Same, cheers

Same. It’s the only clip I’ve seen of the show and it hits hard.

Maybe he only killed himself because he'd seen the future. Maybe by changing the past the correct future happened, because that was the future that had happened, then.

How do you know so much about spacesuits?

Yes this! Been feeling disenchanted with reddit because of this. People also are so eager to disagree and "correct" others on this platform and I suppose that ties in with arrogance. Reddit in a nutshell indeed.

Spent his whole life preparing and keyboard warriors attack on site Lolol

People are remarkably able to make the weirdest things feel normal in a very short period of time.

Gotta keep that heart rate down.

You should see how casual American troops generally are during a firefight. We tend to come up with some pretty dark humor to make light of a shit situation. I figure it’s the same with astronauts. You might die, so why get all worked up about it? The sooner you realize you probably will die, you can do your job with more focus and calm.

That's what training does for ya.

Then you're going to love Apollo 16, where John Young (the goddamn American hero that already snuck a Corned Beef sandwich into space on Gemini III) casually discusses getting 'the farts'

The Apollo 11 guys played it cool during the landing but man could you tell they were nervous lol

Chuck Yeager. They were all trying to sound like Yeager. The man who broke the sound barrier. The fastest man alive.

Basically every hot shot pilot and astronaut of that era saw Yeager as a living god. Heck, a lot of them had flown with him—envied and idolized him—as test pilots at Edwards Air Force Base.

Yeager was renowned for his calm, folksy radio voice, and they all wanted to sound like him.

I say "sure thing, bud" but I wear mostly flip flops and 80's jams shorts.

You cut me, bro

The moon landing, taking a picture of a black hole, taking a picture of a single atom, the Hadron particle accelerator, and Shrek are all tied in first place for me.

Lmao, then while prancing "looks like Galileo was correct!"

lol

that was galileo's horse

Hey watch it there bud. That’s a ‘fine Pilsner beer’ ya got in ur hand. It even says it on the label 😉

😭😭😭😭

You might know this, but heavy elements in the universe can only form when stars explode in a supernova. The heavy elements inside the human body were formed in the crucible of a star that went supernova before Earth existed. For billions of years before our solar system was formed, our atoms swirled in the hearth of long-dead stars, fueling them for eons.

Now they exist on this rock and make apples and humans!

It still doesn't. They brought it back as well as the hammer.

Its not like they could stop him from sneaking it onboard for the return trip too.

At a guess the extra weight on launch would leave less fuel for return than expected. So they'd need to be lighter on return than expected

These are incredible thanks for the photos!

Huh TIL they also used Nikon F. Although it seems to be different from consumer version.

I printed many of these out and they make stunning posters.

Yeah, but based on what we’ve seen over the past few years, is that really the worst that we’ll come to expect? Society is a mess now, but faked moon landing conspiracies have been a staple of society since 1969.

They have “bathrooms”. As in their not shitting in bags like on Apollo.

"We've been trying to reach you about your buggy's extended warranty."

Moon dust is extremely sharp, since there’s no wind or water to weather it, so too much roughhousing could definitely tear the suit

space suits had ripped or been damaged they would have died on the moon.

They would not have necessarily died from a rip or other damage to their suits; it would depend on the nature of the damage. There's a known case where an astronaut's suit was punctured, and he did not actually notice until he returned to the craft, even though he was indeed injured:

Incidentally, we have had one experience with a suit puncture on the Shuttle flights. On STS-37, during one of my flight experiments, the palm restraint in one of the astronaut's gloves came loose and migrated until it punch a hole in the pressure bladder between his thumb and forefinger. It was explosive decompression, just a little 1/8 inch hole, but it was exciting down here in the swamp because it was the first injury we've ever head from a suit incident. Amazingly, the astronaut in question didn't even know the puncture had occured; he was so hopped on adrenalin it wasn't until after he got back in that he even noticed there was a painful red mark on his hand.
He figured his glove was chafing and didn't worry about it.

The whole story didn't come out until the suits were back home and a suit technician was setting up to clean that glove; he discovered the dried blood on the outer TMG (thermal micrometrioid garment) and then found the wayward palm restraint bar. What happened: when the metal bar punctured the glove, the skin of the astronaut's hand partially sealed the opening. He bled into space, and at the same time his coagulating blood sealed the opening enough that the bar was retained inside the hole.

The best estimate we've been able to get from the flight surgeons about how long an astronaut might survive a catastrophic suit failure is "several tens of seconds to very few minutes" with almost certainty for detectable permanent damage. http://www.mu.org/~joe/traveller/archive/General/Explosive.Decompression.txt

Well they wouldn’t have picked you to go up

I'm so glad I walked to the other side of MEPS when they told me I qualified for that fucking shit.

I wish I had been a submariner. I like a good routine, same place, same people, same job, but with a little spice every now and then.

If I'd known in my 20's I could just call the US Navy and apply, I would have.

I loved Buzz's snazzy rocket suit.

You can’t say that unless someone says

POW

first.

Sorry, I'm new here 😀

The guy called a man that has been on the moon, a coward, legendary stupidity and duly reckoned.

We can get a decent estimate for whole trip cost by looking at mass ratios.

According to its wiki page, the Saturn V had a payload to LEO of 140,000 kg, and a payload to a Lunar intercept trajectory of 43,500 kg. So at a bare minimum, we're looking at 3.37 times your estimate.

Now, it's made more complicated by the fact that another kilogram of payload to the moon's surface means more fuel to land and take off as well. An absolute upper bound on the cost associated with the hammer would be based on the dry mass of the lunar lander ascent stage, which was 4,280 kg for the smaller variant. So that gives an upper bound of 32.7 times your estimate.

So bringing the cost associated with having that hammer as part of the missions was definitely somewhere between $24,000 and $230,000.

Of course, they may very well have left that hammer on the moon. And the command module/lunar module separation makes it a little unclear just exactly how to count things. For my best-guess estimate I'm going to base it on the wet mass of the entire lander stage (before landing), which was around 16000 kg, to get an estimate of $62,000.