2012-05-27
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Scientists study the phases of the moon on lunar models in preparation for an eventual manned flight to moon.
Love those circles-on-globes. Photographer: Fritz Goro.
2012-04-19
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The “Republic of the Moon” is one of the projects that uses all this information as a source of inspiration. The project moonmeme by Liliane Lijn reveals her concept to write on the Moon from the Earth using a laser beam. The word ‘SHE” is projected onto the surface of the moon, the meaning of this word being gradually transformed as the Moon moves through its phases.
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A lunar panorama by Surveyor 7, the last of the unmanned landers sent by the US before the manned moon programme (via).
On Jan. 20, while the craft was still in daylight, the TV camera clearly saw two laser beams aimed at it from the night side of the crescent Earth, one from Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, Arizona, and the other at Table Mountain at Wrightwood, California.
2012-04-07
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Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., Apollo 12 commander, using a 70mm handheld Haselblad camera by NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr.
I’ve always loved the aesthetic effect of the grid-marks on the photographs that were taken by the Apollo mission Hasselblads.
2012-04-01
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Nicholas de Monchaux replying to questions in an interview about Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, at Txchnologist.
(See also.)
2012-03-18
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Thirty Five Images of Space Helmet Reflections by Eric Ulrich.
I’ve been able to use Google Images and their nifty “upload an image and we’ll match it” to figure out the source of thirty one of the images. Top to bottom, left to right:
- 2001, Sbtrkt, Solaris (2002), 2001, Explore the Unknown
- The Astronaut Farmer, Radiohead, unknown, Moon, The Right Stuff
- Alien, Up In The Air, unknown, Barbarella, Getty Images
- Space Cowboys, Anna Fisher, iStockPhoto, unknown, Moon
- 2001, Apollo 13, 2001, Hubert Vykukal, 2001
- Solaris (2002), Space Odyssey, Space Camp, 2001, Alien
- 2001, 2001, Cargo, Richard Branson, unknown
If you know the provenance of the final four, please let me know.
2012-01-20
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Geologic Map of the North Side of the Moon by Desiree E. Stuart-Alexander (1978)
