Apollo 11 documentary
Discussion
henrycrun said:
Sorry if mentioned elsewhere - the entire mission
https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/
Wow, how amazing!https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/
Are you sure? I understood this to be new new undertaking when I posted it elsewhere. Apollo 17 had a similar makeover for an anniversary recently.
http://benfeist.com
I took this to be a new undertaking not a re run from previous years.
Some comment (on NASA news section) says it started in 2009 as a six year project to make the one for Apollo 17.
Either way. It really is superb. The launch alone I re run listening to different aspects on the audio channels.
http://benfeist.com
I took this to be a new undertaking not a re run from previous years.
Some comment (on NASA news section) says it started in 2009 as a six year project to make the one for Apollo 17.
Either way. It really is superb. The launch alone I re run listening to different aspects on the audio channels.
The Apollo 11 one is definitely from 2009 - although it's probably been tweeked and upgraded a bit since then. In the intervening ten years since 2009, other Apollo based "real time" coverage has been put up on various internet platforms.
I would highly recommend the various You Tube videos set up by a chap called Lunar Module 5. His real time coverage of the Apollo 13 "explosion" is quite revealing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWfnY9cRXO4&t=...
I would highly recommend the various You Tube videos set up by a chap called Lunar Module 5. His real time coverage of the Apollo 13 "explosion" is quite revealing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWfnY9cRXO4&t=...
Something puzzles me about Apollo. I have a distinct memory of watching a moon landing on TV in the school hall, a program a few hours long with the landing itself late afternoon. But Apollo 11 landed late Sunday evening UK time, and the timing of the others doesn't match either. Not that I can see us being let off lessons for anything other than the first landing. Was the Sunday night coverage repeated on Monday afternoon? Just in case anyone remembers TV schedules from 50 years ago.
For a long time I remembered it as actually watching the landing live, all a bit Mandela effect.
For a long time I remembered it as actually watching the landing live, all a bit Mandela effect.
Dr Jekyll said:
Something puzzles me about Apollo. I have a distinct memory of watching a moon landing on TV in the school hall, a program a few hours long with the landing itself late afternoon. But Apollo 11 landed late Sunday evening UK time, and the timing of the others doesn't match either. Not that I can see us being let off lessons for anything other than the first landing. Was the Sunday night coverage repeated on Monday afternoon? Just in case anyone remembers TV schedules from 50 years ago.
For a long time I remembered it as actually watching the landing live, all a bit Mandela effect.
I remember bits of the last missions being shown on, I think, Blue Peter. Also remember the James Burk programmes with the E, L & P Fanfare for the Common Man theme music.For a long time I remembered it as actually watching the landing live, all a bit Mandela effect.
Dr Jekyll said:
Something puzzles me about Apollo. I have a distinct memory of watching a moon landing on TV in the school hall, a program a few hours long with the landing itself late afternoon. But Apollo 11 landed late Sunday evening UK time, and the timing of the others doesn't match either. Not that I can see us being let off lessons for anything other than the first landing. Was the Sunday night coverage repeated on Monday afternoon? Just in case anyone remembers TV schedules from 50 years ago.
For a long time I remembered it as actually watching the landing live, all a bit Mandela effect.
Do you know, that same thought has been on my mind.For a long time I remembered it as actually watching the landing live, all a bit Mandela effect.
Another thing that amuses me about the landing is that they needed a bloody ladder to get out of the thing. At some stage someone must have thought about the door, thought "ooh, that's a bit high" and provided a ladder to climb down.
The aliens in the sci-fi films never seem to have this trouble. The gleaming saucer shaped craft touches down, a mighty door opens and converts into a ramp, and the spidery legged fellows all walk down, bathed in an eery light, of course.
But us, no. A door opens twelve feet above the ground, one of the occupants climbs out ass-first, and wobbles his way down a ladder. It could all have been done with so much more dignity.
Well, I remember getting woken up in the early hours to watch the first step. I also had some space board game at the time I was keen on.
Regarding the door. Functional and considering the method to get there and back, only option? They would have tested it somewhat. Some concern that when he stepped off that pad he sank in the regolith so he did a little test step at the bottom.
First words spoken on the Moon by Buzz Aldrin.....
Regarding the door. Functional and considering the method to get there and back, only option? They would have tested it somewhat. Some concern that when he stepped off that pad he sank in the regolith so he did a little test step at the bottom.
First words spoken on the Moon by Buzz Aldrin.....
Dr Jekyll said:
It's odd that everyone remembers that Neil was first and Buzz only came second, even though they touched down together. Yet relatively few people seem to know, and nobody at all cares, whether Orville or Wilbur flew first.
It is interesting with firsts, Neil out the door but Buzz with the first words (on a technicality "contact light" when the probe touched the ground) but there was third in orbit and probably with the hardest job. Best book memoirs of the bunch I reckon but who remembers the name without looking it up. Same with the other missions.Alcock and Brown seem to be forgotten but Lindbergh is seen as a first. The Vimy is in the science museum and by eck I think they had bigger ones than the others put together.
Saturn V Apollo 11 launch projected onto the Washinton Monument - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThT8kw7qtVo
There are other longer videos on youtube.
There are other longer videos on youtube.
Zirconia said:
It is interesting with firsts, Neil out the door but Buzz with the first words (on a technicality "contact light" when the probe touched the ground) but there was third in orbit and probably with the hardest job. Best book memoirs of the bunch I reckon but who remembers the name without looking it up. Same with the other missions.
Alcock and Brown seem to be forgotten but Lindbergh is seen as a first. The Vimy is in the science museum and by eck I think they had bigger ones than the others put together.
I've not actually read Armstrongs book but agree Collins' is a very good read. Alcock and Brown seem to be forgotten but Lindbergh is seen as a first. The Vimy is in the science museum and by eck I think they had bigger ones than the others put together.
According to Gene Cernans autobiography Aldrin was campaigning to be the first one out and annoyed quite a few of his colleagues over it.
RizzoTheRat said:
I've not actually read Armstrongs book but agree Collins' is a very good read.
According to Gene Cernans autobiography Aldrin was campaigning to be the first one out and annoyed quite a few of his colleagues over it.
Not sure he did one, I have the an authorised biography by James R Hansen. 2006 edition. Spine is cracking. But I have just got Collins re released 50th edition. Not read it yet to see what has changed (not a lot I expect). Bought it because Mike Collins.According to Gene Cernans autobiography Aldrin was campaigning to be the first one out and annoyed quite a few of his colleagues over it.
Apollo astronaut circa 1969:
'Aw shucks, we're just test pilots flying a different type of machine, what's all the fuss about?'
Apollo astronaut circa 2019
'Why oh why can't everyone see how exciting and important space travel is? We walked on the Moon, the friggin Moon!. Isn't that totally amazing.'
'Aw shucks, we're just test pilots flying a different type of machine, what's all the fuss about?'
Apollo astronaut circa 2019
'Why oh why can't everyone see how exciting and important space travel is? We walked on the Moon, the friggin Moon!. Isn't that totally amazing.'
LeoSayer said:
An ad for the film popped up in my Facebook feed today.
I made the mistake of reading people's comments. Most were from hoaxers calling everyone idiots or people calling the hoaxers idiots. Usually with a few swear words thrown in.
There's a lesson here somewhere.
Yes it’s rather depressing. I read one comment that said if ‘they’ are ‘trying to prove that the moon landing was real’ then it was ‘really dumb to do that with a CNN film’!I made the mistake of reading people's comments. Most were from hoaxers calling everyone idiots or people calling the hoaxers idiots. Usually with a few swear words thrown in.
There's a lesson here somewhere.
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