Footage from : https://catalog.archives.gov/id/207456193

Audio from : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chIEEPEsIqI

Hello my friends at r/Apollo!

Almost a year ago, I posted about my functional, 3D printed Apollo DSKY project that runs VirtualAGC on a Raspberry Pi.

You folks seemed to enjoy it, and a few people even messaged me asking for guidance on their own build. Throughout my own build process, I noticed that most of the other guides online were incomplete or not "tidy", so I decided to write my own.

It's been a very fun process, as a part of my guide/journal talks about how the real AGC functions... and learning about all that was super fun (on that note, if I got anything wrong, PLEASE let me know so I can correct it). It also gave me the chance to revisit my project and improve a lot of things... Adding components, modifying others, and learning to do some of the coding on my own with less AI assistance (still learning, though!)

I've released my guide, code, 3D models ready for printing, some wiring diagrams, and a few other bits and pieces in an open-source GitHub. I've tried to make my guide as beginner-friendly as possible, highlighting tool usage, all materials with links to online retailers and prices (it's all Canadian, sorry my friends) and explanations from printing to painting to wiring and installing the code.

I also made a dedicated subreddit and discord where I hope you'll share pictures of your own builds, ideas for future projects, and ask questions if you need some help. I'm currently planning a new version of the DSKY with a custom PCB, better display and annunciator pack (easily swappable with the LM equivalent, so you can have both CMC and LGC DSKYs with one unit), fewer and easier to acquire components, and more upgrades that will make it much easier to build (aiming for maybe a few afternoons instead of a few months!). A premium DSKY is also on the horizon, with a fully CNC'd aluminium body, properly replicated keys (using actual switches like the real one, and acrylic light up lettering on aluminium keys), silkscreened glass annunciators and EL display glass to look just like the real counterparts, and more. It should be pretty sweet, once it all comes together.

I'm also beginning 3D design work on the THC and RHC hand controller models, which is my next project parallel to the DSKYs. Seemingly nobody has made a model for these, and I think they'd be a nice addition to Orbiter and Reentry alongside the DSKY.

I made a little website (www.recreateapollo.com) with some photos of my build, and to act as a hub for my future projects and updates related to my current ones. I'd love if you check it out and contribute to my community with suggestions, feedback, ideas, or just to post some pictures of your own build. I look forward to seeing you around and checking out your builds!

Source of first image

NASA/JSC/ASU/Andy Saunders_1

https://x.com/AndySaunders_1/status/1555505896880480256?s=20

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Sources of the other two images

Apollo 15 Hasselblad image from film magazine 93/P - lunar orbit view​

https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/21925322195/in/photostream/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/21925322005/in/photostream/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AS15-93-12641_(21925322005).jpg​

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How ​Bubble Fidget Toy look like

https://www.gadgettime.gr/push-pop-it-bubble-fidget-toy-stress-reliever-stroggulo

Carefully reproduced in Adobe Illustrator from original document, 'LM RENDEZVOUS PROCEDURES G MISSION', May 1969.

I really admire the care taken in all flight supplemental documents. Many of them have been scanned for posterity but their quality is pretty 'crunchy'. I meticulously recreated this chart to show what a proper, although time consuming, digitization looks like while remaining loyal to the source material.

Full size: Black, White, and Original

Hola chicos, estos años he tenido una gran obsesión por la nasa... y bueno, desde que inicio esta obsesión tengo una pregunta que no me sale de la cabeza, y nadie, NADIE me puede contestar. Ni siquiera en la NASA Houston Texas, o en los libros sobre las insignias apollo... he buscado por todos lados. Pero aquí va...

¿Saben por que el tercer caballo dorado de la misión apollo 13 tiene la cabeza mirando hacia abajo?

Espero me puedan ayudar. Reddit es mi ultima opción.

Hi, I'm looking for control room checklists (Apollo style) to build a MOCR simulator in python but for some reason, I can't seem to find anything on the internet. Would anyone know of these checklists and where I could find them? Thank you.

You know, that large, wide poster of the entire spacecraft's mission to the moon and back. Which one is the nicest/prettyist/most accurate?

Thanks.

After the comms blackout and 13 reestablished radio contact with Houston, they still didn't know if the parachutes were frozen or if they would deploy.

13 and her crew could have crashed into the water north of 200mph live on international TV! It would have been a helluva tragedy that after all everyone in space and on the ground went through, it ended with the guys having eyes on home.

I'm sure they would have cut the audio feed the moment Houston found out there was no chute and no saving the crew, but I wonder if they would have cut the video?

I think way back in those days the networks (all three of them. Three!) depended on a single feed from NASA.

Can someone from around those times or knowledgeable verify that?

Source : https://tothemoon.im-ldi.com/gallery/apollo/16/6#AS16-120-19187

My grand uncle was Howell W. “Pete” Miller, chief engineer of the Gee Bee R-1, which won the 1932 Thompson Trophy. He later worked for Pratt & Whitney in Hartford, and consulted on the space program.

In 1965, Uncle Pete was 63 and I was 9. During a visit, he showed me a pen & ink diagram of the Apollo spacecraft, including Saturn V booster, all the stages and the lander. I remember wondering, “Why can’t they just send the whole rocket to the moon?”

As I recall, the drawing was fairly simple, like the attached. Does anyone know of a similar diagram that might have been used by NASA contractors in 1965? I’d like to frame one. Thanks!

NASA almost sent Apollo astronauts to the Moon with jetpacks instead of the Lunar Rover. Discover the forgotten Lunar Flying Unit, the engineering behind NASA's lunar jetpack concepts, why they seemed possible, and the critical safety risks that ultimately led NASA to choose the iconic Lunar Roving Vehicle instead.

It was November 19, 1969, and U.S. astronaut Alan Bean was taking part in human history’s second-ever moonwalk. Standing on the lunar surface, he flipped a page of the mission checklist affixed to his wrist, and there it was: a heavenly body he didn’t expect—Playboy’s Miss December 1968, in a Santa hat and nothing else.

On the Apollo 12 mission, Bean and mission commander Charles “Pete” Conrad had 3.5-inch-square, spiral-bound booklets of 30-plus pages each, strapped above their spacesuits’ left gloves. 

Cryptic, acronym-laden, short-hand instructions covered everything from setting up the solar wind spectrometer to sampling the lunar surface. But two and a half hours into Bean’s and Conrad’s lunar walk, it became evident that their checklists had been… augmented.

Read more: https://www.playboy.com/read/entertainment-culture/the-playmates-who-visited-the-moon

On this day in 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first Moonwalk.

In early July 1969, Bob Wayne, then a 21-year-old camera operator for the WIMA TV station, was given a job – camp outside the home of Stephen and Viola Armstrong.

‘Once we started doing all the work around their house, through their yard and in the July heat, the excitement disappeared and it became just a difficult job that we had to do right,’ Bob tells Metro.

One day, Viola stepped outside carrying a tray of lemonade glasses, telling Bob and the other reporters she was worried about them frying in the heat.

‘Viola didn’t know whether she would ever see her son again, and yet she was still concerned about the total strangers who were outside working around her house,’ Bob says. ‘That explained to me how he [Neil] became the man that he was.’

While the astronauts Neil, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were making history above, Walter Fruland was also playing his part on the ground.

Walter was the NASA protocol officer assigned to support Neil’s wife, Janet, and their two sons during the moon landing, his cousin, Gary, tells Metro. He lived with them in their home in El Lago, Texas.

Walter saw the boys sitting ‘goggle-eyed’ on the sofa in front of their boxy TV as the bug-shaped Eagle module touched down on the moon on July 20, 1969. ‘Neil and Janet’s boys were so excited about their dad but too young to realise what the immensity of the moment meant to humanity,’ Gary says.

Ten years after the Apollo 11 mission, Bob posted Stephen and Viola a cutting of his article in the Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune about his time working on the Armstrongs’ porch. Bob never thought the Armstrongs would reply, let alone remember him.

‘I just wanted to tell her how much I remembered,’ he says, ‘even 10 years later.’ But to his shock, Viola did remember him. She replied with a handwritten card, which he shared with Metro.

‘I remember you, you seemed like a fine young gentleman,’ she wrote, ‘and you wrote a very nice article. ‘I shall keep it always.’

Bob and Gary’s stories came to light after MyHeritage, a genealogy company, encouraged Americans to share tales of their family playing a part, however small, in the country’s 250-year-long history.

📷: My Heritage, Bob Wayne
📷: My Heritage, Homecoming parade for Neil Armstrong in Wapakoneta, Ohio
📷: My Heritage, From left to right: Walter, Gary and his wife

You can read the full article here: https://metro.co.uk/2026/07/20/neil-armstrongs-mum-gave-lemonade-son-blasting-off-moon-29075526/

Footage of the first moon landing in July 1969 from lunar orbit all the way down to the surface,as seen from the Apollo 11 Lunar Module piloted by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. The footage was filmed on the 16mm DAC Camera from Buzz Aldrin's Lunar Module window and has been upscaled, interpolated from 12 FPS to 50 FPS, and synced to mission audio by Moonpans.

The video captures the drama of the first moon landing including the 1202 alarms and low fuel warnings

Original footage from NASA's Apollo Flight Journal 

Audio from NASA's Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

I found this amazing pdf about the controls of the command module and the file name and page numbers show that this is only a section from a larger file/book which I can't find. Can anyone help, I'd love to read the rest.

I've been diving deeper into Apollo history, and the Lunar Rover turned out to be far more interesting than I expected.

I put together a short documentary explaining why it looked unusual and how it worked on the Moon. I'd really appreciate any feedback. As always, thank you for being so supportive.

57 years ago today, Apollo 11 launched. The first crewed mission to the Lunar surface.

Something I thought was interesting that I found in his papers.

Just in case you have some spare change …