Additional 16MM High Quality Footage of Apollo-11

This is the last of the "full motion" 16MM footage of the Apollo-11 moon landing. It shows Neil Armstrong collecting the contingency lunar samples shortly after he first set foot on the moon. Buzz Aldrin remains in the lunar module and is filming out the window. The motion looks slightly choppy because the camera was set to 12FPS, enough to record descent motion, but not perfectly smooth.

The sample was collected first in case an emergency or unplanned circumstances forced Apollo-11 to leave the lunar surface earlier than expected. Buzz Aldrin operated the television camera transmitter and kept the LM ready for a quick launch, if necessary, as Neil Armstrong took the first samples. After the end of this clip, Aldrin joined Armstrong on the lunar surface. The 16mm DAC continued to record, but Buzz Aldrin set the speed down to one frame per second. This was necessary to conserve the remaining film, which would last only minutes at full speed. Thus, after this clip, all further DAC footage is more time-lapse than full motion.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• DAC
• Apollo
• Apollo-11
• Aldrin
• Buzz Aldrin
• Neil Armstrong
• Moon
• Lunar
• 1969
• 16MM

[navysealblackwater]

And what about the limitations of 1960's technology? Almost 40 years ago, with combined CSM and LM guidance computer memory totaling only 10.3% [ 152kb] of a common 1.4MB [1474.56kb] floppy disk, NASA claims to have gone 59,900% farther than any other manned spacecraft has gone before or since and made many a safe landing on the moon?

[DrBuzz0]

Powerful computers are unnecessary to fly to the moon. It's just simple newtonian physics to land on the moon. Basic algebra with limited variables. The computers did not need to do what today's computers do (generate a graphic interface, run a TCP/IP stack, manage multiple input and output adapters.)

It just needed to solve basic physics equations.

[jcgmed]

Is pretty patetic see how moon hoaxers cant find precise info to support their theories using computing resources too much powerful than all the Apollo missions merged together a billion times.

[ApolloWasReal]

@nathanielscott DAC = Data Acquisition Camera. Made by Maurer, I believe. It's just a fancy name for a 16mm movie camera with a selection of frame rates. Apollo often ran below the standard 24 fps to conserve film. It was a completely different era before modern digital cameras the size of key fobs that can store hours of HDTV on a card the size of a fingernail.

That's one of the reasons I'd love to go back, to see it all again but with modern cameras and communications.

[ApolloWasReal]

@fertilizerspike Anything hitting the moon from space must do it over 2.38 km/sec, its escape velocity. Most meteorids and especially comets hit considerably faster, up to 60 km/sec, 2x the earth's orbital speed. At 3 km/s each kg of meteoroid releases as much energy as a kg of TNT, and at 30 km/sec it's 100x! That's hardly "negligible".

[ApolloWasReal]

@DrBuzz0 Fairly powerful computers were still required to plan maneuvers, but they were all on the ground. A set of IBM 360 mainframes in Houston made up the Real Time Computing Complex. The results were read orally up to the crew, who wrote them down.

The onboard computing tasks were kept fairly simple. The most important ones were a digital autopilot and the periodic updating of the spacecraft state vector. Both are solving fairly basic physics equations without a lot of iteration.

[fertilizerspike]

@YDDES

Hahaha you clearly know nothing of physics, rocks hitting rocks generate negligible heat, if any. Learn some physics before you mouth off about it any further.

[YDDES]

@fertilizerspike At the speed most of the meteorites hit the moon, they are vaporized upon impact when the kinetic energy is transformed to heat.

[vomisacaasi]

@DrBuzz0 Exactly. They could have gone to the Moon using slide rule. It just would have taken a lot longer.

[fertilizerspike]

I love how the hoaxers thought it was necessary to have a bunch of tiny craters all around on the ground to convince people it was the moon, hilarious. What caused all those craters? Where's the falling rocks that supposedly blew them out? Ridiculous.