This video from the TEDx YouTube channel is my TEDx talk The Need to Explore. Direct link to The Need to Explore on YouTube. This is a completely new speech for me with no reliance on the material I use in my keynotes. It was fun (but hard work) to create a brand new talk […]
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This locker, measuring 12.5″ x 22.75″ x 4.75″ (at top- tapering to 2,25″ at bottom) would mount in the upper section of the command module, above and behind the heads of the astronauts. This particular design was made for the later “Apollo Applications” missions (Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project). The markings on the inside of
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I attended the Apollo 13 40th anniversary celebration at The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center. In this photo, I am with Gene Kranz, NASA Flight Director from the Apollo 13 mission “Failure is not an option”, Fred Haise, Lunar Module pilot from Apollo 13, and Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 Commander “Houston we have a problem”.
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This Apollo–Soyuz Test Project DP Boost cue card measuring 2.25 x 4″ is directly from the Deke Slayton collection. On the reverse of the card is a museum inventory control number from the time that the card was on display at the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, FL and theAir and Space Museum in
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This 17″ x 3.5″ beta cloth Food Restrainer Pouch was manufactured by Whirlpool for use by the Apollo astronauts. A food item, such as orange drink is inserted into pouch and the mouth tube stuck through the opening and then zipped up. This particular pouch comes with an Orange Drink inserted.
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Manufactured by Welson & Co. in October 1971, the unit is a cotton duck base with 3 Beta cloth pockets and is 11 x 5 inches overall. The pockets include flaps held closed by snap fasteners; inside the flaps are dummies of the electrocardiograph signal conditioner, the impedance pneumograph signal conditioner and the electrical current
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An original 8½”x 10½” Apollo 16 LM Rendezvous Charts book dated in pencil March 21, 1971. It contains 20 pages of fascinating Lunar Module Ascent tables. Sections include Nominal Ascent sections, Direct Ascent sections and First and Second Midcourse corrections sections. A copy just like it would have flown to the moon on Apollo 16.
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Neil Armstrong (Apollo 11 Commander) delivers a tribute at the Apollo 12 40th anniversary gala on November 7, 2009 at Kennedy Space Center. I was sitting next to Apollo 12 LMP Alan Bean for the dinner so I had an ideal view. Video is 7 minutes. I suggest letting it load before watching. Direct link
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https://vimeo.com/7482702?fl=pl&fe=sh Apollo 13 Commander James A. Lovell, Jr. and Lunar Module Pilot Fred W. Haise, Jr. discuss their mission at the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation event on November 6, 2009 at Kennedy Space Center. I was lucky to be sitting front row center. The video is about 24 minutes and is edited from a 45-minute discussion.
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Flown Apollo 17 lunar surface checklist page This is page 7-8 of the Apollo 17 lunar surface checklist, used on the lunar surface during the last lunar landing mission. The other side of this is page 7-7. I find this particular checklist page fascinating because it details the last sleep period that humans enjoyed on the
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