The Apollo moon missions were a tremendous achievement, with a high cost. It is sad that some would belittle that achievement and the sacrifices, by saying that it was all Hollywood. Today, Hollywood has the ability to make such films believable, but in the sixties, I don't think so, not a chance.

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The Apollo moon missions were a tremendous achievement, with a high cost. It is sad that some would belittle that achievement and the sacrifices, by saying that it was all Hollywood. Today, Hollywood has the ability to make such films believable, but in the sixties, I don't think so, not a chance.

Yeah I think they do It out of either ignorance or just cause they think It had to have been made up, Hollywood couldn't do even half of what can be done today, Yet some still persist, Besides this couldn't be kept secret, People will talk and gossip will flow when theirs something juicy to talk and gab about, As It's happened before, But when nothing is there, You have the crazy people making stuff up to get attention to make themselves look and feel better. sigh.

As to a High Cost, The 3 lives lost on the pad were cause of a few things, 1. secrecy on the part of the Soviets, 2. a high pure oxygen environment inside the capsule(which was part of the Soviets secrets), 3. the Apollo 1 hatch(how It opened) and 4. a spark. Oh and the secrecy? The Soviets did It as they were a police state, The USA has never been one, In any case the Soviets kept secret the fact that a pure oxygen atmosphere only needs a spark from any source and then poof You have dead Cosmonauts/Astronauts, So NASA stumbled upon what the Soviets already knew, Thankfully that's in the past(I hope).

Some in the Republican Party would also claim the program was too high a cost, Why? When You get down to brass tacks as It were, Apollo was a Democratic program, When It ceased to be useful to the Republicans, they killed It, If they could have killed NASA I believe they would have done that too, Along with a few other areas of Government they don't like spending money on(eg Remember: Cheaper, Better, Faster? It was Cheaper and Faster, But not Better to do the Shuttle Program). As It's not so called Big Government Republicans in power don't like, It's how and where the tax money is spent at, As the last one reduced funding and enforcement to various agencies and increased Military spending without any competitive bidding(someone somewhere made a bundle of money), NASA encourages New Technologies, Our present electronics wouldn't be possible without NASAs efforts at weight reduction in the area of electronics, It just took time to show up and snowball, Oh and I do like the Military, It's just that they don't make higher technology usually as their usually fighting the last war at the top.

And It turns out Delta Force could have caught Osama bin Laden, But were told let our afghan allies do the job, the allies left when It got dark and so ground was lost and had to be fought for all over again in the morning, Efforts to seal the border with anti personnel mines dropped by plane or installed by Delta force by hand could have been done to keep Osama in Afghanistan(the 82nd or the 101st or a Division of Mountain Troops could have been deployed as blocking force in an air drop too, But this too was never done), As orders came down not to do this and to let the paid(by the CIA) allies do the job instead(they never did, some allies). Sounds like someone didn't want to do a proper job, But just wanted to look good and do It on the cheap.

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Here's an interesting site: http://www.wechoosethemoon.org/

This was mentioned on KCAL TV Channel 9 out of Los Angeles, 63 hours till launch(plus or minus a few minutes and seconds of course).

Oh and the Widget works under XP x64, I don't know about Win7 x64, But I'll get that around Halloween I expect(As I snagged a copy for $49.99 at Amazon back on the 11th).

Launch of Apollo 11(on the website) is in 63 hours, 32 minutes and 10 seconds as I post this.

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It looks like the original videotapes of the Apollo 11 mission have been found in Australia, where they were recorded by the Parkes Radio Telescope and NASA is going to release them on the anniversary.
Tullio

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It looks like the original videotapes of the Apollo 11 mission have been found in Australia, where they were recorded by the Parkes Radio Telescope and NASA is going to release them on the anniversary.
Tullio

That is excellent news!!

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It looks like the original videotapes of the Apollo 11 mission have been found in Australia, where they were recorded by the Parkes Radio Telescope and NASA is going to release them on the anniversary.
Tullio

That is excellent news!!

Yeah It is excellent News, I'd reported It here as It was a BBC story and a few "there was no moon landings" type boobs decided to belittle It. The NASA channel had some clips of the Moon landings last night which I caught by chance as NASA often labels their programming on Dish Network as Educational or something like that and nothing else. Right at 7pm PDT there's something called a Video File that's going to be running, No idea what that really is of course.

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Listening to the Mercury & Gemini flights on the radio as a kid & then watching the Apollo 11 flight & Moon Landing was terrific with the subsequent flights & the Apollo/Soyez linkup several years later.

Now that the Chinese are intending to go to the moon, I wonder? Will this start up another & much improved Space Race?

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NASA has launched Endeavour @ 3:03pm PDT and the shuttle is on Its way to the ISS up in orbit.

Oh and July 16th 2009 is the 40th Anniversary of 2 Men from the USA Landing on the Moon(Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin).

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Here's an interesting site: http://www.wechoosethemoon.org/

This was mentioned on KCAL TV Channel 9 out of Los Angeles, 63 hours till launch(plus or minus a few minutes and seconds of course).

Oh and the Widget works under XP x64, I don't know about Win7 x64, But I'll get that around Halloween I expect(As I snagged a copy for $49.99 at Amazon back on the 11th).

Launch of Apollo 11(on the website) is in 63 hours, 32 minutes and 10 seconds as I post this.

I'm presently watching the mission. This is very cool. Thanks for the link SJ. :-)

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Here's an interesting site: http://www.wechoosethemoon.org/

This was mentioned on KCAL TV Channel 9 out of Los Angeles, 63 hours till launch(plus or minus a few minutes and seconds of course).

Oh and the Widget works under XP x64, I don't know about Win7 x64, But I'll get that around Halloween I expect(As I snagged a copy for $49.99 at Amazon back on the 11th).

Launch of Apollo 11(on the website) is in 63 hours, 32 minutes and 10 seconds as I post this.

I'm presently watching the mission. This is very cool. Thanks for the link SJ. :-)

You're welcome TL, I'm sure the Tardis will be curious too. ;)

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Oh and July 16th 2009 is the 40th Anniversary of 2 Men from the USA Landing on the Moon(Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin).

Not quite. July 16th is the anniversary of the launch. The landing was July 20. The EVA on the moon was early on July 21 (UTC). :)

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Oh and July 16th 2009 is the 40th Anniversary of 2 Men from the USA Landing on the Moon(Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin).

Not quite. July 16th is the anniversary of the launch. The landing was July 20. The EVA on the moon was early on July 21 (UTC). :)

Well It's been 40 years, The heat must be getting to Me somewhat. And I'm not sure that UTC was around back then. But no matter. I say on with the show.

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It was called Greenwich Mean Time back then.
GMT

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It was called Greenwich Mean Time back then.
GMT

Yeah now that I recognize. :o

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NASA releases clearest videos yet of 1969 moonwalk


NASA hired a digital restoration firm to improve video
showing astronauts taking first steps on the moon.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/07/16/nasa.videos/index.html

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Here's an interesting site: http://www.wechoosethemoon.org/

This was mentioned on KCAL TV Channel 9 out of Los Angeles, 63 hours till launch(plus or minus a few minutes and seconds of course).

Oh and the Widget works under XP x64, I don't know about Win7 x64, But I'll get that around Halloween I expect(As I snagged a copy for $49.99 at Amazon back on the 11th).

Launch of Apollo 11(on the website) is in 63 hours, 32 minutes and 10 seconds as I post this.

I'm presently watching the mission. This is very cool. Thanks for the link SJ. :-)

I saw your post (with the link) and went to the site and I'm also following the mission. Back then, I was only 14, but I used to follow all of the missions (Mercury, Gemini & Apollo) from launch to splashdown, but because they (the TV networks) didn't carry all of the mission sudio, I had always wondered what they were saying between the times when the networks were showing the coverage; thank you, also for that link!

And the Widget also works on Vista (Home Basic).

Curiosity question: in the "static" between transmissions, I can hear what sounds like "cross-talk" (occasionally what sounds like other people's faint partial conversations, sometimes some faint beeps, etc.). Is that what it is, or.....?

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Hollywood Company Restores Moon Landing Footage

NASA has released newly-restored footage of the first moonwalk after acknowledging that the original recordings were likely erased. The original footage of the moon landing was beamed to Earth and stored on giant reels of tapes. In the 1970s and 80s, NASA erased and reused about 200,000 tapes to save money, and it appears the moon landing videos were among them. Recently, NASA engaged the services of a Hollywood film restoration company that is now in the process of sharpening existing television video copies of the moon landing. Some of that enhanced footage was released on Thursday, just four days before the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

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Here's an interesting site: http://www.wechoosethemoon.org/

This was mentioned on KCAL TV Channel 9 out of Los Angeles, 63 hours till launch(plus or minus a few minutes and seconds of course).

Oh and the Widget works under XP x64, I don't know about Win7 x64, But I'll get that around Halloween I expect(As I snagged a copy for $49.99 at Amazon back on the 11th).

Launch of Apollo 11(on the website) is in 63 hours, 32 minutes and 10 seconds as I post this.

I'm presently watching the mission. This is very cool. Thanks for the link SJ. :-)

I saw your post (with the link) and went to the site and I'm also following the mission. Back then, I was only 14, but I used to follow all of the missions (Mercury, Gemini & Apollo) from launch to splashdown, but because they (the TV networks) didn't carry all of the mission audio, I had always wondered what they were saying between the times when the networks were showing the coverage; thank you, also for that link!

And the Widget also works on Vista (Home Basic).

Curiosity question: in the "static" between transmissions, I can hear what sounds like "cross-talk" (occasionally what sounds like other people's faint partial conversations, sometimes some faint beeps, etc.). Is that what it is, or.....?

It might be static or maybe background talk between people at mission control back then, But without some way to enhance the audio in the background, It might as well be dead air or something. I was too Young to remember Mercury and Apollo, I think Mom had the TV on or I turned It on as Mom had went to work for ChemAero here in CA back then as ChemAero was She told Me a subcontractor to the Apollo Program, When the program ended, So did ChemAero as they laid off everybody they employed and went out of business. Dad didn't like or approve of Mom going to work back then, Even though He was in the Hospital with a mini-stroke, But He got over It. I don't know Dads opinion on the program, But then I never asked Him and It's way too late now to ask anybody I'd think, So that's that.

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The Eagle has been spotted!


The lunar module Eagle, which was used to carry
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz
Aldrin down to the lunar surface on 20 July 1969 is
the small bright dot near the center of this image;
its shadow can be seen stretching to its right.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17486-spy-probe-images-apollo-landing-sites.html

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