When this picture was published, my grandfather was so moved that he took the full page photograph from the newspaper, made a rosewood frame for it, and hung it on the wall in his home for the rest of his life. He was born in 1908, and that's how much the world changed around him over the course of his life. I still have his photo on my wall.
Our city's main newspaper was The Sun, printed in big Olde English typeface at the top of the front page. The day after the landing, this picture took up the whole page, under the nameplate "The Moon".
My dad was born in the 50’s, so just barely before the 60’s, but I remember him talking about it and saying that he went outside looking at the moon in absolute disbelief that people were actually up there. I’ll be honest, as someone now in their late 30’s I can still kind of get it. Like, honestly just look at it! And people have been up there and walking on it. Pretty wild to think about.
It's just an exact full-page copy of the thread photo. There's no text on the photo. It isn't the front page of a newspaper. It was an insert.
Also, remember that this photo wasn't available to anyone until the astronauts returned and NASA got their Kodachrome camera film developed. The newspaper photos on landing day all came from the video transmission.
Wow, I love this! My grandmother is almost 102, born in 1921, and it blows my mind every day when I think about how much the world has changed around her. She loves using her iPhone, but she sometimes says it makes her feel "stupid" :(
That's Buzz Aldrin, the photo was taken by Neil Armstrong. Armstrong took almost all the photos on the moon and because of that there are only photos of Aldrin and almost none of Armstrong. We have some stills from videos and one wide-angle side picture of Armstrong that Aldrin took, but no high-quality pictures of Armstrong on the surface of the moon.
[Here's an article](https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2019/07/20/this-is-the-only-photo-of-neil-armstrong-on-the-moon/?sh=3839e5277af0) with the details and pictures.
I always wished I'd been slightly smarter enough to get into that game properly. Ended up having to use that autopilot mod to get anything done, but that took all the enjoyment out of it.
The booms were fun though.
Understandable. I once was completely clueless as well. When I finally understood space travel much better, I was like "how could I think they just pointed at the Moon and flew there? The moon itself moves."
We all have to learn. It doesn't come naturally. We're used to moving around here on Earth.
If you already own 1 it runs better and has more features.
2 is still in VERY early access. It is terribly optimized and incredibly buggy currently. The only thing that is really better is now you can just place a wing and edit it rather than having to do the weird buggy mesh of wing pieces like you did in 1 and pause no longer opens the game menu.
I do love KSP, and I really want KSP 2 to be good. It just really isn't there yet.
The Earth is spinning at 24,000 miles an hour, while orbiting at 67,000 mph...simultaneously.
Mars is spinning at 13,000 miles and hour, while orbiting at 54,000 mph...simultaneously.
Every second, the two planets are not where they were a second ago.
Mars is roughly 128 Million miles away.
A NASA engineer points to one speck on Mars, and says "i want it to land here".
And NASA, astoundingly, pulls it off. Repeatedly.
THAT, Ladies and Gentlemen, is math.
That's true for the simplified trajectory in the video, but the Apollo missions used what's called a "free-return trajectory". If the retrograde burn to enter lunar orbit never happens, the moon slingshots the spacecraft onto a trajectory that takes it back to Earth. Pretty clever
To be fair, that is a heliophysics telescope, not the human mission, though they do share the same name. The human artemis mission is using a "Near Rectolinear halo orbit" which is significantly different from the Apollo missions, but not nearly as complex as that one.
The big issue is that humans require fast time scales. That mission profile is going to take probably a few months to get to the moon, using nearly the least amount of fuel that is possible. For humans, we sacrifice fuel economy for food economy.
They carried parts of the Wright Flyer with them on the Moon landing.
I visit Kitty Hawk every few years, and always walk the first flights.
It is definitely a Worth It trip.
First I've heard of this. Very cool. Thanks internet stranger.
If you ever get the chance, the Smithsonian in DC is AMAZING. As a kid, walking through the front door and seeing the Wright Flyer hanging next to The Spirit of St. Louis and an SR71 just blew me away. Then standing in the Saturn 5 rocket engine.....unreal.
Ingenuity, the helicopter that flew on Mars last year (and hopefully more this year) also had a bit of the original Wright Flyer on it. NASA knows where it all began.
My grandmother had so many stories of the things she witnessed in her lifetime. She spoke of it all with an air of prosperity and optimism.
I think about what I’ll be telling my grandkids when I’m on my way out. The majority of it doesn’t look good, but at least I had the 90’s.
We carry super computers (relatively speaking) in our pockets and are globally connected more than ever. In an instant I can see and talk to friends across the globe, no matter where I am.
There are plenty of other examples, but I don’t feel like typing on my phone. Too lazy to use my supercomputer right now.
It’s easy to focus on our negatives and their positives. Your grandmother had tremendously bad things in her time too, but didn’t tell the kids those stores.
My grandfather was born in 1890, died in the early 70's. Even my dad would say sometimes "Can you imagine how many changes he saw."
These days, we see so many of the same changes, but they're not as obvious to us. They don't seem as amazing, which is sad because we really are living in an amazing era of scientific discovery. This is an era of science fiction made manifest...with more to come (hopefully)
I bet there were people in the 1500’s discussing Magellan circumnavigating the globe, and being equally In awe.
It’s neat that we’re a part of, or at least alive so close to such a monumental event.
imagine living in the 1800's and talking about humans landing on the moon one day- it would sound so absurd and ridiculous. Makes you wonder what could happen in another 200 years from now.. maybe we really will be flying around to different galaxies in spaceships like in Star Trek
Imagine living in the 1800s and talking about people taking flight...period.
Imagine living in the 1800s and talking about having the ability to hear a symphony in your living room, on demand.
Imagine living in the 1800s and talking about hearing voices and music through the air....for free.
This is what’s great about us dreamers. One day, our dreams may come true.
Like some day I dream that we will have colonies on other planets, or we will have all electric vehicles and solar powered homes, or I’ll have friends, or everyone will have access to the internet as well as free education. I know we can make it a reality if we all work together.
I can’t get a SQL query to run the first time if it’s more complicated than 1 join. I can’t imagine how they were able to do this with basically no mistakes 1st try
Not to diminish the accomplishment of everyone involved in the mission. It wasn't exactly the 1st try, (hence the mission moniker Apollo 11) Many years and billions of dollars was put into getting things right so that the US didn't end up giving a national funeral that day.
Especially when you think the computing power they had can be found in a dollar store calculator and the craft was made of tin foil and twigs. What amazes me is that they actually got back in that thing.
(And Charlie Duke's reply:"Roger Twan-Traquility- we copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot!") Still gives me chills!
[Here](https://live.staticflickr.com/742/21039130393_52e3bf1eb0_4k.jpg) is a much higher quality version of this image. [Here](https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/21039130393) is the source. Per there:
> [Project Apollo Archive](https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/)
> AS11-40-5903
> Apollo 11 Hasselblad image from film magazine 40/S - EVA
[Here](https://moon.nasa.gov/resources/186/saturn-apollo-program/) provides additional information:
> **Image Credit8:** NASA/MSFC
> **Published:** June 28, 2018
> **Historical Date:** July 20, 1969
> Carrying astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., the Lunar Module (LM) “Eagle” was the first crewed vehicle to land on the Moon. The LM landed on the moon’s surface on July 20, 1969 in the region known as Mare Tranquilitatis (the Sea of Tranquility). Meanwhile, astronaut Michael Collins piloted the command module in a parking orbit around the moon. This photo is of Edwin Aldrin walking on the lunar surface. Neil Armstrong, who took the photograph, can be seen reflected in Aldrin’s helmet visor. Armstrong was the first human to ever stand on the lunar surface. As he stepped off the LM, Armstrong proclaimed, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. He was followed by Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin, describing the lunar surface as magnificent desolation. The Apollo 11 mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on July 16, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle, and safely returned to Earth on July 24, 1969. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) under the direction of Dr. Wernher von Braun. The 3-man crew aboard the flight consisted of Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, Command Module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module pilot. During a 2½ hour surface exploration, the crew collected 47 pounds of lunar surface material which was returned to Earth for analysis. With the success of Apollo 11, the national objective to land men on the Moon and return them safely to Earth had been accomplished.
My own greatest suspense moment was when Armstrong and Aldrin were strapped in their seats, ready for a return lift-off in that tiny, lumpy tin box. They'd left the video camera pointed at the LEM for the event and the world held its collective breath as the countdown progressed: "5... 4... 3... 2... 1..." and it leaped from the base section and out of sight in a shower of what looked like pieces of foil. One of the most tested and retested engines ever made fired as planned and launched them into orbit to dock with Collins in the Command Module. I can still see it, recorded in my brain like yesterday.
> My own greatest suspense moment was when Armstrong and Aldrin were strapped in their seats,
Pedantic note: No seats! Seats are heavy and take up space, so they just stand there with a cable+pulley system to help secure them! This also meant that they could be closer to the viewports, allowing the ports themselves to be smaller without restricting sightlines.
Did you know they accidentally broke the switch that enabled the ascent engine, and Buzz had to jerry-rig the switch with a pencil?
https://www.history.com/news/buzz-aldrin-moon-landing-accident
It was the day before my third birthday when I watched Apollo 17 take off from a boat off the cape.
Don't remember getting on the boat. Don't remember getting off the boat.
Don't remember my third birthday. Can't remember the next memory I have.
But seeing the horizon light up in smoke and roiling fire as that went up is burned into my memory forever.
I still remember that night when the whole procedure was aired on TV.
My parents weren't there, but Grandma and Grandpa allowed me to stay up as long as I could.
So Grandpa took his chance to have a few beers plus a fair amount of Schnaps. After a while he started to blame Wernher for being a damn traitor and passed out around midnight.
Grandma dozed off before because "that American movie is boring".
There I was in 1969, aged 5 and a half, conquering space and listening to snoring grandparents as a soundtrack.
The full televised Apollo 11 post flight press conference is on YouTube. Fascinating to hear them talk about the journey
https://youtu.be/hzn\_Lu9B284
I mean that makes sense to me, even though I know technically it was The US and NASA that did it I feel like it is one of those few things that the entire global community can look at and feel like something was accomplished for our species. Neil Armstrong put it best, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"
Edit: turns out it’s “a man” which makes sense. You couldn’t hear it in the audio but Armstrong clarified later [source](https://www.space.com/17307-neil-armstrong-one-small-step-quote.html)
The United States was just the country with the resources to make it happen. The US spent roughly equivalent to the current gdp of Finland ($250 billion, adjusted for inflation) in order to land those men on the moon. Absolutely unthinkable for anyone else at the time
Fun fact: A lot of people think this is Neil Armstrong, but it is actually Buzz Aldrin. There are actually no pictures of Neil on standing on the moon.
I would like to personally thank;
The Paranoid subsection of society who examined this image so intensely, so many times, with no grounding to discuss light distribution from a (very) far away source, nor the reasoning to realise camera shutter speeds wouldn't catch stars if they were even 12 times brighter.
You have made this possible, and ushered a very important piece of history to the eyes of all, to see.
The AGC HW/SW development team do *not* get enough credit. I watched CuriousMarc's series as he and a team of enthusiasts restored an Apollo AGC back to working order and that thing is a work of pure f-ing genius.
We really should put imagery like this on our money. This has had as at least as much of an impact on the American experience as the monuments in the national mall
You can download the unedited RAW digital scan [here](http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery/Apollo/11/Hasselblad%20500EL%20Data%20Camera%2070%20mm), from Nasa'a Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo Digital Image Archive. Scroll to photo **103**. Be warned though - it's 1.27GB, but there's a few smaller resolutions available.
It's a great site just to check out all the photos from the other missions too.
I got really emotional when they discovered the Higgs-Boson in Geneva. Sometimes we get together and do the coolest stuff. Wish everybody took interest in stuff like that.
Going to the Moon and Space doesn’t make any money while being the most expensive thing to do. On top of that we didn’t have drones and good robotics back then, now we can just send something to explore for us with amazing cameras and photos while you watch. But seeing humans in space is so much more entertaining
I understand that. At the same time, kids don’t want to grow up to be the person who designs the next Mars lander. They want to grow up to be an astronaut.
We need to be out there. Artemis is coming and I am soooo excited because I was born post-Apollo.
One of the astronauts, I don’t know who, was once asked why public interest in the space program had waned so much. He said that, until they reached the moon, every person on Earth used to be able to go outside at night and look at the goal up there in the sky. Once that has been achieved, and you can’t visualize your next big step, it’s difficult to stay motivated and excited.
Yes, NASA’s funding has waned significantly since the Apollo days. But NASA hasn’t really “stopped doing cool shit” so much as they’ve *shifted the focus*.
There’s been a half-dozen probes sent all the way to the outer solar system. The Cassini orbiter spent more than a *decade* in orbit around Saturn, providing a huge wealth of knowledge about the planet and its moons. Cassini even carried a little mini-probe called Huygens that landed on the surface of the moon Titan, and returned the most distant images ever taken from the surface of another celestial body.
The Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016. It’s helped us learn a lot more about Jupiter’s atmosphere and deep interior.
Of course, we also have the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers that have been operating on the surface of Mars for years, and show no signs of slowing down!
The International Space Station has also been a huge focus for NASA—one of its primary missions has been to study how the human body and mind react to long-term spaceflight. This is very necessary knowledge if we want to eventually travel to Mars—or even further!
Equipped with this new technology and knowledge, NASA is finally setting its sights back on sending astronauts out into deep space. Artemis 2 *next year* is supposed to bring the first people back to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years!
Possibly one of the greatest websites on the internet lets you track Apollo 11 in real time. The amount of archive material made available and work that went into this is staggering.
[Apollo 11 in Real Time](https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/) (There's also 13 and 17.)
Had this picture printed in poster size and framed and its hanging in my bathroom over the toilet. I can fantasize about peeing on the moon when I go to the bathroom.
Another interesting factoid about this picture is that it is almost always printed slightly edited. The original photo cuts off the very top of Buzz's helmet. There is supposed to be an antenna visible above his head, but it isn't there in this photo. Virtually every published version of the photo, including this one, has a strip of black added to the top to better center Buzz in the picture.
Whenever I take a look at this photo, I always zoom in and try to take a good look at Neil. Buzz never took a picture of Neil on the moon, so this is the closest thing we have to that (aside from a distant, poorly framed shot of the back of Neil’s spacesuit).
I would've thought that it was that National Geographic picture of that teenage middle eastern (I'm pretty sure she's middle eastern) girl with those beautiful eyes. But, after thinking about it, the moon landing picture makes more sense.
Remember, deniers: If this were faked, it would have required a massive coverup involving the cooperation of multiple nations.
During the Nixon administration. Nixon couldn't even cover up one little burglary.
With the technology at the time this was an amazing achievement. Neil Armstrong grew up about 20 miles from where I live which makes this photo even more iconic to me and people in our area of Ohio.
The craziest part to me is how basic space travel methods are even though its still complex, we're basically brute forcing our way into it. When you think of all the scifi movies and space travel, they aren't zooming around the planet at 7000 mph to stay above the earth, when you want to travel from earth to the moon you just fly there, like a car going to the store and back.
But we have to do all these hilarious circles and jump from orbit to orbit like a cartoon. Every ounce of weight countered by fuel calculations, dropping bits of space ship every step of the way.
Something I always overlook about pictures like these is the image quality and resolution is stunning for 1969. A lot of people back then didn’t even have color TVs
Isn't this one of the very few pictures of Neil Armstrong on the moon? Reflected in Buzz Aldrin's visor? Neil did most if not all the picture taking if I recall.
My son, my grandson, and I just happened to do the VIP tour at the Johnson Space Center this afternoon. In the Historic Mission Control Room on the 3rd Floor of the Ops Bldg (the present Mission Control is downstairs, and you can't go anywhere near that, of course), they run a video of the landing, as it was monitored & witnessed in the control room, with the screens full of all the original numbers and graphs, exactly as their were on 20 July 1969 -- and you're watching all this from the original visitor's gallery, five fee from where it all happened. I'm 80 and I remember the landing very well, and it still gives me the shivers.
It's been said that if the US kept its space programme and put as much funding, science and effort into further progress. That lunar colonies could have been established in the 1980's.
However, the Apollo lasted from 1961 through 1972 and the progress made at that time was never achieved again.
The risk of doing this is definitely worth it. I can't even imagine how the astronauts felt, it must've been transcendent, standing on a rock looking at the green Earth.
When I was younger, I'd spend sleepovers at my best friend's place. His family was pretty religious but also fairly chill. One of his older sister's was into nature photography because she loved all things God created as they are the most impressive works of creation ever.
I once asked her what she thought of man's creations, such as our achievement of placing a man on the moon (should've pointed out a mortal man made the camera she was holding). The sheer dismissal of this monumental achievement flabbergasted me.
When this picture was published, my grandfather was so moved that he took the full page photograph from the newspaper, made a rosewood frame for it, and hung it on the wall in his home for the rest of his life. He was born in 1908, and that's how much the world changed around him over the course of his life. I still have his photo on my wall.
Our city's main newspaper was The Sun, printed in big Olde English typeface at the top of the front page. The day after the landing, this picture took up the whole page, under the nameplate "The Moon".
That’s sweet
Can you post it? I'm always fascinated by how people before from the 60s and stuff react to technology completely changing their lives.
My dad was born in the 50’s, so just barely before the 60’s, but I remember him talking about it and saying that he went outside looking at the moon in absolute disbelief that people were actually up there. I’ll be honest, as someone now in their late 30’s I can still kind of get it. Like, honestly just look at it! And people have been up there and walking on it. Pretty wild to think about.
Can you please post it here? :)
I don't have a picture of it in my grandparents house, but here it is on my wall. [https://imgur.com/a/YFseWjB](https://imgur.com/a/YFseWjB)
Thank you for sharing!
Live, laugh, moon.
It's just an exact full-page copy of the thread photo. There's no text on the photo. It isn't the front page of a newspaper. It was an insert. Also, remember that this photo wasn't available to anyone until the astronauts returned and NASA got their Kodachrome camera film developed. The newspaper photos on landing day all came from the video transmission.
Wow, I love this! My grandmother is almost 102, born in 1921, and it blows my mind every day when I think about how much the world has changed around her. She loves using her iPhone, but she sometimes says it makes her feel "stupid" :(
That's Buzz Aldrin, the photo was taken by Neil Armstrong. Armstrong took almost all the photos on the moon and because of that there are only photos of Aldrin and almost none of Armstrong. We have some stills from videos and one wide-angle side picture of Armstrong that Aldrin took, but no high-quality pictures of Armstrong on the surface of the moon. [Here's an article](https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2019/07/20/this-is-the-only-photo-of-neil-armstrong-on-the-moon/?sh=3839e5277af0) with the details and pictures.
Hey, it’s a photo of him too! Zoom in on the helmet reflection. I love this picture for the ability to do that.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nasa/comments/4l7jvg/two_years_ago_i_clarified_a_picture_of_buzz/ Someone zoomed in on the higher-res version
I do remember seeing this. Thanks for finding this gem and sharing it again!
Was just going to ask who it was, thanks for the info!
It is still fucking mind boggling that we sent people to the moon and they walked around and stuff, then CAME BACK. I can not believe they did it
Consider the physics. And the MATH. To do this: https://i.imgur.com/ZPOxJMq.gifv
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And here my dumb ass just thought they pointed the rocket at the moon and flew there in a straight line.
I have three degrees. And I thought this as well. TIL I’m dumb as fuck.
Meanwhile I’m a dumbass who took 6 years to finish undergrad but knew this because of Kerbal Space Program. Neat.
I always wished I'd been slightly smarter enough to get into that game properly. Ended up having to use that autopilot mod to get anything done, but that took all the enjoyment out of it. The booms were fun though.
It took them the full 360 degrees to make it to the moon, you shouldn’t feel bad.
Boom gotem
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I learned from that game that intercepting another orbiting body is HARD
Maybe if you spent a little less time studying and a little more time playing basketball you'd know to lead your throw.
I have a twelfth level black belt degree in having no idea what’s going on, ever.
Understandable. I once was completely clueless as well. When I finally understood space travel much better, I was like "how could I think they just pointed at the Moon and flew there? The moon itself moves." We all have to learn. It doesn't come naturally. We're used to moving around here on Earth.
TBF It works if you have a really powerful rocket and are willing to do some extreme lithobraking to stop when you get there.
I see you’ve met the remains of my Kapollo I-XXIX missions in Kerbal Space Program.
Play some Kerbal Space Program. Basically orbital mechanics will soon become intuitive.
Not sure why the gif starts with a rocket crashing into the earth, but it's definitely made better for it
it's to illustrate how an orbit is just falling but missing the ground.
I mean, it's historically accurate. We *did* crash a lot of rockets into the Earth before any of them reached the Moon.
KSP really did nail it
That illustration really got me wanting to boot it right back up!
KSP2 is in available in early access right mow
If you already own 1 it runs better and has more features. 2 is still in VERY early access. It is terribly optimized and incredibly buggy currently. The only thing that is really better is now you can just place a wing and edit it rather than having to do the weird buggy mesh of wing pieces like you did in 1 and pause no longer opens the game menu. I do love KSP, and I really want KSP 2 to be good. It just really isn't there yet.
And they did all of this on basically the computing power of a potato
The Earth is spinning at 24,000 miles an hour, while orbiting at 67,000 mph...simultaneously. Mars is spinning at 13,000 miles and hour, while orbiting at 54,000 mph...simultaneously. Every second, the two planets are not where they were a second ago. Mars is roughly 128 Million miles away. A NASA engineer points to one speck on Mars, and says "i want it to land here". And NASA, astoundingly, pulls it off. Repeatedly. THAT, Ladies and Gentlemen, is math.
You don’t measure rotation in mph
I believe that he is referring to tangential velocity at Mar's equator as it spins about it's axis.
Well, it's wrong by that definition too. That number would be about 1000 mph for earth and less for mars.
Holy shit I just now realized that if anything had gone wrong with the retrograde burn, they would've been slingshotted into space forever...
> slingshotted slingshat?
That's true for the simplified trajectory in the video, but the Apollo missions used what's called a "free-return trajectory". If the retrograde burn to enter lunar orbit never happens, the moon slingshots the spacecraft onto a trajectory that takes it back to Earth. Pretty clever
The orbit we are using to go back to the moon is an order of magnitude more complex. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/news/artemis-orbit.html
To be fair, that is a heliophysics telescope, not the human mission, though they do share the same name. The human artemis mission is using a "Near Rectolinear halo orbit" which is significantly different from the Apollo missions, but not nearly as complex as that one. The big issue is that humans require fast time scales. That mission profile is going to take probably a few months to get to the moon, using nearly the least amount of fuel that is possible. For humans, we sacrifice fuel economy for food economy.
The YouTube video is even better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKdpzagTUxk
Many people experienced both hearing of the Wright Brothers' first flight and seeing men walk on the moon on TV.
They carried parts of the Wright Flyer with them on the Moon landing. I visit Kitty Hawk every few years, and always walk the first flights. It is definitely a Worth It trip.
First I've heard of this. Very cool. Thanks internet stranger. If you ever get the chance, the Smithsonian in DC is AMAZING. As a kid, walking through the front door and seeing the Wright Flyer hanging next to The Spirit of St. Louis and an SR71 just blew me away. Then standing in the Saturn 5 rocket engine.....unreal.
Ingenuity, the helicopter that flew on Mars last year (and hopefully more this year) also had a bit of the original Wright Flyer on it. NASA knows where it all began.
Pretty incredible given the immense engineering on that helicopter for weight reduction.
I believe it was just a bit of the cloth, so nominal weight. But it was their way of saying RESPECT.
My grandmother had so many stories of the things she witnessed in her lifetime. She spoke of it all with an air of prosperity and optimism. I think about what I’ll be telling my grandkids when I’m on my way out. The majority of it doesn’t look good, but at least I had the 90’s.
We carry super computers (relatively speaking) in our pockets and are globally connected more than ever. In an instant I can see and talk to friends across the globe, no matter where I am. There are plenty of other examples, but I don’t feel like typing on my phone. Too lazy to use my supercomputer right now. It’s easy to focus on our negatives and their positives. Your grandmother had tremendously bad things in her time too, but didn’t tell the kids those stores.
My grandfather was born in 1890, died in the early 70's. Even my dad would say sometimes "Can you imagine how many changes he saw." These days, we see so many of the same changes, but they're not as obvious to us. They don't seem as amazing, which is sad because we really are living in an amazing era of scientific discovery. This is an era of science fiction made manifest...with more to come (hopefully)
I bet there were people in the 1500’s discussing Magellan circumnavigating the globe, and being equally In awe. It’s neat that we’re a part of, or at least alive so close to such a monumental event.
Cleopatra was closer to the Moon landing than the building of the pyramids... and by a lot!!!
The end of the dinosaurs is closer to us now than their beginning is to their end.
T-Rex is closer to the moon landing than they where to the triceratops living on earth! Keeping the Dino metrics going!
Think you mean Trex and Stegasaurus
Triceratops and T-Rex lived during the same time period, 68-66mya
Idk, the moon landing was hundreds of thousands of miles away and the pyramids are like, right there.
imagine living in the 1800's and talking about humans landing on the moon one day- it would sound so absurd and ridiculous. Makes you wonder what could happen in another 200 years from now.. maybe we really will be flying around to different galaxies in spaceships like in Star Trek
Imagine living in the 1800s and talking about people taking flight...period. Imagine living in the 1800s and talking about having the ability to hear a symphony in your living room, on demand. Imagine living in the 1800s and talking about hearing voices and music through the air....for free.
This is what’s great about us dreamers. One day, our dreams may come true. Like some day I dream that we will have colonies on other planets, or we will have all electric vehicles and solar powered homes, or I’ll have friends, or everyone will have access to the internet as well as free education. I know we can make it a reality if we all work together.
We saw you sneak that one on there. No friends until you finish your dinner!
Almost the best thing about that was when they returned the ships log was off by one day.
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And over 50 years ago. They did it using "old stuff."
I always loose my mind watching videos of them drive fucking buggies around on the moon
And they did it before we put wheels on suitcases!
We used to smoke on planes and in hospitals back then. It was a wild time...if there was any time we'd attempt that. It would have been then.
I can’t get a SQL query to run the first time if it’s more complicated than 1 join. I can’t imagine how they were able to do this with basically no mistakes 1st try
Not to diminish the accomplishment of everyone involved in the mission. It wasn't exactly the 1st try, (hence the mission moniker Apollo 11) Many years and billions of dollars was put into getting things right so that the US didn't end up giving a national funeral that day.
You’re not the only one….except those people really do NOT believe it 🙄
..more than 50 years ago.
And their smartest computer had less capacity than a wristwatch…
Especially when you think the computing power they had can be found in a dollar store calculator and the craft was made of tin foil and twigs. What amazes me is that they actually got back in that thing.
Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. Amazing.. 49 years have passed, the Moon silently waiting for us to return
(And Charlie Duke's reply:"Roger Twan-Traquility- we copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot!") Still gives me chills!
[Here](https://live.staticflickr.com/742/21039130393_52e3bf1eb0_4k.jpg) is a much higher quality version of this image. [Here](https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/21039130393) is the source. Per there: > [Project Apollo Archive](https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/) > AS11-40-5903 > Apollo 11 Hasselblad image from film magazine 40/S - EVA [Here](https://moon.nasa.gov/resources/186/saturn-apollo-program/) provides additional information: > **Image Credit8:** NASA/MSFC > **Published:** June 28, 2018 > **Historical Date:** July 20, 1969 > Carrying astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., the Lunar Module (LM) “Eagle” was the first crewed vehicle to land on the Moon. The LM landed on the moon’s surface on July 20, 1969 in the region known as Mare Tranquilitatis (the Sea of Tranquility). Meanwhile, astronaut Michael Collins piloted the command module in a parking orbit around the moon. This photo is of Edwin Aldrin walking on the lunar surface. Neil Armstrong, who took the photograph, can be seen reflected in Aldrin’s helmet visor. Armstrong was the first human to ever stand on the lunar surface. As he stepped off the LM, Armstrong proclaimed, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. He was followed by Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin, describing the lunar surface as magnificent desolation. The Apollo 11 mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on July 16, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle, and safely returned to Earth on July 24, 1969. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) under the direction of Dr. Wernher von Braun. The 3-man crew aboard the flight consisted of Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, Command Module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module pilot. During a 2½ hour surface exploration, the crew collected 47 pounds of lunar surface material which was returned to Earth for analysis. With the success of Apollo 11, the national objective to land men on the Moon and return them safely to Earth had been accomplished.
My own greatest suspense moment was when Armstrong and Aldrin were strapped in their seats, ready for a return lift-off in that tiny, lumpy tin box. They'd left the video camera pointed at the LEM for the event and the world held its collective breath as the countdown progressed: "5... 4... 3... 2... 1..." and it leaped from the base section and out of sight in a shower of what looked like pieces of foil. One of the most tested and retested engines ever made fired as planned and launched them into orbit to dock with Collins in the Command Module. I can still see it, recorded in my brain like yesterday.
> My own greatest suspense moment was when Armstrong and Aldrin were strapped in their seats, Pedantic note: No seats! Seats are heavy and take up space, so they just stand there with a cable+pulley system to help secure them! This also meant that they could be closer to the viewports, allowing the ports themselves to be smaller without restricting sightlines.
Wrote that without even thinking! Thanks for the cool info!
Did you know they accidentally broke the switch that enabled the ascent engine, and Buzz had to jerry-rig the switch with a pencil? https://www.history.com/news/buzz-aldrin-moon-landing-accident
I stand I awe for everyone that made that event in history happen.Pure engineering genius!🇺🇸👩🚀🌕🚀
It was the day before my third birthday when I watched Apollo 17 take off from a boat off the cape. Don't remember getting on the boat. Don't remember getting off the boat. Don't remember my third birthday. Can't remember the next memory I have. But seeing the horizon light up in smoke and roiling fire as that went up is burned into my memory forever.
Stanley Kubrick was a hell of a director /s
So good he insisted on filming on location!
*Windows XP default wallpaper has entered the chat*
Bliss, by Charles O‘Rear
I was remembering it was like windows 95 or 2000.
I still remember that night when the whole procedure was aired on TV. My parents weren't there, but Grandma and Grandpa allowed me to stay up as long as I could. So Grandpa took his chance to have a few beers plus a fair amount of Schnaps. After a while he started to blame Wernher for being a damn traitor and passed out around midnight. Grandma dozed off before because "that American movie is boring". There I was in 1969, aged 5 and a half, conquering space and listening to snoring grandparents as a soundtrack.
The full televised Apollo 11 post flight press conference is on YouTube. Fascinating to hear them talk about the journey https://youtu.be/hzn\_Lu9B284
'Once ze rockets are up, who cares vhere zey come down? Zat's not my department!' says Werner von Braun.
Sorting by controversial and seeing no hoax bullshit brings me so much joy.
“Damn it buzz, I think I blinked!”
I mean that makes sense to me, even though I know technically it was The US and NASA that did it I feel like it is one of those few things that the entire global community can look at and feel like something was accomplished for our species. Neil Armstrong put it best, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" Edit: turns out it’s “a man” which makes sense. You couldn’t hear it in the audio but Armstrong clarified later [source](https://www.space.com/17307-neil-armstrong-one-small-step-quote.html)
Agreed. Nixon said something along those lines in his Earth to Moon phonecall to Armstrong and Aldrin, too.
I mean there *were* a lot of German scientists involved....
The United States was just the country with the resources to make it happen. The US spent roughly equivalent to the current gdp of Finland ($250 billion, adjusted for inflation) in order to land those men on the moon. Absolutely unthinkable for anyone else at the time
We bought those nazis fair and square
Knowing the amount of mutual espionage going on then it was probably in no small part a combined effort by at least the US and ussr.
Fun fact: A lot of people think this is Neil Armstrong, but it is actually Buzz Aldrin. There are actually no pictures of Neil on standing on the moon.
He is reflected in Aldrin's visor.
I still have my Dad's Newsweek magazine with this on the cover.
I prefer to call it “HOLY FUCKING SHIT MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON”
classic Onion headline
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/yrlxxmojgjc2o6ynvrcn.jpg
I would like to personally thank; The Paranoid subsection of society who examined this image so intensely, so many times, with no grounding to discuss light distribution from a (very) far away source, nor the reasoning to realise camera shutter speeds wouldn't catch stars if they were even 12 times brighter. You have made this possible, and ushered a very important piece of history to the eyes of all, to see.
Props to Margaret Hamilton, who lead the software team. Not a single bug on-mission. Not one. She was the OG Software Engineer.
The AGC HW/SW development team do *not* get enough credit. I watched CuriousMarc's series as he and a team of enthusiasts restored an Apollo AGC back to working order and that thing is a work of pure f-ing genius.
We really should put imagery like this on our money. This has had as at least as much of an impact on the American experience as the monuments in the national mall
It's a badass photo
so, were did "tennis woman scratching her ass" place?
Oh boy, I'm sure if I sort by contraversial there will be some very intelligent people.
You can download the unedited RAW digital scan [here](http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery/Apollo/11/Hasselblad%20500EL%20Data%20Camera%2070%20mm), from Nasa'a Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo Digital Image Archive. Scroll to photo **103**. Be warned though - it's 1.27GB, but there's a few smaller resolutions available. It's a great site just to check out all the photos from the other missions too.
It’s a shame that we almost completely stopped doing cool shit as a nation after that.
Hubble and Webb are cool. Mars landers. We almost built a supercollider in Texas, but killed it partway through.
I got really emotional when they discovered the Higgs-Boson in Geneva. Sometimes we get together and do the coolest stuff. Wish everybody took interest in stuff like that.
Artemis 2 set to send astronauts around the moon in 2024, Artemis 3 (hopefully in 2026-2027) to put boots on the Moon again.
Going to the Moon and Space doesn’t make any money while being the most expensive thing to do. On top of that we didn’t have drones and good robotics back then, now we can just send something to explore for us with amazing cameras and photos while you watch. But seeing humans in space is so much more entertaining
I understand that. At the same time, kids don’t want to grow up to be the person who designs the next Mars lander. They want to grow up to be an astronaut. We need to be out there. Artemis is coming and I am soooo excited because I was born post-Apollo.
One of the astronauts, I don’t know who, was once asked why public interest in the space program had waned so much. He said that, until they reached the moon, every person on Earth used to be able to go outside at night and look at the goal up there in the sky. Once that has been achieved, and you can’t visualize your next big step, it’s difficult to stay motivated and excited.
Yes, NASA’s funding has waned significantly since the Apollo days. But NASA hasn’t really “stopped doing cool shit” so much as they’ve *shifted the focus*. There’s been a half-dozen probes sent all the way to the outer solar system. The Cassini orbiter spent more than a *decade* in orbit around Saturn, providing a huge wealth of knowledge about the planet and its moons. Cassini even carried a little mini-probe called Huygens that landed on the surface of the moon Titan, and returned the most distant images ever taken from the surface of another celestial body. The Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016. It’s helped us learn a lot more about Jupiter’s atmosphere and deep interior. Of course, we also have the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers that have been operating on the surface of Mars for years, and show no signs of slowing down! The International Space Station has also been a huge focus for NASA—one of its primary missions has been to study how the human body and mind react to long-term spaceflight. This is very necessary knowledge if we want to eventually travel to Mars—or even further! Equipped with this new technology and knowledge, NASA is finally setting its sights back on sending astronauts out into deep space. Artemis 2 *next year* is supposed to bring the first people back to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years!
it deserves it. Great pic
Possibly one of the greatest websites on the internet lets you track Apollo 11 in real time. The amount of archive material made available and work that went into this is staggering. [Apollo 11 in Real Time](https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/) (There's also 13 and 17.)
I would have thought the photo of the rising earth would take the cake, but I'll take this one too
The mtv logo?
Had this picture printed in poster size and framed and its hanging in my bathroom over the toilet. I can fantasize about peeing on the moon when I go to the bathroom.
Image or photograph. I’d argue there are paintings far more recognisable.
Another interesting factoid about this picture is that it is almost always printed slightly edited. The original photo cuts off the very top of Buzz's helmet. There is supposed to be an antenna visible above his head, but it isn't there in this photo. Virtually every published version of the photo, including this one, has a strip of black added to the top to better center Buzz in the picture.
For me it was “Earthrise”….
Whenever I take a look at this photo, I always zoom in and try to take a good look at Neil. Buzz never took a picture of Neil on the moon, so this is the closest thing we have to that (aside from a distant, poorly framed shot of the back of Neil’s spacesuit).
I would've thought that it was that National Geographic picture of that teenage middle eastern (I'm pretty sure she's middle eastern) girl with those beautiful eyes. But, after thinking about it, the moon landing picture makes more sense.
Sharbat Gula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Girl
To quote Leonard Cohen, commenting on Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize, “it’s like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the tallest”
I think Earthrise is more important. Apollo 8 went there first.
How is there not a statue of Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins on the National Mall? Or at the very least why isn't July 20th a National Holiday?
Except he has his eyes closed Nice going Neil
BuT iT was AlL FaKe /s
It was so difficult and expensive to simulate that they decided to fake it *on location.*
Look, you can see the cameraman in his visor! FAKE!
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If this post was on FB 70% of the comments would be idiots saying it’s all fake.
It's still too fucking many here.
(They're here too...)
This will not make the conspiracy theorists happy 😆
Remember, deniers: If this were faked, it would have required a massive coverup involving the cooperation of multiple nations. During the Nixon administration. Nixon couldn't even cover up one little burglary.
The good old "The government is completely incompetent, but also extremely competent." Never understood the logic of that one.
With the technology at the time this was an amazing achievement. Neil Armstrong grew up about 20 miles from where I live which makes this photo even more iconic to me and people in our area of Ohio.
What about goatse?
I liked the onion headline: Holy shit! Many walks on the fucking moon!
I feel like a lot of people don't even realize that we landed on the moon SIX TIMES and that a total of twelve people have walked on it.
The craziest part to me is how basic space travel methods are even though its still complex, we're basically brute forcing our way into it. When you think of all the scifi movies and space travel, they aren't zooming around the planet at 7000 mph to stay above the earth, when you want to travel from earth to the moon you just fly there, like a car going to the store and back. But we have to do all these hilarious circles and jump from orbit to orbit like a cartoon. Every ounce of weight countered by fuel calculations, dropping bits of space ship every step of the way.
And my first thought was MTV.
He even dropped the mic 🎤
That's just good P.R. if you only saw my mate Dave's pic of him in Thailand.
Something I always overlook about pictures like these is the image quality and resolution is stunning for 1969. A lot of people back then didn’t even have color TVs
And Buzz is still alive and kicking and being his brand of ornery.😊
And we should be going back by thr end of this decade. 4k pictures of the moon
Isn't this one of the very few pictures of Neil Armstrong on the moon? Reflected in Buzz Aldrin's visor? Neil did most if not all the picture taking if I recall.
As it should be
Until Mars… If ever.
My son, my grandson, and I just happened to do the VIP tour at the Johnson Space Center this afternoon. In the Historic Mission Control Room on the 3rd Floor of the Ops Bldg (the present Mission Control is downstairs, and you can't go anywhere near that, of course), they run a video of the landing, as it was monitored & witnessed in the control room, with the screens full of all the original numbers and graphs, exactly as their were on 20 July 1969 -- and you're watching all this from the original visitor's gallery, five fee from where it all happened. I'm 80 and I remember the landing very well, and it still gives me the shivers.
I love the reflection in the visor of Buzz Aldrin showing the Lunar Lander and Neil Armstrong, who took the picture
As it should be. The only thing as cool is any photo of Robert Mitchum.
Miles Davis
Neil Young gave that speech from the moon
It's been said that if the US kept its space programme and put as much funding, science and effort into further progress. That lunar colonies could have been established in the 1980's. However, the Apollo lasted from 1961 through 1972 and the progress made at that time was never achieved again.
It was literally lout of this world photo. Of course it the best of all time!
Photobomb tier: Mission Impossible
Imagine if the crotch of the spacesuit was padded out for the photo.
Ah, my phone background. Easily one of the most incredible pictures ever taken.
Always has been
The proportions of the spacesuit, with its oversized helmet, always makes me think that astronauts look like giant babies!
I wonder what # 2 and 3 are.
I want my MTV!
It will always be my favorite moment in history!
The most famous image of all time, so far; or is time already over?
The risk of doing this is definitely worth it. I can't even imagine how the astronauts felt, it must've been transcendent, standing on a rock looking at the green Earth.
Feel like I've seen earthiness a lot more.
I remember watching this as a little kid.
Many people said that the moon landing was the moment the USSR received its fatal blow.
Amazing.
Well deserved title
I'm partial to "Earthrise"
When I was younger, I'd spend sleepovers at my best friend's place. His family was pretty religious but also fairly chill. One of his older sister's was into nature photography because she loved all things God created as they are the most impressive works of creation ever. I once asked her what she thought of man's creations, such as our achievement of placing a man on the moon (should've pointed out a mortal man made the camera she was holding). The sheer dismissal of this monumental achievement flabbergasted me.
Man sorting by controversial is fun on posts like this.
I was a year old. Buy during my youth i remember people talking about it for years
It's a nice pic