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Apollo 11

This oblique view of the lunar farside was photographed from the Apollo 13 spacecraft as it passed around the moon on its hazardous journey home. The large conspicuous mare area is Mare Moscoviense which is located at 146 degrees east longitude and 25 degrees north latitude. The large crater at the horizon is International Astronomical Union Crater No. 221. This view is looking northeast from the spacecraft.

This oblique view of the lunar farside was photographed from the Apollo 13 spacecraft as it passed around the moon on its hazardous journey home. The large conspicuous mare area is Mare Moscoviense which is located at 146 degrees east longitude and 25 degrees north latitude. The large crater at the horizon is International Astronomical Union Crater No. 221. This view is looking northeast from the spacecraft.

NASA

NASA celebrates 50 years since Apollo 13, their most successful failure

New video visualizes the Moon's surface as the Apollo 13 crew witnessed it

Max G. Levy
Katherine Johnson At Her Desk at NASA Langley Research Center.

Johnson at her desk at NASA Langley, 1966.

NASA

Remembering Katherine Johnson. A space scientist's life in pictures

A critical scientist for the space program, passed away today at 101

Dan Samorodnitsky
Tardigrade waterbear SEM micrograph

E. Schokraie et al. via Wikimedia Commons

Those indestructible tardigrades probably won't take over the Moon

... but we should take interplanetary contamination seriously

Jennifer Tsang
The Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) ascent stage

NASA/Michael Collins (id  as11-44-6626)

Apollo 11 changed the world forever

Working together, there's no reason we can't change it again

Nick Young
Command Module pilot Michael Collins practices in the CM simulator on June 19, 1969, at Kennedy Space Center.

NASA

Before Apollo 11 landed, astronauts needed a map of the Moon

Only one person responded to a call for an absolutely critical mission

Timothy Swindle
The pulsar at the center of the Crab Nebula, emitting wisps of high energy particles by the spinning of the star.

NASA and ESA; Acknowledgment: J. Hester (ASU) and M. Weisskopf (NASA/MSFC) 

Apollo 11 was just one space achievement of many in 1969

There was the Crab Nebula, Apollo 12, and more

Dan Samorodnitsky
wafer next to a US dime

Apollo 11 brought messages from Earth to the Moon and then almost forgot about them

A gold olive branch, an Apollo 1 commemoration, and messages from world leaders were tossed off the lander's ladder

Dan Samorodnitsky