#apollo program

[spacemonkiesmafia]

A pet peeve of mine..

THIS IS NOT APOLLO 11!! THIS IS APOLLO 16!

You can tell because Apollo 11 used different EVA suits, ones WITHOUT crew member distinction. It genuinely irks me that "history" pages post this image mixed in with photos from the Apollo 11 mission. People already want to deny the event as is, and mixing up these photos only gives them more surface to be ignorant. Of course "Neil Armstrong never did that." MY GUY THAT IS JOHN YOUNG!

[lonestarflight]

"Astronaut James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, works at the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) during the first Apollo 15 lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA-1) at the Hadley-Apennine landing site. The Lunar Module (LM) 'Falcon' is on the left. The undeployed Laser Ranging Retro Reflector (LR-3) lies atop the LM's Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA). This view is looking slightly west of south. Hadley Delta and the Apennine Front are in the background to the left. St. George crater is approximately 5 kilometers (about 3 statute miles) in the distance behind Irwin's head."

Date: August 1, 1971

NASA ID: AS15-86-11601

[adastra-sf]

Happy Moon Landing Day!

On July 20, 1969 - 55 years ago today! - humans first stepped foot on another world.

[toaarcan]

Happy Moon Landing Day!

[nemfrog]

Proposed moon lander separates from rocket. Beckman Bits, a magazine published by Beckman Instruments Inc., an aerospace company in Fullerton, California. 1964.

Science History Institute

[gemini-enthusiast]

Viewing the S-IVB stage over Lunar Module Spider RCS thrusters, Apollo 9

[droideplane]

Apollo 11 56th Anniversary Moodboard

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong

[todays-xkcd]

If you pick a low enough orbit, it gives you a lot of freedom to use a lightweight launch vehicle such as a stepladder.

Moon Landing Mission Profiles [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Four diagrams of potential ways to achieve a moon landing shown.]

Lunar orbit rendezvous Spacecraft orbits Moon, drops lander Chosen by the Apollo program

Earth orbit rendezvous Large lander assembled in Earth orbit via several launches, travels to Moon Rejected for requiring multiple Saturn Vs per landing and potentially taking longer

Direct ascent Lander launched from Earth directly to Moon Rejected for requiring an unreasonably large rocket

Lunar Earth rendezvous Moon transits to rendezvous with spacecraft in low Earth orbit Rejected because I guess no one thought of it?!

[humanoidhistory]

From Into Space, Macdonald and Company, 1970.

[vieformidable]

The picture of earth from space that we will rarely be shown

[yodaprod]

Okay, Houston, I believe we've had a problem here...

Parisians looking for information on the Apollo 13 incident (april 14, 1970)

[lonestarflight]

"Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, Building 30, during the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission. When this photograph was taken a live television transmission was being received from Apollo 9 as it orbited Earth."

Date: March 4-12, 1969

NASA ID: S69-26301

[astronotmovie]

The view ain’t all that bad. Apollo 9 astronaut David Scott takes it all in in this epic photograph by crewmate Rusty Schweickart, March 1969. The 10-day mission commanded by James McDivitt saw the first crewed flight of the Lunar Module.

[adastra-sf]

Happy Moon Landing Day!

Today is the 55th anniversary!

[toaarcan]

56 years ago today, Apollo 11 launched, carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the Moon.

[gemini-enthusiast]

View of heavy cloud cover over ocean, Apollo 9