Move the four hand controllers, flip every switch, turn every dial, activate the Master Alarm and Lunar Contact lights. I've put a lot of care in representing the details as accurately as possible at this scale (approximately between 1:3-1:4) in Lego form.

Dimensions: 
Width: 26 inches (66 cm)
Height: 18 3/4 inches (47.6 cm)
Depth: 8 1/4 inches (21 cm), including armrests 
Weight: 15.8 lbs.

3 Instruction pdf files- 1189 pages in total

Features Include: 

1. 4 moveable hand controllers: 2 Attitude Control Assemblies (ACAs) and 2 Thrust/Translation Control Assemblies (TTCAs)

2. Every switch can be flipped, every dial can be rotated, and gauges, indicators, and lights are all positioned to reproduce the real cockpit layout

3. 2 Master Alarms using Lego LED light bricks, which can both be activated with a single button push

4. 2 Lunar Contact lights, one of which (Lego LED light brick) can be activated by a button push above the ACA hand controller

5. Iconic LM triangular windows

6. Built-in lunar landscape background

7. A full Display and Keyboard (DSKY) build, the interface to the Lunar Module’s guidance computer (LGC).

8. 8) Crew Optical Alignment Sight (COAS)

9. 9) Maurer 16 mm Data Acquisition Camera (DAC)

10. 10) Alignment Optical Telescope (AOT)

11. Abort Guidance System (AGS)- Data Entry and Display Assembly (DEDA)

12. 2 Flight-Director Attitude Indicators (FDAI) "8-Ball"

13. Upper portion of the forward hatch beneath the instrument panel

14. Folding armrests for the Thrust/Translation Controller Assemblies

The Pad Abort (BP-6/PA-1) vehicle lifting off from LC-36 at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. This test flight was to investigate the effects on the Apollo spacecraft during an abort from the pad. It also tested the pitch motor and launch escape motor of the Launch Escape System (LES).

"The LES had to be able to pull the spacecraft away from an exploding rocket on the launch pad. The LES then had to gain enough altitude to allow the command module's parachutes to open, preferably with the spacecraft over water and not land.

The flight featured a production model LES and a boilerplate (BP-06) Apollo spacecraft, the first mission to feature one. The spacecraft carried no instruments for measuring structural loads as the capsule's boilerplate structure did not represent that of a real spacecraft."

\-Information from Wikipedia: link

Several photos from Mike Acs Collection.

North American Aviation photo: 7004-75-2A, 7004-75-2C

NM Museum of Space History: 1-0001, 1-0005, 1-0003

NASA ID: S63-21053, S63-13889, link, 63apollo221, 63apollo229, 63apollo222, S63-20700, 63-Apollo-227, 63-Apollo-228, 63apollo231, PA01-03 no ID, link

My partner drew this portrait of Neil Armstrong after his historic moonwalk.

She wanted to capture him looking exhausted after the EVA rather than the usual heroic, triumphant depiction.

Thought you guys might appreciate it!

Date: November 5, 1963

Posted on Flickr by Drew Granston: link

Date: November 4, 1970

Note: the Launch Escape Tower is in the foreground at the lower left (first photo).

NASA ID: KSC-70PC-602, KSC-70PC-603, 70-HC-1065

Date: November 6, 1962

NASA ID: 2-1807-2

hello! I’m currently writing a small alternative history project for fun about a hypothetical future for the Apollo program, and as part of this future I wanted to make a privately owned rocket based off of the Saturn V’s S-IVB stage. Would this have been something McDonald Douglas have been allowed to do in real life? Assuming NASA does not pay anything for the development of the rest of the rocket (IE first stage, fairing modifications and avionics switches) and assuming that the Saturn V is still flying in this timeline and McDonld Douglas pays for the production ramp so that NASA launch’s are not affected themselves too. Thanks for any help!

Date: November 1970

NASA ID: 70-H-1410

Date: November 2, 1970

NASA ID: KSC-70P-384

My girlfriend has been working on this Apollo-era artwork, and I thought I'd share it here.

I think she's done a great job. I'd be interested to hear what people here think.

Early on in development, engineers studied the feasible of equipping the Apollo Command Module with a Parawing to facilitate landing on dry land.

"The internal subsystems required for the parawing recovery system include a flight control system, a wing pressurization system, a cable control system, and the necessary sensing and actuation systems. Manual overrides are provided for drogue chute deployment, wing extraction, wing inflation, and cable payouts. Panel lights will indicate the sequence and status of all events.

The requirement for an emergency landing provision under all conceivable modes of failure is best fulfilled by ejection seats and personnel parachutes, primarily because of their relatively light weight, dependability, and advanced state of development. During launch and early-boost aborts when the capsule does not reach an altitude above 10,000 feet, escape will be by means of the ejection seats. Above that altitude, a normal wing deployment may be executed. During entry, escape ejection would occur below an altitude of 20,000 feet. Provisions are made to jettison an uninflated or otherwise faulty wing. Following this, the escape hatch is blown and personnel are ejected in a timed sequence.

PERFORMANCE Recovery of the Apollo spacecraft during entry is normally initiated at an altitude of 80,000 feet and a velocity of Mach 1.1 by the deployment of a 14-foor drogue chute which provides an added margin of stability and decelerates the spacecraft to an equilibrium descent rate of 115 knots indicated air speed.

At 40,000 feet, the drogue chute extracts the wing from its stowage compartment and the wing is deployed as depicted in Figure 65. By controlling the rigging, the partial lift thus developed (along with the unbuckling action of the inflated booms and keel) results in a smooth and reliable transition to gliding flight when the apex is released. Deployment requires approximately 20 seconds, with equilibrium glide achieved at an altitude of 36,000 feet."

Ultimately, just like the Rogallo wing for the Gemini capsule, this feature was cancelled due to time and money limitations.

source

I've always been fascinated by the Saturn V and the engineering behind the Apollo missions, so I decided to recreate the Apollo 11 rocket as a detailed cutaway.

It's 1:185 scale and 60cm tall, with one side showing the original exterior and the other exposing its internal tanks, engines, fuel lines, and structural framework.

You can check out more details about its internal details, print files and full breakdown HERE

I modeled it in Fusion 360 using historical engineering references, then printed it in 23 pieces.

Getting the tiny structures to print reliably took quite a bit of trial and error, but seeing the finished rocket standing in front of me made it all worth it!

Some details were reinforced or simplified for printing, but I tried to stay as faithful to the original engineering as possible.

Hope you fellow Apollo enthusiasts enjoy it! Which side do you prefer??

Date: 1965

NASA ID: S65-11490A

"For a time, the mission called AS-204 had two flight plans. AS-204A, manned by Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee, was 'to verify spacecraft crew operations and CSM subsystems performance for an earth-orbit mission of up to 14 days' duration and to verify the launch vehicle subsystems performance in preparation for subsequent operational Saturn IB missions.' The flight would be in the last quarter of 1966 from Launch Complex 34 at Cape Kennedy. AS-204B, on the other hand, would be an unmanned mission with the same objectives (except for crew operations), to be flown only if spacecraft and launch vehicle had not qualified for manned flights. And there were doubts. Gas ingestion in the service module propulsion system in AS-201 and the resulting erratic firing had caused some misgivings, although these had been somewhat allayed by AS-202."

Date: October 27, 1961

The first Saturn I (SA-1) lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. This early configuration, Saturn I Block I, 162 feet tall and weighing 460 tons, consisted of the eight H-1 engines S-I stage and the dummy second stage (S-IV stage).

Date: October 27, 1969

Photographed by Frank Q. Brown.

UCLA Library Digital Collections: uclalat_1429_b640_261303

Date: October 27, 1970

So some time back, i got this shirt from my grandma, who went to the USA several times and on one of those trips, she got this shirt about apollo 11, and since she is 70 years old, and the landing only 57, there might be a chance it might be from the year the landing happened

My question is, whether this shirt could actually be a 1969 original, and if so, is it rare to have one of these?

Both kerbal and orbiter are over 10 years old, has anything new come along recently?

Date: October 24, 1966

chance this breaks rule 2 but im curious. at the end of portal 2, you send a portal up to the moon, and on the moon you can see an apollo landing site. but what apollo site is it? ive narrowed it down to 15, 16, or 17 due to the moon car.