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The Apollo 17 Command Module (CM) "America", with astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans and Harrison H. Schmitt aboard, nears splashdown in the South Pacific Ocean to successfully concludes the final lunar landing mission in NASA's Apollo program. This overhead view was taken from a recovery aircraft seconds before the spacecraft hit the water. The splashdown occurred at 304:31:59 ground elapsed time, 2:24:59 p.m. (EST) December 19, 1972, at coordinates of 166 degrees 8 minutes west longitude and 27 degrees 53 minutes south latitude, about 350 nautical miles southeast of Samoa. The splashdown was only .8 miles from the target point. Later, the three crewmen were picked up by a helicopter from the prime recovery ship, USS Ticonderoga.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S72-55834
Date: December 19, 1972
Neil Armstrong's first photo after the Apollo 11 landing, taken from the Lunar Module window. NASA photo ID AS11-37-5449
For Release: June 10, 1969
Photo No.: KSC-69PC-295
"KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Apollo 11 prime crew poses for a photograph during a walk through egress test. The hands-on test is in preparation for the first manned lunar landing mission scheduled for lift-off in July."
A member of the Apollo 7 crew is hoisted up to a recovery helicopter from the USS Essex during recovery operations. The Apollo 7 spacecraft splashed down at 7:11 a.m., approximately 200 nautical miles south-southwest of Bermuda.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S68-49661
Date: October 22, 1968
For Release: June 19, 1969
Photo No.: KSC-69PC-296
"KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Apollo 11 astronauts rehearsed their lunar landing mission in simulators here today. Pictured in front of a lunar module mockup in the Flight Crew Training Building area, from left, Michael Collins, Command Module Pilot; Neil A. Armstrong, Commander; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module Pilot."
The Apollo 4 space mission was launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The liftoff of the huge 363-feet tall Apollo/Saturn V space vehicle was at 7:00:01 a.m. (EST), Nov. 9, 1967.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S67-49969
Date: November 9, 1967
For Release: June 18, 1969
Photo No.: KSC-69P-506
"KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Apollo 11 prime crew practices during a simulated moon activity."
The 363-foot tall Apollo 17 (Spacecraft 114/Lunar Module 12/Saturn 512) space vehicle is seen lifting off from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, at 12:33 a.m. (EST), December 7, 1972. Apollo 17, the final lunar landing mission in NASA's Apollo program, was the first nighttime liftoff of the Saturn V launch vehicle. Aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft were astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander; astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot; and scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. A two-hour and 40-minute hold delayed the Apollo 17 launching.
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Date: December 7, 1972
NASA Photo 108-KSC-69P-632 / 69H-1146. Uncl. 7-16-69
"Dr. Wernher von Braun, Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, relaxes after the successful launch of Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin, Jr., today. Their historic lunar landing mission began at 9:32 A.M. EDT, July 16, 1969, when an Apollo/Saturn V space vehicle lifted off from the Spaceport's Launch Complex 39A."
The Apollo 13 (Spacecraft 109/Lunar Module 7/Saturn 508) space vehicle is launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), at 2:13 p.m. (EST), April 11, 1970. The crew of the NASA's third lunar landing mission were astronauts James A., Lovell Jr., commander; John L. Swigert Jr., command module pilot; and Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S70-34855
Date: April 11, 1970
On July 26, 1971, Apollo 15 launched from Cape Canaveral. The mission was the first of the Apollo "J" missions which stayed on the moon for longer periods of time and had greater surface mobility. This was due in part to the creation of the Lunar Roving Vehicle, better known as the "moon buggy," which was driven for the first time on this mission. The Apollo 15 crew logged many records, including most total EVAs (3), the longest total lunar surface EVAs, the longest time in lunar orbit, and longest Apollo mission. The mission returned to Earth on August 7, 1971, landing in the Pacific Ocean.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: KSC-71PC-0605
Date: July 26, 1971
July 10, 1969 - With a foot on one of the four landing pads, Apollo 11 Commander Neil A. Armstrong practices descending the ladder of the Lunar Module training spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center.
NASA Photo 108-KSC-69P-578
After Neil Armstrong shot a few photos following the landing, he handed the camera to Buzz Aldrin, who shot a few from his window, including this one featuring the shadow of the lunar module. NASA photo ID AS11-37-5454
This is how the Earth looked as photographed from a point near the Moon by the Apollo 8 astronauts. The Earth fills less than one percent of the frame exposed through 80mm lens. North is approximately vertical. Kinda lonely, isn't it?
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Date: December 24, 1968
In August of 1968, three NASA astronauts received a call telling them to cancel their winter holiday plans — they were going to the Moon. Fifty years later we are celebrating the historic mission of Apollo 8: go.nasa.gov/2EDarq3
S68-49397 (9 Oct. 1968) --- The Apollo 8 prime crew stands in foreground as the Apollo (Spacecraft 103/Saturn 503) space vehicle leaves the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building on way to Pad A, Launch Complex 39. The Saturn V stack and its mobile launch tower are atop a huge crawler-transporter. The Apollo 8 crew consists of (left to right) astronauts Frank Borman, commander; James A. Lovell Jr., command module pilot; and William A. Anders, lunar module pilot.
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Fifty years ago, today, Apollo X launched from Cape Canaveral to the moon and Command Module Pilot John Young became the first person to fly solo around the moon.
This is an Apollo bubble helmet used in training, the first I have seen in private hands. The one John Young wore on Apollo 10 is in the Smithsonian.
Apollo 10 came to within 50,000 ft of landing on the surface. But NASA knew they could not let them get so close to the lunar surface without a rogue attempt to go the whole way, so they just provided enough fuel on the Lunar Module to do the "dress rehearsal" mission. Had Apollo 10 taken the LM to the surface, they would not have had the ability to get back. So, NASA sent an under-fueled LM, adding risk to the mission, to make sure they did not make a go for it, with the temptation of being inevitably regarded as heroes if they did.
Gene Cernan laments: "A lot of people thought about the kind of people we were: 'Don't give those guys an opportunity to land, 'cause they might!' So the ascent module, the part we lifted off the lunar surface with, was short-fueled. The fuel tanks weren't full. So had we literally tried to land on the Moon, we couldn't have gotten off."
The Apollo pressure helmet was a transparent bubble designed to attach to the spacesuit neck ring. It was constructed of a polycarbonate shell with a blue (and then red after Apollo 10) anodized aluminum neck ring, a feed port, a vent pad and duct assembly attached to the rear and a valsalva device attached to the inner ring.
Part of the Future Ventures’ 🚀 Space Collection.
For Release: July 1, 1969
Photo No. 107-KSC-69P-565 / 69-H-1010
"KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Circular work platforms on the mobile service structure, right, retract from the Apollo 11 spacecraft and Saturn V launch vehicle as transporter carries service structure to the parking area. The move took place during a Countdown Demonstration Test or dress rehearsal for launch."
Apollo Spacewalk--Permann Collection Image--Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
The American flag heralds the flight of Apollo 11, the first Lunar landing mission in this composite image released by NASA. The Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle lifted off with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., at 9:32 a.m. EDT on July 16, 1969, from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 69PC-0397
Date: July 16, 1969
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Images credit Project Apollo Archive.
Michael L Hyde (c) 2015
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
All images obtained using my Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Tal 2x Barlow Lens, ZWO ASI 120MC. Captured using Firecapture.
Dates & times images captured:-
Apollo 11 - 2017-04-02 19.49 UT
Apollo 12 - 2017-04-06 21.15 UT
Apollo 14 - 2017-04-06 21.09 UT
Apollo 15 - 2018-03-25 19.07 UT
Apollo 16 - 2016-10-21 06.18 UT
Apollo 17 - 2017-04-02 19.42 UT
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A kinetic sculpture of the Greek god Apollo, riding in his chariot.
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A kinetic sculpture of the Greek god Apollo, riding in his chariot.
Video: youtu.be/19XGmUEvvYM
In August of 1968, three NASA astronauts received a call telling them to cancel their winter holiday plans — they were going to the Moon. Fifty years later we are celebrating the historic mission of Apollo 8: go.nasa.gov/2EDarq3
S68-53015 (25 Oct. 1968) --- Astronauts William A. Anders, James A. Lovell Jr., and Frank Borman, (left to right) are seen inside Apollo Boilerplate 1102A during water egress training in the Gulf of Mexico. Borman is Apollo 8 commander; with Lovell serving as command module pilot; and Anders as lunar module pilot.
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Color photograph, approximately 20 x 20 inches, on Kodak Endura paper with watermarks on verso, depicting the Earth rising over the Lunar surface.
SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Borman with a quote from Genesis: ...and God saw that it was good. / 12/24/1968 / Frank Borman / Apollo 8 CDR." The impactful closing of the Genesis quote that the crew delivered on Christmas Eve, 1968, while orbiting the Moon.
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Description The first international space mission, the Apollo-Soyuz brought into contact American and Soviet crews in outerspace.
This mission marked the end of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. It also marked the first joint space mission between two countries. The two spacecraft worked together to perform several experiments in space.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S74-24913
Date: August 1973
... but Daphne doesn't want him. This elegant Baroque sculpture is Gian Lorenzo Bernini's "Apollo and Daphne".
Bernini depicts the climax of the story, love-stricken Apollo has almost caught young beautiful Daphne and she can only escape by changing from human to tree. Daphne's hair and fingers begin to sprout leaves, her toes are becoming roots, and the bark of a tree trunk is forming around her legs. This is both a depiction of unwanted desire and a warning against the over pursuit of temporal pleasures.
The work was completed in 1622 and was the last of a number of artworks commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese early in Bernini's career.
Galleria Borghese, Rome; July 2019
The Apollo 10 (Spacecraft 106/Lunar Module 4/Saturn 505) space vehicle is launched from Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center at 12:49 p.m., May 18, 1969.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S69-34481
Date: May 18, 1969
For Release: July 11, 1969
Photo No. 108-KSC-69P-590
"KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, left, and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., practice in lunar module simulator today in preparation for their planned descent to the Moon's surface. They will explore the lunar surface while astronaut Michael Collins orbits 60 miles overhead in the command spacecraft. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration directs the Apollo program."