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THE LIFT OFF OF APOLLO 12 ON THIS DAY

Apollo 12 Launch - Ralph Morse — Google Arts & Culture

Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the
moon,was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with
astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr.; Richard F. Gordon, Jr.;
and Alan L. Bean aboard. 

The crew had a narrow margin in which to launch to reach
the moon, but bad weather threatened to delay take-off and
they were struck by lightning twice during take-off.

President Richard Nixon (below center) viewed the liftoff
from Pad A at Cape Canaveral. He was the first president
to attend the liftoff of a manned space flight.
 

The Flip of a Switch Saved the Apollo 12 Mission | The Vintage News

Spaceflight mission report: Apollo 12
Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.; Command
Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon, Jr.; Lunar Module
Pilot Alan L. Bean.

Apollo 12 essay by Hamish Lindsay

 

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

Ap Today In History March 13 2024 - Herta Mandie

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Seneca Falls by Frances T. Barbieri and Kathy Jans-Duffy | Seneca falls, Womens rights, Women in ...

At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, a woman’s
rights convention—the
first ever held in the United States—
convened
with almost 200 women in attendance.

The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton
, two abolitionists who met at the 1840 World Anti-
Slavery Convention in London.

As women, Mott and Stanton were barred from the convention
floor, and the common indignation that this aroused in both of
them was the impetus for their founding of the women’s rights
movement in the United States.

Image of SENECA FALLS MEETING, 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Addressing The First Women's Rights ...

Women's Suffrage: How White Supremacy Tainted The Movement - Women's Republic

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MOON MISSION LAUNCHED ON THIS DAY

Stunning pictures of 1969 first moon landing | Daily Mail Online

At 9:32 a.m. EDT, Apollo 11, the first U.S. lunar landing mission, 
was
launched on a historic journey to the surface of the moon.

After traveling 240,000 miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 entered into
a lunar orbit on July 19.

New 8x10 NASA Photo: Buzz Aldrin at the Sea of Tranquility, Apollo 11 Mission | eBay
The crew of Apollo 11, from left, Neil Armstrong, Michael
Collins and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin in 1969. NASA/AP.

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FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN TO GO INTO SPACE

Throwback Thursday: The Legacy of Sally Ride – Starts With A Bang! – Medium
Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012)


On June 18, 1983,  the space shuttle Challenger was launched
into space on its second mission. On board the shuttle is Dr. 
Sally K. Ride, who as a mission specialist, became the first
American woman to travel into space
. 

Ride, who had earlier pursued a professional tennis career,
answered a newspaper ad in 1977 from NASA calling for
young tech-savvy scientists who could work as mission
specialists.
 She died of
pancreatic cancer at age 61.

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Presidential Medal of Freedom
         (2013, posthumous)

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FORMER APOLLO 8 ASTRONAUT IS DEAD

Taken aboard Apollo 8 by Bill Anders, this iconic picture shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon, with astronauts Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell aboard. (Willian Anders/NASA)
Taken aboard Apollo 8 by Bill Anders, this iconic picture
shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface
as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon,
with astronauts Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell
aboard. (Willian Anders/NASA)

FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. (AP) — Retired Maj. Gen. William
Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic
“Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue
marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane
he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San
Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 8 Mission to the Moon – STAR Net

Watch the Apollo 8 Crew Recount Their Historic Moon Mission in This Epic NASA Video | Space
The crew of Apollo 8, as seen during training before their
launch on Dec. 21, 1968.

William "Bill" Alison Anders (born October 17, 1933) is a former United States Air Force officer ...

William Anders - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia
William Alison Anders
(October 17, 1933 – June 7, 2024)

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