#neil armstrong
A First Day Cover from Sept 9, 1969 commemorating the Apollo 11 moon landing. There’s a post stamp from the July 20 moon landing & a beautiful 10 cent stamp featuring Neil Armstrong stepping down upon the lunar surface. So many great space-themed stamps were designed by the USPS during the space age.
Practice makes perfect. Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin go through the steps with the Lunar Lander during preparation for Apollo 11, 1969. Backup crew for the first mission to the moon were Jim Lovell, Fred Haise & William Anders. Armstrong & Aldrin spent 21 & ½ hours at Tranquility Base before joining Command Module Pilot Michael Collins who was in lunar orbit in Columbia.
Following the Space Shuttle Challenger accident in January 1986, President Reagan appointed a Presidential Commission to investigate the accident. The fourteen members of the Commission included former Secretary of State William Rogers as chairman, astronauts Sally Ride and Neil Armstrong, and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman. After months of investigation, the Rogers Commission identified the cause of failure as an O- ring in the right Solid Rocket Booster that ruptured due to the cold temperatures of the launch.
Here, Alton Keel (left), the representative to the Commission from the Executive Office of the President, and chairman William Rogers (center) arrive at the Galaxie Theatre at KSC’s Visitor’s Information Center for a one day briefing and tour of the NASA facility
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Astronauts Frank Borman, Neil Armstrong, John Young and Deke Slayton (left to right) are shown during desert survival training, Reno, Nevada Stead AFB, Reno, NV
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The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing is coming up, and I can’t stop thinking about it.
Prints available here!
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Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 commander, participates in simulation training in preparation for the scheduled lunar landing mission. He is in the Apollo Lunar Module Mission Simulator in the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Flight Crew Training Building.
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Not originally published in LIFE. Neil Armstrong and his customary late dinner over the Wall Street Journal, March 1969. “Neil worked late. The first thing he did when he got home — the family had always eaten already — he sat down at the table and looked up the stock market numbers.”
Read more here.
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Pete Conrad: Neil, I was sorry to hear about your daughter.
Neil Armstrong: I’m sorry, is there a question?
Pete Conrad: What I… What I mean is… Do you think it’ll have an effect?
Neil Armstrong: I think it would be unreasonable to assume that it wouldn’t have some effect.
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Sorry Romney. I call bullshit. You do NOT get to get doey eyed talking about the accomplishments of the Federal Government Apollo missions (and by extension, Mercury and Gemini space programs) supported by the tax payers while at the same time calling for smaller government, reducing spending on space exploration, and calling for lower taxes.
Bullshit. Don’t shove an American flag up science’s a
We, as a nation, through taxes and government coordination did that. WE ALL built that. And we didn’t do it for capitalism, we didn’t do it to make money. We didn’t do it for share holders, or for a return on investment. We did it for national pride (and to scare the Russians) and we did it to learn.
And waiving Neil Armstrong around like a fucking political puppet? I’m seething. I’m SEETHING.
If the likes of Romney were in office in 1960 - not a Democrat - we would not have gone to the Moon. There wouldn’t have been money for it. Neil Armstrong would not have walked on the moon.
I want to smash my fist into someone’s groin.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/30/transcript-mitt-romney-speech-at-rnc/
I wanted to conmemorate the #50thanniversary of the #apollo11 #moonlanding so I made this, hope you like it
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On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy survived an attempt on his life which left his wife, Jacqueline, dead. Crippled, Kennedy resigned the presidency, but continued to be influential on American politics even as Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the office.
Almost six years later, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Joe Muldoon walked on the moon, leading Kennedy, alongside President Richard Nixon, to push the boundaries farther, slashing the budget for additional moon landings and reallocating the resources for manned missions to Mars.
NASA spends the next few decades improving the Saturn V rocket, including using Skylabs A and B (the latter of which is unofficially dubbed “Moonlab”) to make improvements to the command module in space. The Mars mission project Ares uses propulsion systems from the Saturn V-B rockets and the Skylab habitat module for a long-duration Mars trip. Descending from the Ares command module, the Challenger excursion module finally touched down at Mangala Valles, Mars on March 27, 1986.
(Voyage by Stephen Baxter, 1996)
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Buzz Aldrin took this picture of Neil Armstrong in the cabin after the completion of the first EVA. This is the face of the first man to set foot on the Moon, just hours earlier, on July 20th, 1969.
Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made “one giant leap for mankind” with a small step on to the moon. The modest man who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter million miles away has died. He was 82.
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