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[...] on the 2nd of July 2014 in white light using Baader AstroSolar Safety Film. Image courtesy of Nick Cook and copyright © Nick Cook. With good seeing you may be able to see the mottled surface of the [...]

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[...] may not love you for it after 3 days though. The post Honeymoon in Rome appeared first on www. Nick Cook .net. [...]

[...] Park Trust.  Something I’m still keen to see. The post Bradgate Park appeared first on www. Nick Cook .net. [...]

[...] had already been around the moon on Apollo 8, hoping to land it this time, Fred Haise was the lunar module pilot who was to land with Jim Lovell and Jack Swigert was the Command Module Pilot.  In the [...]

[...] tall and the only thing that is going to go anywhere is the little piece at the top with the lunar module which docks with the Command Service Module.  The Command Module is where people go and its [...]

[...] Fred Haise served as backup Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 8 and Apollo 11 and was the Lunar Module Pilot on board Apollo 13 with its mission to land on the moon in a region called Fra Mauro [...]

[...] , with Fred Haise and Jim Lovell doing a checkout of their Lunar Module Aquarius, and Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert was asked to flip the switch to stir the O2 cryo tanks.  Approximately 90 [...]

[...] piece at the top with the lunar module which docks with the Command Service Module.  The Command Module is where people go and its about 12 feet in diameter. You go put 3 people in pressurized [...]

[...] a live colour TV broadcast and were completing housekeeping activities, with Fred Haise and Jim Lovell doing a checkout of their Lunar Module Aquarius, and Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert was [...]

[...] lunar module pilot who was to land with Jim Lovell and Jack Swigert was the Command Module Pilot.  In the film, Jack Swigert was depicted to be a [...]

[...] last long, but they are indelible, you’ll never forget them. So we started out with Apollo 13, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and me were supposed to be the crew that was going to take 13. Couple of weeks [...]

[...] and grab a book that would help them walk through to mitigate that problem. Fred Haise (left), Jack Swigert, and Jim Lovell pose on the day before launch. Photo dated 10 April 1970. Well there was no [...]

[...] land it this time, Fred Haise was the lunar module pilot who was to land with Jim Lovell and Jack Swigert was the Command Module Pilot.  In the film, Jack Swigert was depicted to be a bumbling ill [...]

[...] asked me anything, who are and what are you doing here.  Things were going along just fine and Jack Swigert my replacement, I had done my very best to cheat him out of any simulator time. One of the [...]

[...] Fred Haise served as backup Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 8 and Apollo 11 and was the Lunar Module Pilot [...]

[...] where we had to evacuate the Command Module, called the LM lifeboat.  Turns out out that Fred Haise was already doing it, he’d started activating the Lunar Module because the CSM was going to die. [...]

[...] by Jim Lovell who had already been around the moon on Apollo 8, hoping to land it this time, Fred Haise was the lunar module pilot who was to land with Jim Lovell and Jack Swigert was the Command [...]

[...] .  There were a lot of people involved and more people involved working as a team at Mission Control, in some cases, throughout the country, involved in getting us back and we had a good [...]

[...] veterans Gene Kranz and Chris Kraft.  A nice little touch was the ticket as a replica of the mission control pass. The following is my attempt at writing down his talk:  A Flight Controller can be [...]

[...] 0.9 degrees was in Jim’s axis. The original Apollo 13 crew, Fred Haise, Jim Lovell and Ken Mattingly. Ken Mattingly was replaced by Jack Swigert 3 days before launch over fears that Ken Mattingly [...]

[...] Today, I met Apollo and Space Shuttle astronaut Ken Mattingly and listen to his lecture, The  Spirit and Triumph of Apollo 13.  The significance of the date [...]

[...] is the day for the unexpected. Related Links: www.somethingastro.com Sy Liebergot homepage Ken Mattingly Apollo 13 talk The post Sy Liebergot Apollo 13: The Longest Hour appeared first on www. Nick [...]

[...] down to 297 psi and we’d better think about getting in the LEM.  The normal pressure for oxygen tank was about 900 psi.  I wasn’t a LEM guy but I knew enough that we needed to take action very [...]

Fred Haise served as backup Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 8 and Apollo 11 and was the Lunar Module Pilot on board Apollo 13 with its mission to land o [...]