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    William Anders dead; killed in plane crash; was 90

    News just came over the transom to me. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/bill-anders-apollo-8-astronaut-took-earthrise-photo-dies-plane-crash-w-rcna156149
  2. Graham1973

    Lost Apollo - The LEM Optical Rendezvous System

    During the development of the Apollo Spacecraft, one key aspect of the mission was how to ensure the LEM and CSM met up at the end of the period of lunar exploration. Two systems started developing, Radar Rendezvous, which was the system picked. The other system was known as the Optical...
  3. Graham1973

    The Apollo Guidance Computer's last stand, NASA's 1970s Fly By Wire Program

    I stumbled across a video covering the final use of the Apollo Guidance Computer by NASA, the 'proof of concept' program that led to the successful development of fly-by-wire control systems for aircraft. Definitely worth watching as this was one of the unsung parts of NASA history. View...
  4. Graham1973

    Virtual AGC Project

    The home page of a project that has done great work in gathering together surviving documentation around the Apollo Guidance Computer in a (Successful) attempt to create virtual machine versions of the computers. Some of the people involved in this project were also involved with the Apollo AGC...
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    Moon 1970s

    As the US looks to go back to the Moon with Artemis my question here is, what might have been feasible in the 1970s to keep the US sending manned expeditions to the Moon? Clearly, the main obstacle was a political one. With no Soviet manned lunar programme once the US had got to the Moon first...
  6. Flyaway

    Apollo 17 50th Anniversary

    New video from NASA to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the mission. View: https://youtu.be/XhvliTtzQXY
  7. Graham1973

    Recreating Apollo Communications in the Lab

    The team that revived an Apollo AGC is now attempting the same feat with Apollo communications equipment... Parts 1 - 5 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v49ucdZcx9s View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laYpGB1pWAc View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8gND82t6G4 View...
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    1963 Apollo

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    1962 lunar lander

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    NASA and Apollo items coming to auction

    https://www.invaluable.com/catalog/pe4kdrb9ct?size=50&page=1&categories=&searchWithAll=nasa&utm_source=housecampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=targetedexclusive&utm_content=li1c6qbcao~071621~puckett&inv_houseref=li1c6qbcao&inv_senddate=071621
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    Mike Collins has passed away... :(

    As said in the tin. Now Buzz Aldrin is all alone as the last Apollo 11 crew still standing. The way things go, no Apollo crew veteran will be left by 2024 to see a tentative return to the Moon...
  12. uk 75

    Apollo Lunar Programme continued

    In an alternate world where the USA avoided the trauma of Vietnam and LBJ won a second term the Apollo moon and earth orbit programmes continued into the 70s as originally planned. Assuming that a similarly pro Apollo President had succeeded Johnson in 1973 and the US economy continued to...
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    1963 Grumman LEM

  14. Grey Havoc

    Non-carrier uses of Essex class carriers in their later years

  15. Graham1973

    The forgotten Apollo related film

    With 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing fast approaching, I thought it only appropriate to link to the trailer of the film that covered just who it was that ensured that the pictures got to Earth... It's a wonderful, gentle Australian film, that has a wonderful sense of humor... ;)
  16. Grey Havoc

    Apollo 11 - 50th Anniversary thread

    To start off with: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-363-foot-projection-of-a-rocket-will-be-flashed-14088032.php Here's a few threads, old and otherwise, on subjects related to Apollo 11: https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/astrorocket-saturn-derived-apollo-documents-sale.2991/...
  17. Graham1973

    The Apollo AGC Restoration Project

    A video series covering the effort to restore a surviving Apollo LEM AGC (Believed to be the one used in the LTA-8 prototype LEM) in time for it to be used to simulate the Apollo 11 landing on the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing. Episode 15 is of especial note as it features a piece...
  18. Flyaway

    Snoopy lunar module from 1969 Apollo 10 mission may have been found

    https://news.sky.com/story/snoopy-lunar-module-from-1969-apollo-10-mission-may-have-been-found-11738299
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    New information Vought's project MALLAR and Apollo missions

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    Grumman Horizontal Landing Logistics Spacecraft proposals

    Grumman Horizontal Landing Logistics Spacecraft proposals found on eBay. Source: http://www.ebay.com/itm/GRUMMAN-PROPOSALS-HORIZONTAL-LANDING-LOGISTICS-SPACECRAFT-REENTRY-VEHICLE-DESIGN-/132212492362?hash=item1ec87a884a:g:FUUAAOSwcB5ZMDzz
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