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vizreef · 1 year

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Saturn V Firing Room Panels used for the Apollo missions (US, 1960s)

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#nasa #saturn v #space exploration #apollo mission

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assassin1513 · 4 months

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🌙Apollo🌙

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geekysteven · 5 months

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After seeing the Earth from the moon, Neil Armstrong said it changed his perception of humanity. Before there were arbitrary divisions and strife, but afterwards he only saw one people, all losers who hadn't been on the moon ever.

#neil armstrong #apollo mission #apollo 11 #NASA

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gorrus · 4 months

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#nasa #nasa photos #apollo mission #apollo #moon #lunar

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stone-cold-groove · 5 months

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Earthrise and moon view from the Apollo 8 mission - 1968.

#nasa #apollo mission #spacecraft #space exploration #astronauts #project apollo #mercury redstone #space photographs

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bookwormfan1495 · 2 months

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I built a thing.

#Lego #Saturn V #apollo mission #Apollo 11 #space #rockets

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thereyouarewhereveryougo · 1 month

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The human in question was Apollo 15 Moonwalker Jim Irwin, who photographed this striking prospect of Earth on the way back home from the Moon in August 1971

NASA Kodak Hasselblad High Resolution Raw Image Source

Apollo 15 Flight Journal Context

#NASA #apollo mission #Gemini Mission #Mercury Mission #spaceflight #earth

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roversrovers · 2 years

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Have you heard of Moon Trees?

They are trees that grew from very special seeds: Stuart Roosa carried hundreds of them in his personal kit when he orbited the Moon in 1971 with the Apollo 14 mission. After returning back to Earth, the seeds were germinated and planted across the US and even across the world.

Learn more about the Moon Trees and where you can find them here:

You can also support the conservation of the trees and their descendants here:

#nasa #space #science #moon #apollo 14 #moon trees #biology #apollo #apollo mission #stuart roosa #moon tree #my post

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artmctalon · 1 year

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"Memory Weaver" Krita, 2023

A quick sketch inspired by this short video I watched about the "Little Old Ladies" who worked in factories to assemble the Core rope memory hardware for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer.

I believe it was Navajo women trained in textile weaving who were among the most skilled in this method of assembling the memory.

#computer #memory #core rope memory #weaver #textiles #women #women in history #sketch #digital art #digital drawing #krita illustration #abstract art #rough sketch #nasa #apollo mission

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allanodyne · 10 months

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So repeat this line, "Everything, everything is fine"

by AllanOdyne

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parastitch · 2 years

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But somewhere in a private place, She packs her bags for outer space

And now she's waiting for the right kind of pilot to come,

and she'll say to him..

I would fly you to the moon and back, If you'll be if you'll be my baby

Got a ticket for a world where We belong

So would you be my baby

#apollo #apollo mission #nasa #savage garden #Spotify

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jcmarchi · 3 months

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New Light on Moon Rock Formation: Major Puzzle in Lunar Geology Solved - Technology Org

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New Light on Moon Rock Formation: Major Puzzle in Lunar Geology Solved - Technology Org

New research has cracked a vital process in creating a unique rock type from the Moon. The discovery explains its signature composition and presence on the lunar surface, unravelling a mystery that has long eluded scientists.

Image shows astronaut-geologist standing next to a huge lunar boulder during NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The scientists in this research used rock samples from this Apollo mission. Image credit: NASA/Eugene Cernan

The study, published in Nature Geoscience, reveals a key step in the genesis of these distinctive magmas. A combination of high temperature laboratory experiments using molten rocks and sophisticated isotopic analyses of lunar samples identify a critical reaction that controls their composition.

This reaction took place in the deep lunar interior some three and a half billion years ago, involving exchange of the element iron (Fe) in the magma with the element magnesium (Mg) in the surrounding rocks, modifying the chemical and physical properties of the melt.

Image shows Moon rock, known as high-Ti basalt, sample from Apollo 17 mission like those analysed in this study. Image credit: NASA

Co-lead author Tim Elliott, Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol, said: “The origin of volcanic lunar rocks is a fascinating tale involving an ‘avalanche’ of an unstable, planetary-scale crystal pile created by the cooling of a primordial magma ocean.

“Central to constraining this epic history is the presence of a magma type unique to the Moon, but explaining how such magmas could even have got to the surface, to be sampled by Space missions, has been a troublesome problem. It is great to have resolved this dilemma.”

Surprisingly high concentrations of the element titanium (Ti) in parts of the lunar surface have been known since the NASA Apollo missions, back in the 1960s and 1970s, which successfully returned solidified, ancient lava samples from the Moon’s crust. More recent mapping by orbiting satellite shows these magmas, known as ‘high-Ti basalts’, to be widespread on the Moon.

Image shows a map of the Titanium abundances of the Moon’s surface, obtained from NASA’s Clementine spacecraft. The red parts indicate extremely high concentrations compared to terrestrial rocks. Image credit: Lunar and Planetary Institute

“Until now models have been unable to recreate magma compositions that match essential chemical and physical characteristics of the high-Ti basalts. It has proven particularly hard to explain their low density, which allowed them to be erupted some three and a half billion years ago,” added co-lead author Dr Martijn Klaver, Research Fellow at the University of Münster Institute of Mineralogy.

The international team of scientists led by the Universities of Bristol in the UK and Münster in Germany, in collaboration with The Open University and Cardiff University, managed to mimic the high-Ti basalts in the process in the lab using high-temperature experiments. Measurements of the high-Ti basalts also revealed a distinctive isotopic composition that provides a fingerprint of the reactions reproduced by the experiments.

Both results clearly demonstrate how the melt-solid reaction is integral in understanding the formation of these unique magmas.

Source: University of Bristol

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head-post · 4 months

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NASA delays planned return of astronauts to Moon

NASA is set to postpone the next few missions to the moon as part of a key programme, due to technical problems with the various spacecraft planned for the mission.

The US space agency was expected to unveil its plans on Tuesday after spending several months monitoring progress with contractors and considering changes to Artemis, a multi-billion dollar programme that involves returning the first astronauts to the moon since the last Apollo mission in 1972.

Presumably, NASA’s second Artemis mission will be postponed beyond the planned end of 2024. The reason for the postponement was problems with the batteries of the Lockheed Martin-built Orion crew capsule (LMT.N) that were discovered during testing. The batteries are to be replaced.