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13 Minutes to the Moon podcast is also excellent for spaceflight nerds, as is the sequel that focuses on Apollo 13.
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Nice one, I’ll check that out.
Followed @psee lead with the 70’s vibe and picked up the TV dialled Seiko today.
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Cool watch, great story!
@TRA that link pretty much covered the history although the Speedmaster in various guises was also the chosen watch in NASA tests in 1970 and again in 1978. What you mention about legibility in a shaking capsule is quite funny because it played an absolutely critical role in timing 14 second booster thrusts to get the Apollo 13 lunar module on the necessary trajectory to return to Earth when the mission went majorly wrong.
I know it’s a pricey book but Moonwatch Only still gets regular reading and if you can stomach Tom Hanks then the film Apollo 13 is fascinating insight into the madness that is space travel.