50 years ago today: liftoff Apollo 11

I thought this AR app from the JFK Library was pretty cool - watched the Saturn V launch off my coffee table.: https://medium.com/@UNIT9/jfk-moonshot-the-first-ever-ar-documentary-created-to-celebrate-apollo-11-887be8d5ff48

Sooo much clickbait out there, even from supposedly reputable outfits.

“The event that sent Armstrong’s heart racing!” Nothing in particular, until an EKG lead came off, causing a false reading in the high 200’s.

The DVD “For all Mankind” is a fantastic video with astronaut home videos of the moon shot and on the moon. They have two things on there. The videos and then a documentary about it. If the full thing is for sale somewhere cheap or online somewhere it is worth watching! Chatter around stepping on the moon (which has been edited out of the link below) was interesting. Something along the lines of it might have been one small step for you but it would have been a bigger step for me (would need to watch the DVD to tell you exactly who said what).

Here is the documentary part of this:

The full DVD is 79 min long and the Criterion Collection put it out. Says was directed by AL Reinert, 1989

This is an older video I got when my daughter was young (adopted as a grade schooler from SE Asia who had lived a stone aged existence there). We were walking down the street and were looking at the especially large full moon that was low in the sky in front of us. I told her men had gone to the moon. She told me it wasn’t possible because there wasn’t a ladder long enough. So I bought this video.

I watched the moon landing (and the events leading up to it) live. Here’s a tidbit that is seldom mentioned: when the door that held the camera that captured Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon first deployed, the image broadcast across the world was upside down. They flipped the orientation before he actually left the LEM.

Anybody see this? Pretty interesting!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/arts/moon-landing-tapes-auction.amp.html