Go for launch

[vilakins]

W00t! We have "console" seats for Apollo 13 - Mission Control on 15 August, which means we'll be flicking switches and saying lines. The consoles look like this (flash, a few seconds to load). I'm taking a camera. :-D

I forgot to mention one of the items in the 40-year-old moon-landing newspapers was a Giles cartoon. It showed the Giles father standing at the door saying "Earth man is home and wants his dinner" to the family gathered round the TV set. I hope the grandmother jammed a fish bowl over his head and told him he was on the wrong planet.

Comments

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

That sounds awesome!!

And I know that Giles cartoon (we have heaps of the annuals)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Sadly I couldn't find it on the site. My father had all the annuals and I adored them even though I didn't know what boat shows and other English institutions were all about. I have about five; I have no idea what happened to the others.