What the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Site Looks Like Today – 56 Years Later

Watch Interesting Facts on Instagram: "Despite all our tech advances, the recent Moon footage looks blurrier than the 1972 Apollo mission. The reason? Apollo used 16mm film directly on the surface, while 2023 footage was streamed live from space. Digital compression loses what film once captured perfectly. Join the fun at Jackpot City #jackpotcity Like our content? Follow 👉🏼 @watchhistory"

Purely History on Instagram: "In the 1960s, women played a crucial role in the Apollo missions. The onboard guidance computers that helped land astronauts on the Moon used programs stored on woven memory known as core rope memory. Women, often called “little old ladies” in reports of the time, hand-wove wires through magnetic cores to physically encode the software. If a wire passed through a core, it represented a 1, and if it bypassed, it represented a 0. This painstaking work ensured flawless