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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.

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Apollo 17 Moments of Interest / Re: More time corrections?

« Last post by bfeist on September 02, 2025, 06:42:37 pm »

Excellent work! If you'd like to contribute new timings for any of the photography on Apollo in Real Time, I can give you the excel spreadsheet that we process into the website timings. You can edit the timestamps there and I can get the changes onto the website.

Ben

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Apollo 17 Moments of Interest / More time corrections?

« Last post by onebigmonkey on September 02, 2025, 01:12:54 pm »

I spotted someone posting the view of Eaeth through the sextant telescope and noted the time stamp of 106:53:22.

My own studies of Earth images in Apollo 17 put that view at 084:47:19, where Evans references looking at Earth through the sextant adaptor.

The weather patterns in the image are a match for the Hasselblad photo AS17-148-22763.  Using weather satellite data (and following the sequence of Earth images as they go along) I've put that photo at 081:40:02, rather than the position you have it at, around 61 hours!

The crew describe the Iberian peninsula at 82 hours, something they wouldn't have been able to see at 61!

See here for my version of the sequence of events, which I'm always happy to correct if I'm wrong!

http://onebigmonkey.com/apollo/CATM2/A17/04/a17_day04.html

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Apollo General Discussion / Re: Apollo 12 launch EECOM loop?

« Last post by kendradog on May 28, 2025, 12:23:09 am »

Has the status of this NSF grant been changed either due to the passage of time or to recent general NSF grant issues?

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

« Last post by kendradog on May 28, 2025, 12:20:28 am »

Excellent find. There must have been conversations just like this for nearly every system, with John Aaron demanding power cuts to systems the specialists said could not be cut. By the way, the transcript has Flight Director Gene Kranz saying "Tell him if any other reconfiguration" at 139:14:41; that should be "TELMU, and other reconfiguration?" Gene always intercalates a shwa after the L in TELMU for some reason. Similarly, "Telling you?" at 139:15:40 should be "TELMU".

This is also a great clip for having both John Aaron and Sy Liebergot on there.

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Apollo General Discussion / Re: Other Apollo Missions

« Last post by Naraht on May 24, 2025, 11:50:00 am »

Apollo 16 is being digitized! This means that our project team could get access to the data this summer and begin creation of an Apollo 16 in Real Time.

Excellent news! Really looking forward to it. Do you have any idea of the status of the other missions?