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FEATURED: The summer of 1969 was a great time for spaceflight and also for music and on their surface, these events seem to have little to do with one another but look deeper into history and a link exist #AceHistoryDesk report

#AceHistoryReport – July.13: The archetypes of the astronaut and the hippie seem incongruous. And yet each existed as a cultural backdrop to the other. Just as Woodstock occurred in the afterglow of the success of Apollo 11, the popular music of the day provided a soundtrack that will be forever associated with the first Moon landing.

#AceHistoryDesk ….. β€œGround Control to Major Tom” The Apollo Playlist Part 1 less than a month after astronauts walked on the Moon for the first time, the music festival that we’ve come to know as Woodstock brought nearly half-a-million people together in upstate New York for a three-day concert featuring the music of the ascendant counterculture according to Air&Space/Stories

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Portrait of David Bowie by Mick Haggerty, 1983. Object record. Copyright/credit: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine

A lot of the popular music from the late 1960s reflected political disillusion, a critical response to the Vietnam War, and an overwhelming sense of pessimism for the future. A strong dystopian theme can be traced in the popular culture of the time. The number one single on the U.S. charts on the day of the Apollo 11 landing was one-hit-wonder Zager and Evans’ “In the Year 2525,” a song that imagines humanity at a crossroads leading to either immediate self-inflicted extinction or a technologically automated and medically sedated future that ends with the depletion of the Earth’s resources and the death of humanity – a pretty bleak forecast either way.

One of the songs we most associate with Apollo 11 is equally dark, though a bit less dystopian. On July 11, 1969 – only 5 days before Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin set out on their journey to the Moon – a relatively unknown British musician named David Bowie released a single titled “Space Oddity.” The timing was no coincidence. Bowie had written the song after being inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. In his mind, it had little to do with the American space program. But Bowie’s record label saw an opportunity to tap into the Apollo excitement and so rushed the song’s release ahead of the album for which it would be the opening track. The song caught the attention of the BBC, who approached Bowie about using the song during their coverage of the landing.

Musically, the song was a perfect fit for televised viewing of a crewed spacecraft landing on another world for the first time. The song is folky, played mainly on acoustic guitar, but it also includes some space-age instrumentation. Bowie used a stylus-operated keyboard called a Stylophone, and a sampling keyboard called a Mellotron to give the song its spacey sound. Thematically, though, Bowie worried that the song’s narrative about an astronaut lost in space would provide too dark of a soundtrack for the humans actually putting their lives at risk for this technological first. He explained in an interview years later, β€œIt wasn’t a pleasant thing to juxtapose against a moon landing.” Still, despite some hesitation, Bowie agreed to let the BBC use it, and they did. After broadcasting the song with the landing on July 20, BBC radio didn’t play it again until after the Apollo 11 crew had returned safely to Earth. 

“Space Oddity” topped the British charts that summer but didn’t immediately find an audience when released in the U.S. Today, however, it’s hard to imagine human spaceflight without evoking the image of the song’s protagonist, Major Tom.

#AceHistoryDesk report ……Published: July.13: 2021:

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(NASA) Artemis Report: In the 18 months accepting a bold challenge to accelerate its exploration plans by more than four years and establish sustainable exploration by the end of the decade, the agency has continued to gain momentum toward sending humans to the Moon again for the first time since the last Apollo lunar mission in 1972 #AceNewsDesk report

#AceNewsReport – Apr.28: With bipartisan support from Congress, our 21st century push to the Moon is well within America’s reach,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. β€œAs we’ve solidified more of our exploration plans in recent months, we’ve continued to refine our budget and architecture. We’re going back to the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and inspiration for a new a generation of explorers. As we build up a sustainable presence, we’re also building momentum toward those first human steps on the Red Planet.”

NASA Publishes Artemis Plan to Land First Woman, Next Man on Moon: β€˜Following a series of critical contract awards and hardware milestones and has shared an update on its Artemis program, including the latest Phase 1 plans to land the first woman and the next man on the surface of the Moon in 2024’

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In its formal plan, NASA captures Artemis progress to date, identifying the key science, technology and human missions, as well as the commercial and international partnerships that will ensure we continue to lead in exploration and achieve our ambitious goal to land astronauts on the Moon.

The agency’s powerful new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), and the Orion spacecraft are closer than ever to their first integrated launch. The spacecraft is complete while the core stage and its attached four engines are undergoing a final series of tests that will culminate in a critical hot fire test this fall.

Early Artemis Missions

Following a successful hot fire test, the core stage will be shipped to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for integration with the spacecraft. NASA will launch an SLS and an Orion together on two flight tests around the Moon to check performance, life support, and communication capabilities. The first mission – known as Artemis I – is on track for 2021 without astronauts, and Artemis II will fly with crew in 2023.

In the Phase 1 plan, NASA notes additional details about conducting a new test during the Artemis II mission – a proximity operations demonstration. Shortly after Orion separates from the interim cryogenic propulsion stage, astronauts will manually pilot Orion as they approach and back away from the stage. This demonstration will assess Orion’s handling qualities and related hardware and software to provide performance data and operational experience that cannot be readily gained on the ground in preparation for rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking, as well as undocking operations in lunar orbit beginning on Artemis III.

While preparing for and carrying out these flight test missions, NASA already will be back on the Moon robotically – using commercial delivery services to send dozens of new science investigations and technology demonstrations to the Moon twice per year beginning in 2021.

In 2024, Artemis III will be humanity’s return to the surface of the Moon – landing the first astronauts on the lunar South Pole. After launching on SLS, astronauts will travel about 240,000 miles to lunar orbit aboard Orion, at which point they will directly board one of the new commercial human landing systems, or dock to the Gateway to inspect it and gather supplies before boarding the landing system for their expedition to the surface.

Wearing modern spacesuits that allow for greater flexibility and movement than those of their Apollo predecessors, astronauts will collect samples and conduct a range of science experiments over the course of nearly seven days. Using the lander, they will return to lunar orbit before ultimately heading home to Earth aboard Orion.

Work is progressing rapidly on the Gateway. NASA will integrate the first two components to launch – the power and propulsion element and the habitation and logistics outpost – in 2023. This foundation for the Gateway will be able to operate autonomously, conducting remote science experiments when astronauts are not aboard. NASA has selected the first two science instrument suites to conduct space weather investigations in lunar orbit before crew visits.

While NASA has not made a final decision to use the Gateway for Artemis III, Artemis IV and beyond will send crew aboard Orion to dock to the Gateway, where two crew members can stay aboard the spaceship in orbit while two go to the surface. Over time, the outpost will evolve, with new modules added by international partners, allowing crew members to conduct increasingly longer lunar missions.

As detailed in the agency’s concept for surface sustainability earlier this year, an incremental buildup of infrastructure on the surface will follow later this decade, allowing for longer surface expeditions with more crew. That concept calls for an Artemis Base Camp that would include new rovers, power systems, habitats, and more on the surface for long-term exploration of the Moon.

Throughout the Artemis program, robots and humans will search for, and potentially extract, resources such as water that can be converted into other usable resources, including oxygen and fuel. By fine-tuning precision landing technologies as well as developing new mobility capabilities, astronauts will travel farther distances and explore new regions of the Moon.

Learn more about NASA’s Artemis program at:

www.nasa.gov/artemis

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Last Updated: Jan 4, 2021: Editor: Sean Potter

#AceNewsDesk report ……….Published: Apr.28: 2021:

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