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Happy Birthday Jules Verne
Title Happy Birthday Jules Verne
Explanation One hundred seventy-five years ago (on February 8th), Jules Verne [ http://JV.Gilead.org.il/FAQ/index.html ] was born [ http://www.phys.uu.nl/~gdevries/verne/certificate.html ] in Nantes, France. Inspired by [ http://www.phys.uu.nl/~gdevries/verne/verne.html ] a lifelong fascination with machines, Verne wrote [ http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/JulesVerne/works.html ] visionary works about "Extraordinary Voyages" including such terrestrial travels as Around the World in 80 Days [ http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j/ ], Journey to the Centre of the Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021025.html ], and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea [ http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/ VerTwen.html ]. In 1865 he published the story of three adventurers who undertook a journey From the Earth to the Moon [ http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/index1.htm ]. Verne's characters rode a "projectile-vehicle" [ http://www.nasm.edu/galleries/gal113/ julesverne.jpg ] fired from a huge cannon constructed in Florida, USA. Does that sound vaguely familiar? A century later, the Saturn V rocket [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010525.html ] and NASA's Apollo program [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Apollomon/ Apollo.html ] finally turned this work of fiction into fact, propelling adventuresome [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4214/ cover.html ] trios on what was perhaps Verne's most extraordinary voyage. This dramatic view [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/ap11ann/ kippsphotos/apollo.html ] shows the moonbound Apollo 11 space-vehicle riding top a Saturn V rocket as it blasts skyward. Launched from a spaceport [ http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/index.html ] in Florida, the Apollo 11 crew [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/ap11ann/ biographies.htm ] traveled to the moon and back again in 1969, making humanity's first landing on the lunar surface [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/ pao/History/alsj/ ].
Lunar Module 5 ascent stage …
Title Lunar Module 5 ascent stage in Final Assembly area on overhead hoist
Description Lunar Module 5 ascent stage in Final Assembly area on overhead hoist being moved to dolly for roll-out inspection. LM-5 will be flown on the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.
Date Taken 1969-01-04
View of Apollo Spacecraft 10 …
Title View of Apollo Spacecraft 107 Command and Service Modules at KSC
Description Interior view of the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Manned Spacecraft Operations Building showing Apollo Spacecraft 107 Command and Service Modules being moved from workstand 134 for mating to Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter (SLA) 14. Spacecraft 107 is scheduled to be flown on the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.
Date Taken 1969-04-11
Apollo 11 prime crew during …
Title Apollo 11 prime crew during manned altitude chamber test activity
Description Interior view of the chamber in the Kennedy Space Center's Operations Building showing Apollo Spacecraft 107 Command Module during manned altitude chamber test activity. The prime crew of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission is Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander, Michael Collins, command module pilot, and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot.
Date Taken 1969-03-24
Lunar Module 5 ascent stage …
Title Lunar Module 5 ascent stage being moved for mating with adapter
Description Interior view of the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Manned Spacecraft Operations Building showing Lunar Module 5 being moved from workstand for mating with its Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter (SLA). LM-5 is scheduled to be flown on the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.
Date Taken 1969-04-04
Astronaut Edwin Aldrin in EM …
Title Astronaut Edwin Aldrin in EMU verifies fit of Portable Life Support System
Description Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., wearing an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), verifies fit of the Portable Life Support System (PLSS) strap length during lunar surface training at the Kennedy Space Center. Aldrin is the prime crew lunar module pilot of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. Aldrin's PLSS backpack is attached to a lunar weight simulator.
Date Taken 1969-06-25
Astronaut Neil Armstrong par …
Title Astronaut Neil Armstrong participates in simulation training
Description Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 commander, participates in simulation training in preparation for the scheduled lunar landing mission. He is in the Apollo Lunar Module Mission SImulator in the Kennedy Space Center's Flight Crew Training Building.
Date Taken 1969-06-19
Astronaut Edwin Aldrin under …
Title Astronaut Edwin Aldrin undergoes zero-gravity training aboard KC-135
Description Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission, undergoes zero-gravity training aboard a U.S. Air Force KC-135 jet aircraft from nearby Patrick Air Force Base, Florida. Aldrin is wearing an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), the type of equipment which he will wear on the lunar surface.
Date Taken 1969-07-15
Lunar Module 5 mated with Sp …
Title Lunar Module 5 mated with Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter (SLA)
Description Interior view of the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Manned Spacecraft Operations Building showing Lunar Module 5 mated to its Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter (SLA). LM-5 is scheduled to be flown on the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.
Date Taken 1969-06-04
Aerial view of Apollo 11 spa …
Title Aerial view of Apollo 11 spacecraft on launch pad A
Description Aerial view at Pad A, launch complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, showing the 363 ft. tall Apollo 11 (Spacecraft 107/Lunar Module 5/Saturn 506) space vehicle on pad. This photograph was taken during Apollo 11 countdown demonstration test (CDDT) activity.
Date Taken 1969-07-01
Liftoff of the Apollo 11 lun …
Title Liftoff of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission
Description The 70mm Airborne Lightweight Optical Tracking System (ALOTS) tracking camera mounted on an Air Force EC-135N aircraft flying at about 40,000 feet altitude photographed this event in the early moments of the Apollo 11 launch.
Date Taken 1969-07-16
Liftoff of the Apollo 11 lun …
Title Liftoff of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission
Description The 363 ft tall Apollo 11 space vehicle is launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, at 9:37 a.m., July 16, 1969. Apollo 11 is the United Sates first lunar landing mission.
Date Taken 1969-07-16
Liftoff of the Apollo 11 lun …
Title Liftoff of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission
Description The 363 ft tall Apollo 11 space vehicle is launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, at 9:37 a.m., July 16, 1969. Apollo 11 is the United Sates first lunar landing mission.
Date Taken 1969-07-16
Apollo 11 crewmen during pre …
Title Apollo 11 crewmen during prelaunch countdown
Description The crewmen of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission leave the Kennedy Space Center's Manned Spacecraft Operations Building during the prelaunch countdown. Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander, Michael Collins, command module pilot, and Edwin E. Aldrin, lunar module pilot, are being loaded into a van for the drive to Launch Complex 39A.
Date Taken 1969-07-16
Liftoff of the Apollo 11 lun …
Title Liftoff of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission
Description The 363 ft tall Apollo 11 space vehicle is pictured just after launch from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, at 9:37 a.m., July 16, 1969. Apollo 11 is the United Sates first lunar landing mission.
Date Taken 1969-07-16
Apollo 11 crewmen during pre …
Title Apollo 11 crewmen during prelaunch countdown
Description The crew of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission arrives atop Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, during the APollo 11 prelaunch countdown. Leading is Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, He was followed by Astronauts Michael Collins, command module pilot. Technician follows directly behind Armstrong and Collins.
Date Taken 1969-07-16
Liftoff of the Apollo 11 lun …
Title Liftoff of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission
Description The 363 ft tall Apollo 11 space vehicle is launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, at 9:37 a.m., July 16, 1969. Apollo 11 is the United Sates first lunar landing mission.
Date Taken 1969-07-16
Liftoff of the Apollo 11 lun …
Title Liftoff of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission
Description Closeup view as the 363 ft tall Apollo 11 space vehicle is launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, at 9:37 a.m., July 16, 1969. Apollo 11 is the United Sates first lunar landing mission (39959), Fish-eye lens view of the smoke and fire in the wake of the launch of the Apollo 11 spacecraft. This photograph of the liftoff was taken by a camera mounted on the mobile launch tower (39960), Fisheye lens view of the Apollo 11 spacecraft atop its Saturn V launch vehicle as it launch from Pad A, Launch Complex 39 (39961), Aerial view of the launch of the Apollo 11 spacecraft. This view of the liftoff was taken by a camera mounted on the mobile launch tower (39962), Fish-eye lens view of the launch of the Apollo 11 spacecraft. This photograph was taken by a camera mounted on the mobile launch tower (39963).
Date Taken 1969-07-16
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