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The flown-to-the-moon cover was a favor for a friend of Dick Gordon. [45] Apollo 15 carried the cover from the Postal Service to be canceled on the surface of the Moon. The agency also sent a backup, stowed in the Command Module with another cancellation device, [ e ] for use on the homeward journey if Scott did not get to postmark the lunar cover.
Apollo 11 space-flown silver Robbins Medallion from the first spaceflight to land on the Moon.Presented to Wally Schirra by Neil Armstrong.. NASA space-flown Gemini and Apollo medallions were mission-specific commemorative medallions, often astronaut-designed, which were approved by NASA and carried aboard the mission spacecraft into orbit.
According to ancient Chinese legends, the moon rabbit (and/or rabbits) lived on the moon. [28] Following this ancient belief, rabbits which run amongst clouds are intended to symbolize the moon. [29] The moon rabbit is one of the Twelve Ornaments, which adorn the Emperor's imperial robe; it is depicted as a rabbit in a disc, which represents ...
This Halloween 2024, use these printable pumpkin stencils and free, easy carving patterns for the scariest, silliest, most unique, and cutest jack-o’-lanterns. ... Ghost Moon. Just imagine the ...
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The Mint had three times previously honored the Moon landings on coins, with the reverses of the Eisenhower dollar (1971) and Susan B. Anthony dollar (1979), (both showing the Apollo 11 mission patch), and with the 2002 Ohio entry in the State Quarters series, depicting an Apollo astronaut. [10]
Six of the flags (including one for Apollo 13 which was not planted on the Moon) were ordered from a government supply catalog and measured 3 by 5 feet (0.91 by 1.52 m); the last one planted on the Moon was the slightly larger, 6-foot (1.8 m)-wide flag which had hung in the MSC Mission Operations Control Room for most of the Apollo program.
The silicon disc with goodwill messages left on the Moon by Apollo 11 astronauts. The Apollo 11 goodwill messages are statements from leaders of 73 countries around the world on a disc about the size of a 50-cent piece made of silicon that was left on the Moon in 1969 by the Apollo 11 astronauts.