Apollo 11 crew

You know it’s been tough times when a Dumpster fire is the meme of the year. Indeed, 2016 has been rough: pop culture icons died, police and activists squared off in major cities, we survived a cutthroat presidential election, Syria burned, terrorists attacked around the globe. And, like today, most people were eager to tack a new calendar on the wall by the time Bill Anders, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell launched for the moon on December 21,

A photo, taken by the Apollo 11 crew on their way home from the moon, showed both the first and last lunar landing sites. The first manned lunar landing, Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969, occurred at the southwestern part of the Sea of Tranquility. Apollo 17, the final Apollo mission, touched down in the Taurus-Littrow area, a combination mountainous highland and lowlands valley region. The Apollo 17 astronauts took advantage of the lunar roving vehicle developed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight…

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Apollo 11 in orbit

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On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon—and Buzz Aldrin became the first one to pee on it.

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Forty-five years ago yesterday, the Sea of Tranquility saw a brief flurry of activity when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin dared to disturb the ancient lunar dust. Now the site has lain quiet, untouched, for almost half a century. Are any traces of the astronauts still visible? The answer is yes! Look at the picture … Continue reading "What Does The Apollo 11 Moon Landing Site Look Like Today?"

Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 - LIFE magazine

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Apollo 11 backup crew members Fred Haise (left) and Jim Lovell prepare to enter the Lunar Module for an altitude test.

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More than four decades ago, humanity first made landfall on the Moon and Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Buzz Aldrin left their footprints on the dusty regolith of the Sea of Tranquility. Over the span of those decades, we have grown familiar with the sights and sounds and experiences of

Personnel atop the 402-ft. mobile service structure look back at the Apollo 11 spacecraft as the tower is moved away during a countdown demonstration test July 11, 1969

The Crew of Apollo 1

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NASA/LIFE PHOTO. Life Magazine, Public Photo (source Life/Google 2008), REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont. NASA INFO: (06/19/1969) --- KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Apollo 11 astronauts rehearsed their lunar landing mission in simulators here today. Pictured in front of a lunar module mockup in the Flight Crew Training Building area, from left, are Michael Collins, Command Module pilot; Neil A. Armstrong, commander; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module pilot.