Day 5 novel #book scene.
A smoking Mt #Etna #Italy, Europe's most active #volcano. An #ancient "ox-cult" site was found near the slopes and may link to #Apollo's sacred cows mentioned in The #Odyssey.

Has nobody seen #Oppenheimer? The #Apollo mission?
Has no one seen, with century old technology, what we accomplished against diseases like TB, #polio, #malaria, #MMR?
What we lack is courage, imagination, and daring.
Fuck these retrogrades. Fuck them. Fuck their input or opinions.

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Apollo 15 postal covers incident ✧

The Apollo 15 postal covers incident involved the crew of NASA's Apollo 15, who in 1971 carried about 400 unauthorized postal covers (example pictured) to the Moon's surface. American astronauts David Scott, Alfred Worden and James Irwin agreed to receive about $7,000 each for transporting the covers,...

#LunarModuleFalcon #NASA #Apollo #Scott #Worden #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_15_postal_covers_incident

A reminder that #Hydra for #Reddit exists. It’s a free Reddit client that’s going to be the closest thing to the beloved #Apollo app you’ll ever use. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hydra-for-reddit/id6478089063 #ios

#InternationalWomensDay #WomensDay 8 March is also the feast of #Artemis / #Diana guardian of animals: Wear purple and leave food for birds! Diana is twin sister of #Apollo, with whom #Antinous is oft identified. Thus, they are spiritual twins. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/03/we-praise-goddess-artemisdiana-guardian.html

Nach #Apollo 13 stellte der Herst. der Mondlandefähre dem Herst. der Kommandokapsel $ 417.421,24 fürs Abschleppen in Rechnung. Dies wurde abgewiesen: man hätte seinerseits in der Vergangenheit mehrfach die Fähre für $ 0 zum #Mond befördert.

#NASA #Scherz

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13#Trivia

#Antinous #Apollo ... Palazzo Pitti ... Florence.

Blessed Apollo
Keeper of the herbs
Keeper of the potions
Keeper of the salves
Lord of healers and the learned
For they keep the ways alive
Generation after generation

Blessed Apollo
Bringer of the light
Bringer of the song
Bringer of the arts
Lord of wolves and hunters
For they are strong and wily
When they are needed the most

Blessed Apollo
Seeing that which is
Seeing that which is yet to be
Seeing that which was
Lord of oracles and readers of omens
For they see with your eyes
When answers are sought

Blessed Apollo
Dancing to your own music
Dancing with the lovely Muses
Dancing on sacred grounds
Lord of protections from harm
Averting evil with joyous celebration
When our paths lead us astray


#polytheism #pagan #paganism #hellenismos #apollo #prayer #religion

Why #LBJ Canceled #Apollo #Moon Base
#NASA's requested funding was spent on Great Society, including building rapid transit system in several cities. Funding allocated elsewhere than NASA transformed American society in other ways. NASA intended for #astronauts to live on moon for two weeks. For comparison, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent 21hr on the Moon during Apollo 11, costs ultimately derailed the lunar base.Johnson administration had other spending concerns.
https://jalopnik.com/why-lbj-canceled-the-apollo-moon-base-1851742476

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ Apollo 9 ✧

Apollo 9 was the third crewed mission in the United States Apollo program. Launched by a Saturn V rocket from the Kennedy Space Center on March 3, 1969, and flown in low Earth orbit, the mission flight-qualified the Lunar Module (LM), showing that its crew could fly it independently, then rendezvous and dock, as would be ...

#LunarModulePilot #CommandModulePilot #CommandModuleGumdrop #Apollo #Soyuz #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_9

#Antinous was identified with many deities in ancient times including #Apollo. Art: #Antinoos as #Apollon, Via del Imperio, Rome.

[Premiers résultats de #DORN sur la #Lune] La récupération d'échantillons de #régolithe et de roches lunaires, couplée à l'analyse des #gaz en surface par l'instrument #DORN, a permis aux scientifiques impliqués dans la mission #ChangE6 d'identifier la survenue de deux épisodes volcaniques sur la face cachée de la Lune, il y a 4,2 et 2,8 milliards d’années. Pour mémoire, les échantillons rapportés par les missions #Apollo et #Luna de la face visible de notre satellite attestent d'un seul événement volcanique, daté de plus de 3 milliards d'années.

D'autres analyses sont en cours, qui permettront « d’affiner des observations antérieures réalisées par #télédétection qui ont montré que la face cachée de la Lune est différente, en termes de #géophysique (différences d’épaisseur de la croûte, par exemple) et de composition chimique et minéralogique des roches, de celle de la face visible », explique Pierre-Yves Meslin, astronome à l'IRAP.

Info+ : https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/tribunes/espace/la-face-cachee-de-la-lune-les-premiers-echantillons-arrivent-sur-terre/