Apollo 17 in Real Time

How NASA Captured This Iconic Footage Of Apollo 17 Leaving The Moon

The Apollo 17 moon landing occurred on December 11, 1972. The LM crew spent 75 hours on the lunar surface. NASA Image: https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/AS17-140-21354.jpg Audio: Som ET - 45 - Moon Credit: NASA/Johnson Space Center #nasa #moon #lua #apollo #lunar #flag | Som ET

Purely History on Instagram: "In the 1960s, women played a crucial role in the Apollo missions. The onboard guidance computers that helped land astronauts on the Moon used programs stored on woven memory known as core rope memory. Women, often called “little old ladies” in reports of the time, hand-wove wires through magnetic cores to physically encode the software. If a wire passed through a core, it represented a 1, and if it bypassed, it represented a 0. This painstaking work ensured flawless