50 years ago

Here are the photos I was going to share yesterday, but I got a bit carried away with the Tailgate Market's 25th anniversary.  (After all, it's closer to my life!)

Thanks to The Atlantic Dot Com for these shots of men first walking on the moon.

Yes there is one female engineer at Mission Control...center of photo.

Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins - Jan, 1969 had been just selected to be crew for Appolo 11.

Liftoff July 16, 1969 from Cape Kennedy, FL aka Cape Canaveral.

The Saturn V rocket takes men into space quickly.

Buzz Aldrin and the flag

First photo (?) of earth taken by man as they sped toward the moon.

Lunar module as it goes toward the moon

Neil Armstrong who did most of the camera work, so has few photos of him

The men rode this capsule back to earth from the moon!

Aldrin working on data collection on the moon