2013-03-19
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photo 20:57:47
Apollo 11 Moon Shot, Cape Kennedy, Florida by Garry Winogrand.
Being watched watching them watching the launch.
SFMOMA is currently hosting an exhibition of Winogrand’s work, including this. I popped in at lunchtime and it turned out to be remarkably dense (small prints will do that, I suppose) and pretty busy.
To make the most of it, I think I’m going to have to go back. The exhibition runs until 2 June, 2013.
2009-07-19
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quote 16:58:00
“ Heroes abound, but don’t count astronauts among them. We worked very hard, we did our jobs to near perfection, but that is what we had been hired to do. ”
Michael Collins, in an article about how he “became the forgotten astronaut of Apollo 11” in The Observer. Collins was in the command module of the orbiter as Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon, and the article is worth a read.
2009-07-16
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photo 17:32:00
Remembering Apollo 11 - earth from orbit, 1969-07-16.
From The Big Picture’s set, Remembering Apollo 11.
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photo 14:32:00
Remembering Apollo 11 - launch, 1969-07-16 13:32 UTC.
From The Big Picture’s set, Remembering Apollo 11.
2009-07-05
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quote 12:09:33
“ People want to know what it felt like. They want us in a few words to generate the enthusiasm that the world had as they contemplated what we were about to do. Well, what it felt like is something that we trained for. We were trying to treat it as calmly as we could and perform to the best of our ability. We tried to repress feelings of exuberance, of disappointment, and be proud and responsible people accomplishing the task that was given to us. That sounds kind of boring. Except that what we did was kind of earth-shaking. ”
The man who fell to earth: Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon quoted in an interview in The Guardian.
