#apollo program

[lonestarflight]

Apollo 17 vs Artemis II

[wishmemellon]

Everyone on Twitter is obsessing over this Artemis and Apollo NASA patch I have.

[nepholmes]

'Astronaut' is probably one of the most beautiful words I've ever heard.

It is the combination of two ancient Greek words, άστρον (star) and ναύτης (sailor).

Astronaut literally means star sailor.

Go Artemis.

[gemini-enthusiast]

Consoles used in the firing room for the launch of Apollo 8, taken at Kennedy Space Center. They're now part of their wonderful Apollo 8 presentation, but in 1968, engineers sat at these consoles to give the final go/no go for launching humans around the Moon for the very first time.

[grayrazor]

Drives me insane seeing people criticize stages and capsules as “obsolete” or “a step backward”

Compared to what? The space shuttle? SpaceX? Blue Origin? Virgin Galactic?

Those haven’t taken anyone to the moon.

NASA had to build SLS out of spare odds and ends and it’s still going farther than any of the billionaire brigade.

[arlowtreebark]

i'm surely not the first to mention this but i love how the first time we sent humans to the moon it was "apollo" and now it's "artemis".

since apollo & artemis are usually considered siblings in greek mythology :)

[stone-cold-groove]

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

[adastra-sf]

Happy Moon Landing Day!

On July 20, 1969 - 55 years ago today! - humans first stepped foot on another world.

Apollo 11 - NASA

The primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961: perform a crewed lunar