Thread by @alexbell

went to the Destination Moon exhibition at
@NMMGreenwich this morning, it was great, go to it, some of my fave bits below #moon #exhibition #musuem

@NMMGreenwich planning documents for, and the actual signed UK copy of the international treaty from 1967 where all the countries agreed to play nice on the moon and no-one could call dibs

[the red one is the box it gets stored in, sorry all pics crappy because phone broken]

@NMMGreenwich this kitch as fuck clearly last-minute souvenir trinket that the US gifted to the UK and other world governments with moon rock embedded in it

i guess it's the thought that counts

@NMMGreenwich this original apollo 11 flight plan manual

not to brag but i have a full replica reprint one at home.

everyone who's seen it agrees it's really cool, once they realise the only reason i brought them home from that bar was to show it to them

@NMMGreenwich either armstrong's or aldrin's [sorry forget which] snoopy cap

so nicknamed because it makes you look like snoopy

@NMMGreenwich ok this one is great: luna 9 was the first probe to soft-land on the moon (instead of crash) and it beamed back the first surface images of the moon back to earth.

the probe was russian, but british scientists at jodrell bank were monitoring it with their bigass dishes...(1/3)

@NMMGreenwich ...and they realised that the radio waves were almost identical to a pre-fax system that newspapers used to broadcast photographs between offices.

so the daily express biked over a Radiofax machine to jodrell bank, intercepted the photos and published them to the world (2/3)

@NMMGreenwich and managed to BEAT THE RUSSIANS, so the first photos of the surface of the moon were basically leaked nudes from a hacked fax message using this funky machine

@NMMGreenwich also some cool models and retro toys. lots of cool art and photos incl. a whole other gallery of astronomy photographer of the year (£15 for both exhibitions) which is STUNNING but no photos allowed, eyes only

@NMMGreenwich this proposed lunar base with a creepy lightweight 3D printed structure modelled on avian bones/phoebe

@NMMGreenwich i forgot this was with the snoopy cap - the actual camera film housing that contained the apollo 11 photograph negatives

@NMMGreenwich i didn't take notes for these ones so they're a bit random but basically an enormous map of the moon, and a crazy old, i think 19th century(?) holographic photograph thing

you'll have to go find out more about them i guess :|

@NMMGreenwich the end
i recommend going it's v good

@NMMGreenwich one more rad bonus pic from mission control

all at @RMGreenwich in greenwich #greenwich
(greenwich)