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Margaret Hamilton, NASA’s lead software engineer for the Apollo, stands next to the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969.

#Moon Day #NASA #Margaret Hamilton

alagaisia

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

alagaisia

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

alagaisia

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

watermelon-converse

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

emi--rose

Hell yeah moon holiday

hello-delicious-tea

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

ariaste

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

mdanceb33

Happy Moon Day Monday!!

#Happy Moon Day Monday!#Moon Day #NASA #Apollo 11

weaver-z

How the media depicts the Apollo 11 mission:

Actual quotes from the Apollo 11 mission:

georgieharrisons

also according to michael collins when the three of them were discussing what neil armstrong should say when he first stepped on the moon, collins suggested armstrong say “Oh, my God, what is that thing?” and then scream and cut out his mic.

little-scribblers-heart

Everyone forgets Michael Collins and it’s fucking tragic.

#Moon Day #NASA #Apollo 11 #Michael Collins #Buzz Aldrin #Neil Armstrong

hollenka99

Friendly reminder this Moon Landing Day that this website exists, where you can drop yourself at any point in the mission where the crew are awake and they'll probably be bantering with Houston.

A real-time interactive journey through the first landing on the Moon. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1969.

theshadiertwin

I'm actually scheduling this for a week early - the site lets you watch the whole mission if you want to, and the shuttle took off 5 days before they got to the moon!

lazuelazuli

@imadoctornotanescalator

#Moon Day #NASA #Apollo 11

dailycatsblog

thegreatyin

the hubble telescope is so iconic u don't understand. i love her so much.... she's like a pop star to me

thegreatyin

her birthday is today btw. everybody say happy birthday to her right fucking now

thegreatyin

this isn't a joke, to clarify. the anniversary of the hubble telescope's launch is 4/25. she turns 35 today. go appreciate her

thegreatyin

you know what hubble has done for us?? hubble has given us so much. hubble is the telescope that took All of these pictures. she is so iconic and so powerful and so good at her job <3 <3 <3 we love women in stem!!!!!

she is the moment she is the everything she is the love and light of my life!!! happy birthday hubble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thegreatyin

IT'S HER BIRTHDAY AGAIN!!! EVERYBODY SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HER 🔭🔭🔭🌌🌌🌌 HAPPY 36TH BIRTHDAY HUBBLE!!!!!!!

#Happy Birthday Hubble!#already identified #Hubble Space Telescope #NASA

gusgrissom

Happy 90th, Charlie!

#Happy Birthday!#Charlie Duke #Apollo 16 #NASA

gemini-enthusiast

Here's a short for this morning's launch of IMAP, SWFO-L1, and Carruthers! These three fascinating missions will study the impact of space weather, a critical factor as we continue to integrate devices which are vulnerable to space weather in our everyday lives. By studying space weather from space, we can better prepare ourselves for the future.

I did see the launch, but I was driving so I couldn't film it myself. Beautiful day for a launch, though!

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SpaceX Falcon 9 FT

#NASA #SpaceX #Falcon 9 #IMAP #SWFO-L1 #Carruthers

gemini-enthusiast

Space Shuttle Enterprise mounted aboard the Shuttle carrier aircraft, landing at the Redstone Arsenal in preparation for vibration tests.

#already identified #this is such a cool picture #nasa #space shuttle #enterprise

thevaultoftheatomicspaceage

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RAE Black Arrow R3, carrying the Prospero satellite, 1971

waistdeepcat

(tags from prev ^)

The final flight took place after the program was already cancelled. The british government decided to cancel the program while the ship to australia was already on its way, and it turned out that turning the ship around would be about as expensive as just going ahead as planned.

#I didn't know that tidbit!#I'm glad they went ahead with the launch

thevaultoftheatomicspaceage

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RAE Black Arrow R3, carrying the Prospero satellite, 1971

#Lipstick Rocket My Beloved!#The first and only British orbital rocket #was launched from Woomera test range in Australia #it had two successful launches and two failures before the programme was cancelled #the US government offered cheap launches on it's Scout rocket #but as soon as the UK government cancelled it's own spaceflight programme the US hiked the price up #there's an unflown one in the Science Museum in London that's well worth a visit

edwhiteandblue

February 12, 1961 — Venera 1 launches to Venus

The Soviet Venera 1 was the first interplanetary spacecraft and the first spacecraft to fly by Venus. The first attempt to reach Venus, commonly called Sputnik 7, failed to leave Earth orbit the week prior. Venera 1 passed within 62,000 miles (100,000 km) of Venus in May but returned no data since contact with Earth had been lost only one week after launch.

#Venera 1 #already identified #I just think she's neat #it's a shame she couldn't transmit any data #but she still gets the title of being the first human-made object to fly by Venus

edwhiteandblue

August 18, 1993: The Delta Clipper Experimental (DC-X) launches and lands for the first time.

The McDonnell Douglas DC-X was an uncrewed prototype of a reusable single-stage-to-orbit vertical take-off and landing launch vehicle developed in conjunction with the Department of Defense. The 40-foot-tall pyramid-shaped craft was built using commercial off-the-shelf parts and ran almost autonomously (former Apollo astronaut Pete Conrad was at the controls for some flights). Its successful test flight in August of 1993 made it the first rocket to land vertically on Earth, a feat now being done by SpaceX and Blue Origin every few weeks.

Read more about the Delta Clipper vehicle here!

#already identified #Douglas #Delta Clipper

gemini-enthusiast

The Chandra X-Ray Observatory, after deployment on STS-93.

#already identified #it's Chandra!#you don't see her on here that often so I thought I'd take the opportunity to give my girl some love #she's 25 this year!#Chandra is often overlooked as the visible light telescopes tend to get all the attention #but she's produced some gorgeous x-ray imagery that's definitely worthy of putting on a space calendar alongside the usual Hubble pics #of course it's all false colour - humans can't see x-rays so there's some artistic license in converting it to colours we can see #but I still think it's wonderful we have telescopes like Chandra that give us a shrimp's eye view of the universe

Do you get repeat offenders to the point its overbearing? ie the Saturn V, Voyager, Hubble etc?

And whats your favorite spacecraft? I like the voyager probes, just launch a lil guy with some sensors into space and hope for the best

The Saturn V and Space Shuttle come up the most, but I wouldn't say it's overbearing - honestly, most of the pictures of spacecraft I find on tumblr are already captioned! (People have been doing my job for me!) The Voyagers and Hubble don't appear as often as you might think - there's loads of images taken by them, but relatively few of them

I also think the Voyagers are great, and it makes me so happy that even after all these years and all that distance, we can still communicate with them! Truly, they're the Little Probes That Could ❤️ My favourite spacecraft is probably the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar, just for the name alone! (even though it tragically never flew)

kawaoneechan

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NASA Saturn V rocket with Apollo CSM

#shdhjdhdjd #there have been several attempts at a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) rocket #but it's just not as efficient as having a staged rocket #or even a 'stage-and-a-half' design like Atlas #they have no useful payload #the margins are too tight #they can just about manage to lift themselves into orbit and nothing else #the first stage of a Falcon 9 could probably get to orbit on it's own #without an upper stage or payload or the landing legs and grid fins #but like what would be the point??#NASA #Saturn V #SSTO

thevaultoftheatomicspaceage

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NASA Rockwell Space Shuttle OV-101 Enterprise

#Enterprise depicted here as she was used for testing the launch pad and ground equipment #You can tell it's Enterprise by the lack of black heat shield tiles in the places the later orbiters had them #Also the external fuel tank is painted white #They only did that during testing and for the first few flights of the space shuttle #Most space shuttle flights left the tank unpainted to save weight #leaving it the distinctive orange colour of the spay-on insulation foam #NASA #Space Shuttle #Enterprise

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