50th anniversary of Apollo 11 launch today.

[Father Torque_rivals16706]

Here's 4.5 hours of CBS live coverage of the launch. Bonus includes 50 year old commercials.



Here's a website running the mission in realtime. Including all the radio communication between the 3 astronauts and between them and mission control.

https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/

Still don't know how they fit into that capsule when they were all sporting such a huge set.

 

[Catfan in Tn.]

https://www.foxnews.com/science/apollo-11-secret-nixon-speech-armstrong-aldrin
What Nixon would had said had landing gone bad. What a day. Remember watching.

 

[-Mav-]

Still don't know how they fit into that capsule ...

Ans: They didn't -- CGI (or rather the 1969 equivalent) can make anything look real.

 

[Father Torque_rivals16706]

Ans: They didn't -- CGI (or rather the 1969 equivalent) can make anything look real.

Don't let Buzz Aldrin hear you say that.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

 

[Spica Orbit]

https://www.foxnews.com/science/apollo-11-secret-nixon-speech-armstrong-aldrin
What Nixon would had said had landing gone bad. What a day. Remember watching.

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The fact that 50 years later, the United States of America doesn't have the capability to put humans in low Earth orbit, is just incredible to me.

Spica Orbit

 

[JohnnyCope]

never happened.

 

[Tskware]

One of the great moments in my life and a red letter day in history. Literally just about everyone in the world that had access to a TV was watching.

Armstrong either actually said (or meant to say) "That's one small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind", think the "a" got bleeped out by the transmission, or maybe he meant to say it, but screwed it up,anyway, that is what his true intent was.

 

[Tannerdad]

Have a feeling we will never see anything like that again. Shame.

Brave folks for sure. Amazing to watch it when it happened.

 

[Glenn's Take]

One of the great moments in my life and a red letter day in history. Literally just about everyone in the world that had access to a TV was watching.

Armstrong either actually said (or meant to say) "That's one small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind", think the "a" got bleeped out by the transmission, or maybe he meant to say it, but screwed it up,anyway, that is what his true intent was.

He just messed it up. He left the A out.

 

[-Mav-]

Have a feeling we will never see anything like that again.

Really? You really don't think an event that, by its nature, can logically never be duplicated (i.e. the first time a human sat foot on another celestial body), will ever been seen again?

Way to go out on a limb.

 

[WildcatfaninOhio]

As a 10 year old when this all took place, I was particularly captivated by the moon landing. Looking forward to seeing documentaries and re-airings of coverage this week.

 

[Glenn's Take]

One of these days we need to get to Mars and start pumping out green house gases so we can make ourselves another place to live.

 

[ManitouDan]

WashPo did a report today , this isnt satire , they reported the unit was" a group of mainly fun, family unfriendly ,white males" .

I would link it but it requires subscription

 

[BlueVelvetFog]

Tragic. Ca t bear to watch that explosion again

 

[jameslee32]

Besides liberating Europe twice, this is the best thing our government has done in the past 100 years or so. :americanflag:

 

[Gassy_Knowls]

I notice none of the Apollo11 crew were people of color. Kinda racist.

 

[Ukbrassowtipin]

I always wondered about the 3rd guy and if he felt shafted that he had to sit in the ship.

 

[Ukbrassowtipin]

Also ot... watcher this doc on Saturn. We sent a unmanned ship there 20 years ago (took 7 to get there) and it's been circling it until finally they crashed it in to the planet this past year.

Anyway, the found that a couple of saturns moons have oceans on them. Pretty crazy.

 

[Xception]

Also ot... watcher this doc on Saturn. We sent a unmanned ship there 20 years ago (took 7 to get there) and it's been circling it until finally they crashed it in to the planet this past year.

Anyway, the found that a couple of saturns moons have oceans on them. Pretty crazy.

I bet they'd find **** in Uranus if they probed it too.

 

[Pickle_Rick]

He didn't say it couldn't be replicated. He is saying it wouldn't be replicated. I have to agree with him. With the state of the country now, half don't want the spending on anything that isn't repirations for people who were never slaves health care for illegals, or same day as birth abortions for men.

 

[nerdcat_rivals308595]

Looking forward to taking my wife to Johnson Space Center on Saturday to celebrate with VIP tickets. It’s her 50th birthday as well on Saturday.