Frank R. Paul (1884–1963) - “The End Of The Moon” Science Fiction Plus back-cover, August 1953
Can’t Buy Me Love (1987)
Cindy (looking through a telescope): God. There are mountains up there. And valleys, canyons and plains. What’s that thing, um, up there that looks like a star sapphire?
Ronald: Tycho. An asteroid crashed there and broke the moon.
Cindy: Broke the moon?
Ronald: Yeah. It made a crack in the moon a hundred times the size of the Grand Canyon. On the right is the Sea of Tranquility. The first spaceship from Earth landed there the day I was born.
Cindy: That’s why you’re so into astrology, right?
Ronald: Astronomy. No. It’s just… up there… is our future world. By the time I’m my dad’s age, people will be living there and working. Maybe even us.
Cindy: The moon. It looks different now. It’s not as mysterious or romantic.
Ronald: I’m sorry I ruined it for you.
Cindy: You didn’t ruin it. You Just changed it, I guess.
Ronald: [Sighs]
Émile Bayard, gravure extraite de « Autour de la Lune », in Jules Verne, Voyages extraordinaires, Éd. Pierre-Jules Hetzel, 1870
Bonne fête (happy birthday) Jules Verne (February 8 1828-1905) !
Timbres de Lunokhod 1, Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques.
Lunokhod 1 stamps, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
This picture of a crescent-shaped Earth and Moon — the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft — was recorded Sept. 18, 1977, by NASA’s Voyager 1 when it was 7.25 million miles (11.66 million kilometers) from Earth. (wikipedia)
Timbre de la sonde Luna 3, Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques.
Space probe Luna 3 stamp, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
- Neil A. Armstrong (on left), commander; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, are seen standing by the Lunar Module ladder in this black and white reproduction taken from a telecast by the Apollo 11 lunar surface television camera. via
- Reproduction taken from a telecast by the Apollo 11 lunar surface television camera. President Richard M. Nixon had just spoken to the two astronauts by radio and Aldrin, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, is saluting the president. via
- This frame from the 16-mm camera mounted in the Lunar Module window shows Neil Armstrong (left) and Buzz Aldrin (right) deploying the U.S. Flag. via
- Zoom on a frame of the time lapse video made by the 16-mm camera. This is the only picture we know about in which you can see Neil Armstrong’s face while he’s on the moon. via
Pictures of Neil Armstrong taken by Buzz Aldrin (first one is a panorama via).
Armstrong took most of the pictures on the Moon. Aldrin had the camera only a short time and was assigned to shoot specific, technical things (from this article). Inside the Lunar Module Eagle, he took a better photo.
(note: in the fourth photo, this is probably not a footprint of Neil, but Buzz, see this article.)
Rest in peace, you brave pioneer and hero to generations of scientists, science lovers, and admires of space.
Neil Armstrong, August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012
(note:center left: John Young (Apollo 16), center right: Buzz Aldrin and the reflection of Neil )
