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History > USA > Man on the Moon 20 July 1969
Apollo 11 lunar module, Eagle, returning from the moon to dock with command module Columbia, 21 July 1969
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The Moon: a Celebration of Our Celestial Neighbour – in pictures Marking the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s ‘small step’ and published to coincide with Royal Museums Greenwich’s exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, a new book, The Moon: a Celebration of Our Celestial Neighbour explores people’s fascination with Earth’s only natural satellite
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"This is a picture of my mother holding the Washington News Paper on Monday, July 21st 1969 stating 'The Eagle Has Landed Two Men Walk on the Moon'. The photo was taken by my grandfather." -- the original uploader Date 21 July 1969(1969-07-21)
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When I asked my father, Don Baida, to talk about this photo, here's what he said: "As a photographer, I knew that this was a once in a lifetime shot that I didn't want to miss.
This was such a unique happening - the first time someone stepped onto another world - that I wanted to make sure my family was part of it."
My parents woke up three-year-old me, and here I am on my mom' lap watching history unfold.
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Hundreds of people gathered outside the Zenith television showroom at Fifth Avenue and 54th Street in Manhattan to watch as Apollo 11 began its journey to the moon. July 16, 1969.
Photograph: Neal Boenzi The New York Times
Looking Back at People Watching the Apollo 11 Mission NYT July 15, 2019
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Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin are seen standing near their Lunar Module.
US President Richard Nixon had just spoken to the two astronauts by radio.
Aldrin, a colonel in the United States Air Force, is saluting the commander-in-chief.
The three astronauts safely returned to Earth on 24 July 1969.
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Transmission: from the Sea of Tranquility to planet Earth This month sees the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, landing the first man on the moon. As the Observer’s science editor Robin McKie looks ahead to the future of manned spaceflight, we look back at how, in 1969, mankind viewed that giant leap G July 6, 2019
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600 million people watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon.
In the U.S., 94 percent of all people watching television on July 20 watched the landing.
Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images
The Apollo 11 Mission Was Also a Global Media Sensation The satellites were finally ready to beam images back to Earth in 1969. And some 600 million people watched the event live. NYT July 15, 2019
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Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission.
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AS11-40-5875 (20 JULY 1969) --- Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during an Apollo 11 Extravehicular Activity (EVA) on the lunar surface.
The Lunar Module (LM) is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible in the soil of the Moon.
Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this picture with a 70mm Hasselblad lunar surface camera.
While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the LM, the "Eagle", to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the Moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Columbia" in lunar-orbit. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo11/hires/as11_40_5875.jpg http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo11/html/as11_40_5875.html http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/galleries.htm http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/introduction.htm
AS11-40-5878 (20 July 1969) --- A close-up view of an astronaut's bootprint in the lunar soil, photographed with a 70mm lunar surface camera during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the Moon.
While astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander, and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot, descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the Moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Columbia" in lunar orbit.
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People at the Time-Life Building in Rockefeller Center watching as Neil Armstrong took a giant leap into the history books. July 21, 1969.
Photograph: Barton Silverman The New York Times
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The Eagle lunar module and the Columbia command module undocked while over the far side of the moon, just before coming into view of Earth.
For 30 minutes they glided in close formation 68 miles (110km) across the surface.
Collins remained alone in his streamlined spacecraft, seen here against the expanse of the Sea of Fertility.
In a few minutes he would manoeuvre to leave Armstrong and Aldrin to their task
Photograph: Nasa
Moonfire: the Epic Journey of Apollo 11 – in pictures Images from the 50th-anniversary edition of Norman Mailer’s account of the Nasa mission published by Taschen G Fri 19 Jul 2019 07.00 BST
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The Rev Ralph Abernathy, flanked by Hosea Williams, stands on steps of a mockup of the lunar module while demonstrating at the Apollo 11 moon launch.
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis via Getty Images
'Whitey's on the moon': why Apollo 11 looked so different to black America
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The prime crew of Apollo 11 pose in April 1969 behind a model of the moon that mapped every major crater and mountain known to date.
Left to right: lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, command module pilot Michael Collins and mission commander Neil Armstrong
Photograph: Ralph Morse Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images/Taschen
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Astronauts Ted Freeman, Buzz Aldrin (centre), and Charlie Bassett experience zero gravity during a simulation flight in 1964.
Nasa used a stripped down KC135 aircraft, affectionately known as the Vomit Comet, that was flown in a series of parabolas to give the astronauts about 30 seconds of either zero-G 1/6th-G near the top of each arc
Photograph: Ralph Morse Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images/ Taschen
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Katherine Johnson 1918-2020
Katherine Johnson with an adding machine and a ‘celestial training device’ at her desk at Nasa’s Langley research centre in 1962.
Photograph: Donaldson Collection Getty Images
Katherine Johnson obituary African-American mathematician who played a key role in landing men on the moon G Mon 24 Feb 2020 18.38 GMT Last modified on Mon 24 Feb 2020 18.55 GMT
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Katherine Johnson 1918-2020
born Creola Katherine Coleman
Wielding little more than a pencil, a slide rule and one of the finest mathematical minds in the country, Mrs. Johnson (...) calculated the precise trajectories that would let Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969 and, after Neil Armstrong’s history-making moonwalk, let it return to Earth.
A single error, she well knew, could have dire consequences for craft and crew.
Her impeccable calculations had already helped plot the successful flight of Alan B. Shepard Jr., who became the first American in space when his Mercury spacecraft went aloft in 1961.
The next year, she likewise helped make it possible for John Glenn, in the Mercury vessel Friendship 7, to become the first American to orbit the Earth.
Yet throughout Mrs. Johnson’s 33 years in NASA’s Flight Research Division — the office from which the American space program sprang — and for decades afterward, almost no one knew her name.
Mrs. Johnson was one of several hundred rigorously educated, supremely capable yet largely unheralded women who, well before the modern feminist movement, worked
as NASA mathematicians. that kept her long marginalized and long unsung:
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson, a West Virginia native who began her scientific career in the age of Jim Crow, was also African-American.
In old age, Mrs. Johnson became the most celebrated of the small cadre of black women — perhaps three dozen — who at midcentury served as mathematicians for the space agency and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
Their story was told in the 2016 Hollywood film “Hidden Figures,” based on Margot Lee Shetterly’s nonfiction book of the same title, published that year.
The movie starred Taraji P. Henson as Mrs. Johnson, the film’s central figure. It also starred Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe as her real-life colleagues Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson.
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July 20, 1969
"That's one small step for man but one giant leap for mankind."
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21-27 December 1968
Apollo 8
First human journey to another world
The crew of Apollo 8 was armed with still and movie cameras to photograph the Moon; but the most enduring image of their mission is this photograph of their own home, planet Earth.
According to Anders, the astronauts saw the horizon vertically —not horizontally—
with the lunar surface to the right.
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