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YouTube description: 50 Years Ago Apollo 13 was preparing to launch on a mission that would become famous for the wrong reasons, 56 Hours into the mission an oxygen tank would explode, blowing the side... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 29 views • 12:18YouTube description: The story of Apollo 13 goes beyond a tale of survival. The mission also successfully completed a science investigation that is still helping to inform our understanding of the Moon... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 69 views • 2:46YouTube description: It's an often told story about Apollo 12 getting struck by lightning, crippling the command module in flight and John Aaron in mission control figuring out the exact switch to flip... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months 1 week ago • 261 views • 13:55YouTube description: After landing on the Moon, what ever happened to the Lunar Ascent Modules? Turns out they were crashed onto the moon for Science! Here are all the known crash sites of the LM... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months ago • 273 views • 12:58YouTube description: To prepare him for landing the lunar module, Neil Armstrong practiced on a training vehicle, right here on Earth. It was designed to replicate flying within a gravitational pull... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months ago • 462 views • 2:14YouTube description: Something about the Apollo missions always confused me, sure, the step off of the lunar lander’s 91 cm footpad was a small step, but the step just before that was actually enormous! ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months 1 week ago • 483 views • 14:48YouTube description: Perhaps the most dramatic moment of Apollo 11's mission to the moon was when the Eagle began its final descent to the lunar surface and the Apollo Guidance Computer became overloaded.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months 1 week ago • 766 views • 7:18Learn about directing a film in Ron Howard’s first-ever online class. The two-time Academy Award winner has directed some of the most beloved movies of all time, including Splash, Parenthood, Apollo... continue reading
posted by BSR 4 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 131 views • 1:59YouTube description: I kept getting asked about a sequence from the Apollo 11 documentary showing the ignition of a Saturn V upper Stage, known as the S-IVB, in space. After asking around I tracked... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 325 views • 11:08YouTube description: The moon is looking more full than ever. The director Todd Douglas Miller assembles beautifully restored archival footage, blends that with audio from the astronauts and a vibrant... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 311 views • 2:41YouTube description: 50 years ago, three NASA astronauts embarked on a journey that would take them “Round the moon and back”. The Apollo 8 mission proved the performance of the command and service... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months ago • 526 views • 5:47YouTube: This video is about why it's harder to successfully land spacecraft and landers and rovers on Mars than on Earth, or Venus, or the Moon, or Titan, or asteroids. It all comes down to atmospheric... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 10 months 1 week ago • 582 views • 2:02YouTube description: It’s probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century. Although the USA won... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months ago • 812 views • 14:23A less-than-exciting video explaining the details of lunar ranging experiments using "retro-reflectors" left on the moon from various moon landings. As explained in the video, retro-reflectors are not... continue reading
posted by rancor 9 years 8 months ago • 228 views • 9:59Astronaut Jerry Carr knows space. As commander of Skylab, he spent over 2000 hours ins space, orbiting the Earth over 1000 times. Recounting his life story, Carr remembers the enchanting years he spent at NASA.
posted by randeepsamra 1 decade 1 year 2 weeks ago • 49 views • 4:52A terrific video from The New Yorker in which famed pickpocket Apollo Robbins reveals some of his favorite tricks. Unlike, say, most magicians, Robbins isn’t shy about sharing his secrets:
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