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APOLLO 11 TRAINING VIEW - Suited astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, wearing an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), participates in lunar surface simulation training on April 18, 1969, in Building 9, Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC). Amstrong is the prime crew commander of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. Here, he is standing on Lunar Module (LM) mockup foot pad preparing to ascend steps. NASA photo ID S69-31042.
This image of the Parkes Radio Telescope (which was taken two years ago) received an Honorable Mention at the David Malin Awards last weekend, so I once again had the opportunity to go on a road trip to Parkes for the Award Ceremony. This coincided with the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, which was a great event! (Parkes played a key role in providing the live feed of Armstrong and Aldrin's Moonwalk, which was relayed across the world.)
At the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), the fuel tank assembly for the Saturn V S-IC-T (static test stage) fuel tank assembly is mated to the liquid oxygen (LOX) tank in building 4705. This stage underwent numerous static firings at the newly-built S-IC Static Test Stand at the MSFC west test area. The S-IC (first) stage used five F-1 engines that produced a total thrust of 7,500,000 pounds as each engine produced 1,500,000 pounds of thrust. The S-IC stage lifted the Saturn V vehicle and Apollo spacecraft from the launch pad. 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’swebpage.
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Description The Apollo 11 Lunar Module ascent stage, with Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. aboard, is photographed from the Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit. This view is looking west with the earth rising above the lunar horizon. Astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command/Service Module in lunar orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin explored the Moon. The Lunar Module is approaching from below. The mare area in the background is Smyth's Sea. At right center is International Astronomical Union crater no. 189.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: AS11-44-6634
Date: July 21, 1969
46 years ago almost to the day, the Apollo 11 Mission made its way through the bleak cosmos to land on that big orbiting rock in the sky. I built this about a month ago for my local library primarily to complement my New Horizons Probe. It only occurred to me after I'd completed it the significance of the advancements in Space exploration in the month of July. Talk about sweet serendipity. :)
This photo was taken and edited by Wei Li Jiang.
aDaD-- a duck a day :) 2/365
in keeping with yesterday's space theme (apollo11- first footprint), here's a shuttle pilot.
Interior view of the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Manned Spacecraft Operations Building showing Lunar Module (LM) 5 being moved from work stand for mating with its Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter (SLA). LM-5 is scheduled to be flown on the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. NASA photo ID S69-32396.
For Release: June 10, 1969
Photo No.: KSC-69PC-295
"KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Apollo 11 prime crew poses for a photograph during a walk through egress test. The hands-on test is in preparation for the first manned lunar landing mission scheduled for lift-off in July."
For Release: June 19, 1969
Photo No.: KSC-69PC-296
"KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Apollo 11 astronauts rehearsed their lunar landing mission in simulators here today. Pictured in front of a lunar module mockup in the Flight Crew Training Building area, from left, Michael Collins, Command Module Pilot; Neil A. Armstrong, Commander; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module Pilot."
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during an Apollo 11 Extravehicular Activity (EVA) on the lunar surface. The Lunar Module (LM) is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible in the soil of the Moon. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this picture with a 70mm Hasselblad lunar surface camera. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the LM, the "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.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: AS11-40-5875
Date: July 20, 1969
My wife's on strike.....no, she's not well. But well enough to tell me to do all the ironing that has mounted up. And I seem to have been ironing all morning whilst the rain lashed down outside. This is not how a weekend after a hard week at work in the office should be. I'm desperate to get out!
Since realising the lunar eclipse last Tuesday did not coincide with the 50th Anniversary of man landing on the moon, I wanted to come up with a poignant image for the occasion. And in my head I had the idea to photograph a strongly lit ladybird on top of an egg. Of course the ladybird with its shell and spindly legs silhouetted on the curved top of an egg would look like the Eagle lander on the moon. Wouldn't it?
But the really heavy rain today put paid to finding a ladybird (or any suitable insect) in the garden. But I did spot one deceased hoverfly on the window sill of our conservatory. I'm not superskilled with a macro, and I did have to do this hastily before my wife realised I had stopped ironing, but here you are, my photo to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Eagle (a dead hoverfly) landing on the surface of the moon (one free range medium sized hen's egg from Morrisons). Apollo 11 mission 20th July 1969
I wasn't really into Pink Floyd in that era, but just recently, now that they have matured a bit more I've really taken to the likes of David Gilmour with tracks like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLYeVk9Sk60 and to see Heart singing Stairway to Heaven for the members of Led Zeppelin here just blows my mind away www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFxOaDeJmXk
P.S. I do actually think the hoverfly from this angle does bear a resemblance to the Eagle moon lander!
A view of the Earth appears over the Lunar horizon as the Apollo 11 Command Module comes into view of the Moon before Astronatus Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. leave in the Lunar Module, Eagle, to become the first men to walk on the Moon's surface.
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Neil Armstrong's first photo after the Apollo 11 landing, taken from the Lunar Module window. NASA photo ID AS11-37-5449
Buzz Aldrin's photo of Neil Armstrong, while still in Earth orbit, a little over an hour after liftoff - NASA photo AS11-36-5291.
50 years after the first step on the moon. Tribute to what the world accomplished on July 21, 1969, and after searching through my photo archives.
Apollo 11 flight control module / National Air and Space Museum, Washington / CSM-107Columbia.
8 days, 3 hours and 18 minutes.
50 ans après le premier pas sur la lune pour un hommage à ce que le monde à accompli le 21 Juillet 1969, et après avoir fouillé dans mes archives photos.
Module de commande du vol Apollo 11 en exposition au National Air and Space Museum, Washington / CSM-107Columbia.
8 jours, 3 heures et 18 minutes.
prensaespacial.blogspot.com.ar de Diego Cordova. Periodista especializado en Temas Espaciales. Ver día 8 de mayo de 2016
NASA Photo 108-KSC-69P-632 / 69H-1146. Uncl. 7-16-69
"Dr. Wernher von Braun, Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, relaxes after the successful launch of Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin, Jr., today. Their historic lunar landing mission began at 9:32 A.M. EDT, July 16, 1969, when an Apollo/Saturn V space vehicle lifted off from the Spaceport's Launch Complex 39A."
It was a GREAT morning at Phinizy Swamp in Augusta Georiga. 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. I call this image, "The Eagle Has Landed". I have several other eagles loaded here on FAA. In this version, I photoshopped the moon into the image. I could never get an angle with no trees or distractions of just the eagle and the moon.
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.
For Release: June 18, 1969
Photo No.: KSC-69P-506
"KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Apollo 11 prime crew practices during a simulated moon activity."
40 years since we all sat watching Apollo 11 and look how far we've come!
Whole galaxies in a bowl of water captured on 'film'. This was taken with a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens, not its orbiting equivalent the Hubble Space Telescope!
Buzz Aldrin salutes the U.S. Flag. His fingertips are visible on the far side of his faceplate. Note the well-defined footprints in the foreground. Buzz is facing up-Sun. There is a reflection of the Sun in his visor. At the bottom of Buzz's faceplate, note the white 'rim' which is slightly separated from his neckring. This 'rim' is the bottom of his gold visor, which he has pulled down. We can see the LEC straps hanging down inside of the ladder strut. In the foreground, we can see the foot-grabbing loops in the TV cable. The double crater under Neil Armstrong's Lunar Module window is just beyond the Lunar Module shadow.
To learn more about Apollo 11 go to: www.nasa.gov/apollo45/
or www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11_40/
Credit: NASA/APOLLO 11
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Mission patches for Apollo flights 7-15 during the 1960s & 70s. Such beautiful and effective designs.
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!
History Meeting House in Warsaw, 20th July. Exhibition of photos from NASA archives about Apollo program and landing on the moon.
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).
A better pic of the lander I threw together for this shot is here : www.flickr.com/photos/balakovsetup/3709962542/
Lighting provided by a bare SB-800 with 2/3 of the head taped over to get a smaller, harder lightsource.
Description Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 Commander, inside the Lunar Module as it rests on the lunar surface after completion of his historic moonwalk.
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Credit: NASA
Image Number: as11-37-5528
Date: July 20, 1969
After Neil Armstrong shot a few photos following the landing, he handed the camera to Buzz Aldrin, who shot a few from his window, including this one featuring the shadow of the lunar module. NASA photo ID AS11-37-5454
Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo ll mission commander, at the modular equipment storage assembly (MESA) of the Lunar Module "Eagle" on the historic first extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface. Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. took the photograph with a Hasselblad 70mm camera. Most photos from the Apollo 11 mission show Buzz Aldrin. This is one of only a few that show Neil Armstrong.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: AS11-40-5886
Date: July 20, 1969
My parents brought this comparative cup soon after the Eagle had landed. It now just sits on the shelf but it has been brought out of retirement after 50 years.
Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong, left, and retired Navy Captain and commander of Apollo 17 Eugene Cernan, confer prior to testifying at a hearing before the House Science and Technology Committee, Tuesday, May 26, 2010, at the Rayburn House office building on Capitol Hill in Washington. The hearing was to review proposed human spaceflight plan by NASA.
Credit: NASA/Paul E. Alers
Image Number: HQ20100526
Date: May 26, 2010
President Barack Obama poses with Apollo 11 astronauts, from left, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, Monday, July 20, 2009, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
With 18 days before launch, Apollo 11 Command Module (CM) pilot Michael Collins practices docking hatch removal from CM simulator at NASA Johnson Space Center.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S69-38317
Date Taken: June 28, 1969
Celebrating 50 years since Apollo 11 blasted off with the first humans that would walk on the Moon, Copernicus Sentinel-2 captures the historic launch site at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, US.
On 16 July 1969, the Saturn V rocket carrying Apollo 11 began its momentous voyage to the Moon. It lifted off from launch pad 39A – which can be seen in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image from 29 January 2019. Launch pad 39A is the second pad down from the top (the launch pad at the far top is 39B).
The crew – Neil Armstrong, mission commander, Michael Collins, command module pilot and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, lunar module pilot – were embarking on a milestone in human history.
Just four days later, the lunar module, the Eagle, touched down. Watched on television by millions around the world, Neil Armstrong was the first to set foot on the Moon, famously saying, “That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
A few minutes later he was joined by Buzz Aldrin. They took photographs, planted the US flag, spoke to President Richard Nixon via radio transmission and spent a couple of hours walking and collecting dust and rocks. The two men returned to lunar module, slept that night on the surface of the moon, and then the Eagle began its ascent back to re-join the command module, which had been orbiting the Moon with Michael Collins. Apollo splashed back down safely in the Pacific Ocean on 24 July.
The Moon has again captured the attention of space agencies. 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: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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Apollo 11 Mission image - View of Earth (July 21, 1969)
View of the Earth terminator. One third of Earth sphere illuminated,East Africa visible. Image was taken after the transearth insertion as the Apollo 11 crew traveled back to Earth. Original film magazine was labeled V. Film Type: S0-368 Color taken with a 80mm lens.
To learn more about Apollo 11 go to: www.nasa.gov/apollo45/
or www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11_40/
Credit: NASA/APOLLO 11
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July 16, 1969: Liftoff of Apollo 11.
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For Release: July 1, 1969
Photo No. 107-KSC-69P-565 / 69-H-1010
"KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Circular work platforms on the mobile service structure, right, retract from the Apollo 11 spacecraft and Saturn V launch vehicle as transporter carries service structure to the parking area. The move took place during a Countdown Demonstration Test or dress rehearsal for launch."
The low Full Moon of July 20, 2024, seen here through forest fire smoke dimming and reddening the Moon. This was from a location along Highway 564 in soutthern Alberta. The Moon was at a particularly low and southerly declination this year and month, being near a major lunar standstill. This was also the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing!
This is a blend of 6 exposures from long (for the sky) to short (for the lunar disk), blended with luminosity masks, not HDR. With the RF70-200mm lens at 171mm and f/4 on the Canon R5 at ISO 400.