Launch date: May 18, 1969 Landing date: May 26, 1969
Apollo 10 was the second crewed mission (after Apollo 8) to orbit the Moon and the first to travel to the Moon with the full Apollo spacecraft: Command and Lunar Modules.
The primary objectives of the mission were to demonstrate crew, space vehicle, and mission support facilities during a manned lunar mission and to evaluate the Lunar Module during lunar environment. The mission was the last one to carry out the crucial series of tests before attending the first Moon landing; in fact it was a full “dry run” for the Apollo 11 mission, in which all operations except the actual lunar landing were performed.
Apollo 10 took off on May 18, 1969, heading to the Moon. Tom Stafford and John Young took their Lunar Module, called Snoopy, to within 10 miles (16 km) of a touchdown, but there was never any intention of “going all the way” during this mission. NASA needed to be sure that the different stages between the CM and LM could be conducted safely above the lunar surface, just in case some kind of an emergency occurred during a descent.
Watching through the windows of Command Module, called Charlie Brown, John Young watched Snoopy glittering in the sunlight 80 miles (130 km) below him. When the time came for Snoopy’s ascent stage to make the climb back to Charlie Brown’s orbital altitude, the guidance computer experienced momentary confusion. The down-facing radas was processing data about lunar surface, while the up-facing radas was looking for Charlie Brown. A mispositioned switch caused two conflicting computer routines to run simultaneously. Snoopy became crazy, bucking and spinning, literally not sure whether it was trying to get away from the Moon or drop down toward it. Luckily Cernan and Stafford regained control and the computer was stabilised. Cernan said afterward, “I saw the lunar horizon go by about seven or eight times in 10 seconds, and that’s a hair-raising experience.”
To mention something curious, back on 2016 mission Apollo 10 was on the news again because new radio conversations on the mission were declassified and a TV show broadcasted in Discovery News suggested that the crew witnessed mysterious or alien signal while they were on the far side of the Moon. Far for being true, this music were actually radio interferences between the CM and LM.
On May 26 the spaceship returned to Earth setting a Guinness World Record for the highest speed attained by a manned vehicle (39,897 km/h) and splashed down in the Pacific ocean at 400 miles east of American Samoa.
After this mission, all was set, tested and calibrated for the Great Leap in the next mission. Alea iacta est!
Eugene A. Cernan – John W. Young – Thomas P. Stafford
Sometimes it is hard to know the truth or have a strong opinion when the facts are either hidden from vast public, involves a massive social controversy or there are strong reasons from any of the parts involved to get some kind of profit.
I feel like this since early this week when I watched the controversy HBO’s documentary Leaving Neverland. It tells the confessions and experiences of two men that were supposedly sexually abused as children by Michael Jackson. It is a 4 hour documentary (split in two parts) with very hard moments and, in my opinion, leaves in you a lot of questions and a duality almost impossible to clarify.
Like many people around the globe, I consider Michael Jackson as one of the pillars in music history; one of the greatest in all time and probably the most prominent musician who changed the music business we know today. He was on top since he was a child till his dead and he influenced all the generations from grandchildren to grandparents. Since I was a child (exactly the same age as these two man in the documentary) I was hooked by his music, impossible dances and shows. Anyway, I am not saying something new… this was the same for almost everyone.
In my opinion there is no such big popular icon like him nowadays. This might be one of the reasons why very young people cannot understand this story, M.J.’s live and what I am trying to say.
If you watch the documentary blindly, it is like to throw a bucket of cold water over your head. The truth is that back in the 90’s and early 21st. century decade the world got shocked by the allegations against M.J. for sexual abuse to children. We all remember the news and the images on court. Although he was sentenced not guilty in both occasions, this hugely damaged his image and the world split in two since then: (a) people who support his innocence and that these allegations were part of a plot to get money, and (b) people believing he was a pederast monster behind a genius.
What is the real truth here? Was Michael Jackson a real monster destroying children and their families with his sickness or this is a new attempt from people to make money and profit from the greatest icon in modern history? After watching the documentary, most of the people would say: “Well, where there’s smoke…there’s fire” and I understand it. But I do not have a clear opinion. The moments that I was trying to see if all of this was true, I asked myself: “If this is true… what is wrong with the World then? How did we allow it to happen?”. But these things only can be cleared with M.J., and he is dead; meaning he cannot defend himself or be questioned anymore.
What will remain as unquestionable would be his music legacy and his legendary history. His “star” as a person however, it is something that will be questioned forever.
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In 1990 Alvin Toffler (best known for his book Future Shock) wrote a book called “Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century” (Goodreads). In that book, Toffler described three types of power:
Force (physical power)
Wealth (economic power)
Knowledge (the power of information)
Or, as it is better described on his chapter 2: Muscle, Money and Mind.
After the first decade of 21st Century, I would add one more type: Deception.
Since several years back the access to information has become massively fast and easy. One person can access to old and new information in a matter of minutes (or seconds) with one hand. The growth of Internet, information services and social media engineered to connect everyone with everyone helped to share what is happening in one remote part of the World with everyone around the glove in just a few minutes. This is so big that nowadays news agencies and newspapers are way behind of spreading breaking news as they cannot keep up with the pace of how news are shared through Internet. And the true is that today, every person with a mobile or computer with Internet access is a real “news agency”.
In my opinion this is great. Never in history we had such a big megaphone for the people and the opportunity to (a) spread any news which is happening in real time and (b) access to most of human knowledge everywhere.
But as always, every great advance has its drawback. The nature of Internet is to be open and democratic; and although some countries try to block and control it, they will be putting doors to the field. This will give an advantage for some people to spread false information intentionally and hide it with half trues; doing it in a smart way and continuously so false news will easily become true news where even the most prestigious newspapers will print their front page with them.
Fake news are now a fact when a couple of years back no one believed this can be happening. Today a normal person can have a big audience of several thousand people who can read/watch/listen what this person says (think in an average youtuber or blogger who easily can reach these numbers of followers). This is power and as all kind of power can be used wisely or foolishly.
Here is where deception comes out strong. The era of information we are living on is sometimes used to spread hoaxes and frame an illusion to the wide audience that is built to generate some kind of benefit to the ones orchestrating it. We have recent examples with the new populism used with some politicians and successfully achieved their goals: Trump campaign, Brexit and recent VOX campaign in Spain are good examples of it.
This is a very interesting and complex topic: why people are blindly following ideas that, when they are deeply analysed are smoke bombs? What I think about this is that people do not well understand some topics, they build an opinion under their own logic, share this opinion to a wide audience and there are other people who believe them. This make a perfect primordial soup for guiding and manipulate thoughts if someone knows how to build a masterplan for this.
Sometimes can be difficult to scape from these trends. However I believe there are ways not to fall on this; one simple way is to contrast the news with different sources, find the original source and most important COMMON SENSE; even if its definition is changing… But this is a different story for another post.
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Apollo 10 – The Dressed Rehearsal
Launch date: May 18, 1969
Landing date: May 26, 1969
Apollo 10 was the second crewed mission (after Apollo 8) to orbit the Moon and the first to travel to the Moon with the full Apollo spacecraft: Command and Lunar Modules.
The primary objectives of the mission were to demonstrate crew, space vehicle, and mission support facilities during a manned lunar mission and to evaluate the Lunar Module during lunar environment. The mission was the last one to carry out the crucial series of tests before attending the first Moon landing; in fact it was a full “dry run” for the Apollo 11 mission, in which all operations except the actual lunar landing were performed.
Apollo 10 took off on May 18, 1969, heading to the Moon. Tom Stafford and John Young took their Lunar Module, called Snoopy, to within 10 miles (16 km) of a touchdown, but there was never any intention of “going all the way” during this mission. NASA needed to be sure that the different stages between the CM and LM could be conducted safely above the lunar surface, just in case some kind of an emergency occurred during a descent.
Watching through the windows of Command Module, called Charlie Brown, John Young watched Snoopy glittering in the sunlight 80 miles (130 km) below him. When the time came for Snoopy’s ascent stage to make the climb back to Charlie Brown’s orbital altitude, the guidance computer experienced momentary confusion. The down-facing radas was processing data about lunar surface, while the up-facing radas was looking for Charlie Brown. A mispositioned switch caused two conflicting computer routines to run simultaneously. Snoopy became crazy, bucking and spinning, literally not sure whether it was trying to get away from the Moon or drop down toward it. Luckily Cernan and Stafford regained control and the computer was stabilised. Cernan said afterward, “I saw the lunar horizon go by about seven or eight times in 10 seconds, and that’s a hair-raising experience.”
To mention something curious, back on 2016 mission Apollo 10 was on the news again because new radio conversations on the mission were declassified and a TV show broadcasted in Discovery News suggested that the crew witnessed mysterious or alien signal while they were on the far side of the Moon. Far for being true, this music were actually radio interferences between the CM and LM.
On May 26 the spaceship returned to Earth setting a Guinness World Record for the highest speed attained by a manned vehicle (39,897 km/h) and splashed down in the Pacific ocean at 400 miles east of American Samoa.
After this mission, all was set, tested and calibrated for the Great Leap in the next mission. Alea iacta est!
Crew
Mission Insignia
Unveil or Show-biz?
Sometimes it is hard to know the truth or have a strong opinion when the facts are either hidden from vast public, involves a massive social controversy or there are strong reasons from any of the parts involved to get some kind of profit.
I feel like this since early this week when I watched the controversy HBO’s documentary Leaving Neverland. It tells the confessions and experiences of two men that were supposedly sexually abused as children by Michael Jackson. It is a 4 hour documentary (split in two parts) with very hard moments and, in my opinion, leaves in you a lot of questions and a duality almost impossible to clarify.
Like many people around the globe, I consider Michael Jackson as one of the pillars in music history; one of the greatest in all time and probably the most prominent musician who changed the music business we know today. He was on top since he was a child till his dead and he influenced all the generations from grandchildren to grandparents. Since I was a child (exactly the same age as these two man in the documentary) I was hooked by his music, impossible dances and shows. Anyway, I am not saying something new… this was the same for almost everyone.
In my opinion there is no such big popular icon like him nowadays. This might be one of the reasons why very young people cannot understand this story, M.J.’s live and what I am trying to say.
If you watch the documentary blindly, it is like to throw a bucket of cold water over your head. The truth is that back in the 90’s and early 21st. century decade the world got shocked by the allegations against M.J. for sexual abuse to children. We all remember the news and the images on court. Although he was sentenced not guilty in both occasions, this hugely damaged his image and the world split in two since then: (a) people who support his innocence and that these allegations were part of a plot to get money, and (b) people believing he was a pederast monster behind a genius.
What is the real truth here? Was Michael Jackson a real monster destroying children and their families with his sickness or this is a new attempt from people to make money and profit from the greatest icon in modern history? After watching the documentary, most of the people would say: “Well, where there’s smoke…there’s fire” and I understand it. But I do not have a clear opinion. The moments that I was trying to see if all of this was true, I asked myself: “If this is true… what is wrong with the World then? How did we allow it to happen?”. But these things only can be cleared with M.J., and he is dead; meaning he cannot defend himself or be questioned anymore.
What will remain as unquestionable would be his music legacy and his legendary history. His “star” as a person however, it is something that will be questioned forever.
(dis)Information is Power
In 1990 Alvin Toffler (best known for his book Future Shock) wrote a book called “Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century” (Goodreads). In that book, Toffler described three types of power:
Or, as it is better described on his chapter 2: Muscle, Money and Mind.
After the first decade of 21st Century, I would add one more type: Deception.
Since several years back the access to information has become massively fast and easy. One person can access to old and new information in a matter of minutes (or seconds) with one hand. The growth of Internet, information services and social media engineered to connect everyone with everyone helped to share what is happening in one remote part of the World with everyone around the glove in just a few minutes. This is so big that nowadays news agencies and newspapers are way behind of spreading breaking news as they cannot keep up with the pace of how news are shared through Internet. And the true is that today, every person with a mobile or computer with Internet access is a real “news agency”.
In my opinion this is great. Never in history we had such a big megaphone for the people and the opportunity to (a) spread any news which is happening in real time and (b) access to most of human knowledge everywhere.
But as always, every great advance has its drawback. The nature of Internet is to be open and democratic; and although some countries try to block and control it, they will be putting doors to the field. This will give an advantage for some people to spread false information intentionally and hide it with half trues; doing it in a smart way and continuously so false news will easily become true news where even the most prestigious newspapers will print their front page with them.
Fake news are now a fact when a couple of years back no one believed this can be happening. Today a normal person can have a big audience of several thousand people who can read/watch/listen what this person says (think in an average youtuber or blogger who easily can reach these numbers of followers). This is power and as all kind of power can be used wisely or foolishly.
Here is where deception comes out strong. The era of information we are living on is sometimes used to spread hoaxes and frame an illusion to the wide audience that is built to generate some kind of benefit to the ones orchestrating it. We have recent examples with the new populism used with some politicians and successfully achieved their goals: Trump campaign, Brexit and recent VOX campaign in Spain are good examples of it.
This is a very interesting and complex topic: why people are blindly following ideas that, when they are deeply analysed are smoke bombs? What I think about this is that people do not well understand some topics, they build an opinion under their own logic, share this opinion to a wide audience and there are other people who believe them. This make a perfect primordial soup for guiding and manipulate thoughts if someone knows how to build a masterplan for this.
Sometimes can be difficult to scape from these trends. However I believe there are ways not to fall on this; one simple way is to contrast the news with different sources, find the original source and most important COMMON SENSE; even if its definition is changing… But this is a different story for another post.