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RossS<p>This is a pretty cool recreation of the event that celebrates it's 56th anniversary on Wednesday morning...you can follow along from 0732h MT or move to any point in the timeline.</p><p>To say the least, it is with little enthusiasm that I post this nowadays.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Explore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Explore</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo11</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">apolloinrealtime.org/11/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Eureka! Fakten<p>Die Mondrakete Saturn V wurde im sogenannten VAB auf den Start vorbereitet. Der mit Sternen gespickte Teil der US-Flagge auf diesem riesigen Gebäude ist so groß wie ein Basketballfeld.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Eureka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Eureka</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Quiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quiz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo11</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Apollo50th" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo50th</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicl</span><span class="invisible">e_Assembly_Building</span></a></p>
Dobviews<p>A map of all the Apollo missions on a full moon picture taken by Dobviews using a Galaxy A14/17.3 Delos lens on a 10" Dobsonian telescope. </p><p>All of the corresponding close-up pictures of those landing are from NASA's Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter. </p><p>The bank of 6 shots are all property of NASA LRO / JPL</p><p>Enjoy,<br>Dobs</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/moon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>moon</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/astrophography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrophography</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EducationalContent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EducationalContent</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo11</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Apollo12" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo12</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Apollo14" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo14</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Apollo15" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo15</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Apollo16" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo16</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Apollo17" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo17</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/apollomissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apollomissions</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2124740/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2124740/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Apollo Program astronauts to speak about experiences at SD Air &amp; Space Museum <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AirAndSpaceMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirAndSpaceMuseum</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Apollo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo11</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ApolloProgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ApolloProgram</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/astronaut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronaut</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LegacyOfApollo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LegacyOfApollo</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a></p>
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Skynet1A" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Skynet1A</span></a>: Why did the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a>'s oldest <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/satellite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>satellite</span></a> end up thousands of miles from where it should have been?<br>Launched months after <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo11</span></a> Moon landing, it stood as ymbol of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> innovation, initially placed above East Africa to support British <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> comms. But unlike drift of inactive satellites heading naturally eastward, Skynet-1A defied orbital norms, popping up above the Americas. This wasn’t chance; someone or something had made it fire its thrusters.<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwrr58801yo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cpwrr588</span><span class="invisible">01yo</span></a></p>
NASA<p>55 Years Ago: Celebrations for Apollo 11 Continue as Apollo 12 Prepares to Revisit the Moon <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/history/55-years-ago-celebrations-for-apollo-11-continue-as-apollo-12-prepares-to-revisit-the-moon/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nasa.gov/history/55-years-ago-</span><span class="invisible">celebrations-for-apollo-11-continue-as-apollo-12-prepares-to-revisit-the-moon/</span></a> <a href="https://social.beachcom.org/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> <a href="https://social.beachcom.org/tags/NASAHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NASAHistory</span></a> <a href="https://social.beachcom.org/tags/Apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo11</span></a></p>
Eureka! Fakten<p>Die Mondrakete Saturn V wurde im sogenannten VAB auf den Start vorbereitet. Der mit Sternen gespickte Teil der US-Flagge auf diesem riesigen Gebäude ist so groß wie ein Basketballfeld.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Eureka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Eureka</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Quiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quiz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo11</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Apollo50th" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo50th</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicl</span><span class="invisible">e_Assembly_Building</span></a></p>
NASA<p>55 Years Ago: Apollo 11 Astronauts End Quarantine, Feted from Coast to Coast <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/history/55-years-ago-apollo-11-astronauts-end-quarantine-feted-from-coast-to-coast/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nasa.gov/history/55-years-ago-</span><span class="invisible">apollo-11-astronauts-end-quarantine-feted-from-coast-to-coast/</span></a> <a href="https://social.beachcom.org/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> <a href="https://social.beachcom.org/tags/NASAHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NASAHistory</span></a> <a href="https://social.beachcom.org/tags/Apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo11</span></a></p>
vruz<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ApolloXI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ApolloXI</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apollo11</span></a></p>
John Autry<p>Apollo 11 returns to Earth on this day in 1969.<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo11</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a></p>
History_of_Geology<p>July 24, 1969, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo11</span></a> returns to Earth - Buzz Aldrin's (unofficial) <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/customs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>customs</span></a> form for rocks &amp; dust from the Moon "imported" to the US/Earth 🌕&gt;🪨&gt;🌎</p>
Michael Porter<p>So I’m watching the documentary “Apollo 11” from 2019, and they have a scene that includes the date, July 20, 1969, and a full Moon with some wispy clouds going by, suggesting the view is from the Earth.</p><p>Back in my Twitter days, I made note of a radio program hosted by Brian Eno and Brian Cox, with a bunch of Moon tunes and memories of the event. Brian Eno remembers looking at the full Moon that night. </p><p>Except…<br><a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/BadAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BadAstronomy</span></a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo11</span></a></p>
Spaceflight 🚀<p>The final 13 minutes before the <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo11</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/MoonLanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoonLanding</span></a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae6VJ6YU8uo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=ae6VJ6YU8u</span><span class="invisible">o</span></a></p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1969, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo11</span></a> mission successfully landed on Luna. It's been 55 years since human feet have touched another celestial body, as we continue to squander our potential on greed, war, hate, and pointless consumerism. If we're to survive, we must grow up.</p>
Jim Wald<p>Of course, as soon as the <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo11</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Moon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Moon</span></a> landing stamp was issued, businesses started to use it to sell their stuff.</p><p>Moon landing? Clothing sale? both "great events"</p><p>Can you imagine what they would have done with the internet and social media?</p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/LateCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LateCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/MoonDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoonDay</span></a></p><p>3/3</p>
Jeri Dansky<p>Celebrating this Apollo 11 anniversary by listening to John Stewart sing Armstrong:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzwkC0xbwRQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=rzwkC0xbwR</span><span class="invisible">Q</span></a></p><p>From a 1973 album, but the lyrics still resonate:</p><p>The rivers are getting dirty<br>The wind is getting bad<br>War and hate are killing off<br>The only earth we have<br>But the world all stopped to watch it<br>On that July afternoon<br>To watch a man named Armstrong<br>Walk upon the moon</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo11</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a></p>
Courtney Rosenthal<p>I took this photo exactly five years ago, for the 50th anniversary celebration of the Apollo 11 moon landing. This is the restored Apollo mission control.</p><p>The guy in a suit, back to us, is Gene Kranz. He was mission control director for that flight. We in the gallery got a nice wave from him.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apollo11</span></a></p>
Michael Porter<p>Happy Moon Landing Day, everyone! Truly a great anniversary, and so glad Neil is still with us!</p><p><a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo11</span></a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/SpaceExploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceExploration</span></a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/RustNeverSleeps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RustNeverSleeps</span></a></p>
joe•iuculano :mastodon:<p>"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."</p><p>-Neil Armstrong</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/1969july20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>1969july20</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Moon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Moon</span></a><br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NeilArmstrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeilArmstrong</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo11</span></a></p>
Mark Taylor<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TheOnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheOnion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Apollo11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo11</span></a> </p><p>Via The Onion <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@theonion" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>theonion</span></a></span> <br>·<br>4h<br>On This Day In History: July 20, 1969</p>
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