Vor 50 Jahre: Apollo 14

Apollo sites

Folder: Astronomy

20 Nov 2015

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Vor 50 Jahre: Apollo 14

5-2-1971, "Antares", the "Lunar Module" of Apollo 14 landed near the Apollo 12 landingsite. Main picture and the top right PiP are own pictures

30 May 2015

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Vor 50 Jahre: Apollo 12

Inset shows a picture made by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. It is amazing how little attention the later Apollo flights got. Only the first counts.

01 Jan 2008

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Frank Borman, commander Apollo 8

My beautiful picture

01 Jan 2008

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Three..Two..One..Ignition

Vor 50 Jahre mit dem Icarex vor dem ZW Fernseher. Weihnachten 1968, Apollo 8 mit Borman, Anders und Lovell fliegt zur Mond und zurück (ohne Mondlandung). Im PiP, Frank Borman commander Apollo 8.

24 Apr 2015

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Vor 50 Jahre: Apollo 11

Inset shows a picture made by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

08 Sep 2014

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Apollo landingsites (manned missions)

Apollo 7 until 10 were not planned to land on the Moon Apollo 13 failed to land on the Moon, but returned savely to Earth (resulted in the well known Apollo 13 movie) A list of all (manned and unmanned) missions to the Moon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon

17 Jul 2019

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10 comments

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Approaching the Moon

a composition with last night's moon

01 Mar 2018

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earthrise: 50 years ago

Taken in december 1968 by the Apollo 8 crew (they did not land on the moon). This picture made many people become aware of the environmental dangers for the inhabitants of planet earth. The beginning of the green movement.

17 Apr 2021

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One day difference (view on black)

This is one of my favourite areas on the Moon. The PiP shows the same area. The other PiP shows the landing site of Apollo 11, added now because of the death of Michael Collins yesterday
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