An Inside Look At The Moon Landing (Apollo 11 Documentary) | Spark

[Music] [Applause] [Music] on July 20th 1969 mankind accomplished its single greatest achievement of all time the Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the moon launched on July 16th 1969 it carried commander Neil alden Armstrong command module pilot Michael Collins and lunar module pilot Edwin Eugene Buzz Aldrin jr. the third stage of the Saturn 5 launch vehicle this is ground support equipment located on the tower at the back in addition to 1 million people crowding the highways and beaches near the launch site an estimated audience of over 700 million people viewed the event on television a new record at that time President Richard Nixon viewed the proceedings from The Oval Office of the White House helping hand to the 3-prime crewmen as they start to perform some of the preliminary checks the stall engines Roger he - 15 seconds guidance is internal 12 11 10 9 ignition sequence start 6 5 4 3 2 1 zero all engine running [Music] the Armstrong reporting the Roland Michell program which puts Apollo 11 on a proper heading God's not fly progeny just go elections Roger my father go with the IV jack fine fine honey is my god you are so I'm quite right babe you know in the order god you are so pregnant okay literally Roger how you booster we're go flight good it one minute cap now Oh [Music] downrange one mile altitude three four miles now velocity 2100 Fido flight how you second [ __ ] good flight GNC looks good flight count looking good fight we're through the region of Mexican closer to flight at you we're go flight surgeon weird weird old flight the Saturn five carrying Apollo 11 took several seconds to clear the tower on July 16 1969 a Saturn 5 launched Apollo 11 from the Kennedy Space Center on July 16 1969 at 9:32 a.m. local time it entered Earth's orbit 12 minutes later after one and a half orbits the Saturn for third stage engine pushed the spacecraft into its trajectory towards the moon with the translunar injection Burnham about 30 minutes later the command service module pair separated from the last remaining Saturn 5 stage and docked with the lunar module still nestled in the lunar module adapter [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Apollo 11 Apollo 11 this is Houston rejecting the blind request Omni Bravo materi this request Omni Bravo out Apollo 11 this is Houston hurry [Applause] [Applause] Goldstone's still showing weak signal strength Apollo 11 this is Houston area read over Apollo 11 Apollo 11 this is Houston do you read over [Applause] Apollo 11 this is Houston Radio check over windows either we concur over pitch and Eagle Houston we'd like you to select a star mean an will be good for both the l OS and a OS o a coffee [Applause] you said one minute the yellowest [Applause] this is Apollo control we've had loss of signal now we'll reacquire the spacecraft again on the 13th revolution in about 45 minutes at the end of this pass we passed along the goal for undocking maneuver will occur just before we reacquire a spacecraft on the 13th revolution and will be followed in about thirty thirty minutes about thirty minutes later by a small separation maneuver performed by Mike Collins in the command module check out of the LEM has been going extremely well up to now ahead of schedule and both vehicles look very good at ninety nine hours 31 minutes this is Apollo control Houston this is a follow control at 100 hours 14 minutes we're now less than two minutes from reacquiring the spacecraft on the 13th revolution when next we hear problem the lunar module should be undocked from the command and service module we're presently about 25 minutes away from the separation burn which will be performed by Mike Collins in the command module to give the LEM and the CSM a separation distance at the descent orbit insertion maneuver of about two miles now we have some times on the upcoming events the separation maneuver is scheduled to occur at a ground elapsed time of 100 hours 39 minutes 50 seconds [Music] this seemed to enable satisfactory high bitrate condition but it did degrade our ability to observe the surface through the LPD and make down and cross-range position chicks as I recall and this is why I kind of like to have those tapes there was a certain amount of manual tracking being done during this time with the s-band antenna during the initial parts of power descent the auto track is not appeared to maintain the highest signal strength to drop down to around 3.7 in the ground wanted react juez ition so I tweaked it up manually but got the impression that every good attempt was not completely impossible to conduct a manual track throughout power descent you not be able to do very much else beside that I think it would be possible I do if you had sets of predetermined values that they could set in in case you ever did lose completely DOI ignition which was a first hips maneuver I could not hear the engine ignite couldn't feel it ignite it wasn't the only way I was sure that it had in fact ignite it was that kind of chamber pressure and the accelerometer very low acceleration 11 what why is he there % feel it's off zero but it was 10% think of it you know after 0g throw you against the scraps one way or the other debris now we're pulled down into the floor with the restraint already and the difference between that you know the 10% throttle acceleration was not detectable to me however at 15 seconds when we went to 40% now definitely was our downrange position appeared to be good at the minus 3 and minus one minute point a the ignition point I did not accurately catch because I was watching the watching the engine performance but it appeared to be reasonably certain certain in there certainly in the right ballpark our cross-range position was difficult to tell accurately because of the skewed jaw attitude that we were obliged to maintain her calm over the downrange position marks after ignition indicated that we were long each one that was made indicated they we were two or three seconds long in range and the fact that the throttle up would essentially came on time rather than being delayed indicated that the computer in fact was a little bit confused of what our downrange position was had it known what it was it would have throttle down later based on engine performance so that we would still hit the right place if in fact it knew it was downrange by a couple of seconds then it would be it would be late to throttling down to so that it would break Trotta level higher strata level prior to the landmark visibility was was very good we had no difficulty determining our position throughout all the facedown phase of hard descent and correlating that with known positions based on the Paulo ten victories very easy and very useful it was just about it the Yaron maneuver when we yeah well I guess trajectory monitoring from the disk II up to that point agreed very closely especially in a stock in VI with the values we had in the chart the altitude values were Oh maybe off by something approaching 500 feet again they were getting quite close it was almost immediately after you are around that as I recall the altitude light went out indicating that we had landing radar acquisition and lock-on and what do you recall it being 20/20 six or seven hundred I believe is good number I think it was plus twenty six or seven the yard was slow we had inadvertently left the rate switch in five rather than twenty five and I was showing that to only a couple degrees per second as opposed to the five to seven that we'd plant and the computer would not hold this rate say two to one to two degrees a second it would was jumping up to three and back to actually changing the sign and stopping the roll rate and it was then that I realized that clearly we weren't rolling as fast as we needed to be and I noted that we were on the wrong scale switch on that so I went to 25 and put in a copy 5 degree per second command and it went went right around but this delayed a somewhat and consequently we were at a slightly lower altitude at the completion of the yaw then then we had expected to be so we were probably done to the area 39 or 40 thousand feet at the time when we had radar lock up as opposed to about 41,000 that we expected to be at 41 5 I guess the first indications we had of anything going wrong were probably around 5 units in a while the first noted getting up program alarm activities after the five minute in tip descent we started getting a series of program alarms generally of the series that indicated the computer was being overloaded and normally in this time period we'd normally be evaluating the landing site and checking our position and starting LPD activity however the concern here was not with what was the landing area were going into but rather could we continue at all and consequently our attention was directed toward clearing the program alarms keeping the Machine flying and and assuring ourselves that control was adequate to continue without requiring an abort and most of the attention was directed inside the cockpit during this time period and you know my view discounts for our inability to to study the the landing site and final landing location during during final descent it wasn't until we got below 2,000 feet that we were actually able to look out and view the landing area okay if I see something here that answers a question we had before about the eggs residuals on voi they were 110 before nothing and we know them to zero altitude 16x was minus 0.1 y minus 0.4 Z minus 0.1 and we know lexan z20 good and looking at the transcripts we did have considerable loss of LOC coaching PDI and we did have to require manually several times and it looked like we had some oscillations in the yaw angle on the antenna and the alarm that we had was 500 and we went to decent one and proceeded before second we got in the computer and then went back to auto again on the landing radar switch and this is prior to ignition again and the ground recommended we are right ten degrees wasn't great coming up nine minute we did not have the radar data feeding to the computer in the OGC position but apparently even if you have it in Auto track why there's some some requirement on their computers time this is the way we've been doing it in all simulations it was our we were in Slough yeah we were prior to this time we'd been in auto track until such time as we started a lose lock in the pitch over and then we went to sleep looking great here go there right talking about the program alarms during descent oh we passed the point of having the rendezvous radar in Auto we'd switched it over that slow at that point just the in the early phases the P 64 I did find time to go out of auto control and into manual and check the manual control and both the pitch and yaw and found its response to be satisfactory and then went zero the air needles and went back into auto continued the descent in order as we approached the 1500 foot point and the program alarm seemed to be settling down and we committed to continue we could see the landing area and the point at which the LPD was pointing indicating we were landing just short of quite a large Waukee Rim crater surrounded with the large boulder field I initially felt that that might be a good landing area if we could stop short of that crater and find a suitable place since it would have a lot of scientific value to her to be in that area close to this large crater one continuing to monitor LPD with what time it was obvious that I would not be able to stop sufficiently short of that crater to find a safe landing area and as soon as we determined that we went into manual and I pitched the vehicle over to approximately zero pitch and I think I was in the twenty to thirty foot per second horizontal velocity region here over the top of the crater and across the boulder field and then proceeded looking for satisfactory landing area at about 100 feet or a little below a hundred feet I first noticed that we were in fact disturbing the the dust on the surface and we were beginning to get a transparent sheet of moving dust which obscured the visibility a little bit as we got lower this visibility degradation continued to increase and don't think that the altitude determination was really hurt by this blowing dust but the thing that was confusing to me was the fact that it was it was hard to pick out what your lateral and downrange velocities were and that's because you were seeing a lot of moving dust you had to look through that and pick up the stationary rocks and they sure translational velocity decisions on that and I found that to be quite difficult more difficult than I thought it would be and I spent more attention trying to arrest translational bosses than I thought would be necessary that's one small step for man one giant leap at the surface is fine and powdery I can I can pick it up loosely with my toe it's adhered in the fine layers like charcoal to the antiparticle we're copying okay I'm good there now okay one hour seven minutes time expended okay you can make a Marquess to me so you're going once and incidentally you can use the shadow that the fabric - buzz buzz is erecting the solar wind experiment now nobody's small depressions big pop and you 10 inches I can thank me what the air pictures showed when they pushed away a little bit you can pour it and admit it through the upper surface of the soil and about five or six inches of pay it breaks loose and moves event that were caked on the surface when in fact it really is I notice in the soft spots where we have footprints nearly an inch deep that the soil is very creative and it will retain a so retain a slope of probably 70 degrees on the side of all em systems still looking good okay dad suggested setting up the flag now great I guess you're about the only person around that doesn't have TV coverage of the things [Applause] oh it's beautiful Mike really is they've got the flag up now and you can see the stars and search for my [Applause] coming up on two minutes mark too many Aldrin entered the Eagle first some difficulty the astronauts lifted film and two sample boxes containing more than 22 kilograms of lunar surface material to the lunar module hatch using a flat cable pulley device called the lunar equipment conveyer Armstrong reminded Aldrin of a bag of memorial items in his suit pocket sleeve and Aldrin tossed the bag down Armstrong then jumped to the latter's third rung and climbed into the lunar module after transferring to life-support the Explorers lit the ascent stage were returned to lunar orbit by tossing out their PLSS backpacks lunar overshoes one Hasselblad camera and other equipment they been repressurized the lunar module and settle down to sleep while moving in the cabin Aldrin accidentally broke the circuit breaker that armed the main engine for liftoff from the moon there was initial concern this would prevent firing the engine which would strand them on the moon fortunately a felt-tip pen was sufficient to activate the switch had this not worked the lunar module circuitry could have been reconfigured to allow firing the ascent engine after about seven hours of rest they were awakened by Houston to prepare for the return of life two and a half hours later they were lifted off in Eagles ascent stage carrying 21 and a half kilograms the lunar samples with them to rejoin Michael Collins aboard Columbia in lunar orbit let's go long very quiet ride there's that one stay around there thousand feet high 80 feet per second vertical rise Eagle Houston the request manual start override 2,600 feet altitude [Applause] 130 feet vertical rise rate a little bit of slow wallet back and forth not very much drug for activity jog you're mighty fine even under 150 up beautiful they ask the trees whenever foot per second Eagle Houston now you're looking good at two ping zags missed an augury but if 2004 they're beautiful 14 never foot per second again tags to thing BAM looks like it's all good it's a lovely dinner it's great with people there's 180 Aldrin is reading the horizontal velocity first and in the vertical velocity now 1424 feet per second vertical velocity on 187 vertical velocity you thin now you're going three minutes everything's looking good they donate stuff open up through these guys back I'm gone right bad us one Rutger hikes now approaching 32,000 feet the historical plaque on the ladder of Apollo 11s lunar module still remaining unknown after more than two and a half hours on the lunar surface they had left behind scientific instruments such as a restore reflector array use for the lunar laser ranging equipment they also left an American flag Apollo 1 mission patch and a plaque bearing two drawings of Earth an inscription and signatures of the astronauts and Richard Nixon they also left behind the memorial bag containing a gold replica of an olive branch as a traditional symbol of peace the Apollo 1 patch and a silicon message disc the disc carries the goodwill statements by presidents Eisenhower Kennedy Johnson and Nixon and messages from leaders of 73 countries around the world the disc also carries a listing the leadership of the US Congress a listing of members of the four Committees of the House and Senate responsible for the NASA legislation and the names of NASA's past and present top management all three data sources are agreeing quite closely here the three color plot board on the front of Mission Control here is almost superimposed as each of the three colors are scribed on the scribing plot are not the panic that is puffed to the right egle your son still looking mighty fine I figured agree with it fail to be to go and bow back thing one minute to go into burn 4480 to ft/s horizontal velocity good to go have another to go I think it'll cut the nature of ssp those pressures holding good cross feed off b-52 go Empire the engine or ID okay off fifty shut down yep five three three seven three 32.8 feet per second 60,000 six six six Eagle Roger we copy that's great go anybody got better residuals 2703 b08 - but 22:7 but 1.7 - ten point six acres I'm sure the good bit out of place velocity you're my god fighters like pretty good that data point was the MPX not murder right oh pardon attaboy okay three weeks ago you can nap time the low-pitch draped and we'll see it 127 foot five one this is Apollo control we've apparently had lost her signal with Columbia and Eagle as the went behind the moon on the 26 revolution next maneuver scheduled for about 33 minutes from now Wow both vehicles are behind the moon this will be the braking series of maneuvers coming down to docking station keeping first and then docking in about a hundred and twenty eight hours around elapse time and at 127 hours six minutes ground elapsed time and the flight of Apollo 11 this is Mission Control this is Apollo control 127 hours 50 minutes ground elapsed time less than a minute now away from acquisition the spacecraft Columbia hopefully you flying within a few feet of it will be eagle docking should take place about 10 minutes from now according to the flight plan however this is a crew option matter standing by for word that data is coming in from the two spacecraft this is melinda revolution number 27 for colombia have Limi with Roger okay Mike I'll get try to get position here that you got it how does the roll attitude cook I've got a affects I could stop right here if you like that Eagle Houston little gimbal and you might pass the Colombia we don't have him yet right now that that do a big hike up just let their whole attitude oh okay okay [Music] and the collar is inflated the splashdown point was 13 degrees 19 minutes north 169 degrees 9 minutes west that's 1440 nautical miles east of Wake Island or 300 80 kilometers south of Johnson at all 15 miles from the recovery ship USS Hornet [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] recovery one getting ready to deploy the swimmer with the biological isolation garments and the helo is lowering the astronauts babies her biological isolation garments to Lieutenant petalburg that was Mike [Music] [Applause] [Applause] lieutenant Hatteberg is not transferring the bigs to the crew that's there are 4 and 3/4 miles away from the spacecraft [Applause] [Applause] the pigs are in the command module and the hatch has been closed again after not number two coming up there are now reports that the swimmer is having some difficulty securing the hatch and one of the astronauts is helping you [Applause] hatch is now reported security [Applause] this swimmer has now started describing the astronauts biological isolations of garments with the decontaminant horn it estimates distance three-quarters of a mile now [Music] [Music] the other swimmers will now proceed to the command bar it has been decontaminated and the swimmers will remain on their scuba air one hornet request you reconstruct that they are decontaminating number one [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] after recovery by helicopter approximately one hour after splashdown the astronauts were placed in a trailer that had been designed as a quarantine facility the astronauts were placed in quarantine after their landing on the moon due to fears that the moon might contain undiscovered pathogens and that the astronauts were exposed to them during their moon walks however after almost three weeks and confinement first in their trailer and later in the lunar receiving laboratory at the lyndon b johnson space center the astronauts were given a clean bill of health president richard nixon was aboard the recovery vessel to personally welcome the astronauts back to earth [Music] on August 13th 1969 the astronauts exited quarantine to the cheers of the American public parades were held in their honor in New York Chicago and Los Angeles on the same day [Music] driven by dreams and funded by a burning desire to beat the Russians the first

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Length: 58min 15sec (3495 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 08 2019