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Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong in First Man (2018)

Happy Apollo 11 Launch Day!

Happy Birthday Gus 💗

Happy Birthday to astronaut Deke Slayton, born on March 1, 1924 in Sparta, Wisconsin. After being selected as one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, he was grounded in 1962 before he could travel to space because of an atrial fibrilliation, an irregular heart rhythm. He then served as NASA’s Director of Flight Crew Operations for almost a decade from 1963 until 1972 when he was granted medical clearance to fly. At age 51, Slayton flew on the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission, becoming the oldest person to go to space at the time. He passed away in 1993 at the age of 69.

Astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr. became the first American to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962. With the world watching the historic and live-televised event, Glenn orbited the Earth three times in his space capsule, Friendship 7. Four hours and 55 minutes after ignition, John Glenn and Friendship 7 returned to Earth and splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean.

— hidden figures, 2016

Happy Apollo 11 Launch Day!

Happy Birthday Gus 💗

1936 - 2021

“It was perhaps the defining moment in our race to get to the moon. The ultimate success of Apollo was made possible by the sacrifices of Grissom, White and Chaffee. The accident profoundly affected everyone in the program. There was an unspoken promise on everyone’s part to the three astronauts that their deaths would not be in vain.” - Gene Kranz

“I really didn’t appreciate the first planet (Earth) until I saw the second one… . I cannot recall (the Moon’s) tortured surface without thinking of the infinite variety the delightful planet earth offers.” - Michael Collins

i’m a day late but happy birthday to the wonderful mae jemison!!

i love this picture 🥺

“We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.” - William “Bill” Anders