collinshall1300
Name:DSS-73 ( Σ )| Antenna Owner: n/a | Status: Inactive - December 14,2021
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For a brief time, Photography,Observance of celestial, space and weather events and a few other things happened here. Few people know exactly who what, when, why or where. Nothing significant to the rest of the world. Good times happened, memories were captured. Recent events have concluded this mission indefinitely. We’ve had a good burn. All consoles offline. Long live her sister stations. You’re name remembered on the Perseverance Rover. There’s nothing else to say; Off to a new mission and a new decade. -Signing off the net.
God speed Collins Station,You began it all.
🎧📡🕛🛰🌎
(Bitter sweet music playlist to set the mood)
(links may go bad over time(YouTube entropy))
(sorry)
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK72RJGi9kN0lrah5Hvq-Nt732x_zojDZ
#CollinsGap #DSS73 #PhotoLab #Bldg1300 #CollinsStation #SpaceOperations #DigitalLab #GhostTags
A little box,Launched in the cold evening, into Space-Time on December 11th 2019 A.D.
The other half, to land on Mars to roam the planet in February of 2021
My silent, cryptic ambassador to the future.. built in the likeness of a spacecraft forever flinging out of the solar system -above their heads- and hermetically sealed with three kinds of industrial space grade tapes and connected through a certificate to a real spacecraft somewhere between ground,sea and interstellar space. Whoever finds it will be very confused and fascinated and thats the point. It doesnt matter what it means.
The last three years were fun, I wish the rest of the group well if they see this. On to a new decade and a new “assignment”...
Until there is a next time,headphones are hanging and signing off..
-Collins Station / Deputy Flight Director
https://youtu.be/os2sOhAH60w
Collins Station, Ready for tracking! Last mission for a while.
One more for the night. For every space enthusiast benefit out there -who comes across this, this is the CHEAPEST “Space” or rather near-space rated watch I can find (im a poor bastard atm). I've had my space-beater for 2.8 years and I have nothing to complain about! Like Gene Cernan would day “its a super little machine” and Its been through a few missions and survived. It IS my official mission control watch. If you’re looking to start your space watch collection but can’t afford to cut the arm off you’d need to pay just to wear one of those expensive one’s, start here!.
(its long) > casio quartz 5125 mrw-200h. (I think I paid $10 for mine)
Christmas is RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER! Start your space watch collection from the edge of the stratosphere and work your way to the moon! Casio to Omega! ;-)
(I was really desperate and found mine at WalMart)
@egglybagelface96 might be interested in getting one too. ;-)
(NASA did not officially endorse this product and all the legal things blablahblah)
Looking back at the decade (again).. LANDING DAY. November 28,2018.
My first opportunity to send my name to the stars on the hood of a spacecraft.. The “InSight” Mission launched into the night leaving a loud roar from my neck of the woods on the cold stellar coast of California and into the deep black.. The guy on Retro Space Images always posts film photos he took of the TV screen when men walked the moon so I do the same thing now, for space missions, for some reason. Where was I? Getting ready to put a chunk of aluminium into a HAAS machine in my CNC class. A couple of us were sorta keeping an eye on the mission without trying to get too distracted from work. My turn came RIGHT when “bottoms up” occurred over the deserts of Mars. I remember looking up at the clock right when entry was supposed to be happening and wondering how it went. It was a good autumn day, the smoke from the terrible fire up north was finally clearing and things felt more like winter for a change. Then those first photos came in, by golly..
Will go again in 2020! WaHoo!
They couldnt see but they sure heard it leaving babe!
https://youtu.be/WOoxITpT0_I
LOOKING FORWARD: The Europa Clipper
Of all the missions to launch in the 2020′s, the clipper is the one I am eager for. The mission will be more than a lander,knowing JPL if they’re going to go all the way out to Jupiter you know they’ll do more to make the trip worth it (Voyager wasn’t supposed to go to Uranus or Neptune). I think the orbital side of the mission will be like Cassini all over again, and hopefully avenge what was lost in the 90′s when the Galileo spacecraft high gain antenna didn’t deploy
(Solid dishes do it better)
I can’t wait for the new swag either, hopefully JPL’s giftshop will actually SELL them. I hate hunting pins on Ebay that cost more than they should.(Personal problems, sorry)
Jupiter YOU’RE NEXT!!!!
Looking back at the decade. The Cassini Mission grand finale.
https://youtu.be/fHaaIX-iSqM
Keep Looking Up
Great way to end the semester with a surprise.
In no order, Apollo 17 in photos. I try to give it a break each year but i love this mission.
Gene Cernan just a few minutes after his first steps. IVe never heard two guys so excited to look out a window and see a giant rock. “Look at that rock out there!!” -Gene Cernan
The first day, untouched regolith and a long shadow, in three days the sun will slowly angle higher and higher.
Day 3, occasionally a moment of silence would come between the busy radio chatter and geology work for a few photos and a nice take-in of the view.
Tracy’s Rock, Day 3
Out in the distance, the command module America as seen from the Lunar Module Challenger and the landing site below in the Taurus Littrow valley,The three 10,000ft+ peaks quite visible from a good telescope on earth
Gene Cernan on Day 2 getting the rover ready for an 8 hour work day in damp jet cool underwear and rays of sun.
Cernan dusting off rover camera. “Can I change your oil?” -Cernan
Gene using a 500mm telephoto lens.
Setting up experiments. Getting the rover checked out. Home is where you make it. Day 1
Setting up experiments. Home is where you make it. Day 1“Astronaut scissors” are actually just medical tools refurbished for spaceflight. If you’re a real nerd you can find pairs like these on Ebay. Now days they just use EMT sheers but the old heavy polished chrome scissors still appear in the ISS once a while.
A picture of a human occupied moon (Two whole people and one guy in orbit) framed with Icy Illinois trees December 1972.
Looking back at the landing site, this was one of the last up close views the crew had of the landing site before leaving Lunar orbit back to Earth.
BLASTED with sun, taking the very brunt of extreme temperatures and vacuum of space and temperatures,getting weathered by dust and rocks; Gene Cernan was all safe inside this helmet peering out into the Lunar world.
romping on the moon (What looks like Gene singing is actually handing a bag to Jack Schmitt)
A chilly December back on Earth,Looking out the LM window at a warm “spring day” and the hum of an air conditioner on the moon.
One of the last views out the window a few hours before liftoff. Contrary to movies, they didn't just hop in and leave, they would sleep for hours and prepare the next day (whenever they awoke from sleep) for return to the command module. Until then, they would look as much as possible, wishing they could go for just one more walk; knowing they would NEVER see this view again.
So many missions, so little time to remember them. Apollo 17...
Sometimes this is what both sides of my brain look like.
Keyhole
Annual rocket sound video. ((Earbuds required))
45 years...
looking back. May 5,2018.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZlAV7wkQM0
for the record
Mars seen from a tiny cubestat (MarCO)
feels
390,000 miles to go.
https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/
test
“We Launch at Dawn”
Apollo 8 crew. Jim Lovell, Bill Anders,Frank Boreman; October 1968.
The first three humans since creation PERIOD to completely LEAVE Earth (orbit and all)
They really were the FIRST if you ignore the landings after.
EPIC (head thrashing/neck problems)
mood
#gemini #astronautics
June 5, 2018 marked 50 years since the disappearance of A-12 pilot Jack Weeks. The lost Blackbird pilot.
http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/weeks.html