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My Dad wrote us all a short note from NASA Firing Room #1, Kennedy Space Center, where he was part of the Apollo 11 launch. Our letters were postmarked at the time off launch with official KSC envelopes, stamps, and post mark!
Also, when Dad got back to work at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, Wernher von Braun signed each of them for us!
On this day in NASA history, the first humans set foot on the Moon during #Apollo11. With more than half a billion people watching on television, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went where no one had gone before.
Image credit: NASA
Most of Africa and portions of Europe and Asia can be seen in this spectacular photograph taken from the Apollo 11 spacecraft during its translunar coast toward the Moon. Apollo 11, with Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. aboard, was already about 98,000 nautical miles from Earth when this picture was made.
The Moon rises as a Metrorail car crosses the Potomac river in Washington 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. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
50 years ago today, we landed on the Moon! Thanks to NASA, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and everyone that worked to achieve this stunning and inspiring accomplishment.
50 years ago, Apollo 11 brought the world together and inspired us to achieve, explore, and discover for generations to come. Here, people are brought together July 16, 2019, to celebrate the first time humans walked on the Moon as a full-sized, 363-foot Saturn V rocket is projected onto the east face of the Washington Monument 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, 1969.
Image credit: NASA
On the eve of the fortieth anniversary of the first human landing on the Moon, Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong speaks during a lecture in honor of Apollo 11 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, Sunday, July 19, 2009. Guest speakers included Former NASA Astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn, NASA Mission Control creator and former NASA Johnson Space Center director Chris Kraft and the crew of Apollo 11. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
After a few hours of light rain and some thunder, the skies cleared after midnight. I was able to catch the July full moon that coincides with the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 in 1969. I put it together with the mission patch. Thanks NASA
F8, 1/1250. ISO 320, 600mm
SMART-1, ESA’s first mission to the Moon, captured this series of unique images of our home planet Earth and the Moon during a total lunar eclipse.
This eclipse took place on 28 October 2004, when SMART-1 was about 290 000 km away from Earth and about 660 000 km from the Moon. From its vantage point, the AMIE camera (Advanced Moon micro-Imager Experiment) could, for the first time, see and photograph both the Earth and Moon during a lunar eclipse.
The images were taken in visible light. Those of the Moon are shown in time sequence, from left to right, covering a period of about three and a half hours. The ‘totality’ phase, in the middle of the sequence when the Moon is completely inside the Earth’s shadow, lasted about an hour.
The images of the Earth were taken just before and after the eclipse. The size of the Earth and Moon is exactly as seen by SMART-1, but the distance between the two bodies, is not to scale (Earth and the Moon were farther apart than the field of view of AMIE and could not simultaneously fit within a single image). Earth is about 3.7 times larger than that of the Moon; their diameters are about 12 800 km and 3500 km, respectively. As SMART-1 was farther away from the Moon than from Earth, the difference appears exaggerated.
A partial lunar eclipse will be visible for many Earth-based observers this week, on 16-17 July. For observers in Europe it will begin late in the evening of 16 July and conclude in the early hours of 17 July. Partial lunar eclipses occur when the Earth moves between the Sun and the full moon, but they are not precisely aligned, so only part of the Moon’s surface moves into the darkest part of Earth’s shadow.
SMART-1, short for Small Missions for Advanced Research and Technology-1, was launched on 27 September 2003. For 14 months it followed a long, spiralling trajectory around Earth towards the Moon as it tested new technologies, including solar electric propulsion. It orbited the Moon from 15 November 2004 until 3 September 2006, providing a comprehensive inventory of key chemical elements in the lunar surface and taking thousands of images.
The Moon has provided the focus of many missions subsequently, but it did not receive human visitors since 1972. ESA and international partners are now looking forward to the next era of human exploration, and to better understand the resources available on the Moon to support human missions longer-term. While Apollo 11 touched down for the first time on the near side of the Moon 50 years ago, it is time to explore the far side, examine different types of lunar rocks there to probe deeper into the Moon’s geological history and to find resources like water-ice that are thought to be locked up in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon’s south pole.
Credits: ESA/Space-X,CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
An extract from the NASA archives of the Apollo 11 lunar surface imagery shot 50 years ago today -- with a modified 70mm Hasselblad -- an extraordinary moment in space exploration and human history! I choose a more unusual example from the catalog displaying the extreme sunlight that the astronauts saw especially when they first approached the moon! You can find the catalog at the lunar planetary Institute. This is from Magazine S. here's a link: www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/catalog/70mm/magazine/?40
While there, you can find images from the mapping metric camera, along with imagery from the other Apollo missions -- notably Apollo 8, the first mission to leave the protective atmosphere of earth and make it to the moon, and Apollo 17, The last human visit to the moon. Image courtesy NASA and the University of Arizona. . . .
#Apollo11 #Themoon #50thanniversary #aldrin #Armstrong #Collins #NASA #Space #Spaceexploration #70mm #analoguevibes #filmisalive #film #analogue #lunar #sunlight #crepuscularrays #lunarsurface #Hasselblad
50 years ago today, the first two humans set foot on the moon. I wanted to photograph the moonrise to commemorate the occasion.
Water sculpture
Not sure what to call this - could be a dolphin playing, but appears to have an almost human face!
The Apollo 11 mission to the Moon and back took place in June 1969, 50 years ago. In July 2019 we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first man on the Moon.
Perhaps the most ambitious and awe inspiring of the Apollo 11 celebrations is the commemorative lunar flight, the Apollo 11/50th. The crowdfunded Apollo 11/50th mission is scheduled for a liftoff on July 16 and to land on the Moon on July 20, exactly 50 years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin..
The Apollo 11/50th mission isn’t an exact replication of the 1969 flight, it was deemed too risky. Only a replica of the Lunar Excursion Vehicle was constructed, no Saturn IV rocket, service module or command module, only the LEM.
The LEM replica with a crew of two will be escorted to the Moon and back by a private owned Eagle Tourer craft which will take over the duties of the absent SM and CM. This is also a safety measure as the Eagle is known as the most reliable spacecraft ever built.
Incidentally, the original Apollo 11 LEM was called ”Eagle”.
This photograph is from the final test flight, two months before the actual flight.
I built that LEM model from a scale model kit in little over a week. For me that is lightning speed. It was fun though, I think those two designs go well together.
The two large craters with ejection rays are:
Copernicus (just right of centre), 93 km diameter & 3.8 km deep;
and
Tycho (top left), 86 km diameter & 4.8 km deep.
Object Details:
Moon Visual magnitude: -11.7
Illumination: 94.6%
Apparent diameter: 30.8 arc min
Actual diameter: 3475 km
Distance: 388,144 km
Full Moon: -2.2 days
Image:
Exposure: AVI capture @30 fps.
Date: 2018-10-22.
Location: Leumeah, NSW.
Sky: outer suburban.
Cloud: mostly clear but increased cloud late evening.
Processing software: PIPP 2.5.9, Registax 5, Gimp.
Cropping: yes.
Gear:
Imaging telescope: Skywatcher Esprit 120ED Super APO triplet refractor.
Focal length: 840 mm, focal ratio: f/7.
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI 071MC Pro.
Telescope mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R.
Polar aligning: QHYCCD PoleMaster.
Field flattener: yes; filter: no.
Imaging software: SharpCap 3.0
Observing Notes:
An experimental use of my ZWO astro-cameras, following resolution of telescope alignment issues.
I’ve done very little astro-photography so far this year, due mainly to my telescope mount malfunctioning.
The purchase earlier in the year of two ZWO astro-cams elevated me out of my comfort zone and confronted me with a new style of photography to which I am unaccustomed. Without my telescope I was unable to get imaging time, so here I am nine months on, still trying to gain experience with the “new” cameras.
What better object than the Moon to resume testing with?
Image Log:
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Timestamp Frames=On
White Bal (B)=96(Auto)
White Bal (R)=35(Auto)
Brightness=44
Temperature=29.3
Cooler Power=100
Target Temperature=-20
Cooler=On
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TimeStamp=2018-10-22T10:21:19.0202431Z
I just realized that I never added these photos to Flickr. The Command Module and Service Module were a commission. The goal was to build it with a stand (not shown) that would allow it to connect to Lego's official Lunar Lander set. I don't have the official Lunar Lander set, so for photography purposes, I built my own.
Earthrise: view from lunar orbit prior to Apollo 11 landing.
Image credit: NASA
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The first (Neil Armstrong) and the last (Eugene Cernan) man on the moon in one shot. Well, not actually the men themselves, but the respective landing sites of Apollo 11 and 17. Image taken with a Mak180/2.700mm & ASI178mc.
#OTD in 1969, the first humans stepped foot on the Moon. Four days prior, the Saturn V rocket, developed and managed by #NASAMarshall, launched the Apollo 11 crew on their historic mission.
Image credit: NASA
#NASA #NASAMarshall #Apollo #Apollo11 #SaturnV #rocket #Moon #space
New York City welcomes Apollo 11 crewmen in a showering of ticker tape down Broadway and Park Avenue in a parade termed as the largest in the city's history. Pictured in the lead car, from the right, are astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. The three astronauts teamed for the first manned lunar landing, on July 20, 1969.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S70-17433
Date: August 13, 1969
Taken from Coral Towers Observatory using a Skynyx 2-2 high speed camera and 15-cm Astrophysics Apochromatic Refractor at F/16 on a software bisque PME mount.
NOTE
The Apollo 11 landing site is marked.
Processed with CameraBag 2
From unmade Airfix 1:72 Lunar Module - 'One Small Step For Man...', 40th Anniversary Edition of Apollo 11 Moon Landing
For Macro Mondays theme - Plastic
Walthamstow, East London, UK
Our first family holiday to Eston, Middlesbrough. I can actually remember my Mum taking the photograph.
We stayed with my Great Aunt Alexander & Great Uncle Leonard, bless them, they were lovely and that's my Sister Michelle aged 7 and me aged 5.
We stayed up for the actual moon landing but I was drifting in and out of consciousness and finding it hard to make sense of the TV images.
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Buzz Aldrin photographed by Neil Armstrong, early during the Apollo 11 EVA. NASA photo ID AS11-40-5873
Mounted in a belt buckle. Macro using Fuji XF35mm & extension tubes. B&W green filter.
1975/1976 bicentennial commemorative coin.
From 1971 to 1978, the U.S. Mint issued dollar coins with the obverse depicting President Dwight David Eisenhower and the reverse the insignia of the Apollo 11 moon landing, both designed by Chief Engraver Frank Gasparro. The 1976 Bicentennial commemorative design, produced in 1975 and 1976, featured the Liberty Bell and the Moon on the reverse (designed by Dennis R. Williams), while retaining the Eisenhower obverse, and the dual dates 1776–1976. The Eisenhower dollars minted for general circulation contained no silver or gold, but were instead composed of the same copper-nickel clad composition used for the dime, quarter, and half dollar. This made the circulation coins extremely resistant to wear and, like the smaller denominations, they still retain a good deal of shine even when subject to mass usage.
From 1971 through 1976 the Mint also produced dollars composed of 40% silver aimed at the collector market. The 1971–74 issues appeared in brown boxes or blue packages, depending on whether they were proof or uncirculated. Somewhat different Bicentennial sets were produced in the following two years. All issues remain very common.
The coins were never very popular, primarily due to their large size and weight which made them inconvenient to carry and the fact that very few vending machines were designed to accept them. They saw the greatest use in casinos, and one-dollar tokens in United States casinos still approximate the size and weight of the coins. Prior to the withdrawal of the coins, which remain legal tender (and are sometimes available at banks by request), many casinos did not strike their own tokens, but instead used the Eisenhower dollar.
I just realized that I never added these photos to Flickr. The Command Module and Service Module were a commission. The goal was to build it with a stand that would allow it to connect to Lego's official Lunar Lander set. I don't have the official Lunar Lander set, so for photography purposes, I built my own.
After 50 years, 1 hour and 34 minutes, the Tranquillity Base is here (the bluish cross)
Image taken with a SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2, using a super 10mm lens.
On the 50th Anniversary of Man landing on the moon I tried to get creative this week with my Lego Ideas Saturn V in the garden at night. It would have been nice to have got the moon in the picture but ironically it wasn't the right time for it!
50 Years ago today July 20th 1969. Congratulations to all the men and woman who participated in the success of Apollo 11 reaching the moon.
Special Thank you to President John F. Kennedy, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin.
Gemini 10 & Apollo 11 astronaut, he was in command of the return capsule that orbited the Moon while Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin made their first steps.
Not only that, he was a fighter pilot, test pilot, West Point Class of ’52 and 1st Director of the National Air & Space Museum. His memoir of the space program “Carrying the Fire” is a must read and the first adult book I ever read back when I was in grade school. I even got to meet him once…
In July 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin completed humanity’s first landing on the Moon. They fulfilled President John F. Kennedy’s national goal, set in May 1961, to land a man on the Moon and return him safely to the Earth before the end of the decade. Fifty-five years ago, July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon.
In this image, Buzz Aldren stands near a strut from the Lunar Lander as Neil Armstrong works the camera.
Image credit: NASA
#NASA #NASAMarshall #Apollo #Apollo11 #SaturnV #rocket #Moon #space #astronaut
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)