Apollo 11

[allaire]

You can track the Apollo 11 mission in realtime http://wechoosethemoon.org.
Also you can see archival mission photos and video.

  to Anodizer for finding this.

[Anodizer]

You can track the Apollo 11 mission in realtime http://wechoosethemoon.org.
Also you can see archival mission photos and video.

  to Anodizer for finding this.

<S>  Thank you sir....

[JimBear]

Funny, I remember tracking it in real time in "real time"    

[Masherbrum]

Funny, I remember tracking it in real time in "real time"    

I see, so yer old!      Lucky you though, I always wished I could have seen a Saturn V launch in person.   

[Anodizer]

I see, so yer old!      Lucky you though, I always wished I could have seen a Saturn V launch in person.   

Absolutely..... 
I've seen 1 shuttle launch while at Space Camp as a kid..  That was incredible and I remember it vividly..
Can only imagine what it would've been like to literally feel the rumble of those 5 F-1 engines while witnessing a Saturn V launch...

[Skuzzy]

I got to see the Apollo 8 launch.  Never felt anything like it.  Not only the ground shaking, but the waves of low level sonic pulses would cause you to waver around like a flag.  It was a helluva Christmas present.

7.5 million pounds of thrust.  Mind boggling.

[DREDIOCK]

Funny, I remember tracking it in real time in "real time"    

QFT

I remember them wheeling in TVs into the classrooms to watch apollo launches, Recoveries ETC.
Every launch and tidbit was big news back then with every detail covered. It was an amazing time.

Now the big news isnt our recent accomplishments. But about the pimple that was spotted on some celebrities butt when they were at a beach LOL

Im going ot be checking this one out with may daughter. Should be kinda fun to relive the old days and give her a taste of what it was like back then.

[Masherbrum]

I got to see the Apollo 8 launch.  Never felt anything like it.  Not only the ground shaking, but the waves of low level sonic pulses would cause you to waver around like a flag.  It was a helluva Christmas present.

7.5 million pounds of thrust.  Mind boggling.

Hot damn that's awesome!     

[soda72]

 

[soda72]

commencing stage 4 in 8 mins

 

[Flipperk]

Just awesome!

Great find!! 

[oakranger]

  Not only the ground shaking, but the waves of low level sonic pulses would cause you to waver around like a flag.  It was a helluva Christmas present.

Skuzzy, i bet you feel like that when you band somebody from the fourm or AH.   

[Rich46yo]

I remember the Apollo program like it was yesterday. The Tragedy of Apollo 1. The incredible triumphs of 8 & 11. The entire world actually coming together for 13. But most of all I remember watching that first step during 11. At the time we were never told of many of the near disasters and NASA downplayed the dangers.

It was a heckuva time to be an American I can tell you that much.

[Skuzzy]

Skuzzy, i bet you feel like that when you band somebody from the fourm or AH.   

I get no pleasure from banning or suspending people from the board.  I get more frustrated than anything else.

Back on topic.

One of the concerns with the lunar lander was when they (Apollo 11) were landing on the Moon, they botched the landing and flew it too long almost running it out of fuel.  Back home, they were pretty sure if the lander had run out of fuel it would have exploded as the last bit of fuel would not have been able to pump out and the flame would have fed back into the fuel chamber.  It was something they did not think they had to worry about.

Mission control was like, "get the damn thing on the ground!  NOW!".

There has been a lot of information released recently about those days and the things the public were not aware of.  I have a list of things at home that wre just recently released.  I'll dig up some more, if anyone is interested.

[soda72]

One of the concerns with the lunar lander was when they (Apollo 11) were landing on the Moon, they botched the landing and flew it too long almost running it out of fuel.  Back home, they were pretty sure if the lander had run out of fuel it would have exploded as the last bit of fuel would not have been able to pump out and the flame would have fed back into the fuel chamber.  It was something they did not think they had to worry about.

Mission control was like, "get the damn thing on the ground!  NOW!".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2009/moon_landing/8152846.stm

7. When the lunar module Eagle was still 20ft above the surface, Armstrong and Aldrin were told they had only 30 seconds of fuel left. If they still hadn't landed by then, Mission Control would have ordered Armstrong to abort the landing. But would he have? Back on Earth, Armstrong revealed, "if I'd run out of fuel, why, I would have put down right there... I could fall from a fairly good height, perhaps maybe 40ft or more in the low lunar gravity, the gear would absorb that much fall. So I was perhaps probably less concerned about it than a lot of people watching on Earth". (As it turned out, after the mission Nasa calculated that Eagle could have flown for at least another minute).

Buzz Aldrin became the first human to urinate on another world!