Andrew Chaikin and Buzz Aldrin narrate a tour of the Eagle landing on the Moon in Google Earth. Visit earth.google.com/moon/ to download Google Earth 5.0 and learn more.
Thank you, for such an interesting video. On separate occasions, I met both Buzz Aldrin and John Glenn. Both childhood and American heroes and meeting them was a great experience.
1969 I was 18 years old in the U.S. Marines fighting in Vietnam. I remember thinking. How could President Nixon make a phone call to the moon? When I couldn't make a phone call to California.
@@lotharluder2743 Which part do you think is strange? That they could place a phone call between Washington & Houston? Or that they could patch the call into the radio transmissions?
U could tell how amazing the moon landing was at the press conference when they returned. True American grit!!. Merica, the land of bulls#/++3&$ .. this narrator is Killin me🤥🙄
@@waynemyers5995 It was never designed to "fly". It had no wings because there is no air, or appreciable atmosphere on the moon. It did what it was designed to do, and that is land on the moon.
God bless you Sir, Mr. Chaikin... y'all have carried the fire so well and for so long, telling the magnificent story of space exploration. your eloquence and clarity and brevity of writing and speaking inspires so many souls
J T Ah yes, another basement dwelling pathologically asocial idiot desperate for attention. Call up and ask mom to get you the professional help that you do sorely need.
thedutchone sorry, even Hubble can't focus on such a small point. Save us all the dishonest fake news, and tell us you're a liar. And probably a Trump supporter.
i keep coming back to this video but its because i love the way Aldrin describes the Moon and its surface, what a majestic thing. it sucks that we where born to early to just buy a ticket and go to the thing already
It was my birthday in 1969 and my mother and I sat glued to the TV. It was the most thrilling thing that had ever happened in all of humanity. We saw them land on the moon. We cried we jump for joy. I'll never forget it
I was a child living with my mother and stepfather five or six miles from the engine test stand during the Apollo era, often feeling the vibrations of the testing of the F1 engines throughout our neighborhood. We were so proud to hear those famous words by Neil Armstrong, and I never forgot the feeling that this was the beginning of our future in outer space. I still want to see a permanent human presence on the Moon in my lifetime.
@@theretep6494 Yea, old Bart Sabril found out just how gay Buzz is when Buzz planted a knuckle sandwich upside his fat triple cheeseburger eating face. Lol.
@Gerry Berry Me also!!! ...10 years old.... We've lived long enough to think we know it all, and are eager to prove it.... Yes what a time for their indoctrination!
Ken, it's incredible! Made me want to be an astronaut. Scary when you think the computer technology used to get them there wasn't even as "sophisticated" as the key fob you use to unlock you car. But really, who wouldn't want to go had they the chance, regardless of the risks?
Jesse Duzz What a crappy god we would have in that case, letting his former buddyboi run around causing havoc on his favorite planet while also torturing them for being on the same side he is?... Sounds wack bro
I had never before seen the flight path as shown here. So cool. Now I'm interested in what all the other writings notes were close to the landing location, like the ones indicating the double crater, the flag location.
This is the most documented event in human history. The whole 8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes, 35 seconds are timestamped down to the second. Every input in every computer, every footstep on the moon, every position they were standing in when they said which words. That's how they know the specific flight path exactly. Down to the second. It's so cool. The original image archives that NASA has will blow your mind if you haven't seen them yet.
yosoydeyarumal you said a “draw” its called a drawing not a “draw” get your grammar right. Now it makes sense that you think the moon landing were fake, because you obviously didn’t go to school.
Oh, the engine was kicking up dust in a haze, yet there wasn't one bit of dust on the feet of the Lander once it had touched down. Bit strange don't you think?
Rolly, unicorn Look again, it was pushing the soil outward away from the exhaust nozzle. Remember, you're in a vacuum environment,[no real atmosphere ] so the soil, dust particles behave like projectiles. Moving in the direction of the force pushing them. The rocket exhaust follows a downward and outward path, which pushes the soil to the outside of the LEM and away. You have no atmosphere or air currents to keep them aloft, meaning you have no dust clouds on the Moon. But if you look closely, you can find some soil, dust residue on some of the equipment, astronauts, landing pads, etc In the #8500 high-resolution pictures here..www.apolloarchive.com/
@@Godscountry2732 I take your point. Personally I've always been 50-50 as to whether it really did happen or not. Probably because of the amount of lies we are fed by our respective Governments. It kind of makes you question everything to some degree.
@@rollyunicorn It's not just the government, though! Every scientist, astronomer and engineer in the entire world knows we went & none have ever offered a serious challenge. They know we went & you can't fool everyone!
Because that's what NASA was directed to do. Sending men to the Moon is incredibly expensive, and once they'd beaten the Soviets there, the US public lost interest and Congress began cutting their budget. The fact is most people can't see a point to sending men to the Moon, so NASA wasn't allowed to do it any more. It is not, and has never been, a question of technical capability. It is a question of funding. It makes no difference how easy it is to get to the Moon technically if no-one stumps up the money to pay for it.
They , NASA engineers,did it without Google or Alexa . Not to mention without any AutoCAD or any 3D imaging software , they made Lunar landing successful. So what current younger generation are whining about. They have all the luxury and all the technogy .
You believers in the moon landing did notice that this was all animated right? You also noticed the photo of the LM where the cardboard sheets don't line up.(@6:48 into the animation video)
The Apollo astronauts were chosen by the nature to go and walk on the Moon...and that mission will always be appreciated as the greatest achievement for ever....SALUTE!!!!
Rony Hassan LoL, yeah, the moon missions, only form of transport, or technology for that matter, to never advance. In fact it's regressed over 50 years! Nobody went to the moon, these men are liars and frauds! Anti heros! They murdered the real heros who actually thought they were going to the moon, everyone after the first 3 were just puppets. ...Don Petit comes across as if he has a learning disability, its all a joke. Why dont you get it?
@butchtropic Wow... nice analogy. If the U.S government wanted an exact working replica of a '67 caddy, are you seriously trying to tell me that it couldn't be done? 😂 You poor misguided little lamb. And you know that "Moon rocks" that show chemically they are not from earth are actually meteorite fragments that made it through our atmosphere. Haha except for the fossilized wood "moon rock" that Nixon gave to the Netherlands... ooopsy. Seriously, start using cognitive thought instead of just believing everything you are told. No human has ever been out of earths lower orbit. Research objectively both sides, examine the evidence and THINK.
@butchtropic The film reels were apparently erased out of existence. 😂 Make perfect sense. Greatest feat of mankind and Nasa lost all the data and pictures. 🤔 Sounds reasonable.......
@butchtropic Or do you think a 67 caddy is technologically superior to a 2018 model? Im laughing so hard at your brilliant insight. I won't blame your whole generation for your stupidity though. 😂
I remember having built a Float for the fourth of July to look like a space capsule. Those days were so exciting growing up in the 60's. Every space flight had us glued top the TV. Wanted to be an astronaut so much. Happy and exciting. When the Moon landing happened, it was the ultimate TV show for the entire World. We were so proud to be here. It was something that was positive, and an exploration for all to help all.
namasterick dude, NASA still excites kids all over the world with "The Spirit of Discovery", whereas hoaxers and flat earths have negavity and cynicism. No brainer which one I'll be teaching my kids.
@Noelle Leger Dude, If you were smart you would know Dude is unisexual. Ah well you gave it a good shot. Yeah yeah, how many biscuits in a bakers dozen. I'll help you out with your debacle since you seem to be struggling with it. What's the first year dude. Hint, its not 1961. Base ten, its just not that hard dude.
@Noelle Leger Dude, Dude, I gave you the answer already, but i'll humor you, the first ten numbers are 0 to 9. Didn't you understand my hint? You're not alone dude, don't feel bad.
Wonderful video! Watching the descent and landing, I was reminded of a bowling alley video game called “Lunar Lander”...I don’t recall ever landing safely, but the throttle lever and rotation controls were very “immersive”, in today’s terms. Glad the pros were the ones who went!
The LM carried about 23,000 pounds of fuel-18,000 in the descent stage, and a little over 5000 in the ascent stage. I don't know how much fuel the ascent stages used, but they burned something like 95+% of the descent fuel on the landings.
I still have so much doupts that this happend. With this little amount of fuel to get away standig on a highly accelerating vibrating missile Engine and managing to hit the direktion meeting the orbitpoint fore rendezvous. I was always a real Fan of Apollo. 15 Years old when the Show was on. There some severe doubts. Even the Hoaxbeleavers have also not always strong arguments. Some are not so easy to push away.
@@lotharluder2743 YOU CAN LOOK THIS SHIT UP...90% of the rocket's weight and size was spent for fuel getting us off the ground and escaping the earth's atmosphere. The amount of fuel spent getting into 'space' where gravity dropping to zero makes accelerating effortless in comparison.. The way we planned the rendezvous didn't require anything beyond an understanding of physics and applied mathematics.
@@lotharluder2743 If you research the flight planning and fuel requirements, it doesn't raise any doubts as far as whether the mission was POSSIBLE or not... airandspace.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow_lg/public/images/5317h.jpg?itok=z8kbyXqL
@@lotharluder2743 you forgot: to accelerate in order to: leave Lunar gravity + reach speed of the Module in Perlune , match it with TOUSANDS of km/h etc etc etc, to come back with magical 40.000 Km/h :-D * why always 40.000???? "to use the moon orbit to accelerate" hihihihihi why didn´t we rised from Earth both capsules with a balloon then to the earth low-orbit and after that "used the earth gravity to accelerate" to go to the moon, with some pounds fuel??? wouldn´t be cheaper and more effective??? ;-) But what I wanted to tell you, sorry: the moon is hot, very… really hot… and all of that fuel was first there on the surface with…. what 150 Celcius +???? 200???? and the space is COOOOOOOOOOOLD so when you are around the moon, -180? -220?? and no material problems at all!!!! Vibranium, may be??? My car have problems here (frozen fuel) here in Germany with -30 Celcius… but they didn´t have ANY problem with Extrem heat and extream cold…. and did not explode even once :-D And their batteries worked and worked!!!! for TV + Radio and mesurements NON STOP the whooooole 8 days!!!! mission … and computers and pumps to compress to decompress the cabin with NO ACCIDENT at all!!!!!! Sure ;-)
man's greatest achievement...we floated onto the moon and then it was a walk in the park..the astronots made it seem easier than a plane journey from Europe to Australia...a great achievement...god bless America and all who observe her
If you listen to the actual audio you will hear how they moved in two axis. And were using short blast to land. The engine wasnt running for the final seconds they floated down. Running out of fuel on the lander was correct the module had a separate fuel tank for the lift off. I remember how the whole world was excited about space. No generation has done anything like this since.
Not quite correct Skip, as all the documentation, backed up by Armstrong himself, states that the engine wasn't shut down until the lunar module had actually touched down. On some of the subsequent missions, as soon as one of the 3 leg probes touched the surface, the engine was shut off, leaving the module to drop the rest of the way to the surface, but not on Apollo 11.
@@sailorman8668 unlike how most people answ replies i want to thank you for correcting me and not being hostile. What i also meant was people think the engines of all the landers were blowing exhaust when in fact they were running at less than 5 percent for the last seconds. They were throttled down and were basically floating due to the low gravity. Its also good to see there are people like me who know we went there
This is just awesome, makes our beautiful planet look so small in the universe. Their must be life beyond earth, their must be... My hat is off to all the brave and highly intelligent people that made this happen. It's quite humbling to watch it.
Well done video! Accurately portrayal of the Apollo 11 mission. Thank you Neil, Buzz, Michael and all the men and women who worked tirelessly to get them there and bring them home safely. Also thank You Jesus for making this wonderful Universe and everything in it, including us.
@@sharpuslf Yes God made both the sun and the moon. And h ed wrote Genesis 1 in such a way that the people of that day could understand it. Your point is?
@@darrylgonzalez5251 Can I assume you have read the KJV? Combine this with Isaih 40, and the tower of Babel. How men were building a tower to Heaven. If what is high in the sky is outer space, these verses make no sense. BUT, if their is a firmanent, and waters of the Deep, then the Earth is flat, with a dome, and suddenly it makes a lot of sense.
I'm a recently retired Engineer (Lockheed Martin) and I grew up in Cocoa Beach from '57 - '75 where my Dad was a Radar Guidance Engineer with G.E. out at The Cape so I know more about those years than almost anyone living, but I had never heard that descriptive oral by Buzz...thanks so much for posting it...a real Gem.
@@BigTime_ It was a pretty cool place to grow up...everything was hush hush in the early years. I remember my Dad coming home for lunch one day when I was very young and he looked at his watch and said you might want to walk outside now and look towards the Cape (we lived in North Cocoa Beach so were just a few miles from the early launch pads) so we all went outside and saw a liftoff and then it went sideways and the Range Officer had to detonate the destruct charge...a huge flame ball/explosion. Anyway I saw every launch...my fave was Apollo 17 the night Saturn V launch. Brevard county was literally standing room only for that one. Another by product of the space race in Brevard county was years later I read that for the ten years between 1964 and 1974 we had the highest rated school system in the country (based on national SAT scores)...to say we had near perfect demographics would not be an exaggeration....a bunch of white Engineer Dads with a bunch of stay at home moms...the schools were packed like sardines with portables everywhere but as I said all white kids with dad's with high IQ's.
Simply fantastic!! This brought together all the unknown and imagined intricacies that I have wondered about that glorious achievement !! ThankYou for portraying it so perfectly!! I wish the whole program was documented in this fashion !!! Beautiful work!!! Blessings to all involved in this video!!
John Dough I'll bet you believe the earth is flat as well?? The space program has brought us SO MANY things! From gps, cell phones, foam mattresses, and on and on! The technology blows the mind. Apparently it's above yours and that's too bad. You learn so much more with an open mind.
There is no creator anywhere. It's all a fairly tale :-) I think you meant "crater", but your illiteracy is excusable because you were obviously educated in modern government schools. So, explain why you think there has to be a crater beneath the lunar lander? Is there a crater under a helicopter when it lands? It's the same principle. The lander was actually very light in the 1/6 gravity of the moon. It did not take an enormous amount of thrust to allow it to land softly. If you look at the landing video that was shot out of the LEM windows, you can clearly see the surface dust that was streaming away from the descent engine in the final few feet before touchdown. Pretty spectacular actually.
I am among those who don't believe this, and I have good reasons for that; it would be up to those who believe this to open their eyes, and see the fantasy it is.
@@pascalxavier3367 How is this fake , why would thay make rocket that cost them bilions and time. Why ??? to get money , they are wasting money for science. not for lies
4:00 Armstrong said those words but not when he was along the ladder. They edited footage to make it like you depicted in the video. The flight path with Google moon was awesome 👍
"Last Man on the Moon" by Eugene Cernin. A wonderful series of exploytes Of his time at NASA. We all have seen the first 'Footprint' on the Moon, but what about the last? GC, RIP
You are correct it was awesome. You can still see it on Netflix. Cernan died a few years after it was made. I like the part where Cernan's military flying buddy busts Cernan's chops about not being to drop bombs on target. His buddy is really busting him good and Cernan seems to be just a little annoyed. But Cernan comes back with a good retort. Cernan was one of my favorite astronauts. He also had a cool Omega Speedmaster. Looked like all gold. Maybe the "dark side of the moon" model made just for him?
daffidavit: Yeah, I've met and talked with Gene Cernan several times. I also had an opportunity to buy his blue Corvette around 15-20 years ago (but didn't). Yes, he's one of everyone's favorites. He was well liked by other astronauts, his fans, the press, politicians, etc.
Lucky you to have met the man. It's a great honor. I know the feeling, I met the great Bob Hoover a few times at airshows when I was a kid. It's like meeting a rock star.
I had Cernan endorse a copy of his book to my son in 2015. He said "For you, the sky will never be the limit". Gene was a classy guy. May he rest in peace.
We weren't that much smarter, but the politicians were willing to spend the needed money. To beat Soviet. Today, they are not willing to spend that money on going back to Moon.
Clyde8her , wow i never said i was smarter , not even close , but at least i know it , how about yourself , considering you couldn't even make sense of my original comment
If the earth is 45,000 miles in circumference and they were 240,000 miles from it and collins circled and saw the earth rise, why was it so SMALL? Makes no sense. Oh, and Buzz is such a GOOD reader!
Get it right. The Earth's circumference is around 24,900 miles. That is roughly four times that of the Moon, so Earth from the Moon looks around 4x bigger than the Moon from Earth. But anyway you can't really judge how big Earth looks from the Moon by looking at the Earthrise photos - it depends on the camera lens (was it a zoom? was it wide angle?).
Thanks for the correction. I'd like for you to send me a picture of the earth from space that isn't computer generated. What? You don't know what kind of lens he was using. That should be public knowledge, so why don't you enlighten me on that, too. wayne.myers916@yahoo.com @@TheBaldmeister
@@wayniebob1948 Looks like it was a 250mm lens, so quite a strong zoom. But don't take my word for it, you can look it up as well as I can. "I'd like for you to send me a picture of the earth from space that isn't computer generated. " - not sure what you mean? All the Apollo photographs were originally on film, but any of them that you view on the internet will obviously have been converted to a digital format, so in that sense are computer-generated. I'm afraid I don't possess any of the originals to send you!
@@TheBaldmeister You know what I found interesting? The picture of the earth rising was all lit up and "waxing", but the moon's surface on that particular was kinda' dark. And the command module was circling at 50,000 ft.? The moon's surface should have been lit up like a Christmas tree. And if you're going to say the sun wasn't shining on that portion of the moon's surface, then it should have been darker.
@@waynemyers5995 Yes, from the way the Earth is illuminated the sun should be above and probably slightly behind the orbiter, so the lunar surface is sunlit. I would say the surface is pale grey rather than "dark". But Earth has an albedo of around 0.33, while the Moon is 0.12, so you would expect Earth to be brighter. What are you implying? You think the Earthrise photo has been doctored? ...is an outright fake? ....that the entire Apollo programme was faked (a very big leap from "that photo doesn't look quite right")
No. Remember, the recording was made in Houston, so we hear what they would have heard in Houston: No delay in MCC replying to the astronauts, 2.6s delay for the astronauts responding to MCC.
@John Dough 11 seconds?? Nonsense! If there is such a delay it would be due to something else. The ISS is only 220 miles up; transmission should be instantaneous.
@John Dough Actually, 11 seconds of delay depending on where the ISS is located, if it's over the US, there is gonna be no delay, but if it was on the other side of the planet, there will be a lot of delay, and the 11 second delay has been reduced by a lot due to technology
Equaliser, stay in school...Its called Line of site communication via giant Earth-based radio antennas, bouncing off satellites, 😂😂😂😂😂😂The uplink required about 10,000 watts, downlink 20 watts. Go down to your internet, Cable, Phone companies corp building. Take note of all the giant parabolic dish antennas pointing into the sky. Check how far some of those satellites are from the earth stations.www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ApolloTV-Acrobat5.pdf
@@Godscountry2732 ...I don't know any radio signal ...reaching 239,000 miles away...come on ...stop the shanangins....no distortion...no loss signal...I can barley get a reliable cell phone service signal here on earth ...come on !! ..they have everyone fooled ...
@@salamanca1954 Hey! Just don't go believin' in fairy tales too much. Maybe you DID try to protect your tiny head with gold tinfoil 'cause you saw your ''astronauts' doing it in this Apollo movie. Did you stick your little brain in your easy bake oven to test your theory? NASA probably sold you some tinfoil and a special decoder ring so you could talk to the moon smurfs you little ragamuffin, you!
G.Gorrell what an idiot you are. You are triggered so easily. I said it sounded like he was telling a bedtime story, that’s all, you assumed I didn’t believe what he was saying. Calm down People are so easily offended these days!!!
I'm sorry plz explain why a :53 seconds the animation shows the Luna Module accelerate forward and down away from the Command Module. This is impossible, I know. I play SFS. Even if both the Lander and Command Module were on a landing trajectory at this point they both move in the wrong direction relative to each other. According to orbital dynamics. Given that your animation skills are way better than anything I could create. I assume you understand what I'm saying. How could you make this error in accuracy.
The Digital Auto-pilot in the Lunar Module fired the Reaction Control System Thrusters which are mounted externally to push the LM away and down from the Command Module. The Digital Auto-pilot (‘DAP’) was a software process running at 10 cycles/sec in the LM Guidance Computer.
A couple of days ago I saw the Apollo 11 documentary ; it was so much better than that POS movie First Man Even though i knew how it ended ,I found myself staring at the Rate of Descent and Fuel Remaining numbers as the Eagle was on Final Approach and saying " c'mon Neil slow it down "he did
Personally I haven't seen Apollo 11 docu yet but I find First Man to be one of my favourite movies alongside Oblivion and The Imitation Game, Passengers, Arrival and Interstellar fit somewhere along the line as well.
