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lunar missions
While scrolling through these old newspaper images from the time of the first manned moon landing...
These 50-year-old front pages show how Apollo 11 captivated the country
(There are some headlines about Ted Kennedy leaving the scene of a car crash on Chappaquiddick Island.)
One also sees headlines mentioning Luna 15. It was an unmanned Soviet craft designed to land on the moon and bring back lunar samples to Earth. It orbited the moon at the same time as Apollo 11 - I don't remember hearing about that before! (Space race, indeed.) After the American moonwalk had finished, it attempted a landing but crashed into the moon.
Interesting to read:
Luna 15 Accompanied Apollo 11 to the Moon
Luna-15: Russia’s secret moonshot designed to beat Apollo 11
The first article mentions 2 medals the Soviets gave to the Americans "to leave on the Moon honoring two lost cosmonauts, Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov," but doesn't say whether the Americans actually took the medals to the moon. According to this article, they did:
What Have We Left on the Moon? (answer: half a million pounds of equipment, trash, and other items).
Jodrell Bank Lovell Telescope records Luna 15 crash:
(there's not really much one can hear in the video, but it is still interesting.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJthrJ5xpxk
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gfish staged a Lego re-enactment of the Apollo 11 mission on Twitter:
https://gfish.dreamwidth.org/386990.html
This is an interesting video about the computer on the lunar landing module, and the 1202 alarm that happened:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4cn93H6sM0
These 50-year-old front pages show how Apollo 11 captivated the country
(There are some headlines about Ted Kennedy leaving the scene of a car crash on Chappaquiddick Island.)
One also sees headlines mentioning Luna 15. It was an unmanned Soviet craft designed to land on the moon and bring back lunar samples to Earth. It orbited the moon at the same time as Apollo 11 - I don't remember hearing about that before! (Space race, indeed.) After the American moonwalk had finished, it attempted a landing but crashed into the moon.
Interesting to read:
Luna 15 Accompanied Apollo 11 to the Moon
Luna-15: Russia’s secret moonshot designed to beat Apollo 11
The first article mentions 2 medals the Soviets gave to the Americans "to leave on the Moon honoring two lost cosmonauts, Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov," but doesn't say whether the Americans actually took the medals to the moon. According to this article, they did:
What Have We Left on the Moon? (answer: half a million pounds of equipment, trash, and other items).
Jodrell Bank Lovell Telescope records Luna 15 crash:
(there's not really much one can hear in the video, but it is still interesting.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJthrJ5xpxk
gfish staged a Lego re-enactment of the Apollo 11 mission on Twitter:https://gfish.dreamwidth.org/386990.html
This is an interesting video about the computer on the lunar landing module, and the 1202 alarm that happened:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4cn93H6sM0