Apollo 11 Moon Landing

[Dan McEntee]

   Just a heads up for those of us that were young fuzzy head kids watching on black and white TV sets, C-Span is replaying CBS's coverage of the Apollo lunar EVA tonight. It just came on and started as Neil Armstrong was already standing on the foot pad. The Discovery Channel will be broadcasting "The Lost Tapes tonight in the same time span, 7 to 9 CST. The Discovery program will be rerun later tonight, so I'm DVRing them both so as not to miss either. I watched this on the only working TV we had at the time, a small Zenith black and white portable that was in my Mom's room. If I turn the work room lights out, it will be just like 50 years ago! We watched in the dark, and so far it's just like I remembered it!
   Type at you later,
    Dan McEntee

[Brett Buck]

Also:

https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/

  Sounds better on the computer than it did on a 66 Chrysler Newport car radio as we sped across Alligator alley.

Brett

[Dan McEntee]

   Is that the same web site from the last significant anniversary, the 40th I guess? I logged into that one regularly. This broadcast on C-Span is a replay of the CBS broadcast and they broadcast the whole length of the moon walk. That was 2 hours and 39 minutes, and this program tonight is only 2 hours long so they will cut something out. It's great to hear Walter Cronkite again!
   Type at you later,
    Dan McEntee

[EddyR]

     I took movies that I still have that I took on my old 21" round tube color tv.
 The Lunar Lander Simulator was built at Link in Binghamton NY. Eventually it was moved to large hangar at the Binghamton airport. Saw it many times and it was a actual lander
 with the decent stage inside a huge box. The box could lean up to 45 degrees and had many projectors built in to it. Close friend Bill Dodge was chief programer for the SIM.
 Met Neil a couple of times at link and he was very stand offish. You would never guess he was a test pilot. When I met him I did not know we would be the first to stand on the moon.
  I talked to him about his X-15 flights.
EddyR

[Dan McEntee]

   I would kill to hear Armstrong talk about his X-15 flights! We used to get these paper models of the X-15 that were on the back of some sort of product, maybe Little Debbie snack cakes. We got crystal radio sets from them also for 50 cents and a few box end panels that looked like a buck rogers space ship! The X-15 models took a penny in the nose and would actually sort of fly if I remember correctly!
  What a time it was back then! What do kids look forward to or look up to these days? Who are their heroes?  Who do they admire that had brains and gonads as big as Neil Armstrong's  and the rest of the astronaut corp??
   Type at you later still watching the Apollo 11 EVA,
    Dan McEntee

[wwwarbird]

   The Discovery Channel will be broadcasting "The Lost Tapes tonight in the same time span, 7 to 9 CST.

 Maybe you mean "Apollo: The Forgotten Films", on Discovery tonight at 11:00pm CST?

[Jim Hoffman]

I’ve been watching the PBS documentary “Chasing the Moon”.  Three parts, about 2 hrs. each.  I found it spell binding and informative.  I was 12 yrs. old when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and, like most of you became a space junkie as soon as I was old enough to fathom the concept.    I still learned a few interesting tidbits.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/chasing-moon/

[Dan McEntee]

Maybe you mean "Apollo: The Forgotten Films", on Discovery tonight at 11:00pm CST?

   Yeah, that's it. I hopped over from the other show every now and then and caught bits of it and I'm DVRing it during the replay so I can watch it tomorrow sometime. Looked pretty interesting.
    Type at you later,
     Dan McEntee

[Chris McMillin]

Watch Myth Busters, all done in the studio.

More fuck8n NJ crazy.

[FLOYD CARTER]

I think I've watched most of the Apollo 11 broadcasts which have been playing all week.  I regret that I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to the event back in 1969.  In fact, my employer (a start=-up computer company in Silicon Valley) brought a TV into our office to watch the few minutes exit off the moon.  Of course, we were impressed, but we had some serious work to do, and we just went back to the task of getting our computer product finished and to market before the competition.

[Gary Dowler]

Watch Myth Busters, all done in the studio.

Negative, sir.

[Dan McEntee]

Watch Myth Busters, all done in the studio.

   I watched that episode and you need to watch it again, more closely. They 'busted" the myth that it was all done in studios and staged. They went through each claim and determined that it was all real and in real time. I've never doubted it, just from what I learned in grade school and high school science classes.
    Type at you later,
    Dan McEntee

[FLOYD CARTER]

The point was made many times that, with so many hundreds (thousands) involved in the Apollo project, that it would be quite impossible to carry off a ruse (conspiracy) without some "whistleblower" coming forth.  After 50 years, no one has been able to show that the moon landing was "staged".

[Brett Buck]

The point was made many times that, with so many hundreds (thousands) involved in the Apollo project, that it would be quite impossible to carry off a ruse (conspiracy) without some "whistleblower" coming forth.  After 50 years, no one has been able to show that the moon landing was "staged".

   If someone believes it was faked, something like half the human population would have had to have been participating!  The "moon landing was faked" conspiracy theory is quite literally the dumbest of all the big conspiracy theories. It's far more plausible that flying saucers from 40 Eridani are flitting around since 1947 and telling people to "Live Long and Prosper"*  and Michelle Obama is actually a shaved wookie  than the moon landings having been faked.

    I won't spend a lot of time debunking it, but any theory that suggests it was technically infeasible is particularly ridiculous. The technology of the time was far more than capable enough, and "faster computers" are just as likely to have been an impediment as a help

    Brett


*yes, this is a nerd test. David Fitzgerald and Matt Neumann need not respond, their credentials are well-established...   

[john e. holliday]

All these nay sayers of the moon landing must have been on their favorite weed.  I told the wife to watch the video a little closer.  Do you ever ee the flag move once it was in position with our astronaut bouncing all over the place.  And how can you simulate the take off in a closed studio if there was such a studio.  But I was with Dad at home when we watch the first American go into space and return plus later he watched as the first American orbited the Earth and return.  But I really detest these so called people who keep trying to rewrite history like Hollywood does.  Just watch they've done with the so called historic movies. 

[Tom Vieira]

lemme guess, Elvis is still alive, impersonating himself in Vegas, right?

Scientists all over the world are also lying to us about the earth being round, and the Greeks were just measuring their shadows wrong when they figured this out thousands of years ago....?

lest we forget, the LRO even snapped shots of the moon landing sights, for the sole purpose of "proving" that we landed there....

[Fredvon4]

I was on the very first flight into Ronald Reagan International after flight restrictions lifted 23 DAYS after the 9-11 attacks

My flight was from Killeen Texas and Dallas to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, popularly called Reagan National Airport, Washington National, or, more simply, Reagan Airport or National Airport also DCA

This note is all about conspiracy theories and what I personally have seen with my own eyes....Later that day I was ESCORTED in and around the pentagon to avoid the still working disaster areas....

Any one who has flown into National (DCA) knows that there are only 2 apoaches... south to north over the Chesapeake bay then up the Potomac .....or north to south along a very narrow corridor over the Potomac River...North to south route always over flys the Pentagon around 750~950 ASL........my flight was over the Pentagon

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that I saw the remnants of the aircraft that crashed into the Pentagon.....No doubt in my mind a few of the dead, I worked with, were really dead....

[dave siegler]

The best comeback that Hollywood did the moon landing was from one of the guys at EAA.
 
He said it was done by Hollywood, however the director was Stanley Kurbrick and he insisted that the footage be shot "ON Location" 

[Roger Vizioli]

We (Grumman Retirees) hosted an event this past weekend celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11, LM5/Eagle's landing on the moon.
I know the ~ total attendees of 1000, mostly former Grumman LM Team members including me and their families can attest to it being real.
Our Apollo Astronauts in attendance were the Lunar Model (LM) pilots on their respective missions.
Thinking of opening the next reunion, next spring, up to selected outside groups. Just a thought at this time.
Hmmm, maybe a "PAMPA" &/or CL pilots group?
I will hold it in the KSC or Melbourne area.
Dont tell Fred Haise, Apollo13 LMP it was fake!!!!!   

Take care all,stay safe!
Roger

[Brett Buck]

Dont tell Fred Haise, Apollo13 LMP it was fake!!!!!   

    I thought (retired Air Force Colonel and fighter pilot) Buzz Aldrin's solution was most appropriate.

     Brett

[Roger Vizioli]

    I thought (former Marine) Buzz Aldrin's solution was most appropriate.

     Brett

What was it Brett? Mind getting toooo old for older details!  ;-)
Roger

[Brett Buck]

What was it Brett? Mind getting toooo old for older details!  ;-)
Roger

Money Shot at about 52 seconds:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=buzz+aldrin+bart+sibrel&&view=detail&mid=241D5BB98109416952D0241D5BB98109416952D0&&FORM=VRDGAR

  American Hero, indeed.

    Brett

[Gary Dowler]

In the interests of commemorating the great Apollo 11 mission, I looked and came up with the following.
In my collection of odds and ends filling my "library" I discovered that I have Life magazines from 7/4/69  7/25/69    And 8/8/69.     Also, earlier, I have the 8/2/65 issue dealing with Gemini.     All in decent shape.  Makes for interesting reading.   As much as for the articles, such magazines are a time capsule of sorts. The ads fascinate me.

Gary

[peabody]

I watched on a tiny black and white TV in the Battery day room at Ft. Sill....orders for RVN issued that afternoon.

The Cradle of Aviation Museum on Long Island has (had? It's been a dozen years) a display with a prototype Lunar Module and action figures.....very real. I have a fairly smart friend that thinks they faked it....but fake news then was the National Enquirer....

Have fun....

[Roger Vizioli]

Money Shot at about 52 seconds:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=buzz+aldrin+bart+sibrel&&view=detail&mid=241D5BB98109416952D0241D5BB98109416952D0&&FORM=VRDGAR

  American Hero, indeed.

    Brett

Thanks Brett!
As I spoke w/ many of the Apollo Program Astronauts and veterans this past week, I realized, even more, that most of us were "Kids", ie late 20's to late 30's when we did
this.           

 

[Roger Vizioli]

I watched on a tiny black and white TV in the Battery day room at Ft. Sill....orders for RVN issued that afternoon.

The Cradle of Aviation Museum on Long Island has (had? It's been a dozen years) a display with a prototype Lunar Module and action figures.....very real. I have a fairly smart friend that thinks they faked it....but fake news then was the National Enquirer....

Have fun....

Rich,
The LM at the Cradle was a flight article, LM #13. It was the next one scheduled to fly when the program was cancelled.
Roger V.

[Chris McMillin]

I was so impressed and amazed that the skin of the LEM was so thin. The example at Cape Canaveral has my fingerprints on it in a few places where I sampled it's structural stiffness, ponka, ponka... it really oil cans easily.
Chris...