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KSC INFO: This American Flag heralds the flight of Apollo 11, man's first lunar landing mission. This double exposure was made with a 1000 mm lens. The photograph was taken from Cape Kennedy, adjacent to Kennedy Space Center, where Apollo 11 lifted off from pad-39a at 9h32 a.m. EDT. This image was imposed upon the image of the flag, filmed a day earlier. In the double exposure the rocket is at an altitude of about 5,000 feet. A band of super-cold propellants seems to circle the rocket near its center. The effect is caused by the difference in temperature between the propellants and the atmosphere. FOR RELEASE: July 16, 1969. 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, 69-HC-765, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: NASA headquarters Washington D.C. July 5, 1976.
Yet another wonderful artists’ concept of an early LEM/CSM design (ca. 1962), depicting LEM ascent stage jettison. The shading, dramatic lunar terrain and overall attention to detail are impressive.
Also, at the 1:01 mark:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smp9m7vcE-Q
Credit: Parka Blogs/YouTube
Kudos to Anthony T. Saporito and William A. Collopy! Mr. Źiemba appears to have taken a break...his painting hand must have been sore after his other museum-worthy works in this 'series'.
8.5" x 11".
William A. “Bill” Collopy, an unexpected WIN:
starherald.com/william-a-collopy/article_936831fc-6037-58...
Credit: Star Herald website
And since the above link is likely tenuous, its content:
“SCOTTSBLUFF - William A. 'Bill' Collopy, 78, of Scottsbluff died Friday, Jan. 27, 2006, at Regional West Medical Center comforted by his wife, Kay.
A memorial service was held Jan. 31 at the First Church of God in Scottsbluff with the Rev. Curtis Germany officiating. Abiding by Bill's wishes, cremation has taken place at the Jolliffe Funeral Home in Scottsbluff…
…Bill was born Dec. 10, 1927, in Scottsbluff, to Francis John and Maude Rutz (Amalia) Collopy. He received his education in the Scottsbluff Public School System graduating from Scottsbluff High School, and continued at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, as well as attending the Scottsbluff Junior College in Scottsbluff.
Bill enlisted in the U. S. Army Air Corps on Dec. 18, 1945, and was honorably discharged in July of 1947, after achieving the rank of corporal.
Bill married Regina Kayleen "Kay" Germany on Aug. 13, 1950, in Scottsbluff. Bill spent his working years in Kansas, California, and Texas as a technical illustrator for Boeing, Convair, and Lockheed.
Following retirement in 1992, Bill returned to Scottsbluff, the boyhood home he loved so much. Bill enjoyed his retirement years locally as an activities bus driver for the Scottsbluff Public School System, as well as Western Nebraska Community College and especially enjoying his recent years at Twin Cities Baseball. Bill enjoyed woodworking and spending time with family.
Bill is survived by his wife: Regina Kayleen "Kay" Collopy of Scottsbluff; son: Brad Collopy and his wife Aggie in Gering; daughters: Brenda Momper of Alliance and Berni Holmes and her husband Rodney of Aurora, Colo.; 10 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; uncle: John Rutz; and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.
His parents: Frank and Maude; and brother: Frank Jr., preceded Bill in death.”
summer 1980
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Spokeswoman from KAF points out the divine signs of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi to passers-by (Shree Adya Katyayani Shaktipeeth Temple, Chhatarpur, New Delhi, India).
Members of Messiah Foundation USA show the divine signs to attendees at the Global Citizen Earth Day Concert 2015.
“The actual landing on the moon is illustrated here. Although a horizontal landing on the moon is shown in this figure, vertical landings are, of course, possible. It is anticipated that the landing will be made at a site that has previously been surveyed by an unmanned spacecraft.”
A crowd gathers around our stall to look at the divine signs of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi on the Moon, Sun and Maha Shivling (Holy Black Stone).
A presenter from Kalki Avatar Foundation points out the image of Kalki Avatar on the Holy Black Stone (Maha Shivling).
This issue of Collier’s contains part of a famous and influential series of magazine articles detailing Wernher von Braun’s plans for manned spaceflight. Many children who would later become NASA engineers and space enthusiasts were greatly inspired one way or another by this series. Edited by Cornelius Ryan, the individual articles which ran in Collier’s from 1952 to 1954 were authored by such space notables of the time as Willy Ley, Fred Lawrence Whipple, Dr. Joseph Kaplan, Dr. Heinz Haber and Wernher von Braun. The articles were illustrated with paintings and drawings by Chesley Bonestell, Fred Freeman and Rolf Klep, some of the finest magazine illustrators of the time.
The articles were expanded into three books: “Across the Space Frontier” (1952), “Conquest of the Moon” (1953) and “The Exploration of Mars” (1956). The articles were also the basis for three episodes in the Disneyland TV series: “Man in Space” which originally aired on March 9, 1955; “Man and the Moon” which originally aired on December 28, 1955; and “Mars and Beyond” which aired on December 4, 1957.
Moon - November 20th 2012
First Quarter/Half Moon
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Presenter points at the image of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi on the moon (Shri Adhya Katyani Shakti Peeth Hanuman Mandir, Chhatarpur, India).
A member of Messiah Foundation International holds up a banner announcing that Lord Ra Riaz is the Awaited One.
Presenter points at the image of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi on the moon (Shri Adhya Katyani Shakti Peeth Hanuman Mandir, Chhatarpur, India).
Fifty-three years have gone by and still, the United States is the only country on earth to put a man on the moon. Be careful world, our eagle is sharpening its claws and the mighty sleeping giant is about to wake up again. This time, no more Mr. Nice Guy.
Spokeswomen from KAF India presenting the message of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi to an aspirant (Shri Adhya Katyani Shakti Peeth Hanuman Mandir, Chhatarpur, India).
I bought this yarn in the fall, knowing that I was going to want some happy colors on my needles in the winter. So here we are in January, and my Weekend Sweater with the happy colors is well underway. I won't lie. It's going to be a wee bit clowny. But I'm cool with that.
President John F. Kennedy (at lectern) delivers remarks, following a tour of spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas. President Kennedy holds a scale model of the Apollo command module, presented to him by Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth; a mock-up of the lunar lander (also known as "the Bug") sits in background. Standing in back (L-R): Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Governor of Texas, Price Daniel; Associate Administrator of NASA, Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr.; Director of Operations for Project Mercury, Dr. Walter C. Williams; Senator Alexander Wiley (Wisconsin); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Dr. Gilruth. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations. [See also MO 63.1913, "Model of Apollo Command Module"]
Note both the odd/poorly engineered(?) "split/divided" RCS thrusters on the LEM mock-up, to avoid plume impingement on the LEM's outer surface, and the Rogallo Wing in the background...I assume attached to a Gemini capsule mock-up.
Priceless footage:
The Astronot (www.TheAstronot.com) focuses on a young boy's imagination with space travel in the 1940s & 50s.
Apollo/Saturn-201 (AS-201), the first Saturn 1B, lifts off from Pad 34, 26 February 1966.
Excellent AS-201 reading:
www.drewexmachina.com/2016/02/26/the-first-flight-of-the-...
Credit: Drew Ex Machina website/Andrew LePage
Spectacular 1962 artist's concept of Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) ascent stage liftoff from the lunar surface.
A fantastic & imaginative perspective.
Reasonable to assume it’s of Grumman origination? If so, possibly by the hand of Craig Kavafes?
I had no idea there was a lithograph of this:
www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/apollo-lunar-excursion-mod...
Credit: WorthPoint website
Sierra Blanca, Texas is about as close to a living ghost town as you can get. This abandoned truck stop was on the outskirts of the tiny, one street town. It was surreal to walk around this place. Around back were various car parts from the 50's and 60's along with a pile of tires. Inside were a few chairs and tables where truckers may have sat down to have a meal or snack. The ceiling was caving in and interior wood was rotting. The middle interior had a staircase going down (to a basement?) - which I was all gung ho for going down and exploring but wisely did not. For the few minutes we were there, it was like time was standing still. We were lost in our imaginations wondering what this place was like in it's hey-day. I only wish we had more time to explore and photograph the parts of this tiny town where people still lived.
Aspirants are shown the image of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi on the moon by a spokeswomen of KAF India (Rajasthan, India).
Members of Messiah Foundation USA show the divine signs to attendees at the Global Citizen Earth Day Concert 2015.
A presenter from Kalki Avatar Foundation grants Invocation of the Heart (simran) to an aspirant (Modara, Colombo, Sri Lanka).
A 1966 Goddard Space Flight Center "re-issue" of the original 1963 Marshall Space Flight Center photograph.
The "LUNAR TOUCHDOWN" version is available here:
up-ship.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/apollo-1963-d...
I'm about to be repetitive...again...appropriately enough. The website - "Aerospace Projects Review" - TRULY has some of the most fascinating AND rarely seen photos, drawings, sketches, articles...you name it, pertaining to space/aerospace, rocketry, their history and a whole LOT more. Seriously, an amazing site, conscientiously and professionally maintained.
I love space so flippin much.
This month there was two full moons, and the last time that happened was 20 years ago. So it literally happens every once in a blue moon. Hehe.
And Happy New Year's! With a stellar sky, hopefully means a stellar new decade!
Earth (far distant background) is seen above a large lunar boulder (foreground) on the moon. The photo was taken with a handheld Hasselblad camera by the last two moon walkers in the Apollo Program. While astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, commander; and Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot, descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Challenger" to explore the Taurus-Littrow region of the moon, astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "America" in lunar orbit.
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo17/html/...
Also:
Gene Cernan's photo of the earth taken at Station 2, over Boulder 2, site of Sample 2315, amongst others. Appropriately enough...during EVA-2.
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/AS17-137-20910HR.jpg
Credit: ALSJ website
And an excellent contextual panorama taken at Station 2. I believe this to be the boulder at roughly the 1330/1:30 position from the LRV:
www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollopanoramas/pans/?pan=JSC2...
Credit: LPI website
Also, so so cool:
www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/earth/pics-of-eart...
Credit: The Planetary Society website
Neil Armstrong tests his A7L space suit
“Collection of six rare original vintage glossy red-numbered NASA photos, 8 x 10 and 10 x 8, all showing Neil Armstrong in his space suit during Apollo 11 suit testing and fitting. Dan Schaiewitz is seen in a few of the images. All bear “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the reverse. In overall fine condition. A wonderful assemblage of rarely seen behind-the-scenes images. From the collection of Dan Schaiewitz, who worked as Extravehicular Crew Training Engineer at KSC.”
I am posting only three of the six.
Source:
www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/338224005189163-apo...
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong made history as the first person to ever walk on the moon. The sad news of his death at age 82 on Saturday reminded me that I had saved my Halifax, Nova Scotia newspaper printed the day after he landed at Tranquility Base and uttered those famous words: "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind."
For any of us who grew up during the space race in the 60s and 70s, and especially Canadians like me who religiously watched the CTV documentary Here Come the Seventies, the moon landing was supposed to be a harbinger of what was to come.
Here Come the Seventies was a half-hour documentary series that looked ahead at anticipated technological marvels and innovations we could expect during the 70s. The show told us there'd be a colony on Mars and we'd all be traveling by electric cars and personal jet packs before the end of the decade - which, of course, we all believed.
Instead, things turned out quite differently. Space exploration budgets have been cut, even the robotic Canadarm, the pride of the Canadian Space Agency, has faded into history. It was recently retired, along with the Space Shuttle program, and is now little more than a museum artifact from a bygone era.
To quote that old sage Yogi Berra, "The future ain't what it used to be." Once, the future was spaceflight. Now it’s cat videos and status updates.
(For an auditory flashback, listen to Tillicum, the infectious musical theme from "Here Come The Seventies" by the Canadian group Syrinx.)
Other items reported in the Monday, July 21, 1969 Halifax Chronicle-Herald:
■ A complaint charging US Senator Edward Kennedy with leaving the scene of an accident (the previous Saturday), in which Mary Jo Kopechne dies, is filed in Edgartown Massachusetts.
■ In London, in a controversial acceptance of the death of the British Empire, the Duncan Report recommends that Britain scale down the rest of its global role and instead place its emphasis on joining the Common Market and "becoming an integral part of the New Europe."
■ Egyptian MiG and Sukhoi jets clash with Israeli Mirages over the Sinai for the first time since 1967. Both sides claim shooting down a number of planes. Both sides claimed victory.
■ Mario Andretti wins the Indianapolis 500.
■ Halifax Chrysler-Dodge advertises brand new Valiants for $2,290
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Artist's rendering of the Lunar Module's descent and landing, possibly published January 18, 1967.
As was often the case during LEM development, this is a latter version of an earlier (1963) concept artwork, updated/modified to reflect the latest external design changes.
I'm relatively certain this is a Gary Meyer work.
Handsome artwork/painting (gouache I believe) depicting an early configuration LEM liftoff & ascent from the moon. Circa 1962/63, by artist/illustrator Don Crowley, most likely produced during his freelancing period.
Fascinating information on Mr. Crowley, who unfortunately, passed on in 2019:
Credit: Don Crowley website
wenaha.com/artist/don-crowley/
Credit: Wenaha Gallery website
Quite a transformation/evolution:
cowboyartistsofamerica.com/active-members/deceased/don-cr...
Credit: Cowboy Artists of America website
www.greenwichworkshop.com/thumbnails/default.asp?a=18&...
Credit: Greenwich Workshop website
Note the exceedingly long...EVA antenna? Possibly jettisoned, folded, or somehow retracted prior to docking? I guess it wasn't an issue if the forward hatch/docking port was used.
“Astronauts will take turns exploring the lunar surface in 4 hour periods. Experiments that can continue to function after the crew has left will remain on the lunar surface sending information back to earth. The first mission will total 24 hours of the lunar surface including a night’s sleep.”
And, for whatever it's worth, the title/caption of the S-63-11336 near equivalent reads:
"Apollo Lunar EVA NO. 1
This view during the first lunar EVA shows the Apollo Astronaut setting up the RTG to power the ALSEP site."
However, much more importantly, or at least, fascinating/fondly nostalgic - to me - is the (I think) confirmation of the artist, Mr. Gary Meyer, and his amazing history/background.
In a direct quote from his wonderfully informative website, listing his work experience:
"Extensive paintings of Apollo moon missions including a film called “The Apollo Mission” made before the hardware existed."
From/At:
garymeyerillustration.net/BIOGRAPHY.html
Although sadly/apparently no longer available anywhere online, the film included this image.
Further, IMHO, I find this (and its “looming earth” variant) to be one of the most dramatic & timeless images from this ‘series’ of works by the artist.
As I child, I was imprinted by the image, it also being featured on the back cover of Charles Coomb's delightful "Project Apollo: Mission To The Moon", which had (still have actually).
Good times...
THANK YOU, and Continue to Rest In Peace Good Sir:
kotaku.com/rip-legendary-artist-gary-meyer-1846376817
Credit: "Kotaku"" website
www.nma.art/instructors/gary-meyer/
Credit: New Masters Academy website
And finally...WTF!?!?!?! That's MY photo they're using:
Presenter points at the image of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi on the moon (Shri Adhya Katyani Shakti Peeth Hanuman Mandir, Chhatarpur, India).
Members of Messiah Foundation USA show the divine signs to attendees at the Global Citizen Earth Day Concert 2015.
February 5th, 2023
Chicago, IL
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
“APOLLO 11 TV VIEW ON MOON ----Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong (on right), commander; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, commemorate their historic landing and walk on the moon by implanting the United States flag on the lunar surface. This view is a black and white reproduction taken from a telecast by the Apollo 11 lunar surface camera during extravehicular activity. This picture was made from a televised image received at the Deep Space Network tracking station at Goldstone, California. Astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin explored the moon.”
Members of Messiah Foundation USA show the divine signs to attendees at the Global Citizen Earth Day Concert 2015.
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) / Lunar Landing Training Vehicle (LLTV) flight profile?/characteristics?/parameters?/abort criteria?/possibly actual plotted 'flight data recorder" data - who knows? - graph/plot.
Although the date (year) doesn’t really support it...possibly the plotted flight recorder data from Armstrong’s aborted May 1968 LLRV training session??? Or Joe Algranti’s LLTV crash later (December) that year???
Note the representation in the center which I believe actually depicts the LLRV, with "CAB" actually being the cab, and not an acronym for something else...I think. It would make sense based on the x (pitch)/y (yaw) coordinate system labeled along the circumference.
Apparently used in some sort of LLRV documentation, manual, etc., labeled "Figure 2-A-12.- Roll and Pitch Authority Limits Combined", at:
www.roadrunnersinternationale.com/nasa/photo_2.jpg
Credit: ROADRUNNERS INTERNATIONALE (formerly SECRET HEROES) website
Due to the complexity, challenging flight dynamics and quite advanced principles of the vehicle (ESPECIALLY for that time), an abundance of information is available:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Landing_Research_Vehicle
www.nasa.gov/pdf/89228main_TF-2004-08-DFRC.pdf
www.lunarlanding.info/articles/GOFORLL_lores-part_one_con...
nsc.nasa.gov/SFCS/SystemFailureCaseStudy/Details/155
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/HSI480106LLTVRules.pdf
hydrogen-peroxide.us/history-US-Bell/LLRV-Design_and_Oper...
ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19670013964...
And last, but NOT least:
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/LLRV_Monograph.pdf
Oh yeah, related, tangential, similar informative discussion/additional resources...at the always informative collectSPACE website: