To the Moon!

MikeD said:
Back during Apollo, you had Walter Cronkite narrating and science correspondent Jules Bergman covering the launches and describing technical aspects and putting them in layman’s terms. Now, you have some internet “reporter” remarking how the ground is shaking and other nitwit observations.
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News channel that I was watching used the words “perigee” and “apogee” but didn’t bother to explain the terms, nor why the orbit was purposefully set up with that eccentricity.

*shrug*
 
MikeD said:
Back during Apollo, you had Walter Cronkite narrating and science correspondent Jules Bergman covering the launches and describing technical aspects and putting them in layman’s terms. Now, you have some internet “reporter” remarking how the ground is shaking and other nitwit observations.
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If you want good space stuff, go watch Scott Manley. Nearly everyone else sucks.
 
knot4u said:
I'm sure public school kids already know the difference right? I'm sure kids are captivated by Artemis II right? It's just like 1969 again right?


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqqkGxZ1_8I
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Kids today are weird. My daughter got a fantastic math and science education in High School - graduated with 6 math credits up to where her Freshman year of college she was taking 300-level Calculus and had a year of statistics done. But her history education? Just crap. English/literature was stuff she'd read on her own by 8th grade. Some of the education today is surprisingly good. The rest seems to suck - private and public. It's a crapshoot.

As for kids being mesmerized - my 7 year old nephew watched obsessively and screamed "WOW" when it lit off. Said it was " the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen".
 
Wardogg said:
NINE!!!
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(puts on corspiracy hat)

I'm guessing that the term "Dwarf Planet" was coined to allow future unlimited mining operations without having to fight the "untouched environment" thought process.

Hippies: "Noooo! Don't mine the untouched pure planet!
Corpies: "Relax! it's only a (dwarf/proto/etc) planet!"
Actual Dwarves (Kin): "ROCK AND STONE"

(((Hail Votani)))
 
ppragman said:
If you want good space stuff, go watch Scott Manley. Nearly everyone else sucks.
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Similarly, if you ever happen to be in Oklahoma and want to see the best collection of space program memorabilia, including items, a Gemini capsule, tons of mission patches and descriptions of every mission from Mercury 1 to Apollo-Soyuz and early Shuttle launches. As well as some static display aircraft and portions of rockets, the Gen Thomas Stafford air museum in Weatherford, Ok, right along I-40 and about 40 mins west of OKC, is top notch and a must see.
 
MikeD said:
Similarly, if you ever happen to be in Oklahoma and want to see the best collection of space program memorabilia, including items, a Gemini capsule, tons of mission patches and descriptions of every mission from Mercury 1 to Apollo-Soyuz and early Shuttle launches. As well as some static display aircraft and portions of rockets, the Gen Thomas Stafford air museum in Weatherford, Ok, right along I-40 and about 40 mins west of OKC, is top notch and a must see.
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They just got F-117A Nighthawk 85-0819 “Raven Beauty”, a Lot 7 jet, and the 35th F-117 built, assembled from manufactured parts that were missing, and on display there. I have a few hours of flight time in this exact jet. It was assigned to our sister squadron, so I didn’t fly it much.

Some cool items from the Stafford museum collection I was able to catch. Spent 2 days there helping with the 117 technical advice and checking the whole museum out. There is SO much there in that collection, that you’ll be there nearly all of their operating hours taking it all in

The museum is there at Weatherford-Stafford Airport (KOJA), General Tom Stafford’s home town.

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Apollo/Soyuz space mission 1975, which General Stafford was a crewmember of. The US and USSR space patches that were flown in space on that mission.

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Space shuttle tires on display, and description of:

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Description and facts of the Saturn V booster rocket, with a Saturn V propulsion section on display:

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Gemini space capsule, the 2-man capsule. Reminds me of an F-111 cockpit. Not sure on the instrument panel why there is an artificial horizon / ADI instrument. What is “level flight” in space?

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