Man On The Moon - Apollo 11- Cronkite Broadcast Pt1

[Zoomer30]

The SatV vs The Shuttle is like the tortuse and the hare : the shuttle would leave the Sat V in the dust the first 3-4 mins...then yhev Sat would of blown past it.

[CounterCultureLives]

I remember this one well. One thing that always stood out in my mind was watching the rocket lift off, then seeing how slowly it appeared to be climbing.

[airdaleva42]

This is a retrospective brodcast for the twentyith anniversary. I t was hosted by Rather.

[Erik0072]

such daft irony, an asinine left wing partisan hack that had to walk away from the news desk in shame because he was so eager to frame Bush as a draft dodger that he outright lied to the American public, presenting a piece involving one of if not the most trusted, brave, un-biased, and downright kindhearted news men of all time.

[TheJenr8tr]

@Erik0072 Unlike the spurious "birther" attacks on Obama, no one has ever come forward to say that they served with Bush when he supposedly transferred from the Texas Air National Guard to the Alabama Guard. He asked for the transfer to work on a family friend's campaign. He did the campaign work, but the only record of attendance for his guard hitch is that he had some dental work done at the base. The accusation was that he didn't show up his training sessions and/or was not fit for duty.

[bburkie55]

@TheJenr8tr Garry Trudeau of "Doonesbury" offered a $50,000. prize to ANYONE that could place Georgieboy Bush at the Airbase he was supposed to report to during his Alabama Air National Guard days. So far NO ONE has stepped forward to claim it.

[vitoduval]

@bburkie55 Did Trudeau offer a prize to someone who could prove Iraq still had WMD?

[bburkie55]

@vitoduval Not to my knowledge.

[lander4545]

@vitoduval Google: "yellowcake in Iraq" and you'll find out that Trudeau would have lost that bet! ;)

[lander4545]

@bburkie55 Ah, no....................The monetary award was for $10,000 to be donated in the winners name to the U.S.O. Most of Bush's time was spent with the Texas Air National Guard. If you research you would have found out that Bush was indeed seen and did serve for a short while in the Alabama Air National Guard. To prove my point C.B.S. News anchor Dan Rather was fired for trying to tell the same lie that you are!

[MisterEvasion]

I was approaching my 9th birthday when they went to the moon. For a kid, the whole idea of the thing was exciting. However, the reality of watching the men going to the moon on TV was very boring for me. I was glued to it, but often fell asleep and was indignant when my Dad carried me to bed. I couldn't really understand what the adults were all talking about too. And when they got to the moon it seemed to take forever for them to get out and walk around, which was what I really wanted to see.

[Death4Life69]

USA is the best country with the smartest people...Now if we would only nuke the Afgan border...The American Empire going to take control of you soon....Long live the USA.

[SyCo888]

@Death4Life69 People like you make the rest of us Americans look bad. Please stop.

[superfan386]

man on the moon,good album

[screwyou]

You know it's incredible how he can just breeze through the flight plan briefing. By 1969 contemporary audiences were so much better educated about astronautics than they are today, you didn't need to explain basic orbital mechanics.

What happened?

[sklaterjd]

Loved the atari graphics of the landing.

[altfactor]

At 2:09 of this clip, you can see the very beginning of CBS's broadcast of the Apollo 11 launch, which was at 6 A.M. EDT on July 16, 1969 (three and a half hours before launch; ABC and NBC also went on the air at that hour as well).

The likely reason the three networks went on that early was that just after 6 A.M. EDT, the astronauts left their crew quarters to head out to the pad (seen at 3:28 of this clip).

Then it jumps to the final moments of the count.

[Jemmer1000]

Drifting to the right a little.

[Jemmer1000]

What the hell is this?

[manhbx96]

Walter Cronkite was behind these astrology reports after Vietnam became full blast like Rather said the nation needed something good to happen

[MightySaturn5]

The liftoff footage is a compilation of various films that were fitted to the actual audio, the way this video is portrayed is not at all real since "film" takes time to develop...all "live" news broadcasts were video taped (the same clarity you'd see the reporter doing the news), as an example look at the sharpness of video from 5:45 to 5:52 and compare it to the grainy film at 6:36

[bibbler227]

@MightySaturn5 You're an asshole. You have no idea what you're talking about. Shut up.

[MightySaturn5]

@bibbler227 Jeez, I accidently write my name in cursive in jizz on your mothers withered corpse one time and you cop an attitude

[ieatpeas24]

BULLSHIT 

[612franklin]

This event drew me like nothing else. Made me believe

[MultiMrfalcon]

Dan Rather could not be a dingleberry on Cronkite's ass! What a hack!

[airdriver]

Just think about it, the animation at 2:13 probably cost thousands of dollars and was done on a computer the size of a living room. How far we've come and how far we've gone.

[lokdomar777]

I love this video, but the audio balance is kind of messed up in my headphones.....

[MrChristian326]

I remember I was 11 years old when me and my Family were tuned in to watch Walter Cronkite broadcasting this event. I even remembered the theme music that introcduced the broadcast. I bought the VHS tape when it first hit the store. And now it's on YOUTUBE. Amazing. Watching this documentary is like it happened only a few years ago. Thank you for posting.

[rsvp9146]

I remember watching this on the 20th anniversary in 1989. I'm curious if the title sequence with the Jules Verne type shots of the moon was part of the original broadcast in 1969.

[marycecil1000]

less ram than todays cells ??? wow

[antimatterXXXIII]

There is posted on YT an extensive (10 hours and more) selection of coverage from November 1963, when the man who started all this was killed by a supreme narcissist and laid to rest by a mournful nation. The only way to rid myself of the sadness of that viewing was to come here - and see the results of throwing off self-interest and base desires, to put one's efforts into something constructive and beyond one's pitiful individual life. RIP JFK, long live Aldrin, Armstrong, and Collins.

[luridplanet]

Which "supreme narcissist" do you mean? J.Edgar Hoover or LBJ?

[wiedep]

we were accomplishing great things then, now we are descending into mediocrity...

[dillsqueeze]

God bless america.......god speed.....

[Musicman81Indy]

Where's the audio? I played this video a couple of days ago and it was fine. Now there is no audio. This whole set of Man On The Moon videos has no audio now. Any idea what is wrong?

[MightySaturn5]

God, that flame plume at 8:45 is stunning...even an almost 40 story rocket looks small compared to its length

[theonlydavepowers]

i had the same thought! just started reading buzz aldrin's new book. amazing to think that the computers they had on-board had less RAM then today's cell phones.

[NebraskasWallpaper]

Damn, that's pretty good animation for 1969!

[GoBlue208]

Its a pity i didnt get to witness one of the greatest accomplishments in american history. RIP Walter

[Bumbleweather]

You get to see the Mars landing in 2030-2035.

So there.

[Alex052480]

when was this documentary showed , 89?>

[EnsignInRed]

I can't really tell when this was showed on TV. Maybe compare the way Dan Rather looks in other reports. This may have been made and shown in 1979, them put out on VHS in 1989.

[peck4111]

A CLASS ACT NO ONE WAS LIKE WALT

[nodlon20]

Thank you soooo much for sharing this

video! I was 16 years old and my mother

and I were watching this I remember Walter telling Wally "the building's shaking!" I'll never forget this moment! I have this original broadcast on audio casette tape. I turned my audio recorder on because I knew it was a historic moment. I have listened to it every July in the intervening years and still have it to this day. I like this one, the audio is crystal clear. Thanks so much for the memories!

[curea229]

Thanks for sharing your memories. Like you I was watching it with my mother, but I was about 3 months old at the time so I don't remember very much of it :)

Must have been an amazing time and experience.

[CMPTICA]

All the *********to Walter. Rest in Peace. CMPTICA

[upublic]

wow, was just watching these and just found out that today The Voice is no more

[DWGarvin]

RIP Walter Cronkite. The world has indeed lost a legend.

[pacmanindy]

RIP, the Most Trusted Man in America! Greetings from Indiana.

[Zvezdichko1]

It's a horrible loss for the whole work. Honours from Bulgaria, rest in peace, Walter. I do hope you saw the yesterday's photos from LRO

[Zhenobia]

Cronkite's long-trusted voice is as historic as the lunar landing. Sadly, both are now to be found only in history.

Rest in peace, Walter.

[redcorncob]

RIP

[bobbydibobby]

Rest In Peace!

[BI30]

Things won't be the same without you Walter. You'll be missed.

[Lowflyt]

Cronkite is DEAD

[EnoAmbient4]

The graphics and sound effects are SO COOL! Walter C was a true hero of TV.

Schirra....uh... not so much.

[88mphsss]

what was their speed, rockets and shuttles always look so slow even though they're definitely not

[MightySaturn5]

The Saturn V was actually called the "Old mans rocket" because it was the only rocket designed from the ground up for space travel, therefore it took off at about 60-70 mph however that speed becomes hard to see when the object is almost a 40 story building ( jets in the sky sometimes seems as though they barely move and are much smaller), anyway the Saturn V gets into earth orbit at about 17,500 mph which is the same as the shuttle however after a few orbits it leaves for the moon at 24,600 mph

[vitoduval]

If you can find "Cronkite Remembers" there is film of the 1967 Saturn V launch when Cronkite tried to hold the blast window. I think there was a Soviet trawler observing from offshore....

[stokepogue]

Love the 60s animation

[torgman]

Is that 60"s animation?

[luridplanet]

Getting the monster Saturn V off the ground and the spacecraft safely into orbit was the hardest part - the knowledge of physics required to get them to the moon is very basic.

[asa0207]

This old video is priceless.I remember watching this as though it was yesterday

[procommenter]

They were 300 miles closer to the

moon than most of us will ever get.