credit NASA / caption: Apollo 11 is recovered on 24 July 1969
Flightglobal.com is just a couple of years old (and Hyperbola even younger!) but its namesake Flight International magazine celebrated its centenary last year and that print title featured articles about spaceflight before it was technically feasible and reported on every step of the space age when it began in 1957
As such Flight's offices here in London (OK the south London borough of Sutton) has a library of images going back to the birth of Sputnik that includes the Apollo programme
Flightglobal.com now brings all these images to life again with a gallery dedicated to the most momentous aerospace programme the world has ever seen. This image shows the assembly of the Saturn V for the final Moon mission Apollo 17
on May 18, 2009 11:42 AM | Reply
Seems like only yesterday!!!
on May 19, 2009 11:45 AM | Reply
Photographs are like time machines. The image shown seems to be snapped in the distant future!
on June 28, 2009 4:56 PM | Reply
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 by reading moving and poignant comments from those that lived through it, and sharing your own memories at an Apollo 11 Special Post at Bog on the Universe.
http://blogontheuniverse.org
The Post includes extensive resources to foster sharing stories with family and friends, and how to follow the mission-in real time-as it happened 40 years ago through a JFK Presidential Library online Sim.
With best wishes for a wonderful return to the Moon,
Dr. Jeff Goldstein, Center Director
National Center for Earth and Space Science Education
USA
on August 1, 2009 1:04 AM | Reply
I grew up loving the Apollo space program, today I think it was fake. The reasons are more numerous then I will list below.
Look at photos of the LEM on the surface of the moon during Apollo 11. Notice how it looks like it was made with tin foil, duct-tape and legs from lawn furniture. No crater under LEM from landing rocket, no moon dust on the landing pads, yet Armstrong photographed an impression of his footprint made as he stepped down from the lander ... Then look at the lunar rover-$60 million it cost at the time- With Duct-tape holding its fender together on the moon. Couple all of this with smudged out surface photo's and it's obvious NASA is hiding something.
Remember at the time of the moon landing we were fighting in a war escalated by the staged Gulf of Tonkin incident, so our government has no problem lieing to us, why should we expect the moon landings to be any diffrent.
Check the photo's here at: http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html
or for more info:
http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicapollo.html
on August 2, 2009 12:01 AM | Reply
If you were going to fake something wouldn't you do it once? Why fake something nine times, in this case for Apollo missions, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17?