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
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 : )
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.
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.
*ping*
T-minus 2:32 and counting...
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T - 57 minutes and counting! CC TV coverage is beginning! What an awesome NASA website!
T-Minus 30
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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
We have Lift Off!
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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.
CBS is showing the old commercials, wow Ali McGraw was a major babe back then.
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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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.
Dang, Collins had a real sailor-mouth, LOL!
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.7Ground-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.
Successful burn, we are on our way to the moon. Next up is the trans-positioning and docking.
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