James May on the Moon BBC2

[Bodhbh]

Up there with Hitler, Elvis and Johnathon King? That'd make a chat show.

 

[Arch]

Not into the wine thing though Top Gear is quite funny. No, I was thinking more about all the stuff he got to do for the Moon programme. The 70,000' flight in the U2 was amazing.

Yes, it was amazing. I thought the whole programme was good - his stuff usually is. I love the fact that astronauts so often seem to be, ironically, very down to earth people.

I only caught the second half of Top Gear, but loved the race. Some fantastic cinematography of Tornado. Of course, back then, Tornado really would have won, because the railway was king (and expresses especially so), and much much more of the A1 would have been single carriageway.

 

[Tim Bennet.]

and much much more of the A1 would have been single carriageway

Indeed, they should have restricted the car and bike to 'equivalent A roads' or done the race to Glasgow so the A6 could have been used as it was completely by-passed by the M6 instead of being continually upgraded like the A1.

But then again it would have made a pretty dull hour long program as it takes that long to negotiate traffic choked Kendal, let alone Lancaster, Penrith, Carlisle, Manchester, etc, etc

 

[Arch]

Anyway, we all know those races aren't set up to be fair or realistic, or anything, they are just fun...

I loved seeing Clarkson looking like he'd spent a shift down a pit, expiring on the hotel bar floor. And I think sticking with the loco all the way wasn't an easy option - even if he only did a fraction of the shovelling required, that's a hard job.

I loved it when the first rasher of bacon got sucked into the fire box!

Poor Hamster. I wonder if they had a volunteer to rub his legs better afterwards. Mind you, he really really needs to get a haircut.

 

[Melvil]

That Vincent Black Shadow looks like one helluva bike. Not for 8 hours solid, though!

 

[classic33]

I fancy the whole weightless thing...but he's fallen hook line and sinker that the moon landings actually happened....muppet!!

The G force stuff looked no fun at all.

How do you know they never happenned?
Remember Capricorn One? It was supposed to be Nasa's way of saying either of the following:
We didn't go & the whole thing was made up in a studio.
We did go however if we hadn't gone this is how we'd have done it.
Double bluff.

If any trip goes to Mars will this
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars500/SEMV6E3XTVF_0.html be used to say they didn't actually go.

Third possiblilty is that it wasn't an american crew who actually landed on the moon, but a Russian. Having transferred to the Command Module & Lunar Module in low earth orbit. This left the Americans orbiting the earth, in the Russian craft, until the the return to earth. The Russian crew having died on the actual trip to & from the moon.