Recent content by AndyC

Literally laughed out loud.

Good to see the great Emmett Seaborne being remembered :) I always preferred him to Brett Hutchings.

Excellent update - really opening up further the other routes Apollo could have taken. Is it possible for a summary post of Apollo missions to date for ease of reference?

Very well written. It evokes the visceral fear that would be with the astronauts there.

I assumed it meant: "No chance in hell. What's in it for Ireland? Nothing!"

Very nice. "The Beagle has landed" - groan.

Because in OTL in 1940, the German plans and limitations were not known the way they are now. We look back at the intelligence reports of the time, coupled with what we know from historical records, but the British did not know that the Germans had no way to convey their troops across other than...

Farouk El-Baz gets to see the lunar craters from orbit himself! Excellent!

It's way past Trump winning. It's comparable to McMullin carrying a few states, with his EVs also sending the 2016 Presidential Election to the House.

Launch sites-wise, Ascension Island, as well as having excellent nominative determinism, is close to the Equator. It would need to be supplied from sea or air, but so would most isolated sites.

I'd love to see that - the NIMBY reactions of the Frinton-on-Sea residents (signpost: "Harwich, for the Continent; Frinton, for the Incontinent"), who even refused to have a pub in their town until the dawn of the 21st century - would be epic.

This is probably the best vignette... ... in the world

Absolutely excellent. The tension is superb, and the attention to detail exemplary. Marvellous work.

Selkie Press :)

Didn't feel either lumbering or high in the sky when I was in one doing a training exercise in North Wales. They can throw those things around like you wouldn't believe. And never go in one for a TALO landing unless you've got balls of solid steel.