OT: 50 years ago today (Apollo 11)

[gregebert]

Nixie tubes were in their heyday during the Apollo lunar program. Today is the 50th anniversary of the launch of the first lunar-landing mission, and there is website with an excellent collection of audio recordings of the mission with the entire mission timeline. 

https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/

[Mac Doktor]

On Jul 16, 2019, at 3:04 PM, gregebert <greg...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Nixie tubes were in their heyday during the Apollo lunar program. Today is the 50th anniversary of the launch of the first lunar-landing mission, and there is website with an excellent collection of audio recordings of the mission with the entire mission timeline. 

https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/

And once again let's enjoy the video of Buzz punching an obnoxious moon hoaxer:

https://youtu.be/lw9azZmLxtw?t=41

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”–Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

[martin martin]

I watched the whole thing (again) . I was 10 and saw it live-  Nice Nixies in the background too!

[Terry Kennedy]

On Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 3:04:38 PM UTC-4, gregebert wrote:

Nixie tubes were in their heyday during the Apollo lunar program. Today is the 50th anniversary of the launch of the first lunar-landing mission, and there is website with an excellent collection of audio recordings of the mission with the entire mission timeline. 

Even more off-topic - I have some of the original Launch Complex 39A tower headset control boxes - if you see an image of someone with a headset up on the tower, these are the boxes they plugged the headset into to talk to Launch Control. I can take some pictures and post them if you like. 

[Ian Vine]

For a new/old slant on Apollo and Gemini and Vostok check out Public Service Broadcasting album the Race for Space.

They are playing the full version as part of the UK Proms concerts, UK BBC Radio 3 22:00 GMT 25/07/2019 and on TV UK BBC4 23:00 GMT 26/07/2019

It'll be worth it !

Ian

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[Bill Notfaded]

We've been celebrating all month due to the 50th anniversary.  We do a lot with transponders and "other space stuff."  Check out the video we made to commemorate our space history this month:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_RDAOnARDk&feature=youtu.be

It's been a party all month this month at work.

Bill

[SWISSNIXIE - Jonathan F.]

Im truly fascinated with the "space age" (and atomic age) even though it was way before my time. Its amazing how it was possible to fly to space with the technology at these days, and its very remindable that we are wasting todays technology power... we don't care about software efficiency, because new hardware is so low priced. Imagine that it only needed around 4Kb of Ram to fly to the moon, but todays phones have like 4Gb!! Very amazing. I would love to see space landing in my lifetime (either moon again or even mars )

I've bought a little memory collectible about the 50year memorial, very beautiful made! See attached image

[Mac Doktor]

> On Jul 30, 2019, at 10:28 AM, SWISSNIXIE - Jonathan F. <jfre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've bought a little memory collectible about the 50year memorial, very beautiful made! See attached image

I gave $100 to the Kickstarter for preserving and displaying Neil Armstrong's suit. It was called "Reboot the Suit".