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Posted on 07/15/2019 9:45:54 AM PDT by infool7
Introduction:
This website replays the Apollo 11 mission as it happened, 50 years ago. It consists entirely of historical material, all timed to Ground Elapsed Time--the master mission clock. Footage of Mission Control, film shot by the astronauts, and television broadcasts transmitted from space and the surface of the Moon, have been painstakingly placed to the very moments they were shot during the mission, as has every photograph taken, and every word spoken.
Interface:
Upon starting the application, select whether to begin one minute before launch, or click "Now" to drop in exactly 50 years ago, to-the-second during the anniversary.
Navigate to any moment of the mission using the time navigator at the top of the screen. The top bar is the entire mission with two bars below it providing magnification. Selecting transcript items, photos, commentary items, or guided tour moments, also jumps the mission time to the moment they occurred.
Main mission audio consists of space-to-ground (left ear), capcom loop (right ear), and on-board recorder (center, when available). Selecting a Mission Control audio channel mutes the main audio, opens the Mission Control audio panel, and plays the "live" audio of that Mission Control position. Change channels by selecting the seats in mission control. Closing the Mission Control audio panel will unmute the main audio and continue mission playback.
These 50 channels of Mission Control audio have only recently been digitized and restored, and are made publicly available here for the first time. They total over 11,000 hours in length.
Please contact Ben Feist for any inquiries.
Credits:
Ben Feist Concept, research, mission data restoration, audio restoration, video, software architecture and programming. Follow @BenFeist for updates.
Stephen Slater Archive Producer, historical audio/footage synchronization
Chris Bennett Visual design, interface styling and programming David Charney Visual design Arnfinn Holderer Audio restoration programming
Robin Wheeler Photography timing, transcript corrections
Thanks:
Todd Miller Director, Apollo 11 film Tom Petersen Producer, Apollo 11 film
Dr. John Hansen and the National Science Foundation 30-track Mission Control audio digitization. More info at exploreapollo.org
NASA Headquarters Dr. Bill Barry Chief Historian, NASA HQ Dr. Jacob Bleacher Chief Exploration Scientist, NASA HQ
NASA Johnson Space Center Dr. Cindy Evans Division Chief, Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division, NASA JSC
Dan Garrison Jacobs Technology, NASA JSC Dr. Ryan Zeigler Manager, Apollo Curator, ARES, NASA JSC
Dr. Paul Niles Assistant Chief Scientist, ARES NASA JSC
Sandra Tetley Real Property Officer, Historic Preservation Officer, NASA JSC Greg Wiseman 30-track Mission Control audio digitization, NASA JSC
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Dr. Noah Petro Project Scientist, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Planetary Geology, Geochemistry and Geophysics Lab, NASA Goddard
Web hosting by:
David Woods Author, How Apollo Flew to the Moon Kipp Teague Apollo mission photography Paul Vanezis EVA footage NASA Apollo Flight Journal NASA Apollo Lunar Surface Journal Internet Archive The crew of Apollo 11 The men and women of Mission Control
Please join me in reliving this AMERICAN journey, one that I was just a bit too young(6) to understand the gravity of which at the time.
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Awesome, terrific and very cool website.
AMAZING!!!!
Thanks for posting
pulled this up just in time to see the LEM docking maneuver. still got goosebumps.
The Apollo 11 launch was 13:32 UTC 16 Jul - think I will go this website tomorrow morning and click the 1 min before launch and follow the entire Apollo 11 from launch to splashdown in “real-time” plus 50 years!
Too bad these web idiots can’t let these webpages work in a 1969 browser. What I mean is I need to latest and greatest computer to view this site about history from 50 years ago.
I cannot even view on a year old browser.
I guess when you watch this amazing history and accomplishment - you are going to conclude that “America never was that great”. /s
These Dems are swimming upstream if they think their Anti-American platform will resonate outside the 10% radical Left.
So much for me getting anything done for the next couple of days.
I was a very young child.
My father dragged me out of bed sometime after 9PM Eastern, sat me in front of our old black-and-white television, and told me that I’d want to tell my grandchildren that I had seen this.
He was right.
I have an upstairs and a garage.
I was 17, in basic training at Fort Lewis.
On Sunday, July 20th, 1969, my Dad came down to visit me on our off day and we met in a gymnasium that was set up with tables for visitors.
Dad brought with him a bucket of KFC, a 6-pack of coke and a transistor radio and we listened to the radio as the Lunar landing module ascended to the moon.
A historic day and still burned into my memory.
50 Years ago, I was at Jetty Park at Port Canaveral to watch the launch. Tomorrow I’ll be at KSC Saturn V center, bright and EARLY to celebrate the anniversary.
Doubt it. The fuel and oxidizer tanks would be pretty bulky. And they couldn’t fly by simply re-directing air downwards, like this does, because . . . . . . . Well, you know.
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