#Apollo11 We have liftoff – http://t.co/D0q2ppgI4a Video – http://t.co/4sXGKMxSHu
— Liz Suckow (@LizMSuckow) July 16, 2014
Yesterday was the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch that sent Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the Moon. That mission was one of the greatest achievements in human history, and you can experience it in “real” time thanks to NASA Archivist Liz Suckow. She’s “live tweeting” the entire mission.
Suckow has been at it for a few weeks now, posting tweets about the mission as if it were 1969 about every step of the mission–even little things like what the astronauts ate for breakfast on launch day:
#Apollo11 The crew are eating the traditional launch day breakfast of steak & eggs with Chief Astronaut Deke Slayton http://t.co/zitk5nfNBb
— Liz Suckow (@LizMSuckow) July 16, 2014
And Suckow’s feed is full of beautiful details and facts you may not have know about the mission. Did you know Nixon was going to share a meal with the crew, but backed out?
#Apollo11 The White House has announced they have cancelled Nixon’s plans to dine w/crew on July 15 due to fears of exposing crew to illness
— Liz Suckow (@LizMSuckow) July 7, 2014
The anniversary of the launch was yesterday, but there’s still plenty of mission left to experience so I really can’t recommend following @LizMSuckow enough. My grandfather used to tell me about watching the Moon Landing, and I was always kind of jealous that I wasn’t alive to see it myself. This feels pretty close, or at least as close as we’re going to get.
(via Liz Suckow)
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