Apollo 11

voltz

Just watch this one! a very good show that found some extra footage from 50 years ago when man man not only made it to the moon on July 20th 1969 but capture the world!

I couldn't help but re-watch "Apollo 13th" again on Blue ray after seeing this one!

pitdogg2

I love that movie. I've never seen any of the BR or 4k discs. I bet they kick arse

BlueFox

I watched that in boot camp in 69. The only night they let us stay up late.

nooshinjohn

BlueFox wrote: »

I watched that in boot camp in 69. The only night they let us stay up late.

I got to watch the shuttle Challenger explode when I was in boot camp... and got to try and explain to my Senior DI how I knew it was going to happen. I even knew the cause of failure before the launch.:

dromunds

Apollo 11 is excellent!

nooshinjohn

Where are you guys seeing this? There are no theaters showing it that I have found.

dromunds

It was in the theaters. Probably the run is over. It was exceptional in my opinion, having watched man land on the moon as a kid it was a feeling that cannot be described and the movie had footage from inside the space center and other places that really brought back that feeling. Some politician recently said America was never great, and I don't want any political crap started here but I remember he had just said that when I saw Appollo 11 and I was thinking what the hell is wrong with you? We sent astronauts to the moon, landed and walked on it, and then sent them home safely. In 1969. They show just a bit of the mathematics that was required and its mindboggling. There were multiple teams involved that each took over at certain intervals, and the fact that everything went without a screw-up is just beyond belief. They showed how the capsule circled the moon with one astronaut remaining while the other two landed, the walk on the moon, the experiments conducted while they were there, etc. Then the capsule had to take off and precisely reconnect with the orbiter and circle the moon a certain number of revolutions to get out of the moon's gravity and return to earth to again circle its orbit a predetermined number of times (it rotated the earth a number of time initially to break away from its gravity.) Its just unbelievable when you're watching it. JFK is shown giving a speech in 1961 IIRC where he pretty much predicts even how tall the rocketship will be and everything - I think he says it'll be 300 stories tall and I'm pretty sure Appollo 11 was about 300 stories tall. Watching that thing take off gives just a little indication of the raw power that was harnessed, the take-off is really a sight to behold.

nooshinjohn

It may have seemed three hundred stories tall looking up at it, but only 363 feet from the nose cone to the exhaust bells of the F1’s that provided the thrust.

FestYboy

Still boggles my mind that even with today's technology, they CAN'T reproduce the F1... Each one was custom hand built, no 2 exactly the same.

Tony M

This is a cool site. Model building, which I was a prolific model builder 50 years ago. I never was much of a model detailer like the pros, who could paint realistic details onto parts. Sometimes I even had a hard time putting on decals... !

But this article on the F1 engine is pretty cool. The display shelving case that it ends up being put in has some other models I would love to have if not all of them in fact! I did build an Apollo Saturn Rocket ship model while in the hospital having an ear canal drained for a few days when I was 10 or so. I remember it being 1 1/2 ft. tall and had 3 stages that could be taken apart too. I remember it have the landing module in the nose cone now too. It had to be Apollo 11 if it had the landing module...right?

Can you imagine!!!! A hospital letting a 10 year old kid build a model with a tube of modeling glue today? Yes, I believe I was allowed to use glue to build it over those few days of recovery. They probably even allowed smoking in the rooms back then too.

Here is the website with the article on the F1 rocket engine model build.
:http://www.lakecountyspaceport.com/1-20-f1-engine.html

dromunds

nooshinjohn wrote: »

It may have seemed three hundred stories tall looking up at it, but only 363 feet from the nose cone to the exhaust bells of the F1’s that provided the thrust.

Yeah, 300 feet. That’s what happens when I go from memory. Lol

BlueFox

Not sure if it is the same film, but CNN is showing Apollo 11 Sunday night. It's billed as a CNN Film.

nooshinjohn

BlueFox wrote: »

Not sure if it is the same film, but CNN is showing Apollo 11 Sunday night. It's billed as a CNN Film.

My DirectTV guide shows nothing. It is available for PPV however.

BlueFox

The ads have been pretty quick. I guess I'll find out Sunday, if I remember.

dromunds

I think I saw a blu-ray pretty reasonable of the Apollo 11 that I saw in the theatre. Maybe check Amazon

afterburnt

@dromunds Big screw up: Apollo 1

@nooshinjohn you should try to go to the Nixon Library. I am going to figure out how to get there before it closes. https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/events/70090

dromunds

Huh? I just checked Amazon and it looks like Best Buy is offering it for $17 (can't remember if that's DVD or Bluray) and it appears to be the one that was in theaters recently. Shows it as 2019 film. It does appear to be a CNN film, so maybe its the same one CNN is showing Sunday night as BlueFox says

vmaxer

Watching it now.

BlueFox

On CNN Sunday 6/23 at 9.

nooshinjohn

Bought the Blu-ray at Best Buy. Remarkable film, and that all this footage being brought together like this was a joy to watch. For just a little while, I was that 4 year old boy once again, pretending my grandfather's adjustable foot stool was the hatch of my very own spaceship.

Glad I got to meet Mr. Armstrong back in 2009 when they dedicated the Engineering School at Purdue... It was a humbling moment I can never forget.

BlueFox

I was going to watch it on TV, but I just ordered the BlueRay. The BR audio will be a lot better, and the picture too.

mark090852

nooshinjohn wrote: »

Bought the Blu-ray at Best Buy. Remarkable film, and that all this footage being brought together like this was a joy to watch. For just a little while, I was that 4 year old boy once again, pretending my grandfather's adjustable foot stool was the hatch of my very own spaceship.

Glad I got to meet Mr. Armstrong back in 2009 when they dedicated the Engineering School at Purdue... It was a humbling moment I can never forget.

This reminds me of a story that you might find a little bit interesting. A couple of days before that dedication of the Engineering school at Purdue, I got a call from my Aunt Janet. She said that I would never guess who just called my Uncle Bob (Bob DeMoss). It was Neil Armstrong. Back in 1945 my Uncle Bob was a freshman quarterback for Purdue and he led Purdue as they upset #4 ranked Ohio State at Ohio Stadium. At that time Neil Armstrong was a 15 year old Ohio high school student and a big OSU fan. He told my uncle Bob that he attended that game and when he watched Bob lead Purdue to that upset, he developed an interest in Purdue, and subsequently decided to attend Purdue and obtain a degree in aeronautical engineering. He called Bob to give him some credit and to thank him for starting him on the path that eventually led him to walking on the moon! What a humbling, generous thing to tell my Uncle Bob. Bob coached football at Purdue and was an assistant athletic director there for many years, but I think one of his proudest moments was receiving that call from Neil Armstrong.

Sadly, Bob passed away 2 years ago. I have very fond memories of attending lots of Purdue football games while growing up in the late 50s and 60s.

https://purdue.rivals.com/news/the-man-behind-purdue-s-cradle-passes

voltz

My sister bought a digital copy via AppleTV I think is how we watched it but I'm still wanting the Blu-ray.

BlueFox

Just watched the Blue Ray, and it was freaking awesome. As a nerd, I loved every minute. As an American, I loved every minute. Two thumbs up.

westmassguy

What a magnificent beast the Saturn V was compared to the Soyuz N1-L3.

nooshinjohn

westmassguy wrote: »

What a magnificent beast the Saturn V was compared to the Soyuz N1-L3.

Much of Soviet/Russian aerospace looks chunky and heavy-handed next to their American counterparts. A lot of that has to do with vastly different design goals, such as mobility, landing in ungroomed fields. The Soyuz as an example, started life as an ICBM that was expected to be moved about the countryside on rails and launched anywhere. It wasn’t until later in their program that it evolved into a purpose-built spacecraft.

The American program evolved in a similar fashion at first, but the Apollo/Saturn program was purpose-built to be a manned craft from the ground up.

pitdogg2

I found it interesting that the water spray under the F1 engines was to keep the sound wave from reflecting off the ground and bouncing up into the Saturn V rocket and destroying the rocket before it even got off the ground.

Wow who'd a thunk

dromunds

The Smithsonian Channel has a good show called Apollo’s Moon Shot.

westmassguy

nooshinjohn wrote: »

westmassguy wrote: »

What a magnificent beast the Saturn V was compared to the Soyuz N1-L3.

Much of Soviet/Russian aerospace looks chunky and heavy-handed next to their American counterparts. A lot of that has to do with vastly different design goals, such as mobility, landing in ungroomed fields. The Soyuz as an example, started life as an ICBM that was expected to be moved about the countryside on rails and launched anywhere. It wasn’t until later in their program that it evolved into a purpose-built spacecraft.

The American program evolved in a similar fashion at first, but the Apollo/Saturn program was purpose-built to be a manned craft from the ground up.

30 rocket engines vs 5 for the 1st stage. Most of those 30 engines were never tested prior to assembly, while every Rocketdyne F1 was. What were they thinking? All four launches ended in disaster.

DarqueKnight

westmassguy wrote: »

30 rocket engines vs 5 for the 1st stage. Most of those 30 engines were never tested prior to assembly, while every Rocketdyne F1 was. What were they thinking? All four launches ended in disaster.

They were thinking that they just didn't have the money for a proper research, test and evaluation program. They also didn't have the money for the design and implementation of proper safety features. That's one of the tragic realities of their economic and political systems.

There were also stark contrasts in the work environments of the two space programs. Everyone working on the Apollo program was there by individual choice.

BlueFox

Interesting history.