By Cyril Foiret 20 Jul 2009 @ 9:26 am |

For the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing coming up, the National Air and Space Museum is displaying precious Apollo mission artifacts for the Moon Landing Exhibition. Here are the suits and the space capsule they used for this enterprise, and like io9 said it looks so uncomfortable and claustrophobic… If you happen to be in Washington DC, be sure to check this out. Read the full story
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40th anniversary of the Moon landing,
Apollo 11 mission,
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National Air and Space MuseumPOSTED IN ART

The creator of SquareAmerica.com trawls flea markets and garage sales seeking out vintage-photo treasure. Scanning and categorizing grainy snapshots of American history (taken by mostly amateur photogs) the site is a curious journey of the 20th century.
Some cool categories:
What Was On - Apparently before DVR or VCR’s people would document historic TV with a camera lens. It seems almost ridiculous nowadays to be snapping the TV screen but these homemade screenshots of 1950′s news including the assassination of John F. Kennedy and moon landing are pretty cool.

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1960's,
1970s,
apollo mission,
black and white,
black history,
jfk assassination,
moon landing,
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PHOTOGRAPHY,
pictures,
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television,
the party,
TV,
Vintage,
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