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Here’s a useful Map for our studies on the Lunar surface temperature. Thanks LitD!
Map circa 1972 showing the Apollo landing sites (NASA)
Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 all successfully delivered men to the Moon between the summer of ’69 and December 1972, but do you know where on the lunar surface they each landed? This awesome vintage map from NASA points each site out (and is a great lunar atlas as well.)
With four of the six planned lunar missions completed, this chart has been prepared to show the various areas of the lunar “nearside” to be visited by astronauts representing the NASA Apollo program. Apollo’s 11, 12, 14 and 15 are shown at their respective landing points. Apollo 16 and Apollo 17, planned for later this year at Descartes and Taurus Littrow, respectively, also are depicted on the map.
The map was created in March 1972, prior to the launches of Apollo 16 and 17.
All I can think…
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Romance. Dead sky. Ash tray in the sky. Ocean blue. “Me and you.”
I love to read the words “where we landed on the moon.” I grew up during the space race and was an astronomy science geek as these landings unfolded in the 1970s.
Back during the Cold War, there was a lot less “we.” Thankfully, that’s passed. And while many of my teenaged friends went into the sciences and technology, only one actually became an astronomer – an astrophysicist, to be exact. An impressively smart woman to be more exact.
It was an inspired and inspiring time of optimism, well-reflected in the enormous legacy of SF/sci-fi literature and fictional movies and TV entertainments. That we now communicate on microcomputers across the globe almost instantaneously is itself one of the epochal changes brought on by those times. It inspired these technological creations, after all.
“We” also “walked upon the moon,” back then – a fact I still recount with awe when I last saw the full moon in the night sky, a week or so ago. We realized an age old dream of humanity since before the Neanderthals walked the earth, as “2002: A Space Odyssey” so brilliantly showed every one.
Pointing out where on the lunar surface men landed simply makes it all more real to me now – and thus, I delight and digress.
Orson says: ….
AHHhhh those were the days were they not? When the sky was the limit and Science and Technology were King.
Now we have to live with the Neo-Luddites:
They need to spend a few years doing THIS.