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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).
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.
Image credit: NASA
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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.
Image taken with a SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Barlow 3X + 10mm lens (210x).
The cross marks the place where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were 50 years ago at this time.
Edited with Photofiltre and MS Picture Manager, to get more details.
Carrying the Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle and mobile launcher, the transporter inches its way out of the Vehicle Assembly Building to the hardstand atop Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Rollout began at 12:30 p.m. EDT on May 20, 1969 and was completed at 7:46 p.m. after positioning the 12.5-million-pound load on support pedestals. The transporter carried the vehicle along the 3.5-mile crawlerway at an average speed of less than 1 mile per hour. The 363-foot-high space vehicle launched Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. on the Nation's first manned lunar landing mission on July 16, 1969.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: KSC-69PC-249
Date: May 20, 1969
Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, wearing an Extravehicular Mobility Unit, participates in a simulation of deploying and using lunar tools on the surface of the Moon during a training exercise in Building 9 at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center) in Houston, Texas, on April 22, 1969. In the background is the Lunar Module mock-up used for crew training. Three months after this photo was taken Armstrong would be on his way back from the Moon—having been the first human to set foot on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S69-32240
Date: April 22, 1969
Portrait of Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing mission in his space suit, with his helmet on the table in front of him. Behind him is a large photograph of the lunar surface.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S69-31741
Date: April 16, 1969
“TRANQUILITY BASE, THE MOON: A shadow-shrouded Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon, begins to deploy equipment a few minutes after taking the first momentous and historic step 7/20.”
More specifically, it’s around the time Armstrong began taking the first photographs while standing on the lunar surface, using his RCU-mounted, Hasselblad 500 EL Data Camera.
It looks like the still was taken from some time between the ~10:02 to ~10:44 mark:
youtu.be/S9HdPi9Ikhk?si=NLp9mxIIKDCwKqrR
Credit: NASA/YouTube
Finally, note the long, rectangular, metallic object obscuring most of the left handrail & rungs of the ladder. It contains the United States flag that was later deployed.
Excellent visual context:
historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/f...
Informative reading pertaining to such:
historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/f...
Even more/better:
epizodyspace.ru/bibl/inostr-yazyki/Houston_History/2008/1...(2008).pdf
Credit: some russian website
(July 24, 1969) NASA and Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) officials join the flight controllers in celebrating the conclusion of the Apollo 11 mission. From left foreground Dr. Maxime A. Faget, MSC Director of Engineering and Development; George S. Trimble, MSC Deputy Director; Dr. Christopher C. Kraft Jr., MSC Director fo Flight Operations; Julian Scheer (in back), Assistant Adminstrator, Office of Public Affairs, NASA HQ.; George M. Low, Manager, Apollo Spacecraft Program, MSC; Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, MSC Director; and Charles W. Mathews, Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Manned Space Flight, NASA HQ.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S69-40302
Date: July 24, 1969
When the space race was in full fling (bit.ly/FBAstro). A pair of vintage TV Guides from Apollo 11's 1969 moon landing & the 1972 Apollo 16 expedition with the lunar rover.
This is the first lunar sample that was photographed in detail in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), now NASA's Johnson Space Center. The photograph shows a granular, fine-grained, mafic (iron magnesium rich) rock. At this early stage of the examination, this rock appears similar to several igneous rock types found on Earth. The scale is printed backwards due to the photographic configuration in the Vacuum Chamber. The sample number is 10003. This rock was among the samples collected by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during their lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) on July 20, 1969.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S69-45009
Date: July 27, 1969
Description New York City welcomes the Apollo 11 crew in a ticker tape parade down Broadway and Park Avenue. Pictured in the lead car, from the right, are astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin. The three astronauts teamed for the first manned lunar landing, on July 20, 1969.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S70-17434
Date: August 13, 1969
I made a photograph with these two five years ago to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. I liked the idea but I was never really happy with the image. I didn't think of it too much until I took that photograph of the Moon a few weeks ago. I realised I had to redo the old Eagles photograph. They were going to the Moon and back after all, it should be there with the spacecrafts.
55 years is just as good a reason to do this as 50 years was. I mean, why not. From the original 2019 caption:
"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."
I just love mixing the Apollo 11 LEM, nickname "Eagle", with a Space 1999 Eagle. They go so well together.
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.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 69-HC-893
Date: July 20, 1969
The Saturn V rocket that took Apollo 11 to the Moon stood 363-feet in height, taller than the Statue of Liberty! Its first stage alone, designed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and built at the Michoud Assembly Facility, was 138-feet-tall, nearly half the length of a football field.
In this photo, the Saturn V's first stage (or S-IC) is being lowered to the ground at Marshall after being vibrated and shaken to simulate the effects of an actual rocket launch.
Image credit: NASA
Moonbound: Apollo 11 clears the launch tower and heads to space.
Image credit: NASA
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The Moon sets behind the Jefferson Memorial 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)
Today marks the 84th birthday of Neil Armstrong (1930-2012). Armstrong was the commander of the Apollo 11 mission who on July 20, 1969, became the first man to step foot on the lunar surface. He passed away on Aug. 25, 2012.
Image credit: NASA
Original image:
www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/armstrong_140805.html
More about Marshall Center history:
www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/index.html
Marshall History Album on Flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/nasamarshall/sets/72157636868630444/
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The American flag heralds the flight of Apollo 11, the first Lunar landing mission in this composite image released by NASA. The Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle lifted off with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., at 9:32 a.m. EDT on July 16, 1969, from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 69PC-0397
Date: July 16, 1969
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 (now Johnson Space Center). In the months immediately before the Apollo 11 mission, the crew and the ground support teams had an intense schedule of training and simulation. Here, Armstrong practices scooping up a lunar sample.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S69-31048
Date: April 18, 1969
Newton's calculations shown on the side of the Washington Monument as part of the #Goforthemoon presentation for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission.
A side-by-side comparison of the standard Lego set (#10266) versus my rebuilt version in classic space colours. You will note the new version includes a lot of mods to get the lander to look more like the real-world NASA Lunar Lander - I explain this in the showcase video for this model that you can watch here: youtu.be/r6NkjcGDEs4
I was a young schoolboy, hunched in front of a B&W TV screen (having had special permission to stay up late), when Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon 40 years ago today. I don't remember too much else about it except for the collection of space posters I'd built up from the local Coop store in Great Sankey, Warrington in the north west of England.
You can view all the NASA videos here and a YouTube selection here.