I was 11 years old and the whole neighborhood of we kids gathered at Ms. Mavis' house, she was one of the few women (mothers) who was "stay at home." She had a big RCA color TV and we sat on the floor watching this live. And she provided snacks too! To experience, to live through, such a historical moment is, to this day, gives me goosebumps.
I never get tired of this. Love listening to those final comments of Charlie Duke with his Carolinian accent. He later got to be on the other end of the microphone. What a privilege.
I was 11 yrs old, I watched live on a black and white TV in my family's living room in Bangor Maine. I had to go out in the front yard afterward and look up at the moon. All of the comments on this page seem to articulate aspects of this event so well.
I’m from East Millinocket, Maine and this historical event happened 1 day after my 9th birthday and it is still clear in my memory. We stayed up from early in the day before the LEM separated from the Command Module to the commentary from Walter Cronkite,Wally Schierra, and others hours after the moon walk was done. I remember going to sleep at about 3:30 am after seeing the recap of the entire moon walk. The Apollo 8 flight was special too as Borman, Lovell and Anders said they went to the moon to truly discover the Earth. It will be exciting to see Artemus 3 land and walk on the moon for the first time since Apollo 17 in December 1972.
Recall we were at the beach about an hour north of Boston USA and were driving home listening to the radio. During the final five minutes of landing, I noticed that every car on the highway had pulled over to the breakdown lane and were stopped. Very eerie moment and I recall both my parents were staring downwards, almost afraid to breath. Recall it like yesterday.
I was 10 years old and attending my dad's company picnic on a sunny Sunday afternoon at Burdette Park near Evansville Indiana. We listened to the landing live on the radio. An awesome memory that I will never forget.
Hi that's wild - I was 10 years old and watching it in Evansville, too! We were in the basement of our new house in Carriage Hills next to Central High School, and I was sitting on the floor close to the Zenith. We also had many great memories at Burdette, staying in the cabin once each summer, unforgettable days as I'm sure you would agree! Mark in St. Pete
The first moon landing is my biggest memory in my 64 years. I was nine years old when we landed on the moon. I remember watching coverage with my parents and my brother. I closely followed each and every U.S. space mission through Apollo 17. I was in complete awe of all of these missions, men, and vehicles. They made such a lasting impression on me that to this day, I have a dedicated room of NASA history on my walls and in books in my study. I have countless photos including autographed photos of ten of the moonwalkers on my walls.
Ah, yes! I remember this well! I was a wee lad of eight years old when I witnessed mankind's greatest achievement and am still amazed by it! Thanks for posting this!
I was a teen in high school. What a time to be alive, the whole town cried and celebrated. Awesome part of history. I wonder how many children of today know what the date was and what the mission name was.
I was 13 years old and remember the coverage in the media both in the papers & on a black & white TV. A truly remarkable achievement for the day. Thank you to everyone involved for their sharing of this event so people can experience & relive the event!
I was fortunate to work on thrust domes and explosive bolt sets for the Apollo missions. As I listened to the live broadcasts - like so many others who made parts for these missions - I stopped breathing as the Eagle hovered a few feet off the moon's surface. I tried to hold back the tears, but when I heard the call for engine shutdown, they fell like rain. They still do whenever I think of that moment.
@@philipmartin-summers4540 I have never met anybody who worked on that project who considers his or her self to be a hero. I think we all felt honored to work on Apollo, and in the back of each of our minds was a single thought: if the parts I make fail, people will die. A second thought - again not entirely my own - was that this was not just to beat the Russians, but rather to uplift every citizen in every country. Finally, the passage of time has never dulled the excitement I feel about the entire Apollo series; in fact, the older I get, it seems the stronger my emotional response gets.
Thank you for contributing to the success of the mission. The bolts worked perfectly. I was sweating a little when the countdown began for the ascent from Tranquility.
I remember watching. Everyone was silent. No cheering. Just a profound sense of having seen one of the greatest events there will ever be in human history.
You only heard it though - we didn't get to see the 16 mm film of the landing itself seen from within the Eagle LM, until the astronauts had brought it back home to Earth 😊
I was 2 years old I think when this happened and I can still remember my dad holding me in front of the TV and saying to me “you’re now watching history”. Crazy to have such a vivid memory from that age.
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Oh how this brings me back to July of '69. A 12 year old I was at the time and although it astounded me then, at this moment there are tears in my eyes. Thank you BBC.
I was 7 years old when this amazing, unbelievable event took place. My family was in NC. I remember my Dad waking us up to watch Armstrong stepping onto the moon. I’m 61 now but I’ll always have a clear memory of it as long as I live.
i'm the same age as you guys. i very vividly remember just how excited my Dad was about this. i remember he even took photos of our modest tv as it displayed the lunar walk.
I was about 5 years old and our school was showing the landing in the school hall on a black and white tv. But somehow I missed the landing because my mum had come to pick me up from school. I cried that I didn't get to see it. I always remember her reply, "Don't worry, they'll be landing on Mars soon, you can watch that instead."
They didn't show the A-11 landing directly on TV, so we only heard the audio conversations back and forth between Mission Control in Houston and the Apollo 11 LM. The landing of the A-11 LM that we do see now is shot with a 16 mm film camera mounted over the head of one of the astronauts (Aldrin, I believe? ). The live TV transmission started when Neil Armstrong began to crawl down the ladder and pulled on a string that opened a hatch, which exposed a small automatic B&W TV camera.
I was 6 years old when this took place and I'll never forget how my family was gathered around the TV at my grandparents' watching this and it was complete silence as everyone was in total suspense. It was an honor to watch live, a pivotal point in human history and to be inspired by what I had seen. Of course, as a kid I had ALL the NASA toys and the astronaut helmet that I wore everywhere. Having worked in IT and other technical professions and now in aviation, what blows my mind still to this day is the incredible level of engineering that went into the Apollo program, and they didn't have calculators and computers to do it. They used advanced mathematics and slide rules to get the job done. I remember when I was at MIT in 1981 and found out that the standard calculator then had way memory than the computer on board the command module or the LEM. On board Apollo 11 was a computer called the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). It had 2048 words of memory which could be used to store “temporary results” - data that is lost when there is no power. This type of memory is referred to as RAM (Random Access Memory). Each word comprised 16 binary digits (bits), with a bit being a zero or a one. This means that the Apollo computer had 32,768 bits of RAM memory. Imagine trying to to anything today with that small bit of memory. It's still absolutely amazing what was accomplished in 1969.
Armstrong was the greatest space ship pilot who has ever lived. His previous mission where he saved himself and fellow astronaut when the ship they were in went out of control was incredible. He was a barnstormer and flew the LM like crop duster. He knew he could. He also had pure ice in veins when flying.
I was passing through Armstrong's hometown, Wapakaneta, Ohio once and decided to visit his Museum. It was Monday and closed. From what I understand his Gemini 8 uniform is displayed inside. That mission probably made him Nasa's top choice to command the first moon landing. He is human. During the descent his blood pressure I believe was skyrocketing. No pun intended. No matter what happens in the future regarding space travel, first men on Mars etc, Armstrong being the first to land a manmade craft on another body other than earth, I think will be mortal man's greatest ever accomplishment. Greater than Wilbur and Orville's achievement. For all of eternity. May he RIP.
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The spacecraft computers had a performance comparable to the first generation of personal computers like the Apple 2 and Commodore 64 (the guidance computer had RAM of 4KB, and a 32KB hard disk). They were only required to take large amounts of numerical data and organise it into a more useful format. That original data was calculated by the main frames at NASA, and then beamed up to the spacecraft by radio telescope at the rate of 1,200 bits per second. They did not need the power for touch screens or to hold graphics etc like today’s smartphones.
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If there is a village out there missing their cognitively challenged mascot, I think I found him. His name is Phillip Croft and he's here in the comments section.
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I was in my grandmother's living room watching this. She passed thru the room and watched it for a bit. When she was a little girl in the 1890s in Alabama people would get around with a horse & buggy, now she watched the first moon landing
Neil Armstrong flew combat missions in the Korean War. 78 of them. God preserved him through the destruction for the Gemini Program and for this journey. There were many ways it could have taken a fatal course. A victory of engineering, planning and enterprise. To go so far where there is no oxygen and no drinking water or food. Crazy brave.
"God" did no such thing. You made that up out of your indoctrinated head. Brave man, Mr. Armstrong, but he had no help from a god. Quit being silly and restore your critical thinking skills if there are any remaining.
@@per_unminuto597 😂. I know, it was a conspiracy by the USA, USSR, China, the UK, Australia and all those other countries that tracked all the Apollo missions to… I’m sorry I can’t actually think of a reason!
@CoachouseFilms You can't argue with Per_un Minuto. He's the smartest guy in the room. But he is curious why everyone breaks into laughter whenever he leaves it.
Fabuous reenactment with contemporary voices of the back room engineers, the controllers, and the astronauts. A great tribute to the 400,000 people who made this happen. Thank you Kevin and all the BBC WOrld Service team - and all who helped them,
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@@BBCWorldService Announcements on BBC World Service led me first to Season 2. Absolutely gripping with the tension rising when Kevin's Covid19 duties held up the last podcast. Season 3 please, please.
In the live BBC showing of the Apollo landing, Pink Floyd played music in a studio, just jamming randomly, and their music was fed to the BBC to play as live background music. David Gilmour is still amused about that to this day.
Armstrong _and_ Aldrin landed it. Yes, Neil was at the controls, but listen to "Buzz" reading off the numbers to him so he could concentrate on what was outside the window. Check out Apollo 12, where on only the second lunar landing Pete Conrad and Alan Bean had to land close enough to the Surveyor 3 unmanned lander that they could walk over to it.
50+ years later..this is still so compelling to watch and listen to ..captured by this video. I still get a bit nervous watching it. Some outstanding achievements in space since..but nothing matches this. I was 16 at the time..glued to the TV coverage with Conkrite’s emotional reaction upon the safe landing..etched in my memory bank.
I was 19, college sophomore in Physics; switched to Aeronautical & Astronautical engineering a year later. I went to my girlfriend's house to watch because they had a big color TV, and of course watched the landing in black and white. At the time, we didn't realize that Armstrong had to take over and fly the final part of the landing manually. Oddly, it's more exciting to listen to the replay now that it was to watch in real time back then, perhaps because know I know how close they were to failure throughout every Apollo flight to the moon.
The LM was always intended to be landed manually. Armstrong only picked a spot different than the spot the computer chose. It was never going to land itself. The boulder he had to avoid was the size of an automobile.
@@bobbybooshay8641 Correct. Because the computer was ‘blind’ and couldn’t compensate for sudden increases in gravity fields, it could put the lunar module down in a crater or on a steep slope, so the commander always took manual control in the last minute or so to ensure as safe a landing as possible.
It always brings back listening and watching Live TV in the moment. Exhilarating! Lucky to exist in this modern time. Imagine what the Mars Landing shall be like... As a Buckeye I've always been proud of both Glenn and Armstrong, yet their victories were built on the shoulders of ALL the men & Women of NASA.
Thé whole planet was watching it live. As I did at 11 😊 It’s still incredible today. Especially with the limited means at this time. NASA and the numerous companies that worked with paved the way of the incredible revolution of technology were still living now.
@Gecmajster123456 Your mom asked me to remind you to put your urine soaked bed linens in the washing machine every morning. When you forget to do so she runs out of clean sheets by the end of the week. And remember - no drinking after 7:00 pm.
I was 4 and a half when this happened. We were visiting my grandmother in Sweden. My Dad woke the whole house at 3 in morning to watch this. My mother kept telling me I would ruin my eyes because my nose was two inches from the set. Great day.
Im proud to be an American and as a child of 8 years old at that time it was simply futuristic and amazing. This is a prime and exquisite example of teamwork that had never been performed before. Thats what working together in a concerted effort can achieve. They are all true heroes under God and invincible.
Man! 52 years have gone by and this still boggles the mind. All that the entire Apollo project accomplished is nothing short of a miracle.....all made possible with 1950s and 1960s technology.
@@Ryan-mq2mi I don't remember the entire interview, but you are probably right. The Lunar Module was short on fuel, and the mission was getting close to the "Bingo" call. As the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal says, "The quantity light latched at 102:44:31, and indicated that 5.6% of the original propellant load remained. This event started a 94-second countdown to a 'Bingo' fuel call which meant 'land in 20 seconds or abort.' So if the count gets down to zero, Neil will have 20 seconds to land, if he thinks he can get down in time. Otherwise, he will have to abort immediately. If you're 50 feet up at 'bingo fuel' with all of your horizontal rates nulled and are coming down to a good spot, you could certainly continue to land. With your horizontal rates nulled at 70 to 100 feet, it would be risky to land - perhaps giving you a landing at the limiting load of the landing gear. At anything over 100 feet, you'd punch the abort button, say goodbye to the moon, and stew for the rest of your life!"
@@RideAcrossTheRiver He would turn 39 a fortnight after his landing-so for all intents and purposes, he was 39. If you want to get pedantic: 38-years, 11-months and 16-days on July 20th, 1969-precisely a fortnight away from his 39th birthday. Your point is like someone claiming 2.9 is actually 2.
@@MelioraCogito No, your point is claiming 3 is the same as 2.9. Every article and newsreel says Armstrong was 38. You MUST seek out all those authors and reporters and editors with your nonsense. Good luck with that, dumbass
One of the greatest illusions ever pulled off. The fact we could do it with pre historic equipment, but can no longer do it because nasa " lost the technology " speaks volumes about how actually " important " an achievement this actually was....
@@WHATISTRUTHTV This brilliant achievement is made all that more sweeter by the way it upsets you lifelong losers. Wonderful accomplishments trigger trolls.
@@rozzgrey801 that sounds like an emotional response, to an emotional alleged event. Why is it when I offer to debate someone on the Apollo missions on my show, I get nothing but crickets from all you loudmouths? Lol
@@WHATISTRUTHTV That's simple, everyone knows you are hopeless at debating anyone. You can't stand losing, but you always lose and it's cringe to watch your futile attempts to seem intelligent. People are embarrassed on your behalf.
3.37mins Armstrong timed 'the appearance of the lunar landmarks from his view out the window,' ....using the checklist he made before they left home. I must be certifiably mad to think that this is truly unbeliebeable.
I remember. 8 years old. Entire family with us .. watching. I remember wishing Walter Cronkite would stop talking so we could listen to the important people and what they were saying. 😂
@@loubaker6861 At noon on the lunar equator, yes, temperature reaches +100 C. But Apollo missions landed during lunar morning when temperature is +40 to +50 C.
The final words, The Eagle has landed, still send a thrill through my bones. Now, If anyone cares to watch Apple TV's For all Mankind, the landing did not go like that...
My whole school stopped everything and watched this in the gym. I was 11ys old and just amazed at the thought of going into space and traveling to the moon. When I heard the conspiracy theory that this was faked, I was just flabbergasted. How on earth could you believe we spent all the time, effort and money, just to fool the Russians?
Summer vacation.Senior year in HS growing up. Neighbor friend and I scheduled our weekend motorcycle ride on our Hondas to catch this landing. Can't believe I'm scheduling motorcycle rides to catch Falcon 9 and now Starship launches.
@nuclearcasserole You're wasting your time responding to that goober. He thinks the whole thing - NASA, the space programs, moon landings - it's all a hoax. He suffers from conspiratorial ideation. He should be pitied and then dismissed.
@@montythebugman6308 lol if you are so sure about your position, and I am just an idiot.... come on my show , pls. Embarrass me in front of my audience. Wouldn't it be to everyone's benefit?
I was 10 when they landed. Not one kid over the age of 2 in our neighborhood was in the street outside. In the summer time where i lived we never went home until 9. That was the only exception to that rule. I’ll never forget than moment.
THE greatest imo. The one that most exemplifies our progress from seeing the moon as a mythological deity in the night sky to something a human can stand on.
these guys just went to the moon at first try... lines are so clear from that distance as if it were recorded in the studio! an amazing iPhones15 must have been used that time... !
Nope, Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 had journeyed to the moon before them. This was the first of six landings. In the absence of an atmosphere, yes, there is much sharper definition.
To many this is just ancient history , to ones that witnessed this was a epic adventure for the whole planet . And with all out advanced technology we still can't even do again. They say can be done ,but at the snails pace of planning and the cost doubt it anymore
We haven't been back for one reason: Congress. Congress decided that it was more important to fight the war on drugs and be the world police than to advance science, and cancelled the deep space program. They shut down Apollo and gutted Saturn rocket production. Many companies shut their doors or scrapped their production facilities and moved on, making it impossible to restart production of the giant rocket. The Saturn V was the only rocket ever built that could lift an Apollo-sized craft into lunar orbit, without an equivalent NOBODY is going to the moon or beyond. Congress stubbornly refused to allocate funding for the development of a replacement until after the demise of the shuttle program. Artemis seems likely to be the needed replacement for the Saturn. Time will tell -- if the Congress doesn't kill this rocket as well.
I was 11 years old and the whole neighborhood of we kids gathered at Ms. Mavis' house, she was one of the few women (mothers) who was "stay at home." She had a big RCA color TV and we sat on the floor watching this live. And she provided snacks too! To experience, to live through, such a historical moment is, to this day, gives me goosebumps.
reading your words gave me goosebumps...
I was 11 too. Watched it on an 11" B&W. Still a thrill.
God bless her. And to see it on colour TV 📺 in 1969 was pretty cool 😎
Must have been nice watching the faking of the moon landings :)
I saw Nixon talking to the astronauts on a landline.🤣
I love the absolute intensity of the support staff.
The things they saw. this night,..wow
Magnificent. In 1969 I watched this in a pub in Melbourne Australia.
I was six, and listened to it on radio in Lae, PNG. Still brings goosebumps!
I never get tired of this. Love listening to those final comments of Charlie Duke with his Carolinian accent. He later got to be on the other end of the microphone. What a privilege.
One of the great moments in my 70 + years on this planet to-date
I was 11 yrs old, I watched live on a black and white TV in my family's living room in Bangor Maine. I had to go out in the front yard afterward and look up at the moon. All of the comments on this page seem to articulate aspects of this event so well.
I’m from East Millinocket, Maine and this historical event happened 1 day after my 9th birthday and it is still clear in my memory. We stayed up from early in the day before the LEM separated from the Command Module to the commentary from Walter Cronkite,Wally Schierra, and others hours after the moon walk was done. I remember going to sleep at about 3:30 am after seeing the recap of the entire moon walk. The Apollo 8 flight was special too as Borman, Lovell and Anders said they went to the moon to truly discover the Earth. It will be exciting to see Artemus 3 land and walk on the moon for the first time since Apollo 17 in December 1972.
Recall we were at the beach about an hour north of Boston USA and were driving home listening to the radio. During the final five minutes of landing, I noticed that every car on the highway had pulled over to the breakdown lane and were stopped. Very eerie moment and I recall both my parents were staring downwards, almost afraid to breath. Recall it like yesterday.
I remembered every second of it. In the middle of the night in the Netherlands as a 13-year-old kid.
I was 10 years old and attending my dad's company picnic on a sunny Sunday afternoon at Burdette Park near Evansville Indiana. We listened to the landing live on the radio. An awesome memory that I will never forget.
Hi that's wild - I was 10 years old and watching it in Evansville, too! We were in the basement of our new house in Carriage Hills next to Central High School, and I was sitting on the floor close to the Zenith. We also had many great memories at Burdette, staying in the cabin once each summer, unforgettable days as I'm sure you would agree! Mark in St. Pete
The first moon landing is my biggest memory in my 64 years. I was nine years old when we landed on the moon. I remember watching coverage with my parents and my brother. I closely followed each and every U.S. space mission through Apollo 17. I was in complete awe of all of these missions, men, and vehicles. They made such a lasting impression on me that to this day, I have a dedicated room of NASA history on my walls and in books in my study. I have countless photos including autographed photos of ten of the moonwalkers on my walls.
Ah, yes! I remember this well! I was a wee lad of eight years old when I witnessed mankind's greatest achievement and am still amazed by it! Thanks for posting this!
I was a teen in high school. What a time to be alive, the whole town cried and celebrated. Awesome part of history. I wonder how many children of today know what the date was and what the mission name was.
A thousand years from now the 20th century will be remembered for two sentences. Tranquility base here. The eagle has landed.
It actually started as “twang…tranquility!” Lol
Assuming there's anyone left to write the history of the 20th century
@@rustykrys888No, that was Houston replying.
A thousand years from now, people will appear very guileless
@@rustykrys888 That was Duke, not Armstrong.
I was 13 years old and remember the coverage in the media both in the papers & on a black & white TV. A truly remarkable achievement for the day. Thank you to everyone involved for their sharing of this event so people can experience & relive the event!
I was fortunate to work on thrust domes and explosive bolt sets for the Apollo missions. As I listened to the live broadcasts - like so many others who made parts for these missions - I stopped breathing as the Eagle hovered a few feet off the moon's surface. I tried to hold back the tears, but when I heard the call for engine shutdown, they fell like rain. They still do whenever I think of that moment.
The moon landings were faked.
One of the unsung heroes sir
@@philipmartin-summers4540 I have never met anybody who worked on that project who considers his or her self to be a hero. I think we all felt honored to work on Apollo, and in the back of each of our minds was a single thought: if the parts I make fail, people will die. A second thought - again not entirely my own - was that this was not just to beat the Russians, but rather to uplift every citizen in every country. Finally, the passage of time has never dulled the excitement I feel about the entire Apollo series; in fact, the older I get, it seems the stronger my emotional response gets.
Thank you for contributing to the success of the mission. The bolts worked perfectly.
I was sweating a little when the countdown began for the ascent from Tranquility.
@@michaelbyrnee9584 I can imagine.
Every time I watch a plane take off I'm in awe.
Never gets tiring.
A bazilion bazillion thumbs up. I was 6 years old and glued to the TV.
I remember watching. Everyone was silent. No cheering. Just a profound sense of having seen one of the greatest events there will ever be in human history.
...and forgotten forthwith for decades after lol
You only heard it though - we didn't get to see the 16 mm film of the landing itself seen from within the Eagle LM, until the astronauts had brought it back home to Earth 😊
@@Bjowolf2 My recolectionthat there was a camera that deployed at the base of the LM The picture was very blurry and of course in B&W.
Until Stanley Kubrick was finished editing it
@@lordmatthewanunnahybrid1356 🙄😂🙄😂🙄
I was eleven....Watched it in black and white like the whole world. Incredible achievement for the time.
I was 2 years old I think when this happened and I can still remember my dad holding me in front of the TV and saying to me “you’re now watching history”.
Crazy to have such a vivid memory from that age.
Your father loved you❤
I love it - even though I heard it first time around and we all know the outcome, somehow you never quite believe they are going to make it
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@@BBCWorldService Shame on you for defending a lie to millions of people
Oh how this brings me back to July of '69. A 12 year old I was at the time and although it astounded me then, at this moment there are tears in my eyes.
Thank you BBC.
I was 7 years old when this amazing, unbelievable event took place. My family was in NC. I remember my Dad waking us up to watch Armstrong stepping onto the moon. I’m 61 now but I’ll always have a clear memory of it as long as I live.
Exact age as me. I listed to it on the radio with my grandmother and will always remember those words...."The Eagle has landed"
i'm the same age as you guys. i very vividly remember just how excited my Dad was about this. i remember he even took photos of our modest tv as it displayed the lunar walk.
Was 9 myself. Listening to it now, as I did back then, never gets old. It was and remains the most historic event of my lifetime.
Same age as me basically. I rember the hair standing up on my arm to this day!
@@alastairmacbeath5488 yeah on the radio, so it must be true :D propaganda machine worked prefectly back then...
I was about 5 years old and our school was showing the landing in the school hall on a black and white tv. But somehow I missed the landing because my mum had come to pick me up from school. I cried that I didn't get to see it. I always remember her reply, "Don't worry, they'll be landing on Mars soon, you can watch that instead."
We're still waiting for that Mars landing! Maybe one day... Thanks for watching!
lol.
They didn't show the A-11 landing directly on TV, so we only heard the audio conversations back and forth between Mission Control in Houston and the Apollo 11 LM.
The landing of the A-11 LM that we do see now is shot with a 16 mm film camera mounted over the head of one of the astronauts (Aldrin, I believe? ).
The live TV transmission started when Neil Armstrong began to crawl down the ladder and pulled on a string that opened a hatch, which exposed a small automatic B&W TV camera.
I was 6 years old when this took place and I'll never forget how my family was gathered around the TV at my grandparents' watching this and it was complete silence as everyone was in total suspense. It was an honor to watch live, a pivotal point in human history and to be inspired by what I had seen. Of course, as a kid I had ALL the NASA toys and the astronaut helmet that I wore everywhere. Having worked in IT and other technical professions and now in aviation, what blows my mind still to this day is the incredible level of engineering that went into the Apollo program, and they didn't have calculators and computers to do it. They used advanced mathematics and slide rules to get the job done. I remember when I was at MIT in 1981 and found out that the standard calculator then had way memory than the computer on board the command module or the LEM. On board Apollo 11 was a computer called the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). It had 2048 words of memory which could be used to store “temporary results” - data that is lost when there is no power. This type of memory is referred to as RAM (Random Access Memory). Each word comprised 16 binary digits (bits), with a bit being a zero or a one. This means that the Apollo computer had 32,768 bits of RAM memory. Imagine trying to to anything today with that small bit of memory. It's still absolutely amazing what was accomplished in 1969.
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Those alarm calls still give me a shiver.
Armstrong was the greatest space ship pilot who has ever lived. His previous mission where he saved himself and fellow astronaut when the ship they were in went out of control was incredible.
He was a barnstormer and flew the LM like crop duster. He knew he could. He also had pure ice in veins when flying.
O maior por ter sido o primeiro a usar o veículo no desconhecido. Gelo nas veias. 👍
I was passing through Armstrong's hometown, Wapakaneta, Ohio once and decided to visit his Museum.
It was Monday and closed.
From what I understand his Gemini 8 uniform is displayed inside.
That mission probably made him Nasa's top choice to command the first moon landing.
He is human. During the descent his blood pressure I believe was skyrocketing.
No pun intended.
No matter what happens in the future regarding space travel, first men on Mars etc, Armstrong being the first to land a manmade craft on another body other than earth, I think will be mortal man's greatest ever accomplishment.
Greater than Wilbur and Orville's achievement.
For all of eternity.
May he RIP.
Don’t forget the X-15….pretty good with that plane
too bad he never put a feet on the real moon though
Cernan was the better actor.
This is an awesome podcast. I recommend anybody interested in this subject follow the entire podcast..
Thanks Dean! Great to hear you enjoyed the podcast. If you want to listen again you can download both series here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2/episodes/downloads
Found out about this from history hit. Halfway though the first episode and it’s great.
@@markopolo6640 Glad you're enjoying it! More here: ua-cam.com/users/bbcworldservice
@Biden HUNTER put the crack pipe down and go to bed brother.
@@BBCWorldService Would you like to organize a debate on TV? You defend the Apollo missions, and I present evidence that they were a lie.
Mans greatest acheivment carried out with 4 Omega Speedmaster watches and a computer with the power of a pocket calculator.TRue heroes ,
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The spacecraft computers had a performance comparable to the first generation of personal computers like the Apple 2 and Commodore 64 (the guidance computer had RAM of 4KB, and a 32KB hard disk). They were only required to take large amounts of numerical data and organise it into a more useful format. That original data was calculated by the main frames at NASA, and then beamed up to the spacecraft by radio telescope at the rate of 1,200 bits per second. They did not need the power for touch screens or to hold graphics etc like today’s smartphones.
It still has me on the edge of my seat with hairs standing up and a lump in my throat. I was eight years old. It was unforgettable.
This is truly glorious. A defining moment in human history.
"Inform, educate, entertain" - tick, tick, tick.
BBC World Service is amazing.
That's so kind of you, thank you. Please check out Season 1 of our podcast 13 Minutes to the Moon - it's all about the Apollo 11 mission: ua-cam.com/play/PLz_B0PFGIn4f0xYPhOk0wIASOYE8-1Wbz.html
But why no mention of Kevin Fong and Andrew Luck Baker who made this excellent series?
That chokes me up every time ,I can still remember sitting in front of the tv as a kid listening to the landing, Awesome.
Then you grew up----I hope.
If there is a village out there missing their cognitively challenged mascot, I think I found him. His name is Phillip Croft and he's here in the comments section.
@@MrDaiseymay Tin hat.
@@MrDaiseymay _“Then you grew up----I hope.”_
Well, apparently you haven't-which says more about you than it does anyone else. Piss off, flattard.
@@MrDaiseymay
I listened to the whole thing and by the time the Eagle was coming into land, my heart was in my mouth. Just an incredible achievement.
We think so too! Check out our podcast 13 Minutes to the Moon - it's all about the Apollo 11 mission: ua-cam.com/play/PLz_B0PFGIn4f0xYPhOk0wIASOYE8-1Wbz.html
Too bad it's all fake
@@gulfy09 But you can't prove it, so that's that. We went to the Moon, and you've just got sour grapes.
@@rozzgrey801 my grade 8 teacher told me it's fake
@@gulfy09 Your teacher is an idiot who should be fired.
I was in my grandmother's living room watching this. She passed thru the room and watched it for a bit. When she was a little girl in the 1890s in Alabama people would get around with a horse & buggy, now she watched the first moon landing
This still gives me goosebumps after watching it live as a teenager. America’s finest moment.
Mans finest moment!!
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Sad it is just Hollywood creation, like movie....definitely goosebumps....American all ways make full first their citizens and rest of world
"30 seconds (of fuel left)". Neil Armstrong's voice didn't even shake. Makes you proud to be human.
😂 good plan fake video
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Do you really believe them.
Good acting
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Neil Armstrong flew combat missions in the Korean War. 78 of them. God preserved him through the destruction for the Gemini Program and for this journey. There were many ways it could have taken a fatal course. A victory of engineering, planning and enterprise. To go so far where there is no oxygen and no drinking water or food. Crazy brave.
"God" did no such thing. You made that up out of your indoctrinated head. Brave man, Mr. Armstrong, but he had no help from a god. Quit being silly and restore your critical thinking skills if there are any remaining.
@@christopherstuart607 It was a studio film. Saturm dived into atlantic. A plane dropped the capsule later.
@@per_unminuto597 😂. I know, it was a conspiracy by the USA, USSR, China, the UK, Australia and all those other countries that tracked all the Apollo missions to… I’m sorry I can’t actually think of a reason!
@CoachouseFilms
You can't argue with Per_un Minuto. He's the smartest guy in the room. But he is curious why everyone breaks into laughter whenever he leaves it.
And do not forget his save on Gemini 8!!❤😊
Houston, Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed. Some of the most momentous words spoken in the history of man. Those guys had brass klackers.
Fabuous reenactment with contemporary voices of the back room engineers, the controllers, and the astronauts. A great tribute to the 400,000 people who made this happen. Thank you Kevin and all the BBC WOrld Service team - and all who helped them,
Thank you so much - we're delighted you enjoyed the video. And you can check out season 2 of the podcast here: ua-cam.com/play/PLz_B0PFGIn4daEaUX-8ZJHv40rGAINzFy.html
@@BBCWorldService Announcements on BBC World Service led me first to Season 2. Absolutely gripping with the tension rising when Kevin's Covid19 duties held up the last podcast. Season 3 please, please.
so.. this is not the real thing? (a reenactment?)
Not a reenactment. It's the actual audio from the mission.
Mike GM is confused.
Tranquility base here the eagle has landed the most famous words in world history,, what heroes, up there and down there,,
He never said that originally. His first words were, "There's no way a bloody cow jumped over here!"
@@davidcopson5800 😆😆😆😆😆😂
In the live BBC showing of the Apollo landing, Pink Floyd played music in a studio, just jamming randomly, and their music was fed to the BBC to play as live background music. David Gilmour is still amused about that to this day.
Armstrong landed it _manually?!_ I had no idea he'd had to take over and land it manually. Incredible.
In fact, all 6 landings were done manually. Probably as much to do with fighter-pilot ego as anything else.
That was always the plan. But he flew a lot further and longer than planned as the boulder field was pretty bad.
Yes, he did
Armstrong _and_ Aldrin landed it. Yes, Neil was at the controls, but listen to "Buzz" reading off the numbers to him so he could concentrate on what was outside the window.
Check out Apollo 12, where on only the second lunar landing Pete Conrad and Alan Bean had to land close enough to the Surveyor 3 unmanned lander that they could walk over to it.
@@Tim22222 Lovell said that he'd intended to let the computer land it on Apollo 13, but we'll never know.
50+ years later..this is still so compelling to watch and listen to ..captured by this video. I still get a bit nervous watching it. Some outstanding achievements in space since..but nothing matches this. I was 16 at the time..glued to the TV coverage with Conkrite’s emotional reaction upon the safe landing..etched in my memory bank.
Watched this as a 12 year old glued to my TV.
I was 9!
@@Tim22222 I was 10!
I was 19, college sophomore in Physics; switched to Aeronautical & Astronautical engineering a year later. I went to my girlfriend's house to watch because they had a big color TV, and of course watched the landing in black and white. At the time, we didn't realize that Armstrong had to take over and fly the final part of the landing manually. Oddly, it's more exciting to listen to the replay now that it was to watch in real time back then, perhaps because know I know how close they were to failure throughout every Apollo flight to the moon.
The LM was always intended to be landed manually. Armstrong only picked a spot different than the spot the computer chose. It was never going to land itself.
The boulder he had to avoid was the size of an automobile.
@@bobbybooshay8641 Correct. Because the computer was ‘blind’ and couldn’t compensate for sudden increases in gravity fields, it could put the lunar module down in a crater or on a steep slope, so the commander always took manual control in the last minute or so to ensure as safe a landing as possible.
It always brings back listening and watching Live TV in the moment. Exhilarating! Lucky to exist in this modern time. Imagine what the Mars Landing shall be like... As a Buckeye I've always been proud of both Glenn and Armstrong, yet their victories were built on the shoulders of ALL the men & Women of NASA.
Thé whole planet was watching it live. As I did at 11 😊
It’s still incredible today. Especially with the limited means at this time. NASA and the numerous companies that worked with paved the way of the incredible revolution of technology were still living now.
I remember it like it was yesterday. One of the rare, truly landmark moments in human history. I was so glad to be able to witness it.
It sure was---It'd win top Crown for lying and deceiving
witness what exactly? watching TV? :D
yeah the moonlanding that never happened..
@@Gecmajster123456 I see that the vermin were left unattended again.
@@marksprague1280 bet y r a democrat..
@Gecmajster123456
Your mom asked me to remind you to put your urine soaked bed linens in the washing machine every morning. When you forget to do so she runs out of clean sheets by the end of the week. And remember - no drinking after 7:00 pm.
I was 4 and a half when this happened. We were visiting my grandmother in Sweden. My Dad woke the whole house at 3 in morning to watch this. My mother kept telling me I would ruin my eyes because my nose was two inches from the set. Great day.
I watched this in real time.
That didn't bring me to tears.
This did.
Every time I hear, "Houston, Tranquility base here, the eagle has landed.", I tear up a bit. Greatest achievement by humans in our history.
Im proud to be an American and as a child of 8 years old at that time it was simply futuristic and amazing.
This is a prime and exquisite example of teamwork that had never been performed before. Thats what working together in a concerted effort can achieve.
They are all true heroes under God and invincible.
Now that was INTENSE!!!
Man! 52 years have gone by and this still boggles the mind. All that the entire Apollo project accomplished is nothing short of a miracle.....all made possible with 1950s and 1960s technology.
@Bobb Grimley Michal Collins later said he thought that Armstrong and Aldrin had a 50% chance of landing on the moon.
@@Black-Circle WTF?
This guy hinted something
@@jackkomisar458 WOW. I assume he means they would abort if they didnt land, right?
@@Ryan-mq2mi I don't remember the entire interview, but you are probably right. The Lunar Module was short on fuel, and the mission was getting close to the "Bingo" call. As the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal says, "The quantity light latched at 102:44:31, and indicated that 5.6% of the original propellant load remained. This event started a 94-second countdown to a 'Bingo' fuel call which meant 'land in 20 seconds or abort.' So if the count gets down to zero, Neil will have 20 seconds to land, if he thinks he can get down in time. Otherwise, he will have to abort immediately. If you're 50 feet up at 'bingo fuel' with all of your horizontal rates nulled and are coming down to a good spot, you could certainly continue to land. With your horizontal rates nulled at 70 to 100 feet, it would be risky to land - perhaps giving you a landing at the limiting load of the landing gear. At anything over 100 feet, you'd punch the abort button, say goodbye to the moon, and stew for the rest of your life!"
5:40 Imagine being 25 years old and having just 20 seconds to decide whether or not to abort Apollo 11.
Steve Bales is a legend.
All three Apollo 11 astronauts were 39 years of age in 1969 (having all been born in 1930).
@@MelioraCogito Armstrong was 38.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver He would turn 39 a fortnight after his landing-so for all intents and purposes, he was 39.
If you want to get pedantic: 38-years, 11-months and 16-days on July 20th, 1969-precisely a fortnight away from his 39th birthday.
Your point is like someone claiming 2.9 is actually 2.
@@MelioraCogito No, your point is claiming 3 is the same as 2.9. Every article and newsreel says Armstrong was 38. You MUST seek out all those authors and reporters and editors with your nonsense. Good luck with that, dumbass
I was 11 also, I used to play a 45 record of this over and over again.
This represents the greatest day in American and world history and the brave men and women involved must never be forgotten.
One of the greatest illusions ever pulled off. The fact we could do it with pre historic equipment, but can no longer do it because nasa " lost the technology " speaks volumes about how actually " important " an achievement this actually was....
@@WHATISTRUTHTV This brilliant achievement is made all that more sweeter by the way it upsets you lifelong losers. Wonderful accomplishments trigger trolls.
@@rozzgrey801 that sounds like an emotional response, to an emotional alleged event. Why is it when I offer to debate someone on the Apollo missions on my show, I get nothing but crickets from all you loudmouths? Lol
@@WHATISTRUTHTV That's simple, everyone knows you are hopeless at debating anyone. You can't stand losing, but you always lose and it's cringe to watch your futile attempts to seem intelligent. People are embarrassed on your behalf.
@@rozzgrey801 lol another emotional response 🤣
It is amazing how far technology has come and how much it is still very much the same as it was then.
Greatest achievement of mankind. Still amazing.
just a cheap piece of sci fi
Moon landing was fake
@@GuxTheArtist Okay, flattard… what ever you say.
That would be microchip
No one has and never will go to the moon in this dimension
3.37mins Armstrong timed 'the appearance of the lunar landmarks from his view out the window,' ....using the checklist he made before they left home. I must be certifiably mad to think that this is truly unbeliebeable.
Agreed!
Cool recreation. Thanks for making this.
Still gets me every time
Loved this, thank you 🇺🇸👍
One of THE greatest moments in world history...I was 14...and we stayed up all night watching Walter Cronkite. A moment I'll never forget!
This was done in a movie studio set. We never have been to the moon. Go do some research.
@@BrandonBiden69
Talk about cutting it close! 30 seconds of available fuel left in a manual landing. An astronomical achievement.
This brings back memories; I watched the lunar landing live on TV.
We all did. It was an amazing moment in time.
13 minuts to the moon is a fantastic podcast from BBC 💪😃
I am here after watch Mr. Gk
The greatest thing I've ever been privileged to watch
I was two-and-a-half years old in the summer of 1969. My only memory from that summer is playing in my aunt's kitchen. 😕
I remember. 8 years old.
Entire family with us .. watching.
I remember wishing Walter Cronkite would stop talking so we could listen to the important people and what they were saying. 😂
Camera man is legendary for staying behind to get that last shot😂
ha ha never heard THAT one 🙄
What?
yeah that was a beaut. is it really 250 degrees on the sunny side of the moon?
@@loubaker6861 At noon on the lunar equator, yes, temperature reaches +100 C. But Apollo missions landed during lunar morning when temperature is +40 to +50 C.
Watched it as it happened. Those last few seconds the whole world held its breath.
Great upload.
Im honoured to hear this thank you v much
Great podcast!
What a great day that was. I was 8 years old and nothing since has captured the pride and joy of our nation like July 29, 1969.
The final words, The Eagle has landed, still send a thrill through my bones.
Now, If anyone cares to watch Apple TV's For all Mankind, the landing did not go like that...
Thanks, I just watched that apple TVs for all mankind bullsh*t, all that fake drama of such a historic moment and the bad acting. Cringe.
All 3 of them should have statues in every country as inspiration to all of what can be achieved if you work hard enough to achieve it !
My whole school stopped everything and watched this in the gym. I was 11ys old and just amazed at the thought of going into space and traveling to the moon. When I heard the conspiracy theory that this was faked, I was just flabbergasted. How on earth could you believe we spent all the time, effort and money, just to fool the Russians?
@ 4:15, or thereabouts, Steve Bales, the guidance officer, YELLS "go!!" Priceless.
Brilliant
Summer vacation.Senior year in HS growing up. Neighbor friend and I scheduled our weekend motorcycle ride on our Hondas to catch this landing.
Can't believe I'm scheduling motorcycle rides to catch Falcon 9 and now Starship launches.
Both seasons of the podcast are so good!
Awesome video, I didn’t know it was 6 hours before they left the module!
most humans have no idea how dangerous this was
Only aliens really understand
Kubrick may have had a hand in giving out the illusion... 😂
@@WHATISTRUTHTV the pressurized oxygen between the vehicles when seperated caused the lander to travel almost 20 feet per second faster than expected
@nuclearcasserole
You're wasting your time responding to that goober. He thinks the whole thing - NASA, the space programs, moon landings - it's all a hoax. He suffers from conspiratorial ideation. He should be pitied and then dismissed.
@@montythebugman6308 lol if you are so sure about your position, and I am just an idiot.... come on my show , pls. Embarrass me in front of my audience. Wouldn't it be to everyone's benefit?
I was 12 yrs old. I knew I wouldn't see them but I still ran outside to look up at the moon because there were men there looking back.
I was 10 when they landed. Not one kid over the age of 2 in our neighborhood was in the street outside. In the summer time where i lived we never went home until 9. That was the only exception to that rule. I’ll never forget than moment.
I tell my grandchildren about going to the Moon and what mankind is capable of. And I tell them for four short years this was mankind at his finest.
I knew many of the LEM designers from Grumman and they all said that every gram of weight was critical.
My supplier says the same thing!
This was the exact reason Neil Armstrong was chosen. Totally unflappable. He and Buzz were just about a perfect crew for the 1st landing.
One of the greatest moments of human endeavour.
Sure. Just not in the way you think.
THE greatest imo. The one that most exemplifies our progress from seeing the moon as a mythological deity in the night sky to something a human can stand on.
APOLLO?
Yes
@@tomerbauer Agreed.
these guys just went to the moon at first try...
lines are so clear from that distance as if it were recorded in the studio! an amazing iPhones15 must have been used that time... !
Nope, Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 had journeyed to the moon before them. This was the first of six landings.
In the absence of an atmosphere, yes, there is much sharper definition.
DAMN! I sat here, headphones on, eyes and ears riveted. Heroes.
Brilliant and very detailed podcast series, BBC WS - thanks a lot 😊
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American astronauts to leave their footprints on the lunar surface.
on the Nevada State Desert
@@AndrewBurong JFC… the flattards are all out for this one, aren't they?
Yeah, the Russians have been claiming that for years................oh wait.........
@@AndrewBurong 🤣
I was 8 we were at my aunt Cora’s on Long Island NY. RIP Aunt Cora 😊
Fact : this wasn't recommended to you, you searched for it.
It was recommended to me
I stumbled upon it. Was watching motorcycles racing,
Recommended to me as well that's a Fact
And your point 😊
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I was six years old and we watched it on tv
To many this is just ancient history , to ones that witnessed this was a epic adventure for the whole planet . And with all out advanced technology we still can't even do again. They say can be done ,but at the snails pace of planning and the cost doubt it anymore
Technology is not the reason we haven't been back since '72.
We haven't been back for one reason: Congress. Congress decided that it was more important to fight the war on drugs and be the world police than to advance science, and cancelled the deep space program. They shut down Apollo and gutted Saturn rocket production. Many companies shut their doors or scrapped their production facilities and moved on, making it impossible to restart production of the giant rocket. The Saturn V was the only rocket ever built that could lift an Apollo-sized craft into lunar orbit, without an equivalent NOBODY is going to the moon or beyond. Congress stubbornly refused to allocate funding for the development of a replacement until after the demise of the shuttle program. Artemis seems likely to be the needed replacement for the Saturn. Time will tell -- if the Congress doesn't kill this rocket as well.
The first one was faked. There's no doubt in my mind after seeing all of the evidence now available.
Absolutely stunning indeed.