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10/10/2015 10:12:35 AM · #1 |
NASA Releases Trove of Over 8,000 HD Photos from the Apollo Moon Missions
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10/10/2015 11:38:04 AM · #2 |
I read about, they rescanned all those Hasselblad shots and classified them from the early beginnings to the last missions.
Wonderful to look at.
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10/10/2015 12:15:51 PM · #3 |
| I am geeking out in spectacular fashion. This is awesome - thanks for the link!! |
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10/10/2015 03:11:21 PM · #4 |
A good portion of their payload must have been taken up by film. :D These remind me of the thousands of slides my dad use to drag out to show visitors and family when they visited from our trips when I was a kid... dozens and dozens of the exact same thing. :D I can see why they left them in storage for so long although it's good they brought them out. I wonder how many on here were even born before these were taken? I remember being glued to the TV for all of the space missions... but then I also remember my dad pointing out Sputnik when it went over our house after the Russians put it up and listening to them on his shortwave radio. Those were exciting years.
Mike
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10/10/2015 04:52:48 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by MikeJ:
I remember being glued to the TV for all of the space missions... but then I also remember my dad pointing out Sputnik when it went over our house after the Russians put it up and listening to them on his shortwave radio. Those were exciting years. |
Memories we share. And yes, they were. My uncle was in charge of the Mariner program at Martin Marietta, so we got a lot of boost from him as well. My dad was an aeronautical engineer. We were a space-happy family. |
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10/10/2015 11:27:17 PM · #6 |
My dad was Air Force (as was I and one uncle) and his love for electronics and communications rubbed off on me. One of several of my highlights of being in the Air Force was being stationed at Vandenberg AFB in the mid to late 70's and actually getting to participate (I even had a speaking part during the count downs :D) in a number of the rocket launches and being very close to the big Titan 3C's with the two extra rocket boosters they launched from there at the time. I was involved with mostly military spy and communications satellites but also weather and some test (AKA highly classified, you don't have a need to know, don't ask) payloads. Our group supported but didn't participate in the Minute Man missile launches from there out into the Pacific.
Very exciting for someone that grew up during the space race. I like to say "I'm no rocket scientist, but I helped launch them." :D I just wish they had launched just one space shuttle mission from the big gantry they had built on South V in case they couldn't launch from Cape Kennedy. That thing was just huge.
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10/10/2015 11:36:10 PM · #7 |
I remember Sputnik, and all the other space shots. Those were such fascinating times. Adults would hang on every word of the reports.
I was 8 years old when Sputnik I roared into space.
I remember the heartbreak of the Vanguard missions, that failed at launch until one finally made orbit much higher than all the others of and is still out there for up to another 250 years.
I was 11 years old and in the 6th grade when Alan Shepherd was the first Astronaut from the US into space.
I was 12 and at the California State Fair, where they had a recently returned Mercury capsule on display. I remember the Air Force officer manning the exhibit telling me that when i was his age, that capsule would look like a model T. I remember saying, "Oh no sir! This is a real spaceship, it will always look modern. In 1991, I took my kids to the Houston Space Center, they were stunned at how primitive the early capsules were compared to the shuttle. I remembered rehearing those word said some30 years earlier, and had to admit that man was right.
I was 15 years old and Sophomore in High School when the Gemini missions roared into space.
I was 19 years old and in Training for the US Army Helicopter program when Apollo 11 Roared off towards the moon.
I was 37 years old when Space Shuttle Challenger failed to return.
I was 53 years old when Space Shuttle Columbia failed to return.
I'm thankful the the moon missions carried film cameras. The video recordings of the original missions are already unreadable, as the technology is unavailable,and the tapes were by and large recycled to other projects.
Now, if I could only remember where I left my car keys, I'd be set. |
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10/11/2015 08:58:43 AM · #8 |
Nothing captured me like the space program when I was a kid. From my GIJoe Mercury Capsule (which I still have) to the Apollo launches and moon landings to the rendezvous with the Soviet Soyuz capsule, I was glued to the TV.
In college I had to do three 6 month co-op periods in industry. I was a computer science major and landed a gig near my home at RCA's Astro Electronics division. For 18 months in the 80's I got to work on telecommunications satellites (my boss was an alternate mission specialist on a Shuttle mission) and the first ever Direct Broadcast Satellites (I sat in a conference room in 1985 holding a satellite dish that looked exactly like the one I stuck on the side of my house in the late 90's to get DirecTV). To know that something I worked on is out there in space with my initials on the frame is still pretty cool as I sit here in my 50's.
Looking through these photos is like looking through old photo albums at Mom's place. You've seen so many of them before, but even the old ones become new again. |
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