From The Earth To The Moon - Apollo 11 Landing (part 1)

[mahound9]

Hey, It's Heisenberg! huh... 

[lanmancz]

It is really painful to read all these idiot comments saying that moon landings were fake. My brain always starts to hurt. How can some people be so fucking stupid ? I will probably never understand that.

[ClonedCommando]

Did you know that a recent poll showed 1 in 3 Americans still believe the moon landings were hoaxed?

In completely unrelated news a recent poll has shown 1 in 3 Americans are f**king idiots?

In all honesty if you still want to believe the moon landing was hoaxed in spite of all the proof we have to show it really happened god bless you because your so hocked up on conspiracy theories you probably think JFK was assassinated by Hitler from the grassy knoll.

[MrSchpankme]

So with a rocket motor that could only be turned on or off, these men with the right stuff, glided across the face of the Moon and then came to complete stop, and softly touched down. I'm amazed at how quite the engine was, as each astronaut stood on each side of the massive motor, with no sound protection, they can be perfectly heard through all radio transmissions on the decent. I guess hiring all those Nazis (operation paper clip) for NAZA, really paid off.

[Airking4321]

@MrSchpankme Um there is no air in space so no sound would not travel from the rocket engine when it is being used (sound needs a medium to travel in, like air or water), sure there was air in the cabin of the LEM but the sound waves made by the rocket would be projected down away from the cabin of the LEM so the sound would have to bounce off of something below to be heard and only a little bit of the sound wavers are projected up into the cabin so that is why the rocket engine is so "quiet".

[MrSchpankme]

@Airking4321 .. two men standing on either side of a rocket motor, in a very flimsy aluminum LEM; and you perceive there would be NO sound/vibration to contend with, when talking on their Mics? Beam me up Scotty!

[Nautilus1972]

@MrSchpankme Actually, they had no fuel left. Armstrong had 30 seconds warning and he was looking at nothing but boulders and trying to land a vehicle no one had landed before in an environment no one had ever been. Cool customer.

[MrSchpankme]

@Nautilus1972 .. Sorry your story doesn't wash; the LEM - Rocket Motor was either ON or OFF. In the fairy tale of NAZA and the APOLLO Moon Landings; this Rocket would need to be ON to stop the descent; Armstrong did not coast to a landing. But your way ahead of the Story, first you need to get MAN safely outside of low Earth Orbit and through the Van Allen Radiation Belts. This is where the real fairy tale begins!

[Sviolinist]

@MrSchpankme Look, I'm not going to beat down on you. You just are not a scientist. The Van Allen belts have thin spots. Moroever, the belts are around 2000-6000 kilometers thick. Radiation is based on TIME EXPOSED - not just LEVEL of radiation measured. Apollo spacecraft reached over 40,000 Kilometers per hour to break earth orbit. They spent about 15 minutes total in the Van Allen belt radiation. Probably less since they went through thin spots. Some got cancer later.

[MrSchpankme]

@Sviolinist .. Your alive on Planet Earth because of the Van Allen Belts; no Person, in an Aluminum Can, ventured "outside" the Van Allen Belts; have you lost all common sense? Abracadabra!

[Submariner75]

@MrSchpankme The LEM engine was throttleable, idiot.

[MrSchpankme]

@Submariner75 .. The LEM engine was either ON of OFF; pull your head out of your ASS and do a little research.

[Sviolinist]

@MrSchpankme It had on/off switches and a throttle. The throttle was located on the right. It's that thing that looks like a water hose faucet on/off screw.

[MrSchpankme]

@Sviolinist .. Have you ever seen, touched or been in the LEM?

[Sviolinist]

@MrSchpankme I have manuals on top of manuals for all the components of both the CSM and LM. Look, maybe you should come off your high horse for a second. You should remember that this is very complicated technology. The Apollo missions on record all used the LM's computer in order to calculate throttle settings. That was the plan. The computer was advanced. There was always a manual mode. When you're 50 feet above the Lunar surface, manual landing becomes a priority - Duh, sir.

[Sviolinist]

@MrSchpankme Okay - maybe your major beef is that we're calling it a throttle? The technical term is thrust/translation controller. Throttle is also directly translatable to "thrust lever." Is that your beef?

[Sviolinist]

@MrSchpankme To accomplish braking, descent engine thrust is controllable so that the precise velocity (feet per second) necessary to alter the vehicle's trajectory can be achieved. <-taken from documentation

[Sviolinist]

@MrSchpankme You are not correct about LM engine being in an "on or off" state. It had thrust control. You need to do more research. It's a lot more complicated than you think.

[Sviolinist]

@MrSchpankme By the way, I quoted from one of the manuals on the LM taken from NASA. If you don't read that and realize you have your foot all the way through your mouth and up into your ass, then you, sir, are a fool.

[Sviolinist]

@MrSchpankme So you really think that just turning the descent engine on meant that there was a smooth landing ahead? What if the LM was moving at 50 feet per second? It should just crash into the moon? The whole idea was that you could turn UP the descent engine thrust and SLOW DOWN the descent for a soft landing. Honestly, you're a fucking idiot. I don't know why I'm responding to you.

[IpodGameloft]

WTF lag lag lag lag lag!!!!!!!

[NickCammilleri]

One dislike? Someone hates America.

[codemannz]

@NickCammilleri Or is a conspiracy theorist.

[MrBangCoi]

wtf lag

[elevenby2]

05:09... SUN WOULD BE WHITE! THANK YOU. "NO ATMOSPHERE" REMEBER?

[Dogmeat1950]

@elevenby2 dude the Sun is Orange from space as it is from the Earth.

[kaostwenty2]

@Dogmeat1950 yes dude! but study a bit more! if you have sun glasses purple on it is not my fault! the earth atmosphere it is acting like a filter. BANANA!

[Dogmeat1950]

@kaostwenty2 ummm NO... even the NASA website will tell you the color of the Sun,

[tuxthepeng]

@Dogmeat1950 In space, the Sun would be white. There is no atmosphere to scatter any of the light. Windows and air in the spacecraft are negligible.

[iloveairfrance]

But... no following parts??? The steps? :(

[iloveairfrance]

Ignition.... But NO NOISE IN SPACE!

[imranite]

There is an error. When TELMU loses MSFN, they show LM Guidance monitor table losing data. When GUIDO loses data, they show TLM Med Display II. They switched it by accident when they were editing. because when Program Alarm 1202 comes up, GUIDO is looking at LM Guidance monitor table. Also, when Program Alarm 1201 comes up, the LM Guidance is still showing Err 1202 in INR ENBL

[hanscombe72]

@imranite

So was it Gold team, White team or Maroon????

And I am still waiting for that PC + 2 burn data!!!

[imranite]

@hanscombe72 I think it was White Team, since Gene Kranz picked it, but I could be wrong. And I don't understand what you mean by waiting for PC+2 burn data. Are you on a free return trajectory right now? :-P

[kpsting]

Landing at the Sea of Tranquility. The Feat of the Millennium.

[yesiamawizardjonny]

@kpsting You all know that the moon landings were not real, right?

[noonedude101]

@yesiamawizardjonny

Fuck. You.

[sameerkdv]

is it available on blu ray ?

[avedic]

THIS is why science is humanities greatest and most inspiring attribute.

[DumbYankies]

OK who has a 200BN dollars to spare? Thats what apollo would cost to re-run today. Dammit dont we have enough rich folks who can chip in. Restart apollo. Build the 2nd saturn V run. Build LESA. Start building the lunar base that NASA wanted to. Screw obama and screw congress. You could probably make a profit with advertising and selling the third seats.

[kargaroc386]

the music at the beginning makes me wonder why it isn't illegal to not release the score.

[sxlfkta]

No doubt the Apollo Moon landing was perhaps the greatest & most thrilling technological feat of the 20th century. Amazing!!! Brilliant!!! Also, the quantum leap in computer, space craft & rocket booster technology between 1961 till Apollo 11 was phenomenal & breathtaking indeed! For 10 years earlier no one would've thought that such a technological feat was possible before the 1980's!

[kargaroc386]

fuck the moon go to mars. that's what NASA wants to do.

although a moon base would be an essential survival base. the ultimate isolation from any biological bullshit that goes down here on earth, or nukes or killer weather the list goes on.

[youvebeenthunderstru]

"We've lost MISFIN" - I think the subtitles are wrong, it's MSFN. Manned Space Flight Network. In other words they lost telemetry. Honestly, if you're not going to get it right why have subtitles?

[captainh321]

A great moment in American manned spaceflight. Sadly, we will see it end this year with the last shuttle flight. All thanks to President's Obama appalling lack of vision, he is killing NASA's manned space program. Funny, he said in the State of the Union he would not accept 2nd place for America. I guess he didn't mean in an area of technological advancement we, along with the Russians, pioneered. And this moment started with a President's vision and goal. Back when we had one with vision.

[joshatkins94]

A11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin:

"Thank you, Mr. President.

That's what we should say to Pres. Obama in light of his FY2011 space budget for NASA. The President courageously decided to redirect our nation's space policy away from the foolish and underfunded Moon race that has consumed NASA for more than six years, aiming instead at boosting the agency's budget by more than $1 bn more/year over the next 5 years, topping off at $100 bn for NASA between now and 2015."

bit . ly / abz5sU (remove spaces)

[captainh321]

"If the administration's proposal is followed, the United States will no longer be a space-faring nation." --Robert "Hoot" Gibson, Shuttle Astronaut/Commander.

"I don't care how people want to sugarcoat it--we are no longer a space faring nation." --Gene Cernan, Apollo 17 Commander, Last Man on the Moon.

[joshatkins94]

Obviously it's not true to say that the US will no longer be a space-faring nation if Constellation is canceled. By definition, if the US has orbital launch capability, it is a space faring nation. SpaceX has already achieved orbital launch capability and is on track to launch Falcon 9 within months, as early as March 22.

[joshatkins94]

Okay, well April 12 is now the current launch date - but SpaceX has now static fired the F9. Not sure why my comments are so unpopular, I thought Buzz Aldrin (LMP on Apollo 11, as shown in this clip) summed it up pretty well.

[joshatkins94]

By the logic that that American human spaceflight ends this year with STS-133, American human spaceflight ended in 1975 with the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. After all, that was the end of a previous space program (Apollo).

[DumbYankies]

@joshatkins94 negative. The shuttle was already being built by 75. In fact it was supposed to be flying by 78, only a 3 year gap but was delayed due to reduced budgets. This time there is NO planned manned future capability, just wishful thinking and NO direction. Come janurary 2011, the only manned capabiliy the US will have will be Sir Richard Bransons space ship 2. And thats just a 6 person X15.

[logancody05]

@captainh321 I see you weren't even born when this historic event occured and yet you put the feelings of so many other into words beautifully. It's just a shame that this nations first black president had to be this incompetent, myopic, socialistic jackass.

[mikefastener]

@logancody05 Can a Canadian get into this discussion? Yes, I was watching July 1969! You guys really rocked then! I ask that you return to those heady days. The most amazing demonstration of American knowhow! Why are you setting the bar so low now?

[logancody05]

@mikefastener Of course you can Mike. That's a difficult Question to ans. but I'll try. America was built as a capatilist country. If you had some intelligence and/or the guts to work hard the sky was the limit. You could be born in abject poverty and die a millionaire. Now there are too many people who want the golden dream without working for it, illegals flooding our country with their hands out and a talking head for Pres., to name but a few of the problems.

[mikefastener]

@logancody05 I know your country very well (have been to 40 states and worked for US companies with facilities in Canada). Most Americans have forgotten (or trivialize) what was done here--it was an absolutely amazing time! I am cautious with my comments since it is not my tax dollars; however, a people need a dream to inspire and Apollo did it for the US! (I agree with your comments about your Pres--not happy about his view of US involvement in space.)

Maybe in my son's lifetime......

[logancody05]

@mikefastener Sadly Mike, you've hit the nail square on. I'm a retired pilot and have travled the entire world and can tell you no where is there a people who have become less proud of their country than right here. No where else is there a more self centered selfish people who have no apprecaition for the freedoms and opportunities their country offers. A sense of entitlement has pervaded everyday life of a once vibrant society. We're now stifled by it.

[mikefastener]

@logancody05 My friend....I believe you are being too hard on your wonderful country! There are still pockets of greatness--still those that want to inspire! Please, please don't listen to the chorus of idiots in other (jealous) countries that ever run down the USA!

[logancody05]

@mikefastener Thanks Mike, you're really doing wonders for my sagging morale. It's very demoralizing to look around at the U.S. and see what's happening here. Then to go on YouTube and read one disparraging remark after another about America coming in from all over the world is further disheartening. I'm old enough to know not to pay attention, but still it hurts. That's why it's so uplifting to read such nice words for a change. You really made my day, no kidding.

[mikefastener]

@logancody05 I drove across the US in 1980 (from NYC to LA)...the sites and people are/were amazing! You guys (Americans) need something to "kick you in the butt". You do know that many of us non-Americans look to you for hope? (Right?)

Please don't listen to the "idiots" around the world who get angry at your success. (It makes them feel very small!)

[logancody05]

@mikefastener What an adventure! I've flown coast to coast many times but always longed to make that trip by car. Was it a vacation? I know many look to the U.S. I had an Italian writing really rotten stuff here. I wrote back: I know you hate us, call us murders and wish us ill. Don't you realize if we lose and the Islamics are successful in Muslimizing the world as the very symbol of Christianity you' ll be the first ones beheaded? You better hope we win instead of hating us. No reply back.

[mikefastener]

@logancody05 Incredible trip! Left college and took my car (I was alone) and drove from Hamilton, Ontario, crossed the border at Niagara Fall and drove to Boston. Down the east coast to DC and then right across the country (Nashville, St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Vegas, LA). Down to Tijuana, up the coast to San Fran, Mt. St. Helena (it exploded 4 months earlier) to Seattle. Crossed at Vancouver and straight east back to Hamilton. Over 2 months and 12, 000miles!

[logancody05]

@mikefastener Jeez what a trip!! You got me jealous for having never done it. Was it planned or did you do it on the spur? Tijuana! No way I'd take a chance going down there with my car. You know if you rent a car in any of the border states you have to sign a promise that you'll not take their car anywhere into Mexico. To do so makes you completely responsible for replacing it, should it be stolen down there. I guess you do things like that when you're young. Did it get lonely after a while?

[mikefastener]

@logancody05 Trip was planned for months! My classmates at college wanted to go to Europe--so I went alone. No, I did not drive into Tijuana (single male, non-American--I thought it would not be smart). I walked across the border. Laughable, the Mexico border guard was asleep at 1:00pm as I walked across! My car trunk was full of tools and spare car parts in case I broke down. Back seat had a tent, sleeping bag, cook stove, clothes and dozens of AAA tour guides!  What a trip!!!!

[PringlesJingles]

@logancody05 Yes, there is a country less proud of itself. It's called Britain, a land completely crippled by the politically correct brigade. Incapable of seeing anything good in the past. History in Britain seems to revolve entirely around Hitler.

Whereas the fact this show has been made and has such amazing music, and the actor's awe at re-enacting the original Apollo missions is actually coming through on their faces is a great example of the pride that Americans have in their country.

[logancody05]

@PringlesJingles I'm sorry to hear that my friend, especially given the long, rich and mostly glorious history of Britain. Your people have taught the world so much in the fields of science, literature, diplomacy and engineering. But most of all you've taught us about how the courage of a people can prevail against even the most staggering odds. If the richness of your history is being lost on your young then surely we're all in danger of losing our past. Where are our schools?

[steveo72990]

@captainh321 All thanks to ONE man?! Now, I'm not the dude's biggest fan either, but this slow-down of NASA programs has been a long time coming. It's a lack of peoples' unwillingness to spend money and our inability, as of yet, to take the next big "outer-space" leap. And as far as manned missions go, that's not where the real science is, that lies in unmanned missions like voyager. The manned stuff is a circus to keep the tax money coming in.

[captainh321]

@steveo72990 I beg to differ with your manned missions/real science comment. Apollo, in fact, proved that no robotic craft can replace the perspective and senses of a human being. The astronauts who went to the moon contributed immeasurably to our knowledge of the Moon through their surveys on the ground sand selective sampling. From Mercury through ISS, astronauts working in space have made major contributions to science. The human mind and human intellect can not be replaced by a computer.

[jc851]

where can i get the soundtrack from this episode?? its great!

[joshatkins94]

amazon . com / dp / B0000062IH

[jc851]

that is just random songs, it doesnt include the musical soundtrack

[joshatkins94]

it has the theme ... don't know why they didn't actually include the songs from the episode

[MarkoAlder]

@jc851 The original score is called MARE TRANQUILITATES from James Newton Howard. Unfortunately it is a non released cd...

[mayanks098]

@jc851 yeah. Totally apt for "halo".

[biscoito1r]

When is it coming on blu-ray ?

[NGinuity]

@biscoito1r It actually was already our when you made this comment. It's GREAT.