The Apollo 11 mission is really one of the world’s most significant achievements. And John F. Kennedy’s moon speech was one of the speeches that helped inspire the Americam people and secure the massive funding for NASA and the space exploration, adventure and journey of that decade.

http://machinema.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/jfk-we-choose-to-go-to-the-moon/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZhjsO9edQk

I found a way to play just the audio stream on my iPhone, so I could leave the house.

get Tuner or FStream from the app store.

use this url for mission audio: http://sc8.sjc.llnw.net/stream/aol_moon1

I would’ve liked more attention to the animation, so that I could fully experience their tininess and the expanse of the quarter million gap and the blackness beyond blackness that surrounds the two little marbles, the earth and moon. I like comprehending a living being making its way off of one of the balls and landing on the other. It’s too effing much.

I recall Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov chiefly, for each had an education and a published track record that gave scientific gravitas to their insight as well as their fiction.

And I recall Walter Cronkite, anchor man for many years for the CBS Evening News. More than any other source for up to date and extended coverage, Uncle Walt was always there at six o’clock, just before supper. He always had the latest information and could call on able sources to help elucidate the technical aspects and the unknown demands that might be imposed on the astronauts.

He helped introduce me to boldness by speaking plainly about the risk to those who slip the surly bonds. His authoritative demeanor and his reluctance to do other than report accurately served as an example to this young man.

I never worshiped him. I did like him. And I respected and trusted him because he earned it. Even a child can tell some things like that.

Walter died today. He was 92.

And that’s the way it is.

(Duh, I know they do, but it’s still kind of exciting none-the-less.)

At the 20 year anniversary, I think it was Discovery Channel that brought the original broadcasts “live” at the same time as it all happened in ’69.

Anyone know of any tv doing that this time around?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqq2Srg1tCQ

history.nasa.gov/ap12fj/01launch_to_earth_orbit.htm

000:00:37 Gordon (onboard): What the hell was that?

000:00:38 Conrad (onboard): Huh?

000:00:39 Gordon (onboard): I lost a whole bunch of stuff; I don’t know …

000:00:40 Conrad (onboard): Turn off the buses.

Public Affairs Office – “40 seconds.”

000:00:42 Carr: Mark.

000:00:43 Carr: One Bravo.

000:00:43 Conrad (onboard): Roger. We had a whole bunch of buses drop out.

000:00:44 Conrad: Roger. We [garble] on that. [Long pause.]

000:00:45 Bean (onboard): There’s nothing – it’s nothing …

000:00:47 Gordon (onboard): A circuit …

000:00:48 Conrad (onboard): Where are we going?

000:00:50 Gordon (onboard): I can’t see; there’s something wrong.

000:00:51 Conrad (onboard): AC Bus 1 light, all the fuel cells …

000:00:56 Conrad (onboard): I just lost the platform.

Public Affairs Office – “Altitude a mile and a half now. Velocity 1,592 feet per second.”

You may be thinking of Apollo 12, not Apollo 13. About 37 into the flight of 12, after a launch in a rainstorm, the vehicle discharged lightning through itself and the ionized rocket exhaust. Another strike at 52 seconds took out most of the command module circuitry, including the guidance indicator.

Flying a Saturn V blind is no way to go through life, son.

Fortunately, the IBM-built Instrumentation Computer Unit used magnetic-core memory and was not affected, allowing the mission to continue, along with a quick call for a reconfiguration made by a ground controller who recalled a similar situation in a simulation during training.

With Apollo 13, other than the inboard engine shutting down early on the second stage, the launch was fairly uneventful from a problem standpoint. The compensation for that mission was burning the outboard engines for a longer period. 13′s incidents began later, during the translunar coast.

That’s the site where the LRO Apollo image is. It shows clearly the shadow of Apollo 11 lander.

As a former HBer , I 100% fess up we were wrong. Fellow HBer, come out of woodwork and fess up too. I’ll tell you why: it’s 0% chance the people involved in LRO could also be in on the Apollo hoax, which wasn’t hoaxed after all. So don’t tell us this was photoshopped. If you do, you enter kooky country, because to continue to hold a belief in the presence of evidence to the contrary, is irrationality. Before, I think some of your arguments made sense, but now it’s over.

Here they are! LRO Sees Apollo Landing Sites

Later images will have 2-3 times better resolution. The best of this first group is shot of the Apollo 14 site, in which footprints and various instruments are visible.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/news/latest/090715_news_01

Prologue:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/misc/general/blue_moon_01_page_01

history dot nasa dot gov /afj

BigBob

http://www.reallifecomics.com/ (on Monday and later the link will be http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/090717.html)

I just did a little poll over at CNN, out of about 90k people, 86% believe the moon landings were NOT faked.