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Apollo Discussions => The Reality of Apollo => Topic started by: onebigmonkey on January 17, 2013, 03:58:49 PM
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Wasn't sure where to put this, hopefully here!
I've been collecting the Life magazine editions where Apollo is featured - they aren't too expensive as long as they aren't autographed, and the large format of the magazine makes the photographs very impressive in a way that the computer screen just doesn't capture.
I've started scanning the relevant pages and have put the first one up on my site:
http://onebigmonkey.comoj.com/obm/lifemag.html (http://onebigmonkey.comoj.com/obm/lifemag.html)
I've also included a link to the full google books edition.
Happy reading :)
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I've also included a link to the full google books edition.
Happy reading :)
The most fun things about old magazines are the ads. I particularly like the VW add with a photo of an LM model. The caption is, "It's ugly, but it gets you there." While it trades on the Beetles notorious lack of modern styling. I never found either the LM nor the VW Bug ugly.
Now take the contemporary Dodge A-100 pickup. A standard cab over van made into a two seat truck. That just ain't right.
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I've also included a link to the full google books edition.
Happy reading :)
The most fun things about old magazines are the ads. I particularly like the VW add with a photo of an LM model. The caption is, "It's ugly, but it gets you there." While it trades on the Beetles notorious lack of modern styling. I never found either the LM nor the VW Bug ugly.
It's a wonderful ad. I have it on my desktop. In fact I owned one way back - a Beetle that is :-)
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I love the ads :D
There's a great cigarette advert showing a couple both lighting up from the same lighter - "lung cancer, it's a sharing thing".
The car adverts are also good - I like the car offering "man sized performance and woman sized parkability".
The ads also suggest we will all be flying small aircraft and listening to reel to reel tapes while drinking obscure whisky blends.
I've got a couple on the way from the US, and it'll be interesting to see the difference.
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Yes, old ads can be very interesting to read.
I am proud to say I have a copy of the December 1969 National Geographic, the one with Aldrin on the cover in the famous portrait taken on the moon. It is considerably older than I am, somewhat worn, but among my prized possessions.
I wish National Geographic would do what Life, Popular Science and Popular Mechanics did and put many of their magazines up online.
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I've added a couple more magazines to the site, the ones covering Apollo 8 & 10 photos.
I've recently acquired an actual US one interviewing Jim Lovell after Apollo 13. It has a great advert in it, effectively saying that the ideal Mother's Day gift is a vacuum cleaner :D
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I am proud to say I have a copy of the December 1969 National Geographic, the one with Aldrin on the cover in the famous portrait taken on the moon.
I can remember quite clearly the day I bought that issue of NGM...still have it, and many others from those days...somewhere around here. :)
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I am proud to say I have a copy of the December 1969 National Geographic, the one with Aldrin on the cover in the famous portrait taken on the moon.
I can remember quite clearly the day I bought that issue of NGM...still have it, and many others from those days...somewhere around here. :)
Yeah, ain't that the way of it. Everything seems to be 'somewhere around here.'
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For those who are interested, I have added several more Apollo related sections from Life magazine to my site. I have several more to come too, including quite a few US editions.
I've also been scanning some of the adverts and adding them to a tumblr blog, as some of them are very funny.
http://onebigmonkey.tumblr.com/ (http://onebigmonkey.tumblr.com/)
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This (http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vUwEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=true) one is worth adding I think. ;D
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lol! This is why I need to get more of the US editions - they have much better adverts!
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Couple more Life magazines added, and also a National Geographic article covering Apollo 14.
I've a few more NG magazines in the pipeline, so I've given them their own page.
http://onebigmonkey.comoj.com/obm/ngeo.html (http://onebigmonkey.comoj.com/obm/ngeo.html)
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Just to advise that there are a couple more National Geographic Apollo editions now listed on the page linked to above, one covering Apollo 16, the other Apollo 17. Great pictures in both of them.
:)
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Great stuff, thanks again OBM! :)
ETA- The links to your scans of the 21 July 69, 4 Aug 69, and 18 Aug 69 Life magazine issues seem to be broken.
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Great stuff, thanks again OBM! :)
ETA- The links to your scans of the 21 July 69, 4 Aug 69, and 18 Aug 69 Life magazine issues seem to be broken.
Thanks :)
I'd like to say that there was some complex technical reason for the missing pdfs: html coding glitches, server errors, that sort of thing, but it pretty much looks like I forgot to upload them :D
Should be fixed now!
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You shoulda blamed it on a coronal mass ejection! That would be a nice space-y
lie excuse for a forum like this one. ;)
But yes, you got it all fixed, thanks yet again OBM!
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You should now find all of the editions of Life Magazine and National Geographic magazine that I possess scanned and uploaded on to my site - including the 1969 Special in full.
Some of the pdfs disappeared earlier this month for some reason - no idea why, but hopefully all the links work now.
You might also like to checkout the 'Landing Sights' section, where I have finally completed a study of Apollo video and still images in comparison with Lunar Orbiter and LRO images, the idea being to lay to rest the nonsense that 'they' used Orbiter views to create some sort of set in Area 51, or somewhere.
http://onebigmonkey.comoj.com/obm/apollo.html (http://onebigmonkey.comoj.com/obm/apollo.html)
:)
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That's a really remarkable website, clearly a massive amount of work, many thanks.
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I am getting an 'I cannot connect' error, unfortunately when I click that link.
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Apologies for the delay - life has been getting in the way!
The webspace provider can be a bit flakey, it's a free one. They offer a premium service but the flakiness is not convincing me to sign up for it!
Also, I noticed that they have periodic purges of any files over 5Mb in size, which is a nuisance. For this reason I've started adding dropbox links to the Life & National Geographic files as a back up.
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I'm playing around with another examination of the photos & film, this time looking at the position of the lunar terminator during Apollo missions.
Early days, and the later, longer missions will be more interesting to work on I think:
http://onebigmonkey.comoj.com/obm/terminator.html (http://onebigmonkey.comoj.com/obm/terminator.html)
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In case it's useful, the Spacecraft Films Apollo 16 DVD set, disc 2, has 4 minutes 36 seconds of 16mm DAC footage (possibly at 6fps) from orbit which shows the terminator at about 31 degrees west, just beyond Montes Riphaeus, so maybe near the end of the mission -- I'm not sure.
During the first three minutes it's hard to identify lunar surface features due to the lack of relief from the high sun, but between 0:13:37 and 0:14:55 it's much easier to identify small craters and the landing site as follows. The times are approximately when the feature reaches the horizontal centreline of the screen:--
0:13:37 (Right) Dollond U
0:13:38 (Left) Two bright spots, South Ray and North Ray craters – Apollo 16 landing site
0:13:41 Dollond B 7.7°S, 13.8°E
0:13:43 Dollond D, Dollond L 12.4°E
0:13:45 Andel F 8.4°S, 11.0°E
0:13:52 (Right) Hind 7.9°S, 7.4°E, 29 km diameter
0:13:57 (Left) Albategnius B 10.0°S, 4.0°E
0:14:02 Ptolemaeus Y 9.3°S, 0.8°E
0:14:05 (Right) Ammonius (Ptolemaeus A) 8.5°S, 0.8°W, 9 km diameter
0:14:16 Palisa 9.4°S, 7.2°W, 33 km diameter
0:14:23 Guericke E 10.0°S, 12.0°W
0:14:27 (Right) Parry M
0:14:29 Tolansky (Parry A) 9.5°S, 16.0°W, 13 km diameter
0:14:32 (Left) Bonpland C
0:14:33 (Left) Bonpland D
0:14:38 Bonpland N
0:14:40 Kuiper (Bonpland E) 9.8°S, 22.7°W, 6.8 km diameter
0:14:45 Eppinger (Euclides D) 9.4°S, 25.7°W, 6 km diameter
0:14:49 Montes Riphaeus 7°S, 28°W
0:14:55 Terminator, approximately 31° west
Use this info if you wish. I used Antonin Rukl's "Atlas of the Moon", maps 41 to 46, to identify most of the features.
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Probably not quite as high resolution, but archive.org has a lot of Apollo 16mm DAC (http://archive.org/search.php?query=Apollo%2016mm)footage as well.
Well worth looking at.
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Probably not quite as high resolution, but archive.org has a lot of Apollo 16mm DAC (http://archive.org/search.php?query=Apollo%2016mm)footage as well.
Well worth looking at.
Cool stuff, I could watch all day but my boss....