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July 16, 1969: The Earth photographed by the Apollo 11 crew on their first day in orbit.
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.... On July 20, 1969, more than half a billion people around the world were transfixed by grainy black and white television footage of astronaut Neil Armstrong taking humankind's first steps on the moon. The mission was a giant leap for human space exploration ....
Projectors used to display a full-sized, 363-foot Saturn V rocket onto the east face of the Washington Monument by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum are seen 50 years to the day after astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin launched on Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, Tuesday, July 16, 2019. On Friday, July 19, and Saturday, July 20, a special 17-minute show, “Apollo 50: Go for the Moon” will combine full-motion projection-mapping artwork on the monument and archival footage to recreate the launch of Apollo 11 and tell the story of the first moon landing. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Spectacular show on the National Mall last night. It's hard to describe how marvelously this was produced and put together. All of the iconic images from sitting and waiting for the launch, the countdown with the crowd, separation of the modules, the lander approach, the One Giant Step, escaping the lunar garvity, all the way back to splashdown. All projected on the Washington Monument, a roughly 1:7 screen ratio!
Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong: 1930-2012.
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It was a GREAT morning at Phinizy Swamp in Augusta Georgia. We arrived around 720 am and both eagles were perched waiting on me. My wife and I headed straight to the tree we'd seen these eagles perched on the last two times visiting. I believe this is the female eagle, she appeared larger than the male out of this shot to the left. The bonus this morning was the moon setting early this morning was directly behind the eagles. There were many distractions, small limbs between me and our female eagle. Focusing on the eagle I was able to blur out many of the limbs. I call this image, "The Eagle Has Landed 4". I have many poses from additional images I took that morning.
A wreath-laying ceremony honoring the memory of former Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins is held outside of the Heroes and Legends exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida on April 30, 2021. Kennedy Director Bob Cabana and Therrin Protze, chief operating officer of Delaware North at the visitor complex, provided remarks during the ceremony. Collins served as pilot on the three-day Gemini X mission in 1966, and he was the command module pilot for the historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969, where he remained in lunar orbit while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first people to walk on the Moon. Collins passed away on April 28, 2021, at the age of 90. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
First Man’s first ID photo: from my collection of vintage space flight memorabilia.
This rare and original photo of Neil Armstrong, the first of only 12 men to have walked on the surface of the moon, was to be used for his official NASA photo ID badge. The badge was issued shortly after he was selected to be an astronaut in November 1962. As the photo came out too dark, it was rejected for use by NASA’s security department.
For those who may be interested, here’s another piece of Apollo 11 history.
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 - August 25, 2012)
At calgary's military museum
I think back to July 1969 when I was staying at Pigeon Lake for the summer and listening to the radio for the Men from NASA; Armstrong and Aldrin land on the Moon. My tribute to Neil Armstrong RIP.
Newly released pictures show that the whole thing may have been a hoax. Something to do with shadows, apparently :-)
The Apollo 11 landings are my first coherent memory - one on which I can pin a date - so I thought that some kind of tribute was the only way to go on this, the fortieth anniversary. I was five, and was on holiday in St Andrews, Scotland, with my family. Apparently I didn't see the landings live, as I was tucked up in bed asleep, but I remember watching the repeats the next day.
A year ago today I was in the pink.
“Astronaut Edwin Buzz Aldrin Lunar Module Pilot at the (LLRF) Lunar Landing Research Facility. Aldrin was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963. On November 11, 1966, he and command pilot James Lovell were launched into space in the Gemini 12 spacecraft on a 4-day flight, which brought the Gemini program to a successful close. Aldrin established a new record for extravehicular activity (EVA), spending 5-1/2 hours outside the spacecraft. He served as lunar module pilot for Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969, the first manned lunar landing mission. Aldrin followed Neil Armstrong onto the lunar surface on July 20, 1969, completing a 2-hour and 15-minute lunar EVA. In July 1971, Aldrin resigned from NASA. Aldrin has logged 289 hours and 53 minutes in space, of which, 7 hours and 52 minutes were spent in EVA.”
Above & image from/at:
images.nasa.gov/details-LRC-1969-B701_P-04540
Also:
“Nearly 25 years ago, on July 20,1969, Edwin Buzz Aldrin, shown here with NASA Langley Research Centers Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) Simulator, became one of the first humans to walk on the moon after practicing with the simulator in May of 1969. Training with the simulator, part of Langley’s Lunar Research Facility, allowed the Apollo astronauts to study and safely overcome problems that could have occurred during the final 150-foot descent to the surface of the moon. NASA needed such a facility in order to explore and develop techniques for landing the LEM on the moon’s surface, where the gravity is only one-sixth as strong as on Earth, as well as to determine the limits of human piloting capabilities in the new surroundings. This unique facility, completed in 1965 and now a National Historic Landmark, effectively canceled all but one-sixth of Earths gravitational force by using an overhead cable system.”
At/from:
archive.org/details/NIX-EL-1996-00217
Credit: Internet Archive website
And:
m.facebook.com/nasalarc/photos/a.2219152361464403/2219153...
Credit: NASA Langley Research Center/Facebook
From 1967. Note the different - and apparently earlier - design of the Lunar Excursion Module Simulator.
So then, were there two separate/different simulators, or one that was modified as time went on? And there would've been a back-up, right? Will we ever know? Does anyone even care? Rhetorical question.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1FGkj_73R0
Credit: Retro Space HD/YouTube
An excellent read regarding the LLRF:
launiusr.wordpress.com/2016/12/19/how-might-we-preserve-t...
Credit: Roger Launius’s Blog
"That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."
— Neil Armstrong, U.S. astronaut.
10:56 pm EDT, 20 July 1969 (02:56 UTC, 21 July).
▶ ‘The Eagle Has Landed’ — Two Men Walk on the Moon
21 July 1969.
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▶ “ 'Artist' is not a word we usually associate with astronaut Neil Armstrong. Yet a photograph taken by him 50 years ago today, 'Buzz Aldrin, Moon Walk Reflection' is now in the National Gallery of Art's collection. He and fellow Apollo 11 crew member Buzz Aldrin photographed each other and their marks on the Moon using a camera specially modified for their bulky, gloved hands.”
20 July 2019.
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▶ "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
"Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC [4:17 pm EDT]. Armstrong became the first person to step onto the lunar surface six hours 39 minutes later [10:56 am EDT, 20 July] on July 21 at 02:56 UTC; Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later."
— Wikipedia.
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▶ And the camera? A Hasselblad, still there at Tranquility Base, minus its film.
"What could be deemed as one of the most iconic moments of Hasselblad in space was when the Apollo 11 mission successfully landed the Eagle on the Moon on 20 July 1969, signifying humanity's first steps off our own planet. A silver Hasselblad Data Camera (HDC) with Réseau plate, fitted with a Zeiss Biogon 60mm ƒ/5.6 lens, was chosen to document the lunar surface and attached to astronaut Armstrong's chest. A second black Hasselblad Electric Camera (HEC) with a Zeiss Planar 80mm ƒ/2,8 lens was used to shoot from inside the Eagle lunar module. The HDC had never been tested in space before, adding to the pressure of this once in a lifetime moment. Would the one Hasselblad camera used to shoot on the lunar surface capture the results everyone was hoping for?
Working perfectly under the extreme conditions of the lunar surface, the HDC produced some of history’s most iconic photographs. After the successful shooting on 21 July 1969, the Hasselblad was hoisted up to the lunar lander with a line. Securely removing the film magazines, both cameras with lenses were left behind on the Moon in order to meet narrow weight margins for successful return.
The journeys home from the Moon made very special demands on what could return regarding weight; from Apollo 11 to the final Apollo 17 mission, a total of twelve camera bodies were left behind on the lunar surface. Only the film magazines containing the momentous images were brought back."
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The 50 year anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission with NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin is celebrated in a 17-minute show, “Apollo 50: Go for the Moon”, by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, which combined full-motion projection-mapping artwork on the Washington Monument and archival footage to recreate the launch of Apollo 11 and tell the story of the first moon landing, Friday, July 19, 2019 in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong became the first man to step onto the lunar surface 44 years ago on 1969-07-21. Wikipedia article on Apollo 11: bit.ly/13RkUQ5.
I took this self portrait using the helmet of an Apollo 11 space suit as a mirror at the Lowell Observatory museum in Flagstaff, Arizona.
HDR, 1 exposure, NEX-6. DSC05401_2_3_hdr3pai1b
Vanavond nog even heel snel geschoten.
Kraters waren zo mooi zichtbaar, dus toch maar even een snel een foto gemaakt.
westerwoldegroen.nl/zo-gewoon-maar-o-zo-mooi-de-wassende-...
Het eerste kwartier is een van de schijngestalten van de maan. Deze treedt op na een kwart van de synodische omlooptijd van de maan, ruim een week na nieuwe maan.
Tijdens het eerste kwartier komt de maan omtrent het middaguur op. Nadat de zon is ondergegaan, staat de maan nog boven de horizon, waardoor deze periode minder gunstig is om 's avonds naar de sterren te kijken
Voor een waarnemer op het Noordelijk halfrond wordt bij het eerste kwartier de rechter helft van de maan beschenen door de zon. Welke helft van de maan beschenen wordt tijdens het eerste kwartier is gemakkelijk te onthouden door langs de rechte kant van schaduw een denkbeeldige stok te trekken, zodat een letter p van premier (= eerste) ontstaat. Op het Zuidelijk halfrond werkt dit ezelsbruggetje uiteraard niet. (wikipedia)
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.... The Space Race ended on July 20, 1969 when the United States successfully landed humans on the moon. But without a vital Canadian contribution, the Apollo 11 mission wouldn't have had a leg to stand on — literally.
The Apollo lunar module that carried Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon's surface featured landing gear designed by a Quebec company, Héroux-Devtek. The company was tasked with developing eight telescopic legs that would absorb the impact of landing and provide a stable launch platform for the astronauts' return to lunar orbit.
Héroux-Devtek delivered, and their landing gear was used in five subsequent space missions. A little piece of Canada, in the form of Héroux-Devtek equipment, still resides on the moon. ....
Saturn V with Apollo 11 on launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Image credit: NASA
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Jody Singer, far right, director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, celebrates as thousands of model rockets launch at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center on July 16. Also looking on, from left, are retired Marshall engineer Brooks Moore, Apollo 15 command module pilot Al Worden and Space Camp veteran Lillian Duran. Worden, who flew to the Moon in 1971, turned the key that primed the rockets, while Duran flipped the ignition switch. The launch was an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for most model rockets launched at once as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11.
Image credit: NASA/Emmett Given
Neil Armstrong made the first footprint on the moon.
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"Aldrin inside Chamber B during lunar surface spacewalk training."
During the week of May 5, Apollo 11 prime and backup crew members trained for the first lunar surface Extravehicular Activity, or spacewalk. The training sessions, with the astronauts wearing pressure suits in near-vacuum conditions, took place inside Chamber B of the Manned Spacecraft Center’s Space Environment Simulation Facility. These training sessions followed previous ones in Chamber B that were conducted at sea level. During the simulations, astronauts practiced operations they would conduct on the Moon, including extracting experiment packages from the LM and setting them up on the surface."
At/from:
roundupreads.jsc.nasa.gov/roundup/1161
Credit: JSC Roundup website
I'm assuming the guy that wrote the article meant "sea level (atmospheric) pressure", and his dumbing-down of "Extravehicular Activity" should've more accurately been "moonwalk", NOT "spacewalk." Spacewalk is what Ed White & Bruce McCandless performed.
The angled object on the other side of Aldrin is the Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA). He looks to be photographing the Laser Ranging Retroreflector (LRRR) experiment with his Hasselblad 500 EL Data Camera.
Projection of Saturn rocket, Apollo 11, on the Washington Monument on the 50th anniversary of the launch.
The Apollo 11 crew simulates deploying and using lunar tools on the surface of the Moon during a training exercise on April 22, 1969. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin (on left), lunar module pilot, uses a scoop and tongs to pick up a soil sample. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11 commander, holds a bag to receive the sample. In the background is a Lunar Module mockup.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S-69-32233
Date: April 22, 1969
Raw image source: flic.kr/p/zD2hCx
I removed the sky from this since the top of the image stopped exactly at the top of Buzz Aldrin's pack and extending it and trying to fill that space yielded unsatisfactory results.
"Tang is a farce." That was the first thing Neil Armstrong told me. “We did not use it on the Apollo missions.” Oops. My whole photo prep was misguided... so I had to improvise, and he said something fascinating about his greatest fear pre-launch...
I asked him, of all of the systems and stages of the mission, which did he worry about the most? (the frequently failing autopilot? the reliance on a global network of astronomers to spot solar flares in time to get the warning out? the onboard computers being less powerful than a Furby?....)
No, none of those. He dove into a detailed description of the hypergolic fuel mixing system for the lunar module. Rather than an ignition system, they had two substances that would ignite upon contact. Instead of electric valves, he wished he had a big simple mechanical lever to open the valves. He kept using his hands to show how easy a big lever could be.
That seemed a bit odd to me at first. So, I asked if he gave that answer because it really was the most likely point of failure, or because it symbolizes a vivid nightmare – having completed the moon mission, pushing the button... and the engines just wont start.
He responded that he had nightmares about that for two years prior to the launch.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the Moon near the leg of the Lunar Module "Eagle" during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this photograph on 20 July 1969 with a 70mm lunar surface camera near the landing site in the Sea of Tranquility (Mare Tranquillitatis) region of the Moon.
This version comes with the ┼'s that appear on all lunar photographs cloned out. I also applied some color correction and noise reduction.
From the Great Images Collection at NASA
[PD] This picture is in the public domain
N-Wing Starfighter
A collaborative design project
The culmination or round 2!
Last summer, after many trips to the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Elliot started to become an expert on space and was particularly interested in the Apollo Missions. We watched Apollo 13 (he had no fear of the space mission, he was most worried about Ken Mattingly getting the "weasels" and Marylin Lovell dropping her ring down the drain). In October we went to the Lego store and picked up a copy of the Saturn V to build together. The skin of the rocket is a fairly repetitive build so he was able to mirror what I was doing. It was one of the first sets we truly built together.
A few weeks later he was playing with the set in his room during "family rest time" and when we opened the door the entire rocket was in pieces! "They had some problems dad, but you can fix it because you're a Lego expert". I did not want to do that, so I told him we would do something else with the parts.
When we started to do his middle name for the alphabet starfighters I realized N for NASA would be a wonderful match. I wanted a way for the ship to look like a rocket, but still open into an "N" shape. Most of the parts in this build are from the Saturn V set, but I also used the 2 x 2 x 5 Lattice Pillars from my old 1682-1 Space Shuttle Launch set from 1990. When I finished the build the mechanics worked perfectly, but I realized I needed a way for the ship to stay in a closed position - magnets!
This is my favorite ship from the "Grayson" series because of the combined use of Lego Space elements across generations.
One cold weekend afternoon, I was looking for something to do with my three year old in the house. We went to our Lego room, "What do you want to build?", "A spaceship," Star Wars obsessive Elliot answered, "an E-Wing!" I knew that the Lego fan site From Bricks to Bothans held a letter based starfighter contest years before, but I was willing to give it our own try.
During the build I developed our own set of self imposed RULES:
1. The ship has to be in the shape of the letter
2. It must be strong enough for a three year old to play with it without breaking
3. The primary color and cockpit location are chosen by Elliot
4. Any piece Elliot finds (that matches the color scheme) MUST be incorporated into the build
5. What Elliot says, goes. So if he wants a play feature or design element, I had find a way to make it happen
As the project progressed the builds became more and more complex and the rules became more flexible. We finished the letters of Elliot's first name and then he wanted his middle name. During the second set of letters I tried to incorporate more complex play features.
These creations sit in display in his room and he loves playing with them and creating self invented narratives and worlds. Working with him helped stretch my skills and introduced him into the process of design.
All 13 of these ships were on public display at Brickworld Chicago 2019. Please let me know if you saw them there and what you thought!
One of the best times to observe the Moon is when it is Full Moon and it is on perigee, its nearest point to Earth.
Here you can see the whole Full Moon where you can see Tycho crater in the bottom and all Maria such as Mare Nubium Mare humorum, Mare Tranquillitatis etc...
This frame from Buzz Aldrin's plus-Z pan is the only good Hasselblad picture of Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface.
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On the moon: Neil Armstrong works near the Lunar Module.
Image credit: NASA
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Thanks to MikeACS for the original image - Adjusted to correct flipped scan.
Earthrise & lander descent
“Apollo 11 Astronauts, left-to-right, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., Neil A. Armstrong and Michael Collins, pose in front of full-scale lunar module mock-up similar to the spacecraft that will be carried on their flight to the Moon later this year. While Astronaut Collins pilots the command module in lunar orbit, Aldrin and Armstrong are to descend in the lunar module, perform their lunar surface mission and return to the orbiting command module. The trio will be launched by an Apollo/Saturn V space vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center.”
The caption associated with a similar photograph (linked to below), and obviously from the same ‘photo op’:
“This portrait of the prime crew of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission was taken the day after NASA announced the crew assignment. Left to right are Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot; Neil A. Armstrong, commander; and Michael Collins, command module pilot. They were photographed in front of a lunar module mockup beside Building 1 at what is now Johnson Space Center following a press conference at the Center to introduce the crew.
Image Number: S69-16681
Date: January 10, 1969”
Consensus in all photos of this event is that it/they was/were taken the day after the announcement of the Apollo 11 crew. Yet not a mention of such in the caption of the posted photograph, just the usual generic pablum…along with a release date of February 28, 1969. Huh & WTF?
See/read also:
www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-nasa-names-apollo-11-crew
Per Mike Collins: “Amiable Strangers”
His subtle wit, humor & brilliance embodied in the simple, elegant & accurate observation:
www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/amiable-strange...
Credit: Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine website
Finally, the building the LM is in front of; Building 1, the Auditorium and External Relations Office Building. It even has pictures of the LM being prepared for erection AND against the odds, confirms/correctly identifies its history:
Earth from Apollo 11, taken from an altitude of approximately 8,000 km. This scene was taken roughly one hour before reentry (June 24, 1969) as the crew passed over the Indian Ocean en route to splashdown in the central Pacific.
This image is a mosaic of three photos taken with the 80 mm Hasselblad lens, with a small hole along the horizon patched with a photo taken roughly one hour earlier. Credit: NASA / Apollo 11 Crew / Project Apollo Archive / Justin Cowart