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Do yourself a favor and look up moon landing 4k on youtube. There’s some amazing immersive stuff now: https://youtu.be/boFZ3cAws20

There’s also a few amazing first person videos from space walks on the ISS: https://youtu.be/AmrrSfiMxGA

The footage from Artemis is gonna be incredible.

Also highly recommend this “are we going?” Talk on engineering issues in Artemis: https://youtu.be/OoJsPvmFixU Which is where I learned about this report from NASA called “What Made Apollo a Success”: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19720005243/downloads/19...

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http://apolloinrealtime.org also quite good.

"Failure is not an Option" is a fascinating read to get a lot of background from a first hand perspective. E.g. Go/No-Go became Stay/No-Stay after the landing to avoid confusion (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/141499.Failure_is_Not_an...)

Thanks!

I liked reading this extensive accunt of all apollo missions and what each accomplished --

A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts Andrew Chaikin https://www.amazon.in/Man-Moon-Voyages-Apollo-Astronauts/dp/...

I wish there was an "annotated verison" or enthusiast discussion forum that corss-linked footage like this to the corresponding passages in the book so we can live it more fully

The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, and the accompanying Apollo Flight Journal, are transcripts of the audio recordings, with accompanying audio/video, and annotations from post mission briefings, and interviews with the astronauts in the 1990s. There is an overwhelming amount of detail. Dave Scott of Apollo 15 was a particularly enthusiastic participant in this, but not the only one. It really is a tremendous resource for Apollo. https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/ https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/

The first video with the Apollo 16 rover traverse got me curious about how far they went.

I found this web page which has a great way to visualise it, with their tracks overlaid on famous places on Earth: https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/TraverseMapsEarth.html

The one in the video is the orange line crossing Sydney Harbour Bridge with Smoky mountain ahead of them and to their right.

> amazing [...] space walks

The upcoming Polaris Dawn spacewalk will be live streamed. Its cameras were said to be a priority. It's on day 3. Launch is currently waiting on reentry weather.

Huh, Falcon 9 was ungrounded earlier today... so they might actually be waiting on weather again though they haven't said that since last night while they were still grounded by the FAA due to the loss of a first stage during landing.

Meanwhile SpaceX just tweeted "Targeting back-to-back Falcon 9 launches tonight from California and Florida → http://spacex.com/launches/" while that URL says "Upcoming: August 28, 2024 Polaris Dawn, August 31, 2024 Starlink" and following links shows that both of those missions are supposed to launch from Florida. So I'm incredibly unclear on what (if anything) they are launching tonight.

All together, F- communication from SpaceX right now.

[1] https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1829694994703331393

I would like to add that everyone should check the incredible documentary "For All Mankind" scored by Brian Eno.

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