To the Moon!

pwttogfk said:
Things that have depressed me thus far:
  • Watched TLI at hotel restaurant. Waitress had no idea there was a moon mission going and proceeded to ask me if I really thought we’d landed there before.
  • Watched post-TLI press conference in my hotel room. The quantity and quality of reporters was…not great.
  • (By far the worst) My 6-year-old reported no discussion of the mission at all in her kindergarten class.
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Reminds me of this scene in the 1978 movie Capricorn One, where Hal Holbrook explains the public sentiment during Mercury space program compared to the late Apollo space program


View: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YqMYm2MKivE&pp=ygUUQ2Fwcmljb3JuIG9uZSBhb2VlY2g%3D
 
Richman said:
There was time for reflection, wordsmithing, collaboration, and helpful input from the editor. Besides, regular people had jobs that held their attention longer than 15 seconds.

Fast, good or cheap. Modern journalism is fast and cheap, so do the math.
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Very broad brush there.
 
killbilly said:
Very broad brush there.
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How so? Journalism currently ranks somewhere between Congress and the local taxing authority, so…I’m not sure of your point.

If you want to claim the investigative reporting of the East Woeville Examiner-Inquirer is top shelf, that may indeed be true… to their circulation of 125 in the Greater Woeville Statistical Micropolitan Census Area.
 
MikeD said:
The museum is there at Weatherford-Stafford Airport (KOJA), General Tom Stafford’s home town.
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I need to make a $300 hamburger trip up there and have a look around. Through an embarrassment of good fortune and the general's kindness I got to have lunch with Gen. Stafford about 10 years ago. If you asked to hear about things that happened on his space missions, he'd tell you, but he was the absolute opposite of a braggart. They had their mission and just did their best to accomplish it. He was in his 80s at this point and still sharp as a tack. After the bill came we were discussing the prospect of manned missions to Mars. He grabbed the pen and receipt and sketched out the synodic period of Earth and Mars, how the distance between the two planets varies every two years but gets particularly close every 15-16 years. Those close oppositions are important for a manned mission, where a fast transfer (86 days as he quickly jotted down) is important for minimizing radiation exposure. I kept and framed that sucker along with a picture he took of the Earth on Apollo X that he was kind enough to give me. As with other times that I have gotten to spend time with people from that generation, I can't help but feel that we don't make them like we used to.
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Beaker said:
I need to make a $300 hamburger trip up there and have a look around. Through an embarrassment of good fortune and the general's kindness I got to have lunch with Gen. Stafford about 10 years ago. If you asked to hear about things that happened on his space missions, he'd tell you, but he was the absolute opposite of a braggart. They had their mission and just did their best to accomplish it. He was in his 80s at this point and still sharp as a tack. After the bill came we were discussing the prospect of manned missions to Mars. He grabbed the pen and receipt and sketched out the synodic period of Earth and Mars, how the distance between the two planets varies every two years but gets particularly close every 15-16 years. Those close oppositions are important for a manned mission, where a fast transfer (86 days as he quickly jotted down) is important for minimizing radiation exposure. I kept and framed that sucker along with a picture he took of the Earth on Apollo X that he was kind enough to give me. As with other times that I have gotten to spend time with people from that generation, I can't help but feel that we don't make them like we used to.View attachment 89150
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I was one of three people invited by Gen. Stafford to a tour of the Stafford Air & Space Museum, about five years ago. Still tack sharp but walking a bit slower, he showed us various aircraft, spacecraft, simulators and objects, including a bottle of vodka to be consumed by the last living crewmember of Apollo-Soyuz, and the docking mechanism for that era. Incredible stories, some riveting, some poignant and others hilarious.
 
tomokc said:
I was one of three people invited by Gen. Stafford to a tour of the Stafford Air & Space Museum, about five years ago. Still tack sharp but walking a bit slower, he showed us various aircraft, spacecraft, simulators and objects, including a bottle of vodka to be consumed by the last living crewmember of Apollo-Soyuz, and the docking mechanism for that era. Incredible stories, some riveting, some poignant and others hilarious.
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For a fairly small-ish museum located somewhat in the middle of nowhere, Stafford is an absolute gem and a must-see, that has to be experienced by anyone with an aviation and space flight interest. Definitely missing out if you don’t.
 
MikeD said:
For a fairly small-ish museum located somewhat in the middle of nowhere, Stafford is an absolute gem and a must-see, that has to be experienced by anyone with an aviation and space flight interest. Definitely missing out if you don’t.
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It’s adjacent to I-40 in western Oklahoma, next to the Thomas P. Stafford Airport (KOJA), so it’s a logical place to stop if you’re driving through. They had an A-10 next to the entrance when I was there, but it may have been relocated.
 
tomokc said:
It’s adjacent to I-40 in western Oklahoma, next to the Thomas P. Stafford Airport (KOJA), so it’s a logical place to stop if you’re driving through. They had an A-10 next to the entrance when I was there, but it may have been relocated.
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It’s still there. An old Sheppard maintenance training bird. The F-117 is on display now, 85-0819 “Raven Beauty”.
 
tomokc said:
It’s adjacent to I-40 in western Oklahoma, next to the Thomas P. Stafford Airport (KOJA), so it’s a logical place to stop if you’re driving through. They had an A-10 next to the entrance when I was there, but it may have been relocated.
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If you fly in the museum is free. At least it was the last time I stopped by. Bought a truck in the parking lot there as well.
 
TIL only four of the men that stepped foot on the moon are still alive. I guess that's fairly impressive considering they're all 90+ years old.
 
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