Do you like astronomy, outer space, and/or astrophotography?
Please post your astrophotography here (and at other photography topics) if you so desire.
Chrissy
When I was a kid, my dad worked for NASA. He was an Electronics Engineer at the Mars Station (DSS-14) at the Goldstone Complex in the Mojave Desert in California.
https://www.gdscc.nasa.gov/index.php/antennas/
At the time, the Mars station was the largest movable (non-fixed) radio telescope in the world. He worked there during the Gemini and Apollo Missions, including during Neil Armstrong's walk on the Moon. He has a large certificate hanging on his wall signed by Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin, as well as the executives of NASA and JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratories). If I can find it, I'll post a picture of the certificate.
We would often get up early in the morning to watch rocket launches on TV. He has numerous photographs that were taken by space probe satellites of the Moon and other planets and pictures of the various antennas that were part of the Goldstone Complex.
My uncle, his brother, was convinced that the whole Moon Landing was faked. My dad explained to him what he personally witnessed which proves it happened. His brother is now a believer.
Maybe I will tell the story he told me at another time.
Quote from: Lori Dee on December 17, 2024, 07:23:58 PMWhen I was a kid, my dad worked for NASA. He was an Electronics Engineer at the Mars Station (DSS-14) at the Goldstone Complex in the Mojave Desert in California.
https://www.gdscc.nasa.gov/index.php/antennas/
At the time, the Mars station was the largest movable (non-fixed) radio telescope in the world. He worked there during the Gemini and Apollo Missions, including during Neil Armstrong's walk on the Moon. He has a large certificate hanging on his wall signed by Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin, as well as the executives of NASA and JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratories). If I can find it, I'll post a picture of the certificate.
We would often get up early in the morning to watch rocket launches on TV. He has numerous photographs that were taken by space probe satellites of the Moon and other planets and pictures of the various antennas that were part of the Goldstone Complex.
My uncle, his brother, was convinced that the whole Moon Landing was faked. My dad explained to him what he personally witnessed which proves it happened. His brother is now a believer.
Maybe I will tell the story he told me at another space...
Space. . . The final frontier.
Space is out of this world!
Quote from: ChrissyRyan on December 17, 2024, 08:11:28 PMSpace is out of this world!
Not all of it. I know a lot of people who have plenty of it between their ears. ;D
Quote from: Lori Dee on December 17, 2024, 08:12:24 PMNot all of it. I know a lot of people who have plenty of it between their ears. ;D
Especially some "intelligent" PhDs, including some mudfuds.
*MudFuds have both the MD PhD
. . . Very little sense and too much pride is often the case. Not so for the good, down to earth ones!
I do like to watch tarot card readings for my sign from time to time for entertainment. Sometimes what they say is so spot on its crazy.
My wife is more into following the moon cycle cleansing crystals and using crystals. But other than following our astrological signs and a few other things that's about it.