{"id":15930,"date":"2009-07-16T06:14:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T06:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/07\/where-eagles-dare.html"},"modified":"2009-07-16T06:14:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T06:14:07","slug":"where_eagles_dare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/16\/where_eagles_dare\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Eagles Dare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, as you&#8217;re probably reading elsewhere, marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, humanity&#8217;s first landing on the moon.  Follow along with the mission on the beautiful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wechoosethemoon.org\/\">We Choose The Moon<\/a>.  Related links of interest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As is their M.O., The Big Picture presents a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2009\/07\/remembering_apollo_11.html\">gloriously high-res gallery<\/a> showing images from the mission &amp; its lead-up&#8211;very few of which I&#8217;d ever seen.  The gallery includes text from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abramsbooks.com\/Books\/Apollo-9780810921467.html\">Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts<\/a><\/em>.  (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2009\/07\/remembering_apollo_11.html#photo35\">photo 35<\/a> for an interesting bit.)<\/li>\n<li>Elsewhere, a crew is <a href=\"http:\/\/pcworld.co.nz\/pcworld\/pcw.nsf\/feature\/7A6BCA446DC440D5CC2575E4001CDB07\">using Photoshop to help restore &amp; analyze data<\/a> from the unmanned lunar probes that preceded the Apollo landings.<\/li>\n<li>Mentioned previously, but worth a revisit: Here&#8217;s a map of the area covered by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on their Apollo 11 moon walks, <a href=\"http:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/alsj\/a11\/A11vsFootball.gif\">superimposed on a soccer field<\/a> and on <a href=\"http:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/alsj\/a11\/A11vsMLB.gif\">a baseball diamond<\/a>.  (I suppose if I were carrying a 400lb suit, I wouldn&#8217;t get too far, either.) [<a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/08\/03\/a-fantastic-pair-of-maps-courtesy-of\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>[For many more space-\/imaging-related links, see this blog&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/scientific_technical_imaging\/\">scientific &amp; technical imaging category<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, as you&#8217;re probably reading elsewhere, marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, humanity&#8217;s first landing on the moon. Follow along with the mission on the beautiful We Choose The Moon. Related links of interest: As is their M.O., The Big Picture presents a gloriously high-res gallery showing images from the mission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}