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Lunar Module Simulator/Landing and Ascent facility view out Pete Conrad's window at an altitude of 4,000 feet above the lunar surface.
“... This frame from Al's 8 o'clock pan, taken at the start of EVA-1, gives a full view of the left rear quadrant (Quad II) of the spacecraft. In this picture, we see the ALSEP storage area (the lower half of the area wrapped in black insulation blankets). The cask containing the hot fuel element for the RTG is to the left of the ALSEP storage bay. The white panel below the RTG cask, and underneath the Descent Stage, shields the landing radar from the heat of the Descent Engine. The landing radar itself is slightly above and to the right of the panel, and is wrapped in silver foil.”
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/AS14-66-9277HR.jpg
All above per the ALSJ.
And/or:
“An excellent view of the Apollo 14 Lunar Module (LM) on the moon, as photographed during the first Apollo 14 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface. The astronauts have already deployed the U.S. flag. Note the laser ranging retro reflector (LR-3) at the foot of the LM ladder. The LR-3 was deployed later. While astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander, and Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot, descended in the LM to explore the moon, astronaut Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit.”
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo14/html/...
The Apollo spacecraft docks with the bug and pulls it free of the empty third-stage rocket case.
Project Apollo: Mission to the Moon
by Charles Coombs
Scholastic Books, Inc., 1965
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
To mark the 40th anniversary of the first manned landing on the Moon I've posted this picture of the Moon that includes the landing site (Tranquility Base).
Tranquility Base was the name given by American astronaut Neil Armstrong to the landing site on the moon where the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle made the first moon landing. The lunar coordinates of Tranquility Base are 00°41'15''N, 23°26'00''E, which is located in the south-western corner of the lunar plain called the Sea of Tranquility (Mare Tranquillitatis) near the craters Sabine and Ritter, and a rille unofficially called 'U.S. Highway Number 1'.
Mare Tranquillitatis (Latin for Sea of Tranquility) is a lunar mare that sits within the Tranquillitatis basin on the Moon. The mare material within the basin consists of basalt in the intermediate to young age group of the Upper Imbrian epoch. The surrounding mountains are thought to be of the Lower Imbrian epoch, but the actual basin is probably Pre-Nectarian. The basin has irregular margins and lacks a defined multiple-ringed structure. The irregular topography in and near this basin results from the intersection of the Tranquillitatis, Nectaris, Crisium, Fecunditatis, and Serenitatis basins with two throughgoing rings of the Procellarum basin. Palus Somni, on the northeastern rim of the mare, is filled with the basalt that spilled over from Tranquillitatis.
"View of the front of the LM, minus the rendezvous radar and some other gear on the top. Mike Collins has begun a visual inspection of the Lunar Module, and is verifying that the landing gear is down and locked. An evolution in the LM's design is also apparent. The RCS plume deflectors, mounted on the Descent Stage underneath each RCS quad, were added to prevent the thermal damage observed on the Apollo 9 LM."
Above per the ALSJ.
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/a11_h_44_6574...
“The approach to Apollo Landing Site 2 in southwestern Sea of Tranquility is seen in this photograph taken from the Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) in lunar orbit. When this picture was made, the LM was still docked to the Command and Service Modules (CSM). Site 2 is located just right of center at the edge of the darkness. The crater Maskelyne is the large one at the lower right. Hypatia Rille (U.S. 1) is at upper left, with the crater Moltke just to the right (north) of it. Sidewinder Rille and Diamondback Rille extend from left to right across the center of the picture. This view looks generally west.”
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo11/hires...
Photograph taken during LM activation. Per usual, the superlative ALSJ site provides a lushly labeled version that provides perspective and orientation:
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/A11LBL5437.jpg
Additionally:
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/a11_h_37_5437...
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
Men and capsule survive the blazing re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
Project Apollo: Mission to the Moon
by Charles Coombs
Scholastic Books, Inc., 1965
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
“APOLLO 10 TV VIEW OF THE MOON------A view of the rim of Hypatia I on the lunar nearside is seen in this color reproduction taken from a telecast made by the color television camera aboard the Apollo 10 spacecraft as it orbited the moon. The area shown in this picture is located at 0 degrees 00 minutes latitude (on the lunar equator), and 21 degrees 30 minutes east longitude. Also, Rima Hypatia I is located just southwest of Apollo Landing Site 2. The transmission of this view was received in Houston past midnight, early Saturday morning, May 24, 1969.”
Photo is oriented with North generally toward the top.
Complex 39 of the Merritt Island Launch Area, where future U.S. spacecraft ventures will originate.
Project Apollo: Mission to the Moon
by Charles Coombs
Scholastic Books, Inc., 1965
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
Final systems checkout for NASA's Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM-5) are conducted in the Open Bay Area of the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building (MSOB) prior to mating with its Spacecraft/Lunar Module Adapter (SLA).
Misidentified on the verso as LM-6.
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
From the ALSJ:
"Second photo of Buzz's second soil-mechanics bootprint."
Additionally, see:
history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11minipan5879-80Hancock.jpg
Credit: John Hancock, ALSJ Contributor
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured these images in Pretoria using an old HP flatbed scanner.
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
Having returned to their positions in the capsule, the three astronauts prepare for their trip home.
Project Apollo: Mission to the Moon
by Charles Coombs
Scholastic Books, Inc., 1965
The service-module engine slows the spacecraft and guides it into a lunar orbit.
Project Apollo: Mission to the Moon
by Charles Coombs
Scholastic Books, Inc., 1965
LRV traverse from Station 5 to the Lunar Module, which is located above and slightly to the left of the television camera. Geophone Rock is further to the left, near the High-Gain Antenna handle/boom.
Shortly after landing, Aldrin got the camera from Armstrong and took a five-frame panorama - this being the last one of that - out his own window, looking toward the northwest.
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
Early (1961) full-scale Surveyor model at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory...festooned, bristling even, with a host of cool instruments & experiments - most never to be incorporated - like a neutron activator, lunar drill, slowly driven geophysical probe...probably even a Deutronium-fueled flux capacitor...coupled with an advanced Dilithium-impregnated Corbomite core.
7" x 9".
Odd press slug on the verso. "GAP FILLER"...huh/WTF?
Great labeled version of a similar photo, and, as usual, a very well written article at:
www.drewexmachina.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Surveyor...
www.drewexmachina.com/2016/05/30/surveyor-1-americas-firs...
Credit: Drew Ex Machina website/Andrew LePage
"This photograph shows how Krafft A. Ehricke pictures man going to the moon by nuclear rocket. The manned payload hangs 1000 feet below the nuclear power plant after having been boosted from Earth into space by a chemical rocket. Upon reaching the Moon, the nuclear rocket is set down some distance from where the capsule lands. This arrangement protects the crew from the radiation of the nuclear rocket. (Convair, General Dynamics Corp.)"
The book presents the best information, ideas and assumptions on the conquest of the moon as of 1958. The authors, who were experts on missiles and space flight, tell how the moon would be approached, first with instrumented probes and then with man himself as a payload. Fascinating conjectures, based on the latest scientific findings, show what life on the moon might be like, how men would build a base there, how they would explore the moon, and how they would push on from there to further explorations of outer space.
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
Third-stage engine, shutdown, and three-module Apollo spacecraft in coasting orbit around Earth.
Project Apollo: Mission to the Moon
by Charles Coombs
Scholastic Books, Inc., 1965
The Saturn V comes to life on Pad B.
Project Apollo: Mission to the Moon
by Charles Coombs
Scholastic Books, Inc., 1965
The service module engine provides added thrust to escape lunar gravity and get the spacecraft headed back to Earth.
Project Apollo: Mission to the Moon
by Charles Coombs
Scholastic Books, Inc., 1965
This illustration was released August 2, 1961, by the Martin company which, at the time, had a contract to study "earth-moon transportation possibilities". Because the Moon's gravity is only one-sixth that of Earth, 10-feet leaps were "believed possible".
Leaving landing gear and used descent stage behind, LEM's ascent stage blasts off the moon for a rendezvous with the orbiting Apollo.
Project Apollo: Mission to the Moon
by Charles Coombs
Scholastic Books, Inc., 1965
The astronauts maneuver the bug into position and docks with the orbiting command module.
Project Apollo: Mission to the Moon
by Charles Coombs
Scholastic Books, Inc., 1965
Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins sit in a rubber dinghy in their isolation suits while a technician shuts the hatch on their lunar Command Module Columbia, July 24, 1969. See my blog post.
Image is by NASA, and is public domain.
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
From the phenomenal ALSJ site: "Gene took this photo on the orbit before final descent. On the final approach, Gene flew Challenger down over the Sculptured Hills (low, knobby hills in sunlight just right of frame center) and out over the valley floor before landing a little north of the Trident group of craters. The CSM with Ron Evans can be seen in the left distance with the South Massif in the background. Henry is the furthermost of the three largish craters at the foot of the North Massif to the right." The labeled version: www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17.22465lbl.jpg identifies a few other features.
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016