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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.
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Apollo 11 Command Module named Columbia carried home Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins the 1st manned lunar landing in 1969.
On July 24, the astronauts returned home aboard the Command Module Columbia just before dawn local time (16:51 UTC) at 13°19′N 169°9′W, in the Pacific Ocean 2,660 km (1,440 nmi) east of Wake Island, 380 km (210 nmi) south of Johnston Atoll, and 24 km (13 nmi) from the recovery ship, USS Hornet. At 16:44 UTC the drogue parachutes had been deployed and seven minutes later the Command Module struck the water forcefully. During splashdown, the Command Module landed upside down but was righted within 10 minutes by flotation bags triggered by the astronauts. "Everything's okay. Our checklist is complete. Awaiting swimmers", was Armstrong's last official transmission from the Columbia.
The Command Module is displayed at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. It is in the central Milestones of Flight exhibition hall in front of the Jefferson Drive entrance, sharing the main hall with other pioneering flight vehicles such as the Wright Flyer, the Spirit of St. Louis, the Bell X-1, the North American X-15, Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7, and Gemini 4.
Gorgeous, rarely seen artist’s concept of an Apollo Program lunar landing scene. By Boeing’s superlative resident artist, John “Jack” Olson.
At/from:
in.pinterest.com/pin/space-painting-space-art-painting--3...
Credit: Mateidesz Dániel/Pinterest
Full Description: Millions of people on Earth watched via television as a message for all mankind was delivered to the Mare Tranquilitatis (Sea of Tranquility) region of the Moon during the historic Apollo 11 mission, where it still remains today. This commemorative plaque, attached to the leg of the Lunar Module (LM), Eagle, is engraved with the following words: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July, 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all of mankind." It bears the signatures of the Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, Command Module (CM) pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., Lunar Module (LM) pilot along with the signature of the U.S. President Richard M. Nixon. The Apollo 11 mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida via the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) developed Saturn V launch vehicle on July 16, 1969 and safely returned to Earth on July 24, 1969. The CM, "Columbia", piloted by Collins, remained in a parking orbit around the Moon while the LM, "Eagle", carrying astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin, landed on the Moon. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong was the first human to ever stand on the lunar surface, followed by Aldrin. During 2½ hours of surface exploration, the crew collected 47 pounds of lunar surface material for analysis back on Earth. With the success of Apollo 11, the national objective to land men on the Moon and return them safely to Earth had been accomplished.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: AS11-40-5899
Date: July 20, 1969
“Artist’s concept of Apollo Astronaut descending from LEM.”
Early versions of the Lunar Excursion Module lacked a ladder. Initially, a rope was to be the means to egress/ingress.
Excellent:
www.fastcompany.com/90358794/the-design-decision-that-wou...
Credit: Fast Company website
A variant can be viewed here, on a later version (TM-1) LEM training model design. Note however, the ladder brackets/attach points are clearly visible on the descent stage:
www.alternatewars.com/SpaceRace/SP-4205/images/c153a.jpg
twitter.com/pilliarscreatio/status/1283060155723251713/ph...
Credit: Twitter/Gavin Price
An interesting extract from "Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft", by Courtney G. Brooks. James M. Grimwood and Loyd S. Swenson, Jr. addresses the dilemma:
"By spring 1964, NASA and Grumman engineers were thinking of deleting the front docking procedure and adding a small window above the lunar module commander's head. This overhead window might add seven kilograms weight and some extra thermal burden, but cabin redesign would be minimal. The added weight would be offset by eliminating the front tunnel and the extra structural strength needed to withstand impact loads in two areas. Eliminating forward docking had another advantage. The hatches could now be designed for a single purpose - access to the command module through one hatch and to the lunar surface through the other - which certainly simplified the design of the forward hatch. NASA directed Grumman to remove the forward docking interface but to leave the hatch for the astronauts to use as a door while on the moon.16
Once the location of the hatches was settled, getting the astronauts out and onto the lunar surface had to be investigated. Using a cable contraption called a "Peter Pan rig" to simulate the moon's gravity, Grumman technicians looked into ways for the crews to lower themselves to the lunar surface and to climb back into the spacecraft. When astronaut Edward White, among others, scrambled around a mockup of the lander, using a block and tackle arrangement and a simple knotted rope, he found that both were impractical. In mid-1964 a porch, or ledge, was installed outside the hatch and a ladder and handrail on the forward landing gear leg. When the astronauts discovered they had trouble squeezing through the round hatch in their pressurized suits and wearing the bulky backpads, the hatch was squared off to permit easier passage."
Finally, I’m going to go out on a limb that no one gives a rat’s ass about...so I’m safe...that this is the work of Otto Kuhni. The very same Otto Kuhni of latter Hot Wheels artwork fame! To me, the style and medium used(?), let alone the subject matter (in this particular instance), strongly supports my assertion:
www.hotwheelsonline.com/aviation.html
Credit: Hot Wheels Online website
Is that an absolutely amazing body of work or what?!?!?!
Who knew?!
I didn’t!
Did you???
“LANDING SITE – So that the Apollo astronauts could practice their landing, NASA and the Army map service worked together to produce this 14 by 22 foot scale model of the touchdown area. When the pilots move their controls, a TV camera moves over the model. The picture is projected on the pilots’ windows. Dotted line indicates approach path of Aquarius. Lovell and Haise hope to hike from the landing craft to the rim of Cone crater, the most clean cut of the four atop the dome at left.”
I've flipped the photo in order to match the map/chart version of it.
The LM & its path are meticulously affixed (I assume by whatever news service of the time) to the photo, although way off the actual target landing point. Par for this abomination and its two-dimensional predecessor.
How did this get this far, to the point NASA actually fabricated this piece of crap?? Possibly a/the contractual obligation with the Army? The Richard Dreyfuss character’s mashed potato representation of Devil’s Tower was more representative of the real thing:
giphy.com/gifs/richard-dreyfuss-jywqrA0aCBTG0
Credit: Giphy.com website
An excellent documentation of one of these being transported and installed, in this instance Hadley-Apennine (Apollo 15):
Thirty feet, two-and-a-half down. Faint shadow. Four forward. Four forward. Drifting to the right a little…
“Apollo 11 commander Neil A. Armstrong made a series of nighttime passes over a mockup of the lunar surface at NASA’s Langley Research Center’s lunar landing simulator facility near Newport News, Va. The night tests more closely simulate the actual landing on the moon than daytime tests.”
Interesting:
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.llrf.html
Credit: ALSJ
See also:
www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/354442main_road2a...
Poof, gone, buh-bye. Thank you you deprecating dumbasses:
crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/File:1969-L-04872.jpg
crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/File:L-70-1494.jpg
Interesting:
www.airspacemag.com/videos/armstrongs-close-call/
Credit: Air & Space Magazine website
After ten missions following Apollo 1 -- most of which were scrubbed for either safety or financial reasons -- Apollo 11 makes it to the moon and home in the summer of 1969. This shot of Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon was taken by Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon
20 Jul 1969 --- Although this is Buzz Aldrin walking next to the lunar module on the surface of the Moon, these famous words were said by Neil Armstrong, the first man to ever walk on the moon. --- Image by © Corbis
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 16 TV PICTURE/LM LIFTOFF----The Apollo 16 Lunar Module "Orion" ascent stage makes its lift off from the lunar surface in this reproduction taken from a color television transmission made by the RCA color TV camera mounted on the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). The LRV-mounted TV camera, remotely controlled from the Mission Control Center, made it possible for people on Earth to watch the LM's spectacular launch from the Moon. The liftoff was at 175:44 ground elapsed time, 7:26 p.m. (CST), April 23, 1972. The "Orion" ascent stage, with Astronauts John W. Young and Charles M. Duke Jr. aboard, returned from the lunar surface to rejoin the Command and Service Modules orbiting the moon. Astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly II remained with the CSM in lunar orbit while Young and Duke descended in the LM to explore the Descartes landing site. The LM descent stage is used as a launching platform and remains behind on the Moon.”
A slight variation, associated with subsequent online NASA “issuances” of the image. I don’t why they/somebody felt compelled to tweak it, it was fine the way it was originally written…better actually. Dumbasses:
“The Apollo 16 Lunar Module "Orion" ascent stage makes its liftoff from the lunar surface in this reproduction taken from a color television transmission made by the RCA color TV camera mounted on the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). Remotely controlled from NASA's Mission Control Center (MCC) in Houston, the LRV-mounted camera made it possible for persons on Earth to watch the LM's launch from the moon. Liftoff occurred at 175:44 ground elapsed time, 7:26 p.m. (CST), April 23, 1972. The "Orion" ascent stage, with astronauts John W. Young and Charles M. Duke Jr. aboard, returned from the lunar surface to rejoin the Command and Service Modules (CSM) orbiting the moon. Astronaut Thomas K. (Ken) Mattingly II remained with the CSM in lunar orbit while Young and Duke descended in the LM to explore the Descartes landing site. The LM descent stage is used as a launching platform and remains behind on the moon.”
It's obvious there’s something amiss/different going on with the aft ascent stage panels in the image…”buckling” as it was referred to by NASA. In the following video, you can see/say it’s more like “flapping”, seemingly only remaining attached along their top borders:
youtu.be/SdW6eVb_dmc?si=nJk7qp79AAqQEJWw
Credit: Space Resources/YouTube
"The lunar excursion module burns its engine to lower itself to the lunar surface. Approximately 7,000 ft. per second velocity gains to bring you down to a hovering position. With landing legs extended, you have the capability to hover for a minute to translate the vehicle something like a thousand feet to actually pick the point of touchdown."
What the hell way is that to write a description? The way it reads, the buffoon responsible for writing it appears to have been using the transcript of a casual conversation, conducted on a patio, during a barbecue, with possibly a beer in one hand - cigarette in the other, by some GAEC engineer. Bizarre.
Nonetheless, it's a wonderful depiction of the Lunar Excursion Module descending to the lunar surface - by NASA artist Gerry Lyons.
www.flickr.com/photos/mrdanbeaumont/29661561204/in/album-...
Just one of MANY amazing photos in Mr. Beaumont's albums.
Absolutely kick-ass view taken by Jim Irwin of Dave Scott at the "wheel" of the LRV...fantastic detail visible. Note the traverse map (with the elbow of Hadley Rille readily identifiable), directly below the 16mm Data Acquisition Camera.
Outstanding:
dahp.wa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/nominations/WHR...
Credit: Washington State Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation website
Refueling tankers, on either side will return to earth. Vehicle carries up to eight "strap-on" liquid hydrogen tanks, which can be ejected after they are emptied or retained for use on moon. Retro engines are fire as spacecraft nears lunar surface to allow a direct landing without an orbital maneuver.
Space World
December 1964, VOL. A-14
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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
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
“Exceptional first photograph of an eclipse of Sun by the Earth, as seen from the surface of the Moon, Surveyor III, 24 April 1967”
Above per the description associated with a black & white version of another Surveyor III photo of this particular solar eclipse, as written by Victor Martin-Malburet…from a 2022 auction of his photographs conducted by Rago Wright, LLC. At:
Further:
“Both sunrise and sunset on Earth are seen in this photo of the Earth’s disc passing across the sun as photographed from a vantage point on the moon. The picture was taken by Surveyor III’s television camera at 3:24 a.m. PST during the April 24 eclipse. On the upper left side of the disc, the sun is setting over Asia and the Indian Ocean. Lower right edge shows sunrise over the southeast Pacific. At this stage of the eclipse, the Earth and sun are 42 minutes into the period to totality. Brightest portion of the lighted ring around the Earth is in the northwest quadrant of the Earth as viewed from the moon. This is the eastern portion of the Asian Continent.”
Above, along with the photo, at/from the superlative LPI website:
www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/Surveyor/press_rele...
Specifically:
www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/Surveyor/press_rele...
Additionally, per NASA SP-184/“Surveyor Program Results”, from the section entitled "Eclipse of Sun by Earth, as Seen From Surveyor Ill", authored by "E. M. SHOEMAKER, J. J. RENNILSON, AND E. A. WHITAKER:
“In late morning of the first lunar day of the Surveyor III mission, an unusual opportunity occurred to observe an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth; this eclipse took place on April 24, 1967. Were it not for the fact that the spacecraft was tilted as much as 14.7° to the west and was oriented favorably with respect to azimuth, it would not have been possible to observe the Earth from a landing site at 23° W longitude because of the limited range of elevation angles through which the mirror can be stepped. To observe the Earth, the mirror was pointed upward and positioned at its highest permissible elevation step, and wide-angle pictures of the eclipse were obtained. The image of the Earth was reflected from very near the upper edge of the mirror. During the eclipse, two series of pictures (20 pictures total) were obtained through the color filters. The first series of pictures was obtained at approximately 11:24 GMT; the second set was obtained approximately 37 minutes later: The pictures were taken at two iris positions, and multiple pictures were taken through each filter.
During the eclipse, the Sun passed behind the Earth along a path that brought the position of the center of the Sun, as seen from the Moon, to within 15 minutes of the sublunar point on the Earth. At the time the Sun was most nearly centered behind the Earth, the projected center of the Sun lay northeast of the sublunar point. The sublunar point was at about 172° W longitude and 12.5° S latitude at the time the first series of pictures was taken, and at about 179° E longitude and 12.5° S latitude at the time the second series of pictures was taken. These positions are in the southwest Pacific. The limb of the Earth lay along western North America, the eastern Pacific, eastern Antarctica, the central Indian Ocean, southeast Asia, central China, eastern Siberia, and a short arc across the western Arctic Ocean.
In the first series of eclipse pictures, the Earth is partly surrounded by a halo of refracted light that varies greatly in brightness from one position to another along the limb. A very bright region, approximately 60° in arc length, lies along the northern part of the limb, nearest the position of the Sun. In the majority of pictures taken, parts of the image of the halo in this region are saturated. On either side of this bright region, the halo has a beaded appearance; small bright areas of short arc length are separated from other bright areas by sectors of the halo that are relatively faint. Most of these bright areas or beads are only a few degrees in length, but one relatively bright sector, about 20° long, is present that cannot be resolved into separate beards. At least 12 beads can be distinguished in the halo.
A gap ranging from about 50° to more than 90° is present in the images of the halo along the eastern limb of the Earth. Over most of the arc length of the gap, the halo is too faint to be detected with the exposures used, but over a short sector of the gap, the image of the Earth may have been cut off by the edge of the camera mirror.”
Note the lead author, none other than the man himself, Eugene M. Shoemaker.
The above at/from:
and/or:
Finally…interesting:
cohost.org/rc/tagged/eclipse?refTimestamp=1707980265964&a...
Credit: Brandt Hughes/cohost
And:
earthsky.org/upl/2015/04/sun-eclipse-by-Earth-from-moon-S...
Credit: EarthSky website
A genuinely rare photograph, for multiple reasons, in color at that!
An unidentified individual descends the ladder of an unidentified Lunar Module (LM) Test Model (TM) or Mock-up (M) at an unidentified location while conducting some sort of Extravehicular Activity (EVA) training, evaluation(s) of the space suit, procedures & LM configuration(s), to possibly include ease of egress/ingress…or something like that…I think.
At least I’m pretty sure it’s some time during 1966. 😉 And, I think that the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) is a safe bet as far as location. Also, based on the lighting, it’s inside.
I wonder if it’s an Astronaut, and if so, who…or is it somebody from the Crew Systems Division…like Jack Mays or Jack Slight? I suppose we’ll never know.
Based primarily on the boots, I believe the suit worn to be International Latex Corporation’s (ILC) A-5L Training Suit. Sorta in support of such, see:
www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/ILC-S...
And:
www.christies.com.cn/en/lot/lot-1560672
Credit: Christie’s auction house website
Note some interesting things going on with the LM porch/handrail & ladder, which seems to include an additional peripheral/secondary/alternate(?) porch handrail, immediately to the outside of the primary handrails…with its lower structure crossing behind/inside the descent stage’s primary strut. And the odd placement of the S-band inflight antenna…way off to the left. You can’t go any farther left than that.
Note also the progressively inward placement of the top two ladder rungs, the second-from-the-top being curved in the middle to accommodate this, and the top actually going into the primary strut itself, representative of the final configuration. As such, this may be one of the earliest training models/mock-ups with this configuration, considering that this is 1966. Further, note also the cylindrical housing/container for the Erectable S-Band Antenna, on the descent stage (at lower right of photo). BTW, excellent Erectable S-Band Antenna reading:
www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/WOTM/WOTM-Erectable-S-Band.html
There are a few other things, but I’ve already gone too far.
Wonderful & surely rare commemorative raised relief map of Tranquility Base, as produced by the United States Army Topographic Command (TOPOCOM), ca. 1969/70.
Erroneously, an Apollo 12 photograph of Pete Conrad on the moon is with the U.S. flag is featured. Really...how do you mess that up?! The photo of Aldrin facing/saluting Old Glory was plastered everywhere!
I believe the larger crater to the far right - it’s rim immediately to the right of the “e” - to be Little West Crater.
TOPOCOM even took a stab at where the U.S. flag was planted. And actually, as a military organization, it’s pretty much expected. Speaking of U.S. flags on the moon...absolutely awesome:
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ApolloFlags-Condition.html
Credit: not surprisingly, the ALSJ
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
Right on target, the Apollo capsule parachutes into the water.
Project Apollo: Mission to the Moon
by Charles Coombs
Scholastic Books, Inc., 1965
Empty strap-on tanks are lowered to lunar surface before each return flight.
Space World
December 1964, VOL. A-14
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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
The jacket painting is the artist's conception of the Jura Mountains on the Sinus Iridum as seen from a crater in Mare Imbrium. What the lunar surface is, how man will get to it, and what he will do when he arrives there is the subject of "Man and the Moon," which was published just weeks before John F. Kennedy proposed going there by the end of the decade. Basic questions about the moon are discussed in the book including: Is the moon covered with a thin film of dust - or with 300 feet of it and what is the best place to land? Imagine landing on the moon and sinking in hundreds of feet of dust, a legitimate concern back then.
EVA-3 close-out at the LM. Close-up of the LM flag decal.
This photo has ‘Eugene Cernan’ written all over it. Probably attributable to a good chunk of his Gemini-IXA "spacewalk from hell" footage being lost, along with being "tuned in" to capturing for posterity both the grandeur and nuance - while busting ass mind you - of what he was experiencing. Good thing too, since we've been sitting with our thumbs up ours - for way too long now.
Best to let the superlative ALSJ do the “talking”:
“The black shadow of the LM is silhouetted against the Moon's surface in this photograph taken out Neil's window. Impressions in the lunar soil made by the lunar boots of the two astronauts are clearly visible.
Journal Contributor AwE130 has provided an enhanced detail
www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/a11/a...
which shows the Contingency Sample Collector (CSC) ring, which had been previously identified in EVA photo AS11-40-5864
www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/a11/A...
by Eric Jones. In the 5505 detail, we see a light-colored “stem" on the outside of the ring which, as is suggested by the comparison with pre-flight photo S68-54939,
www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/tools...
fit in the Sampler handle to secure the ring in place. Journal Contributor Karl Dodenhoff has provided a photo of a CSC on display at the Kennedy Space Center. The base of the stem is marked. See also, procedures for CSC use
www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/a11/a...
from the Apollo 11 Final Lunar Surface Procedures volume, in which we learn that the "ring" was part of the "lip/bag assembly". AwE130 notes that the ring can also be seen in post-EVA photos AS11-39-5798-5800
www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/a11/A...
www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/a11/A...
www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/a11/A...
and in EVA photo AS11-40-5871
www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/a11/A....
Note that, because this image was taken out Neil's window, we now realize that that the ring flew a few meters from the spot near the MESA, on the other side of the spacecraft, where we see Neil tossing the ring in 16-mm film shot out Buzz's window. See a discussion following 109:36:07
www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/a11/a11.step.html#1093607.”
The toss can be seen here:
Credit: Steve Packard/YouTube
A minor 'ridge' in the lower right of the photo image (interpreted by the scanner as the thin light blue squiggling) does not detract. Otherwise a bright, clean & high-gloss image.
It was July 20, 1969 that the Apollo 11 spacecraft landed on the moon. The mission was crewed by Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin. As a result of that mission, July 20 has become known as Moon Day.
Until recently it was believed that the Americans wanted to beat the Russians to the Moon as promised by J.F. Kennedy in 1961. But as we all know, it was really to find something that was more than meets the eye!
For a funny version of Moon Day, check out the Alternative Version here.
Enjoy!
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Dave Scott is working at his Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) seat at Station 2. LRV tracks can be seen going through a small crater just east of the parking spot.
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/AS15-85-11451HR.jpg
All above credit ALSJ.
And/or:
"Astronaut David R. Scott, Apollo 15 Mission Commander, performs a task at the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), parked near the edge of Hadley Rille during the first Extravehicular Activity (EVA). The photograph was taken by astronaut James B. Irwin, Lunar Module Pilot, from the flank of St. George Crater. The view is looking north along the rille."
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo15/html/...
LIFE photo, source Google/Life 2008 (Free). Saturn -5 rocket launch with apollo 11 spacecraft. Apollo 11 astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont
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.
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KSC INFO: Apollo 17 Command Module Pilot Ronald E. Evans says goodbye to his wife Jan as he and astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, right, and Harrison H. Schmitt, in rear, leave the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building en route to the launch pad. They lifted off to the Moon at 12h33 a.m. EST December 7, 1972. 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, 72-HC-885, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, INFO, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: Apollo News Center, NASA, December 7, 1972. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yIvOYFOm6c
Having read "The Right Stuff" by writer, Tom Wolfe, about the life of test pilot and aviator Chuck Yeager, I did recall something about big, impressive wristwatches being a favourite among young American aviators. So I googled it up. Impressive website for a watchmaker! www.omegawatches.com/index.php?id=414 There's no substitute for the NASA site, though: history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/introduction.htm
Where were You on July 20, 1969?
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"EVA-1 SURFACE ACTIVITY"
Also:
"Diagram illustrating the placement of the ALSEP and other equipment during EVA 1."
Above, along with the image, at:
www.drewexmachina.com/2020/04/21/the-original-mission-of-...
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Credit: Andrew LePage/Drew ExMachina website
I wonder if this was retained for Apollo 14.
The following certainly answers my question. NO. Not even close, with apparently additional/different experiments:
www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public...
Although, per FIGURE 3.1-4, there is still similarity in some 'placements':
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/as14-flsproc.pdf
Credit: ALSJ
'Action' shot of Alan Bean taking photographs of the plus-Y footpad, possibly AS12-47-6906.
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/AS12-47-6906HR.jpg
The inoperative TV camera is at the right-hand side of the picture and the erectable S-Band antenna is visible beyond the plus-Y (north) strut, with the unsupported/drooping U.S. Flag immediately to its left. Note that Pete Conrad is standing slightly below the level of the footpads, having moved partway down the initial slope of Surveyor Crater to take this pan - testimony to his sh!t-hot piloting skills.
ALSJ paraphrase above.
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
“Destination Moon” is an Academy Award winning film produced by George Pal in 1950 and one of the first science fiction films to attempt a high level of accurate technical detail in telling the story of the first trip to the Moon. Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein contributed to the screenplay and served as the technical adviser. It is the story of a privately-funded lunar expedition in a nuclear powered spaceship. The crew faces tough challenges on the way. The first occurs before launch with a ginned-up public uproar over radiation safety. On the trip to the moon, a faulty radar antenna requires a crew member to take an unscheduled spacewalk. On the moon, enough fuel remains for only three of the four crew members to return to earth. How they handle the challenges makes for an interesting movie, even if it is now somewhat dated. Here's a link to the movie trailer:
Eagle Book of Rockets and Space
by John W.R. Taylor and Maurice Allward
Longacre Press, 1961
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A lunar base patterned after the Martin lunar housing project, but exceedingly more elaborate. It'd be a city in itself. See cutaway drawing.
America's Mightiest Missile
by Larry Eisinger
Arco Publishing, 1961
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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
“...One device being considered for use in pilotage techniques is a binocular viewer...”
Who knew?!
Used by the LMP it appears. Probably a good thing they nixed the idea. Reminds me of Luke Skywalker’s targeting computer. And what did he do? Turned the damned thing off, used the Force, and nailed it...just like Neil! Kinda sorta...well, not really...but you know what I mean.
"The US flag, deployed on the surface of the Moon, dominates this photograph taken from inside the LM. In the far background is the deployed black and white lunar surface television camera which televised the lunar surface extravehicular activity. The footprints are clearly visible around the flag and the camera. The shadow on the right of the flag just below the thruster comes from the SWC staff (solar wind collector)."
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-37-5545HR.jpg
All above per the ALSJ.
Also:
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo11/html/...
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