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This boomerang, an example of the "first aerodynamic shape conceived by man," was presented in 1969 to NASA astronaut Michael Collins by the Australian Television Network Channel 7 in celebration of the success of the Apollo 11 Moon landing that July.
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Neil has moved to the MESA. No other Apollo photograph has been reproduced as often as this portrait of Buzz. Neil is, of course, visible in reflection on Buzz's visor. Buzz has his left arm raised and is probably reading the checklist sewn on the wrist cover of his glove. He is moving his right foot forward, as can be seen by the mound of dirt building up in front of the toe of that boot. Note the dirt adhering to Buzz's boots and knees. Otherwise, he is remarkably clean. The "Red Apple", which he would grab and pull to open his purge valve in the event of a suit leak or a PLSS failure, is located roughly over his navel. From our perspective, the purge valve is installed in the connector to the left of the "Red Apple".
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Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the moon near the leg of the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA). Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Columbia" in lunar orbit.
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In addition to Armstrong, what is likely the earth, is visible as a tiny 'pale blue dot' near the very top of the reflection from Aldrin's visor. Excellent discussion & analysis is available at the superb Apollo Lunar Surface Journal site.
A view of the Apollo 11 50th Anniversary celebration on the National Mall, Thursday, July 18, 2019 in Washington. Apollo 11 was the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon and launched on July 16, 1969 with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin. Photo Credit: (NASA/Connie Moore)
Lego Lunar Landers - Apollo 11
The last LEM is the set 10266 in minifig scale. With the famous Lego footprints on the moon surface.
This is an actual piece of an F-1 engine, flown on Apollo 11, and recovered from the Atlantic Ocean in 2013. Like much of the Apollo missions, how they managed to get this piece is beyond me...
This piece of hardware is the single most important element of those lunar landing missions: if it hadn’t been perfected, we could not have gone to the Moon—at least by President Kennedy’s timetable.
For the technically-minded, the larger the rocket engine, the more the combustion of liquid oxygen and fuel becomes less uniform. In the massive F-1 engine required to lift the Saturn V, this problem, known as combustion instability, is fatal to the engine. Quite a few blew up between 1959 and 1966, before the engineers at Rocketdyne fixed the problem with this version of the injector plate. It sat on the top of a barrel where the oxidizer and fuel were pumped in at very high pressure and flow rate though the little holes in the plate, then burned in the barrel, known as the combustion chamber. Initially, the plate didn’t have the baffles on them, just the holes. That made for a somewhat more powerful engine—that always blew up! By adding the baffles the design stopped blowing up, even when they put small explosive charges into the engine to try to force instability to occur.
The plate here was the result of seven years’ hard work to create an engine that would self-dampen combustion instability. Without it, no Saturn V could have successfully flown.
Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, speaks 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/Paul E. Alers)
Everyone's Gone to the Moon - Jonathan King
A technological achievement not yet equaled in my humble opinion.
A moment when many young person's imagination ran wild, I know mine did.
Along with a few other things just prior to my preteen years. :0)
Among the reasons I chose the career I did & the wonderful hobby of amateur radio.
This was said to be among the moon genre songs brought with the crew to play on cassette on the mission.
NASA and contractor employees who were working at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during the Apollo 11 launch gathered for a group photo on the observation deck of Operations and Support Building II on July 11, 2019. From left, along with their titles from 50 years ago, are Richard Sharum, NASA civil servant; Edward Wilson, security officer for Wackenhut Corporation; Sue Gross, secretary to the deputy procurement officer; Emery Lamar, NASA Kennedy co-op student in Apollo Spacecraft Electrical Division; James Scotti, material clerk with Bendix Corporation; Suzanne Stuckey, secretary for telemetry; Andrew Pritchard, contractor with McGregor-Warner; Ken Poimboeuf, Design Engineering Directorate; and Grady McCorquodale, Launch Control Center engineer with Boeing. Not pictured are Richard Cota, civil servant in the Engineering Directorate; and Victor Kurjack, data courier. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
Ghosts — they've everywhere around me.
Not specifically here, but nearby in this region there is verifiable evidence of a human presence as long as 25,000 years ago. Extrapolation of this to rewrite "presence" as "occupation" or that the current claimants are unequivocally descendents of those humans is not verifiable. This is not to denigrate that presence. Quite the opposite. We can reasonably argue that, continuous or not, human presence and its ghost is a thing to acknowledge, a thing of wonder and a treasury of hope for all of us to cherish.
"Orroral" doesn't have a resonance with any European language. There's an inference in a notation on the first European-made map of this place that its etymology comes from an Aboriginal word, "urongal", and said to translate as "tomorrow". It would be fitting recognition if this interpretation is true and accurate. Today's name — a ghost of yesterdays in the tomorrows no one could have imagined.
Enter the search term: orroral lunar laser ranger history in your favourite search engine and you'll find a thing or two about where I'm heading. From 1974 to 1998 a science facility on this ridge was using the precise timekeeping of caesium atomic clocks and lasers bounced off retro-reflectors to do all sorts of clever things. The principles grew out experiments using relectors placed on the Moon in the Apollo 11 mission — hence "lunar laser ranger". In time this application expanded and this became the Orroral Geodetic Observatory. Today, it's just a ghost of those days.
Look here — that shadow — is a ghost of another kind. It's easy for us to put humanity and technology above Nature. That shadow, as I'm about to step off the old service road and around this fire scorched granodiorite boulder, is of the skeleton of yet another once living thing robbed of life by the reckless actions of self-centred Man.
Cover dated July 7, 1969 and containing 25 pages about the forthcoming Apollo 11 mission. (Part of my collection of magazines and newspaper cuttings kept in the attic for the last 50 years!)
Neil Armstrong working at the MESA.
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The scene on the National Mall as the countdown goes to zero, during the Apollo 50: Go for the Moon show on the National Mall, July 20, 2019. (Smithsonian Photo By Benjamin G. Sullivan)
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Maria Isilda Ribeiro, a 23-year-old Portuguese woman emigrated in the United States in New Jersey, embroidered and finished the North American flag that was on the Moon to mark the human presence.
Maria Isilda Ribeiro, portuguesa, de 23 anos, emigrada nos Estados Unidos, em New Jersey, bordou e fez os acabamentos na bandeira norte americana que ficou, na Lua, a assinalar a presença humana.
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Flama, N.º 1117, 1 de Agosto de 1969.
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On the 25th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 (the first moon landing mission) launch, Marshall Space Flight Center celebrated with a test firing of the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) at the Technology Test Bed (TTB). This drew a large crowd who stood in the fields around the test site and watched as plumes of white smoke verified ignition.
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Image Number: MSFC-9408571
Date: July 20, 1994
One of the first footsteps taken on the moon: this is a photograph of Buzz Aldrin's bootprint, made during the Apollo 11 mission. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon on 20 July 1969.
Credit: NASA, [HQ] Image #S11-40-5877 [source].
Apollo 11 Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin in the Lunar Module Eagle doing checkout while docked to the Command Module Columbia on the way to the moon prior to landing.
Front page of a UK newspaper from 50 years ago about the successful Apollo 11 moon landing. (At the time of printing the astronauts had not yet walked on the surface).
Former Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins speaks during the "National Symphony Orchestra 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)
Pharrell gestures to the crowd during his performance of "Freedom" at the "National Symphony Orchestra 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)
Son of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, Mark Armstrong, right, and his daughter, sing a song he wrote about his father, "Flight of Fancy," during the "National Symphony Orchestra 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)
Son of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, Mark Armstrong, right, and his daughter, sing a song he wrote about his father, "Flight of Fancy," during the "National Symphony Orchestra 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)
In this second photo from Neil Armstrong's minus-Z (east) pan, Buzz Aldrin has removed the passive seismometer package from the SEQ bay. The foreground object with the handle is the Gold camera, designed to take close-up photographs of the very top layer of the lunar soil. Note, also, the split rock at the right edge, just below the center of the photograph. This boulder was probably ejected from a nearby impact, possibly West Crater, and broke into two pieces when it hit.
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Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, prepares to deploy the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP) on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera. In the foreground is the Apollo 11 35mm stereo close-up camera.
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Wonderful & surely rare commemorative raised relief map of Tranquility Base, as produced by the United States Army Topographic Command (TOPOCOM), ca. 1969/70.
TOPOCOM even took a stab at where the U.S. flag was planted. And actually, as a military organization, it’s pretty much expected. Speaking of U.S. flags on the moon...awesome:
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I don’t understand the two “camera stations” at/on the LM. One, sure, initially as part of the MESA. But the other? Or is it just referring to photography out the two LM windows?
Apollo 11 astronaut Mike Collins talks about his mission during “NASA’s Giant Leaps: Past and Future," a live television program on Friday, July 19, 2019 from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. NASA and the world 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/Bill Ingalls)
Maker and host of Savage Builds, Adam Savage, speaks during the "National Symphony Orchestra 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)
American composer Michael Giacchino's piece titled, "Advent" is performed during the "National Symphony Orchestra 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)
Former Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins speaks during the "National Symphony Orchestra 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)
A visitor poses for a photo with an astronaut made of LEGOs at the LEGO exhibit at the Apollo 11 50th Anniversary celebration on the National Mall, Thursday, July 18, 2019 in Washington. Apollo 11 was the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon and launched on July 16, 1969 with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin. Photo Credit: (NASA/Connie Moore)
The Apollo 11 command module Columbia hatch exterior, as seen during the exhibition, Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission, at The Museum of Flight, Seattle. The hatch served as the entry and exit point to the command module Columbia on the launch pad and after landing.
Accession/Filename: 68.77.B_cropped- :---- Eleven Apollo series silver medallions; Each medallion has an image and name of the Apollo mission, the date and last name of the astronauts; Medallions are in a clear plastic case with both sides visile against blue velvet, the backsides are all the same: three stars with a globe and "Apollo"; Series is by Galaxy; First medallion is Apollo 7 with the first Apollo manned flight on Oct. 11, 1968, the last is Apollo 17 on Dec. 7, 1972 From May 18, 1969 to Dec. 7, 1972.---Image from the SDASM Curatorial Collection.Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum