Apollo Moon landing 50th - links to media

[VEBill]

Presumably many here would be interested in this subject area. Hopefully others will have found and will share similar gems, in any format, (audio, video, written word).

BBC Radio, audio podcast, 53m

10, 9, 8, 7 - The dramatic missions (Apollo 7 to 10) that made the Moon landing possible.

 

[VEBill]

BBC Radio, audio podcast, 12 part series (just started, one episode released so far), about 45m each.

13 Minutes to the Moon - How the first Moon landing was saved.

 

[VEBill]

Apollo 11 in real time - A real-time journey through the first landing on the Moon

^{Included real-time elements:[ol i][li]All mission control film footage[/li]
[li]All TV transmissions and onboard film footage[/li]
[li]2,000 photographs[/li]
[li]11,000 hours of Mission Control audio[/li]
[li]240 hours of space-to-ground audio[/li]
[li]All onboard recorder audio[/li]
[li]15,000 searchable utterances[/li]
[li]Post-mission commentary[/li]
[li]Astromaterials sample data[/li]
[/ol]}
[URL unfurl="true"]https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/[/url]

 

[WKTaylor]

Definitive history of all Apollo Lunar Landing Missions...

Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/index.html

What shocked me when reading about each mission was how precarious each mission/landing was... although each mission/landing provided valuable insight and experience for the next, and the next, and the next... successively more aggressive missions...

But in essence... the astronauts were in fact true pilots 'flying' rickety [1st generation] crates to the moon and back.

Regards, Wil Taylor

o Trust - But Verify!
o We believe to be true what we prefer to be true. [Unknown]
o For those who believe, no proof is required; for those who cannot believe, no proof is possible. [variation,Stuart Chase]
o Unfortunately, in science what You 'believe' is irrelevant. ["Orion", Homebuiltairplanes.com forum]

 

[JohnRBaker]

Here's an interesting story about one the true pioneers at NASA and their role during the Apollo 11 mission. It also reveals an interesting bit of trivia. The launch control facility at Cape Kennedy, where the actual launch of the Apollo 11 rocket was managed, until control was passed to NASA in Houston, has NO women's restrooms. When this taxpayer-funded facility was being planned, the architects were told that since ONLY men would ever be working in the building, that there was no need for anything other than men's rooms.

She endured obscene phone calls, had to use men's bathrooms, as one of NASA's first female engineers

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/us/apollo-11-joann-morgan-only-woman-scn/index.html

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without

 

[VEBill]

This website is related to Draper Labs.

[URL unfurl="true"]https://wehackthemoon.com/[/url]

On YouTube, We Hack The Moon

 

[jraef]

Meh, it was all staged in a studio anyway...

<takes cover>


" We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know." -- W. H. Auden

 

[JohnRBaker]

Back in July, 1969, 'Lost in Space' was more than just the name of a TV Syfy show, it actually described the situation that the Apollo 11 astronauts found themselves in.

It appears that during the 22 1/2 hours that the Armstrong and Aldrin spent on the Moon, NO one at NASA had any idea of exactly where they were. It was only years late that NASA was able to pinpoint their actual landing site on the surface of the Moon.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were lost on the Moon. Really

Neither NASA nor the Apollo 11 astronauts knew exactly where they were when they landed on the Moon. Yet it didn’t impede the mission.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90367548/neil-armstrong-and-buzz-aldrin-were-lost-on-the-moon-really

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without

 

[VEBill]

Scientific American short video on YouTube

Under 4m, nice details.

 

[VEBill]

Awesome 20-minute video. Effectively real-time with nicely-oriented out-the-window video, transcribed comms, and more.

Apollo 11: The Complete Descent

 

[VEBill]

Amazon Prime Video (at least in Canada, I can only presume elsewhere) is playing the very nice 1h33m documentary 'Apollo 11'.