While the
shuttle Endeavour is having a tough time getting off of the launch pad, the Apollo 11 moon mission should proceed as scheduled later this week. Some 40 years after Neil Armstrong and a host of behind-the-scenes workers at
NASA made JFK's vision a reality, WeChooseTheMoon.org is being launched to recreate the whole spectacle. Starting a full 90 minutes prior to the 40th anniversary (that's 8:02AM on July 16th), the site will be fully operational, tracking the capsule's route from Earth to the moon. Reportedly, visitors will be able to peek "animated recreations of key events from the four-day mission, including when Apollo 11 first orbits the moon and when the lunar module separates from the command module." If you're one of those who remembers "exactly where you were on that fateful day," you should probably queue up a Google alert and bookmark your browser to relive the whole experience again.
posted July 13th 2009 9:19AM
What were they using to drive around on the Moon's surface again? A Crown Vic. with a 350 engine? :P
Wait for it... Where is the USA Fanboys! :P
Neil Armstrong shits bigger than you every morning. Now go back to your bag of cookies and the Xbox or PS3.
Based on the last 20 years of NASA, can you blame people who weren't alive at the time for not believing they landed on the moon?
"...can you blame people who weren't alive at the time for not believing they landed on the moon?"
Uh...yeah, I can. Consider the technical difficulty of space flight, or simply reaching orbit and look at what they've accomplished. What, in the last 20 years of NASA, could be construed as duplicity or incompetence? Don't site the problem with Hubble, that was Perkin Elmer's screw up and NASA accomplished amazing technical prowess in repairing it. And the loss of Challenger and Columbia, while tragic, is understandable in light of the nature of the business. Cost over runs, a lack of vision perhaps. But not believing in the moon landing because you weren't alive then is sort of like not believing Lindbergh didn't cross the Atlantic by plane because of recent air line crashes. Without exception, people who comment that the landings were a hoax, are either not being serious or have absolutely no clue about history, the space program, or science/engineering in general.
Regardless of your feelings on true or not (I'm in the TRUE camp), this web project is DAMN COOL!
I was born in 1970, so the entire Apollo project is second-hand info for me. The ability for me to "live" the event is the type of thing that the internet should provide. To be able to experience all the excitement as it "happens" is going to be a real thrill.
THANK YOU to the JFK Library folks for bringing this piece of history alive again!
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this is pretty awesome... def tuning into that... I was born in '85 so this is going to be pretty awesome to see...
PeteC, you are awesome; I love to see these moon landing hoax losers repeatedly punched back by actual facts and evidence. What's amazing is they still firmly believe we didn't go to the moon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOo6aHSY8hU
Good god there's a lot of fail in these comments. Is it possible to low-rank hoax believers out of existence?
Kudos to celebrating the most momentous day in the history of humanity. I wasn't around to see it when it happened, but it's fascinated me for years, and I'm glad we're finally getting around to going back.
To those who think it's all BS, please go tell Buzz Aldrin... he has a certain cathartic way of dealing with you people (i.e., he punches you in the face). Listening to you makes me physically ill. I could take you to the Moon myself, land next to the Eagle, and point out the footprints in the dirt, and you STILL wouldn't believe it actually happened. Every single one of your arguments has been illustrated to be completely bogus by people who know way more about science than you could ever hope to. I know it's already been posted, and that you won't believe a word of it, but please, read this: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html It's a lot easier than trying to refute your "arguments" individually myself when I have better things to waste my time on.
These comments are making me cry. I hope Buzz Aldrin pays you all a visit.
It's obvious that this is a moonshop, as I can tell from some of the moonpixels. I've seen a lot of moonshops.
But the real reason that I can tell is that in the footage of the moon landings, you can't detect any visible curvature on the lunar horizon. I mean, if we can get to outer space we can get to the moon, it's very easy only a few miles up and only a few hundred feet across but that footage was clearly filmed on a flat surface which would be THE EARTH you sheeple.
AND ALSO ONE MORE THING I LOOKED AT THE 1969 ALMANAC AND IT WAS A NEW MOON ON THE DAY THEY LANDED SO HOW WOULD THEY BE ABLE TO LAND WHEN ITS SO DARK?? THEY JUST *HAPPEND* NOT TO LAND IN A CRATER, SOOOO LUCKY!!
Remember to wrap your head in tinfoil every knight so the government won't read your mind and come get you! We need the your brilliance to be free for when we are fighting the mole men.
Wow, I said knight instead of night - that must be the government scrambling my thoughts again.
Thanks Phrank!
Nice to know that people who don't believe in the moon landings, also think the Earth is FLAT!!!!
NEW MOON WAS ON THE 14TH OF JULY 1969, THE LANDING ON THE 20TH, FIRST QUARTER WAS ON THE 22ND. NOTE THE LONG SHADOWS IN THE PIX AND MAKE NOTE OF THE LOCATION OF THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY.
LEARN HOW TO READ AN ALMANAC AND GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT, PHRANK!!
lmao! babyboomer, am I as bad as detecting sarcasm as it would appear that you are?
"Good lord, there's so much wrong with this post this dude MUST be joking. Nobody's that dumb, right?" is the response I was going for.
Duke I wasn't sure about, I thought he was joking too..But maybe you just have the drier sense of humor out of the two of ya. ;)
For the record, I've looked at the evidence on both sides and have concluded that the notion that we didn't land on the moon is laughable.
about 3 days in....
@CAPCOM: Sheeting in a zip lock bag really sux
Even if we aren't planning on landing on the moon again we'd better at least start on a rover project that'll put the flag back up after China knocks it down with their rover.
they recently found a bunch of lost footage, higher res, that they are going to release on the anniversary. Should be interesting to see the reaction.
the flag actually fell over 40 years ago when they jettisoned to Earth. From then on out, they put the flags farther away from the landers.
The question begs to be asked, however, that after undoubtedlly accomplising one of mankind's most incredible exploratory missions, why isn't there a 'Moon Day'?
Seems like a holiday should be in order.
Second Life has an incrediable kewl Apollo 11 moon sim... here is a video link - http://www.notjustreality.com/lead-story/312-apollo-11-lands-in-second-life/
For some reason kids today think we didn't have technology back in the 1960's. They think the tech of today was born whole, and in no way evolved from what happened before their silly behinds were born.
We went to the moon and did the other things, not because they were easy, but because they were hard...to paraphrase JFK.
Don't you people believe anything you were supposed to learn from your history books?
The space race was about prestige...but more importantly, it was about which super-power possessed the most advanced technology.The allegiance of numerous third-world countries was at stake.
We used to call that geopolitics back during the cold war days...and we kicked some Soviet ass on that score!
Try being proud of your species instead of being such little snot-nosed cynics.
We did a great thing.
Thanks Phrank! N
Nice to know that people who don't believe in the moon landings , also think the Earth is FLAT!!!!
Ha, no, you definitely weren't joking, having seen this comment further down the line...
When you were our age...you know, walking through five feet of snow to school, uphill both ways, and you LIKED IT...did you revel at how grumpy the previous generation could be? I don't, but then again, my dad's a cooler guy than most folks I know my age, so it's not a generational thing, you're just grumpy. ;)
In other news, the distinction between "we kicked some Soviet ass!" in one sentence and "be proud of your species" in the next is interesting.
I was born in 1986, year of the Challenger disaster, though I didn't really appreciate this fact at the time. The fact that we can do all we can do with the shuttle, running such legacy computer hardware, impresses the hell out of me. Kilobytes and megahertzes seem so small today...but that's all we needed, plus several million pounds of thrust and the best engineering this side of Mars, to get us to the moon. Hell yeah, us.
Science is a method to critically check and review the current understanding of the nature of things.
Not a thing more.
Climatology, Geology, Archeology, Paleontology, Radiology, ...Cosmology. Politology (political science), more... Gathering data... gathering understanding...
Our understanding is labeled “Theory” and as such it contains all measured observations and all predictions that we can describe.
A theory is cataloged and subjected to further review forever or until, through much difficulty, it becomes a “Law”.
If you argue against this simple principle then you haven't learned anything about logic or discipline and you rely on superstition, gut felling or hairs standing on your back to determine what is "true". In juxtaposition; you conjure up something you cannot see and are afraid of it because you can’t see it.
You have my sorrows...
Do you guys watch Mythbusters? They disproved that this was a hoax.
Stop saying it was a hoax because it wasn't! Although it is hard to believe that with limited technology it is possible to complete the impossible, the guys involved were all test pilots willing to accept any risk an challenge!
They had the most advanced technology at the time, which was enough to get them to do what they set for. Their data communication transmission for instance used baud 9600 mbps and 56000 mbps connections....that's 30 years before the 56K modem became available at Future Shop!