Posted on 06/18/2019 3:28:11 PM PDT by Magnatron
A real-time journey through the first landing on the Moon This website consists entirely of original historical mission material.
Included real-time elements:
All mission control film footage
All TV transmissions and onboard film footage
2,000 photographs
11,000 hours of Mission Control audio
240 hours of space-to-ground audio
All onboard recorder audio
15,000 searchable utterances
Post-mission commentary
Astromaterials sample data
Very, very, very cool.
IIRC, and boy does this take me back, Kranz is the gentleman in the vest...?
My wife, young daughter and I actually SAW the liftoff in ‘real time’.
I drove all the way from Indianapolis. We camped out over night along the causeway along with THOUSANDS of other folks.
A slice of Americana.
We got back home in time to see the landing on tv.
Actually; there was some delay; since radio waves travel at light speed: about 300,000,000 meters per second.
The moon is about 384,000,000 meters away from earth.
BUMP!
Oh rats ... won’t work with Win Xp SP3 and Chrome browser:
This site can’t provide a secure connection
apolloinrealtime.org uses an unsupported protocol.
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
A friend of mine has been talking about a book he just bought and read about the moon landings. He also recently moved to a town where an Apollo astronaut resides. My friend started off in aerospace - and still loves this stuff.
He is having some surgery, and no doubt will be laid up for awhile.
Hopefully not for 11,000 hours, but I sent him the link figuring it would be an interesting diversion.
I watched the launch so far.
“Speed - 4,200 feet per second, range 12 miles, altitude 8 miles...” (Or whatever.)
The bullet from my .308 is about 2,900 fps. Amazing stuff!
Interesting listening to the styles of conversation. Armstrong seems to be all business. Collins seems to be a bit more affable.
What is REALLY amazing is this huge production to further the hoax of us landing on the moon. And that the earth is round. (In some of those photos of the earth in space, I think I can make out the turtle holding the earth up!)
Hahahahahaha....I forgot about the turtle holding us up!
I have to say, I was a bit blown away by the integrated way they put it togheter, so on the fly you can listen to whatever channel you want, you can see the wave form, all synched with appropriate imagery...it took my geek breath away and made me want to give a geek smile and a geek handshake to whoever was involved with setting it up!
A masterly job!
I was there, too, but we didn't have to drive as far. My father worked for NASA and we lived in Cocoa Beach. He was able to get us a place on the reviewing stands. My mother, younger brother, and I show up in some of the film of the event. We were little, but I remember the launch vividly, especially the sound and rumble in my chest. My father came home that night with a giant smile on his face -- and very drunk from the celebration.
FM radios can be analog. Yes, tuning is easier, more certain with digital tuning.
re: “Was the audio channel(s) from the moon ship to earth, FM and Frequency Modulation ? Certainly weren’t AM transmissions.”
FM, and transmitted using part the “Unified S-band System” radio system. On the Unified S-band radio system telemetry and voice rode on various multiplexed “sub-carriers” ... previous to Apollo the voice comms and telemetry were on different radio sets and frequencies.
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-NASA-SP-87.html
A better, plain English description of the Unified S-Band radio (and data) system:
https://www.ab9il.net/aviation/apollo-s-band.html
BTW, it used PM (Phase modulation) which can be called a modified form of FM, both of which use a “constant envelope” signal as contrasted with AM whose envelope varies according to the modulation.
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Yes. His wife made it.
His book "Failure is Not an Option" is fascinating and excellent. Highly recommended.
Collins wrote a masterful and highly entertaining book, "Carrying the Fire" which I cannot recommend highly enough. He has a superb sense of humor and is a gifted writer.
It’s a great book. He’s actually a pretty funny guy.
You are like me. XP is the best.
I have a win7 box too that’s a dog. Horrible.
Unfortunately the anal security industry and Google is pushing sites to employ this overkill ssl stuff. iow, suffer from bad google placement if you don’t install on your server the latest and greatest ssl. Google punishes old school.
What is ‘The Russians’ had to over drive or send signals to our space vehicles?
Were there any telemetry data security or ways to maintain our control and deny anyone else access, at that time, 1969 ?
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What IF ‘The Russians’ had the ability to over drive or send signals to our space vehicles?
Were there any telemetry data security or ways to maintain our control and deny anyone else access, at that time, 1969 ?
re: What is ‘The Russians’ had to over drive or send signals to our space vehicles?
Were there any telemetry data security or ways to maintain our control and deny anyone else access, at that time, 1969 ?
Fortunately, the Soviets (at that time) were “infrastructure” (and technology) poor; they could not develop the amount of RF power (energy) required to be stronger than NASA and neither did they have the gear to create the ‘data’ and RF waveform to do so.
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