NASA show and tell

21Jul09

On Friday I had a NASA scientist lying around the house, so I encouraged the youngest Chip off the Old Hack to take him into class for a bit of show and tell. There was a moment of struggle, with some muttering about being an engineer and not a scientist. But through my finely calibrated manoeuvring of a Ford Galaxy, the Eagle landed at T minus 10 mins, with USB memory stick in pocket, loaded with images for an estimated 15-minute presentation. Eager questioning from 32 curious nine-year-olds turned this into more than an hour. One small step…

In my capacity as taxi-driver and provider of rocket fuel, I facilitated a prime-time public service. What goes around doesn’t necessarily come around, however; searching the TV schedules yesterday for child-friendly space programmage led into the void.

Perhaps it doesn’t matter any more. You should just record stuff. Later in the evening the documentary/drama Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 came on, but this overlapped later on and after midnight with In The Shadow Of The Moon. This I managed to record to PC, along with two mistaken hours of “live” Big Brother and a Whoopi Goldberg movie. There goes the hard drive. But, if it was worth putting a man on the moon, forty years later you might reasonably expect the public service broadcasters to do a better job, particularly to inspire kids on the road to knowledge acquisition.

But don’t despair. Sometimes that which is lost and broken resurfaces. The BBC did perform its civic duty on Saturday morning by interviewing film director Theo Kamecke. He had been invited by NASA to make a so-called time-capsule documentary of the Apollo 11 mission. Even NASA’s PR seemed to understand that it would get ignored once it appeared, because the public would by then be all mooned out. And so it was. Languishing for nearly four decades, Moonwalk One was rediscovered by the makers of In The Shadow Of The Moon. It has been given a digital dusting off and released on a collectable DVD.

CNN provides three minutes with Kamecke here, where he talks about the smell of fear and the contribution of little old ladies to the space race:-

[16.01.10 Addendum: the video above seems to have been withdrawn, but a full video of Moonwalk One looks like it was made available in the past 10 days, and so is now pasted below.]

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1 Alison on Jul 21st, 2009 said:

Fascinating. Just ordered Moonwalk One for him indoors.
2 knackeredhack on Jul 21st, 2009 said:

Alison

I am poised to do the same, although rather worried about the large number of other things in that Amazon basket
3 DaveH on Aug 19th, 2009 said:

Tim – not sure if you attended the Taleb/Cameron appearance last night, but the Guardian's reaction is "interesting", particularly if you search its website for "Taleb" and compare the comments about him now with how he was being described a few months ago…
4 DaveH on Aug 19th, 2009 said:

Tim – not sure if you attended the Taleb/Cameron appearance last night, but the Guardian's reaction is "interesting", particularly if you search its website for "Taleb" and compare the comments about him now with how he was being described a few months ago…
5 knackeredhack on Aug 19th, 2009 said:

DaveH,

I was not there. Looks like a backlash, if I picked up on what you meant. But if you check out Taleb's homepage, he is saying his comments on climate change and crashes were misrepresented. For a long time, I've heard his mantra to be "don't mess with a complex system" implicit in which is a deeply ecological/environmental engagement. I suppose these reactions reflect his increasing popularity and perhaps an inevitable involvement in the media and politics. My cautious advice in that regard would be "don't mess with a binary system"

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Aside from Armstrong , are the next one who visited the moon?

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