30 minutes ago, philipsharpe said:

Wrong century mate.

Clearly not so sharpe

So far the video of earth while about 150 miles away has been underwhelming...1990's web cam quality !!!

but I just heard them ( mission control)

saying that they want priority on sending back the exciting earth photos from early on in the mission..I have to say that I'm surprised that they have such limited bandwidth that they can't send files, flight data and voice at the same time without glitching out..I had expected full HD footage like Elon Musk is capable of streaming from his launches.

They also have a malfunctioning toilet,dirty windows a broken DVD recorder ?..leaky faucet

low cabin pressure false alarm during the 'trans burn' but other than that all's well 😋

here the 'live' feed

17 minutes ago, johng said:

So far the video of earth while about 150 miles away has been underwhelming...1990's web cam quality !!!

but I just heard them ( mission control)

saying that they want priority on sending back the exciting earth photos from early on in the mission..I have to say that I'm surprised that they have such limited bandwidth that they can't send files, flight data and voice at the same time without glitching out..I had expected full HD footage like Elon Musk is capable of streaming from his launches.

They also have a malfunctioning toilet,dirty windows a broken DVD recorder ?..leaky faucet

low cabin pressure false alarm during the 'trans burn' but other than that all's well 😋

here the 'live' feed

With list of identified problems already I wonder if the designers were seconded in after the Gerald Ford carrier completion ?

A faulty toilet for four people inside a sealed tin can? And the high tech DVD recorder ?

Hard to attract attention by waving out the dirty window!

Ah well. As distractions go this one is low key.

5 hours ago, dinsdale said:

The launch was massive sadly the camera work and direction team left a lot to be desired e.g. they showed a crowd shot (human interest) as the boosters separated.

Give them a break.

The photographers from the first moon landing are either retired or dead.

The cameras they used in 1960 are no longer serviceable.

No way they could get a good shot with today's cameras. 😀

6 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Could have just hired someone like a modern day Stanley Kubrick and taken a few dodgy photos, same as last time.

Dint forget the extras...and the physical special effects for a public launch.

2 hours ago, johng said:

Elon Musk is capable of streaming

Maybe his was fake?

4 minutes ago, kwilco said:

Maybe his was fake?

Probably as it was too clean/good... when I first saw the first stage rocket do a vertical landing

on a ship in the ocean I was amazed...saw another one today.

2 hours ago, johng said:

Probably as it was too clean/good... when I first saw the first stage rocket do a vertical landing

on a ship in the ocean I was amazed...saw another one today.

just like Thunderbirds!

I heard this was going to be a first for this nasa launch. I remember way back in 48 about the first primate launched into high subspace, although not a space flight, was Albert I, a rhesus macaque, who on June 18, 1948, rode a rocket flight to over 63 km (39 mi) in Earth's atmosphere on a V-2 rocket. The U.S. has been experimenting with monkeys in space for decades.

23 minutes ago, kwilco said:

just like Thunderbirds!

Yep quite amazing..and the point being that they have much better quality video than NASA

does for routine satellite launches VS 'mankind's epic return to the moon'.

23 minutes ago, Screaming said:

U.S. has been experimenting with monkeys in space for decades.

Quite !

But the Russians beat them into 'proper' space.

9 hours ago, philipsharpe said:

Wrong century mate.

are you not aware of th history?

43 minutes ago, kwilco said:

are you not aware of th history?

No Germans or Nazis in the 21st century.

9 hours ago, Stocky said:

Clearly not so sharpe

We're in the 21st century - where are the Nazis?

6 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Give them a break.

The photographers from the first moon landing are either retired or dead.

The cameras they used in 1960 are no longer serviceable.

No way they could get a good shot with today's cameras. 😀

Did you watch the moon landing in 1969? It was nothing but a fuzzy image. In the 1960's they use film cameras and the film was processed after the fact. If you would like to see the stunning film footage, watch this documentary.

https://www.amazon.com/Apollo-11-Todd-Douglas-Miller/dp/B07RDY2QF1/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=1330409633684704&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.QnJPmLvPJKYdiayn7OXS9poUh8ukoAq2DVGTHmDDFFTAgJSO06J7bQJnWtx7JhVVcWY0kRfrISfboTPlOELu7nJMLI31v9D3rvtMEenrU_-M31qpE4bKpRezbwGACWPC55PvQ19_-ar-SK6GXRYdtoPgNq-ODkGrIFTE9fz95eImSL5KOMAu-C-Rk-O2dvjMZiCZ3iMbKaIOmSfJKZFQl3RDRQNzHebxnf4zNNnP_gU.lsKxuRPU2hIBILX2MTOfr8om9LMJKMTK_zi48Pb3ez8&dib_tag=se&hvadid=83150989999444&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=91490&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvtargid=kwd-83150945069348%3Aloc-190&hydadcr=17069_13651740&keywords=apollo+11+documentary&mcid=1a0c37daca423c5789b35ee2c600d219&msclkid=9f5054f127dd1bd615203d3e99f8800f&qid=1775222315&s=movies-tv&sr=1-1

11 minutes ago, philipsharpe said:

We're in the 21st century - where are the Nazis?

Ukraine and South America..maybe a few left at NASA ??

3 hours ago, philipsharpe said:

No Germans or Nazis in the 21st century.

WHAT????? - are you deaf and blind?????

3 hours ago, philipsharpe said:

No Germans or Nazis in the 21st century.

Do you realise who the scientists were who started the US space program? Have you never heard of Operation Paperclip?

This NASA rocket has roughly HALF the power of Elon's latest creation.

IMHO.....

ELON should be given MUCH more funding.....

He does not waste money.

He does get results.

I love Elon.

4 hours ago, philipsharpe said:

We're in the 21st century - where are the Nazis?

Here.

They are here.

Please check this satellite image.....

13 hours ago, philipsharpe said:

We're in the 21st century - where are the Nazis?

Sadly not in short supply.

However, my comment on 'diversity hire' was to point out that the original space programme wasn't exactly 100% home grown, but also relied heavily on 'diversity hire' in the shape of numerous German rocket scientists, freshly laundered and sanitised of their Nazi past.

23 hours ago, kwilco said:

Dint forget the extras...and the physical special effects for a public launch.

Oh come on. The wind always blows for the stars and stripes.

Even on the moon.

35 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Oh come on. The wind always blows for the stars and stripes.

Even on the moon.

And Jonny goes deeper into conspiracy land. It is not just lunatic right wing anti immigrant conspiracies that you believe, wow. It's worse than I thought.

4 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

And Jonny goes deeper into conspiracy land. It is not just lunatic right wing anti immigrant conspiracies that you believe, wow. It's worse than I thought.

It is of no surprise to me that you believe the wind blows on the moon, bloggs.

In fact, it is one of your more sensible opinions. 😀

6 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

It is of no surprise to me that you believe the wind blows on the moon, bloggs.

In fact, it is one of your more sensible opinions. 😀

It was not "blowing in the wind".

So you believe that hundreds of thousands of people have all been involved in the lie even to the day they died. And Russia never accused it of being a fake, nor anyone else (apart from internet loonies). For 50+ years.

And China, India, Korea, and other countries have photographed the US landing sites and the equipment left behind. And they have published these photos. Is China in on the hoax too? All these countries are fabricating photos to help support a 50 year old lie of their political enemy?

Do you also believe the moon is hollow and rings like a bell?

Now I know why you are taken in by everything Farage and Yaxley-Lennon say, you believe any old conspiracy, even completely ludicrous ones that are incredibly easy to dispel by anyone with an ounce of intelligence, or anyone with even a modicum of intelligent reasoning.

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/space-astronomy/moon-landing-conspiracy-theories-debunked

I didn't realise the space station was a hoax...did you?

On 4/3/2026 at 8:13 AM, JonnyF said:

Could have just hired someone like a modern day Stanley Kubrick and taken a few dodgy photos, same as last time.

Talking of dodgy photos.

the earth is eclipsing the sun but the opposite side is fully illuminated ??

https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/journey-to-the-moon/

8 minutes ago, johng said:

Talking of dodgy photos.

the earth is eclipsing the sun but the opposite side is fully illuminated ??

https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/journey-to-the-moon/

Wow, you've got them!! It's fake!! They never even took off, all the videos are AI.

AN has the best super sleuths.

3 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

Wow, you've got them!!

Obviously the super reflective spaceship is illuminating the 'dark side' of the earth

you conspiracy theorist you 😋

Note the earth eclipses the sun.??????

"NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right and bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun."

27 minutes ago, johng said:

Note the earth eclipses the sun.??????

Are you saying the earth can't eclipse the sun? Bear in mind they are not on the earth. It's quite simple. Anything can “eclipse” the Sun, it just has to be between you and it.