I Neilly didn't get it! (My old head can't do math anymore!!!)
If was golf, my first guess* would have gotten a birdie, not an eagle!
Google should be ashamed!
(* Until I realized I was off a year, I of course had guessed this: - Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117)
erco gives up a clue, but it did not hit me until after I thought about it for awhile. Man, the light at the end of the tunnel keeps getting brighter and brighter with each passing day.
Ray
I won't strongarm anyone into learning about history. Too much tranquility on the base today. You can't soar with eagles when surrounded by turkeys. One small step at a time.
Heck, if people do not care about this one, then the one coming up in October fifty eight years ago will never come to mind. I guess they will have to talk to grandpa about this one, who is probably still star gazing.
And if memory serves correctly, it required a manual override of the computer to make it successful. Watched the whole thing live on TV.
1201 alarm. Even then, having no idea what a 1201 alarm was, the words spooked me. And I hate to admit I remember the earlier one, (dimly, I was very young) though we didn't get to watch that one. Remembering the day in October is easy, since my wife was born one year later to the day.
Watched the whole thing on my uncle's Sony Trinitron.
During every manned landing I would take the opportunity to go outside to gaze at the Moon and try to grasp the reality of human beings hanging out up there.
What amazed me about the 1201 alarm, and something I did not know about until years later, is that it obviously came at a critical moment, with lives at stake and the whole world watching, that was relayed back to mission control and then everyone is looking at the software lead there for a instant decision on whether to abort or go. He said "go", he knew that error and that you can ignore it, it had come up in testing.
Now I forget the guys name but he was only a young 20 something and that is one hell of a decision to have to make on the spot in the heat of the moment like that. I would have froze at that moment.
It's kind of explained here: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.1201-pa.html
Was home during mid year exams for my final high school year. Saw the whole thing on TV. I did have all the press clippings, nasa cloth patches, special coins, etc. unfortunately had to let the clippings go during a move a while back.
Heck, if people do not care about this one, then the one coming up in October fifty eight years ago will never come to mind. I guess they will have to talk to grandpa about this one, who is probably still star gazing.
I won't strongarm anyone into learning about history. Too much tranquility on the base today. You can't soar with eagles when surrounded by turkeys. One small step at a time.
May as well have screamed it from the mountain tops with this line..........
late on the draw........
Watched it all (and the ones before, including the 8 of course). Good old black&white TV. It's not something you forget easily. I remember getting annoyed when the coverage of the last missions weren't 100% or even in realtime. It apparently became routine to the TV stations, it never became routine to me.
I remember watching it as well. And even watching a certain roo explain what the Apollo 14 guys would be doing near a Surveyor space craft.
Even now it still seems of interest if only because at one point we collected everything imaginable on the subject of space travel.
Oh and are all of you aware that the Basic Stamps and the Propellers we use are far more intelligent then the systems who took us into space? This includes the IBM creation in the Gemini space craft, and the ones on the Saturn, and the others on the Apollo space craft and service module.
Buck Rogers,
"Even now it still seems of interest if only because at one point we collected everything imaginable on the subject of space travel."
Nah, the whole deal was about military superiority at a time when the Russians were the enemy. Since days of old taking the high ground was a major part of winning battles, still is. The mere idea that an enemy was getting the high ground, i.e, orbital satellites and even moon bases was enough to galvanize the US into action.
Since then we have learned a lot more about space travel and indeed the universe itself. Seems to me that at some point people acknowledged that the whole exercise is amazingly expensive and basically pointless.
We humans are not going anywhere off this planet. Despite the optimism of the 1960's "Star Trek" generation. The distances are too immense, the time too long. That stuff out there in space is basically hostile to human life anyway.
That's not to say that I don't have the deepest respect for everyone involved in those missions. Especially those brave enough to don a space suite and strap themselves into the sharp end.
erco
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If was golf, my first guess* would have gotten a birdie, not an eagle!
Google should be ashamed!
(* Until I realized I was off a year, I of course had guessed this: - Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117)
Ray
Ray
1201 alarm. Even then, having no idea what a 1201 alarm was, the words spooked me. And I hate to admit I remember the earlier one, (dimly, I was very young) though we didn't get to watch that one. Remembering the day in October is easy, since my wife was born one year later to the day.
During every manned landing I would take the opportunity to go outside to gaze at the Moon and try to grasp the reality of human beings hanging out up there.
Now I forget the guys name but he was only a young 20 something and that is one hell of a decision to have to make on the spot in the heat of the moment like that. I would have froze at that moment.
It's kind of explained here: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.1201-pa.html
http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/
Great movie if you can get it:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/
Great movie if you can get it:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/
http://www.solarmovie.cz/watch-the-dish-2000-online.html
Dah, Tavarish Rsadeika. Ya nye znayu.
May as well have screamed it from the mountain tops with this line..........
late on the draw........
-Tor
Jim
Jim
Or the machine to play it on!
Even now it still seems of interest if only because at one point we collected everything imaginable on the subject of space travel.
Oh and are all of you aware that the Basic Stamps and the Propellers we use are far more intelligent then the systems who took us into space? This includes the IBM creation in the Gemini space craft, and the ones on the Saturn, and the others on the Apollo space craft and service module.
"Even now it still seems of interest if only because at one point we collected everything imaginable on the subject of space travel."
Nah, the whole deal was about military superiority at a time when the Russians were the enemy. Since days of old taking the high ground was a major part of winning battles, still is. The mere idea that an enemy was getting the high ground, i.e, orbital satellites and even moon bases was enough to galvanize the US into action.
Since then we have learned a lot more about space travel and indeed the universe itself. Seems to me that at some point people acknowledged that the whole exercise is amazingly expensive and basically pointless.
We humans are not going anywhere off this planet. Despite the optimism of the 1960's "Star Trek" generation. The distances are too immense, the time too long. That stuff out there in space is basically hostile to human life anyway.
That's not to say that I don't have the deepest respect for everyone involved in those missions. Especially those brave enough to don a space suite and strap themselves into the sharp end.
;-)
I'll buy that for a dollar!
I recorded the live broadcast on a 2 inch quad vtr. Now, I wonder what ever happened to that tape?
Jim
Or the machine to play it on!
I recorded the live broadcast on a 2 inch quad vtr. Now, I wonder what ever happened to that tape?
Jim
Or the machine to play it on!
I recorded the live broadcast on a 2 inch quad vtr. Now, I wonder what ever happened to that tape?
Jim
Or the machine to play it on!