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stoutfellow) wrote2019-10-30 09:05 pm
stoutfellow) wrote2019-10-30 09:05 pm
Time Passages
One of the books I'm currently reading is Michael Collins' _Carrying the Fire_, an autobiographical work on his career as a pilot and astronaut. It's not badly written, a good mix of human interest and technical detail.
The passage I just read told of the beginning of the Apollo 11 flight, including a description of the Command Module as the three of them climbed in. He spent a couple of pages on Velcro: what it is, how it works, and what it's good for. Of course, this was written in the early '70s, before the stuff became so widely used; it just struck me as interesting that he felt the need to explain this.
The passage I just read told of the beginning of the Apollo 11 flight, including a description of the Command Module as the three of them climbed in. He spent a couple of pages on Velcro: what it is, how it works, and what it's good for. Of course, this was written in the early '70s, before the stuff became so widely used; it just struck me as interesting that he felt the need to explain this.