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Happy Golden Anniversary to the Apollo 11 Mission

JanewayRulz!

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I was around then, but unlike my siblings I was too you to remember the actual events of that mission.

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I loved his comment, "Perhaps 50 years from now..."


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The first man on the moon was Neil Armstrong.

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The second man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin.


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The guy left in orbit, Michael Collins.



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The Apollo 11 rocket projected upon the Washington Monument.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lZuJ0VsqUY

I hate to admit it, but I have an Apollo 11 Anniversary T shirt.

I hate to admit it, because its a 25th anniversary shirt!
 
Stories behind some of the 400,000 people involved in the Apollo program and the events around the flight/landing.

The only woman in the control room needed special permission to be there.

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Here's the high tech version of the "usual" roles women tended to find themselves in the 20th century.

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Error? What error?

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Can you imagine "going home" alone?


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50 years later...


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Different Landers
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https://www.airspacemag.com/space/lunar-landers-that-never-were-24004927/
http://www.cgpublishing.com/Books/LunarScrapbook.html
http://www.cgpublishing.com/SPACE_SPLASH2.html

Gemini lander concepts
http://www.astronautix.com/g/geminilunarcuespacecraft.html

LUNEX
http://www.astronautix.com/l/lunexlunarlander.html

Soviet lander concepts
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/lk.html
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/19k.html
http://www.astronautix.com/l/lunokhodlek.html
http://www.astronautix.com/e/earlysovietlunarlander.html

The N-1--answer to Saturn V
http://www.astronautix.com/n/n1.html
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/n1_5l.html

What many do not know is this. Saturn V was first in throw-weight to LEO--but in terms of lift off thrust-it is only third.
N-1 came in first--then Energiya--then Saturn V, then Shuttle, Falcon Heavy, etc.

Largest Soviet rocket concept
http://www.astronautix.com/u/ur-900.html

Had the Saturns kept flying and we had no shuttle--we could have had this:
http://www.astronautix.com/l/lesalunarbase.html
 
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"I just thought, 'WOW! I've got to go there." NASA's 1st software engineer with a precocious child who showed how easy it was to crash a program..


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"Astronauts are trained never to make a mistake????"


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Restored Moon walk footage.

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Neil's kids think back 50 years.


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Debunking idiot theories about history.


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Apollo 11's timeline


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Inside NASA's vault.


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I never noticed any missing rungs.


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JPL's celebratory lecture on the 50th anniversary.



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Another (shorter) celebration of the Apollo 11 Moon shot.


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Timeline - the way forward

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