{"id":3525,"date":"2013-07-20T19:50:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T19:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3525"},"modified":"2013-07-20T19:50:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T19:50:39","slug":"celebrate-the-apollo-11-landing-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3525","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate the Apollo 11 landing today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 44th anniversary of the first time a human walked on another world. Check out the site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstmenonthemoon.com\/\" target=\"_d\">The First Men on the Moon: The Apollo 11 Lunar Landing<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">Watch, listen, and relive the excitement of the Apollo 11 lunar landing as experienced minute-by-minute by the courageous crew of Apollo 11 and Mission Control.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is a gallery of pictures taken by Apollo astronauts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/07\/apollo-hasselblad\/\" target=\"_d\">The Best Space Images Ever Were Taken by Apollo Astronauts With Hasselblad Cameras &#8211; Wired Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This evening we are going to try the ceremony <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evoloterra.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Evoloterra &#8212; When We First Left Planet Earth<\/a>. (Two of the authors recently discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/thespaceshow.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/17\/rand-simberg-bill-simon-evoloterra-tuesday-7-16-13\/\" target=\"_blank\">Evoloterra on The Space Show<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Moonandback offers an online documentary about the landing: <a href=\"http:\/\/moonandback.com\/2013\/07\/20\/the-journeys-of-apollo-commemorating-the-anniversary-of-apollo-11-moon-landing\/\" target=\"_d\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/moonandback.com\/2013\/07\/20\/the-journeys-of-apollo-commemorating-the-anniversary-of-apollo-11-moon-landing\/\">The Journeys Of Apollo: Commemorating The Anniversary Of Apollo 11 Moon Landing &#8211; Moonandback<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is another documentary in full:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pniiqHCfIL8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 44th anniversary of the first time a human walked on another world. Check out the site The First Men on the Moon: The Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Watch, listen, and relive the excitement of the Apollo 11 lunar landing as experienced minute-by-minute by the courageous crew of Apollo 11 and Mission Control. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3525\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Celebrate the Apollo 11 landing today<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-UR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11035,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11035","url_meta":{"origin":3525,"position":0},"title":"Apollo 11 lunar landing anniversary","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"46 years ago today humans landed on another celestial object for the first time. 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