Apollo: May 2009 Archives

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

credit NASA / caption: Does this mean the Dryden Flight Research Center is to be renamed Armstrong?

This image above shows a NASA procurement web page giving details of its intent to buy an oil painting of former astronaut and Apollo 11 mission commander Neil Armstrong

From what Hyperbola knows of the First Man he's unlikely to want to sit for that and will probably find news of it somewhat embarressing. The US Congress has already decided that the US portion of any international lunar outpost be called Neil Armstrong and some have wanted to rename Dryden Flight Research Center after the Apollo 11 mission commander. Poor Neil