Earth Rise:

[Cooperhawk]

Don't forget, they sometimes claim it was done on a Hollywood Sound Stage. :roll:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/dE-vOscpiNc

 

[gramps]

Thank you! What a Christmas present!
gramps

 

[Rick Courtright]

Don't forget, they sometimes claim it was done on a Hollywood Sound Stage. :roll:

Hi,

Everybody "knows" that's not true. It was Burbank!

Looking at the little display in the top right corner, they show Lat-Lon coordinates. What serves as the starting point, the moon's "Greenwich" as it were?

Rick C

 

[toysoldier]

The best argument I ever read about the genuineness of our moon landings is that the Soviets never challenged them.

 

[noquarter]

Don't forget, they sometimes claim it was done on a Hollywood Sound Stage. :roll:

Hi,

Everybody "knows" that's not true. It was Burbank!

Looking at the little display in the top right corner, they show Lat-Lon coordinates. What serves as the starting point, the moon's "Greenwich" as it were?

Rick C

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenographic_coordinates

 

[Rick Courtright]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenographic_coordinates

Hi,

Very interesting--thank you!

Rick C

 

[blume357]

So, will my new Garmin GPS work up there?

I actually remember Apollo 8 just as well as 11. Those guys took one long trip, there and back.

 

[Rei40c]

I'm amazed by those guys who did those missions, the first one in particular. I heard Neil Armstrong talking once about the fact everyone forgets looking back what could have happened if things went wrong. Depending on which of the thousands of things went wrong one possible outcomes was that they'd be stranded with no hope of rescue on the moons surface.

He said they all discussed that possibility together, and realizing the only alternatives where to starve/ dehydrate to death, or suicide. He said no one planned to starve to death...

Talk about guts. It's one thing to risk instant death, it's another to risk that kind of cruel fate I think.

 

[blume357]

Tom Wolfe said it simplest and best,,,

They had 'The Right Stuff.'

 

[welder]

Wow! Great Sunday morning video. Thanks.

 

[Jimbo357mag]

There was a lot going on in 1968; Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel, 60 Minutes debuts on CBS, Richard Nixon defeats Vice President Hubert Humphrey, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_in_the_United_States

...and Apollo 8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8

 

[Tweety Bird]

The guys who strapped their a$$ to that rocket definitely had the "right stuff", not to mention a pair made of brass.

What still amazes more, though, me is the engineering that went into making those things work. Most lunar landings were within a few degrees north or south of the lunar equator because that was the cheapest (read: needed to carry less weight in fuel) to achieve. 15 and 17 went further away but to do so, they had to be launched directly into a non free-return trajectory (I think 14 and 16 did that, as well, but for other reasons). Had something gone wrong, those 3 guys wouldn't have come home and would have died within a few days; the folks who made the mistakes in the engineering or construction would have had to live with that for years.

It took the combined effort of NASA, the government and the overwhelming support of the US people to make those missions happen. I seriously doubt America would have the nerve to take those risks today. And I also think we're all poorer for it.