If you want to relive the Apollo 11 Moon mission, or want to see it for the first time in real time

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NASA is showing all the video, audio and transcripts of the Apollo 11 mission in REAL TIME.

It's 1 hour and 37 minutes into the mission already.


Apollo 11 50th anniversary Moon Mission in Real Time

[cumbrianlad]

Nope. Not interested.

 

So the USA and USSR waste billions to win a futile race and the rest of the world is supposed to celebrate the winner...

 

 

... come on! Get a grip! This is history, not news and it isn't useful.

[HadToRegister]

Nope. Not interested.

 

So the USA and USSR waste billions to win a futile race and the rest of the world is supposed to celebrate the winner...

 

 

... come on! Get a grip! This is history, not news and it isn't useful.

 

 

Well excuse me.

It's the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing.

I remember sitting cross-legged on the floor watching the live footage back in 1969.

 

Just because it's not important to you for whatever reason doesn't mean it's not important to others, so don't belittle it.

It was a major achievement

I didn't realize that posts to the "Off-Topic" lounge had to be deemed "Useful" by you.

 

You're not interested, but interested enough to leave a comment .

[cumbrianlad]

True enough, I suppose. I put that the wrong way.

 

I was only interested enough to make a comment because it really annoys me that governments around the world could eradicate world poverty if they wanted to. Instead they opt to squander their money on pointless things like the space race.

 

I didn't mean that the post wasn't useful, though. I meant that sending someone to the moon for political gain wasn't useful.

 

My apologies for any offense given... I'll climb down off my soap box now.

[cumbrianlad]

You seem awfully quiet.... as does this post, for that matter. Maybe it's not such a big deal after all... except to you, for reasons unknown.

 

Edit: too much wine last night before I posted the line above. Alcohol and computers don't mix and that comment was totally out of order. I can see from the reply below that it really upset you and that's perfectly understandable. I could kick myself for it, honestly.

 

You have my heartfelt apologies. I feel really bad about it. I hope my apology helps in some way.

[HadToRegister]

You seem awfully quiet.... as does this post, for that matter. Maybe it's not such a big deal after all... except to you, for reasons unknown.

 

Seriously WTF is your problem?

 

I posted it in case anybody wanted to enjoy watching the moon landing?

 

The thread has 50 views, people don't have to post

 

"Thanks I'm going to watch it!"

 

Why are you instigating?

 

YES, it's History, and I got to be a part of it in an indirect way, because I got to watch it happen LIVE, so I was hoping to share it with anybody else who would be as interested as I was, and still am.

Just like I got to see the news reports about Woodstock just a month later, and I still share with people.

 

 

"Maybe it's not such a big deal after all... except to you, for reasons unknown."

 

Gee, maybe because in my FIRST POST I mentioned watching it back on July 20th 1969, on live TV? Maybe?

Jesus, do you just go around pissing on everybody's memories, and interests?

 

You want to show me on the Doll where I hurt your feelings that you had to come in here and crap on me sharing something I thought other people might enjoy or find interesting?

 

I'm sorry that you find science so dull and boring.

Maybe next time I'll post a video that will pique your interest, like VINES of people lighting their farts or something.

 

Good lord..

Heaven forbid someone has an INTEREST in something, with you, "Mr. Sunshine" around.

 

It was 50 years ago, and being an Edgelord about something that happened 50 years ago, and having fake outrage about it, as if it would've fixed something today is just pointless.

Point your anger somewhere else, let me and others enjoy history.

You're a Premium Member, why didn't you send your Membership fee to help the homeless, instead of spending it on a Modding Website?

 

 

 

[Deleted54170User]

That sure bought back some of my memories of the good ol days. I was planning my own personal rocket ship back before we reached the Moon. I even had a way to make sure I would always have fuel for the engine. Back then though, I was the engine for all the tools I used. We didn't have any gasoline powered equipment for chores yet. Oh! No! I'm not saying that there wasn't people with gasoline powered equipment yet.

 

Everything I was given to tend to the chores were still powered by the engine we are all familiar with, our bodies.

[c0ax599]

Thanks for the post. I've been enjoying watching alot of the shows about it in the last 2 months. I too, was watching breathlessly as Armstrong took his first step. I was 9 at the time. Was a great achievement!

 

And not just for Russia or the US. For Mankind. For Sure.

 

Was anyone else into "Estes" Rockets back then? My kid dream was to get a Saturn V!!! ;)

[HadToRegister]

Thanks for the post. I've been enjoying watching a lot of the shows about it in the last 2 months. I too, was watching breathlessly as Armstrong took his first step. I was 9 at the time. Was a great achievement!

 

And not just for Russia or the US. For Mankind. For Sure.

 

Was anyone else into "Estes" Rockets back then? My kid dream was to get a Saturn V!!! :wink:

 

Hey thanks for the feedback, I knew that somebody who actually watched it would appreciate it!

I was 5 at the time, and was about to turn 6 when Woodstock happened a month later.

 

Such a wonderful time, I was so proud, and you're right, just as the WORLD celebrated Sputnik and Yuri Gargarin's flight, we, collectively all celebrated the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, because we celebrated as the entire planet and species, rather than separate adversaries as the newer generations are taught to believe.

[wcurtin1962]

Thanks for the post. I've been enjoying watching a lot of the shows about it in the last 2 months. I too, was watching breathlessly as Armstrong took his first step. I was 9 at the time. Was a great achievement!

 

And not just for Russia or the US. For Mankind. For Sure.

 

Was anyone else into "Estes" Rockets back then? My kid dream was to get a Saturn V!!! :wink:

1969 I was in Naples Italy. I'm not sure if we had our TV yet. I was seven. The earliest memory of Apollo was when we still were in Texas, watching one of the astronauts in the command module playing with a pen. Me and my Dad was watching the last mission during the final ascent from the moon. When the ascent module separated from the landing module and the gold foil was flying off my Dad thought it had exploded! Model rocketry started for me in 1976. It will be interesting to watch this since I have read Failure Is Not An Option by Gene Kranz.