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NASA Fly Me To The Moon

Pedrocut said:
Visit to Kennedy Space Centre, June 1981. Click to enlarge...
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Kennedy Space Centre, Florida (June 1981)

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Pedro, many of us have been watching this stuff for many years and it’s still exciting! We were on our honeymoon in 1969 and we watched the moon landing from our hotel lobby in Puerto Rico and recently the Spacex flight. The excitement is still there and so much new technology is developed from it!
 
50 years gone by since I watched the launch (on tv) of Appolo 11 to the Moon and a few days later listened live to the landing on the Moon.

Today Artemis 1 hopefully sets off in the 2 hour launch window starting at 1.30pm BST. They currently have a small problem with filling of liquid hydrogen. I shall be watching on Nasa Live TV, which is live at the moment ... click the play icon ...
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Our best man at our wedding is an Aeronautical Engineer, masters and MBA. He was most influential in getting me back to University and still enjoying life in Florida. He was the inventor of the exploding bolts that allowed the return of the astronauts from the moon surface. Some may recall that those bolts had to separate at exactly the right/same time or the separation would not occur properly and the mission would fail. Much focus was given to the broken switch which was activated by a ball point pen!
 
Mission off for today, they could not correct a problem with engine number 3. Earliest next launch slot Sept 2 ....:oops:
 
Perhaps a little off track but just thinking of all the work and money that has gone into getting these rockets into space, yet the Osprey chicks I have been watching since they hatched, [on the Loch of the Lowes web site], now just over 4 months old, will soon be taking off for a journey of about 6,000 km to their winter home in West Africa. No Sat Nav's for them or engines costing Millions. Then come next April they are like to return again to Scotland. That is a marvel !!
 
johnny082 said:
Perhaps a little off track but just thinking of all the work and money that has gone into getting these rockets into space, yet the Osprey chicks I have been watching since they hatched, [on the Loch of the Lowes web site], now just over 4 months old, will soon be taking off for a journey of about 6,000 km to their winter home in West Africa. No Sat Nav's for them or engines costing Millions. Then come next April they are like to return again to Scotland. That is a marvel !!
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Also with a short detour off track ... perhaps further birds discussion should be in the gardening thread
Housemartins nest on my house and soon they will fly off to somewhere in Africa and the young birds have obviously never been there. They have built a mud nest and re-use it each year. My car is parked under their flight path to and from the nest and I'm forever cleaning off what they drop on it.. Each winter I think about poking down the nest but never do and suppose it is just as much their world as it is mine ... :)

Back on track, I note that the Artemis program is expected to have an ultimate price tag of $93 billion ...:rolleyes:
 
oldMohawk said:
Also with a short detour off track ... perhaps further birds discussion should be in the gardening thread
Housemartins nest on my house and soon they will fly off to somewhere in Africa and the young birds have obviously never been there. They have built a mud nest and re-use it each year. My car is parked under their flight path to and from the nest and I'm forever cleaning off what they drop on it.. Each winter I think about poking down the nest but never do and suppose it is just as much their world as it is mine ... :)

Back on track, I note that the Artemis program is expected to have an ultimate price tag of $93 billion ...:rolleyes:
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oldMohawk, I would move your car :) some of those droppings are not always friendly to car paint!
 
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