{"id":144,"date":"2019-06-24T16:04:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T23:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orangemoose.com\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:12:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T19:12:21","slug":"fiftieth-anniversary-of-apollo-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangemoose.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/24\/fiftieth-anniversary-of-apollo-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiftieth Anniversary of Apollo 11"},"content":{"rendered":"
Apollo 11 lifted off on July 14th, 1969 so in three weeks we’ll be celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of that historic mission.\u00a0 I was thirteen years old in July 1969 and several years into a deep childhood fascination with the space program.\u00a0 Not surprisingly I was glued to the television and newspapers for every aspect of the Apollo 11 mission and still remember how I felt watching and following along.<\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to repeating that experience this July and am delighted to have the Internet to help me out.\u00a0 For my own part I’ve taken a timeline of mission events from NASA, wrapped it in a bit of JavaScript, and created a simple web page<\/a> that will help me keep track of the flow of the mission in real time (though fifty years after the fact).<\/p>\n

I don’t have a rich collection of mission photos, videos, and artifacts, or the time to find and weave any into my mission timeline, something I knew other folks would be better positioned to accomplish.\u00a0 Ben Feist and team have done precisely that<\/a> in creating Apollo 11 in Real Time<\/a> so I’ll also have that open continuously between liftoff on July 14 and splashdown on July 24.<\/p>\n

Last night I watched Todd Douglas Miller’s “Apollo 11<\/a>” documentary on CNN (which released it) and it brought back vivid memories of July fifty years ago.\u00a0 I expect I’ll watch it several more times over the course of the next three weeks — highly recommended.<\/p>\n

Happily both July 14th, liftoff day, and July 20th, landing\/EVA day, fall on weekends so I expect I’ll set aside time both those days to reconnect with the event that was such a powerful and formative part of my youth. Might also be a good time to build a few space-themed model kits I’ve squirreled away, attend a Splashdown 50 event<\/a> on the nearby USS Hornet (which recovered the Apollo 11 capsule and crew) or just listen to the official mission mixtape<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apollo 11 lifted off on July 14th, 1969 so in three weeks we’ll be celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of that historic mission.\u00a0 I was thirteen years old in July 1969 and several years into a deep childhood fascination with the space program.\u00a0 Not surprisingly I was glued to the television and newspapers for every aspect…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","tag-space","kind-article","h-entry","hentry"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangemoose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangemoose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangemoose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangemoose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangemoose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangemoose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/orangemoose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangemoose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangemoose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangemoose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}