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?One last fiery hurrah?: LIFE?s final issue
2008-04-09 15:29:00 Final part in a series. How appropriate that a publication whose launch was dominated by photography of the technological wonder of the day should end its run with an equally impressive tribute to mankind?s latest technological accomplishment. As noted earlier, LIFE?s final issue was released a scant three weeks after Apollo 17, NASA?s last trip to the moon, and in the magazine?s concluding essays it found a fitting kinship with that mission. Both LIFE and the Apollo program remained physically strong to the last ? many regard Apollo 17 as the most successful of all the moon landings (12/29/72), and while LIFE was awash in red ink, its failures arguably related more to mismanagement than to substantive textual issues (in 1969 the magazine had reached an all-time circulation high of 8.5 million) (van Zuilen). Both were, in the end, overcome by financial difficulties and a lack of institutional will to carry on. The Apollo program and LIFE each accomplished their final missions with...
Great Leadership Principles from Apollo 13 Movie
2008-01-29 01:25:00 Great leadership lessons learned from Apollo 13 movie.. One of the real-life heroes of Apollo 13, veteran Apollo and space shuttle astronaut Ken Mattingly shares the true story behind the most inspiring example of crisis management in recent memory. Portrayed in the hit film by Academy Award-nominee Gary Sinise, Mattingly is the Command Module ...
David Sington 002, "In the Shadow of the Moon" director: Mr. Media Intervie
2007-09-28 02:01:00 (Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN: Were you surprised at how poor the film quality was from Apollo 11 compared to what there was later? I mean, it?s not like better equipment wasn?t available by 1969.DAVID SINGTON: The TV footage is very poor quality, but some of the film footage is fine. Our shots of Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon are not the ones that we are used to seeing, which is the TV downlink which is very, very fuzzy, but it?s a shot on film from inside the LEM, and you can see the reflection of Buzz Aldrin, the reflection in the window of Neil Armstrong taking that first step, so there is some pretty decent 16mm film footage, but there isn?t very much of it. There is a very small quantity. It?s interesting how the TV footage, though, improves between Apollo 11 and Apollo 17. By the time you get to Apollo 17, the color pictures coming back from the moon are getting reasonable quality, though they?re never as good as the actual film footage shot on the moon, which we sort ...
By: Mr. Media
Back In Time: April 1970 - Apollo 13 Tells Houston, ?We?ve Got A Problem?
2007-04-13 16:29:00 1970: Manned space flight has become so routine that it is easy to forget that it’s inherently dangerous to stuff astronauts inside a cramped capsule and blast them into the heavens on top of a Saturn V rocket. The Apollo 13 mission reminds us just how vulnerable we are. Apollo 13, with astronauts James Lovell Jr., ...
By: TechJunction
Apollo 13 and acceptance testing
2006-10-26 12:33:03 From The Space Review:Let?s look back again at the Apollo 13 ?missed opportunities?.During the routine countdown rehearsals, oxygen tank #2 was filled with oxygen but could not be emptied. The ground crew thought a loose nozzle fitting was the source of the difficulty, but there was no thorough investigation. The loose fitting problem was not fixed since gaseous oxygen still passed through the nozzle as needed. Instead of thoroughly investigating the problem, they worked around the problem. When the normal procedure to empty the tank failed to work, ground crews improvised a procedure and used heaters and fans to empty the tank. (Please notice a similarity of living with and working around an Apollo program unknown problem is similar to the Space Shuttle program accepting the unknown problem of foam strikes.) The improvised detanking procedures had never been used before, and the tank had not been qualified for the conditions experienced. (Notice a similarity between this and the Ch... |
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