#apollo 11 50th

[latter-ace-saint]

Houston says Goodnight

At 036:09:39, or 1:41 UTC on July 18th, Houston bids the Apollo 11 crew goodnight for their second night in the spacecraft.

[nagireddyway]

Apollo 11 50th Anniversary – The Mission that Changed the World

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” – Neil Armstrong, after his first step on the Moon. It has been almost 50 years since the lunar module; Eagle landed on the Moon, and humankind…

[latter-ace-saint]

Apollo 11 crew released from quarantine

Approx. 600:00, exact time unknown, August 10, 1969 - After about two and a half weeks, the Apollo crew is finally released from quarantine. The time spent in quarantine was more than double the duration of the moon mission itself. Some subsequent missions also were quarantined at the end: both the crews of Apollo 12 and 14 sent weeks in isolation. (Apollo 13 did not require it since, of course, it never actually reached the moon's surface). After Apollo 14, returning crews were no longer required to be quarantined.

And with that, I complete my real-time re-creation of the Apollo 11 mission. Might do something similar for the other Apollo missions, but probably less complete.

Hope this was at least a little bit interesting for any of you. I learned a whole lot, actually.

[typeandcompany]

Bummed to not get one of these Apollo 11 Astros 50th caps. 

[latter-ace-saint]

Apollo 11 crew suffer through tedious speech by Tricky Dick

197:28, 19:00 UTC - President Nixon welcomes the astronauts, visible through a window of the trailer. Speaking over an intercom, he greets them, extends them an invitation to attend a dinner with him August 13. and tells them, in his typical overblown windbag style:

"This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation.... As a result of what you have done, the world's never been closer together .... We can reach for the stars just as you have reached so far for the stars."

[latter-ace-saint]

Apollo 11 crew arrives on the Hornet

196:21, 17:53 UTC - Astronauts arrive by helicopter on the flight deck of the Hornet. Still inside the helicopter they ride an elevator to hangar deck and then walk immediately into the mobile quarantine trailer in which they will remain until they arrive at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at Houston early July 27.

[latter-ace-saint]

Apollo 11 crew leaves the CM for the last time

195:57, 17:29 UTC - Astronauts emerge from the spacecraft in isolation suits and are sprayed with a disinfectant as a guard against the possibility of their contaminating the Earth with Moon "germs."

[latter-ace-saint]

Hatch opens

195:49, 17:21 UTC - Hatch of command module opens and frogman hands in isolation suits.