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Just one item of artwork contributed to the downthetubes forum to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing in July 2009

Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia at Smithsonian Air & Space Museum

Fun with a few toy astronauts celebrating (and recreating) the historic feat of the first Apollo moon landing on July 20, 1969 by Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

Pima Air and Space Museum

Project Apollo

Apollo was NASA's third manned space program, landing humans safely on the moon from 1969 to 1972. The Apollo program set several firsts including sending the first humans beyond low earth orbit, the first humans to orbit the moon, and the first humans to land on the moon.

1.) Apollo 11 Chart

Earth Orbit Chart from the Apollo 11 mission. Apollo 11 was the first space mission to land humans on the moon.

Interior view of the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in the Mission Control Center (MCC), Building 30, during the Apollo 11 lunar extravehicular activity (EVA). The television monitor shows astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. on the surface of the moon, July 20, 1969. (NASA)

Yes so I really love the whole Space Programme. This is the way my desktop is likely to be most of this evening. Weblink www.wechoosethemoon.com/ and www.nasa.gov/ntv

Lift off!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWggSyMlXbE

German scientist Dr. Wernher von Braun explains the Saturn Launch System to President John F. Kennedy during a visit. NASA Deputy Administrator Robert Seamans is to the left of von Braun. (NASA)

This is one of the men who will personally vouch that Mark Cappelletty exists, that he was in point of fact verifiably born on July 20, 1969, and that that birth was an historical milestone on par with the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.