#apollo 11

[schokesgychoco]

🚀 Road to history

[mathysphere]

In 1999, on the 30th anniversary of the first moonwalk, the members of rec.crafts.textiles.needlework shared their memories of the historic event. Transcripts in alt text.

[retropopcult]

Snoopy button, 1969

[adastra-sf]

Happy Moon Landing Day!

On July 20, 1969 - 55 years ago today! - humans first stepped foot on another world.

[schokesgychoco]

🚀 to the Moon

Apollo 11 Launch - 16 July 1969

[hollenka99]

Friendly reminder this Moon Landing Day that this website exists, where you can drop yourself at any point in the mission where the crew are awake and they'll probably be bantering with Houston.

[coupleofdays]

Margaret Hamilton, Director of the Apollo project Software Engineering Division, with a stack of papers containing the code to the Apollo Guidance Computer navigation software. The software that on this day, in 1969, guided Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin when they landed on the Moon.

[piratesexmachine420]

Happy Moon day! 55 years ago today, Apollo 11's Eagle lunar module touched down in Mare Tranquillitatis and made history as the first time human beings stood on a world beyond our own. Here's to the landings to come!

[foone]

Happy Moonmas! It's the 55th anniversary of the moon landing

[nevver]

The whole world is watching

[semioticapocalypse]

Jack Weir. A girl holding The Washington Post newspaper about the first Moon landing (Apollo 11). July 21, 1969

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[humanoidhistory]

On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon. Art by Robert McCall.

[usnatarchives]

The photograph of Buzz Aldrin standing next to the U.S. flag on the moon is among the most iconic images in U.S. history. The image was captured during the #Apollo11 mission, the first human-crewed mission to land on the Moon, on July 20, 1969. 🌙

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

We have done better. We are better.

[lonestarflight]

USS HORNET (CVS-12) entering Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, following the Apollo 11 recovery. On deck are various aircraft of Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 59 (CVSG-59) and the Apollo 11 Capsule (CM-107). Following decontamination procedures, the three astronauts were placed in quarantine for 18 days until August 10, 1969.

Date: July 26, 1969

U.S. Navy photo: 428-KN-18090

[nocternalrandomness]

Buzz Aldrin - July 20th, 1969