The mission plan of Apollo 11 was to land two men on the lunar surface and return them safely to Earth. The launch took place at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A on July 16, 1969, at 08:32 a.m. EST. The spacecraft carried a crew of three: Mission Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. The mission evaluation concluded that all mission tasks were completed satisfactorily.
The Cyberspace Museum is a virtual internet museum created by James Granahan. Its purpose is to exhibit paleontology and or planetary research and science information on the internet. The Cyberspace Museum is not currently associated with any other museum or institute
July 1969
The First Mission to the Moon
NASA, now 41 years old, has come a long way from the exuberant group of engineers that set out to meet President Kennedy's 1961 challenge to put a man on the moon by the decade's end.
This site has a farily extensive number of articles written about NASA and space exploration. It also has a few primary source documents (stories by people connected to the Apollo 11 project) and images.
Lunar Exploration Timeline
How many of the 20th century's greatest engineering achievements will you use today? A car? Computer? Telephone? Explore our list of the top 20 achievements, and learn how engineering shaped a century and changed the world
The National Academy of Engineering hosts this tribute to engineering advances in the twentieth century. Articles describe advances made in Electrification, Automobiles, Airplanes, Water Supply and Distribution, Electronics, Radio and Television, Agricultural Mechanization, Computers, Telephones, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, Highways, Spacecraft, Internet, Imaging, Household Appliances, Health Technologies, Petroleum and Petrochemical Technologies, Laser and Fiber Optics, Nuclear Technologies, and High-performance Materials. Each article is accompanied by a chronology of twentieth century advances. All pages include links to text pages in a printer-friendly format. The site is largely introductory but a good place for researchers to begin their work.
Many African- American aviation pioneers, such as Bessie Coleman, also have made significant contributions, but may not be as well known. African-American Aviators also made significant, and often heroic, contributions during periods of armed conflicts, such as World War II. The efforts of individuals, such as the Tuskegee Airmen, during World War II, have established a legacy of aviation and professional excellence, which we have only highlighted here. We wish to both acknowledge and thank the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum for making these photographs available for display, as part of the ALLSTAR Learning Lab
The Project Apollo Archive serves as an online reference source and repository of digital images pertaining to the historic manned lunar landing program. The Archive was created by Kipp Teague in February 1999 as a companion web site to his "Contact Light" personal retrospective on Project Apollo. The Archive is also companion to Eric Jones' comprehensive Apollo Lunar Surface Journal.
This is a personal web page that features images and documents largely derived from NASA sources and repackaged in a fairly easy to use format. This sites begins with a chronology and moves through Appolo crews, images, diagrams and maps, hundreds of audio and audio-video clips, a simulation game and an area for a virtual community with yahoo sponsored listserves and a guestbook. This is a valuabe site for researchers looking for images and video clips. Other than brief descriptions that accompany images and clips, the site has no essays or articles. A left-side frame allows for easy navigation and most items tend to be in chronological order and so are fairly easy to find. The site does not have a search engine. The accompanying essay "Contact Light" is a personal reflection of the site's creator on the Appolo missions.
In 1903, two events launched the history of modern aviation. The Wright brothers made their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and William Boeing, born Oct. 1, 1881, in Detroit, Michigan, left Yale engineering college for the West Coast.
After making his fortune trading forest lands around Grays Harbor, Washington, Boeing moved to Seattle in 1908 and, two years later, went to Los Angeles for the first American air meet. Boeing tried to get a ride in one of the airplanes, but not one of the dozen aviators participating in the event would oblige. Boeing came back to Seattle disappointed, but determined to learn more about this new science of aviation.
This is an attractive corporate site. Features include biographies of the founders of Boeing, North American Rockwell and McDonnell Douglas and corporate histories of the three companies. Biographies include audio and video exhibits while histories of the four corporations include lengthy essays, biographical sketches of corporate figures and aeronautical engineers, and chronologies. The site also provides detailed information about the weaponry, aerospace vehicles, military and commercial aircraft produced by the three companies. and the front page is complemented by a photo gallery. Researchers looking for corporate archives will not find them here and will have to search through various pages in the www.boeing.com site.
Welcome to the companion Web site to "To the Moon," a two-hour NOVA special, originally broadcast on July 13, 1999. The program chronicles the untold science and engineering story of how we got to the moon.
This is the companion Web site to "To the Moon," a two-hour NOVA special that chronicled the science and engineering story of how we got to the moon. The site provides images of the lunar surface, interviews with and audio clips of some of the astronauts including Gene Cernan, Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell. The site also provides a lengthy essay about the origin of the moon and another about the last manned space flight to the moon. The site is largely aimed for a non-academic audience and includes a page devoted to interactive puzzles.
