Today we celebrate the day we reached the pinnacle of space exploration up today, the day we made real one of the most ancient dreams of mankind, the day we became ONE and we succeed in an epic adventure showing how best we can do as human. 49 years ago, on the 20th July the NASA mission Apollo 11 landed in our satellite with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on it for the first time. First Men on the Moon.
This is a day of celebration and deep thinking of what we can achieve if we really focus. When the society falls to its darkest stage or we only see horrendous actions, examples like this must be present with all of us and poke our lives; continue growing as species and look up to these bright moments which are the ones pushing us forward.
I consider myself a critical and analytical person; someone who does not get satisfied only with the “oficial” version. The case of Apollo 11 and it’s landing is one of the biggest controversies among conspiracy theories, and it is understandable. Something such transcendental, huge and important must be tackled from every corner. I have spent a lot of time reading and researching about most of these theories and, in my opinion and in general, non of them are strong enough to be consider as a possibility. However this is a big topic and I would like to make a series of posts about this, but on this day I will stick to the fact that we walked on our beautiful moon several times; not just once.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter imaged the Apollo 11 landing site from space in 2012 and spotted the astronauts’ tracks, some of the experiments, a discarded camera and of course, the descent stage of the Eagle lunar module. A 3-D view of the site (based on this data) was generated in 2014.
“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” – Neil Armstrong
Source: Space.com
