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What really gets me is how modern and futuristic the gear in the two photos of Cernan looks--although unfortunately we haven't had any contemporary lunar histor
by xxr 10y ago
What really gets me is how modern and futuristic the gear in the two photos of Cernan looks--although unfortunately we haven't had any contemporary lunar history to make anything from Apollo look old-fashioned (except for maybe the computers).
- rubidium 10y ago"It's almost as if JFK reached out into the twenty-first century where we are today, grabbed hold of a decade of time, slipped it neatly into the (nineteen) sixties and seventies (and) called it Apollo." - Cernan That quote stood out to me.
- yborg 10y agoCoincidentally, I was looking at my Plantronics headset today before this news came out, and was amused at the fact that it looked so similar to the Mission Control headsets of the 1960s. I then discovered that this is because Plantronics made those NASA headsets, as well as the "Snoopy cap" flight gear the astronauts used in space.