Snoopy button, 1969
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Horizonte de Eventos - Episódio 41 - Apollo 17 - Parte II
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Margaret Hamilton, Director of the Apollo project Software Engineering Division, with a stack of papers containing the code to the Apollo Guidance Computer navigation software. The software that on this day, in 1969, guided Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin when they landed on the Moon.
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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?!
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The picture of earth from space that we will rarely be shown
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Apollo 16 rollout attracts a crowd at the Vehicle Assembly Building, 9 February 1972.
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The vehicles used by REAL astronauts, not some rich space tourist wearing a f*****g cowboy hat.
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PRELAUNCH - APOLLO 13 (ROLLOUT) - KSC
"Nighttime, ground level view of Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), showing the Apollo 13 (Spacecraft 109/Lunar Module 7/Saturn 508) space vehicle during Countdown Demonstration Test (CDDT). The crew of NASA's third lunar landing mission includes astronauts James A. Lovell Jr., commander; John L. Swigert Jr., command module pilot; and Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot. The Apollo 13 launch has been scheduled for 2:13 p.m. (EST), April 11, 1970."
Date: March 24, 1970
NASA ID: S70-32990
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Happy Pride month! I come with a meme redraw of solangelo 💃🏽
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So considering that it’s the 54 anniversary of the moon landing I thought I’d share one of my favorite bits of trivia about the mission (along with a bit of a shitpost). So the first every liquid to be poured on the moon was actually whine as Buzz Aldrin took communion in the lunar module (the bread and whine were blessed a few days beforehand by a priest). Buzz wanted to broadcast the ceremony back to earth but decided not to at the request of Deke Slayton because of the controversy surrounding the reading of the book of genesis on Apollo 8.
Here’s where the shitposting comes in: According to Catholics (and other religions sects that believe in transubstantiation) believe that during communion the bread and whine literally becomes the body and blood of Christ. Which is why imho (despite not being religious in any way) it is perfectly accurate to say that Jesus Christ has landed on the moon
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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.
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Rising Earth Greets Apollo VIII Astronauts
Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information AgencySeries: Master File Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Personalities, World Events, and American Economic, Social, and Cultural Life
This image is a color photograph of earth from lunar orbit. The surface of the moon appears on the right edge of the image. To the left, the earth appears to be floating in the blackness of space. Just over half of the earth is visible, the rest is in shadow.
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does it ever drive you crazy
just how fast the night changes
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Happy Earth Day from the Moon
comic by zen pencils: "Neil Armstrong: A giant among men"
"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."
- Neil Armstrong
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Apollo 16: back side of the Moon (April 18, 1972)
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