July 20, 2004
That’s three forward, nine down

Apollo 11 materials at Nasa include an annotated transcript of the landing and the LM’s flight paths.

The actual first steps are documented in a similar transcript, peppered liberally with video, audio, and photo links.

Elsewhere, we find evidence of a Soviet attempt to reach the moon with cosmonauts, and my obligatory cardmodel links to the LEM and Delta 7’s in-progress Apollo project.

IMAX is producing a film, with some sort of assistance from Tom Hanks, that will take archival lunar surface footage, enlarge and de-grain it, and be offered up in 3-D.

Finally, it’s always important to note those who voyaged to Luna before Armstrong and company, such as the justly-celebrated Cyrano de Bergerac.

mike whybark. 121 words. Posted at July 20, 2004 04:55 PM
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