Robert McNees
Apollo 11 launched #OTD in 1969, carrying Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon.
It was one of the most remarkable scientific collaborations in history, taking humans from Earth to the surface of another world, then returning them safely home.
Images: NASA
Robert McNees
Sunday morning is a pretty good time to take a look through NASA’s Project Apollo archive on Flickr.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums
This is a totally safe thing to do. You definitely won't look up two hours from now and ask where your morning went.
Images: NASA
Robert McNees
@fraser I’ve killed a lot of afternoons looking through there.
Fraser Cain
@mcnees There's so much gold in that archive, and all NASA's Flickr accounts. If I don't have any ideas for a story, I'll dig something out of there. "Remember when somebody walked on the Moon?"
Robert McNees
The team that worked out the Apollo 11 trajectories from Earth to the Moon included Katherine Johnson. She also performed calculations for how the Apollo Lunar Module would rejoin the Command and Service Module back in orbit
Image: NASA
Daniel Stone
@mcnees if you don’t know about it, they have the Apollo lunar and surface journals online and they’re phenomenal. They have it for the Mercury and Gemini projects too (and another journal for the moon) but I’ve personally found this and the Gemini ones to be the best. https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/ hope you REALLY didn’t have anything to do this Sunday :)
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