In homage of #Apollo50 🇺🇸🚀👨🚀🌕 Here's Stanley Hendricks; Al Muenchen; Howard Lohnes; Howard paper engineering Lohnes pop up book 📕— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 18, 2019
"Astronauts on the moon : the story of the Apollo moon landings"https://t.co/0hAmAPGlLn pic.twitter.com/E71EtgqSMd
Hendricks, Stanley, Al Muenchen, Howard Lohnes, Stanley Hendricks, and Howard . Lohnes. Astronauts on the Moon: The Story of the Apollo Moon Landings. Kansas City, Mo: Hallmark Cards, Inc, 1970. Print.
The title page of "Astronauts on the Moon" has a 3D paper sculpture of a Saturn V rocket launching from Cape Canaveral , Florida, USA— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 18, 2019
#Apollo50 🇺🇸🚀👨🚀🌕 pic.twitter.com/BOj0b08CPy
From 📕@Hallmark #Apollo50 🇺🇸🚀👨🚀🌕book— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 18, 2019
"The first men to land on the moon were Americans - Neil Armstrong & @TheRealBuzz They landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. Since that unforgettable day, other American astronauts have flown to the moon & explored its craters & its hills" pic.twitter.com/8Sn9k9rxGs
From 📕#Apollo50 🇺🇸🚀👨🚀🌕book— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 18, 2019
"At Cape Kennedy, Florida, 3 American astronauts climb into the nose of a huge Saturn 5 rocket. In the control center, the countdown goes smoothly. 10-9-Ignition-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-0-Lift-Off! The rocket's powerful engines blast out sheets of fire" pic.twitter.com/vNmsWpXzpp
Here's the entire countdown sequence all the way down to lift off 🔥🚀since the gif only goes down to 7 ... pic.twitter.com/ipPtcpVv37— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 18, 2019
From 📕#Apollo50 🇺🇸🚀👨🚀🌕pop book— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 18, 2019
"The Saturn 5 rises off the launch pad, slowly at first, then gaining speed, breaking through the clouds, racing into the sky. The three astronauts inside the rocket are on their way to the moon!" pic.twitter.com/nwiqCUAqoL
From 📕#Apollo50 🇺🇸🚀👨🚀🌕pop book— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 18, 2019
"First the astronauts circle the earth 🌎to make certain everything works in their ship. Then they fire the third stage engine of the Saturn 5. It speeds them up to 24,600 miles per hour, and they quickly leave the earth behind" pic.twitter.com/5DkCscAAWr
From 📕#Apollo50 🇺🇸🚀👨🚀🌕pop book— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 18, 2019
"The astronauts use two spaceships for their moon trip, the gumdrop-shaped 'command module' & the bug-like 'lunar module' or 'LM.'
Soon after they fire the Saturn 5 third stage, the astronauts dock the command module & the LM nose to nose" pic.twitter.com/IsGhXEbWks
From 📕#Apollo50 🇺🇸🚀👨🚀🌕pop book— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 18, 2019
"First they undock from the command module. Then they start the LM's special rocket & slow the little ship down. It begins to lower itself carefully toward the moon. When it comes down it will land on the moon's thick layer of dust & rocks" pic.twitter.com/oibuPEXVoS
From 📕#Apollo50 🇺🇸🚀👨🚀🌕pop book— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 18, 2019
"At 500 feet, one of the astronauts takes control of the LM & moves it forward to smooth ground. Then he lowers it gently to the surface of the moon…He radios the good news back to earth. 'Apollo astronaut here,' he says. 'The LM has landed'" pic.twitter.com/ZR2o4g6DCJ
From 📕#Apollo50 🇺🇸🚀👨🚀🌕pop book— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 18, 2019
"When Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he said these famous words: 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.'
The first job of all the Apollo astronauts is to collect two boxes of moon rocks" pic.twitter.com/f96xFtK9RU
From 📕#Apollo50 🇺🇸🚀👨🚀🌕pop book— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 18, 2019
"The second job of the Apollo astronauts is to unpack a collection of experiments. They carry the experiments away from the LM & set them on the surface of the moon. Each experiment sends radio signals back to the earth for a year or more" pic.twitter.com/oVSjzBofGy
From 📕#Apollo50 🇺🇸🚀👨🚀🌕pop book— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 18, 2019
"The astronauts also go exploring. The moon makes them weigh much less than they weigh on earth, so they can jump around like kangaroos. 🦘
Some of the later Apollo astronauts will be able to go exploring in a little moon car." 🚗 pic.twitter.com/ikD87PnLJK
From 📕#Apollo50 🇺🇸🚀👨🚀🌕pop book— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 18, 2019
"After working on the moon, the astronauts get back into the LM & fill it with air again. High above them, the 3rd astronaut circles the moon in the command module. The 2 moon astronauts start the LM's takeoff engine & rocket up" pic.twitter.com/o1vwqYamai
From 📕#Apollo50 🇺🇸🚀👨🚀🌕pop book— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 18, 2019
"When they meet the command module they turn the LM around & dock. Out their windows they can see the earth, a bright blue-white ball like a giant moon in the sky. On the ground below, the astronauts have left behind their backpacks & cameras" pic.twitter.com/L0iZIorF2Z
From 📕#Apollo50 🇺🇸🚀👨🚀🌕pop book— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 18, 2019
"The 3-day return trip to earth goes quickly. Nearing the earth, the astronauts separate the command module from its service engine, then turn the ship so that the flat part of its gumdrop shape faces the earth. The descent to earth begins" pic.twitter.com/6GQnJUFSEd
From📕#Apollo50 🇺🇸🚀👨🚀🌕pop book— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 18, 2019
"Once the ship is slowed down, automatic parachutes pop out &gently lower it into the waters of the Pacific Ocean. Then a helicopter🚁picks the ship out of the water. Another Apollo adventure is over. In years to come, there will flights to Mars" pic.twitter.com/1cH5qJG4Bx
From 📕#Apollo50 🇺🇸🚀👨🚀🌕pop book— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 18, 2019
Here is the Apollo mission trajectory from earth orbit 🌎to moon orbit 🌕 & back again 🌎 pic.twitter.com/4ihODcJw8a
— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 22, 2019
Buckeye perspective on #Apollo50th 🇺🇸🚀👨🚀🌕from @WHIO @JOtteWHIO reminding everyone that Colonel Edwin " Buzz" Aldrin is an alumnus from @WrightPattAFB's #AFIT & @AFmuseum has a flight simulator guests can fly & the Apollo 15 capsule on display pic.twitter.com/iaa3iPFALw— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 22, 2019
I learned on Gomer Pyle that the Spirit of St. Louis was displayed in what's now Smithsonian's Arts & Industry building before @airandspace was opened pic.twitter.com/Yd1DsaCWb9— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 22, 2019
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