#apollo capsule

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50th anniversary of Apollo-Soyuz today.

[lonestarflight]

"The Apollo 10 spacecraft, with astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene A. Cernan onboard, approaches touchdown in the South Pacific recovery area to conclude a successful eight-day lunar orbit mission. Splashdown occurred at 11:53 a.m. (CDT), May 26, 1969, about 400 miles east of American Samoa, and about four miles from the prime recovery ship, USS PRINCETON (LPH-5)."

Landing site: 15°2′S 164°39′W

Date: May 26, 1969

NASA ID: S69-36594

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[macmanx]

LEGO NASA

my sets so far

[house-of-artdesign]

Apollo Command & Service module. 2020

[lonestarflight]

Cutaway of the Apollo CSM, Lunar Module, IU and Saturn V stages.

Date: 1967

NASA ID: 0101138, 0101139, 0101207, 0100984, MSFC-0600309, 0600309, 9903033

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If the Space Shuttle hadn’t happened, do you think the US/NASA still be using Saturn/Apollo now like how the Russians are still using Soyuz/Soyuz?

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ROCKET! Yeah! Satellite of love!

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Skylab Artist Concept (NASA Archive, 1972) by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on Flickr.

Via Flickr: This illustration Skylab shows the Apollo capsule, which was launched on a Saturn 1B rocket to ferry crews to space, docked to the multiple docking adapter, which was designed and built at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Image credit: NASA