"The Eagle has landed…"

1630Boston · July 16, 2020 1:20AM

51 Years ago today, Apollo 11 lifted off - Post a coin with an Eagle on it please.
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Apollo 11 mission patch
Credits: NASA
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Mission Objective
The primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961: perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth.
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Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy on July 16, 1969, carrying Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin into an initial Earth-orbit of 114 by 116 miles. An estimated 650 million people watched Armstrong's televised image and heard his voice describe the event as he took "...one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" on July 20, 1969.

Additional flight objectives included scientific exploration by the lunar module, or LM, crew; deployment of a television camera to transmit signals to Earth; and deployment of a solar wind composition experiment, seismic experiment package and a Laser Ranging Retroreflector. During the exploration, the two astronauts were to gather samples of lunar-surface materials for return to Earth. They also were to extensively photograph the lunar terrain, the deployed scientific equipment, the LM spacecraft, and each other, both with still and motion picture cameras. This was to be the last Apollo mission to fly a "free-return" trajectory, which would enable a return to Earth with no engine firing, providing a ready abort of the mission at any time prior to lunar orbit insertion.

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Post a coin with an Eagle on it please.

1630Boston · July 16, 2020 4:57AM

david3142 · July 16, 2020 5:11AM

Here’s an Ike that commemorates the occasion!

Onastone · July 16, 2020 5:24AM

to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilisations; to boldly go where no man has gone before...
(not my coin, but a very cool defiant Eagle!)

ricko · July 16, 2020 6:13AM

Just happen to have an eagle perched next to my computer.... Cheers, RickO

1630Boston · July 16, 2020 6:16AM

Nice gold @ricko

ricko · July 16, 2020 6:30AM

@1630Boston.... Thanks, my favorite...Had it for a long time. Lost it once, found it somewhere it should not have been...but was. Now I keep it close... Cheers, RickO

Goldminers · July 16, 2020 6:30AM

A few modern US Mint National Commemorative medals with eagles:

joeykoins · July 16, 2020 7:47AM

A father's work attributing to his son
11-23-66 / 9-18-2001

asheland · July 16, 2020 8:23AM

BloodMan · July 16, 2020 8:30AM

Wow @asheland that looks like a very high-end 1903 $2.50 and in an old holder!

WinLoseWin · July 16, 2020 8:31AM

This 1798 dollar was 171 years before the launch.

Few of the people who handled it then would have believed such a journey was possible.

Now, 1969 is old history with few thinking about the journey that took place.

Even being fascinated with space, still when I see the moon it often does not even occur to me that people have even been there.

Wonder if any of the astronauts who went ever looked up at it again and had a moment of just seeing it as the moon before thinking of it as a familiar place they had visited.

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asheland · July 16, 2020 8:34AM

@BloodMan said:
Wow @asheland that looks like a very high-end 1903 $2.50 and in an old holder!

Thanks! It's the most undergraded coin I've ever owned I do believe.

bolivarshagnasty · July 16, 2020 8:38AM

derryb · July 16, 2020 8:38AM

Remember the day well. Spent the entire summer, sun up til sundown at Folly Beach, SC. When I wasn't working in the surf shop I was in the water. That entire week brought unprecedented 5-9' calm, glassy swells with magnificent tubes. Unforgettable.