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A real-time journey through the first landing on the Moon
NASA ^ | 2019 | Ben Feist

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


TOPICS: Astronomy; Computers/Internet; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: apollo11; moon; realtime; themoon
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To: infool7

I came from the future and was on the moon on top a rise watching the guys land for a book report I had due. I remember one of the guys name Aldrin was not taking any photos of Armstrong for some reason : )


21 posted on 07/15/2019 3:10:48 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound
Excellent...

I am going to be PMing you

for some sage investment advice.

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22 posted on 07/15/2019 5:04:41 PM PDT by infool7 (Observe, Orient, Pray, Decide, Act!(it's an OOPDA loop))
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To: infool7

Thank you for posting this. It is a joy to relive.

Similar to another person’s post, my Mom made me watch. I was being a bratty 9 year old and said I would not watch. She drug my butt in front of the tv and said I would thank her later.

She is still alive, along with my Dad. Many thanks to both of them for decisions well made.

Again, thank you.


23 posted on 07/15/2019 6:29:46 PM PDT by Wiz-Nerd
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To: Wiz-Nerd
Your welcome and

you are very blessed to have both your parents,

my Mom is 92 and doing very well

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24 posted on 07/15/2019 6:36:43 PM PDT by infool7 (Observe, Orient, Pray, Decide, Act!(it's an OOPDA loop))
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To: infool7

God bless your Mom! And bless you for being there for her.

Yes, God has blessed me far more than I deserve in many ways.


25 posted on 07/15/2019 6:44:48 PM PDT by Wiz-Nerd
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To: SunkenCiv

*ping*


26 posted on 07/15/2019 8:02:01 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: infool7

T-minus 2:32 and counting...

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27 posted on 07/16/2019 5:00:18 AM PDT by infool7 (Observe, Orient, Pray, Decide, Act!(it's an OOPDA loop))
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To: infool7

T - 57 minutes and counting! CC TV coverage is beginning! What an awesome NASA website!


28 posted on 07/16/2019 5:35:15 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: infool7

T-Minus 30

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29 posted on 07/16/2019 6:02:03 AM PDT by infool7 (Observe, Orient, Pray, Decide, Act!(it's an OOPDA loop))
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To: infool7
CBS has a live stream up on youtube.

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30 posted on 07/16/2019 6:05:51 AM PDT by infool7 (Observe, Orient, Pray, Decide, Act!(it's an OOPDA loop))
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To: infool7

T Minus 15:00!!!

There is an NBC launch video from the 20th anniversary of the launch.

NEW! Apollo 11 Launch As It Happened: NBC NEWS TV original full ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY02SoExbhs


31 posted on 07/16/2019 6:17:49 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: rigelkentaurus

We have Lift Off!

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32 posted on 07/16/2019 6:31:56 AM PDT by infool7 (Observe, Orient, Pray, Decide, Act!(it's an OOPDA loop))
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To: infool7

Realize this is still the biggest thing that’s probably happened in our lifetimes.

People born after 1969 just can’t appreciate how huge this was.


33 posted on 07/16/2019 6:45:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: infool7

CBS is showing the old commercials, wow Ali McGraw was a major babe back then.


34 posted on 07/16/2019 6:50:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Yes and luckily

for me and you at least

the clock is still ticking and

yet greater things are still possible.

Watching the launch (with my son on the phone)

made me feel like I was six years old

all over again.

My heart was soaring with that tiny capsule.

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35 posted on 07/16/2019 7:46:54 AM PDT by infool7 (Observe, Orient, Pray, Decide, Act!(it's an OOPDA loop))
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To: infool7

Interesting that the Astronauts checked their position with three stars: Menkent, Nunki, Atria

Launch was spectacular. Another 1hr 30min for Trans-Lunar Injection followed by transposition and docking.


36 posted on 07/16/2019 7:47:40 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: infool7

Dang, Collins had a real sailor-mouth, LOL!


37 posted on 07/16/2019 7:51:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rigelkentaurus
Interesting that the Astronauts checked their position with three stars: Menkent, Nunki, Atria

Interesting article about that here

Here is an excerpt:

OTTAWA — In July of 1969, Neil Armstrong and two other astronauts were in orbit around Earth, preparing to fire up another engine and accelerate toward the moon.

Ground-based radar showed their orbit was perfect. But they needed a position check.

They pulled out an instrument invented for sailors in the 1700s: a sextant.

To understand the achievement of the first humans to walk on the moon, it’s necessary to understand Armstrong’s time, when astronauts had to calculate and use their ingenuity every step of the way because they didn’t have today’s computers and sensors.

We’ll pick up the story from a NASA transcript 46 minutes after launch, as Apollo-11 flies 160 kilometres above the Earth:

Michael Collins is looking at a star called Menkent through the sextant, which incorporates a telescope and measures the angle between distant objects, such as a star and the horizon: “Okay, again, looking through the telescope. Okay, proceed to Menkent. There she goes. Menkent. Menkent. God, what a star.”

Buzz Aldrin cuts in: “Nobody in their right –“

Collins is speaking at the same time: “Menkent’s good.”

Aldrin again: “Nobody in their right mind would pick that one.” A moment later he adds: “Hey, I sure wish you’d get out that — that star chart.”

Armstrong, the mission commander, joins the discussion: “Can’t see a thing, huh?”

Collins can see, though not well. They plot Menkent, and a star called Nunki — at least Collins is pretty sure it’s Nunki — and Atria for good measure. But Collins has the last word: “God, I’ll tell you, the visibility through that telescope is a big disappointment.”

Space travel is aided by powerful computers today, with laser guidance systems, with hardware and software no one even imagined in Armstrong’s day. NASA would never dream of giving astronauts a second-rate optical instrument to find their way.

But using paper maps of the stars and the moon, carrying slide rules to do calculations, Apollo-11 made it to the moon safely, 389,645 km from Earth, and back.

Neil Armstrong’s burial on Friday coincides with the second full moon of August, known by some as a blue moon.

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38 posted on 07/16/2019 7:58:59 AM PDT by infool7 (Observe, Orient, Pray, Decide, Act!(it's an OOPDA loop))
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To: infool7
I remember an "old" IT project adage



If you are off by 1 degree

when you leave earth

you'll miss the moon by

over four thousand miles.

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39 posted on 07/16/2019 8:08:36 AM PDT by infool7 (Observe, Orient, Pray, Decide, Act!(it's an OOPDA loop))
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To: infool7

Successful burn, we are on our way to the moon. Next up is the trans-positioning and docking.


40 posted on 07/16/2019 9:27:14 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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