The Eagle landed 50 years ago: Apollo 11 anniversary thread

[danny la rouge]

Moon landing special



This thread is for all your news about relevant links, films, TV specials, as-it-happened social media accounts, and so on.

Add your tips, such as “Radio Times this week has a pullout of their edition of the time.”

BBC - BBC will celebrate 50 years since the first moon landings with a series of programmes across TV, Radio and online - Media Centre

 

[Crispy]

You absolutely have to go and see the Apollo 11 documentary at IMAX. It is fucking astonishing.

 

[editor]

You absolutely have to go and see the Apollo 11 documentary at IMAX. It is fucking astonishing.

I couldn't see it listed there. Have I missed it?

 

[Crispy]

I couldn't see it listed there. Have I missed it?

I just checked and it was only on for three days! WTF!
See it on a regular screen anyway.

 

[danny la rouge]

I’ve found a timeline that gives the Apollo 11 schedule in GMT, which is useful.

https://www.history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_11i_Timeline.htm

Liftoff, for example, was 13:32 GMT on 16th Jul 1969. So now you can do something commemorative at the appropriate time.

 

[editor]

Seems a good time to post this blast from my past

Unearthed! NASA’s reply to my astronaut application in 1969

 

[danny la rouge]

Seems a good time to post this blast from my past

Unearthed! NASA’s reply to my astronaut application in 1969

That’s fantastic! Real history right there.

 

[editor]

That’s fantastic! Real history right there.

I was so excited when I found that envelope again after it had been lost for years, but nowhere near as excited as when I received a delivery from NASA 'on official business' when I was a young kid!

 

[existentialist]

I take it people have been following the "13 minutes to the Moon" podcast?

BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon - Downloads

 

[danny la rouge]

I take it people have been following the "13 minutes to the Moon" podcast?

BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon - Downloads

No, so thanks for the tip.

 

[existentialist]

No, so thanks for the tip.

Music by Hans Zimmer.

Does this make me an "online influencer"? *polishes fingernails on lapel*

 

[existentialist]

Just the music. Atmospheric. Ironically.



Who knew the Moon played 'cello?

 

[2hats]

I just checked and it was only on for three days! WTF!
See it on a regular screen anyway.

I think the Science Museum has the shorter (first steps) version on in 70mm for a longer period over the summer as has the Bradford IMAX?

 

[Crispy]

I take it people have been following the "13 minutes to the Moon" podcast?

BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon - Downloads

Yep. Highly recommended.

 

[Signal 11]

Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel is going to be "live tweeting" the mission over the anniversary.

I'm bringing back my #Apollo11 LIVE TWEET! From July 16-24, my feed will be reliving the mission, from big mission events to tiny human moments, exactly when and as they happened (with a 50-year time delay)

 

[a_chap]

I just checked and it was only on for three days! WTF!
See it on a regular screen anyway.

It's also now only showing in "standard" format at the Birmingham IMAX too

However It's in IMAX at Telford, so I've just booked a ticket for Friday. Fucking £14.10 and I've got to drive to and from Telford

 

[a_chap]

For those of you who are interested, this is a rather splendid video...

 

[HAL9000]

Before watching the above vid, you might want to listen to this audio talking about the above decent squence. Gene Kranz and co, explain why the telementry was so important, problems with constantly losing the radio link made it very hard to decide if it was safe to continue or should the landing be aborted.

BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon, Ep.08 ‘We’re go for powered descent’

 

[danny la rouge]

8 Days: To the Moon & Back - BBC2, tonight at 9pm.

BBC Two - 8 Days: To the Moon and Back

 

[ferrelhadley]

Apollo 11 real time.
Apollo 11 in Real-time

 

[8ball]

Going to see that film tomorrow night, despite the fact that I’m certain it was a hoax.

However, I do take the view that they decided to film on location.

 

[a_chap]

Apollo 11 real time.
Apollo 11 in Real-time

As with so many similar things, I wish I'd known about this 79:48:10 seconds ago

 

[Maggot]

8 Days: To the Moon & Back - BBC2, tonight at 9pm.

BBC Two - 8 Days: To the Moon and Back

Enjoyed that. Lots of stuff I didn't know, like the Landing Module orbiting the moon for months after being jettisoned.

 

[HAL9000]

Tour of the command module and explanation of how the navigation system worked.

Inside the Apollo command module

 

[a_chap]

I'd recommend these two books which include excellent explanations of how to navigate in space:

How NASA learned to fly in space

Digital Apollo: Human and machine in spaceflight

(those are both links to Amazon - other book sellers are available and preferred)

For a proper insight into the Apollo Guidance Computer I recommend the following:



And "Curious Marc" has a whole series of videos about restoring an AGC

 

[danny la rouge]

Shortly starting, an evening of anniversary viewing:

Neil Armstrong – First Man on the Moon, 9pm, BBC4

The Sky at Night: the Moon, the Mission and the BBC, 10pm, BBC4


I’ll be out of radio contact for a while, Huston.

 

[jjuice]

Bart Sibrel - A funny thing happened on the way to the moon. Best moon landing film ever

 

[Epona]

Moon landing special

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This thread is for all your news about relevant links, films, TV specials, as-it-happened social media accounts, and so on.

Add your tips, such as “Radio Times this week has a pullout of their edition of the time.”

BBC - BBC will celebrate 50 years since the first moon landings with a series of programmes across TV, Radio and online - Media Centre

No offence, but why can they not put the fucking dates and times of any shows in the first part of the page? I am scrolling and scrolling to find out details of when these things are on - we need channel, date, and time. It is all very well having a nice site with a lot of nice descriptive content about what the programmes are about, but ffs put the schedule at the bloody top of the page and add a calendar or at least a search function - dear god.

 

[ferrelhadley]

Launch was on July 16 at 13:32:00 UTC or 12:32 BST. For anyone looking for the date to mark.

 

[Signal 11]

13:32:00 UTC or 12:32 BST.

14:32 BST?