Posted on 01/26/2019 11:59:42 AM PST by Cecily
Critics are raving about the new documentary, Apollo 11, which features an unearthed treasure trove of behind-the-scenes footage of the moon landing, following the movie's premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
The movie, deemed a 'masterful work of archival research' by Vulture, was created using a cache of 65mm, behind-the-scenes footage of the 1969 moon landing, and thousands of hours of vintage audio recordings of NASA employees talking about the mission.
Unlike traditional documentaries, the 93-minute-long Apollo 11 is said to not include any voice-overs or cutaways to talking heads. Instead, director Todd Douglas Miller uses a series of short, wordless montages illustrating each of the famed Apollo 11 crew's key life moments.
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GPS was a further evolution of a sat nav system called TRANSIT.
“The Transit system, also known as NAVSAT or NNSS (for Navy Navigation Satellite System), was the first satellite navigation system to be used operationally. ... Transit provided continuous navigation satellite service from 1964, initially for Polaris submarines and later for civilian use as well.”
THE TRANSIT Navigation Satellite System
By Thomas A.Stansell
https://www.ion.org/museum/files/TransitBooklet.pdf
Full disclosure: I did work at TI on the HDUE and MANPACK GPS units in the late 70’s (1977 - 78) time frame. At that time tests were being run on a ground range at Yuma proving grounds and only 3 NAVSAT ‘birds’ had been launched at the time.
GPS was a further evolution of a sat nav system called TRANSIT.
“The Transit system, also known as NAVSAT or NNSS (for Navy Navigation Satellite System), was the first satellite navigation system to be used operationally. ... Transit provided continuous navigation satellite service from 1964, initially for Polaris submarines and later for civilian use as well.”
THE TRANSIT Navigation Satellite System
By Thomas A.Stansell
https://www.ion.org/museum/files/TransitBooklet.pdf
Full disclosure: I did work at TI on the HDUE and MANPACK GPS units in the late 70’s (1977 - 78) time frame. At that time tests were being run on a ground range at Yuma proving grounds and only 3 NAVSAT ‘birds’ had been launched at the time.
As astronaut Charles Duke asked at the end of the documentary “In the Shadow of the Moon,” “why did we fake it nine times, if we faked it?”
I am reading the book “First Man” about Neil Armstrong, and NASA ended up sending a form letter out to all the deniers noting that the astronauts were seen by the world to board the rocket which took them to the moon, and were see to splash down in the Pacific. Communications with the astronauts were monitored at stations all around the world too. I guess all that was faked as well.
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