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Suitably postmodern, from an email from Nature:
Nature News Twitters the Apollo 11 moon mission as it happened — 40 years on. The Tweets, located at
http://twitter.com/ApolloPlus40
follow Apollo 11’s crew to the moon and back. On this day 40 years ago, for example, the Washington Daily News reported that Time-Life offered the astronauts $400,000 for exclusive book rights to the Apollo 11 story.
Follow this story and the journey on Twitter and gain context surrounding the moon mission and its fallout for science and the wider world in an accompanying blog.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=4&m=33490882&r=MTc3MDU5NDE5NAS2&b=...
Access the Apollo 40 years on Nature News special as Nature looks at the legacy of the Apollo missions, as well as prospects for future manned missions that could see humans once again set foot on the Moon http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=23&m=33490882&r=MTc3MDU5NDE5NAS2&b...
[NB The embedded Twitter link didn't work so I've put in a working one]
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One Giant Twat for mankind
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Is UNCLEWHEATY out there?
Now that's what Twitter was made for!
Thanks for the tip off NickW. It will go some way to making up for the fact that Mr Mandy and I didn't get tickets in the free prize draw to see Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins talk at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington DC on 19th July (got fingers crossed for a screencast).
Can see that would have been appealing
Paid own money to see the NASM and Newseum anniversary events for "2001: A Space Odyssey"-had strange experience of arriving on a plane into National with an American teenager reading one of the "Left Behind" series across the aisle. Much time to ponder our different paths in life ...
Meanwhile don't know how many of you all have been watching this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00lg2xb/NASA_Triumph_and_Tragedy_O...
but having caught up with it was amazed at the sheer number of key people they spoke to. Definitely not just another space doc.
Why I bought wireless headphones
The TV in our house is really just a space broadcast outlet aimed at Mr Mandy - ever since we got the Hitler Box*, it's been wall-to-wall astronauts, 24-7. The real "hear the astros talk" stuff is fine (like some of the BBC progs), but I can only take it for so long, then I have to get my music fix.
* as it's known in our house, due to the fact that a) it's one of Uncle Rupert's, and b) you can guarantee that there will be at least 3 channels showing programmes about the Third Reich at any time of day or night.
Better keep him away from these then ...
http://www.spacecraftfilms.com/
By the way my Freeview PVR is quite simlar ...
would that make it a Himmler ... (just the one tuner).
Gets coat, leaves.
Hadn't realised that people now Tweet from orbit ...
c.f. Astro_Mike
http://twitter.com/astro_Mike
Just got home after landing in California, it was an awesome mission, but it is good to be safe at home with Hubble all fixed up
9:36 PM May 24th from web
From orbit: Just had our re-entry brief with mission control, we will try landing tomorrow a.m. but weather in FL looks iffy
11:56 AM May 21st from web
(edit: and
From orbit: Listening to Sting on my ipod watching the world go by – literally
3:04 PM May 19th from web
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