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Post by voyager3 on Jul 18, 2009 7:49:53 GMT -4
Very sad news, as has been said above it's very poignant that he should die just before the 40th anniversary of one of the events he is most famous for covering.
I'm a Brit as well and my only experience of Walter Cronkite apart from documentaries was CNN's coverage of John Glenn's Space Shuttle flight. You could tell from that that he had a great love of space exploration. I can remember him remarking about the improvements in TV technology since the 1960's, in particular he said that on the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo flights after the rocket went through the clouds you would lose track of it, in contrast modern cameras can track a Shuttle all the way into orbit and they could show the SRB's after jettison "falling through the sky like giant cigarettes!"
R.I.P. Walter.
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Post by voyager3 on Jul 17, 2009 20:48:16 GMT -4
Sad news tonight that Walter Cronkite has died. Apollo 11 was one of the events he was most famous for covering in his career so it is particularly poignant that his death should occur just before the 40 anniversary. R.I.P. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8157052.stm
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Post by voyager3 on Jul 16, 2009 15:49:21 GMT -4
Whoops! Missed that. Had to catch it on the replay. I have to say the detailing on the CSM doesn't look too great, but overall it's a great site. Yes it's a bit of a disappointment saying how good the rest of the site is. The CM is too white in colour and the SM looks too dark and it has copper coloured areas around the adapter and engine bell. It now gets a bit dull for the next few days!
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Post by voyager3 on Jul 16, 2009 14:12:57 GMT -4
They've just extracted the LM from the S-IVB, another hurdle cleared!! ;D ;D
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Post by voyager3 on Feb 17, 2006 21:22:27 GMT -4
The mother of Jesus Christ was abducted by ufonauts. They operated her, and put the child into her, not God. The weird star that led the three guys to Jesus was an U.F.O. ship! Credit goes to my friend for thinking it up because he was bored. Any comments? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D That's very good! You know I get the feeling that if you reasearch the history of most conspiracy theories you'd find that they had been dreamt up by bored people!
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Post by voyager3 on Nov 28, 2007 16:33:49 GMT -4
I came across this film when looking up Apollo on Youtube. I don't know how many people here have seen it before but I thought I'd put it up as it is really cool! It contains a lot of close ups of the Saturn V on the pad, the flight controllors' chatter in Houston and the amount of detail you can see as the rocket stages is incredible! uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XKtH0uzg8wU&feature=related
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Post by voyager3 on Dec 9, 2006 10:38:11 GMT -4
then would the Apollo programme still have happened?
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Post by voyager3 on Jul 31, 2006 8:43:27 GMT -4
I've often read about how some of the Apollo astronauts and scientists wanted to try a landing on Farside but NASA's managers thought it was too risky. Did NASA carry out any detailed mission planning for a Farside landing? The landing would have had to have been carried out beyond radio contact with Earth and the astronauts wouldn't have had the MOCR to advise them on any problems such as the 1201 alarm, could they have put satellites in lunar orbit to act as relays?
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Post by voyager3 on Mar 11, 2006 15:36:27 GMT -4
Changing subject slightly, Weren't the Zonds intended to be unmanned test flights for the Soviet manned lunar programme? I think I saw somewhere before that the Soviet's were considering sending a cosmonaut on a circumlunar flight before Apollo 8 using a Zond launched by a Proton rocket. How close were the Soviets to carrying out such a mission?
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Post by voyager3 on Jan 21, 2006 21:49:52 GMT -4
Thank you Jay!
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Post by voyager3 on Jan 21, 2006 16:27:40 GMT -4
IHi everyone, I've a question about the DSKY display in the Apollo CM. Watching Apollo 13 and From the Earth to the Moon, I've noticed that in the top right hand corner of the screen were the words "NOUN" and "VERB" with a number beneath. What did these mean?
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Post by voyager3 on Feb 11, 2006 11:12:15 GMT -4
In Apollo 8 episode of From the Earth to The Moon, when the spacecraft begins it's LOI burn, there is a short sequence showing Susan Borman preparing a statement for release in case the mission fails tragically. Did she really prepare such a statement or was this "poetic license? by the scriptwriters?
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Post by voyager3 on Sept 18, 2005 9:10:17 GMT -4
There was certainly an element of "victor's justice" after WW2. Had the Axis won the war then people like Roy Chadwick would have been tried as war criminals. There was certainly a big political consideration in the Americans taking advantage of the Von Braun team, I thought The Space Race was a lot harder on Von Braun than many of the books or other documentaries that I've read and seen on the issue. In my mind the most objectionable person in the "Huntsville Germans" was Arthur Rudolph who had a much more direct role in the running of the Mittelwerk than Von Braun.
Perhaps we should consider what would have happened had the Soviets captured Von Braun, he would have been made to work on rockets for the Red Army in conjunction with Korolev and this may have given the Soviets an unassailable advantage over the West in missiles. The course of the cold war would have been very different.
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Post by voyager3 on Jun 27, 2007 14:34:17 GMT -4
The first thing you see is a control panel (?) with toggle switches on either side of an 'instruction card'. There appear to be other controls beneath that but the footage is too dark to make them out. Above the panel is the 'hatch cover' with the flag and patch on it. There seem to be two handles on the hatch and it looks like there is a window being hidden by the items stuck on it. Finally above the hatch cover there is another 'instruction card'. The first thing that entered my head on the second view was 'Skylab?' however it's quite clear that wherever this was shot the hoaxer was there, they've just added their 'joint mission flag' and 'Apollo 20' patch to an existing scene and I'm not sure if that could be done in a museum environment. I've just been looking at that footage. Just before it cuts to the "Moonscape" on the top right hand corner of the panel you can just about make out the word "TRUNNION," it definetely begins with T R and it is not in Cyrillic letters so it wasn't filmed in an old Soyuz capsule. Was there ever any piece of equipment in an Apollo CM called a trunnion or something similar?
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Post by voyager3 on Jun 23, 2007 13:51:44 GMT -4
There's no one problem with trying to launch an S-5 out of Vandenberg,. I remember reading in This New Ocean that a busy passenger railway runs right through the complex and on several occassions secret satellite launches were nearly cancelled because a train load of commuters was about to see a secret launch. So then how could a full size S-5 have been assembled and launched here without anyone noticing?
This story is laughable! ;D
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