The SpaceX Dragon capsule just flew past my house on its way to a splash down near San Diego. Way more impressive in person that on the video: very fast, bright and sparkly. youtu.be/6DZIp4GbmDk

SpaceX Dragon Reentry Jan 15 12:35 am seen from Menlo Park, CA

YouTube video by CuriousMarc2

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We'll be premiering our DSKY restoration video this Sat. 03/15 at 4pm Pacific Time youtu.be/vA0l_xvBmug . Spoiler: it works great.

Apollo DSKY Full Restoration (Apollo DSKY - part 2)

YouTube video by CuriousMarc

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Is that our DSKY? This semi-sacrilegious and unsettling painting of Neil Armstrong by artist Kyle Allen has Marcel's DSKY on it. Even more unsettling, it shows it lighting up and showing 1202, just like in our video, but way before the video was filmed. Are we manipulated by the Matrix?

Coming back to Earth. These cartoons are very technically exact.

Got bored on the Moon, coming back up for the rendez-vous with the command module.

Hey, we're landing!

Oh, the cartoon Apollo launch keeps going. Here is TLI (Trans Lunar Injection)

Panel 12 on the BOOSTER console has basically one light for each ascent event on this chart:

One more console draw up, BOOSTER. That's the flight controller that was in charge of the Saturn V. Many buttons and indicators on this one. My fav panel is 12 on the upper right, 72 indicators with each step of the ascent. Full details and hi res on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/apollo...

Here is a good view of the flight director's console during Apollo 13, with Gene Kranz looking at Fred Haise in a live video on the large Eidophor screen. This must be a few minutes pre-accident, which happened just after the end of the live video.

And here is the Flight Director console. It's one of the simplest ones. It just has the status report of the other flight controllers and some special abort buttons. High resolution picture and details on how it worked available on Patreon.

I'm redrawing the Apollo control consoles with the correct buttons, in preparation for my next video(s). Soooo many buttons! Here is Console 49A, where data for later uplink to the AGC (know as "loads") was prepared. Hi res pic and details of how they worked on Patreon.