Re-enact the Apollo 11 Mission in Real Time!

[cljohnston]

We Choose the Moon: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing

Wechoosethemoon.org is an interactive experience recreating the historic Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in real time. Once where only three men made the trip, now millions can. Live event begins 9:32 AM EDT July 16, 2009. Exactly 40 years after Apollo 11 lifted off.

20 years ago, I spent the Apollo 11 anniversary at the National Air & Space Museum, and they recreated the events in real time on video monitors all around the museum, i.e. the landing was shown at 4:17pm EDT.

This looks to be an even better way to relive it!

 

[kino_astroboy]

Better to re-enact it in Orbiter!

 

[cljohnston]

Better to re-enact it in Orbiter!

Well, I'm a Mac user these days, so I can't do that anymore.

 

[agentgonzo]

If it wasn't for the fact that I have to do other things (like go to work), I would re-enact Apollo 11 in NASSP/AMSO in realtime. I almost managed to do a realtime AMSO mission a while ago, but real-life intervened and I missed LOI and went sailing on by.

 

[cljohnston]

If it wasn't for the fact that I have to do other things (like go to work), I would re-enact Apollo 11 in NASSP/AMSO in realtime. I almost managed to do a realtime AMSO mission a while ago, but real-life intervened and I missed LOI and went sailing on by.

Ohhhhh, that's disappointing!

 

[Messierhunter]

Like Gonzo, if it weren't for real life and family sanity, I'd do a realtime re-enactment. It'd be cool to stream a live video of it to ustream as well so others could hop on and watch whenever they wanted.

 

[astrosammy]

Maybe I'll do the major parts, like launch, landing and reentry, and if possible stream it on ustream.

 

[cljohnston]

Maybe you guys'll like this better...

Listen to the Apollo moon landing — all 190 hours of it - SciTechBlog - CNN.com Blogs

NASA.gov: Listen to the Apollo 11 Radiocast

 

[willy88]

When I saw the title, I couldn't help imagining an orbinaut locking himself in his room for a few days and re-enacting Apollo 11 with Orbiter.

 

[Messierhunter]

Heh, I think there was a thread about that not long ago. I seem to recall some here really did have serious plans to do just that in the future (myself as well, to a small extent). My thought was just leave it running and streaming during the cruise parts. As Gonzo mentioned though, it's easy to miss a critical maneuver if you're distracted by real life.

 

[cljohnston]

So, I'm cross-checking the timers and orbital map on the WeChooseTheMoon site with the timestamps on the Apollo 11 Flight Journal while listening to the NASA Radiocast — and they just don't match!
Seems NASA has edited out many of the long comm breaks, so I'm showing the Radiocast to be about an hour and 20 minutes ahead of the timeline at present.

 

[Quick_Nick]

So, I'm cross-checking the timers and orbital map on the WeChooseTheMoon site with the timestamps on the Apollo 11 Flight Journal while listening to the NASA Radiocast — and they just don't match!
Seems NASA has edited out many of the long comm breaks, so I'm showing the Radiocast to be about an hour and 20 minutes ahead of the timeline at present.

Yeah, the NASA webcast is getting worse and worse it seems. WeChooseTheMoon is about 10 seconds off of realtime at the moment. The 'worst' I've seen from it is 45 seconds off, which is really great.

 

[Vertigo]

Apollo 11 Aniversary website

Go to this website and follow the mission as it prepares to land on the moon tomorrow.
www.wechoosethemoon.org

:speakcool:

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It's cool running the AMSO AS-506 Apollo 11 scenario at the same time the communications are heard from the website.

 

[Brad]

Very nice find. This brings back a flood of memories for me. Trying to discribe what happened to someone that wasn't even alive then and the sheer courage of Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins is difficult. No internet, no cell phones, at best maybe three channels of TV and most in Black and White. A different world, a different time.

This is a duplicate thread of http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=9195 Thread locked.

 

[Kyle]

Live (+40 years) The Apollo 11 landing

I thought it would be alright to create a thread for this, not sure if its in the right place.
Now about 15 seconds to LOS for Apollo 11
link here to get updates.
http://wechoosethemoon.org/


Now in LOS. 97 hours, 33 minutes into Flight

 

[Brad]

Duplicate thread...moved to thread at http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=9195

 

[agentgonzo]

QuickNick is also running a 'live' transcription of the Apollo 11 communications on IRC in #Apollo_11

 

[Quick_Nick]

QuickNick is also running a 'live' transcription of the Apollo 11 communications on IRC in #Apollo_11

Well, when the IRC server isn't kicking me for flooding.
EDIT: And occasionally I'm tweaking the bot or just forgot to load the transcript to it. Like now... bot won't be saying anything for the next couple of hours. And I think landing just happened!

 

[Dr Who]

Excellent website! I am listening to the post landing audio now. Too bad I just missed the landing.

 

[cljohnston]

Excellent website! I am listening to the post landing audio now. Too bad I just missed the landing.

Oh, man! It worked out perfect for me! I had Gary Neff's footage of the last 15 minutes of the landing, which starts at 102:30:45 GET (when Buzz says "Verb 77"), so I had it synched perfectly with the mission audio!
I was reading the transcript on one side of my screen and watching the video on the other.
My adrenaline sure was pumping!

Also too bad that all the graphical elements shut down after lunar contact.
Don't they know there's more to the mission than just the landing?

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Gonna be listening all the way past the EVA.
A little while ago, the PAO made an interesting comment...

Meanwhile, as we'll soon be progressing toward man's first step on the lunar surface, we have an interesting phenomena here in the mission control center, Houston. Something we've never seen before. Our visual of the lunar module, our visual display now standing still. Our velocity digitals for Tranquility Base now reading zero. Reverting, if we could, to the terminology of an earlier form of transportion, the railroad: What we're witnessing now, is man's very first trip into space with a station stop along the route.

Made me go, "Hey! Yeah!"