyers, friends, and rivals of the Wright Anything Agency ac...