The Men Who Walked on the Moon 10 year anniversary programme hosted by James Burke - first broadcast 1979. This is the best video quality I have of this programme.
This documentary talks about 10 years later and here we are, never going back to the moon. Surprise! 50 years later and we are indeed planning to return. I’m so lucky to have seen both moon programs in my lifetime.
I was too young to witness the Apollo landings. I hope I’m still around when we do it again. It really captured my imagination. The Clangers was the next best thing. Looking forward to Artemis.
watching this program as a 9 year old in July 1979 was pretty much when my passion for the early manned space program was ignited. I do vaguely remember the ASTP handshake, but it was James Burke that really got me fascinated - a fascination that still holds me today!
this is a fascinating doc. a million times more real and more raw than anything made now. most of these astronauts are now dead - this is truly a time capsule.
Just human, after all, with all the common failings we all have. And yet, possessed of the drive, courage and stubbornness, far beyond what you or I have, to succeed in an endeavor that even today, 50 years later, is at the cutting edge of what is possible. If we are lucky, we may, someday see their like again. Please forgive my maudlin rambles, I'm old and tired of waiting.
Your rambles were very good words! I was 4 years old when Apollo XI (Eagle) landed on the moon, and I REMEMBER it. We lived not far from Bethpage, NY (where the LEM was designed/built) so we saw some space suits and such at various science fairs. What a time. We haven't had that sort of exciting exploration since leaving the moon on XVII.
I joined the Air Force in Aug, 1983. Three months later I was stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke gave a speech at the Base Theater one night, my boss told me to go and it was literally a few Airmen, NCO's, and Officers plus the Base and Wing Commander and their families. Maybe 20 people tops.
Thank you so much for sharing this fantastic footage. I am proud to say that my day was the night supevisor for the Capule built in Long Beach, Califonia for the Apollo 11 that went to the moon. Years later I got to meet James Irwin who drove the car up there! I had to ask him if he saw any UFO's and he averted his eyes and said "No, but I wish I did!" Well, I took it as he did because he was looking at me then looked away! Anyway, my dad passed, he worked on many of the ships since the Mercury. Also, my brothers and sisters and him worked on the Space shuttles too. I am very proud of my family! I am the only one who is an artist!
Great documentary! As a NASA buff, particularly Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, I can’t get enough of these films. The “New Nine” have always been my favorite group, in my opinion the best in NASA history. Jim Lovell, Frank Borman, Ed White, and John Young are my favorite Astronauts, with Gemini 4 and Apollo 8 being my favorite flights. I’m also a mid century modern enthusiast and love the fashion of that Mad Men era. Skinny suit lapels and ties, class rings, aviator glasses, cuff links, and enough cigarettes to kill a small horse! Haha!! Also the giant celebratory splashdown cakes aboard the aircraft carriers. These Astronauts were simply amazing!!
I'm from Russia. Your thoughts about those great years in the history of the United States and in the history of mankind of the first decade of space exploration are very close to me. I feel the same way about my country of the 60s. In my collection there are many articles from Soviet newspapers about flights under the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. I want to say that despite the "cold war" between the USSR and the USA and the space race, all, absolutely all articles are written respectfully to all NASA programs and astronauts. In the mid-90s, I wrote letters to John Glenn, John Young and Neil Armstrong about my interest in the history of the development of the US and USSR space programs. And I was happy that they all personally answered me. Since then, I have carefully kept their letters and autographed photos at home. I know their biographies well. They were pioneers of space, and the first is always more difficult. Eternal memory to them. If you want to see how the Soviet press covered the Apollo 11 flight, as well as Neil Armstrong's autograph, go to my channel. All the best and good luck! Sergey is 63 years old, Saint Petersburg.
I love James Burke. He was a staple of childhood TV, when we were watching the CBS coverage of the Apollo missions. My favorite was his demo of the Apollo moon suit. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0nYPm05cBvQ.html
In 1993 I was a callow 18 yr old who applied to medicine. Tough selection, grades, interviews etc. But I got in. But I only applied to study medicine because I couldn’t be an astronaut
Wow this is really a fabulous documentary- technically advanced yet also accessible and clear enough that kids can learn something too. Gonna watch this again with my 9 year-old that loves science...... thank you for posting!!!
EXCELLENT documentary! I've watched MANY Apollo (and Mercury/Gemini) documentaries, but NONE of those came close to the coverage, tech explanations (Navigation to/from the moon and LEM/CMD Module ), experiences, andecdotes, issues, and humor (yes, humor) shown here! (Man! Lovell was a riot when describing the "waste" bag).. Bravo!
Met Charlie once way back on the 90s...only moonwalker I have shook hands with...amazingly in awe moment...wish i could meet him again, i am 30 years older, wiser and more informed! Thanks for your comment regards LM5
lunarmodule5, Cheers buddy! I very much enjoyed this post of original footage, interviews, etc.! Thanks! That Charlie making the sound effects, "whoamb", was hi-larious! hah! Would've been ultra neat to have met that feller!! His and my mother share the same obscure maiden name. "Funderburk", (Lotta history there). It's frustrating at times to hear the naysaying people. Their impetus for this denial isn't really related to the space programs at all though. lol Hey! Our Charlie was Cap-Com on the Apollo 11 landing also, among a thousand other things related to Apollo etc.! Thanks again for posting this cool stuff!!
I remember watching this on the BBC when I was 13 and wanting to go in to space ,then realising height restrictions would end any potential astronaut career, that and being as thick as a whale sandwich lol
Best Video so far I have seen on the entire program, it's hard to find anything these days that doesn't have something in it about faking it, Moon is a hologram, etc. Keep up the great work.
What a fantastic documentary! Interesting, takes the necessary time and, most importantly, no artificial drama. Somehow they seem not anymore able to do as good.
This is an excellent effort but it has an error regarding the first landing that was only found out in modern days. Don Eyles, who programmed the LM computer, did a thorough analysis of the entire system from an electrical as well as software perspective to determine the cause of the 1202 and 1201 alarms. It turned out the spurious data that was stealing cycles from the computer came about because of a phase error in the 800Hz 28v AC power for the computer/rendezvous radar interface vs. a separate 800Hz 28v AC circuit for the sensors that determined how the radar was pointed. These were out of phase, which generated spurious data. The computer interpreted this data as the radar being wildly pointed in random directions, and it got overwhelmed by all the tasks of processing this randomly changing data. Fortunately the design of the computer was so excellent that it managed to cancel these jobs and continue with its main task, to land on the Moon, which depended on a separate, independent landing radar. It was just bad luck that the phase difference was enough to generate bad data - turning the radar off and back on likely would have eliminated the problem because the new phase difference would be lower than the required threshold.
On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space in this Mercury capsule. He named it "Freedom 7," the number signifying the seven original Mercury astronauts; NASA called the mission Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3).
They do talk about the Apollo missions in school (well, at least they did when I was a kid in the 80's and 90's)...but they just kind of quickly gloss over it and don't go into that much detail.
Much too politically incorrect to be taught in schools today. It makes white males (the astronauts themselves and ground control) look too intelligent, too resourceful, too brave. Compare it to how they are portrayed (when they appear at all) in TV commercials now. Some of the commercials seeking college students might as well say "white males are not encouraged to apply" .
The 12 men: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Pete Conrad, Al Bean, Al Shepard, Ed Mitchell, Dave Scott, Jim Irwin, John Young, Charlie Duke, Gene Cernan, and Jack Schmitt. My personal 3 favorites are Al Bean (had the most fun), Jack Schmitt (actual scientist), and Pete Conrad (most colorful).
Mine are, Michael Collins absolute the fav (if I'll met him I cry guaranteed), Charlie Duke, Alan Bean, Gene Cernan for some unknown reasons. Of course John GOAT Young is above the parts.
During my Computer Architecture class to a ComSci degree, our instructor taught the undergrad class at a grad level. Everything taught had an applied example. He showed how the Apollo LM and EM worked on a series of LOGIC GATES alone. That would be the little black integrated circuits you find on a computer motherboard. The narrator is speaking of AND gates where many conditions must exist; mother AND father approval for a date, or any advancing rates must be above a particular # or an automatic recovery action will happen when a certain travel point is reached.
I think it was simply so far ahead of its time the world had moved on to other problems or priorities. It took the world until now 60 years after Apollo to catch-up and to go back. What I expect will happen when we do go back. The current NASA and space agencies, SpaceX etc. They going find it a lot harder than they expected to do and to be deeply impressed (ie awe) with how this was done with 1960s technology, the bravery and smarts of the engineers and astronauts to achieve the moon landing. They didn’t have smart rockets, AI or computers to navigate. But even with all of our technology advances we are going to struggle repeating their steps. There really was a level of human excellence achieved with Apollo. But so glad we going back.
8:38 This is video of the 1979 group photo they took of almost all the Apollo astronauts ten years after the moon landing. The photo can be found online, on the wikipedia page and elsewhere. I don't think they ever got near this many former Apollo astronauts together ever again.
Only the BBC will give a detailed description of the appollo program. Too many documentaries are astronaut focused. I look at it like car racing. I have little interested in racing. I do have an interest in the machines themselves minus the driver
According to Michael Collins' book 'Carrying the fire' It was a translational control allowing the pilot to move the spacecraft up/down/left/right/forwards/backwards. It also doubled as an abort trigger during launch.
I Looooooooove these documentaries. footage is awesome. God these guys are so intelligent............ But Im a bit confused. In the post mission press confrence Neil, buzz, Michael said they never saw stars when they were on the moon. Even when Michael was in the CM. But in the documentary Apollo 12 when they landed they had to calculate their position on the moon using star position. Any one help ? Cheers.
You need to pay closer attention to the question they were asked in the press conference you're asking about. "When you looked up at the sky, did you see stars in the solar corona in spite of the glare?" Well, right out of the gate, the question doesn't make much sense. And, it'll make even less sense if you know what the solar corona is. That's why the astronauts kind of looked at each other in confusion before Armstrong attempted to answer the question. "When you looked up at the sky" sounds like Moore was asking about what they saw from the lunar surface. You wouldn't say you were looking "up at" the sky from the command module. Yet, the question asked about the solar corona and its glare. Well, that doesn't make sense for the lunar surface, because they couldn't see the solar corona (nor its glare) from the lunar surface. The solar corona was only visible for about a minute, and the glare was visible for about 2 minutes. Basically, it's the "sunrise" or "sunset" as seen from the command module as it orbits the moon. The best view was from the highest point above the moon. This happened on the initial approach as they were still very far above the moon, before dropping into low orbit. The sun dropped out of sight behind the moon (like a sunset), so, it went from daytime to nighttime. Just as the main body of the sun is obscured by the moon, they could see the corona and its glare. The best representative of this can be found in "Solar corona photographed from Apollo 15 one minute prior to sunrise." The white specks are stars. The glare is from the solar corona. This is not visible from the lunar surface. You have to be viewing it from "behind" the moon during a sunrise or sunset. This is why astronomers love solar eclipses, so they can view the solar corona. Armstrong tried to tackle the question by splitting it into two parts. He answered about the "looking up at the sky" part (assuming this means the lunar surface) by explaining that he couldn't see stars from the lunar surface without using the optics. The optics he was talking about were the exact same ones used to calculate their star position for the computer. Remember, it was daytime for all of the missions. No mission was on the moon at night. He then answered about the other half (from orbit, looking at the solar corona) by stating that he didn't remember if he saw stars or not, while photographing the solar corona. The mission plan was that, for that minute or two as the craft entered its first "sunset" (behind the moon), it would have the best view of the solar corona, and they were to take a whole bunch of solar corona photos. So, he simply wasn't paying attention to whether stars were visible or not, during that short timeframe. However, if you go listen to the mission audio, you will hear that they talked about seeing stars about 30 seconds after taking those solar corona photos. (Now, it was nighttime.) So, did they see stars as the sun was setting? Or, did they only see stars 30 seconds later? Who knows? The astronauts said they couldn't remember. And, if you think about it, this makes sense here on Earth also. Do you remember the exact moment that stars become visible after the sun goes down? Or, do you just watch the sunset, and later, you know you can see stars? Do you actually get a timer out and try to determine the exact moment that stars start to become visible? No. And, neither did the astronauts. Collins then chimed in that he didn't remember seeing any (which was a direct response to Armstrong's comment about not remembering if he saw any while photographing the solar corona). Collins and Armstrong weren't saying that they never saw stars at any point of the mission. They were trying to respond directly to Moore's question about seeing stars IN THE SOLAR CORONA and its glare. They were responding about a time period of about a minute or two, not about the entire mission. All astronauts saw stars just fine when it was dark (in the shadow of the moon from orbit). Also remember that a lunar day is 708 hours. The landed in the early lunar morning, and lifted off in the same lunar morning. So, they were never on the surface for a nighttime. About the photo from Apollo 15 viewing the solar corona: that's the best representation I know of. Most of the other photos turned out pretty lousy. The ones taken on Apollo 11 cannot even be made out, because they're so blurry. And, you shouldn't assume that, because the Apollo 15 photo captured stars, this means human eyes can see those stars. Maybe. Maybe not. Those were very long exposures, and might have captured things that eyes cannot see.
You need to pay closer attention to the question they were asked in the press conference you're asking about. "When you looked up at the sky, did you see stars in the solar corona in spite of the glare?" Well, right out of the gate, the question doesn't make much sense. And, it'll make even less sense if you know what the solar corona is. That's why the astronauts kind of looked at each other in confusion before Armstrong attempted to answer the question. "When you looked up at the sky" sounds like Moore was asking about what they saw from the lunar surface. You wouldn't say you were looking "up at" the sky from the command module. Yet, the question asked about the solar corona and its glare. Well, that doesn't make sense for the lunar surface, because they couldn't see the solar corona (nor its glare) from the lunar surface. The solar corona was only visible for about a minute, and the glare was visible for about 2 minutes. Basically, it's the "sunrise" or "sunset" as seen from the command module as it orbits the moon. The best view was from the highest point above the moon. This happened on the initial approach as they were still very far above the moon, before dropping into low orbit. The sun dropped out of sight behind the moon (like a sunset), so, it went from daytime to nighttime. Just as the main body of the sun is obscured by the moon, they could see the corona and its glare. The best representative of this can be found in "Solar corona photographed from Apollo 15 one minute prior to sunrise." The white specks are stars. The glare is from the solar corona. This is not visible from the lunar surface. You have to be viewing it from "behind" the moon during a sunrise or sunset. This is why astronomers love solar eclipses, so they can view the solar corona.
You need to pay closer attention to the question they were asked in the press conference you're asking about. "When you looked up at the sky, did you see stars in the solar corona in spite of the glare?" Well, right out of the gate, the question doesn't make much sense. And, it'll make even less sense if you know what the solar corona is. That's why the astronauts kind of looked at each other in confusion before Armstrong attempted to answer the question. "When you looked up at the sky" sounds like Moore was asking about what they saw from the lunar surface. You wouldn't say you were looking "up at" the sky from the command module. Yet, the question asked about the solar corona and its glare. Well, that doesn't make sense for the lunar surface, because they couldn't see the solar corona (nor its glare) from the lunar surface. The solar corona was only visible for about a minute, and the glare was visible for about 2 minutes.
You need to pay closer attention to the question they were asked in the press conference you're asking about. "When you looked up at the sky, did you see stars in the solar corona in spite of the glare?"
A friend of my father's applied to become one of the original NASA astronauts. He didn't make the cut, and about 10 years later, he died in a crash of the private propeller plane he was piloting as a commercial hauler. I suppose had he become an astronaut, that crash would not have happened. That may sound ironic, but then there are not 400,000 people backing up each private flight with the finest technology, and layers of backup systems. Though no person has ever died in orbit, or completely beyond Earth's atmosphere, during the '60s there were five astronauts killed in jet plane flights, and three killed in the horrible Apollo 1 fire on the launch pad. Same principle, it seems. When you are still on Earth, the world's eyes are not on you.
The Ascent Stage of the Lunar Module was a separate spacecraft with its own rocket engine and propellant supply and used the Descent Stage as its launch pad. Take care.
That "guy" is the first American in space and veteran moonwalker of Apollo 14. If NASA hadn't demurred on the first manned Mercury flight, he would have become the first man in space ahead of Gagarin. To answer your question, upon retirement from NASA in 1974, having become a millionaire through investments in construction and real estate, he was also briefly the president of a distribution outlet for Coors in Houston.
Mjproeb what about Jim mc divett he's there lovell went to the moon twice one of only 3 to do it the other 2 were young and cernan and he and his crew nursed a crippled ship back he as every right to be there a great astronaut
"It's just too perfect and beautiful to happen by accident." Cernan believed in god which shows that Astronauts are not immune to magical thinking. It helps with beliefs of destiny and such.
Shepherd got 14 because he was a very close mate of Slayton. They both disliked Cooper who should have been the commander. Even during the selection of the Mercury 7, both Shepherd and Slayton let their feelings be known towards Cooper. Shepherd was also a well known celebrity mixing with the stars and playing golf with them. Shepherd ought to have been one of the Lm pilots as he was not very experienced. Of course, Shepherd would accept nothing less than commander. Jim Mcdivitt resigned from NASA after Shepherds selection. Mcdivitt felt that Shepherd had jumped the queue.
Watch: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-skswo8bdjWQ.html "The Men in this Room" a scene from the HBO mini-series "From the Earth to the Moon." What a meeting to have attended!
If with "anything strange" you mean one of thousands pieces of spacecraft's debries that follow the mother ship through the entire trip to the Moon till back to the Earth, yeah, we all saw that. It's not just you. but but but but that strange thing is clearly further and it's clearly escaping the ship so so so so!! Could be ANYTHING! Maybe closer, maybe not. Maybe just a piece of junk shot away by an RCS thruster. anything.
