There's going to be so much on this coming from all kinds of directions. This is about NASAs acheivement, and the Russian achievement needs to be included too. And commerating Apollo 1, .

(If you wanna talk about how fake it was, how fake NASA is, start another thread please and talk all you want to, don't post your thoughts here, thank you)

NASA will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon mission and look to the future of exploration on the Moon and Mars with a live, two-hour television broadcast Friday, July 19, and partner-led events taking place across the country from July 16 through July 20.

On July 16, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a journey to the Moon and into history. Four days later, while Collins orbited the Moon in the command module, Armstrong and Aldrin landed Apollo 11’s lunar module, Eagle, on the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility, becoming the first humans to set foot on the lunar surface.

Highlights of events in which NASA is participating include:

July 16 – Apollo 11 Launch Reflection at Pad 39A

Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins will reunite at the historic launch pad where Apollo 11 began its mission 50 years ago for a question-and-answer session with Kennedy Center Director Bob Cabana, beginning at 9:15 a.m. EDT, followed by a visit the Launch Control Center and Firing Room 1 to connect with Apollo-era launch controllers and those who will launch the Artemis missions that are part of America’s Moon to Mars approach for human space exploration.

This event will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website.

July 16 – World Record Model Rocket Launch Attempt

At 8:32 a.m. CDT – the same time as the Apollo 11 mission lifted off from Florida 50 years ago – the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, the official visitor center for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, in Huntsville, Alabama, will host a Guinness Book of World Records attempt for most model rockets launched simultaneously from a single location.

On the same day, the Apollo 50th Global Rocket Launch, a 24-hour challenge, will be held in conjunction with partners launching around the world. Groups may register at:

https://rocketcenter.com/apollo50/GlobalLaunch

July 18 to 20 – Apollo 50 on the National Mall

NASA and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum are hosting the Apollo 50 Festival, a free three-day event on the National Mall in Washington, July 18-20. The event will include exhibits, speakers, demonstrations and a host of fun activities for the entire family. NASA researchers, scientists and engineers will showcase NASA’s newest technologies and innovations that will take us forward to the Moon and on to Mars. Festival hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EDT July 18 and 19, and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. July 20. For more information, visit:

https://airandspace.si.edu/events/apollo-50-festival

July 18 to 20 – Apollo A-Maze-Ment at Cherry Crest Adventure Farm in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Throughout the summer, Cherry Crest is presenting an Apollo-themed corn maze for tourists. NASA and local and agriculture industry representatives will participate in stage talks and media interviews about the intersection of NASA technology, farming in America, and our everyday lives on Earth – demonstrating the return on investment of tax dollars. There will be talks by NASA’s Chief Technologist Douglas Terrier, astronaut Alvin Drew, and Technology Transfer Program Executive Dan Lockney. For more information, visit:

https://www.cherrycrestfarm.com/corn-maize

July 19 – Dedication of U.S. Postal Service’s 1969 Moon Landing Stamp

The U.S. Postal Service will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 and humanity’s first steps on the Moon with two Forever stamps. It will dedicate the stamps in a ceremony at 11 a.m. EDT at the Apollo/Saturn V Center of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The ceremony is open to the public with paid admission. For more information, visit:

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2019/0610ma-first-moon-landing-stamps.htm

July 19 – NASA’s Giant Leaps: Past and Future

On July 19, NASA’s Giant Leaps: Past and Future will air 1 to 3 p.m. EDT on NASA TV and the agency’s website, and will be simulcast on the Discovery Science Channel. Hosted from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center, the show will salute the heroes of Apollo and discuss the agency’s future plans, with segments at:

• The National Mall in Washington
• NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, including the newly restored Apollo Mission Control Operations Room and Space Center Houston, Johnson’s official visitors center
• The U.S. Space & Rocket Center near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama
• Neil Armstrong’s hometown of Wapakoneta, Ohio
• The Apollo 11 command module on display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle

The show also will feature slices of Americana at other anniversary celebrations around the country.

At 3 p.m., NASA TV will air a special program, STEM Forward to the Moon, which will feature kids participating in Moon landing simulations at four partner museums across the nation:

• Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas
• Saint Louis Science Center in St. Louis
• Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey, California
• Arizona Science Center in Phoenix

NASA also will bring Apollo 50th anniversary participants together to take part in a virtual engineering design challenge on social media. Along with each of its museum partners, NASA invites the public to help build a component of NASA’s return to the Moon using simple household materials. For more information, visit:

https://spacestem.nasa.gov/

July 19 – NASA at Nasdaq Closing Bell

NASA’s Chief Financial Officer Jeff DeWit and astronaut Jeanette Epps will represent the agency during the Nasdaq Stock Market closing bell ceremony in New York City.

Ongoing – Restored Apollo Mission Control Center

In celebration of the golden anniversary of the first landing, the Apollo Mission Control Center at Johnson has been restored to appear as it did in that era, ready to begin its new life as a source of learning and inspiration. Visitors to NASA can experience the restored control room as part of regular tours provided by Space Center Houston.

July 19 to 21 – Summer Moon Festival in Wapakoneta, Ohio

NASA and the Armstrong Air & Space Museum, built to honor Wapakoneta’s own Neil Armstrong and other Ohioans in space exploration, will mark the anniversary with festivities including a 5k and 10k Run to the Moon with NASA astronauts, space inflatables, interactive STEM activities, rocket launches, and more. Activities on the museum grounds run July 19 to 21 and coincide with the 10-day, city-wide Summer Moon Festival, which includes a family-oriented street fair July 17-20 in downtown Wapakoneta. For more information, visit:

https://armstrongmuseum.org

July 20: National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) Pops presents Apollo 11: A Fiftieth Anniversary

NASA is collaborating with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington and the National Symphony on a musical and visual tribute to the 1969 Moon landing. The concert, which begins at 9 p.m. EDT, will be hosted by Meredith Vieira and Adam Savage and feature appearances by singer-songwriter and producer Pharrell Williams, singer-songwriter Natasha Bedingfield, composer Michael Giacchino, actor LeVar Burton, and more. For more information, visit:

http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/NTPPH

July 20: NASA Night at Discovery Green

From 6 to 10 p.m. CDT, Downtown Houston’s Discovery Green will host a free public screening of the movie Apollo 11. The U.S. Army Golden Knights jumpers will land before the screening, in addition to a special appearance from Spacey Casey. The event will feature an appearance by NASA astronaut Steve Bowen. Find more information at:

https://www.discoverygreen.com/moonlanding

For more information about NASA’s Apollo 11 mission and a list of other events taking place across the country, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/apollo50th/

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Moon to Mars

https://www.nasa.gov/spec...moon2mars/

[Edited 7/15/19 17:21pm]

Supposedly the official watch of the moonlanding.



50th Anniversary watch

Children's "Under One Moon" Art Contest

A variety of moon-related activities are being coordinated worldwide on and around the anniversary of 20-21 July 2019.

To encourage the involvement of children in the celebrations, Moon Landing 50 has established a new art contest for children.

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We invite children aged 5 to 12 to produce a piece of artwork that represents the theme: Under One Moon. The artwork can be drawn or painted on a size A4 paper.

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To submit: Please have a supporting adult or educator complete this form by 11 August 17:00 CEST. Submissions are welcome for children of any country.

3 winners will be selected for the Under One Moon contest per age group (5-6, 7-9, and 10-12).

Each winner will have their artwork shared online at MoonLanding50.org and IAU-100.org and will receive:

-one Telescope KIT from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and the IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO)

-one Moon and one Earth from the Celestial Buddies toy set

The 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing will be marked with events throughout Slovakia.

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The “Apollo 50 – The 50th anniversary of the Moon landing” exhibition is available for the public at the Regional Observatory and Planetarium of Maximilian Hell in Žiar nad Hronom. The exhibition consists of the twelve panels dedicated to all Apollo missions, primarily to Apollo 11 and the first landing on the Moon. Part of the exhibition is also a 3.4 meter tall model of the Saturn V rocket (1:33 scale). The exhibition is open until the end of September 2019 but also is available online.

“Journey to the Moon” is another exhibition dedicated largely to the Apollo 11 mission, which is available from July 16 to September 8, 2019 for all visitors of the Slovak Technical Museum in Košice. Most of the presented showpieces come from the personal collection of exhibition author Ján Horňak and are accompanied by attractive 3D prints (including the moon suit glove of Neil Armstrong), models (the Saturn V rocket and the landing leg of the Eagle module) and other artifacts reminiscent of this historic event.



Celebrating in Senegal

To celebrate the 50 anniversary of landing on the moon, the local association for the outreach of astronomy in Senegal participated with a local event "On the Moon Again" event on 12-13 July, which provided the opportunity for people to look at the Moon through a telescope. These observations took place in Dakar, the country's capital, at the "Place du Souvenir" near the sea.

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On 26 July, a "Lunar Day" activity will also take place in Dakar. The event will consist of a workshop with children that aims to explain why we see only one face of the Moon through interactive discussions and mentorship.



India

The Moon Habitat Design Contest is a national level competition organised by India's Natskies to celebrate 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 mission. The historic moon landing in 1969 paved the way for future space exploration and opened doors of curiosity about space.

Natskies is India's first organisation which uses space science, astronomy as an engagement tool to inspire, engage, educate and employ students, corporate employees and general public. Natskies strives to make astronomy and space science accessible to everyone.

The objective of the contest is to encourage students to innovate and explore in the field of astronomy and science. The Contest is open to all students and will be open for submission from 20 July to 31 August, 2019. Students can register through their schools/colleges on an online platform. Each entry will consist a team of 3-5 students that will represent their school/college and work on their habitat design. The prize ceremony will be hosted at Natskies Space Summit where winner will get a chance to present their work in front of team of scientist.

Would be cool to put a base on the moon

The Moon Exhibition starts today at the National Maritime Museum in London (Park Row, Greenwich Peninsula, London SE10 9NF)

A glimpse of the exhibition.

kpowers said:

onlyforaminute said:

This happened on my sixth birthday which was on a Friday. I remember watching the news reports with Walter Cronkite, My teacher talking about it the following Monday. From everything I've read, it was a tragedy waiting to happen.

onlyforaminute said:

kpowers said:

Would be cool to put a base on the moon

Instead of 1999 would you settle for 2029? A project called Artemis.

Still got the rest of 2019

kpowers said:

Military budged boondoggle.

The Johnson Space Center celebration was pretty cool. But HOT HOT HOT.

We had a video message from our alleged Senator Rafael Cruz and our alleged Congressional Representative Brian Babin. I guess both those guys had something better to do Saturday night than be at the Johnson Space Center with their constituents to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the greatest feat ever accomplished by the human race with the people who actually made it happen. And our other Senator, John Cornyn, contributed absolutely nothing. No video, no letter, no nothing. Thanks for the love, Senator Cornyn!

Congresswomen Lizzie Panhill Fletcher and Sheila Jackson Lee - neither of whom represent the district in which JSC is located but again that representative, Brian Babin, must have had something more important to do - well, they DID show up and they gave great speeches. Especially Sheila Jackson Lee. Not to get all P&R on y'all (like I haven't already, LOL) but while the GOP does their best to demonize Sheila Jackson Lee, she is one amazing woman.

There was a concert with Phillip Phillips. I got there in time for his last three songs, which actually were a lot better than I figured they'd be.

Walk the Moon was the headliner and bless their little hearts. I guess they tried their best but at the risk of sounding like an old fogey, let's just say rock and roll isn't what it used to be. We are incredibly lucky to be fans of Prince. That's all I have to say on that.

As y'all may know, I lived 3 miles from the JSC for 35 years (just moved, and it was under protest). I hold each and every person involved in our space program out as American heroes. From the astronauts that flew the missions, to the janitors who swept the floors. Every one of them is an American hero and I can absolutely guarantee you that Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins agree 1,000%.

So I'm a little miffed that our elected officials who actually represent the land on which the JSC and on which we placed men on the moon and got them back, couldn't be arsed to show up.