Comments on: Review: Space Center Houston / NASA Tram Tour

By: Kev Moore

Kev Moore — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:37:16 +0000

I just adored visiting the Space Centre, as you say,visiting the VIP seats and peering into ACTUAL MISSION CONTROL was beyond words. I distinctly remember our family crashing in sleeping bags on the living room floor, watching man land on the moon as a wide-eyed 11 year-old boy. To be here was beyond awesome. Suffice to say, I have stumbled upon your site searching for sound bites related to space travel for a track on my next album “Blue Odyssey. It’s an instrumental called “Spaced” that will be overlayed with appropriate audio on the triumphs and failures, and I hope it will convey something of the sense of wonder that I felt that day.

By: subspace

subspace — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:26:01 +0000

Wait, no! I want to know more about this SOS thing! Crap, now I’m going to spend all day Googling it, aren’t I? Yes.

Also: good to hear from you, Valdez, very good.

By: Padawan Valdez

Padawan Valdez — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:03:03 +0000

Or should that be:

May the Fourth be with you ?

By: Padawan Valdez

Padawan Valdez — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:01:50 +0000

Hey, Sub. You heard the one about the two Italian brothers who hacked the Soviet telemetry back in the day? Hm, I’m not sure if “hacked” would be appropriate. “Hacksawed,” perhaps. Anyway, back in the late 50’s these two Turin bro’s built a radio array that let them pick up Gagarin’s flight. And Laika’s. And a couple of transmissions in between, including an SOS and what sounded like labored breathing. Like, slowly suffocating labored.

One more thing, apparently the SOS, which came first, didn’t Doppler properly. It moved way too slowly and got fainter. I know I don’t need to tell you what that means, but here goes anyway: the signal was moving slowly away from Earth. I don’t know any good books to recommend on the subject, but if you can get your hands on Fortean Times ish #233, it’s a fascinating article. And if you can’t get yer hands on that, drop me a line. You know where.

The Force will be with you. Always.

By: xadrian

xadrian — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:01:30 +0000

I lived in Houston for a few years and we did the tour too. When I was little we did the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and as a boy scout (yeah, no kidding) I got to tour Martin-Marietta while they were working on, if I remember correctly, Atlantis. This was about six months before Challenger. I was a big space nerd. This was really fun to read and well written, brought back some nice memories. Thanks for that.

By: subspace

subspace — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:16:22 +0000

Holy macaroni! A deep thanks for stopping by, sir or madam!

I mean this in the most sincere way a blog comment can allow: visiting JSC was by far one of the highlights of my life. This goes a great deal toward explaining our frustration with Charlie: I would clean toilets at JSC if it meant playing role (however small) in space exploration, and watching someone not feel the same was hard.

Goodness gracious I’m totally geeking out right now. NASA employee on our website! The heat of my blushing is going to wreck my laptop.

By: NASA JSC employee

NASA JSC employee — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:47:31 +0000

This post cracked me up. Glad to see at least some of the general public is still enthusiastic about what we do. Sorry Charlie was such a peon – I hope he’s in the minority of the employees at Space Center Houston. Personally, I’m like you and think what we do is SO COOL I get geeked when I get to talk about it. Anyway, good post.

By: aargh

aargh — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:34:04 +0000

Any place that has an exhibit containing the sentence, “She read using only the light from Earth.” should be treated with eternal awe and reverence.