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Calling occupants of interplanetary craft. This is my model astronaut, up a mountain, held up against the sky and inverted in post production. I hope he is the right stuff.
"Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do...Can you hear me Major Tom".
Always keep your spaceship ride home in direct line of sight!
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President Donald J. Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine welcome Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, along with the family members of astronaut Neil Armstrong, Friday, July 19, 2019, to the Oval Office of the White House to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
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"Fifty years ago today, I was part of a crew of three men orbiting the moon, cocooned inside a 13-foot by 11-foot space capsule. Inside, there wasn't much space at all. Outside, the immensity of our galaxy boggled our minds and dazzled our eyes.
Despite substantial risks in moving up the launch date in order to get ahead of the Soviet Union's space program, we set world records for speed, altitude, and distance. We became the first humans to leave low-Earth orbit, and to orbit another celestial body. Ours were the first human eyes to see the far side of the moon. Months later, Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the lunar surface.
The audacious nature of what NASA achieved in winning the space race remains unsurpassed. Those efforts fueled further progress that continues today, often through private enterprise. NASA demonstrated how American ingenuity could overcome nearly any obstacle.
In December of 1968, as Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and I rocketed toward our nearest planetary neighbor, America faced many challenges. It sometimes seemed as if the country was coming apart at the seams. The assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the Vietnam War and the protests against our involvement there, and the Cold War divided us against ourselves and against the world. Forces from within and without threatened us. Everywhere, tensions ran high. Still, millions of Americans, and some one billion people worldwide, tuned in on Christmas Eve to watch our crew's live television broadcast from space.
One of my assignments was to photograph the lunar surface to facilitate the evaluation of potential landing sites. I brought a 250 mm lens to bring that alien terrain into better view. On our fourth orbit, the spacecraft was oriented in a different direction. A startling image captivated the three of us.
Earth, 238,900 miles away, ascended above the barren lunar surface. Compelled by that vision, we scrambled for cameras. I deviated from the rigid NASA flight plan. Every photographic exposure had been determined in advance but I had to capture our view with the long lens on color film.
One of those shots became known as "Earthrise."
That photograph, shared globally and always in the public domain, has since served to educate and inspire: The Earth we saw rising over the battered grey lunar surface was small and delicate, a magnificent spot of color in the vast blackness of space. Once-distant places appeared inseparably close. Borders that once rendered division vanished. All of humanity appeared joined together on this glorious-but-fragile sphere.
Another vision made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I held my fist at arm's length. That stunning vision disappeared. From one lunar distance our world was easily obscured. At 10 lunar distances Earth would have been but the size of a ladybug. And at 100 — then and now far beyond human reach — Earth would no longer be visible to the naked eye. Here was everything humans had been, everything we were, and everything we might become — and yet our home planet was physically insignificant in space.
I thought of my wife and five children on that little planet. The same forces that determined their fates worked on the other three-and-a-half-billion inhabitants. From our tiny capsule, it seemed as if the whole Earth was smaller even than the space the three of us inhabited.
From there, the blue-and-white glory of Earth, the only color amidst the blackness of space, became a beacon. Before liftoff I calculated we had a one-in-three chance of returning from a successful mission safely.
We did make it home.
Hundreds of thousands of people labored together to move us, as astronauts, as Americans, as humans forward.
The most significant revelation of Apollo 8's journey extends far beyond our scientific-and-technological achievements, beyond our "records" and "firsts."
We set out to explore the moon and instead discovered the Earth.
Fifty years later, "Earthrise" — the lingering imprint of our mission — stands sentinel. It still reminds us that distance and borders and division are merely a matter of perspective. We are all linked in a joined human enterprise; we are bound to a planet we all must share. We are all, together, stewards of this fragile treasure.
Seen this way, "Earthrise" can continue to serve, for generations to come, and after most details of Apollo are forgotten, as a beacon—not just for the three of us on Apollo 8 — but for all of us together on the good Earth."
-William "Bill" Anders, 24th December, 2018
Vice President Mike Pence attends the unveiling of Neil Armstrong’s space suit at the National Air and Space Museum in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission Tuesday July 16, 2019. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)
Photo of the moon, 50 years (to the minute) from the point when Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon. Neil Armstrong: 02:56 UTC 21st July 1969. Photo: 02:56 UTC 21st July 2019. Photographed from Bathgate, Scotland.
Vice President Mike Pence attends the unveiling of Neil Armstrong’s space suit at the National Air and Space Museum in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission Tuesday July 16, 2019. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)
On the way home from the Moon in August 1971, Apollo 15 Astronaut Jim Irwin picked up a Hasselblad camera and captured this astonishing prospect of a crescent Earth gleaming in a ray of sunlight.
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Dedicated to the Public Domain in memory of Apollo 15 Moonwalker Jim Irwin.
This week in 1965, technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center attached the Pegasus C satellite to the SA-10 Instrument Unit, S-IU-10, following completion of premating systems checks and panel deployment checks. SA-10 was launched July 30, 1965, and was the final flight of the Saturn I rocket. Developed by Fairchild Stratos Corp. and managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Pegasus C was the last of three meteoroid detection satellites launched by NASA to electronically record the size and frequency of particles in space and compare the performance of protected and unprotected solar cells as an important preliminary to crewed flight to the Moon. Here, the Pegasus B satellite is wrapped in plastic to protect the capacitor panels from dust, moisture and fingerprints. The wrapping is not removed until the satellite is prepared for launch. 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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Eclipsed by the silhouetted horizon of the moon, the crescent Earth appears in the shape of a Viking's headwear in this unusual Apollo 17 photograph. The three astronauts--Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans and Harrison H. Schmitt--were just about to begin their journey homeward following the successful lunar landing phase of their mission.
The crew of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission arrives atop Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at the Apollo 11 prelaunch countdown during the early hours of 16th July, 1969. Leading is astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander. He is followed by astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot. Technician follows directly behind Armstrong and Collins.
Vintage gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4 cm
Numbered NASA AS15-99-13482 in black in top margin
A very rare photograph from magazines 99/N.
On the way home, Command Module pilot Alfred Worden picked up a Hasselblad camera on board (fitted with UV film and a special 105mm UV-transmitting lens) and captured an amazing crescent Earth increasing in size, illuminated by sunlight from the side and basked in the beam of a lens flare.
President Donald J. Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine welcome Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, along with the family members of astronaut Neil Armstrong, Friday, July 19, 2019, to the Oval Office of the White House to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
Apollo 15 Astronaut David Scott took this picture of Tsiolkovsky Crater during revolution 14 from the Lunar Module when they were at an altitude of about 90 km from the surface of the Moon. This is the last image on the magazine taken just prior to the Apollo 15 lunar landing.
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President Donald J. Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine welcome Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, along with the family members of astronaut Neil Armstrong, Friday, July 19, 2019, to the Oval Office of the White House to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump pose for a photo with Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins Friday, July 19, 2019, during a commemorative photo opportunity for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing in the Oval Office of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
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The crew took this photograph with the 80mm lens as they were still more than 30,000 nautical miles away from home.
“Our landing was very westerly on the Moon, which means the Earth was getting smaller. On our way back we saw a lot of crescent Earths. No matter how hard you looked you could not see in that dark part, even if you put glasses up to your eyes. It was a funny feeling; you knew the Earth was there, but you never could see anything but the crescent,” remembered Alan Bean (Schick and Van Haaften, p.104).
From the mission transcript as the crew woke up on the final day before landing:
208:04:50 Conrad: We - Houston, we just got our first glimpse of you this morning, and there’s not very much of you out there.
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Apollo 12 Processed Panorama High Resolution Image Download (445 MB):
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Vice President Mike Pence attends the unveiling of Neil Armstrong’s space suit at the National Air and Space Museum in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission Tuesday July 16, 2019. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)
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Apollo 17 Command Module flying over the lunar landing site in the valley of Taurus-Littrow in 1972, photographed from the Apollo 17 Lunar Module during surface descent on revolution 12 of the mission.
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View of Station Lunar Module (LM) and feather and geological hammer used for test of Galileo's law of motion concerning falling bodies beside the LM. Image was taken during the third Extravehicular Activity (EVA 3) of the Apollo 15 mission. Original film magazine was labeled TT, film type was S0168 (High Speed Color Exterior or Color Interior Ektachrome EF - High speed color reversal), 60mm lens with a sun elevation of 39 degrees.
President Donald J. Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine welcome Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, along with the family members of astronaut Neil Armstrong, Friday, July 19, 2019, to the Oval Office of the White House to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
Vice President Mike Pence attends the unveiling of Neil Armstrong’s space suit at the National Air and Space Museum in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission Tuesday July 16, 2019. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)
Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, thus I thought that it would the launch site of proposed future Artemis missions to the moon. The location is LC-39B, which is currently undergoing testing with the Mobile Launcher (the large orange tower on the bottom right corner of the image). If all goes to plan, NASA will land on the lunar surface in 2024. That's the plan, anyhow...
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Apollo 15, July 26 - August 7, 1971, 268:47:00 and 290:00:28 GET
As the crew headed back home with the Sun in front of the spacecraft, Jim Irwin picked up a Hasselblad camera fitted with a special UV transmitting 105mm lens on board and captured this amazing view of a very thin crescent Earth, illuminated by sunlight from the side and basked in the beam of a lens flare.
This particular 70mm film magazine (99/N) contained spectroscopic film for ultraviolet photographs.
Apollo 15 was 113,437 nautical miles [210,085 km] from Earth when this photograph was taken.
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Apollo 13, 400,171 km (248,655 mi.) from Earth, 7:21 pm EST, 14th April, 1970.
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