The latest TMRO/Spacevidcast show is now available on line: #Apollo45 -TMRO
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TRMO is a crown funded show. Get you get value from this episode? Consider giving value back! http://www.patreon.com/tmro — Even as little as $1.00/ep can go a long way! Our main topic today is Apollo 45 years later and why we don’t want a repeat of the past. Our next humans on the Moon or Mars should be there to stay, not just flags and footprints!
It was 45 years ago today that humans first walked on the Moon. I hope, and expect, it will be a lot less time than that before humans are on the Moon again.
Some resource sites
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On The Space Show today at 12 PM PDT, (3 PM EDT, 2 PM CDT), Rand Simberg and Bill Simon will return to “celebrate this special day with us and the Evoloterra ceremony. You can download Evoloterra [pdf] at www.evoloterra.com.”
Last year my wife and I and some friends celebrated July 20th with the Evoloterra ceremony and really enjoyed it: Our Evoloterra evening. Recommend you give it a try.
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Check out Buzz Aldrin‘s #Apollo45 social media project in which people post a message or a video about where they were on July 20, 1969. Contributed videos can be found at Apollo45 – YouTube
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There are lots of Apollo 11 documentaries available at Youtube. Here is one from NASA:
Alvin Remmers has led the Moonandback Media effort to document this period of burgeoning private space development with video interviews of many of the leaders and participants in these endeavors. The project has built up a large collection of such interviews and now Alvin is
seeking funds to transcribe 102 hours of video content for donation to the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum. Our target funding will enable us to pay for the transcription and donation of the archive to the NASM and to continue our documentary project. The transcription is necessary to make the content useful for historians, journalists, academicians and researchers.
You can contribute to their crowd-funded campaign at The People of NewSpace (2010-2013) — a Moonandback documentary project | RocketHub.
Their collection of videos can be seen at Moonandback Media on Vimeo.
Alvin describes the Moonandback collection and the plan to create transcripts for them in this video:
More about the campaign on the RocketHub page.
There’s an account of the ISEE-3 Reboot Project in the NY Times: Rebooting ISEE-3: Space for All – NYTimes.com
Government space missions are expensive. New private-sector space ventures always seem to involve billionaires. Yet we achieved results by raising funds a few dollars at a time — and by involving our donors directly in our work.
NASA likes to say that “space is hard,” but to make itself relevant to the people whose taxes fund it, it must get outside its comfort zone. To its credit, NASA saw the potential of our project to reach beyond the traditional audience. The interactions via social media with our supporters have borne this out. Imagine what feats of exploration might be possible if an empowered and engaged citizenry realized that exploring space is really something anyone can do.
And here’s an update on the project: ISEE-3 Status Report 18 July 2014 – Space College
During our pass at Arecibo today we managed to get some propulsion out of thruster K. We’re looking at how this was accomplished with an eye toward repeating it.
JP Aerospace has taken many interesting items to high altitudes with their balloon systems but a small pine tree and a floral arrangement must be among the most unusual.
A bonzai tree from Japanese artist Azuma Makoto
reaches high in the sky.
And a flower arrangement as well.