John Armagh
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On July 10, 1969—just six days before Apollo 11’s historic launch—Neil Armstrong stood at the base of a mock Lunar Module ladder, already stepping into legend.Dressed in his bulky white spacesuit, he was deep inside NASA’s training facility, rehearsing the most watched descent in human history. Every careful grip on the ladder rails, every deliberate shift of his balance, every tentative step downward was being etched into muscle memory. In the awkward, pressurized suit, nothing felt natural. On the Moon, it would feel even stranger.The real Lunar Module, nicknamed Eagle, was an alien machine—never meant to fly in Earth’s air, built only for the silent vacuum and one-sixth gravity of another world. So engineers recreated the challenge on Earth as best they could: the awkward ladder height, the tricky last rung, the longer-than-expected drop to the surface. Armstrong practiced it again and again, knowing that when the moment came, he would have less than a second to decide how to plant humanity’s first footprint.Six days later, on July 16, the Saturn V roared to life. Four days after that, on July 20, Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin guided Eagle down to the Sea of Tranquility while the world listened, breathless.Then came the real ladder.At 10:56 p.m. EDT, Neil Armstrong stepped off the final rung, paused for a heartbeat, and spoke the words that still send chills down the spine:“That’s one small step for man… one giant leap for mankind.”This quiet training photo captures something profound: the greatest leaps in history are never taken cold. They are practiced, refined, and earned in the shadows—long before the cameras roll and the world watches. Before the giant leap, there were countless small, deliberate steps in a stuffy simulator, under the bright lights of Houston.On July 10, 1969, the Moon mission had already begun.
And Neil Armstrong was ready.

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@amnoaweegie @konstructivizm Good thing we don't need to worry about that when we are finding our way home after work.
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@konstructivizm One flaw here. The galaxy is also moving so we will never be in the same place again.
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The Sun Has Just 22 Laps Left in Its Epic Galactic Journey
While we measure our lives in birthdays and calendar years, our entire Solar System is on a far grander voyage — one that makes Earth’s history feel like the blink of an eye.Our Sun is hurtling through space at 514,000 miles per hour (828,000 km/h), circling the center of the Milky Way once every 230 million years — a period known as a “cosmic year.” At that breathtaking speed, it takes roughly 230 million years to complete a single lap around the galaxy.The Sun formed 4.6 billion years ago and has so far completed only about 20 of these vast orbits. The last time our star was exactly where it is right now, the very first dinosaurs were just beginning to appear on Earth.Scientific models show the Sun is now middle-aged. With about 5 billion years of hydrogen fuel remaining in its core, it has roughly 22 galactic laps left before it swells into a red giant and eventually fades away. That gives our star a total lifetime of roughly 10 billion years.Think about that for a moment: all of human civilization — from the first cave paintings to space stations — has unfolded in just a tiny fraction of a single galactic orbit. While we obsess over decades and centuries, the Sun is silently carving a path tens of thousands of light-years long, weaving through spiral arms, star clusters, and interstellar clouds on a journey older than the dinosaurs and longer than anything our species will ever witness.We are passengers on a 10-billion-year odyssey that’s only halfway done.Source: NASA . Our Galactic Home. NASA Solar System Exploration.

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@PouponGreyyy @konstructivizm You are an utterly delusional, derangedly ignorant moron.
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@konstructivizm 😂 First of all Dinosaurs are NOT REAL. Second of all who is cooking up these numbers 😆 you can’t just say the sun is 4.5 billion years old.
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@AsadUll26992909 @konstructivizm It's called perspective - same as a rail track receding into the distance. No mystery. No fakery. No conspiracy.
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@konstructivizm What's with his shadow angle vs that of the object on the left...??
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This image captures a moment during the Apollo 16 mission in April 1972 on the lunar surface, featuring astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr. standing near Plum Crater. In the background, the Lunar Roving Vehicle can be seen parked on the lunar highland terrain. (Photo by Mission Commander John W. Young)

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@JesseRomeroShow Ignorant sycophantic twat - poodle of a narcissistic bigoted piece of excrement in human form.
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O'er the fields we go…
Not long before their splashdown in the Atlantic #OTD in 1965, Gemini VI-A astronauts Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford treated the Gemini VII crew to a festive treat: a performance of Jingle Bells with Schirra on harmonica and Stafford jingling bells.

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@PaintDoctorMD @NASA What an utterly crass statement. Do you have any idea how much of the tech you hypercritically use owes its existence to space engineering research and development?
Of course you don't.
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Artemis II is launching in early 2026. You coming with?
Now you can. Submissions are open to fly your name around the Moon.
Your name will be recorded on a memory card that will be stowed inside the Orion spacecraft. Sign up here: go.nasa.gov/artemisnames

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This piece of shit.
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@SebGorka You fucking patronising twat. Shove your condescending remarks up your fucking arse.
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@SebGorka you fucking arrogant twat. Go shove your head back up Trump’s arse. Jerk.
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@kinlochleven7 @elonmusk It actually needs a new referendum on EU membership.
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@elonmusk Labour also needs a new Chancellor
Labour also needs a new Energy Secretary
Labour also needs a new Border Security Minister
Labour also needs a new Farming Minister
Labour also needs a new Education Secretary
The UK needs a general election
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@Multisiteltd @LBC @mrjamesob And we were British when we were in the EU. Or are you suggesting that the French are not French?
Get behind Brexit? That’s like saying get behind masochism.
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@LBC @mrjamesob No point crying over spilt milk - how can you build a career over being the loser in a referendum
You’re all living in the past - don’t you think it’s time to get behind Brexit now - you’re British 🇬🇧
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“I don’t need to give you an example.”
“You do, otherwise everyone will think you are very silly.”
@mrjamesob challenges caller Anne to name one beneficial post-Brexit law.
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@GylesB1 I kinda wish you had used the term “boutonniere” - I had a momentary dyslexia moment when I read your Tweet.
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@GaryLineker I thought Match of the Day was infinitely better at the weekend. Much more worthwhile watching it without the inane jabber by overpaid “pundits”.
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@lovethedoctor @reallorraine Trust them to prepare the food? Nah. Vile, subhuman scum like that would probably spit in the food, or worse, before distributing it.
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@Kathbum Probably better to be a false puritan than a real one. Puritants are the bigots responsible for the buy-bull belt.
It’s a pity the Mayflower didn’t capsize mid-Atlantic.
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