Relive the Apollo 11 Mission in Real Time!
POSTED BY: cljohnston108
UPDATED: Thursday, July 23, 2009 19:50
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40 years later and unfortunately the space program has never done anything as exciting.
But Hollywood has, which sort of makes the whole idea of the moon landing being fake more credible with each passing decade.
CNN has an article on the subject:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/07/17/moon.landing.hoax/index.html
With what Hollywood can do with CGI and VFX these days, I have no doubt that a few hundred years from now (if we don't kill ourselves first) some will have difficulties telling the difference between the real and the imagined of things that existed during the 20th and 21st centuries.
Kubrick's 2001 shows Moon rockets with no interior sound and no rocket exhaust, just like Apollo. Some say he directed the Apollo programming.
CNN still can't bring itself to admit the "Federal" Reserve Bank Corporation is a private bank that's never been audited since its illegal creation in 1917, that counterfeits all "US dollars" and exports all IRS income taxes to foreign bankers.
But CNN has hot disinfobabes. Who needs a brain when you have plastic boobies?
"Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals. We're too many people; that's why we have global warming. Everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one or two children. Communist China just wants to sell us shoes. They're not building landing craft to attack the United States, and Russia wants to be our friends, too. It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid. A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
-Ted Turner, owner of CNN News, who paid himself a $3-billion paycheck in one day and flies a private jet from his 25,000 acre cattle ranch
On the day Walter Cronkite died, I'm certainly not going to argue the "plastic" nature of news. I'll give you that one.
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We went to the moon because we have rocks to prove it.
"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".
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They would talk their frakkin ears off bragging about all the boring details of their flight. I've interviewed World War 2 combat vets shot down over Nazi Germany.
Tell me, did you start your "interview" by telling them that they were lying and never flew in the planes in the first place, and that we never went to war against Nazi Germany?
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
40 years later and unfortunately the space program has never done anything as exciting.
I've been glued to NASA-TV every minute that a Space Shuttle mission is in progress, especially during ISS construction!
People complain about "all that money we waste" on the Space Program, and I just have to ask "All what money? NASA gets $17 billion versus the Military's $500 billion!"
I think spaceflight is somewhat more constructive than war.
Actually, it's the coolest thing humans do!
I don't understand why only going to the Moon or Mars counts as a "real" space program.
Anywhere humans can't go outside without their blood boiling is Real Space, as far as I'm concerned.
And I'd rather visit LEO than the Moon, anyway!
On the ISS, you can hold a 600-pound piece of equipment effortlessly with your fingertips...
On the Moon, that'll still weigh 100 pounds! I've got a bad back, so I have trouble lifting even 50 pounds.
When you go EVA on the ISS, you stay nice & shiny clean — on the Moon, not so much...
NASA's Dirty Secret: Moon Dust
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080924191552.htm
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Originally posted by cljohnston108:Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
40 years later and unfortunately the space program has never done anything as exciting.
I've been glued to NASA-TV every minute that a Space Shuttle mission is in progress, especially during ISS construction!
People complain about "all that money we waste" on the Space Program, and I just have to ask "All what money? NASA gets $17 billion versus the Military's $500 billion!"
I think spaceflight is somewhat more constructive than war.
Actually, it's the coolest thing humans do!
I don't understand why only going to the Moon or Mars counts as a "real" space program.
Anywhere humans can't go outside without their blood boiling is Real Space, as far as I'm concerned.
And I'd rather visit LEO than the Moon, anyway!
On the ISS, you can hold a 600-pound piece of equipment effortlessly with your fingertips...
On the Moon, that'll still weigh 100 pounds! I've got a bad back, so I have trouble lifting even 50 pounds.
When you go EVA on the ISS, you stay nice & shiny clean — on the Moon, not so much...
NASA's Dirty Secret: Moon Dust
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080924191552.htm
I do the same thing. Especially during spacewalks.
Do you know of a website where you can listen to old mission audio from Apollo, Mercury or Gemini? I'm noe talking about snippets; I mean from the beginning of the mission to the end.
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Originally posted by Peulsar5:
Do you know of a website where you can listen to old mission audio from Apollo, Mercury or Gemini? I'm noe talking about snippets; I mean from the beginning of the mission to the end.
According to that CNN article I posted upthread...
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Stoll said he and other NASA employees in Houston, Texas, are in the process of digitizing NASA’s entire audio collection, most of which is on old-fashioned tape. The older tapes, like the ones from Apollo missons, are in great conditon and are kept under strict environmental controls, he said. But newer tapes, like those from the 1980s, tend to gum up reel players. He has to heat those tapes to 130 degrees with a small oven before he can play them.
All of that work will soon culminate in a public Web site where people can listen to NASA audio from many other U.S. space missions.
That site should go up in two months or so, he said.
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Originally posted by cljohnston108:Quote:
Originally posted by Peulsar5:
Do you know of a website where you can listen to old mission audio from Apollo, Mercury or Gemini? I'm noe talking about snippets; I mean from the beginning of the mission to the end.
According to that CNN article I posted upthread...Quote:
Stoll said he and other NASA employees in Houston, Texas, are in the process of digitizing NASA’s entire audio collection, most of which is on old-fashioned tape. The older tapes, like the ones from Apollo missons, are in great conditon and are kept under strict environmental controls, he said. But newer tapes, like those from the 1980s, tend to gum up reel players. He has to heat those tapes to 130 degrees with a small oven before he can play them.
All of that work will soon culminate in a public Web site where people can listen to NASA audio from many other U.S. space missions.
That site should go up in two months or so, he said.
Whoops!! I missed that! Thanks for the info!
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Oh, man! That worked perfect! I was running this great video of the last 15 minutes of the landing...
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/A11Landing.mov
...which starts right at 102:30:45 GET, when Buzz says "Verb 77", and reading along with the Lunar Surface Journal...
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.landing.html
...while listening to the mission audio.
My adrenaline was pumpin', boy!
Too bad all the graphical elements on that WeChooseTheMoon site shut down after lunar contact!
Don't they realize there's more to this mission than just the landing?
At least the audio runs 'til splashdown.
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11_radio/
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VERY SHINY!!
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Gonna be listening all the way past the EVA.
A little while ago, the PAO (Public Affairs Officer) made an interesting comment...
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Meanwhile, as we'll soon be progressing toward man's first step on the lunar surface, we have an interesting phenomena here in the mission control center, Houston. Something we've never seen before. Our visual of the lunar module, our visual display now standing still. Our velocity digitals for Tranquility Base now reading zero. Reverting, if we could, to the terminology of an earlier form of transportion, the railroad: What we're witnessing now, is man's very first trip into space with a station stop along the route.
Made me go, "Hey! Yeah!"
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