--- title: Return Trip to Earth url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/return-trip-to-earth-apollo-11-1969/ description: A fold-out sheet headed 'Return trip to Earth' pairs a colour photograph of a spacecraft above the lunar surface, with Earth on the horizon. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Return Trip to Earth [![Return Trip to Earth, 1969 US poster: A fold-out sheet headed 'Return trip to Earth' pairs a colour photograph](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/return-trip-to-earth-apollo-11-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/return-trip-to-earth-apollo-11-1969.jpg) # Return Trip to Earth A fold-out sheet headed 'Return trip to Earth' pairs a colour photograph of a spacecraft above the lunar surface, with Earth on the horizon, with four vertical frames of a burning module and a short text quoting astronaut Collins on the lunar module Eagle. The text describes the service module being jettisoned and burning up on re-entry. The sheet carries no argument; the tell is the borrowing of the Apollo mission's prestige for the issuing side, with no mention of the war. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Chuyến trở về địa cầu «Đây là một ngày sáng trăng, đẹp, trong sáng và ngoạn mục... và đây là nguyệt xa mỗi lúc một to lớn hơn, mỗi lúc một chói lọi hơn...» Đây là lời ông Collins miêu tả nguyệt xa Eagle (trái) khi nó cất cánh rời nguyệt cầu — với địa cầu nhô lên ở phía chân trời — để hội ngộ với phi thuyền mẹ Columbia chừng 25 giờ sau khi đồ bộ nguyệt cầu. Sau đó, nguyệt xa được bỏ lại trong không gian, như một chiếc thuyền đồ chơi nhỏ, trong khi các phi hành gia bắt đầu cuộc hành trình trở về địa cầu trong phi thuyền chỉ huy. Chỉ còn cách mặt đất chừng 8.500 cây số, bộ phận dịch vụ của phi thuyền mẹ Columbia, đã từng cung cấp nhiên liệu đầy, dưỡng khí và nước, đã được tách rời và hất tung đi. Bộ phận này vượt qua khí quyển bị đơi cháy nóng tới 2.732 độ trước khi tan rã, được trông thấy ở phân cảnh dưới. ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` Return trip to Earth "It was a bright, beautiful, clear and spectacular day... and here is the lunar module growing larger and more dazzling every moment..." These are the words of Mr. Collins describing the lunar module Eagle (left) as it lifted off from the Moon, with the Earth rising on the horizon, to meet the mother ship Columbia about 25 hours after the lunar landing. Afterwards the lunar module was left in space like a small toy boat, while the astronauts began the journey home to Earth in the command ship. Only about 8,500 kilometres from the ground, the service module of the mother ship Columbia, which had supplied full fuel, oxygen and water, was detached and thrown off. This part passed through the atmosphere, burned hot up to 2,732 degrees before breaking apart, and is seen in the lower scene. ``` Vietnamese wording follows the printed text; 'bị đơi cháy' is as printed (read as 'bị đốt cháy', burned). 'Cây số' is kilometre; the sheet's 2,732 degrees is given without a unit. [← Día de la Dignidad Nacional: Recuperación de La Brea y Pariñas (Peruvian stamp, 2.50 soles)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/peru-dia-dignidad-nacional-brea-parinas-stamp-1969/) [Dove stabbed by a hammer and sickle →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/yaf-dove-hammer-and-sickle-1969/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Clay cylinder with the Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus, king of Babylon, describing work on three temples](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cylinder-nabonidus-ehulhul-inscription-555bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer) - [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial) - [Glazed-brick panel with a striding lion, from Babylon (reign of Nebuchadnezzar II)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ishtar-gate-panel-striding-lion-nebuchadnezzar-ii-604bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer) - [Limestone relief block of Ramesses II wearing the White Crown, a jubilee relief from his temple at Herakleopolis](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jubilee-relief-ramesses-ii-herakleopolis-met-05-4-256/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). 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