It’s sometimes amusing to listen to some of the air to ground transmission on the #Apollo flights. A lot of the chatter is the #astronauts talking about #poo, actually #p00, with no hint of adolescent smirking, like this gem on #Apollo12:
109:46:48 Conrad: And, Houston, whenever you’re ready, we’re ready to give you P00 and Data.
P00 was the quiescent state of the #Guidance#Computer where it was ready to receive instructions and data either from the #DSKY#keyboard or #Houston.
@mkwadee Conrad was a funny joker on his own. He won a bet with a journalist about the 1st words when stepping on the moon. A man bet that Nasa wouldn't allow Conrad to say whatever he want (speculating on Neils famous words)
Conrad stepped out of the LEM: " It was a small step for Neil but it is a huge one to me " 😎🙄
Some pre-LOR Apollo art from July-August 1962 Ryan Reporter. Artist unknown. The decision to use that mission mode was only announced in the first of those two months, so they wouldn't have known to change it (or there wasn't enough time to fix what was a conjectural image anyway).
Via Mike Acs on Flickr, an image of what I believe was the proposed Saturn MLV-11.5 configuration -- basically a Saturn IB with four five-segment solid boosters strapped to it.
The idea was to hit a middle spot for payload between the IB's 18.6 tonnes and the Saturn V's 118 -- around 40 tonnes.
2/29/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open containers, please.
Here's another that, if someone doesn't buy it soon, I may just take home. Not an audiobook but, a collection of audio from historic events on 2 CDs, compiled with a book of background info. Primarily concerned with US events.
I’m trying out the #IceCubes app and it looks and works awesome! It, somehow, reminds me of the #Apollo Reddit app in terms of the appearance, polish, and the customisability! Great job, @dimillian! ❤️
The #Apollo#spacecraft included 2 scimitar #VHF#antennas for short-range communication with Earth, the Lunar Module, and the lunar surface.
The Block II #CSM, pictured here, moved the #antenna to the Service #Module from the Command Module.
🎄🛰️🌑 Aujourd'hui c’est le 55e anniversaire de l'une des photographies spatiales les plus célèbres : le “Lever de Terre” photographié la veille de Noël 1968 par Bill Anders de la mission #Apollo 8
Are you kidding me? Either quit posting updates for it or else let the very next update be the ability to use a custom API key so it can get back to actually working again. #apollo#apolloapp