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Steve Jurvetson of Future Ventures has a big space collection at his venture capital office. It more than doubled in size since our last video in October 2019. In this video Steve explains the space artifacts he acquired to my son Alexis. Amazing stuff, thank you Steve for the private tour on 2021-03-29! Watch the video at bit.ly/3wt0MtW
Steve, my son Alexis and I frequently hang out at Snow Ranch and at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to launch high power rockets. Some rockets fly higher than commercial aircrafts, and sometimes they crash with a big bada boom!
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The following text is from Steve Jurvetson's post at flic.kr/p/2kRd3pq:
The 2021 Future Ventures Space Artifact Tour
Since COVID has curtailed the in-person foot traffic, my rocket buddies Peter & Alexis Thoeny came by to shoot a whirlwind tour on video. We focus on some of the newer and topical items: flown artifacts from SpaceX and the earlier Mars programs and a lot of stuff that has been to the moon and back. I clearly get excited about the stories behind these heroic machines. Enjoy!
Some topics covered:
- 1:45 Apollo LM, X-15 and Astra engines
- 2:57 Salyut tank that crashed into Argentina
- 4:00 Apollo LM Ascent Engine valve assembly and Neil Armstrong’s nightmares
- 4:58 The Lunar Orbiter room — film lab in space
- 6:55 Observation platform from Soviet Almaz – a military space station with machine gun!
- 9:10 Soviet Buran panel and air scrubber
- 10:00 Apollo AS202 flown sextant
- 10:25 Soviet Luna 9 Anchor Petal
- 11:55 Viking Scientific Payload to detect life on Mars
- 15:30 Mars rock with trapped Martian air
- 16:49 Flown heat shields from Apollo and Gemini
- 18:20 Apollo Mission Control Deck
- 18:40 Flown Mercury Sigma-7 Logoed Panel
- 19:45 Wally Shirra’s flown Hasseblad Camera
- 21:20 Communications Headset used during the first Lunar Rover drive on the moon
- 22:20 “Apollo 14 Docking Ring”
- 24:20 Apollo CM Hatch
- 24:55 Flown Soyuz Instrument Panel
- 25:25 Flown Soviet Voskhod Spacecraft Hatch
- 26:35 Complete RL-10 Engine
- 27:00 Complete Apollo LM-2 Flight Computer
- 27:35 Apollo 17 LM Arm Rest for landing while standing, Apollo 13 uneaten meal, Buzz Aldrin’s EVA-flown flashlight
- 28:26 Apollo 16 LM COAS (heads up display)
- 29:10 John Young’s Cuff Checklist on his wrist during his lunar jump salute
- 29:55 Huge Slice of Moon Rock
- 31:10 the oldest volcanic rock, older than Earth itself.
- 33:30 Flown Aerocover from SpaceX F9R explosion
- 34:40 Planet Dove Satellite that survived the huge Antares Launch Explosion
- 36:00 Prototype build of the Apollo 11 flag,
- 37:15 The Lunar Rover room (Apollo 15 and 17 rover maps and Apollo 17 scissors)
- 38:26 Goddard rocket artifacts from 1926
- 38:50 Apollo 11 Command Module EVA handle and Buzz Aldrin’s lunar under-glove
- 40:30 Mercury Space Suit
- 40:40 SpaceX Flown DM-2 Hatch (first human flight)
- 41:45 Skylab Exercise Bike
- 43:18 Apollo LM Main Landing Leg
- 44:13 Engineering Design Notes for Apollo 11 LM
- 45:50 SpaceX SN8 Starship Test Flight Wreckage
- 47:35 Apollo CM Couch with Hand Controllers
And here are my Flickr posts on many of the artifacts seen in the video: flic.kr/s/aHsjqbz5C9
Fundada en 1532, sufrió graves daños tras los terremotos de 1765 y luego en 1853, por lo que se decide su demolición y la construcción de una nueva catedral, sin embargo esta nueva estructura es destruida parcialmente durante el terremoto de 1902, de esta catedral solo se conserva la fachada junto a la nueva catedral, por lo que aparenta ser dos iglesias.
Founded in 1532 , was severely damaged after the earthquake of 1765 and then in 1853 , so its demolition and construction of a new cathedral was decided , however this new structure is partially destroyed during the earthquake of 1902 , this cathedral only the facade is preserved by the new cathedral , looking as two churches.
Today's catch with Harjeet Singh! One of my better opportunities with this species. Needless to see FB has completely screwed this photo up. Please see this on Flickr in all its glory.
My family and I just got back from a long walk to this cute little candy shop in the Palo Alto/Los Altos area.
Architect: John Reed (1956)
Location: San Diego, CA (Pacific Beach)
Note the ocean view visible in the reflection.
LARGE View On Black.
2004
Los Altos, California
This photo taken near my office got me interested in street photography.
Violet-green Swallow - Rancho San Antonio, Los Altos, CA, USA
These iridescent swallows visit us every spring, but this is the first time I have been able to get decent shots of this species, so it is a photo lifer for me.
I have always seen these swallows in flocks and they rest / perch for a while and then dash off. I have (unsuccessfully so far) tried to get a flight shot of these swallows. They are extremely agile and erratic in flight and it is virtually impossible to get them in flight, but I will keep on trying.
These swallows almost exclusively feed on flying insects. These are migratory and most winter in Mexico and Central America.
More photos below