Alan Bean has passed away

[jmorgan]

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/100045720165441945...

I like twitter but sometimes you go in for a quick catch up and its bad news.

[jmorgan]

Apollo 12 landing site and prints.
http://www.lroc.asu.edu/featured_sites/view_site/2

[jmorgan]

Like that bit From Earth to the Moon where he whacked it with a hammer, in for a penny in for a pound. That was a good episode.

[jmorgan]

https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap12fj/01launch_to_ea...

00:00:37

Audio is further up. Calm or what. Lightening strike for those that know not.

[jmorgan]

He did earn the term "steely-eyed missile man".

No doubt the roll a lot of people played and the operation that was mission control.

[jmorgan]

Absolutely, but part of what the machine that was.

Anyone looking in, he has a book that is well worth a read "Failure is not an Option".
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Failure-Not-Option-Missio...

Edit.
Further reading for those interested. Available as a book but it is here on line.
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4205...

[jmorgan]

Wiccan of Darkness said:

jmorgan said:

Apollo 12 landing site and prints.
http://www.lroc.asu.edu/featured_sites/view_site/2

That's a decent image, the slider underneath the image altering the angle of the sun casts shadows of the lunar landing module so you can use the shadow to make out the projections on the top of the vehicle.

It is quite interesting what they have done. You can follow the transcripts and match it.

https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/main.html