#Apollo "[O]nce a year, we are briefly reminded that, at some point in History, sending a crew of humans to walk on the moon and come back was considered a reasonable idea.
And, like every year, we are invited to reflect on how the hell could this happen."
https://malmesbury.substack.com/p/a-grand-day-out
Lunar plaque as placed:
"First set foot upon the moon -
"We came in peace for -----"
#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Seasons #Summer #July #NASA #Moon #Lunar #LM #Apollo #Apollo11 #Armstrong #Aldrin #Collins #OneGiantLeap #ForAllMankind #Space #Exploration #Departure #July21
July 21, 2025
Praise be to Saint Armstrong and Saint Buzz Aldrin!
- July 20, 1969 AD. July 20, 1 ATB.
"Houston, Tranquility Base here - the Eagle has landed..."
On this day, in 1969, two human beings walked on the surface of a world that was not our native Earth, for the first time in all the thousands of years of human history.
I count myself very fortunate that my work in the book trade has allowed me to shake hands and chat with an Apollo astronaut, that was a very special moment.
The Apollo–Soyuz Legacy Lives On, Fifty Years Later - On this date in 1975, a Soviet and an American shook hands. Even for the time peri... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/17/the-apollo-soyuz-legacy-lives-on-fifty-years-later/ #apollossoyuztestproject #dockingport #spacerace #history #docking #apollo #space #soyuz
Remember, on this most Holy Day, subhuman africoon apemen 
protested the beginning of Mankind’s greatness. The pavement apes 
and their nigger lovers hate the idea of advanced civilization conquering the heavens.
#Apollo #Apollo11 #AdAstra
RE: https://noauthority.social/@StarProphet/114866298420835648
On this Holy Day, the commemoration of the lift-off of Apollo 11, July 16, 1969, on the Washington Monument in DC. A mission that sent the first men to another world.
50 years ago #OTD at 16:09 UTC #Soyuz 19 and the final #Apollo spacecraft docked in orbit in the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project or Экспериментальный полёт «Союз»–«Аполлон» (the Americans and Soviets never agreed on which s/c comes first): https://www.nasa.gov/apollo-soyuz-test-project/ = various NASA materials, https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/astp.htm = many links, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sp-4209.pdf = a biiiig book, https://www.facebook.com/AstroDrewMorgan/posts/pfbid0wcN12LcAfRYYTmiWS71GQ47P42jukXVhd2QWA7eBzgg1wbdZAKq8LXVGTC9o7tKtl and https://www.facebook.com/ralf.heckel1/posts/pfbid02jcFp85PRy2UBUs4JVhPQcBnmddC8sQbPL3Vx26XoFMvbbsToNJmpLMDrRfce98HPl and https://www.facebook.com/groups/176051159106442/posts/24331420949809459 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/48800622850/posts/10162318303047851 = more visuals, https://www.youtube.com/live/Mu7iEyaOmDM = an online event, https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/not-that-into-peace-doves-the-apollo-soyuz-patch-nasa-rejected/ and https://www.spacerockethistory.com/2025/02/space-rocket-history-457-apollo-soyuz-test-project-soviet-concerns-with-apollo/ and http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-071425a-apollo-soyuz-test-project-astp-official-flight-kit-ofk-apk.html and https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/science/apollo-soyuz-test-project-1975-anniversary.html?smid=bs-share = articles and https://scicomm.xyz/@Nick_Stevens_graphics@mastodon.art/114858897568849751 = a contemporary cartoon.
A Handshake in #Orbit 50 Years Ago Transformed the #SpaceRace
Some 140 miles above France, American astronauts opened a spacecraft hatch and found themselves face to face with cosmonauts from the #SovietUnion.
In the summer of #1975, seeing two men from rival nations greet each other in orbit across a bridge between their docked spacecraft was a powerful and unprecedented gesture witnessed by millions on the world spinning below.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/science/apollo-soyuz-test-project-1975-anniversary.html
https://archive.ph/0fkee
#Apollo #Soyuz
Many Greek gods are linked to birds - Zeus's eagle, Hera's peacock, Athena's owl, Apollo's raven, etc. At one time ravens had white feathers, but when a raven delivered Apollo bad news, the sun god was so enraged that his heat charred the bird's feathers. Now all ravens are black.
Si te gustan las estadísticas y la astronaútica, en concreto el programa Apollo, este es tu libro:
Apollo By The Numbers: A Statistical Reference.
Richard W. Orloff
NASA SP-2000-4029 (2000)
y se puede encontrar aquí:
One of the few films I've watched several times in the cinema.
"This year marks the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Oscar-winning film, Apollo 13, director Ron Howard's masterful love letter to NASA's Apollo program in general and the eponymous space mission in particular. So we're taking the opportunity to revisit this riveting homage to American science, ingenuity, and daring."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/ars-reflects-on-apollo-13-turning-30/
Thanks to a book recommendation by @bert_hubert [1], I went on a tangent learning more about the absolutely fascinating history and workings of core memory (and core rope memory, its read-only version). Some of this also very interesting for #PermaComputing and giving me ideas for future art projects...
Apollo Core Rope Memory (restoration and read out of 50 year old memory from the Apollo Guidance Computer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hckwxq8rnr0
Core Memory Explained and Demonstrated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwsInQLmjXc
It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! 
Apollon and Helios are distinct deities but Apollon is a sun god too.
"He [Magnes of Thessalia] had a son of remarkable beauty, Hymenaios. And when #Apollon saw the boy, he was seized with love for him, and would not leave the house of Magnes."
Hesiod, The Great Eoiae Fragment 16
#Apollo Belvedere replica
How you know a book on computing is going to be REALLY good: it starts with chapter 0. _The #Apollo Guidance Computer_ looks like a real treat! A good review is here: https://www.adamtornhill.com/reviews/agc.htm
Desde que estoy releyendo el manga “Space Brothers”, me ha vuelto el interés por el programa Apollo.
Estoy aprovechando para volver a escuchar este podcast de BBC World: “13 minutes to the Moon”. Son 12 episodios de menos de una hora llenos de entrevistas y datos de interés.
Una producción excelente narrada con un inglés muy claro (excepto algún entrevistado).
Disponible aquí y en todas las plataformas de podcasts (supongo):
apollo is one of the world's largest asset managers and the fact that they would unashamedly post such a misleading chart suggests the world is entering a brave new era of chart crime
1969 erreichten den kanadischen Lokalsender CJOH-TV über ein Dutzend Beschwerden, weil eine Folge der Science-Fiction-Serie Star Trek unterbrochen wurde - durch Liveaufnahmen der Mondlandung.
#Mond #StarTrek #Kanada #Armstrong #Aldrin #Collins #Apollo
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/star-trek-episode-pre-empted-by-historic-moon-landing
Today I learned about the “boop” at the start and “beep” at the end of #Apollo era #NASA ground side communications. These are called #QuindarTones - a ground side PTT remote control signal for radio transmissions around the world. Two 250 millisecond sine wave pulses with 2525 Hz for the intro tone and 2475 Hz outro tone.
These were used a while after the Apollo programme as audio cues.
I think these could feature in making #BonkWave #MusicProduction
