34 years ago today, a point in time.....(pictures, sound)

Dan Murphy · Jul 20, 2003

Dan Murphy · Jul 20, 2003

<img src="http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/ap11ann/kippsphotos/39601.jpg" width="600" height="450">
Eagle/Houston dialog at landing
EAGLE: 540 feet, down at 30 [feet per second] . . . down at 15
. . . 400 feet down at 9 . . . forward . . . 350 feet, down at 4 . . . 300 feet,
down 3 1/2 . . . 47 forward . . . 1 1/2 down . . . 13 forward . . . 11 forward?
coming down nicely . . . 200 feet, 4 1/2 down . . . 5 1/2 down . . . 5 percent .
. . 75 feet . . . 6 forward . . . lights on . . . down 2 1/2 . . . 40 feet? down
2 1/2, kicking up some dust . . . 30 feet, 2 1/2 down . . . faint shadow . . . 4
forward . . . 4 forward . . . drifting to right a little . . . O.K. . . . 
HOUSTON: 30 seconds [fuel remaining]. 
EAGLE: Contact light! O.K., engine stop . . . descent engine
command override off . . . 
HOUSTON: We copy you down, Eagle. 
EAGLE: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed! 
HOUSTON: Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You've
got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot. 
TRANQUILITY: Thank you . . . That may have seemed like a very
long final phase. The auto targeting was taking us right into a
football-field-sized crater, with a large number of big boulders and rocks for
about one or two crater-diameters around it, and it required flying manually
over the rock field to find a reasonably good area. 
HOUSTON: Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here,
Tranquility. Over. 
TRANQUILITY: We'll get to the details of what's around here,
but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape, angularity,
granularity, about every variety of rock you could find. 
HOUSTON: Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there's lots of
smiling faces in this room, and all over the world.
 
<img src="http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/ap11ann/kippsphotos/5454.jpg" width="600" height="603">
<img height="605" src="http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo11/lores/as11_40_5868.jpg" width="600">
<img height="394" src="http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo11/lores/s69_40308.jpg" width="600">
<img src="http://www.decaturco.k12.in.us/space/spaceimages/Apollo11.Aldrin.EVA.on.Moon.gif" align="bottom" X-SAS-UseImageHeight X-SAS-UseImageWidth width="600" height="472">
<img height="550" src="http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo11/lores/as11_40_5874.jpg" width="521">
<img height="483" src="http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/ap11ann/kippsphotos/5880.jpg" width="600">
<img src="http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/ap11ann/kippsphotos/40023.jpg" width="551" height="800">
PS: After posting this I noticed Mark P had a similar
post, but thought some of the pictures and links added here might be enjoyed

Princess Michelle · Jul 20, 2003

I wasn't around then but I'm sure that must have been a really cool day! Thanks for the pics and the post.

PandyPaws · Jul 20, 2003

I was all of 9 years old then, and remember it well

Very cool, Dan, Thanks.

Louise-Montreal · Jul 20, 2003

Thanks, Dan. I remember my Dad waking us up to watch and the awe of everyone. Now - that was magic!!

Louise

d.kurz · Jul 20, 2003

Thanks, Dan. I was young at the time. In fact on that day I saw "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" at the movies!

lisajl · Jul 20, 2003

dAN,
Thanks for the post. I was only 6 at the time and really did not remember it.
My DS's had a great time watching the videos you posted and looking at the photos!

Thanks for our history lesson today

Goofyposter · Jul 20, 2003

Thank You DAN !!!
Excellent post!

As Fishsticks will quickly rise to declare me 'older THAN the moon'.....this brings back some wonderful memories.

I was not yet 8....and as was our custom my family was staying at our summer place. We didn't even have a TV....I remember my Dad and I going to buy the biggest Zeith (Black & White) tv set...and the best rabbitt ears we could find just so we could watch the landing. As it was so late I too was woken up to come downstairs to witness this most monumental of human endeavors climax.

I recall it being an extremely moving...spellbinding, breath-holding experience....I can still to this day remember the camera showing the control room in Houston and watching the people all clapping and smiling.....to me and to many....this technological achievement still serves as a guiding example of what we, as humans, are capable to doing if we hold an honorable goal and are willing to changellene ourselves.

Thanks Dan!

CarolynFH · Jul 20, 2003

Thanks for the memories, Dan. I was home from college for the summer, reading The Andromeda Strain, wondering, could it be for real?

Beast · Jul 20, 2003

I was just a few days short of turning eight years old.

There were no home VCR's, DVD's...

However, not that this helps now, but back during the 20th anniversary, A&E had a program called "As It Happened" where they showed the launch, the moon walk, and the splashdown at the same time on the same dates that it happened. I recorded them and hopefully can get them transfered to DVD sometime.

Good weekend to watch "The Right Stuff", "Apollo 13" and "From Earth to the Moon" (although I haven't had a chance to see that one yet.)

Poohbear123 · Jul 20, 2003

I was 11 years old and my Brother was 16! :eek:

He was very fascinated with the Apollo Program and had Pictures of Astronauts on his wall, next to a Poster of the Moon.

Thanks for the Memories Dan.

Beast · Jul 20, 2003

Nevermind....made a mistake. I'll try again later.

Pin Wizard · Jul 20, 2003

Wow! I was 10 at the time (yikes! Richard is 10!) and remember it clearly. Thanks, Dan!

WebmasterMaryJo · Jul 20, 2003

I was 9 at the time, & my brother 8. We both remember it clearly. That was really special.

Thanks for the post, Dan. This was really good.

helenabear · Jul 20, 2003

Wasn't even a twinkle in my parent's eye yet for this... something I wish I could have seen

Micca · Jul 20, 2003

...and just a couple of months later, The Beatles released Abbey Road. Good year, '69

MaryAnnDVC · Jul 20, 2003

I was 11, and my mom and I stayed up to watch. I remember she had a glass of wine to celebrate and I had a little of my own.

Thanks for the memories...

Do OUR kids ever experience that kind of awe over anything these days?

laceemouse · Jul 20, 2003

Dan, I was 6 years old at the time, and I remember it. Thanks for the pictures, my 8yr. old son LOVED them!!!

MaryAnnDVC · Jul 20, 2003

I found a website where people posted their memories. http://www.wherewereyou.com/ I liked this one:

I was a junior Navy officer on a highly classified intelligence mission near Southeast Asia. We were cruising on the high seas and a Soviet "fishing trawler" was following us - as usual. They were about five or six miles astern. We had all been listening to radio broadcasts about the moon landing all day. When Neil Armstrong finally set foot on the moon and broadcast those memorable words, you can bet we were all filled with pride.

Our pride was even greater a few minutes later when we noticed that the Soviet trawler was sending us an old fashioned flashing light signal. We were all high-tech and it took us some time to find an old "radioman" that could read flashing light. He was very much out of practice, but after asking them to resend the message numerous times we were finally able to read the message.

"Congratulations, Americans!"

I will never forget the moment.
- Larry J. Wine, Marketing Executive

JohnTBap · Jul 20, 2003

34 years ago today, a point in time.....(pictures, sound)

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