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Image source: National Archives
Norman Rockwell
Category: Apollo Lunar Module
Apollo Art by Robert Watts
LEM by Craig Kavafes
MS-G-37-13-63
S69-38662
S69-38662 (July 1969) — A Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation’s artist concept depicting mankind’s first walk on another celestial body. Here astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 commander, is making his first step onto the surface of the Moon. Armstrong has just egressed Lunar Module (LM) 5. Still inside the LM is astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. Astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remains with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit. In the background is the Earth, some 240,000 miles away.
Image credit: NASA Johnson
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Inboard Profiles
Image credit: Grumman
Image source: National Archives
1962 Boeing LEM
Image credit: North American
Image source: Paul Carsola
The Bug
Image credit: NASA GRC
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Landing Sequence
Scale Model
Lunar Liftoff
- Mariner IV determined that Mars’ atmosphere is only 1 to 2 percent of the Earth’s in density. This may mean that future manned spacecraft to Mars must employ the same landing technique – retro rockets – as the ones which will be used by the Apollo lunar ship.
- Artist’s drawing of interplanetary explorers maintaining contact through the use of small radio equipment. This particular transmitter is also designed to transmit data concerning the condition of the astronaut and the functioning of his suit.
Mars: Planet for Conquest
by Erik Bergaust
G.P Putnam’s Sons, 1967
Image source: Numbers Station
LEM by Gary Meyer
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Mike Acs
