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APOLLO 11 COMPUTER AND LANDING FROM MARTY WINKEL, LUNAR MODULE LEAD ELECTRICAL TECHNICIAN live at 4 pm EDT or anytime on YouTube www.youtube.com/@AmericanSpaceMuseum/streams![]()
Stay Curious co-producer Marty shares the story of the DKSY computer how it worked flawlessly to land Apollo 11 LM#5 on the Moon 57 years ago today, July 20, 1969.
TODAY 57 YEARS AGO AMERICA LANDS ON THE MOON![]()
Artist Paul Calle's "The Great Moment" captures Neil Armstrong's first step on the Moon. That moment occurred at 10:56 pm EDT on July 20, 1969. ![]()
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Follow it "live" here: apolloinrealtime.org/11/. The landing is at 4:17 pm EDT.![]()
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So much of what the American Space Museum is all about, and the relics we preserve, center around this great moment in time. ![]()
Enjoy "Moon Landing Day!"
Have you caught an episode of Stay Curious yet?![]()
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Every single day at 4 p.m., we go live to talk about space history the way no textbook ever could: through real artifacts, current events, and conversations with the astronauts and space workers who were there.![]()
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It's free to listen, and there's a deep archive waiting if you want to binge.![]()
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Pour a coffee, pull up a chair, and stay curious with us. You can find the livestream and all our channels at spacewalkoffame.org.
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SPACE BARBIE NOW A POSTAGE STAMP![]()
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With Barbie you can be anything, even an astronaut ... on a postage stamp.![]()
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The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) on Saturday (July 11) "honored the possibilities and hope" conveyed by Mattel's long-running line of teenage fashion dolls by issuing a new series of ten Barbie collectible stamps. Themed around the doll's careers throughout the years, one the stamps depicts Barbie as an astronaut.![]()
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"Two decades after Barbie first went to space, this 1986 astronaut suited up in a very '80s broad-shouldered spacesuit in hot pink and silver lamé, with a bubble-helmet worn over dark brunette hair," reads the postal service's description of the Forever-denomination stamp.![]()
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Just two years after Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the world's first woman to fly into space, Mattel offered a silvery-spacesuit for its Barbie dolls to wear in 1965. Marketed as an outfit accessory alone, the Barbie Miss Astronaut set included brown mittens and matching boots, as well a hard shell white helmet. The suit, itself, was loosely based on the garments worn by NASA's Mercury and Gemini pilots.![]()
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It would not be for another 13 years after Barbie Miss Astronaut's debut that the U.S space program would select its first six female candidates and then not until 1983 that Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. (Ride would later be posthumously honored as an "Inspiring Woman," with a Barbie doll modeled after her own appearance in 2019.)![]()
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The Astronaut Barbie that the USPS and Mattel opted to feature on the new stamp was one of the more futuristic, pink-forward versions of the space traveler dolls. Still, it was the first spacesuited doll to come as a Caucasian or Black Barbie. Both the USPS and Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum display the African-American version.![]()
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"Even though six female astronauts had been selected for NASA's space shuttle program by 1985, when this dolls was issued, the doll's space-age outfit is more fantastical then realistic," the card accompanying the doll's museum display reads.![]()
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Astronaut Barbie lands at post offices with new US stamp release
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With Barbie you can be anything, even an astronaut ... on a postage stamp. The U.S. Postal Service "honored the possibilities and hope" conveyed by Mattel's line of fashion dolls by issuing ten Barbie...
PEN ALDRIN USED TO ARM APOLLO 11 CIRCUIT SELLS FOR $857,600![]()
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A dried out felt-tip marker and a snapped off piece of molded black plastic sold for $857,600 at a Sotheby's auction on Wednesday (July 15).![]()
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What otherwise might be worthless bits of trash commanded the highest bids of the sale due to where the two items were one day and 57 years ago — lifting off aboard NASA's Apollo 11 spacecraft on humanity's first mission to land astronauts on the moon. More than flown odds and ends, one was the problem that almost stranded Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface and the other was the simple solution to saving the mission.![]()
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"Houston, Tranquility. Do you have a way of showing the configuration of the engine arm circuit breaker?" radioed Aldrin to Mission Control after realizing he or Armstrong had inadvertently broken off the top of the circuit breaker switch that would enable their ascent engine to ignite, beginning their trip back to Earth. "The reason I'm asking is because the end of it appears to be broken off. I think we can push it back in again. I'm not sure we could pull it out if we pushed it in, though."![]()
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As engineers on the ground worked to devise a workaround, Aldrin came up with a straightforward idea, as he described decades later in the letter accompanying the artifacts' sale.![]()
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"While I could have stuck my finger in and reset the switch...I did not want to electrocute myself. I had a plastic felt tip pen in one of my suit pockets and it fit into the breaker opening, so I pushed the marker pen into the circuit breaker, it clicked on, and we rearmed the Engine Arm circuit," he wrote.![]()
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The tale of the pen and circuit breaker is well known, having been recounted by Aldrin in his books and talks, as well as for years having been included on the pamphlet packaged with every Fisher Space Pen sold until Aldrin pointed out that as an engineer, he would never insert a metal-tipped writing instrument into a live electrical socket. The pen he used and that was sold on Wednesday was a Duro-brand Rocket felt-tip marker.
Apollo 11's broken switch and mission-saving pen sell for $860K at auction
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A dried out marker and a snapped off piece of plastic sold for $857,600 at a Sotheby's auction. What otherwise might be worthless bits of trash commanded the highest bids of the sale due to where the ...
SWATCH HAS SPECIAL 1969 "MOONSWATCH" FOR YOU TO BUY![]()
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Swatch is celebrating the 57th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission with a new, limited edition gold model of its popular MoonSwatch. You can buy it if you can land one of the 1,969 spots available by applying online.![]()
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The new Mission To The Moon 1969 MoonSwatch features a dial, hands, crown and pushers made from Omega's proprietary 18k "Moonshine" Gold. The gold originates from Omega spare parts that date back to the Apollo era as a tribute to the historic mission. Like all MoonSwatch models, the overall design of the watch is based on Omega's Speedmaster, the first wristwatch worn on the lunar surface.![]()
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This new 42mm model incorporates logos, typography and gold hallmarks used in 1969, as well as a battery cover with a gold-colored moon design that displays the date of the Apollo 11 Moon landing ("July 21, 1969" in Central European Standard Time) and a boot print referencing the first step taken on the Sea of Tranquility,![]()
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The same date (57 years later) is the deadline to apply for a chance to purchase the watch for $570 (US).![]()
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"Limited to just 1,969 individually numbered pieces, this exclusive edition is available only through an approved Electronic Swatch Timepiece Application (ESTA)," reads s Swatch social media post about how to enter. "The applications are open until July 21, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. CEST [5:59 p.m. EDT on July 20]."![]()
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The ESTA is loosely based on the application that travelers from many countries have to fill out in order to gain entry to the United States. Once started, applicants have two hours and 15 minutes to complete the ESTA, "the same amount of time astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent performing experiments on the lunar surface," writes Swatch.![]()
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The 1969 selected participants will be chosen by an internal jury from everyone who completes the ESTA's questions correctly. If approved, participants will be instructed on how to complete their purchase and when to pick it up at their preferred Swatch store.![]()
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Selected participants will have a specific time frame to complete their purchase.
Swatch: Apply by Apollo 11 anniversary to buy '1969' limited MoonSwatch
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Swatch is celebrating the 57th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission with a new, limited edition gold model of its MoonSwatch. You can buy the new Mission to the Moon 1969 wristwatch if you can land on...
Go See the Milky Way--it's amazing!![]()
Because of light pollution, many people haven't seen the Milky Way, so Stargazer MarQ take you out in the country to visualize a starry arm of our Galaxy.
Go See the Milky Way--it's amazing!
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Because of light pollution, many people haven't seen the Milky Way,...
HAVE YOU SEEN THE MILKY WAY? WE SHARE THE SUMMER WONDERS today 4 pm EDT or anytime in YouTube![]()
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Many peopl have never seen the summer Milky Way because of urban light pollution. Stargazer MarQ take you in the night of your backyard.
FOLLOW APOLLO 11 TO THE MOON AND BACK ON THIS SPECIAL "REAL TIME" WEBSITE![]()
Today is the second day of the three-day voyage to the Moon, and Mike, Buzz and Neil are in cruise mode, getting ready for the landing on Sunday afternoon beginning around 3 pm EDT--57-years ago in 1969. ![]()
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A real-time interactive journey through the first landing on the Moon. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1969.
ASM PARTNER CALLE PORTRAYED HIS DAD, PAUL, IN "FIRST MAN" HOLLYWOOD MOVIE![]()
On July 16, 1969, 57 years ago, Paul Calle was the only artist allowed access to the Apollo 11 crew during their breakfast and suiting up for their historic lunch to the Moon.![]()
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In sketch after sketch, he documented the movements of astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Alrin, Michael Collins. ![]()
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The late Calle's son and ASM partner, Chris Calle, shares his dad's story--and portrayed his dad in a Hollywood movie. ![]()
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“ I quickly went about doing quick pen and ink sketches as the crew talked and ate," Paul Called told his son. Mike Collins kept looking at me drawing he kept eating then he would look up. He did this several times and finally said is that you Paul? He stopped eating and came over to look at my sketches. I was amazed, here he was on the way to the Moon, and he stops to look at my drawings.”![]()
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Chris Calle said "It was surreal for me when in 2018 I was asked to portray my father in the Damien Chazelle directed movie, "First Man," the story of Neil Armstrong starring Ryan Gosling as Armstrong.![]()
I used the same sketchbooks and pens that my father had used in 1969 and the sketchbook still had drawings my father had done that morning.![]()
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Apollo 11 at T-Plus 57 years![]()
Co-producer Marty Winkel, an Apollo 11 Lunar Module technician, and Host MarQ look at past celebrations, and the movie First Man, where ASM partner Chris Calle played his sketch-artist dad, Paul.
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Co-producer Marty Winkel, an Apollo 11 Lunar Module technician, and...
APOLLO 11 AT T+57 YEARS: MEMORIES OVER HALF A CENTURY live at 4 pm EDT or anytime on YouTube www.youtube.com/@AmericanSpaceMuseum/streams![]()
Co-Producer Marty Winkel was there--working on the Grumman Lunar Module. He and Host MarQ look at past celebrations, the movie First Man, where ASM partner Chris Calle played his dad, Paul, sketching in the suit room.
STARSHIP 13 LIFT-OFF TODAY AT 6:45 PM EDT![]()
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SpaceX's Starship megarocket will take to the skies again today (July 16), and you can watch the thundering action live.![]()
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Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, is scheduled to lift off from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas today — the 57th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Apollo 11 moon mission, by the way — during a 90-minute widow that opens at 6:45 p.m. EDT (2245 GMT; 5:45 p.m. local Texas time). It will be Starship's 13th flight overall and its second mission of 2026.![]()
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You can watch Starship Flight 13 live here at Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX; coverage will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff. Follow our Starship live blog for updates and other news about the test flight.![]()
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MANKIND'S GREATEST ADVENTURE BEGAN AT 9:32 AM EDT ON JULY 16, 1969--57 YEARS AGO![]()
NOTE: Moon hoaxers BLOCK with glee!![]()
Mike Collins and Neil Armstrong are dead, and Buzz Aldrin is age 97. All were 40 years old when the bravely fulfilled the dream of earthlings on the Moon!
ARTIST PAUL CALLE'S SKETCHES OF APOLLO 11 SUIT ROOM, MORNING OF JULY 16, 1969![]()
ASM Partner Chris Calle shares a few of the sketches by his father, the late Paul Calle, of the the Apollo 11 astronauts in the early morning hours of July 16, 1969.![]()
Recalling the mood in the room during the suiting up, Chris said his dad told him he felt like he was the most nervous person there!![]()
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“Deke Slayton moved among the astronauts speaking quietly," Paul Calle told his son. "Deke was almost casual in the way he acted like this was just another day at the office”.
RELIVE APOLLO 11 MOMENT BY MOMENT WITH MISSION CONTROL AND ALL THE PHOTOS AND VIDEOS![]()
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A real-time interactive journey through the first landing on the Moon. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1969.
APOLLO SOYUZ TEST PROJECT LAUNCH 51 YEARS AGO by ASM Partner Tom Usciak![]()
USA and Russia cooperation in space began with this launch in 1975, and continues today for 27 years on the International Space Station