Stranded

At Brighton Astro tonight, Tahani Baldwin took us through the psychology of space flight.She spoke about the Shackleton Antarctic expedition (1914), which became stranded, with their ship trapped in the ice and eventually sinking.She blew my mind noting it was just 56 years later, in 1970, that the Apollo 13 crew also faced disaster far from home. Endurance, by Frank Hurley (Wikipedia) Apollo 13, by NASA (Wikipedia) It feels like it should be a century between those events, at least.Jane pointed out that 1970 is, coincidentally, 56 years ago from today. We are to Apollo 13 as Apollo 13 is to Shackleton.

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