July 21st (in this country) 1969 - A human put a boot-print on a place other than Earth. The Sea of Tranquility, on our moon. Go outside and look at it. A big brilliant white ball that hangs in our skies at night. There’s a small round grey patch, just left of centre, just above the equator. That is Mare Tranquilitatis. There, 39 years ago, a man climbed down a ladder, stood, for a moment, on the one of the spacecrafts footpads - stuck the toe of one boot into the grey shadowed soil, then his whole foot, and then picked up his other foot and stood - for the first time - on another body. He and a colleague spent a few short hours walking around, taking photographs, collecting samples, before climbing back into the spacecraft, launching back into orbit, rendezvousing with their faithful friend, and coming home.
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This is barely a blog at the moment with all my efforts going toward this weekends Mars Live event, but they were kind enough to mention my HiRISE work all the same - plenty of good space related blogness is on this weeks carnival
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Some years ago, a rather outspoken UMSF member got the unceremonious boot. A few members disagreed with that decision, but were kind enough to say ‘OK - if that’s what you think is best for the forum’. It was. A forum is a unique being, I’ve spent a lot of time on a few different ones which have covered a fairly wide variety of subjects ( motor racing, computer games, computing, spaceflight etc ) and a wide variety of rules ( from the strict, to the anarchic ). I would like to think that ten years of reading posting and moderating forums has given me the chance to develop an experience base of what does and doesn’t make the sort of forum UMSF needs to be
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