Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Apollo 11 Real-Time Experience





Fifty years ago this morning (at 9:32 EDT), the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, FL.  If you want to experience the Apollo 11 "real- time mission experience," go immediately to "Apollo 11 In Real Time."  It's just an incredible tour de force that enables you to watch either from 1 minute to launch or from the in- progress time.  If you link before 9:32 EDT today, click on "Now" for the in- progress to feel the excitement of the launch as it happened exactly 50 years ago. Regardless, you can view the in- progress at any time until July 24, when the mission ended. We've never seen anything quite like this, to say the least.

The real- time mission experience includes:
  • All mission control film footage
  • All TV transmissions and onboard film footage
  • 2,000 photographs
  • 11,000 hours of Mission Control audio
  • 240 hours of space-to-ground audio
  • All onboard recorder audio
  • 15,000 searchable utterances
  • Post-mission commentary
  • Astromaterials sample data

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