[X] My Assistant

[gndonald]

I'd been re-reading one of my space travel books and suddenly it hit me, while the LM ascent stages from Apollo's 5-9 & 11-17 are lost the ascent stage from Apollo 10 was left in a solar orbit when that mission left the moon.

With the increasing sophistication of amateur astronomy has anyone tried to find this historic vehicle? More to the point, have there been any attempts to do so with professional equipment in the past?

[dvandorn]

Must've been a real hard thing for an ol' Florida boy to admit, that he couldn't stand the thought of seeing another orange again as long as he lived... I think it was "I like an occasional orange, really do. But I'll be damned if I ever see another one again." Or something like that...

The really bad line had something to do with "in another twelve [expletive deleted] days, I ain't never eatin' any more!"

My favorite aspect of the episode, though, was that Tony England, their CapCom, came back right after that and told them they were on a hot mike, and then later on, at the end of the second EVA, the crew was pushing for an extension of the EVA so they could finish up a few tasks. Young, making his point, said "You said all we was gonna do tonight was sit around and talk." And England responded, "Oh, we like to hear you talk. Especially on a hot mike..."

-the other Doug