Apollo 11 Moonshot Broadcast Live, 40 Years Later

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

Awesome! Here's another angle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akJmRC2ijmY&NR=1

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

Good for Buzz! Of all the astronauts to pick on, this fool picked the one voted most likely to kick your ass and eat your lunch.

Peter, it was great seeing you at NEAR-Fest as well, along with Paul and the other true Mainiacs. Hope to see you in October as well, it's always interesting to swap stories and catch up. Looking forward to watching The Dish, TNX to Buddly for pointing that one out.

Quite an event in an overall remarkable time for mankind. Being 8 yrs old at the time made it impossible to appreciate beyond the 'something cool is going on' factor, so these web sites and the overall experience has been most enjoyable.

[Mike/W8BAC]

Thanks for posting this Todd. Like most that lived through this I can remember exactly what I was doing when this happened. Listening to the traffic, about mid way to lunar orbit I heard them talking about siring the cryo tanks, That was a bit creepy.

[n1ps]

OK I couldn't help myself...back again.

Great video on Buzz's punch!  Do you think he was just a little pissed?  A 70 year old punches out the lights of a guy half his age.  You gotta love it.

Todd...you bet we'll be at Deerfester.

Thinking back to that time in 1969, I was unfortunately a little too busy with sports, opposite sex aspirations, etc to pay any attention to such trivial things as a moon landings...all at the age of 15. 

"The Dish" is a wonderful movie.  Classic stuff from down under.  I caught it on HBO about 4-5 years ago I think.   Then I bought it.  Its a classic movie fer us nerds
Pete

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

Glad you liked it, Mike. I find these little opportunities to travel back in time most fascinating, a chance to experience and better understand something we may not have been around to see the first time.

Was listening yesterday evening when some lound sounds like sirens and what sounded like echoing voices were heard on two occasions. Houston mentioned it twice as having been verified as coming from the downlink from Apollo. I figured they had a tape and were horsing around a bit, but later wondered if it was some kind of signal image being picked up as 'skip' or such. It was very odd indeed.

Should be another day until splashdown, which will bring the anniversary of this incredible event to an end. The first shots of the capsule with those three huge orange and white parachutes gliding down to the ocean is one of the images that is still fresh.

Peter, hope to see you and Paul at the AM Dinner in October if you make it down for Friday.

[ka3zlr]

I liked the reading, of all the documents,the procedure docs, the Prep Docs, all of it and all the while while listening to that mission...awesum..man look what we missed when I was about 12..LOL...I was worried more about my Bicycle and trying to get some kind of amp together to play the electric guitar i worked my but off for...    

73
Jack.

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

Approaching splashdown in a couple hours. Last update had them 27000 miles from earth traveling over 11000 FPS! I guess with no reference points out the window it probably all seems relative, but that's several times the speed of a high powered rifle round. Hard to get your head around three guys in a small, metal capsule traveling that fast.

The astronauts made little speeches last night for the TV and radio audiences, relating their thoughts on the first mission to the moon. I don't recall ever hearing that, but it has been 40 years after all.

[Mike/W8BAC]

Just curious here, It was Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin right? So, who is the forth guy in the raft?

http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~5~5~23815~127499:Apollo-11-Crew-in-Raft-before-Recov?qvq=q:Apollo;lc:nasaNAS~10~10,nasaNAS~5~5,NVA2~14~14,nasaNAS~20~20,NVA2~1~1,NVA2~13~13,NVA2~23~23,nasaNAS~16~16,NSVS~3~3,NVA2~8~8,NVA2~22~22,NVA2~19~19,nasaNAS~8~8,NVA2~4~4,nasaNAS~6~6,NVA2~21~21,NVA2~18~18,nasaNAS~4~4,NVA2~20~20,nasaNAS~2~2,nasaNAS~13~13,NVA2~17~17,nasaNAS~12~12,nasaNAS~22~22,NVA2~16~16,NVA2~9~9,NVA2~25~25,nasaNAS~7~7,NVA2~15~15,nasaNAS~9~9,NVA2~26~26,NVA2~24~24&mi=101&trs=4250

Splaine me that?

[w8khk]

From the detailed description to the left of the photo:

"The fourth man in the life raft is a United States Navy underwater demolition team swimmer. All four men are wearing Biological Isolation Garments (BIG)."

[KB2WIG]

Outside of the Navy Seal museum in Fort Pierce, Fl is a Apollo capsule that was used to train the seals....

FWIW, My father-in-law helped design the heat shielding for the spacecraft.

http://www.navysealmuseum.com/

If the funding for NASA wasn't choped so much, where would 'we' be now??

klc

[Mike/W8BAC]

"The fourth man in the life raft is a United States Navy underwater demolition team swimmer. All four men are wearing Biological Isolation Garments (BIG)."

No Way, That's the Hollywood camera guy. Finally, after 40 years we got the goods on NASA. They slipped up letting this picture out and your all in on this, aren't you.

Gotta go cover the experiments, Almost time for the next satellite pass.

[W1RKW]

Nice right hook!

Awesome! Here's another angle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akJmRC2ijmY&NR=1

[W1RKW]

There is no way they could have prevented outerspace microrobes from contaminating and spreading once the hatch of the space craft was opened.  They had to put the suits on in the capsule so the exterior of the suits could not have been sterile at this point. And of course, once the hatch is open and exposure to the atmosphere occurs all bets are off.  Though, it looks good from the public perspective I guess.  Must have had an air freshener in the capsule.