Saturday, 20 July 2019

Moon Thursday 18th July 2019

Apollo 11, 20th July 1969, Man on the Moon.

We made our first powered flight and put a man on the moon in the space of a human lifetime!
On December 17, 1903,  the Wright brothers made the first airplane flight.

(e.g. someone aged 10 in 1903 watching the first aeroplane flight could also have watched Apollo 11 on the Moon when they were 76 years old.)

Time 23:45.
Distance 249,666 miles.
Waning gibbous phase.
135 degrees SE compass point (azimuth).
Altitude 8.3 degrees.


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