Posted on Feb 5, 2021
APOD: 2021 February 5 - Apollo 14 Heads for Home
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Good Red Friday morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Apollo 14 Heads for Home." We continue to mark the 50th anniversary of Apollo 14 and its trip to the Moon. This view of Earth was captured as the Command Module Kitty Hawk emerged from the dark side of the Moon and began its journey back home on February 7, 1971. Spend some time on the supporting links today and you'll learn how a 'smokejumper' helped us grow 'Moon Trees.' I'll share one link that covers both topics in a separate comment.
APOD: 2021 February 5 - Apollo 14 Heads for Home
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Maj William W. 'Bill' Price good day my friend, I have said it many time over, " nobody does it better from above" Thank you for sharing 'Apollo 14 Heads for Home'. Happy R.E.D FRIDAY!
COL Mikel J. Burroughs Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen SCPO Morris Ramsey PVT Mark Zehner Sgt (Join to see) SSG Michael Noll SSG Robert Mark Odom Wayne Soares PO1 William "Chip" Nagel ] SGT (Join to see) TSgt Joe C. SMSgt David A Asbury Maj Marty Hogan PO1 H Gene Lawrence PO3 Phyllis Maynard SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth SPC Margaret Higgins CSM Chuck Stafford Lt Col Charlie Brown
COL Mikel J. Burroughs Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen SCPO Morris Ramsey PVT Mark Zehner Sgt (Join to see) SSG Michael Noll SSG Robert Mark Odom Wayne Soares PO1 William "Chip" Nagel ] SGT (Join to see) TSgt Joe C. SMSgt David A Asbury Maj Marty Hogan PO1 H Gene Lawrence PO3 Phyllis Maynard SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth SPC Margaret Higgins CSM Chuck Stafford Lt Col Charlie Brown
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
Thank you for the great share and mention brother SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
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audio by beach house, from their "depression cherry" releasehttp://www.beachhousebaltimore.com/footage is from Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" prop...
Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Friday, December 5, 2021 entitled "Apollo 14 Heads for Home."
Image: Apollo 14 Heads for Home - Image Credit -Apollo 14, NASA, JSC, ASU (Image Reprocessing - Andy Saunders)
APOD Background
"Explanation: Fifty years ago this Sunday (February 7, 1971), the crew of Apollo 14 left lunar orbit and headed for home. They watched this Earthrise from their command module Kittyhawk. With Earth's sunlit crescent just peeking over the lunar horizon, the cratered terrain in the foreground is along the lunar farside. Of course, while orbiting the Moon, the crew could watch Earth rise and set, but from the lunar surface the Earth hung stationary in the sky over their landing site at Fra Mauro Base. Rock samples returned from Fra Mauro included a 20 pound rock nicknamed Big Bertha, determined to contain a likely fragment of a meteorite from planet Earth. Kept on board the Kittyhawk during the Apollo 14 mission was a cannister of 400-500 seeds that were later grown into Moon Trees.
BEACH HOUSE // Space Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9X1C7pTu-M
FYI Maj Robert Thornton LTC (Join to see) COL Mikel J. Burroughs PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Sgt Vance Bonds MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. TSgt David L.PO2 (Join to see) SSG Michael Noll SMSgt David A Asbury SMSgt Lawrence McCarter PO1 H Gene Lawrence SPC Michael Terrell SSG Samuel Kermon SPC Nancy Greene SSG Jeffrey Leake
Image: Apollo 14 Heads for Home - Image Credit -Apollo 14, NASA, JSC, ASU (Image Reprocessing - Andy Saunders)
APOD Background
"Explanation: Fifty years ago this Sunday (February 7, 1971), the crew of Apollo 14 left lunar orbit and headed for home. They watched this Earthrise from their command module Kittyhawk. With Earth's sunlit crescent just peeking over the lunar horizon, the cratered terrain in the foreground is along the lunar farside. Of course, while orbiting the Moon, the crew could watch Earth rise and set, but from the lunar surface the Earth hung stationary in the sky over their landing site at Fra Mauro Base. Rock samples returned from Fra Mauro included a 20 pound rock nicknamed Big Bertha, determined to contain a likely fragment of a meteorite from planet Earth. Kept on board the Kittyhawk during the Apollo 14 mission was a cannister of 400-500 seeds that were later grown into Moon Trees.
BEACH HOUSE // Space Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9X1C7pTu-M
FYI Maj Robert Thornton LTC (Join to see) COL Mikel J. Burroughs PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Sgt Vance Bonds MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. TSgt David L.PO2 (Join to see) SSG Michael Noll SMSgt David A Asbury SMSgt Lawrence McCarter PO1 H Gene Lawrence SPC Michael Terrell SSG Samuel Kermon SPC Nancy Greene SSG Jeffrey Leake
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LTC Stephen F.
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Brainticket - Places of Light - Live (Space Rock Invasion DVD 2011)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-rW9S5cY9M
FYI SSG Franklin BriantSgt John H.SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth SGT (Join to see)SSG Jeffrey Leake SPC Matthew Lamb CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana SSG Samuel Kermon Sgt (Join to see) MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi SP5 Geoffrey Vannerson LTC (Join to see) LTC (Join to see) Maj William W. 'Bill' Price Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Maj Marty Hogan PO3 Phyllis Maynard SP5 Dennis Loberger Col Carl Whicker Sgt (Join to see)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-rW9S5cY9M
FYI SSG Franklin BriantSgt John H.SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth SGT (Join to see)SSG Jeffrey Leake SPC Matthew Lamb CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana SSG Samuel Kermon Sgt (Join to see) MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi SP5 Geoffrey Vannerson LTC (Join to see) LTC (Join to see) Maj William W. 'Bill' Price Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Maj Marty Hogan PO3 Phyllis Maynard SP5 Dennis Loberger Col Carl Whicker Sgt (Join to see)
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We really, really need to go back there. We have become absorbed with navel gazing and are missing the cosmos.
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SPC Michael Terrell
We should send most of the swamp creatures to the moon, on a fact finding mission.
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