All the space people cinders.
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The animation is quite accurate.
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Ye gods that was a long time ago.
Anyone notice the char mark on the command module as they’re wheeling it inside at the end? Looks like a humanoid torso with its arms outstretched 
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Space cinders it is.
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“Nightmare At 250,000 Miles.”
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When you consider that the “assembly of advanced computers” was probably less computationally capable than a Raspberry Pi 0…
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The saddest thing I’ve heard today.
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They want you to tap the one-box to open it in your instance of Instagroin, which is why it isn’t a nice thing. Instagram. And everything else about the shittification of technology that has always been the ad industry.
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NASA has a history of blowing their fancy-pants shuttles up with people inside.
Boring unsophisticated Russian rockets seem to get people back and forth to the Space Station OK with life and limb intact. Maybe this is not the best venue for bleeding-edge technical advancement.
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Weeeeelllll… The Russians have had their share of fatalities and rocket mis-launches, plus things like Mir catching fire. It ain’t all sunshine and vodka on either side.
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In proportion to the number of launches, the Shuttle has been safer the Soyuz overall but not as safe as Soyuz since the 7K-T introduced in 1973.
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In honor of Apollo 11 here’s some interesting stuff:
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21 posts were split to a new topic: Threadsplit - Space Exploration : Star Trek Solar Sails
Fascinating, and probably worthy of a new thread. Thread has been split to avoid a sub-sub-thread detour.