https://philwheat.net/tags/spaceflight/Recent content in Spaceflight on Phil WheatHugoen-usSat, 17 Oct 2026 11:48:00 -0500https://philwheat.net/links/mike-stewart-spaceflight/Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:48:00 -0500https://philwheat.net/links/mike-stewart-spaceflight/<p>Mike Stewart restores and preserves historic spaceflight hardware and software: testing a scrapped Apollo Guidance Computer module, powering up a Lunar Module thrust meter, Apollo command-module talkback switching and translational hand-controller teardowns. If CuriousMarc is the flagship of this niche, Mike Stewart is its most careful technician — 245K subscribers, uploads every few months (last one about three months ago).</p>https://philwheat.net/links/real-space-junk/Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:30:00 -0500https://philwheat.net/links/real-space-junk/<p>Todd Arnold inherited access to a truckload of NASA surplus from the JPL campus — a friend&rsquo;s father traded watch parts for it in the 1970s — and the channel is the ongoing sort: early transistors and ICs that flew in space, an AMD AM9511 floating-point unit teardown and die view, seven-segment displays up close, and endless &ldquo;What is this?&rdquo; components. He&rsquo;s candid that he&rsquo;s no expert, leaning on the community to identify things. 15.2K subscribers, uploads every few months (last about two months ago).</p>