Cool science stuff

That synchronized landing is quite a sight.

 

Sorry I missed posting this earlier ...

1. Buzz Aldrin is ... unusual.
2. Don't know if we'll get back to the Moon before all of these men are dead.
3. Amazing to see a "reunion" pic like this and wish I was there to hear the stories they could tell.

Buzz Aldrin dazzles in eccentric outfit in Apollo astronauts' 50th anniversary photo | Daily Mail Online

 

This looks really good. Obviously, it's been 50 years -- but the story behind Apollo 11 never gets old to me.

Steve Bates is a steely-eyed missileman. TWENTY SIX! I can't even fathom having the cojones to give "go/no go" with that kind of pressure. I was doing radio news at 26.

My dad would have been one of older guys in Mission Control at 29 in 1964 when he was transferred to Houston to manage a team of 150 for post-flight data reduction on Gemini. A far cry from designing suspensions for Pontiac Motor just six years before.

One minor quibble about the article, and others that misname the Manned Spacecraft Center during Apollo: It wasn't named after Lyndon B. Johnson until 1973. LBJ was still President during Apollo 8. Nixon didn't take office until January of 1969.

 

Only 24 human beings have seen the full circle of our Earth from space.

We have not added to that list in a long time. It’s also a list of white men.

 

I have never seen equity presented as a reason to increase space program funding.
I'm all for it.

 

This is, or could have been, amazing, and wonderful.

But, apparently, only money matters, and certainly, it's what matters the most.

Sadly. Sickeningly.

Pfizer had clues its blockbuster drug could prevent Alzheimer’s. Why didn’t it tell the world?

I found this story to be a potential blockbuster, and a deep dive into the forces at work in the health-care industry and their impact on people's health.

 

Reviving this thread ...

Dream Chaser! Vulcan Centaur! Love that private companies are pushing the boundaries of exploration.

SNC Selects ULA for Dream Chaser® Spacecraft Launches

 

Interesting article here on volcanic tides on one of Jupiter's moons.

New study traces Io’s volcanic tides - GeoSpace

 

Turns out that Einstein guy was pretty sharp.

Proven right again!

Astronomers witness the dragging of space-time in stellar cosmic dance

 

A British Airways 747 rode a supercharged jet stream across the Atlantic to set the record for fastest subsonic Trans-Atlantic crossing.
The plane was traveling 801 mph and got from New York to London in 4 hours, 56 minutes.

Storm helps plane beat transatlantic flight record

 

Subsonic? Isn't 801mph supersonic?

Edit: it's addressed in the article.