"We Choose to Go To The Moon!"

[martinss01]

So. What are your thoughts on the Moon Missions and their worth, martin?

my feeling is that it was positive not only for the country but the scientific community as a whole. as a species, the sooner we get a permanent manned outpost on a new world the better.

Where were you when men walked on the moon?

presperm.

 

[ScriptOhio]

First woman on the moon

You have to be old enough to appreciate this.
If you don't understand it, you are too young.

 

[ScriptOhio]

363-foot rocket to be projected onto the Washington Monument this week

The display will mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing

The east face of the Washington Monument will look astronomically different between 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a 363-foot, life-sized rocket will be projected onto the obelisk, according to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. The display will depict a Saturn V model, the same kind that launched the Apollo 11 lunar spacecraft carrying the crew of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to outer space on July 16, 1969.

Entire article: https://dc.curbed.com/2019/7/15/20694820/washington-monument-apollo-11-projection-national-mall

 

[Zippercat]

363-foot rocket to be projected onto the Washington Monument this week

The display will mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing

The east face of the Washington Monument will look astronomically different between 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a 363-foot, life-sized rocket will be projected onto the obelisk, according to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. The display will depict a Saturn V model, the same kind that launched the Apollo 11 lunar spacecraft carrying the crew of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to outer space on July 16, 1969.

Entire article: https://dc.curbed.com/2019/7/15/20694820/washington-monument-apollo-11-projection-national-mall

That’s pretty cool looking! And Lord knows I’m no rocket scientist. But if the countdown is “00 00 00” shouldn’t there be flames and smoke and such coming out the bottom as that thing moves UP?

 

[ScriptOhio]

That’s pretty cool looking! And Lord knows I’m no rocket scientist. But if the countdown is “00 00 00” shouldn’t there be flames and smoke and such coming out the bottom as that thing moves UP?

I thnk that was just an artist's conception as to what it will lool like, etc.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Apollo 11: Google creates huge moonlight portrait larger than Central Park to honor epic mission

As part of its tribute to Apollo 11, Google is using moonlight to dramatically showcase Margaret Hamilton, a pioneer whose computational work helped make the historic mission possible.

The Mountain View, Calif. company built the massive tribute by positioning over 107,000 mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Facility in the Mojave Desert to reflect the light of the Moon, not the sun, as the mirrors typically do.

The resulting 1.4-square-mile portrait of Hamilton, 82, is breathtaking and larger than New York City's Central Park. The mirrors were reverse-engineered by Googlers to reflect moonlight, and each mirror is about the size of a car.

Hamiton and her colleagues at the MIT Instrumentation Lab, now known as Draper Laboratory, developed the navigation and guidance systems for the Apollo spacecraft. She led the team that worked on code for the Apollo Guidance Computer, the flight's onboard software.

Entire article and video: https://www.foxnews.com/tech/apollo-11-google-moonlight-portrait-larger-than-central-park

 

[ScriptOhio]

 

[Jagdaddy]

Apollo 11: Google creates huge moonlight portrait larger than Central Park to honor epic mission

As part of its tribute to Apollo 11, Google is using moonlight to dramatically showcase Margaret Hamilton, a pioneer whose computational work helped make the historic mission possible.

The Mountain View, Calif. company built the massive tribute by positioning over 107,000 mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Facility in the Mojave Desert to reflect the light of the Moon, not the sun, as the mirrors typically do.

The resulting 1.4-square-mile portrait of Hamilton, 82, is breathtaking and larger than New York City's Central Park. The mirrors were reverse-engineered by Googlers to reflect moonlight, and each mirror is about the size of a car.

Hamiton and her colleagues at the MIT Instrumentation Lab, now known as Draper Laboratory, developed the navigation and guidance systems for the Apollo spacecraft. She led the team that worked on code for the Apollo Guidance Computer, the flight's onboard software.

Entire article and video: https://www.foxnews.com/tech/apollo-11-google-moonlight-portrait-larger-than-central-park

I'd buy a poster of that if they made one.

 

[Dryden]