I’m a geek. There, said it. OK, I’m not the sort that beavers away at his Unix-powered, home-built PC every night, writing code for my own sick pleasure. Nevertheless I’m a geek; I like technology.
But above all else, I like science. Ever since I was about 9 years old, I was fascinated with space and rockets and mushroom clouds (I lived through the Protect and Survive years). I built my own reflecting telescope and hooked it up to an old Olympus SLR and got into astrophotography, taking pictures of the moon and getting star trail prints back from Boots (I miss my Tri-X days).
I’m a tad too young to remember the Apollo missions of the late 60s and 70s, but from the age of 10, I was writing to NASA on a weekly basis, asking for information on their space programme and the yet-to-be completed Space Shuttle and Space Station. Heck, they even sent me Neil Armstrong’s autograph once. But I digress. I came across this awesome piece of narrated footage some while ago and if you’re into rockets and power and slow-motion, then this should definitely get your geeky juices flowing.
Enjoy.
You’d probably love this:
apollo expeditions to the moon
Recherchez google it…it’s online in HTML format on Nasa’s page; available as a free epub if you have a reader; could possibly find it as a PDF. I read it on the train over quite a few journeys – it’s a collection of essays describing the Apollo program by the people who worked on it, absolutely fascinating and very accessible.
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