We came in peace for all mankind

[On the moon] “It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.” -Neil Armstrong

Happy anniversary to some of my favorite Mission Control audio from Apollo 11

Today In 1969: “They’re On The Moon" ~ Yankee Stadium fans are notified that Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin have landed safely on the lunar surface!

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Aldrin was not charged with any crime. He should have been given another medal for public service.

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(all my gifs are here)

Neil Armstrong during NASA life support training, 1968.

Happy Apollo 11 Launch Day!

I love doing this every year.

Moon, Jupiter and its Gallilean moons.

Neil Armstrong is rightly celebrated as the first man to walk on the moon but he’s not acknowledged enough for piloting and landing a spacecraft on another celestial body. That’s notable.

60 years ago… Gemini IX the 7th two men mission. On June 5, Cernan performed a spacewalk wearing an Environmental Life Support System (ELSS) chest pack and a 75 kilograms Astronaut Maneuvering Unit (AMU). However, after two hours with an overheated suit, a fogged-up face plate he had to end the perilous EVA, barely being able to return safely into the Gemini capsule. The Gemini IX mission lasted 3 days 20 minutes, it would be up to "Mr Rendez-vous" Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin PhD to sort out and master spacewalking in Low Earth Orbit. This June 10, 1966 photo shows NASA astronaut Eugene Cernan arriving at Ellington field Houston - Texas meeting his family. Note the NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster 105.003-64 wrist chronograph (NASA #28), which became his lucky charm. During both Apollo 10 and 17, Cernan wore this Speedmaster #28 underneath the spacesuit on a lightweight steel mesh Jacoby Bender Champion bracelet. Today it resides on display in the Omega museum in Bienne - Biel kanton Bern - Switzerland. (Photo: NASA)

65 years ago... US Navy Cdr NASA astronaut Alan B. Shepard On February 21, NASA Robert Gilruth had chosen the three Mercury astronauts that would make the first flight, in alphabetical order implying that no final decision had been made: Glenn, Grissom and Shepard. LIFE magazine brought the story calling these three the Gold team, the other astronauts were called the Red team. On May , 1961 US Navy LtCdr Alan B. Shepard became the first NASA astronaut making a 15 minutes sub-orbital flight onboard Mercury-Redstone 3 "Freedom 7". Although no wrist watch was worn on the short sub-orbital flights, in September 1959 the Space Task Group for Project Mercury had already issued the first official NASA astronaut wrist watches for the "Mercury 7" astronauts; a bespoke 24 hours dial/movement LeCoultre pilot watch based on the LeCoultre Quartermaster. The military-inspired Quartermaster was produced in 1957 to celebrate 125 years of LeCoultre watches, 2500 were made. The Space Task Group for Project Mercury wanted a 24 hours movement wrist watch so the astronauts were in sink with the worldwide NASA MSFN Manned Space Flight Network of tracking stations & ships. For these 34mm LeCoutre watches, the astronauts had the choice between the "Lizard expansion" bracelet or the lightweight mesh bracelet. However, the watches were only used in training between September 1959 and October 1963. (Photo: LIFE magazine)

May 24-25, 1970. USSR. Leningrad. Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Honored Test Pilot of the USSR, USSR pilot-cosmonaut, Major General of Aviation Georgy Timofeevich Beregovoy (left) and the first man to set foot on the Moon on July 20, 1969 during the lunar expedition of the Apollo 11 spacecraft, American astronaut Neil Armstrong (center) during a visit to the Yubileiny Sports Palace. The exact date of the photo is unknown. (probably 1970)