Apollo 11 Landing Animation 

Yep.. had my heart in my throat the entire way down!

Yeah, I was thinking to myself I know what happened, but I was still on the edge of my seat the whole time.

The level of input and correction is almost unbelievable. Different era, but that level of work, with such thin margin for error, is almost unreal.

I remember being nervous in real time as a 9-year old :) What I most remember is Aldrin saying "Got the shadow out there" - meaning they were damn close to landing. The final seconds after the "30 seconds!" call were extremely tense. Walter and Wally on the TV didn't notice the computer alarms but I did.

I felt the same.

With much respect- he was far far from ordinary. He was HUMBLE and appreciative of the selection and responsibility that came with it. But a real special person with the right combination of passion, skill and never say quit approach.

Same here. I was 8 1/2 years old and watched it live. Watched Armstrong step on the moon live.

Yep. I can also see this playing at the NASA visitors center. What a great peace of work!

Agree!

Wow such beautiful thought wasted on the biggest lie ever perpetrated on millions of people.

@@Bibiisachildkiller be easier to do it for real then to fake it

@@jameshart4867 You are saying it's easier to go to the moon than making a film? Lol, that must be the dumbest comment ever

@@Bibiisachildkiller I think your scepticism is very healthy thing to have, so i wont shame you for your opinion on wither the moon landing where faked or not, instead its more useful to actually present evidence contrary to this idea. To the above comment, "Be easier to do it than fake it.." means basically given the immense technical challenge it would be to fake lunar gravity on earth in conditions where filming a fake lunar landing would be convincing to all history would be immensely difficult and expensive.. almost as expensive as actually just going there. And if we did film a fake lunar landing simply for propagandistic purposes, then whey stop at the moon? Why not continue the deception by faking a martian landing.. Venusian landing.. etc etc You can actually see the sites the Apollo missions landed with Earth based telescopes and publicly owned citizen scientist organizations. Certain rock samples taken from the lunar surface and brought back to Earth are Billions of years older than any rocks on Earth, and are physically impossible to obtain, unless you go there and obtain them. The faking of the moon landings would have needed the co-operation of literally hundreds of thousands of employees to remain silent for over fifty years now, and if you know human behaviour its almost impossible to keep any kind of secret for long, let alone over 50 years! There is a physical phenomenon called cockrolling, its basically refers to the shape dust lifts up and falls behind the wheel of a moving vehicle, if you observe the dust being cockrolled by the wheels of the lunar rover you can observe the lunar dust rise and fall in a way consistent with LUNAR gravity, not Earth gravity.. It would be absolutely impossible to convincingly create this phenomenon on Earth as seen in the apollo mission photography. You would need to suspend every single grain of dust on a string to artificially recreate the same gravitational conditions here on Earth, which is just absurd. And here's the golden bullet... The undefeatable argument.. If the Moon landings where faked, and you could prove this for a fact using scientific observation. Then you would be the most famous person in history, you proved the greatest moment in history was a ruse and you would also win a nobel prize, because science rewards the discovery of knowledge, welcomes it infact. And if science did somehow find that the lunar landings where faked, without any doubt i,e we went there and found no lunar decent stages.. no footprints, flags etc. I would completely accept this new knowledge.

@@BibiisachildkillerYeah, try simulating a multi-hour long live broadcast with massive studio lighting with 12 minute film reels simulating moon gravity 30 years before CGI. What a fvcking m0r0n. Not even the biggest movie studios could achieve that kind of images and NOT EVEN THE SOVIETS, who lost the moon race, accuse the US of faking it. Like, for real, what a stvpid fvcking m0r0n.

Even the brief lick of his lip that Neil does at one point... outstanding acting!

I read that the computer was taking them into a crater that had the boulders inside the crater not outside

@@anthonylowder6687 No one was ever ever going to land IN a crater, mate...Ever. Maybe never will. Always on "flat smooth" surfaces. Of course nothing there is completely flat or smooth but you do the best you can. For one thing the ascent stage can't safely take off if the tilt angle is too much. For another thing you never want to risk masking the antennas with something like a crater rim.

look into the details, they narrowly overflew a crater causing a slightly higher fuel consumption, and they landed on the far side of the crater. He is right.

Great comment. You don't need a music score or unnecessary sound effects to tell the story of such a monumental achievement

Make sure they know all about Pete Conrad!

@@nguyendailam6703 nice try 😉

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I was 12 as well, spending the summer in Menorca. Spent all summer reading Time, Newsweek, etc. When the big day came the TV receiver on the island was down. Disappointed doesn't describe it :(

I was 12 as well, with the whole family glued to the old black and white TV set in Sweden at four o clock in the morning. I´m very happy to have watched it live.

I was 13 at the time, living actually about a mile from where I live now. I missed the first five minutes or so of the PDI burn, as I was out running an errand with my Dad, but I came back home at right about the time that the 1202 and 1201 alarms started to pop up. I can still recall every feeling, even somatic senses, from that day.

I was born as Apollo 15 was taking back off from Hadley plain. Still one of my favourite places to view through my telescopes. Obviously I wasn't aware of the buzz it created in Ireland at the time, but the older I got, anything about space just soaked into me.

I thought that was a nice touch, too.

So cool in every way.

I was 14, as well, and Gemini / Apollo were definitely a "rite of passage" in my life...made all the plastic models, from Mercury to the LEM! Glad you could meet Shepard, and follow the inspiration of these people and events!

I was waiting for someone to notice that!

@@CbassProductions I too noticed that. Since we were in the LM's perspective the audio from Houston is delayed but their responses (since we are there with them) are not delayed. Many say the delay should be about 2.5 seconds. For round trip sure, but almost always you hear from Houston or from the LM perspective so the delay is really half that or one way delay.

I noticed that although I did not understand what I was hearing. Very nice detail! Just one thing.....that idiot CAPCOM intentionally stole Neil's thunder by calling out "We copy ya down Eagle" before Neil had a chance to speak. He should have given Neil the honor of speaking the first words from the moon without interference.

@@TheLarryBrown it was Charlie Duke. And mission control, is just that, controlling the mission.

And you included Capcom Charlie Duke’s famous unintended Elmer Fudd impression (“Roger Twan -Tranquility…”) spelled out. Charlie has joked about it in recent days interviews.

I was scrolling through the comments section to see if anyone recommended '13 minutes to the moon' . This animation is a wonderful accompaniment to that brilliant BBC podcast.

I'm glad I'm not the only one! Same thing when I watch the Apollo launch videos. So much pride in what mankind can accomplish. Always makes me tear up a little!

Excuse me but I'm a bit choked up. Must be Darth Vader nearby.

There is an Occults Rift game for Apolo 11

@@brooksterabb No, like a story driven one. Like COD WWII but instead of war, it's about the space race. Like the whole story of 'For All Mankind' but as a video game.

The video where they hook the AGC up to a flight simulator and use it to fly the Apollo 11 landing was SUPER helpful with understanding how the computer was used during the landing, especially with how Program alarms were handled.

Be patient, I heard that remake is in the making...

This is my first memory at a national level!

I was camping with my family in Indiana, Dad had a portable black and white TV by the campfire late at night. It was almost 11pm est when Niel Armstrong stepped out onto the moon. So, it was a 6-hour 40 min wait till he came out of the spacecraft.

Classic Armstrong! Really was an amazing pilot. Him saving Gemini 8 by countering a runaway spin due to a stuck RCS thruster via manual piloting was already legendary. Really was the best man for the job.

That was my thought also