#lunar landing

[reality-detective]

If these clowns were the first to walk on the Moon... Who was videoing? 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think about it #think for yourselves #think for yourself #do your homework #do some research #do your own research #ask yourself questions #question everything #moon #moon landing #lunar landing #you decide #lies exposed

[beauty-funny-trippy]

India Moon Landing: Chandrayaan-3 Rover Captures Images from Lunar South Pole

#moon #moon landing #India #Chandrayaan-3 #rover #lunar landing #South Pole #video #lunar #surface #travel #nature #science #astronomy #space #aesthetic #landscape #NASA #beauty-funny-trippy #outer space #Chandrayaan3

[astronotmovie]

A stark landscape. Photograph during the Nov 1969, Apollo 12 moon landing with Pete Conrad. Apollo 12’s ‘Intrepid’ lunar module (reflected in the visor) was nearly identical to ‘The Eagle’ of Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin; one difference being hammocks were installed so the astronauts could rest more comfortably when on the moon.

#apollo 12 #astronauts #lunar landing #astronaut #man on the moon #1969 #nasa #space exploration #vintage space #space #space travel #space age #space race #moon landing #astronaut suit #nasa astronauts #1960s #space flight #lunar surface #the moon

[inky-quilled-dragon]

Just me or is naming the new Lunar lander “Odysseus” basically tempting fate and/or any greek gods that might be out there to do a really big funny?

#nasa #lunar landing #the moon #odysseus #greek mythology

[stone-cold-groove]

Destination Moon!

#astronomy #science #comic book ads #vintage advertising #vintage illustration #space travel #apollo #saturn v #rockets #lunar mission #lunar landing #nasa

[mindblowingscience]

China will definitely put boots on the moon within the next seven years, according to a leading Chinese lunar scientist.

"By 2030, the Chinese people will definitely be able to set foot on the moon. That's not a problem," Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program, told Chinese broadcaster CCTV on April 18, ahead of the country's national "space day" on April 24.

China is already working on the necessary hardware for landing astronauts on the moon. The country is developing a next-generation rocket to launch an upgraded crew spacecraft, while work is underway on a lunar lander.

The new rocket is scheduled for a test flight in 2027, while the new spacecraft has already flown an uncrewed mission.

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#science #stem #space #human spaceflight #lunar landing #lunar science #casc

[science-for-the-masses]

#science #science communication #stem #scicomm #science education #science blog #space #physics #apollo missions #lunar landing #Moon #NASA

[nhlovesadri3]

Adriana Lima, pregnant with her first daughter Valentina, on the red carpet of the Louis Vuitton celebration of the 40th Anniversary Of the Lunar Landing, American Museum of Natural History, NYC, 13/07/09.

#Adriana Lima #louis vuitton #40th anniversary #lunar landing #event #pregnant #red carpet #goddess #angel #gorgeous #2009 #nyc

[danskjavlarna]

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My collection of vintage rockets is ready for liftoff.

#rocket #man on the moon #lunar landing #vintage illustration #illustration

[type40capsule]

Peregrine launch sees US on way to the Moon after five decades

By David Szondy January 07, 2024

The first US Moon landing mission in 52 years is on its way after Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One (PM1) lifted off this morning from Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida atop a ULA Vulcan rocket at 2:18 am EST.

Under cloudy skies, the launch of PM1 took place without major delays or incidents. At one minute 16 seconds into the flight, the Vulcan/Centaur launcher reached maximum dynamic pressure. Reaching the one-minute-50-second mark, the solid rocket boosters separated from the Vulcan core stage. At the four-minute-59 second mark, the two first stage liquid fuel engines shut down, with stage separation following six seconds later.

The second stage then ignited and burned for two additional engine burns. After the Centaur stage shut down, the Peregrine spacecraft separated at 50 minutes into the flight.

The Centaur stage then fired again, sending it into a heliocentric orbit where it deployed the Celestis Memorial Spaceflight’s "Enterprise Flight" payload, which carries the cremated remains or DNA of a number of celebrities, including Gene and Majel Roddenberry, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, and James Doohan. Peregrine also has the remains or DNA of 66 other individuals as part of the Celestis "Tranquility Flight" to the lunar surface.

As the Peregrine lander's systems powered up, contact was established with Astrobotic’s Mission Control Center, which will oversee operations from now on as Peregrine embarks on its 17-to-19-day cruise phase to lunar orbit during which it will orbit the Earth once before inserting into a lunar transfer orbit.

On reaching lunar orbit, Peregrine will carry out a series of orbital maneuvers to bring it closer to the lunar surface for up to 39 days until it gets the green light to land sometime in February 2024 at Sinus Viscositatis next to the Gruithuisen Domes on the northeast border of Oceanus Procellarum. This is an area of particular interest to geologists and it is hoped that the domes, which were formed out of granite-like substances, may shed light on the presence of water under the lunar surface or trapped in minerals.

Also onboard Peregrine are 20 payloads. Five of these are NASA experiments sent as part of the Artemis program and 15 more from international organizations. One of these is the Iris Lunar Rover built by Carnegie Mellon University. This means the PM1 is not only the first US lunar landing mission in over half a century and the first using a privately owned and operated spacecraft, it is also the first American mission to carry a lunar robotic rover.

The video below recaps the launch of PM1.

Source: New Atlas

#science #space exploration #moon #lunar landing #NASA #Peregrine Mission One #Peregrine Lunar Lander #Astrobotic Technology #ULA #Gene Roddenberry #Majel Barrett-Roddenberry #Nichelle Nichols #James Doohan #DeForest Kelley

[seumascowan]

For all you (any other) fucking nerds out there!

#or is it just me #nasa #lunar landing #moon #space shit

[andreaissy]

Okay so if you are a nerd, like me, and are terrible at math (also me) and very specifically have a combination of interest in sims 4 and space- I got help figuring out how to get Lunar Landing Day into the standard 7 day season cycle in seasons and figured I would share it if you’d similarly like to add a lunar holiday to your sims.

See- the fun thing about summer is (in the northern hemisphere) it’s about 93.6 days long. So when I started with math it was like oh jeez how am I going to slide this down into workable units to calculate lunar landing day. Well, the solution is start with the beginning of summer. This is generally June 20-22, it depends on the year. For simplicity- we’re using June 20th because Lunar Landing Day is a month from it, which gives us a nice number of 30. (I checked- each number by dividing 93.6 by 28, 29 and 30. The numbers are 3.34, 3.22, and 3.12 respectively).

So now we know it’s pretty much exactly one third of the way through summer! Great! One third of seven is 2.3 repeating. Plugging each of the numbers in gets 2.09, 2.16, and 2.24 respectively. Which pretty solidly puts it at the second day of summer if you’re using standard sims 4 week long seasons.

If you wanna add a holiday I’ll leave it up to you! But I’ve been seeing some really awesome posts with people doing/planning little parties and baking stuff so I’m adding that to mine! Have fun with it! And happy lunar landing day!!

#sims 4 #sims 4 seasons #lunar landing day #moon landing day #moon landing #lunar landing #I’ve seen someone calling it Lunaterra but I think that’s a different thing #still a cool name I might use for the holiday tho

[tomorrowusa]

Congratulations to India for its perfect landing of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the surface of the moon this week! 🚀 🌓 🇮🇳

While the soft landing was well executed, it's equally significant that the landing took place in the moon's south polar region – an area which has not previously been explored.

This achievement was a contrast to Russia's Luna-25 craft crashing on the moon's surface a few days earlier. After the failure of Luna-25, a scientist who served as a consultant for the mission, Mikhail Marov, was rushed to the hospital.

Luna-25 crash: Russian scientist who worked on Putin’s failed moon mission rushed to hospital

Good luck to Mr. Marov! Over 40 business people, government officials, military officers, and dissidents associated with Russia have died under unusual circumstances since the start of 2022. And that doesn't include Yevgeny Prigozhin.

#india #chandrayaan-3 #space exploration #moon #lunar landing #russia #luna-25 #russia's epic fail #mikhail marov #भारत #ভারত #இந்தியா #ഇന്ത്യ #ਭਾਰਤ #चांद #মহাকাশ অনুসন্ধান #خلائی ریسرچ #चंद्रयान-3 #луна-25 #россия #эпический провал россии #михаил маров

[hastysmartposts]

54 years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, after traveling nearly 400,000 kilometers over 3 days, descended to the surface of the moon in the Mare Tranquillitatus (the Ocean of Tranquility). After landing, Neil and Buzz opened a small package, one that was not on the list of items for the mission. They poured the contents into a silver chalice and hundreds of thousands of miles away at Webster Baptist Church in Texas, Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Sr. raised a similar chalice, and offered a prayer. The astronauts had Holy Communion on the lunar surface. Several hours later, Neil Armstrong put the first footprint on the moon, marking the occasion with those amazing first words, "That's one small step for [a] man; one giant leap for mankind."

As Frank Borman, William Anders, and Jim Lovell (yes, that Jim Lovell) said on Apollo 8, Christmas Day, 1968, "God Bless all of you, all of you on the Good Earth."

#lunar landing #apollo 11

[taiwantalk]

I know a few people who immediately jumped on the bandwagon of fake landing conspiracy.

I find them rather revealing on their state of mind. they’re not some strange mental cases.

but they can conveniently abandon common sense just to spoil a momentous achievement that does not really need their approval.

I wonder if that’s how people were like when columbus discovered american continent.

#taiwantalk #India #lunar landing #conspiracy #bandwagon #moonquake

[science-for-the-masses]

I don't know about anyone else, but I wasn't alive for the first lunar landing, so I'd quite like to see one myself properly

#Science #science communication #Scicomm #Stem #Science education #Science blog #Artemis #artemis mission #Lunar landing #NASA