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Very nice Apollo 11 photograph of earth, taken using a Zeiss Planar f-2.8/80-mm lens during translunar coast.
The Pacific coasts of the states of Washington, Oregon & California can be seen through the gap in cloud patterns/weather fronts. The dark green swath of the northwest-southeast running Sierra Nevada mountain range is clearly visible cutting across California.
www.nasa.gov/history/afj/ap11fj/photos/36-n.html
Credit: ALSJ/AFJ website
At the Griffin Museum of Science & Industry.
www.msichicago.org/
Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois.
Saturday, March 1, 2025.
Moon landing mission return, The Sun- July 1969. Great caption too: the astronauts are "wearing special biological suits as precaution against the possible spread of moon germs"!
Panorama 4 - Tranquility Base - Taken by Neil Armstrong
The gloves were not on the moon. I wonder if that was Neil's keepsake?
"KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - With a foot on one of the four landing pads, Apollo 11 Commander Neil A. Armstrong descends ladder of lunar module training spacecraft. While he and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., explore the Moon's surface, Michael Collins will pilot the command spacecraft in lunar orbit. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration directs the Apollo program."
The photograph was taken in the KSC Flight Crew Training Building (FCTB).
Note the stairs/steps & multiple oddly angled components of one of the two Command Module mission simulators in the High Bay area of the building, seen behind Neil's head & upper back, on the other side of the walled partition. Additionally, I think the angled object, with the protruding element at its top, near the face of the technician on the right, is part of the single Lunar Module simulator near the far wall.
Finally, there does appear to be a commemorative plaque between the third & fourth rungs from the bottom of the ladder, although no writing on it is resolvable. Maybe it’s just a placeholder. Or the cover’s still on it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The source for my above enlightenment...excellent stuff:
space.stackexchange.com/questions/37783/what-is-the-curre...
Credit: StackExchange/Space Exploration substack website
The water stained appearance in the upper right corner of the image is within the photographic emulsion, not on the photograph itself.
Interesting:
www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/a11/a11tether.html
Also interesting:
onlineonly.christies.com.cn/s/moon-shots-space-photograph...
Credit: Christie's website
Space and space missions fascinate me. I went to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. A lot is currently under reconstruction, less than half is on display. I was fascinated by the Apollo mission. The museum has the Apollo 11 Command Module that returned from the first manned lunar landing mission in July 1969, here taken with a fisheye lens. Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins were launched from Cape Kennedy atop a Saturn V rocket.
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Commander Neal Armstrong's Apollo 11 Lunar EVA suit at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
The suit that Commander Neal Armstrong wore on the Lunar Surface at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Commander Neal Armstrong's Apollo 11 Lunar EVA suit at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Artist W. Scott Trimble, created this 2010 work as a memory to his father, William "Pops" Trimble. He said, "The artwork refers to the year Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, my father's love of the night sky, and the year of my birth.
The Wrights' airplane and vision made Apollo 11 possible.
www.museumofflight.org/Exhibits-and-Events/Exhibits/Apollo
This diorama shows both the modern, a real-time broadcast from the surface of the moon, and traditional, the multivolume encyclopedia.
Apollo 11 Command Module Capsule at Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
