Apollo 11 55th Anniversary
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- 55 years on from the historic Apollo 11 moon landing, we take a look at a couple of particularly interesting books on the subject, that are sure to impress!
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Born in 66 Apollo 11 is one of my first and best summer memories. We watched the landing on a hot sommer day at grandpa's house. Later I remember we stood in the garden looking up at the moon with my dad
I remember being awoken at my grandma's early morning to watch the launch and then moon landings. I was 6 yrs old, the fascination and interest in space has never left me.
It was the last day of term & there was a TV in the classroom. Unbelieveable.
That is a trully amazing book that Apollo book your wife got you last Xmas man,wow,I was around 4 & a half when Apollo 11 took place,my sister who is 10 years older remembers watching Neil Armstrongs famous achievement on black & white TV at school that day she said,I can vaguely remember my parents talking about the moon landing even at that age?,My mother & much older brother was avid readers & always had a great many national geographic magazines dating back to the 1930's,40's,50's,60's & 70's at home,being 5,6,7 & 8 years of age I remember studying those 60's NG's all about the early Mercury,Gemini & later Apollo missions,those great illustrations of the command module & LEM I remember studying over & over & over,fascinating,love the Apollo 13 movie,have watched it many times,great direction,awesome actors,my favourite alltime movies are the 1983 movie 'The right stuff' & the year 2000 Aussie movie with Sam Neil 'The dish',cheers
I was 10 years old and I still remember it very well. I remember seeing it on television in the hall at my junior school. I was so interested about the space race then. My dad helped me build the Airfix Saturn V rocket and the Luna Module. I remember taking them to school and doing a talk to my class about the rocket and the order of each stage used.
Always a pleasant interesting watch.
The landing was in the evening here in the UK, around 8.20pm I believe. The moonwalk followed around 3am. It was a Sunday and my school had given us the Monday off to recover from a very exciting (for an 8 year old!) night. The BBC coverage was presented by Cliff Michelmore, Patrick Moore and James Burke.
@@TheGrumpyEnglishman I vaguely remember them touching down then not much happening and I had to go to bed...we saw the moonwalk shown next morning. I thought the BBC coverage was excellent, much better than they do today on big events.
Hi from Glasgow I was Born in 1962 and I Remember Apolo
Hi Peter, I'm an oldie, born in 1958, I remember the whole of the Apollo era and have been somewhat disappointed with the space program ever since. I think that the time for progress is now here and it will be interesting to see which nations are willing to take up the challenge, cheers Peter.
A great presentation Peter. I was 7 when the crew of Apollo 11 created history. It remains the most significant historic event in my life. I remember my Dad bought a set of Kodak slides of the moon walk etc. Not sure what happened to them unfortunately.
It had a fantatics and wondrous work sheep book
On topic...er sort of, I recently added a Revell 1/48 Apollo Lunar Module Eagle and a Monogram 1/32 Apollo Spacecraft to my stash. Old, but still great models! I also built the 1/144 scale Saturn V way back in the early 70s.
Thanks Peter. Good stuff! Early manned space flight and especially Apollo are my favourite subjects! I arrived on Earth a few weeks before the last man stepped off the moon for the last time so don't have memories. if you ever see a copy of `The unbroken chain` by Guenter Wendt, Grab it with both hands and declare a new PRECIOUSSSSS! Kit wise I feel there Isn't much in the way of modern toolings, sadly. Fingers crossed for something soon!
@@AubreyStJohn3000 "I wonder where Guenter Wendt?" 😜
Oh, nearly forgot, you asked for thoughts on the Apollo missions, Peter? Well, I remember in the early '70s that by the time 16 & 17 were on the go, many people started regarding the Moonshots as "routine". Can you imagine that? Routine! Children back then were called the "Space Age Kids" who were *expected* to go on and explore the entire Solar System once they reached adulthood! My, how that dream quickly faded. When the Shuttle made its first appearance in the mid 70s, that was assumed to be the craft for the Mars mission. So funny when I think back now, here in the year 2024. You were right Peter, we have gone backwards! Still, I will build those two models anyway and, thanks to your lovely images you showed here of the shoddy looking LEM, I will be able to make them much more authentic looking!
I really wanted to see this live but in my defence M'Lud I was in the pub.
@@nigelpickett2471 @Nigel...BOW YOUR HEAD IN SHAME...(but it was Sat night, so i don't blame you! 🍻) 😂
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab It was my friends 92nd Birthday, he may not have many left!
July 20th 1969 was my 5th birthday. Was the landing the 21st in English time? Vaguely remembered. Love the video.
Child of '62 here. I certainly remember all the buzz about it, for the months before & I think just about every book I had that wasn't a hand-me-down encyclopedia from the 1940s, was about Space or Apollo. It's hard to understand these days how exciting that extremely fuzzy B&W image was to not just me, but my parents, who If memory serves, dragged me out of bed to see it live. For me the only thing that came even remotely close to that level in the proceeding years was perhaps the Falklands war, especially since I was (remotely) involved in it, and the fall of the Berlin Wall... when everything in the future was going to be sunshine & roses. I'm sure you are right about these conspiracy theories. Although I think they started a little earlier with the advent of certain drugs.... Capricorn One certainly played a hand, as did the Erich von Däniken books (what nonsense). In those day, Flat Earth was the premise of a "gentlemens society" with a handful of subscribers. These days it is largely the result of Right wing Biblical adherents who are often Young Earth Creationists, who literally believe Genesis (where it fits their narrative) & being Right Wing, distrust all government & governing institutions.... Therefore NASA must be fake & so is Space... Phew! Starting to sound like I care just there. PS 2001 Came out the year before Apollo 11... Which makes it all such an achievement. PPS Those Shonky panels on the Lunar Lander were essentially just foil & card thermal shielding & not at all structural. The structure was more or less milled from a solid lump of ally alloy.
What a shame that the US cancelled Apollo in favour of the space shuttle. If they hadn't, astronauts would have likely landed on Mars by now.
Von Braun proposed using improved Saturn Vs and a nuclear-powered upper stage called NERVA. Boeing were also involved in this proposal in 1969. Testing in earth orbit of the first Mars Excursion Module would begin in 1978, with the first Mars landing coming in 1982. For those interested, look up "Von Braun Mars Expedition - 1969" or "Von Braun's late 1960s Mars "Integrated Plan"."
2001 was made in 1968 - so well before Capricorn 1.
I was 11 at the time of Apollo 11 so was already well into space geek mode. I even remember some Gemini missions.
Neil de Grasse Tyson says that the memory of the Lunar Module’s computer was about the same as what’s on the chip in a singing greeting card.
Bill Anders did take the famous earthrise picture.
The Apollo 8 crew was Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders.
Only Lovell is still alive.
UK TV definitely covered the landing and first moonwalk live.
The landing was around 9pm UK time and the moonwalk in the early hours of the morning
Most TV stations then put it on a TV loop for the rest of the morning. We didn’t have all day TV broadcasting back then.
The picture on the back cover is Apollo 15 I think as it landed on a bit of a slope. The mountains in the background are the Lunar Appenines.
Pink Floyd also did the background music for the British broadcasts.
@@LambonightsBBC or ITV?
I tended to watch the ITV version which was hosted by Alistair Burnett and had Peter Fairley as the technical expert.
I seem to recall they used Frank Sinatra’s recording of “Fly Me to the Moon”.
@@EricIrl The BBC commissioned them to write incidental music during their Moon Landing coverage. It really helped raise the band's profile. They went on to provide music for the series Life On Earth too. These were the days the BBC used to do cool things like that.
EDIT: A Quote.
"David Gilmour told The Guardian in 2009 of the unprecedented experience, “We were in a BBC TV studio jamming to the landing. It was a live broadcast, and there was a panel of scientists on one side of the studio, with us on the other. I was 23.” It was an event that came early in Gilmour’s career in the band, having joined in 1968, and it provided another note of merit on Pink Floyd’s growing musical CV as well as an early contender for the best “I’ll tell the grandkids about that”."
Production started in late 1965. It was released in 1968.
@@TheGrumpyEnglishman Absolutely. In fact, the preliminary conversations between Kubrick and Clarke had started as early as1964.
The vehicles were given names by the crews since they separated and you couldn't just refer to each part by the same Apollo designation. That's why you get Gumdrop and Spider, Columbia and Eagle, Snoopy and Charlie Brown etc.
@@Reactordrone During Project Mercury astronauts were allowed name their spacecraft and the names were then used as radio call signs - Friendship7, Aurora 7, Liberty Bell 7 etc.
They were going to continue the practice for Project Gemini but Gus Grissom called his Gemini spacecraft “Molly Brown” (after the musical “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”). This did not go down well with NASA management so they banned spacecraft names until Apollo 9 as they realised that the Command Module and Lunar Module would require individual call signs when flying separately.
Hi again from Glasgow the Apollo Details please thanks again for the video Sir
@@cameronpatterson1045 Cheers Cameron! 🏴
'Apollo remastered' by Andy Saunders. 👍🏻
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab thanks for the information on the Book
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Hi Peter! Very enjoyable video!
I know he was a nazi, but without him, apollo would not have happened. Right?
I was thinkng, you cant just simply skip over and discount him or the 1/2 township full of germans that came with him (the rest went to the USSR).
@@MrFumblethumbs True, but I did show the picture of him with Kennedy...
Yes you did Peter. A great man once said "we can't just simply airbrush history". His name was Peter Oxley!