The white spacesuit is such an icon of cutting-edge science, it’s shocking to see how steampunky the early ones are #spacesuit #apollomissions #science

RIP.

"Michael Collins, who piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft Columbia in orbit 60 miles above the moon while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Col. Buzz Aldrin, became the first men to walk on the lunar surface, died on Wednesday at a hospice facility in Naples, Fla. He was 90."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/science/michael-collins-third-man-of-the-moon-landing-dies-at-90.html

#Apollo11 #ApolloMissions #MichaelCollins #Space #Exploration #Moon #Obituaries

"One of the truly unsung heroes of the Apollo program has passed away at age 95. Donald D. Arabian, Chief of the Apollo Test Division, headed the Mission Evaluation Room (MER), which was responsible for solving in-flight problems during the Apollo missions to the Moon."

https://www.universetoday.com/147492/remembering-don-arabian-the-mad-genius-behind-nasas-apollo-engineering-team/

#Personalities #Space #NASA #ApolloMissions #Engineering

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From takeoff to landing: a transcript with shots the astronauts took during the Apollo 13 mission.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/13/science/apollo-13-moon-photos-as-they-shot-it.html

#ApolloMissions #Apollo13 #Transcripts #images

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A fascinating look at the damaged Apollo 13 Service Module using modern image analysis software to enhance details of the damage.

https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap13fj/a13-sm-damage.html

#History #Apollo13 #ApolloMissions #ImageAnalysis

@readsteven

This is gorgeous.

"NASA Goddard

This video uses data gathered from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft to recreate some of the stunning views of the Moon that the Apollo 13 astronauts saw on their perilous journey around the farside in 1970."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilifg26TZrI

#History #ApolloMissions #Apollo13 #Moon #NASA #Space

An interview with Ann Montgomery, who was responsible for "testing hundreds of pieces of loose equipment that the [Apollo] astronauts used during each mission".

#Interviews #Personalities #Space #Apollo #ApolloMissions

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ann-montgomery-became-lead-engineer-nasa-during-apollo-managing-lunar-cameras-180972535/

Awesome. Ken Shirriff on looking inside the Apollo Guidance Computer's core memory.

#ComputerHistory #ApolloMissions #ApolloGuidanceComputer #History #Space

http://www.righto.com/2019/01/inside-apollo-guidance-computers-core.html