#apollo missions

[mooniewavess]

If Christina Koch went to the moon, I can do this assigment, I can make that phone call, I can try snowboarding for the first time, I can finish this reaserch paper, I can study for that exam, I can get out of bed with a little more wonder. If she could go to the moon, I can do anything.

[stone-cold-groove]

Lunar landing profile page from Beckman Bits. Systems Division of Beckman Instruments - 1964/1965.

[apollomission8]

Happy Apollo 17 Landing Day!

[orquideasjpg]

with the artemis launch, i want to remind you all that the original high resolution scans from the apollo mission are online (thank you user on twt for the links)

View of the Earth from Apollo 11 during the Trans-lunar coast, about ten hours into the mission. The spacecraft, with the Lunar Module now extracted and the S-IVB stage discarded, was already about 56,000 miles from the Earth when this photo was taken. NASA photo ID AS11-36-5337

Buzz Aldrin photographed by Neil Armstrong, early during the Apollo 11 EVA. NASA photo ID AS11-40-5873

Near the end of flight day one, the Apollo 15 crew took this photo of the receding Earth from a distance of about 55,000 miles. Apollo 15 marked the 7th time humans had traveled beyond low Earth orbit (the first time being the historic voyage of Apollo 8 in December, 1968). // NASA Photo ID AS15-91-12344

Apollo 15 S-IVB stage with Lunar Module Falcon awaiting extraction. Photo taken on day one of flight, about 3 1/2 hours after launch, and about 40 minutes following the Trans-Lunar Injection burn. // NASA Photo ID AS15-91-12331

Apollo 15 - Hadley Rille from orbit // NASA Photo ID AS15-87-11719

A crescent Earth, photographed by the Apollo 15 astronauts while orbiting the Moon // from NASA Photo ID AS15-97-13267

[facts-i-just-made-up]

David Bowie’s famous hit song “Space Oddity” was originally more accurate to the early Apollo missions, but was changed when Major Schweickart felt it would be bad luck. Bowie then had to retool the entire rhyme and rhythm.

[jedimasterazeroth]

If we were ancient greece right now, we would be singing songs and weaving tales of the men and women who danced with a goddess. We would give them star constellations letting them forever dance with her when her path crosses through them.

No matter what your opinion may be of the USA and NASA right now is, it pales in comparison to the legendary feat the men and women of the Apollo and Artemis missions have done.

They deserve to be etched into the night sky forever.

[dolphelecat]

The real legacy of Apollo 11 isn't that we, like, touched another world. It's that we learned how much more there was to learn once we did.

Hank Green x

[blue-green-memes]