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Apollo 13 Moments of Interest / 016:58:12 The only time Failure IS an Option

« Last post by ApolloMission8 on November 05, 2025, 06:49:50 pm »

Distant crash
Stand by, we just had a failure over here - Let's see if Joe clobbered himself
*I'm alright*

Link: https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/?t=016:58:12&ch=50

I'm guessing Joe is CapCom Joe Kerwin? Although he doesn't officially take over as CapCom until just before 22 hours GET, so it may be someone else. 

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Apollo 13 Moments of Interest / 094:44:49 Slayton hasn't paid his taxes

« Last post by ApolloMission8 on November 03, 2025, 02:36:59 pm »

Link: https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/?t=094:44:49&ch=14

Marge Slayton calls Deke from the Lovell's house to tell him that the income tax paperwork got delivered and has to be signed/mailed out today; Deke says he'll get an extension.
Marge also says that Marilyn had just gotten back from visiting Mrs. Lovell (Jim's mom), and asked if there were any updates, then said she'll be visiting Mary (presumably Mary Haise, Fred's wife) next.

Later, at 096:40:34 Deke makes a call to ask for an extension.
https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/?t=096:40:34&ch=14

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ISS General Discussion / Re: Science Moments

« Last post by bfeist on October 28, 2025, 04:25:22 pm »

Awesome finds! If you work at NASA, message me internally and I can show you the video feeds that haven't been exported yet.

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ISS General Discussion / Re: Science Moments

« Last post by spasmunkey on October 28, 2025, 02:41:35 pm »

Exp 48 Kate Rubins talking with NASA's Kristen John about the Biomolecular Sequencer investigation.

At this moment, Kate sequenced DNA for the first time on ISS.

https://issinrealtime.org/2016-08-26T16:34:06

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ISS General Discussion / Science Moments

« Last post by spasmunkey on October 28, 2025, 01:59:40 pm »

Exp48  Kate Rubins talking with BioServe's Shankini Doraisingam about the Heart Cells investigation - the first long duration cell culture performed on ISS.

At this moment, Kate had put the heart cells under the microscope and both she and the ground can see them "beating"

https://issinrealtime.org/2016-07-27T11:16:40

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ISS General Discussion / Re: ISS in Real Time is coming soon!

« Last post by bfeist on October 27, 2025, 10:05:30 am »

We're live at https://issinrealtime.org

An article was just released about it too:
https://www.collectspace.com/news/news-102725a-iss-in-real-time-25-years-continuous-human-occupancy-space-station.html

And I wrote up a blog post about making it:
https://benfeist.com/posts/iss-in-real-time/

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ISS General Discussion / Re: ISS in Real Time is coming soon!

« Last post by Naraht on October 27, 2025, 07:37:09 am »

I am intrigued. Presumably this will be REAL real time. Look forward to finding out more.

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Apollo General Discussion / Re: Other Apollo Missions

« Last post by Naraht on October 23, 2025, 04:10:22 am »

The NSF grant information says the end date for the project is now July 2025.

Well, the NSF grant seems to have been extended AGAIN. Now is listed as "June 30, 2026 (Estimated)."

At least they haven't given up yet?

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ISS General Discussion / ISS in Real Time is coming soon!

« Last post by bfeist on October 12, 2025, 12:09:41 pm »

ISS in Real Time, a new website, will be going online soon! Stay tuned.

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Apollo 13 Moments of Interest / Re: 139:13:22 John Aaron proposes unthinkable power-saving solution

« Last post by MadDogBV on September 26, 2025, 09:09:17 am »

Liebergot and Aaron were like two peas in a pod. Liebergot actually was the scheduled Maroon Team EECOM prior to John Aaron coming aboard. But I don't think there would have been any man alive who would have kept Sy from remaining in the control center for the re-entry shift, given that he had been on duty during the start of the O2 crisis. He was also one of the most experienced EECOMs who wasn't in the SPAN, so it made sense to have him there.