I always liked Skylab because it looked kind of battered and lived in. The films of the guys bouncing around in the big room captivated me as a kid.
The Viking pictures blew my mind when I saw them as a kid. I KNEW I would live on Mars, but now I work in an office in SF.
Apollo-Soyuz is a runner-up for the good vibes, man.
― andy --, Thursday, 3 March 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 3 March 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 3 March 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 3 March 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)
― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Thursday, 3 March 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)
― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 3 March 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)
42nd anniversary of the moon landing. I was in my formative years, so obv Apollo was my favorite.
In the Nixon Library they have the green telephone that Dick used to call Armstrong and Aldrin. Depressing even in that context to see that the two extensions are tagged HALDEMAN and CHAPIN.
― joyless shithead (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 14:09 (fourteen years ago)
back to the Moon!
http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=20595
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 23:22 (nine years ago)
In terms of spectacle and the raw difficulty of the achievement, the Apollo program was tops. In terms of massive new and important scientific data derived from incredibly minimalist resources, then Viking can't be beat. The electronics in 1980s Atari game consoles easily surpassed the sophistication of what the Viking probes had.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 4 August 2016 20:25 (nine years ago)
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/11/in-event-of-moon-disaster.html
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 July 2017 20:52 (eight years ago)
NY Times Book Review rounded up the Apollo 11 golden anniversary books, critic said Douglas Brinkley's (RIP) American Moonshot is the deepest. Anyone have it?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 June 2019 16:25 (six years ago)
I don’t, but I’m gonna give a shout-out to the amazing Voyager documentary The Farthest which is about my favourite space doco ever (artistic achievements of For All Mankind and Apollo 11 notwithstanding).
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 24 June 2019 20:01 (six years ago)