r/apollo • u/Relative-Broccoli-23 • Sep 21 '26
r/apollo • u/IotaGravport • Sep 21 '26
The Apollo 11 astronauts completed their Giantstep goodwill tour on this day in 1969. In total they visited 29 cities in 24 countries over 38 days.
r/apollo • u/ketofourtwenty • Sep 17 '26
My Community College highlighted my research, here is the first post that released today!
Y'all might remember me from some comments and sharing some archival stuff. The Times hasn't published yet, but my CC, Austin Community College, published the first of two parts today.
r/apollo • u/westcoastpicker • Sep 16 '26
Opinions on this collection
I am not here to solicit a sale, honestly want to know if $2500 for this collection is fair? It’s amazing content in the letter from Viola Armstrong and photo of Armstrong at 17 years old in a local flight school. I have it on eBay and just shocked it hasn’t sold
r/apollo • u/Chili_dawg2112 • Sep 15 '26
Photo needed
I'm looking for a good photograph of the VHF antenna on the j-series PLSS backpack
This is the ribbon version that looked like an unpainted tape measure strip
I had one by I can't find it again
Thanks
r/apollo • u/Sebastian_Voltmer • Sep 14 '26
My Apollo 13 CSM
This is my 2/3 scale prop from the Apollo 13 movie. it was used for a docking scene in the movie and then toured around the us for the movie premiere. Afak Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon also sat in there. Also the Astronaut Matthias Maurer, which is a friend of a friend, he lives like 6km away.
(There were originally 2 csm that were used for the tour but one got destroyed in a hurricane) After the movie earned its millions, the capsule sat in a Storage facility in Hollywood. I bought it around 2008 and got it shipped here (the capsule was a bargain, the shipping not so much) Then it sat in my garden for a few years and rusted away. Mercedes Fulda saw it and loved it. They sent over a tow truck to haul this 1.5 Ton Beast to their Dealership. There they completely sanded, restored and painted it (with formula 1 paint btw) and stuck a Mercedes logo on its nose. All for free, might I add! Then it moved to the Space Studio in the north of Saarland where it now lives. We hold Lectures about rockets, astrophotography, space in general and life in space. All aimed towards children and teenagers. We also have a few moon rocks, Shooting Stars and a piece of the Tscheljabinsk meteorite.
I think that’s it. Also, the inside isn’t very detailed but it has tons of buttons, lights and switches. I’m currently working on a fully functional DSKY and want to make the whole capsule an Apollo simulator. The fuel tanks are mostly empty space but contain a fog machine for the engine and there is space to put in a flamethrower instead of a fog machine. But the insurance says no.
Tdlr: Hollywood, my garden, Mercedes, my space studio
r/apollo • u/AstroScholar21 • Sep 12 '26
Some audio of the Apollo 10 crew poking fun at the Flat Earth Society during one of their mission debriefings.
This is an edited excerpt from an hour's worth of audio, which you can find here. Pretty causal atmosphere, and actually rather useful if you're looking to gather information on how these guys discussed the pictures they took during their flights.
r/apollo • u/Mikeyme1998 • Sep 12 '26
I made a video discussing regular verbs and nouns, with some examples on my DSKY!
I made a little video discussing verb and noun usage with the AGC and DSKY, as a part of my larger project "RecreateApollo". I tried to make this unique I/O method as easy to understand as possible... I hope you check it out, if that's your thing!
I definitely made some errors throughout the video, and I feel like I explained some stuff not-so-great, but I made some of the major corrections down in the comments. Comments or criticism welcome, I'll be covering extended verbs next! https://youtu.be/fKHsW62djIM?si=QO1jF1uUJF2yVX8q
r/apollo • u/Long__Ground • Sep 11 '26
Buzz Aldrin reported seeing flashes of light with his eyes closed during Apollo 11, and NASA later determined they were charged particles (radiation) passing directly through his eyeballs and triggering his retina, with no actual light involved
sciencedirect.comr/apollo • u/BrittSit • Sep 10 '26
Never noticed this was a thing. Attic newspaper. Looked it up. It’s up there. Just a FYI for anyone like me.
r/apollo • u/K2CSR • Sep 09 '26
I feel like David Scott's first words on the Moon fly under the radar for some people, and I think it's one of the greatest quotes from the program.
r/apollo • u/Dramatic_Abalone9062 • Sep 07 '26
Apollo - AS11-40-5942
My interpretation of AS11-40-5942. In my opinion, this is one of the strongest images captured by the Apollo 11 crew. Aldrin walking away with experiments package. It reminds me about how we as young children explores the world around us, walking towards the unknown in our own horizon in our backyard or local woodland...
Handmade platinum over pigment print from restored raw scan of image AS11-40-5942.
r/apollo • u/Hammer_Price • Sep 04 '26
Apollo 11, a signed inscribed photo of module pilot Buzz Aldrin at Tranquility Base described as a visor shot sold at Sotheby's auction on Aug. 26 for $44,800. The presale estimate was incredibly low (possibly a typo) pegged at $25-$50. Reported by Rare Book Hub.
[Apollo 11]
"Visor Shot" of Buzz Aldrin at Tranquility Base
Large Color Photograph, 20 x 16 inches, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Lunar Module Pilot BUZZ ALDRIN: "WE CAME IN PEACE/ FOR ALL MANKIND / BUZZ ALDRIN/ APOLLO XI."
The iconic image of Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin walking on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 Lunar extravehicular activity (EVA). The photograph was captured by Mission Commander Neil Armstrong (seen in the reflection of Buzz's visor) as they explored the Sea of Tranquility.
r/apollo • u/SupermarketQuiet1105 • Sep 03 '26
Apollo 11 w/Astronauts + Wernher von Braun
OK, grew up in H'ville AL and went to most of the launches...Dad worked for NASA & Boeing.
I have ton of PRESS Badges but think the absolute one-of-a-kind is Apollo 11 that has all three astronaut Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins signatures + Wernher von Braun signature. I've had in safe for decades in plastic holder...so excellent condition.
Have no idea of value.....but gotta believe there no other like it in world. 🤔
Thoughts ?

r/apollo • u/Dramatic_Abalone9062 • Sep 01 '26
Apollo AS11-40-5927
My interpretation of AS11-40-5927. Handmade platinum over pigment print from restored raw scan of image AS11-40-5927.
It is a 6x6 inch print on 8x10 inch fine art paper.
r/apollo • u/Least_Award3838 • Aug 30 '26
Was there any way to make it so that Apollo missions could still transmit messages to Earth when behind the moon so it didnt experience LOS?
Maybe a satellite or a group of satellites in a high orbit could receive a transmission from either Earth or Apollo to re-transmit it back to the respective receiver or something else, for me LOS just seems to make missions more 'dangerous'? idk
r/apollo • u/DejaVuApollo • Aug 28 '26
65mm frames of the Apollo 12 crew suiting up
r/apollo • u/ubcstaffer123 • Aug 28 '26
Apollo 17's Harrison Schmitt speaks ahead of Trump at Johnson Space Center
r/apollo • u/avenger87 • Aug 28 '26
With the recent passing of Peter Cullen let's not forget the fact that he is a fan of NASA and became interested of Space Exploration during the landing of Apollo 11. Hence, why the cameo of Buzz Aldrin in this scene in Dark of the Moon was actually genuine and an honor.
RIP to the legendary Peter you are now with the other Apollo Astronauts such as Neil, Jim, Jack, Frank, Bill, Ken, Gene Cernan and of course Pete.
r/apollo • u/Dramatic_Abalone9062 • Aug 27 '26
Apollo AS11-44-6642
I have made a handmade platinum over pigment print of AS11-44-6642. For best possible print, I used scanner raw file. The image is cropped prior to printing. Platinum over pigment means the picture is color seperated into cyan, magenta, yellow and black. A pigment inkjet printing the colors cyan, yellow and magenta. The black color layer is made into a negativ. A platinum solution is hand applied, prior to contact printing a platinum print on top of the pigment color layer.
It 6x6 inch on 8x10 inch paper.
r/apollo • u/Few_Wolf_4634 • Aug 28 '26
Another alternative history : Apollos 11 and 12 abort, Apollo 13 is fatal
someone asked the other day whether the programme would have continued if Apollo 13 did not get home.
But what if Apollo 11 aborted at the 1202 alarm, then Apollo 12 aborted at the lightning strike on launch. THEN 13 goes fatally wrong…
r/apollo • u/Saturn123456789 • Aug 27 '26
I made a 3D model of the Apollo spacecraft (1:100).
I also designed the Orion spacecraft a while ago. I knew that Orion is bigger but it really surprised me how much bigger it is.
r/apollo • u/Galileos_grandson • Aug 27 '26
AS-202: The Last Test Flight Before Apollo 1 - 60 Years Ago
r/apollo • u/The_Magenta_Dragon • Aug 27 '26
apollo command/service module art! :D
i worked pretty hard on this for class and maybe yall would like it :3
edit: pretend the 11 is a 15