Comments on: One Small Step…

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:30:04 +0000

After watching the film Moonwalk One-The Director’s Cut, I can’t believe that anyone would think this was a hoax.

Moonwalk One-The Director’s Cut is an amazing account of the Apollo 11 space mission in which man first walked on the moon! Not only does it capture the scientific accomplishments, but it also serves as an outstanding time capsule of society at the time and their reactions!

Forty years later, it turns out that the original director, Theo Kamecke, has the only pristine copy of the original 35mm film. Never before released to the public for home viewing, the film has been restored to a spectacular high-definition wide screen masterpiece with an all new soundtrack!

Make sure to get your copy in time for the 40th anniversary of man walking on the moon! I got my copy at http://www.amazon.com, and you can also order it at http://www.amazon.co.uk and http://www.moonwalk.com. This is a great film for students, teachers, enthusiasts, families, and more. No matter your interest, this film will not be a bore!

Best wishes,
Lauren

By: NASA

NASA — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:02:20 +0000

“One small step for Man, one giant leap for Mankind.”

“Man” in this context is abstract. What would have made it concrete is “a man” (One small step for *a* man, one giant leap for Mankind”. The truth is there. “A man” did NOT step on the Moon– an abstraction of man DID: “Man”. In other words, a man landing on the Moon was FALSE. BUT, the illusion (belief different from reality) of a man (Man) did land simply because it is believed.

Also, if you play the famous line backwards, you get: “man never spacewalk”. It’s true.

By: Ever upwards [Pharyngula] · New York Articles

Ever upwards [Pharyngula] · New York Articles — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:24:33 +0000

[...] course it would be Phil who would remind me: today is the 38th anniversary of the first manned landing on the moon. I remember lying on my [...]

By: Vosla

Vosla — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:29:48 +0000

That funny man in the white suit. I was a baby back then. My parents said that I was pretty amused. Though I doubt that at 10 months I was able to understand anything.

By: Ever upwards [Pharyngula] · Articles

Ever upwards [Pharyngula] · Articles — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:01:31 +0000

[...] course it would be Phil who would remind me: today is the 38th anniversary of the first manned landing on the moon. I remember lying on my [...]

By: icemith

icemith — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:53:19 +0000

I’ve got a problem. I cannot precisely remember exactly where I was or what I was doing as the Moon Landing ensued. I do know that I was on duty at various times during the ML, and in fact during the whole Apollo 11 moonshot. I was a staff member at the ABC Radio Studios in Sydney, Australia. We had the responsibility to provide the sound component for the whole venture, as it was routed through a specially set-up Studio, from the Earth Station, and subsequently to our Network Studios and in fact to other Broadcasters. This was a round-the-clock event, and I do recall being involved in feeding boxes of tapes to recorders for archival purposes, and of course to compile sound grabs for subsequent news broadcasts.

But I also seem to remember that I saw some TV coverage at home during that morning, on the 21st as it was in Australia, (but I could be recalling just News coverage, as you appreciate it was wall-to-wall everywhere).

I will have to find my old roster diary for the times to convince me otherwise.

Still it was a signicant event, and feel privileged to have been even connected, albiet superficially, to an event in world human endeavor.

Ivan.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:17:54 +0000

I was 10. My mum didn’t quite get the enormity of it, or so it seemed to me – even though I’d finished school for the summer, I really had to work on her so I could stay up past my bedtime to watch the landing and all the rest of the program about it – till midnight (UK time) IIRC, since the BBC was going to be broadcasting late. No 24-hour broadcasting back then

Then they changed the plan. NASA and the astronauts, I mean.

James Burke (yes, that James Burke) was one of the presenters at the BBC that night, and listening to the talk between Houston and Tranquility Base he realised they’d brought the EVA forward, and Armstrong and Aldrin were getting ready to get out there onto the moon, hours before it was scheduled.

He spoke to the heads of the BBC and persuaded them to keep broadcasting, to cover the event live. Somehow, I managed to persuade my mum to let me stay up even later to watch it… so that’s where I was at 4am British Summer Time, July 21: about a foot from the TV, sound turned way down so I wouldn’t disturb anyone else in the house. Glorious!

Any other night I’d have been excited just because I was staying up even a few minutes late, but somehow I forgot about that