One of the main purposes of the Monthly Historical Documents Program/APR Patreon is to get rare aerospace items from eBay. These items are then made available to subscribers/patrons via monthly votes and catalogs.
Below are some of the items I’ve recently paid for (though not as yet received). If you are interested in getting high-rez scans and/or helping me save these sort of things for future generations (as well as keeping my cats in food and litter), please consider signing up for the Monthly Historical Documents Program or the APR Patreon.
I swear, in broad daylight, the driver of the red truck had a red cap on with white letters. Conspiracy? Outright attempt at stealing the election by denying the access of the @USPS ? Let’s not let it happen! @JoeBidenpic.twitter.com/gG765Caldm
Biden – or at least the people marionetting him around – selected Kamala Harris as his VP yesterday. I suppose that’s news…. but with everything going on,both locally and in the wider world, I just can’t get my give-a-ᛋᚻᛁᛏ-generator running. Which, for all I know, might be what Biden’s folks kinda hoped. So I’ll just leave this here:
The surrounding area is still filled with blacked-out neighborhoods with no power or not internet or both, but somehow I’m back… at least for the moment. Huzzah.
The weather came through today and really did a number on the local power grid. I’m typing this on my phone, and will probably be otherwise offline for however many days it takes to get things up and running again. Emails, especially orders, will probably be spotty at best.
Guh. Netflix’s “Away” is about the first manned mission to Mars. This *should* be all about the thrill of exploration and discovery, right? Right???? Nope. It all about how this Benetton ad full of Incredibly Diverse international astronauts are all emotional wrecks, how leaving home for three years will lead to tragedy and regret.
Hollywood… y’all suck.
Who the frak is this series even *for?* Science fiction fans? Doesn’t really look like it. Space exploration aficionados? Not from the looks of it. People who love weepy emotional barf? Maybe, but how many of those people will want to watch rockets?
Based on this trailer, there’s one way this series could be salvaged. Through the first season run, as we see our Politically Selected and Politically Correct crew being prepared by their UN-approved government program, you see distant background references to some private program. Make sure that whenever it is referenced, anybody responding to it does so with scoff and scorn. But in the last few minutes of the season finale, as our Diverse Heroes approach Mars, they detect radio signals from *ahead.* While nobody was looking, SpaceX got there ahead of them… landing at the US Space Force base that got there ahead of *them*. Season two starts with our Quotanauts landing at the USSF base and being welcomed to a hotel being assembled by the SpaceX crew. The Season One cast all look crushed and defeated, and then the camera pans over to the Season Two cast of American USSF and SpaceX explorers setting out to not only explore Mars but to begin mining operations. Season Two goes in an uplifting direction, with the idiots from the first season being bypassed and forgotten.
