To join in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, you can follow the Apollo 11 mission in real time at https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/…click on the link and then the blue NOW button to jump back in time exactly 50 years to the second. The site shows mission status and actual mission communications (audio & transcripts) and images as they happened half a century ago. As I type, the crew–Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins–are in the Command Module, docked to the Lunar Module, nearing the Moon, and are about to enter lunar orbit, where they’ll prepare for the landing attempt tomorrow, July 20th, 1969. At this point, successful landing and return to lunar orbit by Neil and Buzz in the Lunar Module are still uncertain, and a mission abort or worse–catastrophic failure and loss of crew–is a very real possibility. Tension mounts as the lunar surface draws near…
While monitoring Apollo 11 in real time, look for 50th anniversary events in your town this weekend. Here in Houston, there will be public events in Discovery Green downtown and at Space Center Houston in the Clear Lake area on Saturday. NASA listed some nationwide events in an Apollo 11 50th Anniversary press release. Cool stuff for us space geeks!
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Couldn’t get it downloaded (due to my slow internet), but I remember it well. I got you up in the middle of the night to watch it, so, even though you were too young to remember it, you saw it too! You can imagine the absolute awe and amazement we felt as we watched it!
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Yep, since the site includes video and audio streams, you need broadband, at least 10 or 20 times faster than your 1Mbps…which you’ll have when you move out of the wilderness back into civilization in Sep! Thanks for waking me up—it may be burned in somewhere in my 3-year-old memories. I’m re-watching (for the 3rd time) the recent Apollo 11 movie this morning, the only movie I actually purchased (vs rented) this year, a must-see if you haven’t caught it yet! So well done. The boys are on the way back to Earth after a successful landing in the Eagle LM, return to lunar orbit and docking with the Columbia CM, and are nearing atmospheric reentry and splashdown…
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