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tuvas View Member Profile	Oct 20 2006, 02:39 AM Post #31
Member Group: Members Posts: 428 Joined: 21-August 06 From: Northern Virginia Member No.: 1062	All I can say about this topic is, I'm glad I'm not the only one;-)

Guest_PhilCo126_*	Oct 20 2006, 07:24 PM Post #32
Guests	Weird hé ... isn't it ?

Phil Stooke View Member Profile	Oct 20 2006, 07:58 PM Post #33
Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10253 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227	Pateroast: "I convinced my high school calculus teacher to let me watch NASA TV on the computer when Huygens landed during lecture. " Well.... I did a similar thing a long time before that, asking my school principal if I could take time off school to watch the Apollo 12 EVAs. Apollo 11 happened during the summer. As it turned out the TV camera failed early in the EVA (pointed at the sun). But then the principal - or headmaster as he was known there - knew I was interested, so when he heard that Apollo 13 had 'had a problem' he was the first to tell me. Phil Stooke -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself. Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain)

tuvas View Member Profile	Oct 20 2006, 11:23 PM Post #34
Member Group: Members Posts: 428 Joined: 21-August 06 From: Northern Virginia Member No.: 1062	QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Oct 20 2006, 12:58 PM) Pateroast: "I convinced my high school calculus teacher to let me watch NASA TV on the computer when Huygens landed during lecture. " Well.... I did a similar thing a long time before that, asking my school principal if I could take time off school to watch the Apollo 12 EVAs. Apollo 11 happened during the summer. As it turned out the TV camera failed early in the EVA (pointed at the sun). But then the principal - or headmaster as he was known there - knew I was interested, so when he heard that Apollo 13 had 'had a problem' he was the first to tell me. Phil Stooke I can't see how a school wouldn't be watching such a momenteous moment in history... I mean, why teach history when you can live it, if only for a few minutes...

Stu View Member Profile	Oct 20 2006, 11:45 PM Post #35
The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60	Ah, happy memories resurfacing.... by the time Apollo 14 came around I was at junior school, and we were all made (well, obviously I wasn't made, I wanted to!) to sit in the school hall and watch the TV coverage on The Big TV, which was a monster of a thing, wheeled into the room in sloooow motion, like it was one of the standing stones of Stonehenge, brought it on an enormous stand and planted at the front of the room like some big statue for us all to worship... eeeh, those were the days... They don't do that in schools now, of course, at least not the schools I visit when I do my Outreach work. Shuttle missions aren't mentioned, the Mars rovers neither. When I visit schools I often want to bang some of the teachers' heads together within 10 mins of walking through the door, just because they don't have the sense of importance these things deserve. Not all teachers, I hasten to add, some are very much on the ball, but some teachers just don't care, and I've lost count of the number of times I've been told by kids that they didn't know people had walked on the Moon, or that astronauts had lost their lives in shuttle explosions, or that two brave little rovers are trundling around Mars right now, beaming back pictures for us all to see. Wrong, just wrong, damnit. Sorry, rant over. -------------------- Homepage Astropoetry "Cumbrian Sky" blog "Road to Endeavour" blog

dvandorn View Member Profile	Oct 21 2006, 02:27 AM Post #36
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15	I was in grade school during the Mercury missions, and we all gathered in the auditorium and watched John Glenn's launch in February of 1962. Because the launch was delayed several times, we were gathered several times, and the last time, when the launch actually occurred, we all got there just before he went off. The launch of Apollo 7 was 'cast through my junior high school's PA system, as well... they thought more highly of the space program in the schools back then. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain

nprev View Member Profile	Oct 21 2006, 02:40 AM Post #37
Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602	The only time my school system bothered to acknowledge spaceflight was for the first launch of Columbia (I was a senior in high school then). We got to watch it on a 19" TV. On Feb 26, 1979, a total solar eclipse occurred across the NW portion of North America. I was fortunate enough to have a teacher that was as interested in space as I was, and she & I traveled to central Montana to witness totality. By contrast, my classmates back in Butte, MT on that day were instructed not to look out of the windows during the event while all the blinds were drawn in an apparent attempt by the school district to avoid lawsuits for blindness...I still wonder why they didn't go all the way and sacrifice a goat or something.. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.

mchan View Member Profile	Oct 21 2006, 02:49 AM Post #38
Member Group: Members Posts: 600 Joined: 26-August 05 Member No.: 476	I was out of school by the time of the Voyager 2 Neptune flyby, but I took two days vacation to attend the TPS Planetfest event in Pasadena. From the number of people watching a TV monitor at 4am, I'd say there are a lot of hardcore UMSF fans.

dvandorn View Member Profile	Oct 21 2006, 03:07 AM Post #39
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15	I still have a 17-year-old videotape of PBS's presentation of "Neptune All Night," when they covered the Voyager 2 Neptune encounter. With a member of Firesign Theater no less, doing his character of George LeRoy Tirebiter... -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain

climber View Member Profile	Oct 22 2006, 08:00 PM Post #40
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682	QUOTE (mchan @ Oct 21 2006, 04:49 AM) I was out of school by the time of the Voyager 2 Neptune flyby, but I took two days vacation to attend the TPS Planetfest event in Pasadena. From the number of people watching a TV monitor at 4am, I'd say there are a lot of hardcore UMSF fans. I came from France to be at Planestfest 89 and I didn't know YOU were there That was something, wasn't it! And that's the reason I was back there for Spirit landing. That make me laught when I remember they were saying she will last 90 sols. I still can't believe she'll be 1000 next week -------------------- My Blog

hendric View Member Profile	Oct 23 2006, 05:17 PM Post #41
Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93	OK, here's a challenge: Modify a Spirit image, with appropriate geriatric gear attached: cane, glasses, etc. -------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks -- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality.

Phil Stooke

Oct 23 2006, 06:45 PM

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Duh...

Phil

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... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.

Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke
Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf
NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain)

climber View Member Profile	Oct 23 2006, 08:17 PM Post #43
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682	QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Oct 23 2006, 08:45 PM) Duh... Phil Whoua! Very unlucky Spirit...the cleaning event went by very close -------------------- My Blog

nprev View Member Profile	Oct 23 2006, 09:09 PM Post #44
Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602	Heh, heh, heh...well, she's still pretty hot in my book for an old lady! -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.