The Space Race - LEGO Saturn V Build - Amy Shira Teitel versus Adam Savage

If the Cold War sounds like government FUD to you then read on. I can't show you (REDACTED) father's documents since they were fetched by serious suits driving black Fords - 1974 I think. Not my problem at the time.

[ The Apollo mission was a project that happens sometimes in history -- think The Great Wall of China, a massive  project driven by the events of the time. The Cold War Soviets already set  the bar by putting a satellite in orbit. All we the USA had was one big bluff. Soviets publicly said they would be 1st, also a bluff.

The public needed an ego boost so President  Kennedy gets on TV and bluffs Soviets. (The rocket people in Army & Air Force had nothing.)

In the 1960's I lived outside Langley AFB on the Hampton side. Then I could walk across the bridge and look around and day dream (restricted areas are well marked and I knew better to test MPs. The contractors were everywhere; ID cards were available to family with limits - Adult accompanies minors.) Loved that wind tunnel.
1969 was magical.

In 1971 I was prepping for a holiday in SE Asia so the MOON was the last thing on my mind.  -Now I'm just the #InvisibleCat called dutch.  (Very Retired)
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[ The immortal words from Sugar Bates, "What are you going to do now?" #Banshee on @Cinemax.

Answer: I am posting video by people who know the Apollo mission inside and out - History lesson in crafts class.
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[ The ultimate space race of all time -- Build LEGO  Saturn V that NASA produced to put man on the moon Apollo 11.  The superpowers are Amy Shira Teitel and Adam Savage (they are on TV so they are equivalent in power.

Vintage Space - Going first with archive of live cast. Long with many bits of fact that may have never made it into NASA History Site and worth the time if you are like me and never did anything with LEGO. Mzz Amy AKA @astVintageSpace is a Space Historian and quite entertaining.
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[Adam Savage is short at 20 minutes. His video is just a build with fast forward to save time. Three guys, a pretty bench, and no cat. Kind of show & tell for  LEGO fans.

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Doug and Tracy's Music Video of Their ISS Mission

UPDATE: If you want the music video part of the briefing go to 8 minute mark.

Click on image for readable copy and it is on http://twitpic.com/4ek3q5

Yeah, you heard it right, Music Video. For starters, it is really good even if the tunes are not in your library. Secondly, this is a low res 320 x 240 upscaled to 640 x 480. If I find the HD version I will post a link to it.

NOTE: Sony claims the song in the video and you may be in a location found in the banned list. And there is an advertisement at the beginning. Newest fact of internet life.

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Men on the Moon - Apollo 12

Apollo 12 Mission Overview

Apollo 12 (CSM Yankee Clipper and LM Intrepid)
Saturn V
November 14-24, 1969
Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.
Richard F. Gordon, Jr.
Alan L. Bean

10 days, 04 hours, 36 minutes
Landing site: Ocean of Storms.
Landing Coordinates: 3.01381 degrees South, 23.41930 degrees West
(Source: National Space Science Data Center)

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Apollo 12 Lunar Surface Journal

The Apollo 12 Flight Journal

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Links and audio courtesy NASA http://www.nasa.gov

Discovery's Crew Gets A Snooze Button On last Wake Up

Discovery's crew gets to press the snooze button on their last wake up in space.

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I don't like the quality of that embed. Facebook kinda drives me crazy, try the link below and if you see a video I did something right. If no video? Cuss FB a lot, I do.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1891192681538

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Ratty comm does have its usefulness.

Soyuz TMA Spacecraft Returns Expedition 26 Crew Home November 26, 2010

[ The entire Soyuz Undocking and Landing Curtesy NASA TV and NASA.GOV ]

Undocking plus 3 hours
Landing minus 23 minutes
Soyuz reaches Entry Interface -- 400,000 feet in altitude -- 31 minutes after the deorbit burn.

Undocking plus 3 hours, 8 minutes
Landing minus 15 minutes
Parachutes are commanded to deploy. Two Pilot Parachutes are deployed, the second of which extracts the Drogue Chute. The Drogue slows the spacecraft's descent from a rate of 755 feet per second to 262 feet per second.

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More photos and articles about Soyuz TMA spacecraft are on NASA's Soyuz Pages.

Apollo 11 Week without Conspiracy Theory? NoWay!

I think starting a commentary with the facts would be proper. No! Start with the other stuff. The UFO gang, Faked Mission groups, Hide the film because money in 2009 will be a retirement boost essay kind of talk is a better starting point. So without fan fair Coast2CoastAM vs NASA. George Noory gets 1st move.

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Cat stop! Sit! People need to know something! Most of the popular fake photos talk and a movie set is where LEM really landed "proof'' is a variant of Nash Entertainment's sketchy show "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon". [1] Reader, you may skip this part and visit it after the 2009 video. History lesson first or jump in the water now?

[1.1] NASA gets news that they faked the moon landing. (has audio version read by author)

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast23Feb_2.htm

[1.2] A well researched and thoughtfully written analysis of the show. http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

[1.3] FOX gets heat for Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon. Producer of show calls it a Reality Special. We all know what that means. http://www.nashentertainment.com/television/

[1.4] Since 2001 lunar orbit cameras have taken pictures proving we are moon litterbugs. That will not stop the folks who must get public exposure for their theories. They will just change the story as if the "never landed" never happened. This is the where the tapes of the mission are lost because there is something we should not see story begins. We now join the program already in progress ...

Thank You http://www.youtube.com/user/BannedUfos
The entire 10 segment video is there for your viewing.

NASA gets 2nd move and a bonus move. These are from NASA's http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision

The play is stalled by an amazing death. Walter Cronkite I hope you saw the new slow scan restore work. Good night sir. The official NASA statement.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jul/HQ_09-169_Cronkite_Death_Bolden.txt

July 17, 2009

Bob Jacobs  Headquarters, Washington  202-358-1600  bob.jacobs@nasa.gov

RELEASE: 09-169  NASA MOURNS THE DEATH OF WALTER CRONKITE  

WASHINGTON --The following is a statement from NASA Administrator  Charles Bolden on the death of veteran journalist Walter Cronkite.   "It is with great sadness that the NASA family learned of Walter  Cronkite's passing. He led the transition from print and radio  reporting to the juggernaut that became television journalism. His  insight and integrity were unparalleled, and his compassion helped  America make it through some of the most tragic and trying times of  the 20th century.   "From the earliest days of the space program, Walter brought the  excitement, the drama and the achievements of space flight directly  into our homes. But it was the conquest of the moon in the late 1960s  that energized Walter most about exploration. He called it the most  important feat of all time and said that the success of Apollo 11  would be remembered 500 years from now as humanity's greatest  achievement.   "It was Walter Cronkite's impassioned reporting on America's inaugural  moon landing that inspired me to join in the dreams of many to travel  to space and accept the risks that this exploration brings while I  was a student in naval flight training.   "In honor of his ethical and enthusiastic coverage of our nations'  space program, NASA was proud to honor Walter in 2006 with an  Ambassador of Exploration Award and presented him with an Apollo  lunar sample.   "For decades, we had the privilege of learning about our world from  the original 'anchorman.' He was a true gentleman. Our thoughts and  prayers are with Walter's family and his millions of friends and  supporters."     -end-

STS-119 Post Launch Reporter's Questions - Obama Bats

Reporter's questions about a hitchhiking bat (external tank) and President Obama's statement about NASA.

Video Courtesy NASA / NASA-TV

UPDATE Mar 18,2009 [07:41 Z]:

Bat Hung onto Shuttle During Liftoff
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts119/launchbat.html


A bat that was clinging to space shuttle Discovery’s external fuel tank during the countdown to launch the STS-119 mission remained with the spacecraft as it cleared the tower, analysts at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center concluded. Photo Credit: NASA

Friday Fights! DRM vs History! And the winner is? None.

This is not a rant on the chilling effect of DRM & its muscle boy DMCA. I am just too tired to shout at a rock I did not see as I walked through the forest of video upload limitations. So there it is, 1 long day of slow H.264 compressing, recompenses, upload click-thru legal stiff and wait for the gate to open on the video site. RIGHT!

Finally here is the Test Video that is far from good. Hay, got too find the rocks before cracking a toe on one.

STS-119 JAXA News Conf with Mission Specialist Koichi Wakata (will be in native language) - JSC (Public and Media Channels) video courtesy: NASA-TV (www.NASA.gov)

More later after the R&R plus ball game. Yes, cable --- maybe I should record it and sleep. Nope, no digital recording allowed, and very little analog signal-out is on new equipment (analog hole closed says MPA/RIAA). But that is another fight.

-dutch AKA fairuse

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Welcome Home Endeavour

Hi, landing replay joined in progress. TV-2 is cool. So, bad weather at FL equals good landing at Edwards AB in CA.
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(Thank You NASA-TV for video )