Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil Armstrong And Buzz Aldrin On The Moon, Illustrated In The Houston Post, July

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: The surface of Mars, as seen by NASA’s Viking 2 lander, September 25, 1977.

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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera of asteroid Vesta on August 11, 2011. The image has a resolution of about 260 meters per pixel. [1024 x 1024]

TODAY IN HISTORY: On January 24, 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 space probe made its closest approach to planet Uranus.

A month of moons 🌘🌗🌕🌓🌒

astronomers

Bartholomeus Anglicus, ‘Livre des propriétés des choses’ (‘De proprietatibus rerum’, French translation of Jean Corbechon), Bruges ca. 1470

BnF, Français 134, fol. 169r

1981 NASA diagram gives a cutaway view inside a space shuttle.

ON THIS DAY: Titan, moon of Saturn, observed on November 30, 2014 by the Cassini space probe.

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Margaret Hamilton

Ieri Margaret Hamilton ha ricevuto il prestigioso premio "Presidential medal of freedom" per aver guidato con successo il team per la creazione dell'on-board computer dell'Apollo 11, permettendo quindi il primo allunaggio umano della storia

celestial bodies

Christianus Prolianus, Astronomia, Naples 1478

Manchester, John Rylands University Library, Latin MS 53, fol. 58v