I had just graduated from high school in the summer of 1969. Everyone I knew from little kids to grandparents excitedly watched the landing of Apollo 11 that entire night. People opened bottles of champagne, kids set off little firecrackers in the yard, and everyone talked about it for days, often crying with joy and pride.
I watched the Apollo 11 moon landing live on a 12-inch black-and-white TV on my 12th birthday (on CBS with Walter Cronkite, as shown in the movie). I don't think you can imagine the awe that the entire world experienced that day watching history taking place. It was amazing.
Director Ron Howard anticipated difficulty in portraying weightlessness in a realistic manner. He discussed this with Steven Spielberg, who suggested using a KC-135 airplane, which can be flown in such a way as to create about 23 seconds of weightlessness, a method NASA has always used to train its astronauts for space flight. Howard obtained NASA's permission and assistance in filming in the realistic conditions aboard multiple KC-135 flights. The cast and crew flew between 612 parabolic arcs in NASA's KC-135 airplane (nicknamed the "Vomit Comet"). Each arc produced 20 seconds of weightlessness. All of these flights were completed in 13 days.
The disaster you might be thinking of was the space shuttle Challenger explosion in 1986. (The other disaster was the fire of Apollo 1 in 1967 which the little boy was worried about.)
The Artemis missions began to be funded and planned in about 2005/6 to return to the Moon, but this time is an international project with money, resources, staff and equipment from a group of countries. The goal is to land on the Moon but for longer periods of time than ever before and eventually establish facilities on the Moon for living, scientific research, etc. The Artemis rockets are enormous and several unmanned missions are scheduled before sending people out there.
There is an excellent documentary that came out in 2007 titled In the Shadow of the Moon, which interviews most of the astronauts who went to the Moon , from Apollo 11 to Apollo 17. Highly recommended.
Other than those flights to the Moon, there have been 6 missions to Mars (which is a nearly 6 month journey) there were the Voyager missions which went to the outer planets and then beyond the solar system, there was the Hubble telescope then the more recent Webb Telescope, there were 135 the Space Shuttle missions, there was the International Space Station, there were missions to space to study the Sun, various planets, asteroids, etc. Even if there were not manned flights to the Moon since the last one in 1972, there were still a lot of missions to space, a lot of activities, and a lot of scientific discoveries.
At the end of the Movie Tom Hanks shakes hands with the real Jim Lovell (an older guy wearing a White Cap). Jim Lovell is still with us and is in his 90's. Sadly, Marilyn Lovell passed away last year. Jim Lovell's Mom is played by Ron Howard's Mother. The bald, geeky looking Technician wearing glasses in the Houston Control Room is played by Clint Howard. I remember watching the coverage of Apollo 13. It was a real nail biter. We really didn't know if they would make it home or not. This has been called the "Miracle Mission". If Ken Mattingly hadn't been left behind, he would not have been able to work out the Procedure in the Simulator that sucessfully brought them home.
The zero-G scenes were shot in small segments in the "vomit Comet" airplane (look it up). And the scene where they argue up in the LEM didn't actually happen, the astronauts were cool, calm and collected throughout. The original audio from the mission is available, a Google search will lead you to it.
I was nine when they landed on the moon. I had a scale model of the Apollo rocket that you could separate and held the lunar module. I played with it for a long time.
I was 12 the year of the moon landing and I had that same model. It was about 3 ft tall or something like that, right?? If we had that today it'd be worth a fortune!!😮😅 I've seen something similar on Amazon but I don't think it's anything like what we had back then!!
***IWATCHED THE MOON LANDING*** I was 5 years old but still remember it fairly well. ALSO, my father was a quality test engineer who worked for Grumman who made the Landing Module that landed on the moon and my father in Law was an engineer worked for DELCO BATTERY who made the batteries that were used in the craft as well as the LUNAR ROVER that drove on the moon.
Two documentaries you should watch and meet these people and events of Mission Control and Gene Kranz. "Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo" "Failure is not an Option" (from the book by Gene Kranz) I was a Senior in H.S. about 6 weeks before graduation for this event. Had followed everything since Alan Shepherd's sub orbital 1st American in space.
I was 5 living in Ft. Lauderdale . Seen Apollo's 11, 12, and 13 launch's from our front yard near the ocean . I wanted to be that guy. Now at 62 you can't get me on a ladder 😂
I've seen the space shuttle go up from down there (Boca in '86) but WOW I can't imagine what the Apollo Saturn 5 rocket must have looked like going up LIVE!!! 😮😮❤
@@bernardsalvatore1929 lt was like a smokey backwards Romen candle rumbling up and out over the ocean. Cap Canaveral was like 50 miles north so we had a good spot. The Jets flew over a lot. Our windows shook from sound barriers broke. Back then no regulations on it. 😂
Don't worry about all the acronyms. To quote Dr Tyson, your strapping yourself onto a modified Intercontinental Ballistic Missle. He might have said an ICBM on crack. Acronyms everywhere! Military loves them, NASA loves them, they will be everywhere!
I recall JFK making the promise we would land on the moon by the end of the decade, followed by dozens of magazine articles laying out the scheduling of each step. I was so bummed out as I just thought that the year 1969 would never get here. America held its collective breath watching these grainy tv pictures televised live as it happened. And yes, it soon became routine. There are dozens of flights over the years up and back to the space stations orbiting the earth and few people pay attention.
There is actually a manned moon mission currently in the works! NASA is partnering with a number of other space agencies for the Artemis program that is set to land Artemis 3 on the moon in 2025.
I remember watching the moon landing on tv. I had just turned 14. It truly was amazing to see. I really enjoy your reactions. I am a huge fan of yours. 🤗🤗
Yeesh this is an oldie.... I was 11 when it came out on VHS... Loved it. That's Tom Hanks, probably one of the greatest actors out there....Forrest Gump, The Green Mile, Castaway are some of his biggest films.
This is a sort of standard comment I post on many reactions to this film...hope you do not mind a bit of copy/pasting it here. A terrific quote I encountered recently has to do with Apollo 13..."NASA is absolutely not superstitious, but you can bet they will never launch anything numbered "13" ever again." Not sure if that is a real quote...but it does not seem that NASA has sent anything into space with the number 13 on it ever since, though commercial satellite companies have. Also...fun fact "consolation prize"...since they did not go into orbit around the Moon on their free return trajectory, Apollo 13 traveled a bit further away from Earth than all of the other flights to the Moon. So to this day, Lovell, Haise, and Swigert hold the record for the farthest distance from Earth people have ever traveled.
See, I’m of the mindset that, yes, we DID go to the moon, but not solely for the reasons that we’re given. I suspect we went to the moon and never left…as in, the military has some secrets that have never been made public!!! DUN DUN DUN!!! 😜
Why don't we go back to the moon? The answer lies with the question, "Did we ever go to the moon?" That answer lies with whether you believe 1969 NASA or today's NASA. 1969 NASA unequivocally claimed that we went to the moon. Today's NASA is a bit more cryptic in their answers. For instance, when asked why we do not go to Mars, NASA replied that it is because we do not yet have the technology to get through the Van Allen belts. The problem with this statement is that not only must you get through the Van Allen belts to go to Mars, but you must also get through the Van Allen belts to go to the moon. WTF?! When asked why we can't return to the moon, NASA has told us because we no longer have the technology to do so. We lost it. And again, WTF?! So it's either we do not yet have the technology to traverse the Van Allen belts or we did have it but managed to lose it. These are not the only statements made by today's NASA that has raised many an eyebrow, calling into question as to whether we have actually ever been to the moon. Obviously someone is lying. The question is "who?"1969 NASA or today's NASA? Beats me. But why? Well, if we didn't go to the moon, then the reason for 1969 NASA to lie to us is pretty apparent, and personally, I feel far less interesting considering the changed global political climate in the past 53 years. In 1969, our goal was to beat the USSR to the moon. If we couldn't do it, then faking it would be an easy answer. Pretty boring stuff in the light of today, and a conspiracy theory that is rather one dimensional and does not lead to anything fun or unusual. Faked a moon landing, got away with it. Yawn. Now if we are being lied to by today's NASA? Well, the answer to why, could be a heck of a lot more fun! Why tell us we never went to the moon if we did? The possibilities are endless. And luckily for all of us who love an intriguing and off the wall conspiracy theory, NASA's inability to keep their stories straight has led to a plethora of crazy ideas and notions as to why they are lying about never going to the moon. Aliens on the moon, secret Earth bases on Mars and beyond. And that's just a scratch on the surface of the endless conspiracy theories that are out there. The possibilities are countless and such a fun deep dive. I can spend hours deep diving into the crazy. And it's a blast. Did we ever go to the moon? I don't have a clue. But why do we not go to, or back to, the moon? Start your engines. This is where the fun begins!
I had just graduated from high school in the summer of 1969. Everyone I knew from little kids to grandparents excitedly watched the landing of Apollo 11 that entire night.
People opened bottles of champagne, kids set off little firecrackers in the yard, and everyone talked about it for days, often crying with joy and pride.
I watched the Apollo 11 moon landing live on a 12-inch black-and-white TV on my 12th birthday (on CBS with Walter Cronkite, as shown in the movie). I don't think you can imagine the awe that the entire world experienced that day watching history taking place. It was amazing.
Director Ron Howard anticipated difficulty in portraying weightlessness in a realistic manner. He discussed this with Steven Spielberg, who suggested using a KC-135 airplane, which can be flown in such a way as to create about 23 seconds of weightlessness, a method NASA has always used to train its astronauts for space flight. Howard obtained NASA's permission and assistance in filming in the realistic conditions aboard multiple KC-135 flights.
The cast and crew flew between 612 parabolic arcs in NASA's KC-135 airplane (nicknamed the "Vomit Comet"). Each arc produced 20 seconds of weightlessness. All of these flights were completed in 13 days.
The disaster you might be thinking of was the space shuttle Challenger explosion in 1986.
(The other disaster was the fire of Apollo 1 in 1967 which the little boy was worried about.)
The Artemis missions began to be funded and planned in about 2005/6 to return to the Moon, but this time is an international project with money, resources, staff and equipment from a group of countries. The goal is to land on the Moon but for longer periods of time than ever before and eventually establish facilities on the Moon for living, scientific research, etc. The Artemis rockets are enormous and several unmanned missions are scheduled before sending people out there.
There is an excellent documentary that came out in 2007 titled In the Shadow of the Moon, which interviews most of the astronauts who went to the Moon , from Apollo 11 to Apollo 17. Highly recommended.
Other than those flights to the Moon, there have been 6 missions to Mars (which is a nearly 6 month journey) there were the Voyager missions which went to the outer planets and then beyond the solar system, there was the Hubble telescope then the more recent Webb Telescope, there were 135 the Space Shuttle missions, there was the International Space Station, there were missions to space to study the Sun, various planets, asteroids, etc.
Even if there were not manned flights to the Moon since the last one in 1972, there were still a lot of missions to space, a lot of activities, and a lot of scientific discoveries.
At the end of the Movie Tom Hanks shakes hands with the real Jim Lovell (an older guy wearing a White Cap). Jim Lovell is still with us and is in his 90's. Sadly, Marilyn Lovell passed away last year. Jim Lovell's Mom is played by Ron Howard's Mother. The bald, geeky looking Technician wearing glasses in the Houston Control Room is played by Clint Howard. I remember watching the coverage of Apollo 13. It was a real nail biter. We really didn't know if they would make it home or not. This has been called the "Miracle Mission".
If Ken Mattingly hadn't been left behind, he would not have been able to work out the Procedure in the Simulator that sucessfully brought them home.
The zero-G scenes were shot in small segments in the "vomit Comet" airplane (look it up). And the scene where they argue up in the LEM didn't actually happen, the astronauts were cool, calm and collected throughout. The original audio from the mission is available, a Google search will lead you to it.
This is a true story
I was nine when they landed on the moon. I had a scale model of the Apollo rocket that you could separate and held the lunar module. I played with it for a long time.
I was 12 the year of the moon landing and I had that same model. It was about 3 ft tall or something like that, right?? If we had that today it'd be worth a fortune!!😮😅
I've seen something similar on Amazon but I don't think it's anything like what we had back then!!
***IWATCHED THE MOON LANDING*** I was 5 years old but still remember it fairly well. ALSO, my father was a quality test engineer who worked for Grumman who made the Landing Module that landed on the moon and my father in Law was an engineer worked for DELCO BATTERY who made the batteries that were used in the craft as well as the LUNAR ROVER that drove on the moon.
Two documentaries you should watch and meet these people and events of Mission Control and Gene Kranz.
"Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo"
"Failure is not an Option" (from the book by Gene Kranz)
I was a Senior in H.S. about 6 weeks before graduation for this event. Had followed everything since Alan Shepherd's sub orbital 1st American in space.
Dude I’m so happy to see you reacting to this good ol 90s classic!
I was 5 living in Ft. Lauderdale . Seen Apollo's 11, 12, and 13 launch's from our front yard near the ocean . I wanted to be that guy. Now at 62 you can't get me on a ladder 😂
😂😂 that’s so cool that you got to watch them!
I've seen the space shuttle go up from down there (Boca in '86) but WOW I can't imagine what the Apollo Saturn 5 rocket must have looked like going up LIVE!!! 😮😮❤
@@bernardsalvatore1929 lt was like a smokey backwards Romen candle rumbling up and out over the ocean. Cap Canaveral was like 50 miles north so we had a good spot. The Jets flew over a lot. Our windows shook from sound barriers broke. Back then no regulations on it. 😂
Don't worry about all the acronyms. To quote Dr Tyson, your strapping yourself onto a modified Intercontinental Ballistic Missle. He might have said an ICBM on crack. Acronyms everywhere! Military loves them, NASA loves them, they will be everywhere!
I recall JFK making the promise we would land on the moon by the end of the decade, followed by dozens of magazine articles laying out the scheduling of each step. I was so bummed out as I just thought that the year 1969 would never get here.
America held its collective breath watching these grainy tv pictures televised live as it happened. And yes, it soon became routine. There are dozens of flights over the years up and back to the space stations orbiting the earth and few people pay attention.
One of my favorite movies 😊
I did, I was 7 years old.
There is actually a manned moon mission currently in the works! NASA is partnering with a number of other space agencies for the Artemis program that is set to land Artemis 3 on the moon in 2025.
I remember watching the moon landing on tv. I had just turned 14. It truly was amazing to see. I really enjoy your reactions. I am a huge fan of yours. 🤗🤗
Yeesh this is an oldie.... I was 11 when it came out on VHS... Loved it.
That's Tom Hanks, probably one of the greatest actors out there....Forrest Gump, The Green Mile, Castaway are some of his biggest films.
Right? I was 8 when it came out on VHS. I still remember hitting up Blockbuster with my mom and picking it out off the shelf😅
there were 6 more moon landings and 12 men walked on the moon.
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Who watched the Apollo 11 moon landing? The Entire World!!
I didn't watch it. I was at Boy Scout camp the week they landed on the moon the first time. They did announce it over a public address system.
This is a sort of standard comment I post on many reactions to this film...hope you do not mind a bit of copy/pasting it here.
A terrific quote I encountered recently has to do with Apollo 13..."NASA is absolutely not superstitious, but you can bet they will never launch anything numbered "13" ever again." Not sure if that is a real quote...but it does not seem that NASA has sent anything into space with the number 13 on it ever since, though commercial satellite companies have.
Also...fun fact "consolation prize"...since they did not go into orbit around the Moon on their free return trajectory, Apollo 13 traveled a bit further away from Earth than all of the other flights to the Moon. So to this day, Lovell, Haise, and Swigert hold the record for the farthest distance from Earth people have ever traveled.
Still one of my favorite movies
See, I’m of the mindset that, yes, we DID go to the moon, but not solely for the reasons that we’re given. I suspect we went to the moon and never left…as in, the military has some secrets that have never been made public!!! DUN DUN DUN!!! 😜
Why don't we go back to the moon? The answer lies with the question, "Did we ever go to the moon?" That answer lies with whether you believe 1969 NASA or today's NASA.
1969 NASA unequivocally claimed that we went to the moon. Today's NASA is a bit more cryptic in their answers. For instance, when asked why we do not go to Mars, NASA replied that it is because we do not yet have the technology to get through the Van Allen belts. The problem with this statement is that not only must you get through the Van Allen belts to go to Mars, but you must also get through the Van Allen belts to go to the moon. WTF?! When asked why we can't return to the moon, NASA has told us because we no longer have the technology to do so. We lost it. And again, WTF?! So it's either we do not yet have the technology to traverse the Van Allen belts or we did have it but managed to lose it.
These are not the only statements made by today's NASA that has raised many an eyebrow, calling into question as to whether we have actually ever been to the moon. Obviously someone is lying. The question is "who?"1969 NASA or today's NASA? Beats me.
But why? Well, if we didn't go to the moon, then the reason for 1969 NASA to lie to us is pretty apparent, and personally, I feel far less interesting considering the changed global political climate in the past 53 years. In 1969, our goal was to beat the USSR to the moon. If we couldn't do it, then faking it would be an easy answer. Pretty boring stuff in the light of today, and a conspiracy theory that is rather one dimensional and does not lead to anything fun or unusual. Faked a moon landing, got away with it. Yawn.
Now if we are being lied to by today's NASA? Well, the answer to why, could be a heck of a lot more fun! Why tell us we never went to the moon if we did? The possibilities are endless. And luckily for all of us who love an intriguing and off the wall conspiracy theory, NASA's inability to keep their stories straight has led to a plethora of crazy ideas and notions as to why they are lying about never going to the moon. Aliens on the moon, secret Earth bases on Mars and beyond. And that's just a scratch on the surface of the endless conspiracy theories that are out there. The possibilities are countless and such a fun deep dive. I can spend hours deep diving into the crazy. And it's a blast.
Did we ever go to the moon? I don't have a clue. But why do we not go to, or back to, the moon? Start your engines. This is where the fun begins!
We're not being lied to by NASA. We're being lied to by the likes of YOU.
Who watched the Apollo 11 moon landing? The entire world!!!