Apollo 11 landing audio and video

Beeker

The Film footage and audio of mission control during the Apollo 11 moon landing have been synced for the first time.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2010/jul/19/audio-apollo-11-mission-control

ynotdu

Beeker may'be we throw the words around too much,but that really is a little GEM,TY!

I would love if this thread turned into a hugh one celebrating the greatest feat ever achieved so far by Humankind,IMO.
Filled with memories from people who were alive for that moment of magic,as well as every image, video,picture.quotes etc.

How lucky they were.

I can dream!

lord lucan

I wasn't even a twinkle in my Mother's eye in '69. I'd love to have been around to witness it. Of course that would mean i'd be a good deal older now so maybe not!:p

ynotdu

lord lucan wrote: »

I wasn't even a twinkle in my Mother's eye in '69. I'd love to have been around to witness it. Of course that would mean i'd be a good deal older now so maybe not!:p

I thank You for making Your 4000th post Your most profound one ever!!!!!!:D:D:D

*and i thought I was a threadkiller!*

lord lucan

ynotdu wrote: »

*and i thought I was a threadkiller!*

Nah,you're just a spoilsport with your launch abort videos!:pac:

Beeker

Apollo 11 was by far the most profound thing we have done so far as a species. When future historians look back at the 20th century this one event will stand out as a defining moment in history.

I was only 2 when the event took place so I have no memory of it:(. Hope some here do and will share.

ynotdu

Unlike some people who shall remain nameless,i like to mark when i reach a a milestone post,this being My 3000th[ok only 28 made any sense!]
To reach 3000 posts on a discussion board without being sitebanned is a giant leap for Me!:)

The beauty of a Nation that gave a gift to All Mankind instead of being gloating and petty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gEGi8FL43k

Also something to watch out for over the next week which really should have been posted by an Astronomy buff a final URL by Me before i retire to the mid-deck and not be a forum hogger for a while!

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/planetary-triangle-forming-night-sky-100728.html

Beeker

ynotdu wrote: »

Unlike some people who shall remain nameless,i like to mark when i reach a a milestone post,this being My 3000th[ok only 28 made any sense!]
To reach 3000 posts on a discussion board without being sitebanned is a giant leap for Me!:)

The beauty of a Nation that gave a gift to All Mankind instead of being gloating and petty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gEGi8FL43k

Also something to watch out for over the next week which really should have been posted by an Astronomy buff a final URL by Me before i retire to the mid-deck and not be a forum hogger for a while!

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/planetary-triangle-forming-night-sky-100728.html

Happy 3000th:D

lord lucan

ynotdu wrote: »

Unlike some people who shall remain nameless,i like to mark when i reach a a milestone post,this being My 3000th[ok only 28 made any sense!]
To reach 3000 posts on a discussion board without being sitebanned is a giant leap for Me!:)

It's the quality of my posts that matters!:pac:

On a serious note,i'm going over to my parents next week,i must ask my da' what he remembers of it. He would've been 19 at the time so should have a good recollection of it.

ynotdu

lord lucan wrote: »

It's the quality of my posts that matters!:pac:

Make sure and let us know when Your Quality posts are going to start!:pac::pac::pac::)

On a serious note,i'm going over to my parents next week,i must ask my da' what he remembers of it. He would've been 19 at the time so should have a good recollection of it

.

That would be really nice!:)

ynotdu

Unusual pic here of the"bunch of guys about to turn blue" when Eagle landed with only 30 seconds of fuel left before an abort would have had to taken place.Here Mission control get to watch the EVA.

lord lucan

ynotdu wrote: »

Make sure and let us know when Your Quality posts are going to start!:pac::pac::pac:

Touche!:pac:

Beeker

Nice mix:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpf99acRM4s

ynotdu

With one small step off a ladder, Armstrong placed mankind's first footprint on an extraterrestrial world and gained instant hero status.

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His first words upon stepping on the Lunar Surface

have since been etched in history: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."


Armstrong has faced his share of controversy. For decades he was thought to have flubbed his first words spoken on the moon, by dropping the "a" in speaking of a small step "for man." It was 37 years later that an Australian expert said high-tech analysis of the static-ridden transmission found the missing adjective, and that history should remember Armstrong saying what he had intended: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

An estimated 500 million people watched the grainy black and white broadcast that showed Armstrong, clad in a white Space Suit climb down the lunar lander's ladder onto the moon's desolate surface.

As commander of the Apollo

11 mission, it was also Armstrong who had notified mission control that the module had made a successful arrival. "Houston, Tranquility base here. The Eagle

has landed."

Joined by fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Armstrong spent about two and a half hours exploring the landscape around the landing site.
He described the surface as being like powdered charcoal. "I can pick it up loosely with my toe," he said.
Armstrong and Aldrin gracefully bounced in slow-motion despite their clumsy space suits, getting a first feel for the moon's gravity, which is one sixth that of Earth. The two moonwalkers took photographs, collected rock and soil samples and deployed Scientific instruments

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They also planted a US flag and placed a plaque stating: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. We came in peace for all mankind." The astronauts returned to Earth on July 24, ending the celebrated Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong's second and last venture into space.


Born in Wapakoneta, Ohio on August 5, 1930, Armstrong had an early fascination with aircraft and worked at a nearby airport as a teenager.
He took flying lessons at the age of 15 and received his pilot's license on his 16th birthday.
A US Navy aviator, he flew 78 missions in the Korean War.
He studied aeronautical engineering at Purdue University in Indiana, and later earned a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Southern California.
In 1955, he became a test pilot at the High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base in California, where he flew about 50 different types of aircraft.
Seven years later, Armstrong was selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to train as an astronaut in Houston, Texas.
He has lived more than half his life in the aftermath of those golden moments walking on the moon.
After retiring from NASA in 1971, Armstrong taught aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati for nearly a decade and served on the boards of several companies, including Lear Jet, United Airlines and Marathon Oil.
Despite his worldwide fame, the lunar pioneer shunned the limelight. In a rare interview in 2005, Armstrong told the CBS network that he didn't deserve the attention he received for being the first man on the moon. "I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role."

This year he publicly lashed out at President Barack Obama's decision to axe NASA plans to return to the moon, describing the move as "devastating" to the US space program.

The iconic explorer also denied claims by conspiracy theorists that the lunar landing was a giant hoax or that he became a Muslim after hearing the Islamic call to prayer on the moon.

Cú Giobach

ynotdu wrote: »

They also planted a US flag and placed a plaque stating: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. We came in peace for all mankind."

Every time I hear those words I get a lump in my throat.
As was written in earlier post, there is no doubt that was (so far) our crowning moment as a species. The one saving grace of the 20th century, which will probably be best remembered for the 2 World Wars & Nukes.
Just watched the video "In the shadow of the moon" again, in my opinion the best about the Apollo missions.
Mike Collins is some cool character.
Now lets get our asses off to Mars.

lord lucan

Mondays edition of 'Reeling in the Years' is 1969,RTE 1 at 18.30.:)