Apollo 11: 50th Anniversary. Live Stream replay of the mission on Youtube

[Justin]

This is very cool. They're doing a a complete "live" stream of the orginial Apollo 11 mission.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbW3Nn134OM

[Irving]

My eyes keep switching which way that capsule is rotating.

[Justin]

Interesting to note the velocities. Cruising at 35,000 fps, eg more than 10 times faster than a .223...

[Bailey Guns]

Very cool. Listening to that created sparks of old childhood memories watching this on TV.

[Gman]

Would have been so cool if they had the video technology we have today back then. So much of the mission was witnessed only by those that were there. I am really grateful that they at least had cameras on the mission to record what they could.

BBC: The most beautiful photos taken on the Apollo 11 mission (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190715-the-most-beautiful-photos-taken-on-the-apollo-11-mission)

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/wm/live/1280_720/images/live/p0/7g/z5/p07gz5db.jpg

[Doc45]

Gene Kranz, Apollo 11 Flight Director (and all odd numbered Apollo missions) is here for the event tonight at Wings Over The Rockies. I was there earlier today and got to meet him. Very Cool Guy.

For you youngsters he?s the guy Ed Harris played in the film Apollo 13 [Coffee]

[Justin]

Oh wow.

I suppose it's too late to score an invite?

[Doc45]

Tonight is sold out, I won’t be there unfortunately but I did get my pic with him! Being 12 then the whole space program was the coolest thing for me. Hell I even had the GI Joe with Mercury capsule! My mom gave it away (along with all my comic books lol) when we moved cross country in 1968. Wish I had it today, it’d be worth some nice coin probably.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Would have been so cool if they had the video technology we have today back then. So much of the mission was witnessed only by those that were there. I am really grateful that they at least had cameras on the mission to record what they could.

That's one of the reasons I've collected artwork by Alan Bean. He was the only space artist who really KNEW what it looked like from first hand experience. CAPT Bean was also a very cool, laid-back individual and I'm glad I was able to meet him a couple of times. Another artist I met at SpaceFest a couple years ago, Doug Forrest, does pencil drawings based on photographs and you'd swear the drawings WERE photographs (https://apollo-arts.com/). Last year he tried something different and tried to capture a scene that WASN'T on a photograph -- the backside of the when Dave Scott found the green rock on Apollo 15. The coolest part was having Col Scott confirm that was how things looked to him.

Examples of Doug's work:

https://02f0a56ef46d93f03c90-22ac5f107621879d5667e0d7ed595bdb.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.c om/sites/9872/photos/217978/Jim_McDivitt_sm20160826-23731-woscv_original.jpg

https://02f0a56ef46d93f03c90-22ac5f107621879d5667e0d7ed595bdb.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.c om/sites/9872/photos/503295/SEVA_72dpi_final_original.jpg

https://02f0a56ef46d93f03c90-22ac5f107621879d5667e0d7ed595bdb.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.c om/sites/9872/photos/503297/station_6a_72dpi_final_original.jpg

[Gman]

For Apollo 11's 50th Anniversary, The Washington Monument Becomes A Rocket (https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2019/07/16/742394200/for-apollo-11s-anniversary-the-washington-monument-becomes-a-rocket)

Pretty cool idea. Life size. Saw the video this morning and it was quite impressive.

https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2019/07/16/image-from-ios-46-_custom-a7587f1166c2b66f520560378dca757e839b118a-s2500-c85.jpg

[flogger]

Those pencil drawings are outstanding!! From one space nut to another, thanks for the link.

The one with McDivitt looking through he helmet is great.

[Justin]

Agree completely.

Shades of MC Escher in that one. Being able to accurately draw the distortion through the lens of the helmet is pretty incredible.

[Scanker19]

https://youtu.be/-f_DPrSEOEo