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Aye, fair point.
Come on girls, ride those big long rockets! Ahem. |
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Folks a recommendation for you.
I've just finished reading (again) Andrew Chaikin's "A Man On The Moon". It is a brilliant history of Apollo. Go buy it! |
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Last voyage of the Russian space shuttle?
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The Gas and Ice giants could solve our energy problems:
http://starsdestination.blogspot.com...for-going.html |
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The Gas and Ice giants could solve our energy problems:
http://starsdestination.blogspot.com...for-going.html I like this thread
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The Gas and Ice giants could solve our energy problems:
http://starsdestination.blogspot.com...for-going.html |
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Yep, that was an interesting read. Thanks for the link.
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Russian Soyuz capsule lands well off course. Not much more news yet though.
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Another ballistic reentry. Two in a row. Something's going on with the Soyuz navigation software.
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i like looking at the stars on google earth
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i like looking at the stars on google earth
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Another book to recommend to you. Moondust by Andrew Smith.
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Another book to recommend to you. Moondust by Andrew Smith.
It's on sale at Tesco for £6 at the mo - or at least, it WAS, a week or so ago when I got it. |
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Sorry this is late - meant to post it yesterday, but things happened at home which kept me away from the 'pooter'
Peak of the Lyrid meteor shower was at about 5am this morning (04:00 UT) Best time to view would have been during the few hours before dawn this morning - BUT, luckily meteor showers tend to go on for a while, (many days, sometimes weeks) The Lyrids have a pretty narrow 'peak' (decent rates for maybe 24hrs or so either side of peak time) but you should still be able to see some tonight if you have a clear sky (maybe 15/hr rate) Look to the East, just after it gets dark - as the name suggests, the 'Lyrids' emanate from the constellation Lyra. Vega, the brightest star in Lyra, will be rising from the NE as it gets dark, up diagonally across the East as the night progresses - can't miss it, very bright The radiant of the shower is slightly to the right of that star. *note* Shower meteors don't appear AT the radiant, but seem to shoot away from it. So to maximise how many you'll see, concentrate your gaze either to the left, or right of Vega (N/NE or SE) |
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Did anyone see Mercury close to the crescent moon tonight?
Also Mars in a line with Castor and Pollux? |
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Apollo Lunar Surface Journal
Have any of you seen this?
A brilliant resource for all things Apollo. |
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Have any of you seen this?
A brilliant resource for all things Apollo.
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There was an article in the paper yesterday about a new 12 part programme on Discovery Channel featuring Space, ISS and the future of Space travel etc., but I`ve failed to find any listings
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There was an article in the paper yesterday about a new 12 part programme on Discovery Channel featuring Space, ISS and the future of Space travel etc., but I`ve failed to find any listings
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ITV just showed Apollo 13 again.
That film pulls no punches in its criticism of media indifference and cynicism, and the last line wondering about going back again says it all.I remember seeing Jim Lovell's spacesuit next to the Saturn V. Lump in the throat stuff. |
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Recommend me a book
Hi all
I have read so many books about the Apollo program but realise that my knowledge of what preceeded it is comparitevly sparse. So can anyone recommend any books chronicling Mercury and Gemini? Cheers in advance. |
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Guess some of you will be familiar with the Tunguska event. The hundreth anniverary is coming up on June 30th. I guess there will be some discussion of it over the next month.
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ITV just showed Apollo 13 again.
![]() While Armstrong/Aldrin/Collins are at the Moon, the other astronauts are having a party. Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) is out in the garden looking up at the Moon, which is almost 'full'. In reality, when Armstrong et-al were there, the Moon was only a crescent. Apparantly, the film-makers deliberately had an almost full Moon for that shot, because if you ask people old enough to remember Armstrong's first Moonwalk, they almost always think they remember the Moon as being full (or pretty close to full) Andrew Smith also mentions this phenomenon in his book 'MoonDust'. Personally, I think people must have been looking at the Moon in wonder, AFTER the landing, and that's the image they remember and assosciate with the landing. (It would be 'full' about a week after Armstrong and colleagues got home) |
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Guess some of you will be familiar with the Tunguska event. The hundreth anniverary is coming up on June 30th. I guess there will be some discussion of it over the next month.
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That film pulls no punches in its criticism of media indifference and cynicism, and the last line wondering about going back again says it all.