Outstanding! Thanks.

If you poke around the interface, you can slide back to the launch, Buzz & Mike looking for the lost camera, docking with LEM, and so on

AND, sliding forward < spoiler alert > landing on the Moon, the EVA, coming home, and splashdown

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Yesterday morning, CBS News was playing their Walter Kronkite coverage in "real time" on Youtube. Commercials and all. I'm sure it's still on there

 

There was a video I think posted on here a month ago or so maybe? It had a film producer going through what it would have taken to do the filming to fake it. With the technology then in film, it wouldn’t have been even slightly plausible. It was a really good video actually.

Yes, for many years I was convinced they were faked ... then I saw this

His statement at the end is chilling

"Why does any of this matter? My concern is with the ultimate fate of knowing, of seeing the difference of what you can know and what you wish for. . . . The urge to believe drives people to trade in part of their soul in exchange for the comfort of being a rebel. OK. But that step from knowing you've been lied to, to believing everything else is a lie; is a big step. Once you are forced to hypothesize whole new technologies to keep your conspiracy possible, you have stepped over into the realm of magic, requiring of you a deep and abiding faith in things you can never know."

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Trump was trying to explain how the Moon is part of Mars again today during Apollo anniversary events.

Buzz wasn't impressed

I'm going to try to post one of these a day until the mission is over. I'm loving this +50 week.

That was really cool. Thanks for posting.

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Was lucky enough to go to a big gala last night at the Air & Space Museum. Aldrin and Collins were interviewed. It was awesome. Collins is a fantastic straight man to Aldrin’s goofiness.

All of this actually makes me sad. I was a bit to young to appreciate the Apollo missions, but the Space Shuttle got my juices going, but we just let it all fizzle.

Big picture, I look what "we" by that you could say our Govt, via societies priorities, have really just let space exploration fade away.

One of the few things I will agree with Elon on, to make space doable the you need reusability. He has some great comments about it, imaging exploring the world on a ship that only went one way. Imagine, Columbus having his 3 ships towing 3 more for the return trip. Gets to America crashes them loads up the other boats to return which he then crashes those ships on return.

We should have a station on the moon already, I wonder what we have learned what other tech would we have if kept it going.

Oh well.. At least its cool to see people exploring the depths of the ocean, another area as a kid that fascinated me, we know more about the moon (probably mars now) then we know about the bottom of the oceans.

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Just Triing
Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
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Just another thing on we faked the moon landings.. what would be the point in faking more than one. I mean why would you keep faking them, just more and more and more chances of getting caught. Then of course you would had to have faked Apollo 13 and why, I guess to keep people interested. I have never really thought about if we faked walking on the moon, that means all of them, not sure I have heard many conspirators explain why we would have so many landings faked.

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Just Triing
Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
Be kind English is my 2nd language. My primary language is Dave it's a unique evolution of English.

Well, today is the day. I've heard this photo described as the most iconic of the 100+ taken on the surface:

The documentary Apollo 11 is absolutely stunning. The high-def film makes it all seem contemporary and I liked the way they built suspense using ambient noise and mission control communications rather than a narrator.

Excellent.

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I saw it in Imax, the footage was amazing. It just looked so good.

>>Worth a read:

https://www.reddit.com/...d_apollo_missions_1/

Not sure some of that is accurate like the apollo 13 slingshot idea was MIT student...

I don't think so. From what I've read, getting the spacecraft home was never an issue... it was the power and the environmental issues to keep the crew alive that was the problem. As I understand it, they had a decision point to either do the "free return" abort halfway to the moon or do the "moon flyby" which they eventually did. Either COA would have brought the spacecraft back to earth but for whatever reason the moon flyby option was deemed the preferred COA.

But that's the public stuff... maybe what really happened behind the scenes is what he says.

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When my dad worked at Honeywell in Minneapolis in 1963-64, he drew the schematics for the pitch control on the the Apollo command module.

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