Moonlighter, The Flight of Apollo 11

[filmdirectorlord]

WELL DONE LAD!

[JackJ1957]

Wow. I got this same model (1/96 Saturn V) for Christmas in 1969, when I was 12. I still have it (now I'm 53!). I sent for this record with the coupon that came with the model. It was the first of many records I would buy with audio from the space program. Thanks for posting!

[xfire7]

How come nobody filmed the linar lander being unloaded.And how come the landing module looks the same as 11?Where did they put the exrtra cargo?

[kennetzel]

@xfire7 I have no clue as to what you mean about filming the lander being unloaded. NASA journals and publications are loaded with pics of the lander being built and placed in the final state of the Saturn V rocket. As far as looks, each LEM was different. Notice the black under the windows and other areas of the upper ascent stage, the markings all differ from mission to mission. I don't understand what point you are trying to make.

[kennetzel]

Mythbusters showed that the flag moves even MORE without the air due to less resistance. You suck.

[wiebieke]

man in the moon is indeed fake, they've only been ON the moon.

[GrigoriZhukov]

@wiebieke Pedant! ;^)

[kennetzel]

@gonzoelrichman

I see this post and the word DOUCHBAG comes to mind. How people to out of their way to show how stupid they are. They will believe this is a hoax, and they probably believe in man made global warming too. Morons, the lot.

[kennetzel]

You obviously do not watch the video. The camera goes high up...higher than any crane can raise it. Therefore, it is a video of a true lift off from the moon. God...you people are stupid.

[cthulee]

Thank you for this video. I remember most of the events of the time It was one of the few things I found memorable in the late sixties.. . It was an important occasion for me.

[kennetzel]

To all you idiots out there who doubt we went to the moon...if hard core evidence that we went isn't enough to convince your pea brains that we were there, don't bother posting your stupid "I don't believe it" comments. This is here for the serious Moonlanding fan, not for morons who tend to believe we faked it and that aliens built the piramids. Shut down your computers and say hi to the yeti for me.

[kennetzel]

You don't believe in remote controll in 1969...then who controlled the satellites first launched if not for telemetry. Sputnik was launched in the late fifties, and it was remote controlled from the earth. Not to mention, they didn't start videoing the launches until they took the lunar rover up because that's where the remote camera was. It was remote so the crew on earth can pan the camera while the astronauts left the rover and explored.

[morbidfrost]

the moon rocks are the proof, they where handled by geologists all over the different universities.

[kennetzel]

@Cosmored Of course he marked it as spam. Intelligence is strange to this guy. He wouldn't know truth if it slapped him in the face. Dumb ass.

[kennetzel]

@Cosmored I see this post and the word DOUCHBAG comes to mind. How people to out of their way to show how stupid they are. They will believe this is a hoax, and they probably believe in man made global warming too. Morons, the lot.

[bufonoise]

"we came in peace..."

[kennetzel]

Go outside with YOUR camera at night. Take a picture of the sky withit. Tell me how many stars YOU see. None right? The apatures on the cameras used closed considerably due to the highly reflective surface of the moon, making it impossible to pick up tiny pinpoints of light in the sky. Any moron can figure that out.

[Simboiss]

That's right, it's already figured out. The problem is that even the astronauts couldn't reminisce the sky with so many stars. How is that possible to go into space and not NOTICE that the sky is full of stars?

[kennetzel]

Have you ever LISTENED to the astronauts? Many of them, especially Jim Lovel, constantly talk about how they saw more stars than ever seen from the earth. I don't know where you been, but it is a common subject amongst the astronauts who WENT to the moon.

[999is666upsidedown]

@Simboiss how is it possible for a camera to pick up stars, with all that sunlight hampering its exposure?

[chaucer44]

I am so appreciative you putthis on youtube. I've been immersing myself (again) in Apollo videos and helping debunk those dumb conspiracy theorists. If u haven't had the chance yet, check out the mythbusters videos focusing on the apollo missions.

[golfmanu5332]

i think this was a real moonlanding!!!!

[kennetzel]

I KNOW it was a real moonlanding.

[Simboiss]

What we see at 2:12 was shot in a exterior set at Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. The Lunar Module was lowered by a crane.

[kennetzel]

And your mother was the yeti and your dad was bigfoot.

[Daveparts]

The astronuats left behind a lazer reflector that is still in use. see the NASA web site for cordinence

[Simboiss]

Many people could measure the Moon's distance from the Earth, way before the Apollo program era. The Moon's surface is reflective in itself...

[999is666upsidedown]

@Simboiss in order to measure the distance from the earth to the moon using reflecting technology, you need large radio telescope, which not many people had.

[GrigoriZhukov]

@999is666upsidedown Naw just takes a laser and lase the refelctor the apollo missions left up there.

[999is666upsidedown]

@GrigoriZhukov oo btw blocked i dont deal with trolls.

[davesnijder]

eh nothing against the moonlanding i still believe that went to the moon but eh apollo 11 did not carry a lunar rover!? thats was till apollo 15 so how can the takeoff be filmed?? or is it just symbolic?? that how they took off??? i still believe that we landed on the moon because how else can we receive info about the moon from those tests they put up there??

[kennetzel]

It's simple. I used footage from the lunar module lift off from Apollo 15. It's not footage of Apollo 11. Allow me some artistic license.

[davesnijder]

i already thought something like that well i like the video :P

[kennetzel]

It's called artistic license. Since there was no video available of Eagle taking off, I used a later mission. Man...I can't believe people take this so literally. I said in my discription that I scrounged the web to use what I could find.

[h2oB4bed]

is anyone working on a telescope to take pics of the stuff left on the moon?

[lostsoul436]

i know right

[Simboiss]

No telescope can see at high enough resolution to see anything the size of what was alledgedly left on the Moon.

[999is666upsidedown]

@h2oB4bed why would they waste the billions of dollars to build a telescope on earth powerful enough, or another orbiting satellite, to take pictures of things everybody already agrees is there. why waste the money? you think the government cares what a few people think trying to say we didnt go to the moon, although the gov lies 90% of the time, i dont think they have to worry about something that is actually true.

[GrigoriZhukov]

@999is666upsidedown You're a special kind of stupid aren't you? Your's is the kind of stupidity that askes "why cross the ocean if we already know there's another continent over there?" You lot stay at home, the rest of us are going places you stick in the mud whiney little punk.

[999is666upsidedown]

@GrigoriZhukov when the gov gets the money to waste let me know, ill let you live your life thinking Im stupid. your analogy is kinda wrong. even thought we know there's another continent, going there serves a purpose. you want them to waste the money just so you can know something? sorry they have a country to run. especially since theyll be busy with the knew line of space travel, You lot stay home" the rest of us are going to not make our debt worse. you stick in the mud ignorant little punk

[GrigoriZhukov]

@999is666upsidedown Uh thankyou for proving you are not too darn bright...news flash kid. It's easier to explore space than to explore the ocean. sheesh you religous cunts are fucking waste of carbon.

[999is666upsidedown]

@GrigoriZhukov hurr news flash dam you got lines, not. but dont worry ill bring a camera to the beef section of wal-mart so you can know that theres beef there. and don't you mean waste of oxygen? dam you are smart, stop trolling me child. hope you feel good cuz you like to act smart on yt, i wont be responding anytime soon, or ever.. :) so spend your time coming up with a comment to "follow" mine so people will think your cool.

[vadim001]

А кто снимал взлет с Луны?

[steveo6T5]

you know whats crazy about this whole conspiricy theory,they may just have actualy made it to the moon,there is no real proof yet to say they havent,this vid looks like they made it,so does anyone have any 100% rock solid proof that they didnt make it?i mean they had alot of missions,if you were going to fake it you reckon you would quit after the first time,less chance of being caught out

[universetechnique]

Look the matter now is that USA got Soviet Union which is Russia into their rules. Now trying to control other countrys. Thats why they do away with communist. So you can join them. Wait until Asian communist countrys try to reach space. At least USA can not control them. Lets see what will surround them. Soon the world will know we are not alone. It takes one country I know its not America or Russia. They are ask to quarantine space flight and delays given by ET

[HerrBenji]

This is what the US should dedicate along with the rest of the pwoerful nations ... peaceful exploration for the sake and knowledge of mankind. Quit wars quit every kind of agression... this kind of achievement is the one that makes America great... not iraq invasions nor all the offensive power in their hands...

[pascal26in]

message below was meant as a reply...and maybe I was wrong about Buzz Aldrin...anyway, it was one of the astronauts...fix ur system youtube...it sucks!

[drfulmore07]

So that how MTV got all this footage from. I didn't know that.

[DaGeBu]

The Saturn V when taking off from the earth had to lift it's 3 stages plus the three crew, the command module and escape rocket, service module and lunar module, all of which were fully fuelled and carried supplies ie food, water and air for the whole journey. The second stage of the lunar module had only to lift itself with two crew and a small bag of rock samples with fuel and air for a few hours. The moon has lower gravity and no atmosphere. That's why the two were so different in size.

[sonybikerboy]

Okay... does anyone else have an explanation besides mightysaturn? Because he obviously doesnt understand my question... Stop with the command/service module. They dont take off from the moon with that. This is the MOONLANDER vs the ENTIRE ROCKET that takes off from earth! Forget about reentering! Im not asking about coming back into orbit. This is Taking off vs taking off! The size of the moonlander (taking off from the surface of the moon) and the size of the rocket taking off from earth.

[kennetzel]

We have to deal with the fact that the gravitational pull of the moon is much than that of earth. So not as much power is needed. Second, the reason the Saturn V was so huge was because it had a lot further up to travel to get the ship in proper moon trajectory...a much higher orbit. The command module was in a low lunar orbit. The lem didn't have to go too far up to rondevous with the command module. The redstone that took Alan Shepherd into space...low earth orbit...very small rocket.

[MightySaturn5]

The lunar modules 2nd stage had two men,it put them in a low lunar orbit,you need to match that to two men taking off from earth and going into low earth orbit(like the Gemini programs "Titan rocket")however the Titan took the 2 into a high orbit with extra weight of re-entry systems,etc.,you could scale the titan down (Atlas rocket) to achieve low earth orbit with a craft that had no re-entry ability (like the LM)-A rocket about 80 ft tall or 6x bigger then the 2nd stage LM.

[fukumyung]

Lack of atmosphere makes a big difference. No friction due to oxygen, CO2 and other particles.

[MightySaturn5]

If you combine the entire lunar module plus command/service module it is about 1/6 the size, since the upper portion of the lunar module is around 13 or so ft tall this compares to an Atlas rocket used to get into earth orbit (about 80ft tall) or about 1/6th, the command/service module power and size is not far off that ratio when compared to the 3rd stage of the Saturn V. These numbers are not exact but give a vague comparison.

[MightySaturn5]

Actors in a studio? lol...I suppose world war 2 was staged as well as the holocaust and slavery

[zubbbi]

except the videos and pictures, has any scientist ever brought the soil or any other material from the surface of the moon?

[kennetzel]

It IS common knowledge that the astronauts brought back many samples of rocks, soil and core specimens. It is in the history books.

[Simboiss]

Having Moon rocks in one's possession is considered illegal...

[kennetzel]

That's why only the officials have them. If someone else has them, they are in deep trouble.

[999is666upsidedown]

@Simboiss it is not illegal to own moon rocks...

[DTanza]

The flag was moing cause it was being twisted into the ground duh!

[heven729]

here on the earth, air resistance dampends the pendulum motion of a flag. On the moon there is no air to slow the flag to stop it from waving.

look at this video for more answers.

/watch?v=aqlo_spATEM

[zubbbi]

who was making the video when the machine flew away from the surface of moon?

[pascal26in]

they had set up a camera with a timer...heard it in a interview with Buzz Aldrin....he explained in detail how it was done.

[caravan1985]

Camera mounted on Lunar Rover and remotely controlled from earth. This was actually Apollo 17 lm lift-off

[jimnxsq]

Here's a little trivia you probably know. NASA communicators had trouble distinguishing between Armstrong & Aldrin during their moonwalk, so for later missions they added a wide helmet stripe on one astronaut's helmet, which you can see at 5:05 in your video compilation. Good work, by the way.

[kennetzel]

Hi. Thanks for the compliment. I did notice the stripe in that footage. I know it's not of the Apollo 11 mission, but it was all I could find to fit the scene.

[kennetzel]

Ever hear of remote control? In later missions, they used the lunar rover which had a camera mounted to the front of it. They used that camera to view the lift off from the moon, controlled by NASA.

[savagesteve13]

If we would spend money on NASA rather than on war, returning to the moon would be a trivial event.  The reason we did it in the 1960s-70s was because NASA was properly funded.

[dahoboman]

check out the mad tv 'iRack' video... I bet you'll enjoy it.

[Ungoliantx]

Thanks! I love youtube!

[capncrunch9233]

haha dont we all!

[LLEBNAX]

Im confused around 8:55 theres the video of take off , was it real? or where was it filmed from?? Anyways awesome video im young but i still cant absorbe that we actually went to luna! I really hope we go back soon...you know if this misson to Luna holds up

[kennetzel]

If you're referring to the Lunar Module lift off, it real, but not the Eagle. In later missions, they had the lunar rover, which they parked away from the lem to allow NASA to view the take off's. So the video I used was for effect, and it was a later mission.

[kdixon7783]

I never get tired of this video, Thanks.

[kennetzel]

You're quite welcome, and to all who posted comments. I am a space geek and have been since I was a toddler. It was a thrill to get this record as a kid, and I always wish it had pictures to go with it. Thanks to the internet, it was possible. Glad you all like it.

[Gatlinburg]

Incredible video. Thank you for posting this.

[jokinaroun100]

its strange that this happened nearly forty years ago, its ancient seems like an event were still not ready for yet

[TMTorrent]

Awesome

[wpw721]

My two year old son and I watch this regularly. Thank you from both of us.

[coolhypedmovies]

Thank you for this, that was amazing to watch :)

[kennetzel]

You're quite welcome. I was a space geek at that time. When most of my friends were listening to the lates top 40 hits, I was listening to this record. I'm surprised it is in as good a shape as it is. I had to put pictures to it.