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50 years ago #Today, Apollo 17's Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt landed on the Moon. The last human mission to the Moon (so far) ow.ly/GlW630mWAlc

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8:33 AM · Dec 11, 2022

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Cool that Japan deployed their moon mission on the same day!!

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@RichardKirbyRPi

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There is a fabulous podcast on the Apollo 11 landing from BBC. It concentrates on the last 13 minutes before landing and includes a lot of the engineering backstory. It is an inspirational story.

BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon, Season 1: The Apollo 11 story

How the first moon landing was saved. The story of the people who made Apollo 11 happen

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GattoGargarismo

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I remember watching it live Different world back then.

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I remember watching that when I was 10 years old.