A detailed account of every second of the Apollo 11 descent and landing. The video combines data from the onboard computer for altitude and pitch angle, 16mm film that was shot throughout the descent at 6 frames per second. The audio recording is from two sources. The air/ground transmissions are on the left stereo channel and the mission control flight director loop is on the right channel. Subtitles are included to aid comprehension.
As well as Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins, the video includes the following people from the mission control team:
Flight - Gene Kranz
CapCom - Charlie Duke
GNC - Buck Willoughby
EECOM - John Aaron
FIDO - Jay Greene
RETRO - Chuck Deiterich
Guidance - Steve Bales
Control - Bob Carlton
TELCOM - Don Puddy
Surgeon - John Zieglschmid
This is part of the Apollo Flight Journal, Apollo 11 collection.
A11LSJ: history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11...
A11FJ: history.nasa.gov/afj/ap11fj/i...
Other videos in this series:
Apollo 12: • Apollo 12 landing from...
Apollo 14: • Apollo 14 landing from...
Apollo 15: • Apollo 15 landing from...
Apollo 16: • Apollo 16 landing from...
Apollo 17: • Apollo 17 landing from...
Also available by David Woods: 'How Apollo Flew to the Moon'. This book is available from all usual outlets including Google and Kindle as well as paperback. www.hafttm.com
This is the best recording in history. If this doesn't blow you away, you have no idea what you are listening to.
Yes indeed. The descent was MUCH more complicated than I realized (thanks to this video).The landing was very critical, but so too was the lift off of the Lunar Module and the subsequent docking with the Command Service Module. Amazing!
But, but, but, the moon landings are obviously a hoax, 'cos the world is flat!!!!
@@philsmith3577 lol.
Beware of the sync & subtitle error: Eagle's feet did NOT touch Moon at 102:45:42 but a few seconds later, the time needed to cross last 5 feet of space, the length of "touch sensors" hanging from the legs. Landing occurred in freefall, with engine off: the "contact light" purpose was to warn Pilot to turn off the engine.
Roger that. Was there a notion to use up the landing fuel for lighter liftoff? Edit: Answered below. No. Descent stage was left behind. I figure storms on my boat are great practice for maintaining calm in the midst of utter chaos but astronauts are a league beyond me for cool heads.
Man I love the "Go" callout sequences. It's so exciting to hear the enthusiasm and lightning fast precision in their voices.
Guidance doesn't play around with their "GO"'s
FIDO will be in big problems if hes too slow
also the stay/no stay callout is amazing.
the beauty in this clipped precision is the fruit of crystalline advance thinking. Such a rare commodity today
@@TonyLovell well said!
the best part to me is the communications discipline, the checklist discipline. The years of training and professionalism by the controllers and crew is awesome and and brings tears to my eyes every time I watch this. Absolutely the best of this country!
Probably developed by Christopher Kraft (and one other guy whose name I can't recall right now) - the 'father of mission control' - of whom people like Gene Kranz were proteges.
Me too.. I tear up at this.. what an accomplishment.
I listened to this as a kid on the radio at 4am with my Dad. I can remember every detail, emotion, wonder, and excitement as if it were yesterday. It triggered a wanderlust and desire to fly that never left me. After a 43-year flying career and now retired, I owe the inspiration to the incredible men and women of the entire Apollo team.
Where were you at China?
My mum didn't wake me up in the middle of the night as promised (EST). I never had that flying career.
OK boomer
Great story! Funny how everyone our age has the same memory: being up at the wee hours watching or listening to it. Yet the landing was in the afternoon in North America and evening in Europe? I'm puzzled.
@@woodwindsnatalie8621 Might have been thinking of the Moon walk (I was), which would have been past my then bedtime in Toronto. I would have let my kids watch it BTW.
I’ve watched this many times, but it always puts me on the edge of my seat. Everyone involved in this was on top of their game and performed their jobs perfectly. This was one of the greatest achievements in human history. The 3 astronauts of this mission are some of the bravest people of their time and will be forever known as heroes.
It’s amazing how close to disaster this mission was. Lots of brave folks! The unsung hero’s were the software authors, many of whom were women. Shout out to Margaret Hamilton!
They almost died and,stupid persons are "Moon landing isn't real"""
the 3 astronauts were so proud of their exploits that they all 3 resigned from nasa less than a year later😂😂
@@wilson7357 Collins maybe , the others left in 71 . The program was ending ! They had other goals . So what's your point ?
Rog.
It's been 54 years since I watched this live on TV and it still gives me goosebumps. Absolutely awesome.
Me too. It was on my sister 19th birthday. Was watching this at age 11 eating birthday cake and ice cream.
You mean the other animation on the news?
You were duped mate.
@@neilarmstrongsson795 How can you say this? There is continuous footage here of flying high above a curved surface, that descends down to a landing! You can watch the whole thing? How did they do that in 1969? Please give a detailed explanation of how it was done, as it is very clear from the footage that the viewpoint starts high above a landscape and concludes as it reaches the surface - all in one continuous shot!
@@TheBlackDogChronicles What is so hard for you to understand? I could get on an aircraft, and begin filming our descent to landing from 39,000 feet, and the landscape will have changed dramatically from where I started the 'shot', to the runway after landing. All in 'one continuous shot'. It is, as it happened in 1969. Simple.
I'm so impressed how incredibly competent all of these guys are
Yeah, those in Hollywood have always been good at making movies.
@@BSnicks another brainwashed flatearther
@@radekgrec1467 Apollo 11 believers and flat earthers must be from the same retarded group. Some believe that Jesus ascended into space just as others believe that Armstrong descended to the Moon. Luckily, I only believe in captain Kirk. He cheated death and became the only one who passed the kobayashi test.
@@BSnicks good for you
@@BSnicks excellent cartoon animations! Hilarious!
That was bloody tense even from 54 years out and knowing the end result.
My grandmother and grandfather went from riding in a covered wagon to witnessing a man on the moon. Just amazing.
And a few years later in the early 70's, the first pocket calculator came to the market and had waaaaay more power then the entire computers from the apollo missions, and starting at 10 dollars, so the whole 10 year technology of the moon missions became obsolete in a heartbeat, and that did speed up ever since until this very day because computers do get more powerfull every few months.
@@3DPeter The Apollo Guidance Computer was actually comparable power to Apple 2 it could even multitask it run 2k of code and could offload least important processes in event of overload so in effect uncrashable . It was used as the computer for experimental fly by wire system on F-8 Crusader it was way ahead of its time but it had to be
That's pretty awesome though
and you are going from watching space shuttle ride space and mars probes exploring planets to having to learn chinese in order to talk to your masters. well done.
No they didn’t.
50 years later, I still get shivers watching.
AMEN TO THAT !
Mark Wood mballo
Watching what? This is a disgusting lie...
old people going be on this tread... geesh! how many of y'all actually watched it? as in you didn't see the replays nor were you "watching" the radio...
Same here..
As a young boy who lived as a child this was 1 of main events I got to witness in person because of my dad who was a part of this until he retired from the USAF, my family still loves watching this even today hopefully we'll see Artemis launch and land there on the moon again 54 yrs later. Thanks Neil and John Elmer ARMSTRONG.
❤
I hope you get to enjoy the Artemis landings. That will be wonderful for you. :)
Neil went to P66 immediately when he saw the boulder field and became a pilot. With the alarms and the horizontal flying, it was the most stressful of all the landing scenarios, plus being the first. Every commander would have landed in a similar way, but you even hear Buzz complimenting Neil with how smooth he was
I heard that of the six Apollo touchdowns on the Moon, Neil Armstrong's was the softest.
@@takashitamagawa5881 Yeah, 12's landing was a bit firmer as they were essentially hovering when the contact light illuminated so they more or less fell the last few feet with a soft thud. 13 of course didn't land.
Neil Armstrong was a genuine, old-fashioned American hero. Listen to the late interviews with him and you'll come away impressed with his acumen and dignity. They don't make too many like him anymore. How tragic and ironic that he lost his life so young to a very preventable medical error.
"The Eagle has landed" Probably the most significant and legendary statement in human history as the feat they had achieved was mind boggling to say the least. Watching this 52 years later, and despite the fact that various other lunar expeditions have occured, i still get goosebumps when i hear these four words
Except the first words were arguably "contact light" or "Okay, engine stop."
@@ericfermin8347 "Contact Light" happened before touchdown, first Official word from the Moon back to Houston was "Houston". Astronauts were speaking to themselves before that.
@@dwmcever Just speaking pedantically about the first contact with the moon and that would be when the contact light went on and not touchdown.
@@ericfermin8347 But it AIN’T official until they report to Houston their landing status.
Nah, its definitely "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"
I'll be honest, this presentation is more impressive than any I've ever witnessed. This is very exciting and takes us right there with Apollo 11 and Mission Control!
How about this presentation? facebook.com/MDSusas/videos/795868307438349/
@@jirvingnc facebook is not real life!!!! lol
With all due respect to the late Stuart Scott, these people, all of them, are "as cool as the other side of the pillow!"
Nobody walked on the moon, dog.
@@snappatruce - Even if you're right, it was still a great video!
This landing, a combination of calculations checked many times and coolly managed manual piloting skill, is a perfect depiction of the supreme virtue: *_courage._*
nah it was fake
@@EazyDuz18 nope
Agreed
One of the most impressive and inspirational videos on KZhead, IMO.
I still don't understand why NASA only hires guys named Roger.
Roger, Roger. What’s our vector Victor?
@@willo7734 We have clearance, Clarence.
Now ask Roger to copy over.
Oh Houston!... I speak Jive.
@@Pandzikizlasu80 Cloning is illegal ;)
Quite simply one of the top ten videos on youtube.
Seen loads of footage of this historical event, but could never get my head around how the Eagle manoeuvred during the decent. Until now. Brilliant explanation and use of footage. 👌
I watched this as an 18 year old in Britain and it utterly captivated me, it still does.
I was 18 also watched from the Pacific northwest USA
I like the exchange at 13:34 - "Is it converged?" "Oh, it's beautiful!" "Is it _converged_ ?" "... yes."
I liked this exchange, too. It underlines the importance of precision in communications. “No guessin’...”
yes and no are the two most communicative words in the English language. Love it
That last *yes* was just a bit testy XD
@@lea6555 True.
Kalman Filter
Sitting here at my desk, watching this in comfort more than 50 years later I was shifting forward on my seat and biting my lip. Damn, that was intense!
Utterly amazing. Gripping. Every person on there had nerves of steel, but particularly Aldrin and Armstrong. How they remained so cool in the most intense of situations is just astonishing. I know they use the phrase 'the right stuff ' to describe astronauts, but there are realistically very few people who could face those circumstances and not just freak out. I am in awe.
Steely Eyed Missile Men
The craziest thing is if you watch the Saturn V launch of Apollo 11, once they reach orbit the CAPCOM flight surgeon reads off what their heart rates were for the launch, and Aldrin’s was something like 88. Insane, like taking a leisurely Sunday drive.
No freak out because they had practiced it a hundred times or more.
NASA chose wisely, trained them effectively and built systems and a team of support at mission control. I get so angry when I hear and read of the conspiracy fools. The worst of it is the assault on the integrity of these amazing people. Gene Kranz is my hero, a brilliant engineer and flight director, he managed this so well.
Wow! It's been a long time since I've been so blown away by a video here. It's incredible to have the luxury of pause and rewind to see everything that happened in the sequence that led to the lunar landing. On TV we never got to hear the controllers loop or all of the capcom calls. Mostly it was Walter Cronkite, Wally Schirra, maybe Gordo Cooper (three of my heroes), and the NASA PR guy. This is what I really wanted! Thanks so much for compiling and sharing!
Nearly 70 years old and so pleased I lived through this honesty in science. What a wonderful presentation. Thank you so much.
@@rockwellrhodes7703 you'd probably know LOL.
Loved the guidance’s “go!” So enthusiastic.
and the chuckle of Gene Kranz that followed. :-)
I think a certain amount of fear was present also and their wanting to get the go/no go done quickly.
Steve Bales... His call out for the 1202,1201 alarm Go is what saved the mission.
You might like this: kzhead.info/sun/dayCn5qprnyXpYE/bejne.html
I believe this is done to differentiate each others voices, if you repeat the video, you will notice that each team uses the same tone each time.
I get goosebumps whenever I watch this, and I've watched many, many times! Never fails to impress. I especially like the part where Charlie Duke says everyone should be quiet, as they get right down to the real nitty gritty, (being an astronaut himself, he knew that Neil and Buzz needed radio silence to be able to concentrate and focus, and appreciated first hand what it took to do the hardest part of the job). Then, when Bob (control) calls out P66.... Stunning, both in it's complexity and it's simplicity ❤
Charlie said that because the P66 (att hold) was called out just before. That was the cue that he correctly deciphered to mean that the Astronauts had seen/observed something that they could not see (the boulder field), hence why he made the suggestion since they weren't planned to enter P66 that early.
@@Nghilifa yes, I was aware of that, but thanks for the clarification. My excitement clearly got the better of me when I wrote my comment 👍
Such a thrill to re-live those moments! The way this was all edited together was brilliant. Huge kudos to everyone who put this together. Thank you!
Agreed. Also, I would like to relive these moments by having someone create a Virtual Reality simulation of this event, so I can be in the cockpit with them while I can watch Armstrong and Aldrin working their controls in real time. I want to be there with them.
@@TheNameOfJesus That will probably happen before too long. And yes, that would be amazing. It would also be fun to be there when Neil & Buzz discover the broken switch, and discuss how to deal with it.
Seriously awesome! The KZhead world needs more videos like this! My dad was an engineer (one of many) at Grumman who worked on the LM. His specialty was Radiation Heat Transfer, so he managed thermo-vacuum testing of the LTA-8, now on display at “Space Center Houston.” In short, making sure that temperatures could be managed effectively where there’s no ambient air to stabilize heat flow. I was 8 years old when we first landed, so my memories of it are definite, but a little ... imprecise. Our family had just bought our first color TV, in part with viewing this event in mind. Ironically of course, there was no color broadcast from the lunar surface, but the news commentators’ broadcast was in color (not a given, BTW; a surprising amount of broadcasting in 1969 was still B&W!).
Never happened, b&w TVs never existed.
Colour TV on lunar surface for Apollo 12 and good quality too I remember. [PAL 625 lines,]
@@DavidJsmith-dk5tf, unfortunately, IIRC, Apollo 12 only had live video from the lunar surface for a short time. While deploying the camera, Al Bean accidentally pointed it at the Sun, burning out the vidicon tube! Apollo 12 was also “run through the ringer” right from the start: it got struck by lightning twice on the way up!
SALUTE to your father - - - Quantum mechanics tells us that thermal radiation involves photons within infrared and visible light frequencies, called thermal radiative rays, which are the basic unit of radiant energy. When a medium emits photons (thermal radiative rays), microscopically, the atoms (or molecules) of the medium emit photons due to energy state transition in the atoms (or molecules).
@@ramdas363 Ahem, I’m sorry but they did in the U.K. until the 70s when my family finally bought a colour one. I watched the moon landing in ‘69 in grainy black and white, Stuart X
This is quite extraordinary. Over 50 years later, it's still incredibly gripping
9:26 Guidance is on it! Love the enthusiasm
Brilliant piece of video, takes a lot of work to pull all that together. Watching the landing never loses its impact. To think people doubt this ever happened remains baffling. They really put their lives on the line. And for Armstrong to manually take control and then safely land shows why he was the perfect pilot to have at the controls. Cool under pressure doesn't come close to describing him.
As a child, this was all so very exciting and fascinating. As an adult, I'm moved to tears and choked up.... Wow! Life is strange.
@28YorkshireRose12....same feeling here! Back then I was playing with the G.I. Joe that came with the spacesuit & capsule. A few years later in 1973, I was fortunate enough to get my picture taken standing next to John Glenn during his campaign for the U.S. Senate.
The sounds of communication wake sleeping brain cells of the event. Not just sound bites of chatter but the real deal.
As a kid I thought this is what we do...go to the moon in a rocket. Listening to this now, I’m in bits. I just love the science and “derring do”.
I was teared up at THAT time and this time also. It was and is a magnificent achievement.
Every time I hear Armstrong say, "Tranquillity base here, the eagle has landed", I get chills and tear up a bit. Never fails. The single greatest feat in human history to this day. Armstrong had ice in his veins.
True story...The moment of the launch on July 16th 1969, I was 8 years old and in the backseat of my parents car on my way to the Hospital to have 12 rotten Baby Teeth removed at the same time.. I was scared to death...but excited over the launch. By the time they were preparing my Anesthesia the crew was preparing for TLI Trans Lunar Insertion (leaving Earth's gravity) ..When I woke up in recovery, they were well on their way. But because of the gas they used on me at the time, I puked for 3-4 days. On Sunday the fifth day I had recovered and went down to my friend's house to watch the landing. ... I went to bed early after the landing because I had school the next day but my Mom & Dad woke me up to watch the Moonwalk about 15 minutes before it happened. I will be 60 soon but I will never forget those 4-5 days..
True story : The Starship USS Enterprise was commanded by captain James Kirk.... Who's your favourite spaceman ?
You ...Without a doubt Goofball.. Put the crack pipe down and go get a job!!!
My best friend in 3rd grade at the time was the brightest in the whole county (discovered many years later by his test scores) and he was keen on the landings - the whole mission. I was also through osmosis with him. We had a huge detailed poster showing the many stages. But my shallow mother dismissed it and went for a walk on the farm because she refused to be impressed by it. Just as well, her loud narcissism would have gabbed through it anyways spoiling it for me. I was the only one watching it at home at age 8. Dad was at work and no idea where my older brother was. Even at 8 I had a sense of it's importance. The difference between males and females shows up early. Not that there aren't women who have a sense of the profound, but my mother isn't one of them- even at the age of 87 now. Pathetic.
@@paulbriggs3072 My older brother got into all the launches especially those that just preceded Apollo 11 and would always wake me up to watch the launches and that helped get me into it...Mom and Dad gave me a great little SkilCraft telescope for Christmas in 1968 and it was amazing how good that telescope was...That increased my interest more...Most everyone I knew was into Apollo 11 big time including my mother, but both my grandmothers didn't seem interested at all...You're right about women and the profound for the most part, however they all seem to adore these smartphones which is an equally profound accomplishment ....but of course it's not the amazing accomplishment itself that they adore....For so many,The phone itself helps them broadcast their narcissistic nature...I like what Dennis Miller said about that...He said " Never have so many lives... less lived,..... been more chronicled.."
You went to school in July? We were on vacation at a cabin at the beach
This still brings tears to my eyes listening to it. Everyone was on top of their game that day.
all on earth
Hell yeah teamwork
@@kongmik and your evidence of that is ?
@@kongmik July 17, 1862 Over unanimous DEMOCRAT opposition, the Republican Congress passed The Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy “shall be forever free”. April 8, 1864 The 13th Amendment banning slavery passed the U.S. Senate with 100% Republican support, 63% DEMOCRAT opposition. January 31, 1865 The 13th Amendment banning slavery passed the U.S. House with unanimous Republican support and intense DEMOCRAT opposition.
Yes, a prime example of America at it's finest.
Never seen that before. That was amazing.
50 years later and still get chills. I love how all the loops were incorporated in the audio. Man's greatest achievement, I'm glad I was alive.
What do you think about NASA's plan to get there again in 2024, friend? Are you opmistic about it? And how does it feel?
50 years later and we shill get paid shills
@@nebtheweb8885 You're the proof
@@carlton7015 I am an unpaid shill. I gladly do it for free. I love ramming reality up your capacious hoop. There is no flat earth.
@@DimapeloManual the only thing limiting NASA is public and political support. They get a tiny fraction of the budget that they had when we went to the Moon. And then people complained that they lack progress. It's like tying someone's hands and complaining then they can't play ball.
man i have goosebumps... "Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed." Its a piece of history. This video is very important.
My favorite is when they are about to lift off to return home. MCC gave the go to lift off and NA said "Roger, I understand we're number one on the runway." Just so ominous. I still get chills when I hear it.
I just commented that every time I hear Armstrong say it, I get chills and tear up a bit. Every single time. Apollo 11...the single greatest feat in human history to this point. So many things could have gone wrong. And some things did, but they got it done and fulfilled JFK's goal. Armstrong had ice in his veins.
My favorite part is "contact light"
@@abc456f, Me too. Chills and some tears - launch to splash down and recovery... Every. Single. Time. This all happened a few days before my 11th birthday and back then, I was quite literally vibrating with excitement. Today, the reaction is decidedly different. Glad to have seen it then and even more glad to be able to see it again and again today. Amazing!
@@firstnamelastname1101 Oh yes. I was twelve. I was always fascinated by the space program. I watched all of the missions, from Gemini to Apollo.
What a great event that I got to witness. The team effort to get there was just unbelievable. It was such a great time in this country.
This is the best documentary I have ever seen...
Having studied the actual assembly code written for the AGC and started my own reproduction of the AGC itself using a programmable FPGA can attest that this was truly a feat of engineering. Seeing programs P63/P64/P66 in action was simply spectacular. Well done!!
I don't know why, but those go/no go callous always make me emotional. So many thousands of peoples' work behind each of those "Go!" barks. My dad and 3 of my uncles worked on apollo and I know how proud they were of their individual roles in that project. I wish we still did big things.
So cool, your family connection to Apollo. I had to respond because before seeing this, I used to watch the shuttle launch replays and the words 'Go at main engine start' at about T-3 seconds always makes me feel the same way for the same reason - the thousands of people who give their all to send the astronauts up and the commitment at that moment, with their friends' lives in the balance. Amazing stuff
Wow! That was great! As long as I live, I will never be anything less than amazed at what they did! We all wanted to be astronauts as kids, back then!
Can’t believe how nervous I got as it landed. I’m old enough to remember this live
Yes, I watched it "live" too. Thrilling.
Great video, brings back unforgettable memories. I was camping with some friends on the Baltic coast of Poland. We hiked to a nearby village which had a single TV in a school. We talked our way in and watched all night. I was the only English speaker, and nearly lost it when Armstrong said "The Eagle has landed". A few days earlier my father, the Polish Ambassador, witnessed the launch. He told me about standing near the base of the Saturn V and having trouble believing that something so gigantic would move at all, much less fly off into the sky.
Gene Kranz was so freaking on top of his tasks it's unbelievable how well he knew everything
@@youcanfoolmeonce you sir are a fucking idiot if you believe in "moon landing hoax."
@@maeguk1 You are indeed a fucking idiot boy, if you believe that "we landed men on the moon"!
@@youcanfoolmeonce maybe you are also one of those fuckhead jokers who think the Earth is flat :D, keep on exposing your stupidity for us to laugh
@@youcanfoolmeonce The Apollo 11 landing was real and still there are freaks who believed the landing was faked.
@@capricorn839 There are still brain dead freaks out there after almost 50 years it has been proven that it was faked. Airplanes crash here on earth every week, space rockets blow up constantly and these freaks believe that there were six perfect moon landings with twelve astronauts, jockeying with "rovers" like fools for hours under 200 F temperatures in vacuum and a 12 V battery supplying cooling. Of course there was a faked "accident" of Apollo 13 with no loss of life. Of course they can't comprehend the meaning of "Failure is not an option".
Never gets old. Incredible teamwork.
Incredible video. I was a high school senior when the landing occurred and the space program had a lot to do with my decision to become an electrical engineer. Looking at this video, I'm reminded that until only a few years ago have I come to understand just how dangerous the moon landings were, and how automated they were. We all knew that there was a computer onboard, but I think most of us thought of it as basically a calculator. I had absolutely no idea how automated the landing was. I think it's only now that we have thinks like youtube that the general public can see what a truly amazing accomplishment this was, and HOW MANY PEOPLE were required to do this. To think of how those engineers were able do so much with so (relatively) little computing power is absolutely amazing. I'm also amazed at how "new" everything associated Apollo appears by today's standards. Is there any other engineering accomplishment 55+ years ago that looks this modern?
This is a great video, with the Controllers loop intertwined with Capcom. The pucker factor was very high just before touchdown with less than 30 seconds of propellant remaining. Externally cool as a cucumber Neil had an internal heart rate of 156 on the last part of that approach and touchdown that he took over and flew to an acceptable landing spot avoiding a big boulder field. As a 14 year old teen at the time, Gemini and Apollo fascinated me and steered me into a 40 year career as an airline pilot/instructor/FAA Examiner on the 747, 787, 757, 767. There were a handful of times in my career I felt that same pucker factor in dealing with problems, emergencies, and weather related issues, Neil was as cool as they come, the perfect guy to be the First Man...
Subsonic Flight Training I was 14 myself. My older brother and friend had taken me the year before to the premier showing of '2001', 3rd row center section of the balcony. Great times.
If just recordings of heartbeats were availble online.... :-)
Subsonic Flight Training: Agreed. Neil Armstrong is a roll model for all men and Apollo 11 will forever remain mankind’s greatest engineering masterpiece.
Neil Armstrong was a pilot's pilot.
ONE FOR THE BOOKS!! SUPER HISTORICAL VIDEO !!! Thanks!!!
Love watching *extremely competent* professionals at work...
you hate NASA then ha
incredible how nasa actually hired competent professionals!
@twopack shaker Apollo 11's lunar surface activity was a TV transmission. Only still film was used on the Moon.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver You do realise you've contradicted yourself? Lunar surface = on the moon. It was done in video. Stills are more likely to have been taken from within the capsule/lander - mainly because they were too freakin busy to take happy snaps. Selfies were not a thing yet.
@@caretakerfochr3834 "It was done in video." Yes, on the lunar surface.
Still gives me chills. What an incredible achievement. It’s very moving. Wow! Brave, brave men!
0:00 Start 0:08 Title and Monologue 1:31 Descent and Programs Diagram 3:05 MC Audio start 3:20 16mm Camera start 4:40 Arm Descent and T-30 5:15 PDI (P63) 9:07 Rollover and Go/No-Gos 10:30 Rollover Complete/Radar Lock 10:37 1202 Program Alarm 13:50 P64 14:18 Go/No-Go for Landing 14:36 1201 Program Alarm 15:28 P66/Evading Boulder Field 15:37 Attitude Hold 16:52 Low Level Callout 17:03 100 Feet/Quantity Light 17:15 60 Seconds to Bingo Fuel 17:45 30 Seconds to Bingo Fuel 17:56 Contact Light 18:13 The Eagle has Landed 18:30 Camera Cut and Panorama 19:00 Shut Up 19:09 Stay/No-Stay 19:40 Audio Cut/End Credits
One of the most exciting videos I've ever seen. 'Everybody hang tight' - Kranz is a legend.
"Tranquillity base here. The eagle as landed" "You got a bunch of guys here turning blue. We are breathing again. Thanks alot." Best comments ever
Yes, agreed. Minor correction for you. He said "Tranquility base here". They landed in the Sea of Tranquility and thus established a moon base there, albeit very small.
@@dafrankma Thanks for the correction
...and then Neil, who understood what so many people had done to get them here, replies "Thank you".
thats Charlie Duke talking to them about Houston.... great comments, but my favorite moment of this mission is just before leaving the moon when control gives them a clear for takeoff, Buzz Aldrin says "roger, understand we are # 1 on the runway".... For a pilot that is the best line ever!
Lucky there are no *stars* in outer space, you don't want to bump into one of them things when you are flying around in the radiation and near-absolute zero temperatures in the vacuum of space. What a load of propaganda. No one went to the moon, that was a studio movie.
I've seen this moment probably hundreds of times. It never fails to send chills up my spine that human beings actually landed on the Moon! Amazing achievement by the three brave astronauts on Apollo 11, and all the other Apollo, Gemini and Mercury missions, not to mention the flight controllers, engineers, mathematicians, physicists and technicians who worked tirelessly to build those spacecraft, help them train, map out their course and guide them to a safe launch, landing on the Moon and return to Earth. They were all heroes. Well done!
*Allegedly* landed on the Moon.
Over 400 thousand people were working hard for this tremendous achievement. "Not because was easy but because was hard" Anyway judging by professionalism and calmness of all involved people (maybe with one exception- Guidance guy;)) l would rather say that was a regular landing of the jet airliner at the modern airport that FIRST man landing on the moon.
@@ArmyJames If you used your alleged intelligence, you would know it.
They didn’t land on the moon. The moon is a light in the sky
@@allthingsbing1295 And you can't touch a light?
55 years ago, still the most intense an thrilling ride in history. I thank God this happened in my lifetime.
Incredible seeing this, again. I was 14 yrs old ... Neil, Buzz & Mike (plus so many more) are truly 20th Century American Heroes !!!
They're heroes of the whole world!
I also was 14, recording Walter Cronkite on CBS. I'm not one for heroes, but Neil is mine.
Man, this is great stuff! I was 16 years old watching the moon landing with my mom and brother in my parents’ home in the San Fernando Valley. Glad I was alive and old enough to appreciate the enormity of this achievement. I was so impressed with the calmness and professionalism of everyone involved in this mission - truly awesome performances from members of my parents’ generation.
I was 15 yo. Watched every Mercury, Gemini and Apollo launch and landing leading up to the landing. When they landed I was listening to it while sitting in our Volkswagen van with my father and my uncle while camping in the northern Sierra. A cherished memory.
A very easy day for me to remember, it was my 11th birthday. One of my gifts was a high quality pair of 8x30 binoculars. I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't see the lunar module. LOL
I was a bit younger and watched this on a dodgy black and white TV in the UK. It was hard to make out what was going on, but the ghostly poor quality images are still fixed in my memory.
What I like, besides the obvious thrill of the landing, is the segmented flight procedure and abort possibility right up and after landing. The precision of the equipment and planning is unsurpassed for that timeframe. The professionalism of the ground personnel is something to aspire to.
This is fantastic. What a piece of history. Thanks.
This exact video should be what they show in museums.
When they got clearance for lift off from the moon mission control said, "You're number one on the runway."
It was actually Buzz who said that in response to Mission Control. He said something like "Roger understand we're number one on the runway"
Zoomer30 this is correct. I also loved Neil Armstrong saying “be advised the visual is go today” after the tower jet during the launch
#1 on the studio set for sure !
It's nice to see not all are Globetards. I'm glad Gravity doesn't allow me to feel the spin of 600 to 1000 mph while flying thru space at a mind boggling 66,666 mph. If I were to feel the motion I might puke. Thank You Gravity for being there.
@@davidfoster1943 gravity has nothing to do with it, you can't feel constant speed. Only acceleration and deceleration.
It just shows what can be done with true coordinated intent. These people did such a great job.
That is one of the most fantastic things I have ever seen! Having seen the landing as a little boy, so long ago, watching this brings tears to my eyes! Thank you!
Apollo 12s decent was so routine in comparison. Amazing how much was learned from this.
The greatest moment in human history. Totally professional, cool headed and on top of their brief, the crew, controllers and back room engineers working as a team.
@felix mendez Idiot.
@felix mendez keep spouting your beliefs with no knowledge or information to support. Watch this video and stop pretending you know things that you don't. kzhead.info/sun/ktCohaiLa5Vpdqs/bejne.html
@felix mendez yes. The nazatards are out in force. FOLLOW THE MONEY! And twas money the nazapoohs were after- they cost $ 1000's every year i bet! Every thread where skeptics post- excites vast energy in the nazatard- flat urth zoo! Shame on the traitors
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David absolute garbage! You have been lied to..
Gene Kranz for sure was an amazing leader.The ability to keep all the various operations/departments, personnel coordinated,functional and synchronized and make split second decisions was no small feat. Let alone the tremendous internal and external pressures…
He was, and still is. "There's an awful lot of future out there, and what you got to do, is you go out and grab it."
I loved how Krantz responded to one reply of "wonderful" and he made the guy repeat it in a more technical terrm...just to be sure.
Tranquility base here, the Eagle has landed. Probably the most profound words ever spoken from the human race!
This was so extraordinary watching all that was happening inside eagle, PLUS Houston, PLUS a window visual view, PLUS a Narrative and height reverence all on one screen. I was a Freshman in high school and in 1969 watching this on TV, all CBS, NBC and ABC could show was visual animation as we listened to radio communication along with the voice over explanation by Walter Cronkite or Jules Bergman explaining to us what all the technobabble meant. The public didn't get to see the landing footage film until the astronauts brought it home for processing, and then the analog was not as sharp as the digital conversion. Now, fifty years later... comparing the experience from 1969 of the landing, this is just incredible!
Indeed. Did you notice that Walter Cronkite called it early? When Neil stepped down onto the landing pad, he said "There it is!" And if I remember, he talked over Neil's proclamation. I enjoyed Bergman's analysis, well-versed in science. I think it was Apollo 13 when he came on the air completely out of breath.
Definitely! While Cronkite gave us a more humanist reaction to events, Bergman's science background made him better at explaining the more specific technical concerns and risks of missions.
This event inspired me to become an engineer, I was nine years old then. And I listen to JFKs speach, translated into Norwegian, we choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy, but because it is hard. The Apollo 11 inspired me so much and I became a master of science engineer, computer and electronics and started my own company, still making electronics for deicers and radar systems. Thanks to NASA
That's the right attitude, a good Spirit, launching from the inspiration of those who go before us. Congratulations, and I'm of the same ilk and story. now retired, 30 years with Manned SpaceFlight. Lotsa work, real , and practically ceaseless work.
@Adi Adiani Some people go to school, study hard and become engineers. Others sit on their ass and make anonymous comments on KZhead. Haakon, good for you man.
AA, you are an utter imbecile.
In 1962 when Kennedy delivered the "We choose to go to the moon" speech (in Houston TX. at Rice Stadium) I was 5 years old. I was too young to have any real idea what was going on. We lived here in Houston. By July 1969 I was 12. I was feverishly interested in the space program. Unfortunately my parents had no idea how to nurture my interest. This, despite the fact that my sister (already grown & out of the house) worked at NASA as a secretary. It's just the way it was here in those days.
@Adi Adiani you swim in the idiot pool with all the other inbreds. I really don't know if I should pity you, laugh at you or both.
In 64 I was out of active duty from the army and worked on the Apolo program wiring computers at general electric in Daytona Beach across from the speed way it wasn't till 69 I fully realized all the people that did a little part made it happen. Anyone who did has their name inscribed on a walk way at the launch site I'm proud of that also.
Russell Wayne Scott (pylon 3, side 2, column 1, row 2)?
9:23 guidance’s “go” was so animated lol, he was so excited, 19:08 his “stay” was the same way lol. I love it!
You can hear flight chuckle as he continues around the horn.
Beautiful. As I stand here 50 years older than the day this happened, I get a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes. I thank God that I was old enough to witness this live with Walter Cronkite and Wally Schirra on channel 5 out of Atlanta. What a feat in American History. What an inspiration to an 8 year old like me. I’m a physicist and electrical engineer because of this! RIP Neil. Godspeed Buzz and Mike. RIP and thanks President Kennedy!
@@johndenning9230 Have you considered that you may be the one who was conned?
@@johndenning9230 You mean has he considered the POSSIBILITY? Probably yes, the arguments are all childishly stupid. However, by calling it a FACT, it's plain to see that YOU have been conned, John Denning or whoever.
Likewise. Was 5 years old at time and remember watching on old black-and-white. Beautiful accomplishment. Awe-inspiring.
@@yrunkl looks like John ran...
I was 10 and a certified space nut when Apollo 11 landed. Have been one ever since.
I was 16 years old in 1969 and watched this marvelous event. One of mankind's greatest achievements and it hasn't lost any of it's luster after 52 years.
Agree ... Science Fiction is very lustrous ...
I also was 16..July 20th 1969.....I watched the moon landing with my best friend and his father....For me,...That night was spiritual.....All these emotions were going through me.....I knew I was living at a very important moment in history.....I walked outside to collect my thoughts.....I looked up at the moon....I knew right at that moment human beings were on the moon....NASA had figured everything out perfectly...That night was a full moon......All through my life, no matter what I was going through...If I found myself outside at night and I could see it was a full moon....I was right back at July 20th 1969....What I'm trying to say,....After that night, I never looked at the moon in the same way again.
It is really the best Apollo 11 descent recording we ever saw till now. Congratulations! ❤
Neil Armstrong is just the epitome of awesome. Like, forever.
Like awesome in faking
@@kongmik like your parents. You were adopted.
Absolutely agree, but Aldrin was great too. I love his quote long after Apollo was over. "This is the country that went from Kittyhawk to the Moon in 66 years, only to languish in low earth orbit for the next 30. At the core of a risk free society is a self indulgent failure of nerve". He wanted to move forward, not back.
@@kongmik If it was fake, how is it that thousands upon thousands of people in the Apollo age, including the military vessels were able to keep such secrets, even on their death beds which most all have been on by now? How did they get the get the number of refractors (to match missions) on the moon that are used by NASA to measure distance at any point in time? The returning capsule which have massive burning marks from re-entry?
@@rockwellrhodes7703 Just curious - how old are you?
Love the way Guidance always yelled GO!!! on the go/no go's.
If you listen carefully you can hear Gene Kranz chuckle slightly at Steve as he says "Telecom", which is the next check. Kranz always said Bales shouted out his calls, he was so excited and keyed up.
His decision to "Go" on the program alarms, after consultation with Jack Garman, was critical to the final success of this landing. It's worth noting that Bales was only 26 years old and Garman just 24! What responsibility on young shoulders.
Too much coffee.
Imagine how loud he would have screamed "NO GO!!!!" LoL
I was 13 years old when I was allowed to stay up late (UK) to watch the 1st moon landing - and now, 50 years later I can witness the full story with this stunning video. Thank you!
My father also came to wake us up to watch live. After that I couldn't fall asleep again, I had too many images and stars, astronauts in my head.
I was 9, and awake at 3 in the morning/night, at home in Venice, Italy.
@@Alessandro-B Avevo anche io 9 anni e allo stesso tempo in su. Venezia, la città più bella sull' la terra, uh..... sull'acqua. Salutazione
John Denning Fuck off moron.
@@johndenning9230 take your fantasy of being the special one that knows what no one else knows, without any shred of evidence, we're adults here. You can go n play in the conspiracy nutjobs corner.
I still don't understand how these folks managed to land a chunk of aluminum held together with pop-rivets on the moon and make it back, guided by a computer running 500 cycles/sec. Astounding.
To say they pushed the limits of technology is an understatement. The years of training with these remarkable pilots bridged the gap.
Not just the pilots, but the people at Houston too.
This is the very best of the landing loops. It has all the radios going at once. It's great!
Only the left channel is a radio conversation (the air-ground recording). The right channel in the video, known as the 'Flight loop', was a wired communication loop within the mission control room.
I just turned sixty and have seen I think some of the best and the some of the worst within those years, from b/w TV's to 70 inch and over flat led , from wall mounted rotary phones to one's that we carry in our pocket, and micro-wave ovens that can cook in seconds. But in all of the wonder these eyes have witnessed nothing compares to when I watched the landing , then going outside and looking at the moon in total amazement. This video brought all that amazement back once more , Thank you
@Thomas Pickering Stop posting that crap pickering. I know you are desperate for readers but your blog link is still total bullshit.
@Thomas Pickering
@Thomas Pickering the dumpster fire troll. You stink asshole
@Thomas Pickering
@Thomas Pickering WARNING ALERT ! Incoming idiotic ignorant comments by the adherents of the Flat Earth & Magical Dome Cult, and other nincompoops of the Lunatic Fringe. That'd include Apollo Moon Landing deniers.
I've watched it over and over - I constantly hit pause and read each thing on the screen - Incredible!!!!
It is my belief that the entire Apollo program, but especially 11 and 13, is the greatest achievement ever
I have watched loads of videos on the landing. This is by far the best. Shows clearly the complexity of the landing. These guys were amazing. What a team.
All those people talking would have gotten on my nerves. It's why they needed astronauts who weren't like me.
This is amazing... Love all of the details and corrected perspective. Hearing Flight and Capcom simultaneously really adds to the intensity.
Around 1974 several High School Systems in east Tennessee went together and purchased a computer mainframe which was relocated to an abandoned and retrofitted school bldg. Each participating school had a terminal which consisted of keyboard, wide paper print out and ticker tape memory feed. Advance students from the school would be able to learn about computer programming basics. Within three days they discovered a "game" on the computer they called "Lunar Lander". It gave you flight data (speed, descent speed, remaining fuel, etc) you would input commands for burn rate and attempt to land. We later were told that this was a copy of the program used to train Apollo pilots for the actual moon landings.
When you watch this you realize the "Divine Discontent" that man has that pushes him to constantly enlarge the boundaries of Human endeavor. Like countless Pioneers before them, who explored the far corners of the earth.....these men pushed out into our Universe and really did go where no man has gone before! And doubtless this spirit will be displayed again and again as man pushes deeper into our solar system to the planets and beyond! Neil Armstrong....Buzz Aldrin...and Michael Collins.....courageous men who dared to further mans exploits of discovery!
The overly energetic GO! from Guidance at 9:24 during the final PDI Go/NoGo poll made me and even iron-faced Gene chuckle! x) It's those little bits that make this already remarkable feat even more awesome, that these steely-eyed missile men were in fact, human, and just as excited as all the rest of the world watching!
Unbelievable. Watching it when I was 8yo, you have no idea of the teamwork involved in such an endeavor. This video is a great tribute to their efforts and stunning success.
Yes, it is quite unbelievable.
@@suekennedy8917 Shut up moron, and go back into your basement.
I was 8 too and I watched it in awe!
christianege: Your name is egg. Leggo my Eggo!
Its fantastic how they got 3 astronauts and all of that equipment into a capsule that was too small for them.
Anything Apollo gets an immediate thumbs up from me. Great work!
I was turning 5 when they landed on the moon and I was watching it on our 19 inch Magnavox TV. I looked at my Dad puzzled not fully understanding why my family was excited and I was not. My father looked at me and stated that the Astronauts had landed on the moon. I stated OKAY and continued playing with my toy. It took me several years later to understand the significance and the importance of the event. But now looking at this video as an adult, I look at it as I have looked at it several times before with amazement. Great minds and true heroes at work, the astronauts and the other 400K employees who made this event happen. Great video thank you.
Even knowing how it turned out I was holding my breath. A fantastic look into how things go. Thank you!
this a Looney friend of yours, Aaron? Hey Denni boy, don't stalk friends on youtube lol!
@@upublic He might be from the "moon landings are fake" group.
This video is brilliant. What a great way to honor the achievement of the inspired, dedicated, brilliant, brave, visionaries who changed human history 50 years ago this month! Thank you.
@@johndenning9230 It's funny how every one of your comments has exactly one "Thumbs up", not 2 nor 0. Just one. Must be pretty sad when you have to resort to propping up your own comments.
@@johndenning9230 The purveyors of bullshit are the delusional hoaxnuts such as yourself. What's your excuse? Are you a flat-Earther? Are you a pseudo-religious fanatic?
@@johndenning9230 Unlike Armstrong's one small step, you may want to stick to your chair exercises :)
@@johndenning9230 Oh sorry, you must be that other foot dragging John Denning with the chair exercise playlist. I know you tin-foil hatters are not that bright but come on!
@@johndenning9230 "do you truly believe that Armstrong was telling the truth? " Incredibly humble and modest, Professor of Aeronautics and possibly one of the best test pilots who has ever lived and 'look at body language' is your line of argument. Really ? "come up with something original. Oh I'm sorry, that's all that you have? Go away." I'm not surprised to see from your other comments that you are also a flat earther - at least you are consistent because a true hoax believer also has to assert the fakery of the rest of reality to save face. Plus you'll need the tin-foil hat to protect you from all the EM fields that are holding up the nearby sun and moon :) Go away says the troll on a Apollo11 landing video, as Prof. Dave likes to say, the irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife (or should that be Occams Razor?).
I listen to this every year on this date. Each time my heart races just the same as when I was 16 and did not know how it would end. Thank you for the captions
9:25-9:28 I love the little chuckle Kranz has at the Guidance controller's "Go!" It humanizes the legend a bit.
I love how you add the exclamation point when Guidance says "go," since Steve Bales basically yelled it!
You gotta love Steve's spirit. He definitely was living the moment. I also love how Charlie Duke misspoke Tranquility at first as "Tawn". Just imagine the emotions he was feeling acting as CapCom during the entire descent. Simply amazing!!
GO!
@@bissonFamily In a simulation before the actual mission, Bales had aborted the landing when faced with this alarm. It's basically the computer saying it was overloaded and couldn't complete some tasks, but the tasks were done in order of importance. So they decided, after analysis of the simulation, that they could ignore this alarm as long as it wasn't continuous. This was a life and death situation, obviously, so Bales was understandably tense.
You can hear Gene Kranz chuckle a little bit at that, as Bales shouted it so loudly he could hear it clear across the MOCR even without the audio loop.
@@chrimony Oh I'm fully aware of the meanings for the alarms and how the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) operates. I studied the schematics for the AGC, read nearly all the assembly code that is available and studied its architecture. I have a pet project to reconstruct the AGC, re-compile parts of the code and run it. My plan is to operate the AGC to control the flight of a rocket in Kerbal Space Program. The old meets the new :)
I wasnt even born when this happened but i do get goosebumps when seeing this. Now ive seen a lot of movies and documentaries about the Apollo program, Gemini and everything before and after. This movie still gave a new insight into the details. I love it. Thanks for sharing.
@@johndenning9230 But what about the children?
After watching this on the edge of my seat I felt like one of the "guys about to turn blue."! Fantastic video.
A copy of this video should be stored in the national archives for future generations to watch.