Japan 01: But how would I explain the hair loss?

In Japan with a NASA hat and a Canadian lapel pin – fighting a terrible urge to shave off my beard, keep the mustache, and tell people I’m Chris Hadfield.

- Sid

Better late than never.

- Sid

P.S. The instructions on the card said to pick it up and wave it around, which produced additional cool lightsaber noises, but the camera I was using for the video artifacted the motion like you would not believe.

Project Apollo.

Thank you for your interest and for helping to keep alive the spirit of space exploration and its history.

Kipp Teague
October, 2015

I don't normally just post links to online content, but I've made an exception in this case because it's such an astonishing resource.  Kipp Teague, who is an IT Director in Virginia, has had a long association with NASA and the presentation of visual records of space flight.  His most recent project is the creation of a Flickr archive containing over 11,000 (yes, ELEVEN THOUSAND) unprocessed images from the Apollo missions.  The archive is unedited - there are blurry images and shots of random pieces of hardware mixed in with the more impressive photos, but personally I think that adds to the value of the collection, it's like getting a real time view of the events being recorded.

The archive can be found at:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/ - if you have any interest in the history of space exploration, I strongly recommend browsing through the gallery.  And, if you happen to be part of the lunatic fringe that thinks the whole thing was a hoax, I welcome your comments on how poorly the images have been faked - I enjoy a good laugh.

- Sid