OT: Relive Apollo 13
Ben Feist, a contractor at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, has recreated the Apollo 13 mission in real time. Using historical transcripts, footage, and audio you can see the mission as if it were taking place today.
Here is the story that give the details:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/13/21178364/apollo-13-in-real-time-website-50th-anniversary-history
Here is the link to Apollo 13 in Real Time
https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/
March 16th, 2020 at 10:54 PM ^
Sounds like a good choice for when I want to escape the humdrum, totally ordinary events of daily life.
I kid. It does sound cool.
March 16th, 2020 at 11:02 PM ^
Tangentially related - Tom Hanks and his wife are out of the hospital.
He's no more important than any other COVID-19 patient, of course, but that is encouraging.
March 16th, 2020 at 11:53 PM ^
Awesome... thanks for posting!
Related topic: I got to meet Jim Lovell once several years ago, when he was on a publicity tour for his book, upon which the "Apolllo 13" movie was made. I was a huge Apollo fan as a kid, so meeting him was a huge thrill. He was very nice, kinda quiet, and bigger than I thought (I always had the impression that astronauts were little guys.) All in all, he looked like your kindly grandfather - except in the eyes. They still had that hard look of a man who'd faced Death and said, "Nope, not today."
March 17th, 2020 at 10:44 AM ^
except in the eyes. They still had that hard look of a man who'd faced Death and said, "Nope, not today."
I suspect all astronauts have that quality. It takes a special kind of person to sign up to live in a metal box for going on 10 days, with the only respite from that box being a even more confining body suit where the slightest leak means you die. The thought of being cooped up in an airplane for any length of time gives me the heebies jeebies, I can't imagine living in an Apollo Command Module with two other people for days on end. Hard men, indeed.