April 14, 1969 Apollo Spacecraft Program Manager George M. Low announced in a press conference that Commander Neil Armstrong would most likely be the first person to exit the LM and take humanity’s first steps on the lunar surface.
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Wernher von Braun becomes a US citizen.
Braun’s U.S. citizenship swearing-in ceremony, April 14, 1955
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#OTD 1961 April 14
Gagarin returns to Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev welcomes Major Yuri Gagarin in Moscow
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The world’s most famous carbon dioxide absorber!
"Okay. You guys just tell me what sort of material you had in mind to build this mailbox out of and Jack and I will go to work on trying to construct that thing."
#Apollo13 April 14, 1970
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#OTD April 13, 1970
A moment during Apollo 13 - you can see lot of help....
Autograph Gene Kranz
Gene Kranz, Chief Flight Director,
"White Team", lead a team that worked around the clock to rescue the #Apollo13 astronauts.
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On April 13, 1970, disaster strikes 200,000 miles from Earth when oxygen tank No 2 blows up on #Apollo13
26 seconds later the famous radio message was sent
87 hours later the crew made it safely home
The crisis that became @NASA's 'most successful failure'
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#Apollo13: When flights to the moon stopped being boring...
April 13, 1970
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To the Moon and beyond | ARTEMIS
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#WeAreGoing
#Artemis #Artemis1
#ToTheMoonAndBeyond
#moonshot #Orion
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APOLLO 8 - FIRST TO THE MOON
Apollo 8 (December 21 – 27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon.
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Artemis - Fly me to the Moon!
𝘾𝙊𝙉𝙏𝘼𝘾𝙏 𝙇𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏 𝘾𝙊𝙇𝙇𝙀𝘾𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉
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Become part of the Contact Light community
Thank you for sharing the passion with us!
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Steeds Of Apollo
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Woman on the Moon
𝘾𝙊𝙉𝙏𝘼𝘾𝙏 𝙇𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏 𝘾𝙊𝙇𝙇𝙀𝘾𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉
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#WeAreGoing #Artemis #Artemis1 #ToTheMoonAndBeyond #moonshot
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To the Moon and beyond | ARTEMIS
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#WeAreGoing
#Artemis #ArtemisII
#ToTheMoonAndBeyond
#moonshot #Orion
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#NASA
Not Flat | We Checked
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#Apollo13 was NASA's third moon-landing mission, but the astronauts never made it to the lunar surface. Apollo 13 is famously described as a "successful failure".
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#Apollo13 | EX LUNA, SCIENTIA
𝘾𝙊𝙉𝙏𝘼𝘾𝙏 𝙇𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏 𝘾𝙊𝙇𝙇𝙀𝘾𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 #CONTACTLIGHTCOLLECTION
April 11, 1970
56 Years ago: #Apollo13 Launch
"The clock is running" -Jim Lovell, CDR
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John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr., (right) backup CMP, meets with James A. “Jim” Lovell, Jr., (left) and Thomas K. “Ken” Mattingly II (center) of the Apollo 13 prime crew today to review flight plans for the mission scheduled for launch April 11, 1970
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Through the window of Artemis II:
Earth grows closer — then: fire.
At ~28,000 km/h, the atmosphere hits, plasma dancing past the glass.
~2,700°C — a storm of flame.
Artemis II is coming home...
A Rookie Ready for the Moon #Apollo13 CMP Jack Swigert, suited for launch on April 11, 1970. A lifelong bachelor with an eye for women, Swigert, thirty-eight, was turned down by NASA twice before being selected in 1966.
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April 11, 1970 - Two youngsters have their attention divided between the Yankees-Indians game and the TV image from Kennedy Space Center of the #Apollo13 launch.
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April 11, 1970 - #Apollo13 was launched from Cape Kennedy at 2:13 pm. An oxygen tank exploded in the service module. Astronaut John L. Swigert saw a warning light that accompanied the bang and said, "Houston, we've had a problem here."
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April 11, 1970 - The final crew of #Apollo13 - Fred Haise, Jim Lovell and Jack Swigert - enjoy a pre-launch breakfast of steak and eggs on the morning of their historic launch.
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We have lift-off!
"The clock is running" -Jim Lovell, CDR, #Apollo13
#Today Apollo 13 | 56th Anniversary
April 11, 1970 - April 11, 2026
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This week is the 56th anniversary of the #Apollo13 launch (April 11, 1970).
Many coined their rescue operation as @NASA's finest hour. Without the hard work and ingenuity of the Mission Control teams, the "successful failure" would not have been achieved.
#MovieApollo13
April 11 marks the 56th anniversary of the launch that carried the crew of Apollo 13 into orbit.
"We were plagued by bad luck and bad omens from the very beginning."
#Apollo13 | 54th Anniversary
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April 11 marks the 56th anniversary of the launch that carried the crew of Apollo 13 into orbit.
"We were plagued by bad luck and bad omens from the very beginning."
#Apollo13 | 54th Anniversary
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This week is the 56th anniversary of the #Apollo13 launch (April 11, 1970).
Many coined their rescue operation as @NASA's finest hour. Without the hard work and ingenuity of the Mission Control teams, the "successful failure" would not have been achieved.
#MovieApollo13
