The Space Enthusiasts' Thread

[Mad Doug Biker]

In honour of John Glenn who died yesterday at the age of 95, I give you this:

'Godspeed John Glenn':


View: https://youtu.be/dWchov8hznw

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

But before John Glenn, you had.... Alan Shepard (and also later Guss Grissom)....

Alan Shepard was the first American Astronaut, but John Glen was the first to make an orbital flight as the third American in space:


View: https://youtu.be/fP5HA8Vs2Vk

 

[slowmotion]

There was an optimism about technology in the 60s.

{Useless fact alert}

Yuri Gagarin, the Soviet cosmonaut who made an orbit a few months previously , was selected for the task partly because he was 5ft 2inches tall. The Vostok 1 module was pretty small.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

And, after being grounded for 10 years with Meniere's disease, Alan Shepard had a (then pioneering) operation, came back to the Astronaht corp and became not only the commander of Apollo 14, but, also, at the time, the oldest man in space at the age of 47! What a man!

He famously played golf on the moon

'For miles and miles and miles!':


View: https://youtu.be/HmC1Xgd3eng

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

From one of my favourite episodes of that series, the design of the LEM or, the 'Spider':


View: https://youtu.be/Hdk6VMf0UJM

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Sounds like a good time to revive this thread also: https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/live-rocket-launch-cargo-ship-to-iss.172007/post-4446462

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

OOFFTT!!


View: https://youtu.be/xAkZvpq1IZ0

 

[Oxo]

He famously played golf on the moon

'For miles and miles and miles!':

He was renowned for his putting. It was out of this world.

 

[Drago]

Ah, a thread right up my street. All those years of study and finally my education pays off!

Grissom is one of my heroes. On the verge of redeeming himself, only to die horribly, and it seems he probably knew he was going to die at the hands of the programme. Deke Slayton wrote in his biography that had he lived Grissom would have been the man he was intending to choose to command the first moon landing attempt.

 

[Cycleops]

Does this count?


View: https://youtu.be/iYYRH4apXDo

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

The Astronauts on the Mercury missions regarded the Apollo guys as wimps. Apollo hit 4G maximum whilst the Mercury guys, sitting on top of ICBMs were hitting 8G

 

[Drago]

But then then Apollo guys faced pogo that made the Mercury and Gemini flights seem like a silken glide in a Rolls Royce by comparison.

 

[SteveF]

Public Service Broadcasting, Race for Space... great album (may not be everyone's cup of tea)

 

[uphillstruggler]

Public Service Broadcasting, Race for Space... great album (may not be everyone's cup of tea)

An absolutely fantastic piece of work

 

[TVC]

If we're going musical, how about Lemon Jelly featuring John Glenn.