Don Hudson Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deicer Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 I watched it as a little boy, and I still get shivers down my spine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Hudson Posted July 20, 2016 Author Share Posted July 20, 2016 Yeah, it's part of us, isn't it? - the very last first time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 I watched it live or as live as it got. Had a sigh of relief when the descent was safe, the foot was on the ground and then of course when the liftoff and rendezvous was made to return to earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.O. Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 I remember like it was yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deicer Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 Just came across this, so click the link and imagine yourself in there..... http://3d.si.edu/apollo11cm/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon The Loon Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 8 hours ago, Malcolm said: I watched it live or as live as it got. Had a sigh of relief when the descent was safe, the foot was on the ground and then of course when the liftoff and rendezvous was made to return to earth. They actually never photographed the ascent of the first moon lander module. Someone forgot to calculate the time shift for the camera to tilt vertically with the ascending module. I think they got it right in subsequent departures de la loon, er, uh...lune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canoehead Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Unbelievable that they made all this happen with less computing power than my iPhone has. Or at least I tell my kids that Brilliant minds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deicer Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Wow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 Back in the '90s I visited the National Air and Space Museum on the Mall. A pair of exhibits which impressed me the most were also the most basic. They had the slide rules which Wernher von Braun and his Soviet counterpart had used. The basic calculations for putting the men on the moon and bringing them back was done on the slide rules, the details were then worked out on computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEFCON Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 No computers were required; men used the brains they were given to achieve the seemingly impossible (Apollo 13).. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Posted July 31, 2016 Share Posted July 31, 2016 Last year, my daughter's boy friend, an engineer, saw my whiz wheel. He was really interested in it, found the manual online and quickly learned to use it. So, I pulled out my old slide rules from school days and he was quick to pick up on how they worked as well. Glad to see that not all 'young people' are unable to adapt their knowledge to make use of the tools which we thought were state of the art half a century ago. I still wish I had learned how to use an abacus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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