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I can't understand all the fuss and extensive new coverage about this mission. A man was put on the moon fifty-odd years ago, then it was newsworthy. I suppose you have to be over sixty to remember it and all the current hype is to pander to anyone younger.
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The novelty is that someone (or a few) are going to look at the far side which never faces the earth. An unmanned craft has sent back pics before, but it's a first for human eyes.
What puzzles me a bit is the pic at lunchtime today showing a crescent moon? The moon is full just now (i.e. facing the sun) and will be like that for a day or two. ??
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>> The moon is full just now (i.e. facing the sun) and will be like that
>> for a day or two. ??
Only from your point of view on earth
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<< Only from your point of view on earth
No sir. The sun is 93 million miles from us, and the moon only a quarter of a million. The full moon is facing the sun just now, so the spacecraft would need to travel quite some distance to notice much difference in the moon's appearance. Once it sets off towards the moon (as I think it now has) that will start to happen.
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>> I can't understand all the fuss and extensive new coverage about this mission.
It makes the yanks feel superior, Trump will take all the credit and blame Biden and Obama if it ends in disaster.
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Apparently, the crew have stated that they would have struggled with the cramped conditions, crappy food and having to poo in a bag if they hadn't undertaken the Ryanair acclimatisation flights.
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Lets hope they have a softer landing than Ryan Air.
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Given that splashdown is (I think) scheduled for The Pacific, emulating Ryanair's advertising practice it'll probably land in The Black Sea (or if they're really lucky, The Strait of Hormuz). ;-)
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. I suppose you
>> have to be over sixty to remember it and all the current hype is to
>> pander to anyone younger.
20th July 1969....I think I remember it. Tubby. My current wife, the Ayatollah Ann, and I had been married at Manchester Cathedral the previous day. Didn't make the nat ionals, though ! I often joke that I'd wished she had been with them but she still hangs around here...bless !
Ted
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I was 9 years and seven months and in love with an eight year old blonde girl in the year below.
Dad allowed us to watch the landing but we'd no knowledge of the 'one step for man' until we heard it on the radio the following morning.
Mrs B who, for the avoidance of doubt, was not the blonde mentioned above was awoken, along with her siblings, by her Father to see Armstrong step off the LEM.
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Artemis moon mission - Andrew-T
