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Neil reflected in Buzz's visor, 50 years ago.
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The 20th July 2009 is the 40th anniversary of the first manned landing on the moon. I've always been unhappy with my previous moon landing photo because of the 'modern' Lego spaceman. The classic 1978 Lego spaceman is far more fitting for this sort of thing (he's from the Vintage collection Vol. 2).
The flag should be correct for 1969, but I'm sure some of my observant American friends will let me know if I've got it wrong.
Lighting provided by a bare SB-800 with 2/3 of the head taped over to get a smaller, harder lightsource.
A friend of mine gave this to me from a record collection she recently inherited from her aunt.
- Taken at 3:56 PM on March 14, 2010 - uploaded by ShoZu
50 yrs+12 hrs+5 mins after the #Apollo11 launch, the International Space Station flew high and bright over the Space Coast and the American Space Museum & Space Walk of Fame Apollo monument in Titusville, Florida.
This is just across the river from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, from where Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins began their epic journey.
Behind me is the (very) full Moon, a lovely and apt coincidence for this anniversary.
Details: 7x1-minute exposures, the ISS is arching across the top of the frame as it flies from the Southwest to the Northeast, almost directly overhead.
(Pic: me / We Report Space)
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This week in 1969, the Apollo 11 crew successfully returned to Earth following their eight-day mission to the lunar surface. Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, 13 miles from the recovery ship USS Hornet. Donning biological isolation garments before leaving the spacecraft, the crew went directly into the Mobile Quarantine Facility on the aircraft carrier, their home for the following 21 days. With the success of Apollo 11, the national objective of landing men on the Moon and returning them safely to Earth was accomplished. This July, in a series of special events, NASA is marking the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Program -- the historic effort that sent the first U.S. astronauts into orbit around the Moon in 1968, and landed a dozen astronauts on the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972. For more pictures, and to connect to NASA’s remarkable history, visit the Marshall History Program’s webpage.
Image credit: NASA
View of the Earth from Apollo 11 during the Trans-lunar coast, about ten hours into the mission. The spacecraft, with the Lunar Module now extracted and the S-IVB stage discarded, was already about 56,000 miles from the Earth when this photo was taken. NASA photo ID AS11-36-5337
Lego's Apollo 11 Lunar Lander is an intricate and well designed set. Here's my take on the moments before Neil Armstrong's infamous first steps.
Fifty years ago, the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, the Eagle, undocked from the Command and Service Module to begin it's historic descent to the surface of the Moon. Here, the Lunar Module, in lunar landing configuration, is photographed in lunar orbit from the Command and Service Module. Inside the LM were astronauts Neil Armstrong, commander, and Edwin Aldrin Jr., LM pilot. Astronaut Michael Collins, Command Module pilot, remained with the CSM in lunar orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the LM to explore the lunar surface. This July, in a series of special events, NASA is marking the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Program -- the historic effort that sent the first U.S. astronauts into orbit around the Moon in 1968, and landed a dozen astronauts on the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972. For more pictures, and to connect to NASA’s remarkable history, visit the Marshall History Program’s webpage.
Image credit: NASA
A Royal Air Force Typhoon call sign "APOLLO11" carrying out training above the RAF Leeming Zone.
23/11/20
"Man on the Moon"
In commemoration of the 50th year of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission, here's a palladium print I made from the original image file from NASA. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the surface of the moon near the leg of the lunar module Eagle during the Apollo 11 mission.
This is the dish that received the very first footage back from the Apollo 11 moon landing and sent it out to the world. At the time it was located at Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station. It is now decommissioned and can be seen at the Canberra Space Centre.
It was 52 years ago that my 9 year old self was aloud to stay up and watch the first man walk on the moon. Space and space travel has been an interest for all the years since.
Almost 50 years ago ….
APOLLO 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, on July 16 at 9:32 am (13:32 UTC) and was the fifth manned mission of NASA's Apollo program.
Thia was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon:Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first human to step onto the lunar surface six hours after landing on July 21 at 02:56:15 UTC; Aldrin joined him about 20 minutes later. They spent about two and a quarter hours together outside the spacecraft, and collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material to bring back to Earth. Michael Collins piloted the command module Columbia alone in lunar orbit while they were on the Moon's surface. Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21.5 hours on the lunar surface before rejoining Columbia in lunar orbit.
APOLLO 17 was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program. Launched at 12:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on December 7, 1972, with a crew made up of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt
Evans remained in lunar orbit in the Command/Service Module, but Cernan and Schmitt spent just over three days on the moon, (three moonwalks, taking lunar samples, deploying scientific instruments).
This 12-day-mission broke several records:
- longest moon landing, longest moonwalks, largest lunar sample, longest time in lunar orbit
Cernan (last man on moon) , Evans and Schmitt returned to Earth on December 19 , 1972
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Eleven images from the Apollo 11 50th anniversary show projected onto the Washington Monument. Reworked for a tighter 5:4 ratio.
still frame from the Maurer automatic 16mm data acquisition camera (DAC), shot through the LM window
This is a LEGO model of the famous photo of Dr. Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11). Notice the helmet reflection of the LEGO lunar lander 10266 and astronaut (Neil Armstrong) minifigure & shadow!
I also made a LEGO model of the NASA ARTEMIS space suit- the next generation spacesuit for the first woman and next man to land and walk on the moon in 2024.
Please support the idea at the LEGO Ideas website.
With 10000 votes in 1 year, LEGO will consider making it a real LEGO set.
Thank you for your support!
The lighting over Mare Tranquillitatis in this image is a very good representation of how the area would have looked as Armstrong and Aldrin were on final approach for their landing on 1969-07-20 2018 UT. The altitude of the Sun over this region would have matched what it was for the crew of Apollo 11 at that time, to within a degree or so. This image was taken 618 lunar months after the first successful landing of humans on the Moon. The craters named after Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins are just resolved in this image.
This is a stack of the best 400 frames from a 1500 frame AVI shot with a Point Grey Flea3 color camera through a Celestron Edge HD 925 at f/10 (no Barlow lens). Stacking was done in AutoStakkert!3, with further processing in PixInsight (mostly wavelets) and PS CS 5.1.
For Release: July 11, 1969
Photo No: 69-HC-717
107-KSC-69PC-352
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A technician works atop the white room, at right, through which the Apollo 11 astronauts will enter their spacecraft, mated to a Saturn V rocket at the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A. Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., will be launched on the first manned lunar landing mission.
Buzz Aldrin on Day 3 of the Apollo 11 mission, in the Lunar Module during its checkout en route to the Moon. Buzz is on the left side of the cabin (where Armstrong would stand during the lunar landing) and is placing a pair of sunglasses in his jacket's arm pocket. NASA photo ID AS11-36-5390
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Per més informació en concret sobre aquesta càmera Hasselblad 500 EL/M, mireu aquí:
www.flickr.com/photos/7455207@N05/50908970962
Aquesta és la meva "aproximació" a les úniques càmeres que s'han fet servir a la superficie de la Lluna, obviament amb les missions Apol·lo entre 1969 i 1972.
Es tracta de la Hasselblad Data Camera (HDC), BASADA en aquesta que veieu aquí, la Hasselblad 500 EL/M. De fet, basada en el model anterior, la 500 EL, però les diferencies son menors. La NASA, en col·laboració amb Hasselblad, va obtenir una càmera de format mitjà, amb porta-pel·licula especials de gran capacitat i intercambiables. Es desmontà tot el sistema reflex, eliminant pes i complexitat. De tota manera, els astronautes només podien composar les imatges a ull, des de l'interior dels vestits espacials. Al ser una càmera electrica no cal avançar el rodet, és automatic. L'objectiu també es beneficià de la eliminació del mirall reflex, ja que sobresortia cap al interior del cos. Es tractava d'un Carl Zeiss Biogon f5.6 / 60mm. Jo obviament no el puc instalar, en una 500 ELM normal, pel que hi he inclos un prou similar Carl Zeiss Distagon f4 / 50mm.
El porta-rodets sí que és prou similar, en aquest cas. En comptes dels usuals de 12 fotos en format 120, les cameres de la NASA carregaven pel·licula especialment fina per poder fer fins a 200 imatges. Els porta-rodets no es podien obrir.
La darrera diferencia evident amb la càmera llunar es que aquesta darrera fou pintada amb pintura platejada per minimitzar les diferencies termiques. Altres diferencies menys evidents eren la presencia d'un vidre calibrat (réseau plate) dins la càmera (que imprimia les creus de referencia a les fotos llunars) i un lubricant especial per aguantar el buit del espai i les temperatures extremes.
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For more specific, terrenal, information on this Hasselblad 500 EL/M camera, look here:
www.flickr.com/photos/7455207@N05/50908970962
This is my "approach" to the only cameras that have been used on the surface of the Moon, obviously with the Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972.
This is the Hasselblad Data Camera (HDC), BASED on the one you see here, the Hasselblad 500 EL/M. In fact, based on the previous model, the 500 EL, but the differences are smaller. NASA, in collaboration with Hasselblad, obtained this way a medium-sized camera, with special large-capacity and interchangeable film holders. The entire reflex mirror system and viewfinder was disassembled, eliminating weight and complexity. Anyway, astronauts could only compose the images by eye, from inside the space suits. Being an electric camera it is not necessary to advance the roller, it is automatic. The lens also benefits from the removal of the reflective mirror as it protrudes into the body. It was a Carl Zeiss Biogon f5.6 / 60mm. I obviously can't install it, on a normal 500 ELM, so I've included here a fairly similar Carl Zeiss Distagon f4 / 50mm.
The film back is quite similar, in this case. Instead of the usual 12 photos in 120 format, NASA cameras loaded especially thin film to be able to take up to 200 images. These backs could not be opened. This one in the image has the same size, but it in fact uses 70mm roll film in large cartridges, allowing to take up to 70 images in more than 4 m. of film. But this is very difficult to obtain, now.
The last obvious difference with the real lunar camera is that the latter was painted with silver paint to minimize thermal differences. Other less obvious differences were the presence of a calibrated glass (grid plate) inside the camera (which printed the reference crosses in the lunar photos), large controls to be used with space gloves, and a special lubricant to withstand the vacuum of space and extreme temperatures.
www.npr.org/2019/07/13/735314929/the-camera-that-went-to-...
www.hasselblad.com/inspiration/history/hasselblad-in-space/
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11-hass.html
www.spacecamera.co/articles/apollo11
www.spacecamera.co/articles/2020/3/3/gene-cernans-missing...
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.
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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!
Polaroid SX70 Alpha 1 Model 2
Polariod 600 expired 2009
Taken 20 July 2019
Original image taken 20 July 1969
via the NASM's Apollo 50: Go for the Moon t.co/As6lcyFyvT
"On July 16, 17, and 18 the projection will be live from 9:30 pm to 11:30 pm.
It all builds up to July 19 and 20, when we will present "Apollo 50: Go for the Moon," a 17-minute show that will combine full-motion projection mapping artwork and archival footage to recreate the launch of Apollo 11 and tell the story of the first Moon landing. The show will unfold on the face of the Washington Monument and supporting screens, including a 40-foot-wide recreation of the famous Kennedy Space Center countdown clock.
The free show will run at 9:30 pm, 10:30 pm, and 11:30 pm on Friday, July 19, and Saturday, July 20."
Neil Armstrong's first Hasselblad photograph on the Moon at the beginning of the Apollo 11 EVA, which was the beginning of a panoramic sequence. In this photo is one of the jettison bags, which were used to the keep the cabin free of trash. NASA photo ID AS11-40-5850
Earthrise from Apollo 11, about 86 hours into the mission, prior to separation of the Lunar Module from the Command & Service Modules, and about 17 hours prior to powered descent to the Moon's surface. NASA photo ID AS11-37-5442
For Release: May 20, 1969
Photo No.: 69-HC-622
Kennedy Space Center, Fla. -- The Space Vehicle for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Apollo 11, Lunar landing mission is shown arriving at Launch Complex 39-A, after roll-out from the Vehicle Assembly Building 3.5 miles away. The 363 foot tall Saturn/Apollo vehicle and its mobile launcher were transported down the Crawlerway at a speed of one mile per hour, and are shown being carried up the pad incline by the Crawler-transporter.
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, September 13, 2012. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, died Saturday, August 25, 2012. He was 82.
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Image Number: 201209130003HQ
Date: September 13, 2012
For Release: May 20, 1969
Photo No. 69-HC-619
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Space Vehicle for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Apollo 11, Lunar Landing mission is rolled out of the Vehicle Assembly Building down the 3.5 mile Crawlerway to Launch Complex 39-A at a speed of one mile per hour.
The flight crew of the Apollo 11 mission is Neil A. Armstrong, Commander, Michael Collins, Command Module Pilot, and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., Lunar Module Pilot. The preliminary flight plan for the Apollo 11 mission, scheduled for launch no earlier than July 16 calls for touchdown on the Moon at 2:22 PM EDT, July 20.
The Moon (or Luna) is the Earth’s only natural satellite and was formed 4.6 billion years ago around some 30–50 million years after the formation of the solar system. The Moon is in synchronous rotation with Earth meaning the same side is always facing the Earth. The first unmanned mission to the Moon was in 1959 by the Soviet Lunar Program with the first manned landing being Apollo 11 in 1969.
The dark side of the moon is a myth.
In reality both sides of the Moon see the same amount of sunlight however only one face of the Moon is ever seen from Earth. This is because the Moon rotates around on its own axis in exactly the same time it takes to orbit the Earth, meaning the same side is always facing the Earth. The side facing away from Earth has only been seen by the human eye from spacecraft.
The rise and fall of the tides on Earth is caused by the Moon.
There are two bulges in the Earth due to the gravitational pull that the Moon exerts; one on the side facing the Moon, and the other on the opposite side that faces away from the Moon, The bulges move around the oceans as the Earth rotates, causing high and low tides around the globe. The first man to set foot on the Moon in 1969 was Neil Armstrong on the Apollo 11 mission, while the last man to walk on the Moon in 1972 was Gene Cernan on the Apollo 17 mission. Since then the Moon has only be visited by unmanned vehicles. At 3,475 km in diameter, the Moon is much smaller than the major moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Earth is about 80 times the volume than the Moon, but both are about the same age. A prevailing theory is that the Moon was once part of the Earth, and was formed from a chunk that broke away due to a huge object colliding with Earth when it was relatively young. NASA plans to return astronauts to the moon to set up a permanent space station. Mankind may once again walk on the moon in 2019, if all goes according to plan.
For Release: May 20, 1969
Photo No.: KSC-69PC-249
"Carrying the Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle and mobile launcher, the transporter inches its way to the hardstand atop Launch Complex 39A where it positioned the 12.5 million-pound load on support pedestals. (Unfueled Saturn V weighs 1/2 million pounds.) Rollout began at 12:30 p.m. EDT today, and was completed at 7:46 p.m. The transporter carried the vehicle along the 3.5 mile crawlerway at an average speed less than one mile per hour. The 363-foot-high space vehicle is to launch Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., on the Nations' first manned lunar landing mission."
“Launch Escape System for Apollo 11. PIB.”
THIS…this is what would’ve saved the lives of Armstrong, Aldrin & Collins in the event of a launch/ascent abort scenario! Is that too cool or WHAT?! Especially since, thank God, such was not necessary.
PIB = Pyrotechnic Installation Building
More specifically then, this photograph was taken in what I assume to be the parking lot of the PIB (building M7-1469). Further, through painstaking/pathetic & pointless research, I’ve concluded, based on the angular separation between the two buildings in the distance, for them to be Hypergolic Test Building 2 (left) & Hypergolic Test Building 1 (right) (respectively, buildings M7-1210 & M7-1212). Then again, I may be wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Additionally, per Jim Behling, at the collectSPACE website. Interesting, informative & sad:
“…The southeast section of the KSC Industrial Area was formerly known as the Fluids Test Area.
Per Moonport Chapter 11, the Fluids Test Area consisted of: Hypergolic test building, Cryogenic test building, Environmental control systems building and Support building. The same reference also includes a Weight and balance building which might be near the O&C building (MSOB). Also, there are pictures (Figure 126) and other references to a pyrotechnic installation building.
I have a old Manned Spacecraft Center document (I will have to find it and post some scans) and it says the Hypergolic test building and Environmental control systems building have two bays. Using this info, I believe that M7-961 current Hypergol Module Processing, North is the Hypergolic test building and M7-1212 current Hypergol Module Processing, South is the Environmental control systems building. The document I have shows one building further south where M7-1412, Hypergol Module Storage, East is and since there used to be a H2 and O2 servicing pads near this facility, it would mean it was the Cryogenic test building.
The pyrotechnic installation building remains unknown to me and as well as the former name of Hypergol Module Storage, West. Also, weight and balance of items and spacecraft may have occurred in these same building so did the Weight and balance building exist and if so, what is it called today?
This is the area formerly known as the Fluids Test Area today.
Through further research, I have found that the Weight and Balance building became the Pyrotechnics Installation Building. This is where the final checkout of the Gemini spacecraft occurred before going to the pad. Before going to the Pyrotechnics Installation Building, the spacecraft and its fuel cells were checked out in the Cryogenic test building.
This is also where the Apollo LES was processed.
The Pyrotechnics Installation Building became the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-1 during the Titan IIIE era and eventually, the Vertical Processing Facility in the shuttle era.
Not to offend anybody, but with the heavy emphasis on site for anything Mercury, Gemini or Apollo, why wasn't there an uproar over the demolition of the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF) in 2010.
After all, Gemini spacecraft were processed there, and the Apollo 1 spacecraft was disassembled and laid out for the review board.”
The above thread from/at:
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum41/HTML/000481.html
And, as a segue from Mr. Behling’s last two lines:
“The Vertical Processing Facility (M7-1469) was originally built in 1964 as the Pyrotechnic Installation Facility. In the 1970s, it became the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility No. 1, and was used for unmanned spacecraft operations. During the SSP, particularly between 1982 and 1986, the building played a key role in the processing and integration of vertical payloads. It also housed an Orbiter Simulator used for astronaut training. However, the simulator and all support equipment have been removed, and the facility, currently in mothball status, has suffered a loss of integrity. It no longer conveys its historical functions, and thus, is not considered NRHP-eligible. In addition to these buildings, six transport vehicles at KSC were surveyed and assessed as ineligible for listing in the NRHP. These include the CTV, the Astrovan, two Payload Canister Transporters, the Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) Transporter, and the Orbiter Transporter. Both the CTV and the Astrovan are used to transport astronauts. The CTV was purchased from Continental Airlines at Denver International Airport and modified in 1992. It is used to assist crew egress following landing, and moves the astronauts from
the SLF to the O&C Building for post-flight physical examinations. A similar vehicle is used by NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB. With the exception of interior modifications to support the astronauts and their equipment, the CTVs are identical to the vehicles, variously referred to as “mobile lounges” and “plane mates,” used at commercial airports today. Similarly, the Astrovan, used to transport the astronauts and their support team to the launch pad, is unremarkable in design and similar to a commercially-available Airstream trailer, with the exception of interior modifications. This Astrovan is not the original, which has been retired from service (Mark Smith 2006). Thus, it is not distinguished by its exceptionally significant historical associations with the SSP.”
The above being a depressing extract from the “NASA-WIDE SURVEY AND EVALUATION OF HISTORIC FACILITIES AND PROPERTIES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE U.S. SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM: JOHN F. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA”, at:
gandalfddi.z19.web.core.windows.net/Shuttle/NASA%20Kenned...
Finally, as is often the case, additional pertinent & wonderful content from the CAPCOM ESPACE website, specifically:
www.capcomespace.net/dossiers/espace_US/apollo/ksc/ZI/zon...
Along with:
www.scribd.com/document/61757830/Apollo-Saturn-V-Facility...
Credit: SCRIBD website
55 years ago, on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on it's historic trip to the Moon, where Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin would be the first humans to step onto the surface of the Moon.
Image credit: NASA
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C'è chi dice che non sia stato vero, che sia stato tutto un imbroglio della NASA, eppure 40 anni fa, più di 600 milioni di persone sono rimaste incollate agli schermi televisivi per ammirare il primo sbarco dell'uomo sulla Luna. Io personalmente ci credo. O se la vogliamo mettere su questo piano, forse mi piace crederci.
Lo sapete qual è stato il luogo del primo allunaggio compiuto dall'Apollo 11 nel 1969?Il Mare Tranquillitatis.
E per finire, qualcosa per ricreare l'atmosfera. Ascoltate qui:
***40th Anniversary to the land on the Moon***
Some say that it was not true, that it was a trick of the NASA, but 40 years ago, more than 600 million people were watching to television screens to admire the first landing of man on the Moon. I personally believe, or better, I like to believe :)
Do you know where the Apollo 11 landed on the moon? In the Mare Tranquillitatis.
And finally, something to recreate the atmosphere. Listen here: