Saturday, September 15, 2012

When computers were for sissies

Saw this Gemini spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Centre.
Humans went into space in these things back in the sixties.
The controls look like some old penny arcade game and
there's no room to move at all. Makes you realise how primitive
early technology was and the kinds of risks Armstrong and the like
were prepared to take in the name of science.

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Head in the clouds

Ah, true love! Someone wrote their girlfriend's
name across the sky! Pity he didn't spell it right
(I bet Mabel was furious)