ABC News Coverage of Apollo 11 Part 12 (The Moon Landing)

[notredamehesamighty]

When I was a kid all I ever remember WAS ABC-TV's space coverage. They were wonderful. Jules Bergman was like my 2nd grade science teacher. I learned so much about the space program from him. He never talked down to the audience, but made things clear and understandable, and explained both the hows and the whys.

[JWROWE3]

What's amusing, is that MOST folks 'remember" CBS's coverage of this. Some years back, someone re-ran all of ABC's coverage of the landing to commemorate the event. Could have been A&E in 1989, but I cannot remember. Still, was neat to see it all...

[GaryW48]

@JWROWE3 It was on A&E, but it was the NBC-TV line footage, not ABC or CBS.

[vitoduval]

Note the clapping in the background at 5:58

[antimatterXXXIII]

The studio is filled with smoke from the simulation model - that was great in a Clutch Cargo sort of way!

Amazing the neither Bergman nor Reynolds had the first thing to say in the final stages of descent. Again, the 1201 and 1202 alarms were serious problems that could easily have caused an abort, had not the very young men behind the scenes known their computer code!

[dave46563]

@antimatterXXXIII Steve Bales was the GUIDO during the landing and he ultimately had the responsibilty of choosing whether to abort or to continue. He obtained information from one of his backroom staff, Jack Garman, who said the alarms were acceptable. Garman knew the AGC and the PGNCS inside out. He supervised the design at MIT.