Five decades ago, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins’s massive Saturn V rocket lifted off in Florida, propelling the three men toward the moon, and into history. I’ll be collecting some links here today marking the occasion:
- CBS’ livestream of their original Apollo 11 coverage
- NASA’s collection of media marking the day
- @apollo_50th on Twitter, which is covering major events in the Apollo program in real time
- Super awesome limited version of Studio Neat’s Mark One pen, designed to honor Apollo 11
- The Atlantic: “The Moment That Made Neil Armstrong’s Heart Rate Spike” and “The Watch That Went to the Moon”
- The Verge on YouTube: “How the Apollo legacy is holding NASA back”
- First Men on the Moon: A minute-by-minute reliving of the mission through the use of archival tapes
- Linus Tech Tips and Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day have posted a video about the Saturn V Instrument Unit
- Our episode of Liftoff, on which we discuss three aspects of the mission that aren’t as well known, including Neil Armstrong’s brush with death in a training exercise, the science performed by the crew during their lunar EVA, and the astronauts’ less-than-glamorous welcome back to Earth.