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.
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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.
Great first post!
Thanks!
“Failure is not an option!”
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!
Anyone waiting to hear the words, "Houston, we have a problem." is going to be disappointed; they were actually spoken by Jack Swigert in the past tense: "Houston, we've had a problem here." Jim Lovell then repeated the phrase to Houson: "Houston, we've had a problem." (Ron Howard had taken some creative license and dramatized that scene.)
I have/had a reel to reel of most of this flight, as well as Apollo 11. Very insteresting listening.
This is brilliant - thanks for the link. I was 7 at the time and still remember it being all over the news. I followed all the Apollo missions and kept a scrapbook of all the newspaper headlines over here in the UK.
I have an autographed picture by Captain Lovell taken on Apollo 8 of the earth rising over the moon (not the famous color one, it’s black and white). I’m inspired every morning when I see it walking into my home office.
Apollo 13 was man’s greatest technological achievement ever. Not that they launched but that they blew up in space and safely returned.
I never understood why they didn’t skip the number 13 in numbering the Apollo missions. They could have been spared the near-tragedy that befell the Apollo 13 mission.
Great interview with Capt. Lovell by Houston radio host Michael Berry.
Highly recommended.
One of the interesting factoids from the mission is that the famous picture of the Command Module with hole in the side was taken by one of our spy satellites that we turned around to get the picture.
And that was mid 60’s technology.