Apollo 11: The Complete Descent - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Homer J Simpson
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 29, 2019, 10:38:59 pm
content: Pretty well done real time decent of Apollo 11 with overlays of spacecraft data, AGC active programs and activity, plus flight controller loop audio.

author: newbrain
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2019, 10:51:26 am
content: Another very good documentary, from Italian blogger and debunker Paolo Attivissimo:MoonscapeIt covers both the descent and moon walk (no Michael Jackson).

author: StillTrying
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2019, 12:52:31 pm
content: When you're speaking to someone about something important a 2.5 sec delay before they answer is a long time, luckily they didn't have that problem.

author: GeorgeOfTheJungle
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2019, 01:11:33 pm
content: No woman has ever gone to the moon... Just sayin'Sounds like a good theme of conversation for Christmas dinners!

author: StillTrying
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2019, 01:16:56 pm
content: How many people have been on the moon's surface.I quite like one of the dramatised versions of the 1st landing done for the recent anniversary, can't remember it's name without looking though the Freeview recorder's 'Moon' folder.

author: GeorgeOfTheJungle
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2019, 01:37:59 pm
content: Quote from: StillTrying on December 30, 2019, 12:52:31 pmStanley's sound engineers were that good..."One Giant Leap ForMankind"

author: rdl
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2019, 02:00:53 pm
content: That one is pretty good. There's also the one with Neil Armstrong narrating as the landing film is shown alongside video from Google Moon.I don't know if this is the best version. I seem to remember a better one.

author: Dr. Katzenfritz
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: December 30, 2019, 05:55:04 pm
content: Everyone should listen to the BBCs amazing broadcast "13 Minutes to the Moon", where they take the descent to the moon as the centerpoint of a wide exploration into the Apollo program:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2This website has a great animation of the the flight controller and capcom loops with some sort of chat like transcript:https://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/

author: German_EE
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2019, 05:57:42 pm
content: What I immediately noticed was how calm and controlled the team at Mission Control were. Messages were flying around yet the system worked as everyone concentrated on their particular aspect of the mission and things only went up the 'pyramid' to the Flight Controller if he really needed to know something. The other essential part of all this was that only one person communicated with Eagle and this wasn't the Flight Controller, it was CapCom. This meant that Armstrong and Aldrin could concentrate on the matter in hand, landing the LEM.The system was well designed and it worked well thanks to a good team and the right man at the helm.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2019, 06:04:06 pm
content: Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on December 30, 2019, 01:11:33 pm<sarcasm>Damn, this whole moon landing is just another white male oppressive thing anyway. Should probably even be erased from history so that future generations are not tempted to see this as an example of anything.

author: Dr. Katzenfritz
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: December 30, 2019, 08:52:20 pm
content: Quote from: German_EE on December 30, 2019, 05:57:42 pmAfter reading a lot about the Apollo program and in this respect especially Flight Director Gene Kranz' book, I think that all the discipline and structured work - and I hate to admit that as a pacifist - came from the key persons being Veterans of the Korean war or even WWII. They passed on their work ethics to all the newbies fresh from university, mind you, the average(!) age in mission control 1969 was 26 years!A very military and disciplined approach to the organizational processes, and it seemed to have worked rather well.

author: StillTrying
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2019, 09:49:17 pm
content: The dramatised version of Apollo 11 which I thought was good and accurate for a dramatised version was8 Days: To The Moon And Backcan't find a full free online versionwww.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0006p5f/8-days-to-the-moon-and-back

author: GeorgeOfTheJungle
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 01, 2020, 05:37:57 pm
content: An interview with Buzz Aldrin