Watching Star Trek: Tomorrow is Yesterday, when the newscast says the first manned moon shot is next week and Kirk says that was in the late 1960s, it's very easy to forget* that when the episode was made, it hadn't happened yet. They couldn't specify the date because they didn't know it -- all they had to go by was Kennedy's pledge of "before this decade is out." They had no way of knowing it would be about 2 1/2 years after the original air date of January 26, 1967.
*Especially for someone my age or younger. I was coming up on eight weeks old when my parents didn't watch it. I'm sure they did watch all the coverage of Apollo 11, and I probably did too, but I don't remember it. Within my memory, at least, there has never been a time when men hadn't walked on the moon. One of my very first memories is of sometime before we moved in early 1972, I wanted to watch the splashdown and being told there wasn't one this week. I can only guess that this was shortly after the return of 11, 12, or 13.
P.S. I'd still like to know what kind of plane is seen taxiing in the first shot of the show.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Watching Star Trek: Tomorrow is Yesterday, when the newscast says the first manned moon shot is next week and Kirk says that was in the late 1960s, it's very easy to forget* that when the episode was made, it hadn't happened yet. They couldn't specify the date because they didn't know it -- all they had to go by was Kennedy's pledge of "before this decade is out." They had no way of knowing it would be about 2 1/2 years after the original air date of January 26, 1967.
*Especially for someone my age or younger. I was coming up on eight weeks old when my parents didn't watch it. I'm sure they did watch all the coverage of Apollo 11, and I probably did too, but I don't remember it. Within my memory, at least, there has never been a time when men hadn't walked on the moon. One of my very first memories is of sometime before we moved in early 1972, I wanted to watch the splashdown and being told there wasn't one this week. I can only guess that this was shortly after the return of 11, 12, or 13.
P.S. I'd still like to know what kind of plane is seen taxiing in the first shot of the show.
F-104 Starfighter, but I can't tell you which block.
P.S. I'd still like to know what kind of plane is seen taxiing in the first shot of the show.
There was another episode where the Enterprise went back in time and was caught in Earth's lower atmosphere. The Air Force sent up an F-104 starfighter to intercept the Enterprise. They ended up beaming the pilot aboard
(who was quite surprised : ) another great episode.
P.S. I'd still like to know what kind of plane is seen taxiing in the first shot of the show.
There was another episode where the Enterprise went back in time and was caught in Earth's lower atmosphere. The Air Force sent up an F-104 starfighter to intercept the Enterprise. They ended up beaming the pilot aboard
(who was quite surprised : ) another great episode.
Bill
And while seated in the plane he materialized standing in the transporter, and vice versa when they beamed him back.
It was, i might be lucky and see them fly by in a in a few minutes.
The Moon and Jupiter are really close at the moment and the ISS tracks just past them, but its about 80% cloud cover so viewing conditions not ideal. Still a few passes will be visible tomorrow night,
"Static fire test of Falcon 9
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"Static fire test of Falcon 9 complete—targeting June 1 launch from historic Pad 39A for Dragon’s next resupply mission to the ISS"
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Just looking over the
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Just looking over the manifest, this includes NICER so we will have some new Xray vision on pulsars...
edit: details also here
CRS-11 Technical Webcast in
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CRS-11 Technical Webcast in about 1 hour.
While you wait there is always the ISS HD feed it's quite mesmerizing on Nasa TV
edit: scrubbed due to weather until June 3 at 5:07 p.m. EDT or 21:07 UTC, I did see ISS fly over a few minutes ago...
Watching Star Trek: Tomorrow
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Watching Star Trek: Tomorrow is Yesterday, when the newscast says the first manned moon shot is next week and Kirk says that was in the late 1960s, it's very easy to forget* that when the episode was made, it hadn't happened yet. They couldn't specify the date because they didn't know it -- all they had to go by was Kennedy's pledge of "before this decade is out." They had no way of knowing it would be about 2 1/2 years after the original air date of January 26, 1967.
*Especially for someone my age or younger. I was coming up on eight weeks old when my parents didn't watch it. I'm sure they did watch all the coverage of Apollo 11, and I probably did too, but I don't remember it. Within my memory, at least, there has never been a time when men hadn't walked on the moon. One of my very first memories is of sometime before we moved in early 1972, I wanted to watch the splashdown and being told there wasn't one this week. I can only guess that this was shortly after the return of 11, 12, or 13.
P.S. I'd still like to know what kind of plane is seen taxiing in the first shot of the show.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
David S wrote:Watching Star
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F-104 Starfighter, but I can't tell you which block.
David S wrote:Watching Star
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Bill592 wrote:David S
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A good result.
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A good result.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
It was, i might be lucky and
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It was, i might be lucky and see them fly by in a in a few minutes.
The Moon and Jupiter are really close at the moment and the ISS tracks just past them, but its about 80% cloud cover so viewing conditions not ideal. Still a few passes will be visible tomorrow night,
The Dragon has a tail
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The Dragon has a tail :
.... you can see a kick right at the end which put it off the bull's-eye.
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) In case you missed it : Launch Complex 39A is 'historic' ..... :-))
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal