If u like space then allow me to recommend you listen to Joe Rogan's interview with Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Lots of space talk in there. Warning - it's probably an hr in duration.
Yeah looking forward to seeing this too. Really liked the From Earth to the Moon series by Tom Hanks that was on HBO about 10 - 15 years back. Makes you wonder how the hell they pulled that stuff off.
Anyone ever read the book "The Right Stuff"? More really inspiring space stuff. Also, Scott Kelly's book "Endurance"
Gonna try to catch him in Asbury Park in December: https://www.ticketliquidator.com/se...VgZ-zCh1OAAGwEAAYAiAAEgKiIPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
“After all, the right stuff was not bravery in the simple sense of being willing to risk your life (by riding on top of a Redstone or Atlas rocket). Any fool could do that (and many fools would no doubt volunteer, given the opportunity), just as any fool could throw his life away in the process. No, the idea (as all pilots understood) was that a man should have the ability to go up in a hurtling piece of machinery and put his hide on the line and have the moxie, the reflexes, the experience, the coolness, to pull it back at the last yawning moment—but how in the name of God could you either hang it out or haul it back if you were a lab animal sealed in a pod?” ― Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff
My father worked for NASA back in the 60's, I remember him taking us (family) into the space center and watch these things go off ( Mercury and Gemini projects ). My uncle was a photographer for NASA up until 2000, I was still able to get passes to see the shuttles take off, I've seen quite a few of them, what a sight up close. I remember that sad cold day watching Challenger blow up...shocking, I wasn't at the Cape that time but could see it real good from work.
Got superb review in WSJ On my list to see Parents woke me & my brother up to watch Armstrong step onto the moon on the lil b&w tv. His feat, our feat as Americans, was incredible to us, even as sleepy & grumpy as we were. That was quite an era. I recall my mom crying in front of the tv during JFKs funeral cortege in DC. And she was very upset when the astronauts died on the launch pad, Apollo-Saturn 1967. We always would tune into the Today show in the morning before school, whilst Dad was upstairs in the bathroom shaving. I distinctly recall watching Today one morning & hollering up the stairs to my pops "dad, dad, someone killed Martin Luther King Jr!" My dad came flying down those stairs, shaving cream still on his face, saying oh no, oh no, very grim. Same again with RFK's murder in LA. In those days every station signed off at midnight or before. All 6 of them. And we're talking a suburb of NYC, not Petticoat Junction. So, whatever happened late or on the west coast or in a different time zone wouldn't get broadcast on the east coast until the stations went live again around dawn. I was a commodities trader when the travelers died in Challenger. The markets literally came to a standstill as all the traders rushed to see what happened on the televisions, and then no one wanted to do any business after that, people of all walks were deeply upset. Anyways.... Anyone sitting on top of a rocket, heading into outer space, were, and are, incredible human beings.
