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The cause of the downtime was enshittification.  Now taking bets as to whether they actually get the site back up by 2100.

Very funny (to me) comment in the thread caught my eye:  Apollo 17, the last Moon landing, took 86 hours and 14 minutes. 

Might as well bust out Cernan's book again:

I grew tired of being compared to the tail of the dog, the last thing to go over the fence, so I met with as many engineers and production workers as possible, to spread the Gospel According to Cernan: “Apollo Seventeen is not the end, but rather the beginning of a whole new era in the history of mankind. You people who are putting this together are important! We are in a unique moment in history, so let’s make the last one the best!” 

I preached until I was hoarse, and probably bored poor Ron and Jack to tears as they heard the same words, over and over. The job became as much political campaign trail as Moon training as I climbed on chairs at parties, or factory tables, and talked to whomever would listen, trying to boost morale and confidence. 

I wanted everyone who made this amazing feat possible to know that what they were doing was special to us, and that we wanted it to be special to them, too. Apollo 17 was not just another serving of the same old thing, for we were going to places never before seen by man. We were all part of a grand tradition of exploration that would yield results so astonishing and far-reaching that generations might pass before the significance of what we had done would be totally understood.

My task to keep everyone focused wasn’t easy. A cartoonist pictured two workers in hard hats on a scaffold, one about to jump, holding a notice that he had been fired. The other guy was on a telephone, asking: “Can we get Gene Cernan up here to give Smith that ‘It’s not the end, it’s the beginning’ speech again?” 

There were a lot of Smiths out there, for some 13,000 Cape workers had lost their jobs over the past several years, and another 900 would get pink slips as soon as we blasted off. Many of the Grumman troops literally worked themselves into unemployment when our lunar module went out the door at Bethpage, and more would be gone at the moment of liftoff. But during one visit there, a supervisor told me, “We’re giving you our heart and soul on this one, Geno. This is the best LM that’s ever gonna fly.” 

Hosting a blog ain't rocket science.  Which is a good thing, because Typepad has a worse track record than Nazi Rocket Boy 2.0.

Anyway, last one to leave, please turn off the lights...