[PIC GALLERY] Space

[Gunner]

Very cool Luis. Nice post.

Out of curiosity I looked up

2500ly= 14,696,563,853,121,026mi or about 15 quadrillion miles

Sometimes driving during rush hour my home feels that far away.

 

[Louis]

The Mount Vesuvius, in Italy, photographed from the International Space Station.

 

[Louis]

Milton from space. That looks ugly

 

[mTk]

 

[Nort]

Milton from space. That looks ugly

Reminds me of a cartoon I watched as a kid.

 

[Louis]

We are really nothing.

 

[mTk]

I'm feeling a little small atm.

 

[Louis]

Neil Armstrong (1930/2012) and David Scott (1932/ -) after splashdown of the Gemini VIII mission (1966).

 

[Gunner]

Just a perspective between Mercury, Gemini and Apollo

 

[Louis]

Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong with their families, four months before Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy, 1969.

 

[Nort]

Which one hit the Wilson Staff 6 iron?

Sorry. That was Alan Shepard and Apollo 14.

 

[Louis]

17 Mar. 1966. Neil Armstrong (left), command pilot of Gemini 8, and David Scott, pilot, stand on the deck of the destroyer USS Leonard F. Mason upon its arrival at Naha, Okinawa. Armstrong, Scott, and their capsule had earlier been recovered after splashdown in the North Pacific 500 miles (800 km) east of Okinawa.
During the 6-orbit, 10-hour 41-minute flight, an emergency had arisen which almost ended in catastrophe. While Gemini 8 was docked with the Agena target vehicle in orbit, the craft went into a wild spin, reaching almost one revolution per second. Only Armstrong’s presence of mind to shut down Gemini’s Orbit Attitude and Maneuvering System and use the Reentry Control System thrusters, located on the vehicle's nose, stopped the tumble. From start to finish the incident lasted nearly half an hour.
Scott said of Armstrong: "The guy was brilliant. He knew the system so well. He found the solution, he activated the solution, under extreme circumstances ... it was my lucky day to be flying with him.”

 

[Gunner]

Jim Lovell just passed away on Aug. 7, in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was 97 years old.

He was the commander of Apollo 13

“As commander of the Apollo 13 mission, his calm strength under pressure helped return the crew safely to Earth and demonstrated the quick thinking and innovation that informed future NASA missions.”

“….But during the ill-fated mission — which carried Lovell as well as astronauts John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. on board — an oxygen tank located on the crew’s service module exploded when they were about 200,000 miles (322,000 kilometers) away from Earth.

Lovell delivered the news to mission control, saying “Houston, we’ve had a problem.”

With the damage effectively taking out their power source and other life support supplies, the Apollo 13 crew had to abruptly abandon their trek to the lunar surface and use several engine burns to swing around the far side of the moon and put themselves on a course back toward Earth.

The three-person crew made a high-stakes splashdown return in the South Pacific Ocean about three days after the tank explosion, marking the conclusion of what has come to be known as the “successful failure” of the Apollo missions.”


LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 27: Astronaut Jim Lovell speaks before the screening of 'Apollo 13' during day two of the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival on March 27, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.