The Eagle landed 50 years ago: Apollo 11 anniversary thread

[danny la rouge]

Dear Columbia: Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins says thanks — National Geographic

 

[Steel Icarus]

Here it is with a caption:
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[HAL9000]

Dear Columbia: Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins says thanks — National Geographic

For whatever reason, perhaps some very slow news days, the press has taken to announcing that here I am, the loneliest man in the whole lonely universe, with an orbit so lonely that my loneliness exceeds that of all lonely souls before me. Ridiculous. How could I be lonely? You have me and I have you (plus the fuel cell), and that view out the window.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

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Yay!!!

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I think the main thing that bothers me about people who think it was all a hoax is their lack of respect for the I don't know how many people involved in that mission and all the other space stuff achieved by people from all over the world. They have done such amazing things. The hours and hours of problem solving, really abstract thought, understanding of mathematics and physics. I'm in awe of it all. People who deny it piss on their achievements and that is abominable to me.

And the bravery of the men and women who sit on those rockets and get fired into the unknown.They are heroes.

 

[ginger_syn]

Watching moon landing live on c4, even though it was 50 years ago you still feel the tension, relief and amazement, it makes me feel sad for hoaxers that they feel so inadequate in themselves that they would be so blind to humanities achievements that they'd believe a stupid lie.

 

[weltweit]

Watching it on C4 atm.

They just left the LM and walked on the moon for the first time.

I forget how long they had on the surface?

 

[ginger_syn]

Ive been watching this stuff all week and I cant remember

 

[ginger_syn]

Sad the LM didnt catch on as a dance

 

[ginger_syn]

Watching it on C4 atm.

They just left the LM and walked on the moon for the first time.

I forget how long they had on the surface?

21 hours, I looked it up

 

[spring-peeper]

Meet the Canadians who helped America win the race to land a man on the moon

 

[spring-peeper]

My Seventh Grade Science Teacher Showed Us a Moon Landing Hoax TV Special

 

[danny la rouge]

Just a few minutes to the actual anniversary of the landing moment: 9:17pm BST.

 

[ferrelhadley]

July 20, 1969, 20:17:40 UTC

 

[weltweit]

The C4 program hasn't explained much about how the LM made its rendezvous with the command module. I imagine that could have been quite tricky?

 

[ferrelhadley]

We shall return.

 

[vanya]

Watching moon landing live on c4, even though it was 50 years ago you still feel the tension, relief and amazement, it makes me feel sad for hoaxers that they feel so inadequate in themselves that they would be so blind to humanities achievements that they'd believe a stupid lie.

Well the hoax theory is ludicrous because it would require all those idealistic NASA engineers to have connived in the cover up. Which would never have happened.

The Soviets admitted the Americans had reached the moon. Yet still there are some who don't want to believe it. More fool them.

 

[weltweit]

The C4 program hasn't explained much about how the LM made its rendezvous with the command module. I imagine that could have been quite tricky?

Also, once the three of them were back in the command module, how did they get into the final piece, did it have a hatch in its bottom perhaps?

 

[a_chap]

Want to know about the LEM?

Read Thomas Kelly's book "Moon lander". He worked for Grumman and was involved in everything from the initial bid through design, build, test & flight. A fascinating insight.

 

[wiskey]

Enjoyed all the moon stuff today, started with the Infinite Moonkey Cage on R4, watched the C4 thing this evening and am now 2 episodes into the Robert Stone: Chasing The Moon docs on iPlayer.

Feeling a bit dense in that I only realised yesterday that they said 'the Eagle has landed' because the craft they were in was called the Eagle

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I’m watching Moon Landing weekend on some shit channel. Episode after episode. The last one had the Nazi connection where as the one before some worker got murdered for knowing too much.
This one is about aluminium surviving radiation belts. I ought to go to sleep.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

To the Moon and Back: Brian Eno on Revisiting ‘Apollo’

Nice how he describes looking out at the full moon and the realisation that men were up there walking on it...how it inspires him.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Have to post this now...

 

[danny la rouge]

The moon samples storage facilities. Very cool indeed.

 

[Thora]

It does seem really unlikely though, doesn't it? In the 60s

I'm not saying I think it's a hoax, just that it is pretty unbelievable that they got people to the moon and back again.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Watching moon landing live on c4, even though it was 50 years ago you still feel the tension, relief and amazement, it makes me feel sad for hoaxers that they feel so inadequate in themselves that they would be so blind to humanities achievements that they'd believe a stupid lie.

It doesn't even matter what the lie is for these people, all they care about is being in the little club of special people who know that truth. I doubt it occurs to them that they're doing a huge disservice to a large number of people who worked their socks off to increase the amount of knowledge in the world via space exploration, I doubt it ever occurs to them to give a shit about anyone.

 

[DaveCinzano]

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[Mrs Miggins]

....Robert Stone: Chasing The Moon docs on iPlayer.

I've watched this today. It's really good and has given me a lot more context around the whole thing. I had a tear in my eye quite often - it's incredibly moving and inspiring,

 

[Mrs Miggins]

It does seem really unlikely though, doesn't it? In the 60s

I'm not saying I think it's a hoax, just that it is pretty unbelievable that they got people to the moon and back again.

That's at least part of why it's so enduringly incredible. The fact that they did do it in the 60s!

 

[a_chap]

Those portraits are wonderful