Project: Apollo Scrapbook

2024-06-06. Going though my website pruning and moving media so that I can reduce my server storage fees. I’m currently working through my Video Fridays category, primarily because over the years I began to take screenshots of the posted videos because I liked the visual presentation. That was before I discovered that “unlimited storage” was no unlimited. So now I’m going back and moving these images (and videos) off of my blog server and posting most of them onto my SmugMug account and then embedding them onto my blog posts… While I was doing that I encountered a post I’d made in the summer of 2022 for the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo moon landings and decided that I needed to make a separate post focusing on the scrapbook that I made as a kid during the summer of 1969 and put that post into my JBB’s Media Projects: Space Cadet category. Here’s the entry and images:

Apollo 11 Scrapbook - 1 cover1 — Apollo 11 Scrapbook – 1 cover1

2022-07-22. My social feed this week has been flooded with references to the first landing of humans on the moon, now 53-years-ago. At the 50th anniversary, back in 2019, there were at least two heavily promoted documentaries, Apollo 11 and Armstrong. In the Fall of 2018 one bio pic, First Man, was released. This year as it was in 2019, there were more than a few websites releasing videos and information, following the timeline of the original moon landing event from 1969. The power of this narrative, which I experienced as an 11-year-old boy watching the space program from my parent’s TV screen in Southern California, can be life defining. Here’s pages from the scrapbook that I created from newspapers and magazines featuring the Apollo 7 mission (first manned mission with the capsule following the Apollo 1 fire) and the Apollo 11 moon landing mission. Enjoy.