From the archives: Apollo 11 moon landing leaves Walter Cronkite "speechless"
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2023
- On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon four days after it took off from Kennedy Space Center carrying three astronauts. CBS News' Walter Cronkite, who was anchoring coverage of the historic landing with former astronaut Wally Schirra, was captured on camera saying, "Wally, say something, I'm speechless."
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This is the perfect counterpoint to Cronkite delivering the news of JFK's death. That was Cronkite struggling to hold back tears of sadness, representing the nation's grief. Here is Cronkite trying to hold back the joy, representing the nation's happiness, and both times he has to take off his glasses.
I had the same thougjts when I discoveted this awsome TV broadcast. I didn’t know how tough was this landing. They touched the ground with 15s fuel left !!
Best TV moment ever !!
Not long after this, Cronkite was one of the main voices opposing NASA and had a large part to do with swaying public opinion such that apollo and the apollo applications program were cancelled. That put the world at least 50 years behind where we could have been technologically, changing the course of history
Talk about a life. Cronkite was at many, if not most, of the major turning points of the 20th Century.
And those two events are forever linked, because if it were not for JFK's bold challenge we may not have strived for the moon in the first place. And no doubt his death pushed us even harder toward that goal.
@@fridge757🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡
54 years later and this still gives me goosebumps like it did that night.
That's amazing. Did you watch it live?
@@bhaaratsharma6023 Yup, I was seven years old and fascinated by the moon. Three years later I got to meet and talk to Buzz Aldrin.
Did you see the part that says you’re watching a simulation😂😂 how was there a camera already there to see the landing? You never thought about that huh??
@@vicentecasarez5073 The camera that captured the landing was mounted in the window of the LEM by Armstrong. The image of him stepping on the moon was recorded by a camera mounted on the descent stage of the LEM and remotely controlled by mission control.
Bet you never bothered to learn anything, huh???
@@vicentecasarez5073 lmfao what are you talking about this isn't even the video of the moon landing, this is a simulation which was probably shown before the real landing was broadcasted
If those Moon landing skeptics want to see what animation and special effects were capable of in 1969, well, there it is.
Have you watched what Kubrick could do at the time?
@@v1sionary100And what he got wildly wrong…
Ironically, if CGI was available back then, that would have been more of a technology accomplishment than landing on the Moon.
"Moon landing skeptics" is a very polite, generous description.
Those sceptics are watching this and calling the moon landing fake because this footage makes it clear there were already cameras there before the landings...
Neil sent me a Letter when I became an Eagle Scout. Still have it. Showed it to him when I went to the 25th Anniversary. Had the rest of the crew sign it.
That's probably worth a ton of money now
@@hovtchil873 Most certainly. Having Neil’s signature is rare. He stopped signing things because of autograph hounds.
@@risksrewardsrelics51 I have a signed copy of James Irwin's book, 'To Rule the Night', which I recently bought very cheaply on the Internet. I don't think the seller knew what they had!
That is truly priceless.
Wonderful a treasure you will never forget.
I love how the decent talk was so casual.
“That’s a slow speed for space flight”
“It sure is”
I do so miss those old news anchors. True professionals.
Professionalism is nearly dead these days, especially on certain "channels"
Back when a newscast was meant to just to inform not to manipulate opinions!
Could you imagine Tucker Carlson at the desk giving commentary on this?
He wouldn't have made it on the air in those days! Too much integrity required for him!@@Fivepointstang2
@@Fivepointstang2 Tucker: We landed on the moon…just asking.
The era of human achievement peaked that day. Still gives me goose bumps 55 years after.
It’s up there for sure. Pizza is in the conversation for peak human achievement too.
It kept peaking but the us government keep it secret from us till today
I remember my grandma was angry when they kept replaying the moon landing, and cancelled her Bonanza show. She liked little Joe 😂😂😂
My mom worked for McDonnel Douglas in Cocoa and was selected as part of the group that would work for NASA, assemble and solder the circuit boards that went into the landing modules and capsules in the Apollo program. I was 12 years old when she woke my sister and I in the middle of the night to watch this on TV. I knew it was important but, it wasn't until I got older that I truly understood how important. It makes me smile inside to know that although she is gone, some of her work is still sitting there on the moon.
What an incredible story. Your mother helped to make history.
Thank you, she was a special person in so many ways.
Wow. Great story! Thank you for sharing it.
The peak of America's greatness. Perhaps the peak of humanity's greatness.
Funny that a perceived moment of greatness was a sham.
You're gullible
@@tremsls🙄
@@tremslsgot proof?
I remember my grandmother saying, “I didn’t think I’d see it in my lifetime.” I was 6. We had Star Trek, and Lost in Space and other things, and I thought, don’t we do this all the time?
MY (material) grandmother lived the rest of her life believing that we did not land on the moon, simply because she (with a 3rd grade education) could not conceive of how it would be possible and assumed that everyone else was similarly limited in their abilities, but also because her (very rural) church pastor believed it was a hoax and preached that to his congregation. Even many years later, I would try to convince her that it happened, but she steadfastly denied it.
@@youtuubaweird how they can't do it now!
They could. There is just none of the "can-do" spirit of that era, and everything is gummed up by political correctness, politics in general, and DEI. @@nasa_fanboy4434
@@nasa_fanboy4434 The individual knowledge of everyone involved and the “organisational know-how” of how to actually run such a huge, complex project has been lost after such a long time. Much of the equipment is archaic, and many things cannot be bought “off the shelf” but have had to be specially manufactured. Re-designing from scratch is cheaper and better. However, it takes years to build up that sort of expertise and NASA is going through the same problems it had in the early to mid-60’s.
Rocket technology has not progressed much at all and although modern computers are far more sophisticated, they are far more vulnerable to particle radiation than those that used low density integrated circuits and magnetic core memory, both of which are extremely radiation hard, so a new solution has to be found to a different problem. There is also no cold war imperative and no time limit placed on it by a president. We also live in much more risk averse times. All these issues are what has caused it to take so long this time around.
Artemis 1 was an unmanned orbit of the Moon. Artemis 2 is a manned flyby of the Moon scheduled for 2024 and Artemis 3 is a manned lunar landing scheduled for 2025/26.
@@nasa_fanboy4434His grandmother despite her ”low education” was certainly on to something. People confuse education with indoctrination too much.
God I wish we had people like Cronkite today, he was phenomenal.
We do. The difference is us.
@@Dr.Schlitzwhat does this even mean lol
They don’t make ‘em like they used to!
They actually do, though. It’s just that the news, today, doesn’t want serious people, who give the facts, and tell the truth.
It isn’t about reporting the news, anymore. Nowadays, it’s all about pushing the liberal narrative, and brainwashing people into supporting their insane agenda.
If the national news media was unbiased, or if half of it was conservative, instead of all liberal, the Democrats would be forced to come back to the real world, or they’d never win an election.
They don’t have to do that, though, because they have all the media on their side. If not for fake news, there’s no way Joe Biden would be in the White House, and half of the country would call a man in a dress a woman.
@@Dr.Schlitz i don't believe this is true - Cronkite spoke (or tried) to tell the truth - he called out Gen Moorland and McNamara for being liars and war mongers -
sadly? the 'journalists' we have now? PAID PERFORMERS - by those that killed off the likes of JFK
Meaning us, as in the future reporters of the current generqtion could be like Cronkite. @@tobiasrieper6640
Wally Schirra’s commentary was great. He said little but he said it all.
He was a very good test pilot and engineer. On Apollo 7 the first manned test of the service and command modules he caught a very bad head cold and no gravity to clear his nose and throat. He got very irritated with the ground wanting the crew to work endlessly on tests, experiments, etc. He refused to do some of them and actually had a communication mutiny with the ground for 1 day. When he got back he was reprimanded for not following orders and he never flew on a space flight again. He was given this historic commentary with Walter Cronkite because he was the first to command and test the systems the new Apollo service and command modules. The lessons learned were applied to improve the efficiency and performance of the future missions.
No joke, that CBS simulation setup was great.
Yeah, much better than I would have thought could be done back then.
It was a great production for its day, but the timing was off and we now know that Eagle was in critical trouble and miles off course. CBS was filtering out the flight controllers feed other than CAPCOM and they knew they were in trouble. One hint is the urgency in Armstrong's voice, urgently interrupting all for a readout on the 1202 alarm. This tone was very uncharacteristic for Armstrong, who was known as a very cool cucumber.
@@kitcanyon658My feelings exactly....never seen this before...
The animation from flight and Lunar perspective involved many of the VFX tech from MGM, that had worked on Forbidden Planet 13 years before. The landing with the flame animation spreading out was quite similar to the Disney animator that did the C57 landing in the movie.
It didn't look much like the 2001 modelwork or animation for the fictional Pan Am shuttle landing the year before
They used to say it was live footage
Happy 54th Anniversary on the moon landing. I was only two when this happened. My mom said that they were watching this with me and thought it was amazing on having to witness this historic moment in space exploration. This is way before live cam were put on board the spacecrafts . I do remember later on in the Apollo missions like one of the astronauts golfing on the moon. That was pretty awesome to see. I'm so looking forward to see Artemis II(?) making another historic landing on the moon,.
I hope you're joking. You understand that the deception of humanity will no longer work. The global deception is a flight to the moon.
no such thing as moon landing, biggest hoax in mankind
And this time being able to see the real thing, the real footage, live... Oh man it's gonna be something...
I had the horror of being the first person to see Apollo 11 re-enter the atmosphere. 90 Miles off North Vietnam it looked like someone fired a missile at us. I was bridge watch on USS Saratoga. The xo came out and watched this red hot thing zoom across the sky. It took 4 hours and a call to Fleet to figure out what that was.The CO called me inside at the end of my watch. He is the one that told me that .
Slava Orbanovi! Slava Ukraini! Hail to Victory!
@@furerorban9324 You wrote: "red-hot Apollo."... So there would be no people in it.
Thankfully when Walter Cronkite was around it was fun and interesting to watch the evening news. Even as a kid with my parents. Not today. Thanks for the memories Mr. Cronkite. Shalom
In this moment, these men were so proud to be Americans. So proud of the accomplishment. Such a great moment in history. I wish we could recapture the sentiment.
I think they were proud to be human
We Were All Proud To Be Americans In That Time In History.. 🇺🇸 One Small Step For Man,,,, One Giant Leap For Mankind.. What Happened To Us ?? I Really Miss Walter.....
This brought tears and a smile to my face today. I feel incredibly fortunate to have experienced this landing while watching it with my family in our living room that evening, July 20, 1969. I was 10 years old.
Walter's "Oh, boy." at 0:15 says it all. He sounded absolutely mesmerized and almost disbelieving about what he was listening to.
Like you I remember that special evening so well. My family was glued to the TV as the landing approached. I took a quick look outside at the moon and thinking to myself they are about to land. I also noticed an eerie quiet in the neighborhood, everyone was home also watching the landing on TV. My sister said all she remembered of the Apollo space program was the "beeps", she was 5 years old when they landed on the moon.
I watched this at home live with my mother...I was 18 then. We held on to every word Cronkite was saying as he spoke......we heard Armstrong say "The Eagle has landed!"....she & I were so proud to be Americans at that very magical moment.....that feeling can never really be put into words.....you would have had to be watching it all live just like us to know. The whole world watched it, too....Wow...what a memory I will always have to infinity.
Do you still believe in Santa 🎅 too?
I love watching stuff like this. One of the few times America truly came together for a goal that changed history.
they had practice at it from WWII
not everybody supported it. and after the first couple of moon landings, majority public opinion turned against nasa, and apollo was cancelled, putting us at least 50 years behind where we should have been now. not only in space technology but in the technology of our daily lives. cronkite had his part in it, insisting it wasn't worth it...
The whole world did.
I get the same feeling watching it now as I did when I watched this live on TV. This is great stuff.
I so miss my now late dad when I watched this. I then was a 9 year old boy in Australia and he and I spent many hours together watching it from takeoff until splashdown.
I watched the launch at my best friend's house on Wednesday and watched the landing at home on Sunday. My dad was at work and my sister was outside playing but my mother and I were glued to the TV. Daddy was home in time to watch them actually walking on the moon though.
Even after all these years, this still bring tears to my eyes.
Thats when we know the brainwashing has truly worked.
I was 11 years old back then. I am an old man now and we still have not been back. I hope I live long enough to see the return and then to Mars.
I was 9. I was with my grandfather when the landing happened. My father was in Vietnam. I too hope to see the return to the moon and Mars. My interest in space has always been very high due to what I experience as a young kid. I was at Wallops Island Virginia last week to witness my first rocket launch. The Antares launch of the Cygnus resupply mission to the ISS.
Same here 11 years old and I wouldn’t hold my breath with even another lunar landing. Reason: too many fail safe sensors on those rockets and built cheap.
Because we never went. 😮
I'm old enough to remember the Moon landing and even watched it on CBS. I remember Walter Cronkite and Wally Shira tearing up exactly as seen here. This is the exact clip of that moment. What didn't come out until later is that the landing wasn't as perfect as it sounds here. As the LEM came close to the surface, Neil Armstrong realized they were coming close to landing on a big bolder and he had to take the controls to shift the LEM away at an angle to avoid smashing onto it. As he did so, he only had a few seconds left of fuel for the landing and the low-fuel warning light had gone on.
What people forget is what a joyous moment this was not only for Mankind but for the US in particular. This landing for one happy moment helped the nation forget that the Vietnam War was raging and the US was losing scores of soldiers each day at this point. By 1969, the US was mired in the war against North Vietnam. During the same period as the Moon landing and all the previously successful US space launches, I remember having to watch each night on the 6 o'clock news -- on all three major channels in those days, America year before social media, having basically three major TV news outlets CBS, NBC, and ABC -- the nightly scrolling of the American war dead by name and rank each night at the end of the 6 o'clock news. After seeing the lists of dead for the day, I'd start my homework for the next day's classes. Nixon had become president and inherited a quagmire from Lyndon Johnson. He was committed to extricating the US from the war "peace with honor," but he was actually expanding it as negotiating leverage against the North by invading Cambodia and intensifying the B52 bombings of Hanoi and Haiphong until a peace conference was finally agreed to be convened among the US, North Vietnam, the Viet Cong, and South Vietnam in Paris. And even then, the parties haggled over the shape of the table until all sides could agree that no side was minimized by the seating (round). All this while Mankind and America was landing on the Moon.
It wasn’t real either. Who put the camera on the moon that recorded the whole thing??
Also the “1201” alarms @ 1:47, which could have caused them to abort, but were determined to be computer processing overloads.
I'm old enough, too, was between 7th and 8th grades, and a real Apollo fan. I remember this clip well, having seen it all in real time on CBS with Cronkite and Schirra (albeit in B&W). It was quite a day.
@@vicentecasarez5073 where is there video of Eagle landing on the Moon?
@@vicentecasarez5073 "CBS News Simulation"
I watched this in grade school at the age of seven. It was amazing. Walter Cronkite was such a staple.
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing was such an astonishing achievement, it's quite understandable that many today are unable to actually accept that it happened ! And that mission was followed by five more (Apollo 12 14 15 16 and 17) Apollo 13 failed to complete it's mission and was a near fatal event for the crew.
you can tell who has a very loose relationship with reality by the comments from the skeptics on this video.
A true professional, and I remember watching him and this on our living room floor. This was and is the seminal moment of mankind. Seventy years before we had never even flew. Speechless is the only possible feeling one could have, no matter who you are. I will never see mankind surpass this, and it was all done with less power than is on a modern cell phone. Mr. Cronkite was the model of a journalist and deliverer of the news. None of the agenda of today and it was monumental when he uttered an opinion on the air. He brought us through the 1963 Assassination and 1969 Moon Landing, I could not imagine anyone else in that seat.
Mankind’s finest moment!
I was watching this with my family from Southern California. I was 12 years old. I was building a plastic Revell model of the Apollo Command Module and the LEM. I never finished the LEM. Incredible moment in our history.
I wish we had focused on this a bit more over the last 50 years. Amazing moment.
"Man On the Moon" was issued as a 33-1/3 7 inch single with the complete audio and Walter Cronkite at that time.
Was almost 6 yrs old and was glued to my Mamaw's & Papaw's old B&W TV. Can't wait to catch the latest Manned Lunar Landing mission.
This really brings back memories. It was almost like watching it for the first time.
Remember watching that broadcast live when I was a boy - still brings tears and a thrill. Also, my dad worked for Grumman and actually made parts for the LEM...made me proud...made America proud.
What an amazing feat. Happy 54th anniversary.
Every time I see/hear this I cry. I just find this an utterly astonishing achievement even after all this time. ❤
I get chills watching this. Brings back so many memories. I was 7 years old and I remember my father making sure I watched it. I would not have missed it for the world anyway. Every true American was so proud that day.
I was glued to the tv set listening, relieved that they made it safely. I didn't get to see the moon while they were on it because of a cloud cover. It was just a matter of them going outside to walk on the moon. I saw the live television picture they sent back and thought the fact that we could see them was almost as incredible as them being there.
It's wonderful every time Armstrong nails that landing.
What you see is footage from the simulator.
It was far too risky to travel out that far, so pieces of footage were put together to make it appear that way.
@@neilarmstrongsson795That might be why it says CBS News simulation.
@@neilarmstrongsson795 er, no.
@@neilarmstrongsson795 That's likely so. Both my Dad and his 4-star general bud who was head of 15th Air Force never believed it. Supposedly, with less than a minute of descent fuel left, Armstrong shut off the descent computer, took manual control of the LEM when he saw the original landing site in a boulder field, and somehow expertly flew it under extraordinary stress and not knowing where they were then going to a perfect landing! Dad and General Jim both being career USAF pilots who had flown 22 different kinds of aircraft between them including the SR71, called BS on it because they said there was no way in hell that without a physical baseline in 1/6th Earth gravity, flying the ungainly and heavily retrorocketed that could have remotely happened.
@@stevejensen3471 Well, guess that just shows you how wrong an "expert" can be.
I am so lucky to have witnessed the greatest achievement in the history of humankind on TV. We always watched CBS and Walter Cronkite. I remember seeing his reaction when they announced they had touched down on the moon...and of course, what came later...when Armstrong set foot on the moon. Something I'll never forget!!!!
My family was stationed at Ft. Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska at the time of the moon landing...I was 7 years old and I remember my mother waking me and my three siblings up in the early morning hours to witness the first steps of man on the moon. I didn't really appreciate it at the time, but later became grateful that she decided the moment was too important to miss. This, and the watching the safe return of Apollo 13 a little less than one year later, were the two pivotal moments of my childhood.
Thank you for rekindling such a wonderful memory. I was a 7 year old boy watching this simulation. My grandmother suddenly screamed "I can not watch this" and covered her face with her hands. She thought we were watching actual footage at the time
that's because at the time they were told it WAS actual footage. Nobody ever thought they were watching an animation and no broadcast flashed "ANIMATION" on the screen like this lol.
@@SherlockGnomes007 Yes they were. I was there and as a 7 year old I knew it was a simulation.
@@glenchapman3899 I Don't believe you!
@@SherlockGnomes007 I am not all that sure anyone cares what you believe.
@@glenchapman3899 You can be positive that the feeling is mutual.
11 years old an I'm still seeing the blank an white TV on our back porch..could not get enought
The family watched this same broadcast. Small town British Columbia. Mum and dad liked Cronkite.
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was 17 and driving back from the University of Illinois that night. I had driven with my future in-laws to take my boyfriend back to school that night. We were listening to the event on the radio. When they dropped me off I ran into the house to watch it on TV. My parents were up watching. I couldn’t believe it! I walked out the front door, stood on the front porch just staring up at the moon. It was just incredible to me!
I actually remember watching this... I was 6 (that August)! Still amazing today!
My mom and dad were yelling screaming applauding at the tv. I was a little boy, not really comprehending what was going on. It's a great memory.
A memory that never happened.
@@RoseSharon7777 huh?
Awesome! and thanks Buzz Aldrin for coming to NZ in 2010 👍🇳🇿
We were a Cape Canaveral last week, amazing place. Made you proud to be a American
I remember watching this in a hotel in Miami after watching the launch four days earlier. Still gives me chills!
So nice to see humanity at its best...
i was 13 when we landed on the moon .. THE THOUGHT even at that age was remmebering kenedy saying we will land on the moon before the decade was out .. the one time the whole world was watching . on mostly black and white tv holding onto the rabbit ears at my home .. a time when all of 8 of us in
the family were together jumped up and down .. now only five of us remain .. i hope we can all set togther for t he next landing we do .. 54 years is a long time but feels like yesterday . who would have had the vission knowing space played a big part in sitting here typing here .. ..we have come along long ways ..
This is man's greatest achievement....especially with the technology we had then. Truly amazing....
My mom sat my brother and I down in front of the tv and made us watch. She said we would remember this for the rest of our lives, and I was just six-years old then and I still remember.
Same here! I was 9.
@@Tim22222 I was 7 - Mum picked me up from school and US president was talking on the radio and I asked mum what the big deal was and she said "History is being made today"
My husband used all the money he'd earned from his newspaper route to buy a color TV, only to discover that the first broadcast from the moon was in black-and-white. (Subsequent landings were broadcast in color, though.)
What I remember is how quiet it was. We lived near an international airport, but no airplanes were flying. No vehicles were on the road. Everyone was glued to their television watching this momentous occasion.
When my dad was 14, Lindbergh flew the Atlantic. When I was 14, men landed on the moon.
I later worked for a NASA contractor and had the chance to see Neil Armstrong speak about Apollo 11. He was still using a slide projector with a round slide tray, which the audiovisual people were struggling to make work properly. (One of them muttered under his breath, "You can put a man on the moon, but....") Michael Collins spoke to our Squadron Officer School class. And I saw Buzz Aldrin at a local single-A baseball game. So I've laid eyes on all three of the men of Apollo 11.
I remember watching this live when i was 10. Cronkite was the man.
I agree. I too was 10.
I watched this as a 13 year old on my grandfather's black and white TV. A moment I will never forget.
I was eight years old when this happened, I remember as if it were yesterday.
When they fade in/out to switch between the simulated images of the LEM, it reminds me of those awkward family photo portraits with different angles of everyone's face in different places on the print.
I was 9 months old at the time ... I wish I could remember watching this live.
I was a very excited 11-year old watching this!
I had the sanity of Walter Cronkite and the CBS News to listen to for the Gemini and Apollo programs - while we got through the rest of the '60s and their deep troubles. I watched the landing as a young teen with the rest of my family. My Dad was tech oriented and loved it. My Mom knew little about tech but loved that it was such an important endeavor and difficult challenge. We and my brothers watched it, and I'd never known such an excited tension. I had the over-confidence of youth that they'd make it, but still knew there was danger.
Now I'm watching the Artemis Program move forward. Too slowly, but it is moving, and with the capabilities of the SpaceX Starship HLS we'll hopefully finally build that Moon Base.
I remember it like it was yesterday. My father worked the night shift and took a small portable TV with him to work so he and his work buddies could also watch.
I wasn’t even born and it still gives me chills.
I remember watching the descent to the moon the afternoon and then later that night watching mesmerized as Armstrong and Aldrin stepped onto the moon. Those days will never come back.
I was born in 1972, but I think this is among the greatest technological achievements in human history.
Mankind's greatest achievement. Armstrong had ice in his veins.
I was up late sitting in front of the black and white TV trying to make sense of basic shapes as Neil set foot on the moon.
None of that imagery played in the original broadcast. It took a while before they could establish any kind of recognizable picture from their external camera, and a lot of us viewers were completely confused... but still excited.
I just learned about Cronkite about a passage on a test and I heard about his narration on the moon landing.R.I.P Cronkite
I remember watching this when I was 11, I miss Walter Cronkite, Schirra, Mudd, and all the late reporters of the era. Times have changed and not all for the good, but I do like my lap top and this stupid smart phone 😁😁and all these cute emoji's.
These were real men, real astronauts, real leaders, real engineers, human ingenuity in its finest moments. The lessons of these amazing people I fear are getting lost in the chaos of modern times.
Like all great (or tragic) historic events, anybody who was tuned in to these moments remembers exactly where they were. Cronkite was such a space nut, too… like a little kid.
What a great broadcast. These guys are blown away at witnessing the first animal from Earth landing on another celestial body. I love that they just let themselves be awestruck.
I was just three years old at the time watching this on tv.
I remember watching that live.
I was one year two months and 10 days old on that day.
4:49 does anyone know where the CBS Lunar Module replica came from or even where it is today?
I remember watching this
July 20, 1969 was my father's 20th birthday. He saw the landing and went to bed knowing the world would never be the same again.
Having studied the official Apollo 11 flightplan quite a lot, it's clear that Cronkite knew his stuff. He's very knowledgeable about what should be happening and when, and he uses the correct terminology to describe the "high gate" where the crew would make a decision to continue the descent and enter the P64 mode 👍🏻
Jeez they don't make 'em like Old Walt anymore.
Modern newsreaders would fill the airtime with inane ramblings, talk over important messages, and have nothing of value to add.
A tape of the NBC live broadcast of the landing was found on eBay, and digitized, and uploaded to UA-cam. No copies of that newscast were previously know to exist.
I was a little over 1 year old. I obviously don't remember but I have a photo of me in the living room playpen with this on the TV in the background.
Can only imagine what Artemis III is gonna hold. My palms will be sweaty in 2026 when we watch mans return to the moon.
Just a repeat of some info from a partly disappearing string of comments in another thread:
Someone in that thread wrote "Ironically, if CGI was available back then, that would have been more of a technology accomplishment than landing on the Moon." This seems to imply that CGI was not available in 1969.
In response, I wrote "CGI-computer-generated images-was available then. It was used in the CBS News coverage of the Gemini missions to demonstrate features of Buzz Aldrin's favorite topic, rendezvous."
In reply to me, that person wrote "1960's Animations were NOT CGI.. nor did they look real, only fools believed they were real, lol. CGI back then was absurdly low resolution, unproductive, pretty much useless."
1. After implying that CGI was not "available back then", that person wrote about how "CGI back then" was "unproductive" and "pretty much useless".
2. Animated NASA CGI from before 1969: ua-cam.com/video/Uw2X8J53k2E/v-deo.html
3. Animated CGI from 1963: ua-cam.com/video/RocLdMyUG-4/v-deo.html
4. CGI in 1962: ua-cam.com/video/XAh2xont46w/v-deo.html If this was "more of a technology accomplishment than landing on the Moon", why did this come seven years before the first manned moon-landing?
5. Computer-generated animation of the rendezvous of Gemini 6 and 7 on CBS News on 18 December 1965 (more than 3½ years before 20 July 1969): ua-cam.com/video/FinKsrsuAaU/v-deo.html Unlike the animation linked in point 2, which was generated one frame at a time and filmed one frame at a time (like cell animation), this one is animated on the fly, live on national television, at the command of the operator, right before our eyes, in 1965.
An honest question here. Where was the location of that external camera view of the LEM module coming from. Not the overhead shot from the LEM, but the more distant view of the LEM showing the LEM, the moon’s surface and what I think is the sun in the background? Where exactly is that camera and how did it get there?
Sorry, I tried to delete this comment as soon as I saw “animation” appear on the screen, but for some reason, I can delete the comment. Ugh.
0.52 "That's as slow as man has ever gone in space." Great observation.
I was 9 when this happened. Apollo 11 launched on my birthday July 16, and landed on the moon no my grandfather's birthday July 20th. We watched the CBS Evening News every week day at 6 with Walter Cronkite. If Walter reported it, you counted on the truth of it. He was the 'Grandfather of America', I hated it when he retired.
This is what news reporting should look like today.
I was spending the summer with my grandparents in '69 - I was in bed when grandpa got me up "you're gonna want to see this" - 2024 now and he was right
"behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they can will do....."
Watching this brought back so many memories and emotions. But the one that I remember most was the look on Cronkite's face as he tried to hold back his emotions for once in a good way. Where 6 years earlier he did all that he could to keep it all together when announcing to America about the death of President Kennedy.
I saw this in 1969 without the hoky animation and without the commercial. I think it was better. And what was the gizmo that looked like a combination of a Star Trek radio with a propeller?
What a feeling that was after eagle landed,tears of joy, all across the world😂😂😂🌎🌍🌏🙏🙏🙏,it certainly united all nations of the earth,that proves man can and is capable of achieving anything as long as we put our hearts into it.
30 seconds fuel call...What balls!!
Armstrong had ice in his veins. That's why he as chosen after Grissom died (as he was original choice, so I hear. Not sure if it's true or not.) But Armstrong ejected out of a test run of the LLRV, just barely surviving, brushed it off and immediately went back to work!
@@rgraz4929 His heart rate was at about 170 during the last part of the landing. So there would have been so much adrenalin he was probably smelling colors lol
@@glenchapman3899 Wow. Did not know that. Thanks.
Not only the fuel call, but the two computer alarms (the 1201 and 1202 alarms during descent) that nearly caused an abort.
Absolute craziness.
5:32, Cronkite is the greatest of all time in the anchor chair💯
I don’t remember what documentary I was watching, but I thought it was hilarious when Charlie Duke, the CAPCOM, said he got an elbow from Deke Slayton sitting next to him and told him to “Shut up Charlie and let em’ land!”
When this landing actually occurred I remember being in our living room watching it on our black and white TV.
I wonder if any of the other TV channels that evening were showing anything besides the moon landing.