Posted on 04/11/2020 7:06:47 AM PDT by TFG
I never have posted an original thread or vanity, but I thought some might be interested in following the mission of Apollo 13 in real time.
https://apolloinrealtime.org/13
A country that went into space then makes going just about anywhere a crime now.
Yes!
on a related note, the Apollo 11 documentary (2019, CNN films) is awesome......you won’t be disappointed......
Heroes, one and all.
lol
Was that the Apollo mission that went south?
Bump
Yes! That was very good. Ben Feist from Goddard Spaceflight Center also did Apollo in Real time for 11 as well. You can go back and look at it there too. apolloinrealtime.org/11
It looks like he’s got 17 (the final moon landing) ready as well. I drove my family and co-workers nuts because I had it running the whole time lol. Gonna start the run at 1 minute before launch today at 2:12 pm.
Very awesome. It’s somehow compelling watching/listening even hours before the launch.
I can’t figure out though, why they seem to be counting down to 3:13 pm (T minus 5 hours at the moment) but it lifted off at 2:13 pm. Was summer time different back then?
Just answered my own question. Daylight savings time was late April in 1970, but it was March this year.
I love all the chatter. I’m not sure if there will be a You Tube feed for this one like 11 (I haven’t looked yet) but I literally had the 11 one running through the whole mission 24/7 and listed to the chatter during my commute to work.
Yes, I am that big of a nerd.
Great first post!
Thanks!
I’m an even bigger nerd. I’m literally sitting here staring at a photograph and listening to every word.
When American men were men.
“Failure is not an option!”
Oh yes - me too lol. Once the mission gets rolling, you can look at the mission control console and see who is talking - Capcom, Flight Surgeon, etc. The photos and video taken are synched with when they were taken or filmed during the mission. All chatter is real time as well.
Amazing
I use it occasionally in my line of work.
(All of the Apollo missions went to the moon.) :p
Yes, this is the one where Chief Flight Director Gene Kranz gave his most famous directive; "Failure is not an option!" Called the World's most successful failure, it was a case book of improvisation and grit. I do recommend the Ron Howard / Tom Hanks movie of this name, not completely accurate but very close.
What I hated from that time was that the Apollo Program was killed 4 landings later. Lovell never made it to the surface and that was a crime. The Vietnam War soaked up the money and anything smacking of military was denigrated. Here we are 50 years late and no one has been back to the surface since Eugene Cernan left the last footprints in December of 1972!
As a kid I was fortunate to witness every Apollo moon launch.
This launch was viewed from a boat on the Banana River.
Boating towards a closer viewing distance I remember passing under the Hwy 528 bridge.
The parade of boats looked like a mass flotilla exodus. The waves under the bridge from all the boat wake were nearly 6 feet in height! Our 16 ft. boat powered by a 55 hp Chrysler outboard barely made it!
The launch was spectacular!
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