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,«Apollo-11». - manned spacecraft series of Apollo, in the course of the flight which 16-24 July 1969, the inhabitants of the Earth for the first time in the history of landing on the surface of another celestial body - moon.
on July 20, 1969, 20:17:39 UTC crew commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Edwin Aldrin planted the lunar module of the ship in the South-Western part of the Sea of Tranquility. They remained on the surface of the moon in 21 hours 36 minutes and 21 seconds. All this time, command module pilot Michael Collins was waiting for them on the lunar orbit. Astronauts performed one output on the lunar surface, which lasted 2 hours and 31 minute and 40 seconds. First person to set foot on the moon was Neil Armstrong. It happened on July 21, 02:56:15 UTC. After 15 minutes he was joined by Aldrin
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Moon this morning ( 2013-03-27)
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Some vintage vinyl. In 'The Astronot' (bit.ly/AstroTrailer), Daniel followed every step of the moon landing. It was his only focus at the time.
There's a blue moon tonight, the same day that Neil Armstrong was laid to rest. A natural tribute to the first man to walk on the moon and a hero to a generation.
Go outside and take a look at this "blue" moon. It's not really blue, as you can see by the image I shot tonight and edited into the stock photo above. A blue moon refers to the 2nd full moon in a calendar month. A rare event. And a rare man. RIP Neil.
Apollo 17 mission commander Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, looks skyward during a memorial service celebrating the life of Neil Armstrong at the Washington National Cathedral, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, died Saturday, Aug. 25. He was 82. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
July 20, 1969: Views outside Neil Armstrong’s window just after landing on the lunar surface. (Photo taken by Armstrong out the window.)
Image credit: NASA
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Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, with his ride..."Spacecraft 107, alias Apollo 11, alias ‘Columbia.’ The Best Ship to Come Down the Line. God Bless Her."
Are those low-top canvas Converse All Stars he's wearing? Stylin’ if so!
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AWESOME...yet again.
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Michael Collins sits in the open hatch of the Apollo 11 Command Module after its return to the MSC's Lunar Receiving Laboratory for detailed examination.
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Vintage moon landing game from 1969. First one to the moon wins! Daniel followed the space race intensely in 'The Astronot' (bit.ly/AstroVimeo).
July 16, 1969 - Launch of the Apollo 11 Mission - the first lunar landing mission from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
Neil Armstrong passed away today, August 25th from complications following heart bypass surgery two days after his 82nd birthday on August 5th.
Neil was the commander of the first lunar landing by Apollo 11 in the Sea of Tranquillity, July 20 1969. No American astronaut has landed on the moon since 1972.
Neil Armstrong: 1930-2012 (NASA Obituary)
I made several model improvements while I was at developign the instructions to the Descent Module. The standard Lego designed model has lots of voids, missing details and unightly off-colour scheme parts. All fixed in this version!
See the video to learn more: youtu.be/r6NkjcGDEs4
No wires, no strings, no strange gases or propellants used!
Just a few short years before the United States launched Apollo 11 and put the first man on the moon (20th July, 1969), the space race was in full swing, creating a huge marketing oppotunity for the toy industry. ‘Johnny Astro’ was one of the most amazing toys come out of the era; the fully controllable, flying space probe appeared to defy the law of gravity, amazing to all who saw it.
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Watching the "Real Time" Apollo 11 landing on July 20th, exactly 50 years later to the second. Of course I have my flight plan and Michael Collins signature with me :)
In addition to my own improvement on the standard model I include many of LemFliggity's mods to improve the look, shaping and accuracy of this model - it turned out so well and look amazing in person!
I worked with Dallen Powell on this design and build. It was Dallen's original idea to do the Lander in Classic Space colours.
Commander Neal Armstrong's Apollo 11 Lunar EVA suit at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
The first manned landing on the moon (Apollo 11) made its touchdown just north of the boundary region between Mare Nectaris and Mare Tranquillitatis (or Sea of Tranquility, as in, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."). The image notes identify that location and also several of the prominent impact craters that surround Mare Nectaris (Sea of Nectar).
At the bottom of this image is the impact crater Piccolomini, which is also shown in my previous post entitled "Janssen Crater and Rille" (these two photos overlap and were taken within a few minutes of one another (during a waning gibbous moon phase).
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Photographed on June 8, 2012 at 3:01AM PDT using a NextStar 5 telescope and a Sony NEX-5N digital camera (ISO 400, 1/15 second, prime focus + 2X PowerMate or approximately 2500mm effective focal length at f/20). Telescope tracking provided by a Celestron CGEM mount (standard lunar rate after one star polar align). RAW processing and image adjustments done using Photoshop CS5.
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This shiny titanium fuel tank just arrived, and is the perfect pairing for the LM RCS engine and Ascent Engine that it feeds.
Large letters around the tank read:
Tank Shell Temperature Shall Not Exceed 160° F
Open In Clean Area Only
Handle With Care Do Not Scratch, Nick Or Dent.
From some part number investigation this evening with the Spaceaholic: “the Grumman tank specification on the label (LSC 310-405-12 which is even more significant then the Bell part number) was flight qualified [and] would have included Apollo 11's Eagle.”
“A 9.5-inch concentric device with three circular data wheels on heavy paper. The user may move the wheels to cross reference mission events and times in both mission elapsed and earth days of the week. The reverse side has additional flight events and a glossary. Apollo equipment made by this contractor is also illustrated.”
Above per the Live Auctioneers website.
Interesting reading:
www.raytheon.com/news/feature/moon-anniversary
Credit: Raytheon website
Commemorating the Apollo 11 lunar landing on July 20, 1969, 20:17:40 UTC
- Ref. 3569 Apollo 11 35th Anniversary dial and matching hands
- Decimeter bezel
- Acrylic crystal with silver tension ring
- Hirsch 20mm Heavy Calf strap
"Rocketdyne artist’s concept depicting the firing of the ascent engine as the Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) ascent stage is launched from the surface of the Moon. The descent stage serves as a launch base and remains on the lunar surface. Inside the LM are astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Commander; and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., Lunar Module Pilot. Astronaut Michael Collins, Command Module Pilot, remains with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin explore the Moon. The LM ascent stage from the lunar surface and place it in proper trajectory for rendezvous with the CSM. Rocketdyne, a division of North American Rockwell Corporation, is the subcontractor for the LM ascent engine. Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, Bethpage, N.Y., is the LM prime contractor.”
Beautiful:
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On July 16, 2019, the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch, astronaut Michael Collins, right, speaks to Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana at Launch Complex 39A. During his visit to the Florida spaceport, Collins discussed the moments leading up to launch at 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, and what it was like to be part of the first crew to land on the Moon. Photo credit: NASA/Frank Michaux
"An Apollo 11 oblique view of the lunar farside in the area of International Astronomical Union crater No. 312, which is about 30 statute miles in diameter. The center of the photograph is located at 164 degrees west longitude and 8 degrees south latitude. The sharp shadows indicate that the picture was taken at a low sun angle."
This photograph - and I'm serious - is too sharp & crystal clear...it's like hurting my eyes. Not to mention the intense contrast. Must be CGI. ;-)
The view is toward the southwest. The crater just slightly up and to the right of the center of the photograph, with the fairly complex central peak is Crookes Crater. The rugged shadowed region along and toward the bottom of the photograph is the southwestern rim of Korolev Crater.
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This is a version of AS11-37-5534 that has been composited with frame AS11-37-5547, which was taken looking the same direction through the LM window. This composite frame was created to replace the overexposed landscape in the original frame.
Image Credit: Apollo 11 Crew / NASA / Project Apollo Archive / Justin Cowart
For some reason i was very proud of that crane, was a fun thing to model too, it had some great curves.
Photograph courtesy of the Melbourne Headshot Company.
[Hubby took me out for a surprise pre-holiday event tonight! So this will be sort of brief (for me, anyhow).]
Unsurprisingly, the Union Terminal Museums features a pretty fabulous exhibit about the space race that is almost worth the price of admission all by itself (but I'm a patriotic little nerd, so...).
There were no aliens at the museum, I just blurred out the face of the little girl gazing so adorably at Neil Armstrong's space suit. As you might imagine, the museum was busy, so I grabbed the best opportunity for a good picture; this happened to be it, but no doubt a lot of parents would freak out. Sad world we're in. (Shame, because it's a cute snap, and I'll bet her parents would like a copy if I knew them!)
Finally, if you're a history geek too, there's a terrific little podcast series called "Apollo 11: What We Saw", produced by Esoteric Radio Theatre. Four episodes long, it's well worth listening to. Might make the holiday travel a little more fun. ;)
Emil de Cou conducts the National Symphony Orchestra to a backdrop of Apollo 11 footage during the "NSO Pops, Apollo 11: A 50th Anniversary, One Small Step, One Giant Leap" a program including musical acts, speakers, and images and video related to space, on Saturday, July 20, 2019 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. NASA and the country are recognizing the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, in which astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin crewed the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
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Vanavond en vannacht is de maan heel goed te fotograferen.
Dit komt door het strijklicht van de zon nu de maan iets meer dan “Eerste kwartier” is en naar “Volle maan” gaat.
De kraters zijn dan het beste te fotograferen.
Om de maan goed te kunnen fotograferen heb je in elk geval een telelens van meer dan 300mm nodig.
(Of een camera die stevig kan inzoomen. )
Kortere brandpuntsafstanden geven een te klein beeld voor goede details.
Omdat de maan behoorlijk helder is geven belichtingsmeters vaak niet de goede waarde aan.
Daarom kun je het beste onderstaande waarden handmatig op je camera instellen.
Dit zijn m.i. de beste instellingen voor een spiegelreflex camera.
Belichting of sluitertijd..............................0.004 sec (1/250)
Diafragma opening ................ .................f/13.0
Brandpuntsafstand ...........groter dan ......300 mm
ISO Speed.of de gevoeligheid ................500 ( ISO)
Verder is een gebruik van een stevig statief zeer aan te raden.
Voor de zekerheid gebruik ik de zelfontspanner om geen trilling in het toestel te krijgen.
(Maar je kunt ook bij een aantal camera’s de spiegel van te voren opklappen, dat helpt ook.
Dat levert dan toch wel scherpe opnamen op.
Op bijgevoegde opname is heel mooi de krater Copernicus te zien.
Dit is de krater aan de linker kant ongeveer in het midden.
Omdat de krater Copernicus in een donker gebied ligt valt hij extra op.
Op de foto heb ik ook de plaats waar op 20 juli 1969 Amstrong (van Appollo 11) de eerste voetstap op de maan zette. Links onder in het Mare Tranquillitatus
Veel succes!
Camera.................................Nikon D600
Exposure..............................0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture................................f/13.0
Focal Length........................460 mm
ISO Speed............................500
Exposure Bias.....................-1/3 EV
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When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 in 1957, it terrified the United States. The nation had already been moving towards launching satellites, but it had been going slowly, and the fact that the USSR was ahead was a shock. Nor would it get any better: in 1961, the Soviets put Yuri Gagarin into orbit on Vostok 1. Even as the US struggled to catch up, it seemed like the Soviets owned space: a Russian orbited first, made the first rendezvous, put the first woman in space, made the first spacewalk. With the Cold War at one of its peaks, something had to be done. President John F. Kennedy put the challenge to both NASA and the American people: beat the Soviets to the Moon.
This task had to be done in steps. First came Project Mercury, which was to get single-man capsules into space at all. Then Gemini got two astronauts up at a time and practiced long duration flights and rendezvous in space. Apollo, with three-man spacecraft, would get men to the Moon. The technical challenges alone, just for Apollo, were staggering: how to get there, how to put astronauts on the Moon safely, and how to get them home. Eventually, NASA settled on a three-part spacecraft: the command module (CM) that would carry the three astronauts into orbit and home; the service module (SM) that held fuel and oxygen; and the lunar module (LM) that would take two of the three down to the Moon's surface and back. All three would be "stacked" atop a Saturn V rocket, the most powerful rocket ever constructed. Of the gigantic structure, only the CM would actually return home.
Apollo suffered a tragic setback when the Apollo 1 fire killed three astronauts (Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee), but major changes were made. The next Apollo missions were incremental: testing the spacecraft in Earth orbit (Apollo 7 and 9), flying to the Moon with a CM (Apollo 8), and a dress rehearsal for the landing itself (Apollo 10). By summer 1969, it was time to complete the mission with Apollo 11.
Apollo 11's crew would be Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins. Selecting Armstrong for mission commander was a little unusual--he was a civilian, albeit with military experience--but his performance during the Gemini program made him the best choice. Aldrin would go with Armstrong to the Moon, while Collins remained in orbit aboard the CM, nicknamed Columbia; the LM was nicknamed Eagle. (The more patriotic names were chosen after NASA felt Apollo 10's nicknames--Charlie Brown and Snoopy--were not "professional" enough.)
Apollo 11 was launched on 16 July 1969, as millions around the world watched. The mission went without a hitch all the way to the Moon, but as Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the Moon aboard Eagle, computer alarms began going off. These turned out to be simple glitches, and the mission continued, but then Armstrong noticed that the computer was taking them to a boulder-strewn landing zone. He took manual control and steered to a more clear area, and left the engine on until actual landing, though NASA doctrine called for an engine shutdown before the LM landed, and it used more fuel than the mission called for.
As it turned out, these would be the only glitches on Apollo 11. Almost three hours after landing on 20 July 1969, Armstrong stepped out onto the Moon's surface--the first time a human being had stepped onto another celestial object. Millions watched on a grainy TV camera as Armstrong made "one small step" and "one giant leap."
For the next two hours, Armstrong and Aldrin explored the Moon around their landing site, Tranquility Base (so named for the area, Mare Tranquilitas). They gathered moon rocks and set up small experiments, but just getting there had been enough. Reluctantly, they reboarded the LM, got some sleep, and then left the Moon to rejoin Collins in the CM. Eagle was jettisoned to crash on the Moon, and Columbia headed home. The astronauts splashed down on 24 July 1969, having accomplished Kennedy's challenge, and a dream of all humanity.
Apollo 11 was a watershed moment in human history: for the first time, humans had left their planet and visited another celestial body. As for the Soviets, technical setbacks in the Soyuz program caused them to fall behind, and after Apollo 11, they concentrated more on Earth orbit space stations. The Americans would go to the Moon six more times and land five more (Apollo 13 suffered a catastrophic accident, but got home). After Apollo 17, humanity has yet to return.
Of the crew, Armstrong passed away in 2012 and Collins in 2021, but Aldrin is still alive as of this writing. The CM Columbia, after being cleaned, went on a national tour to every state but Hawaii, and was donated to the Smithsonian in 1971. It went on display at the Air and Space Museum soon thereafter, coated in plastic to protect the spacecraft from millions of visitors.
I'm happy to say I was one of them--and I proved the Smithsonian right by touching Apollo 11! (The plastic, anyway.) It's not often you get to touch history. The capsule sits between Gemini 4 and Friendship 7 at the entrance to the NASM.
"The S-1C booster for the Apollo 11 Saturn V was erected atop its mobile launcher in the Spaceport's VAB today."
The sign attached to the lower right engine reads "CAUTION - RESIDUAL FUEL IN TANK". So damned cool.
The crew of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission are seen dining in the Crew Reception Area of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, Building 37, at what is now NASA's Johnson Space Center. Left to right, are astronauts Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Michael Collins, and Neil A. Armstrong. The astronauts were released from quarantine on August 11, 1969.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S69-40306
Date July 30, 1969
Commemorating the Apollo 11 lunar landing on July 20, 1969, 20:17:40 UTC
- Ref. 3569 Apollo 11 35th Anniversary dial and matching hands
- Decimeter bezel
- Acrylic crystal with silver tension ring
- Hirsch 20mm Heavy Calf strap
This interior view of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module shows Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot, during the lunar landing mission. This picture was taken by Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, prior to the moon landing.
Photograph taken on 20 July 1969.
Credit: Neil A. Armstrong, NASA, [HQ] Image #69-HC-893 [source].