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as the 40th anniversary of the moon landing approaches

and

recognising what man walking on the moon represents to all of us (living and those who have walked our planet and gazed up at the night sky and wondered over millenia)

cheers to the imagination
cheers to the technical expertise
cheers to the accomplishment
cheers to the beginning
cheers to what is to come (for this repeat above cycle)

for those interested the following docos may prove fascinating

NASA 50 years of space exploration (9 parts [approx 8 hours], all original footage, no recent voiceovers or interviews, just 8 hours of historical footage, including approx 25 mins on the moons surface)

When we left earth The nasa missions (3 parts [approx 2.5 hours], original footage with recent interviews plus additional bonus and extra historical footage [several hours])

From the earth to the moon (12 parts [approx 9 hours], hbo dramatisation, not doco)

[note they are all us-specific], cheers to the russians as well

other non moon-specific

Hubblecasts
NASA hd shorts

some free sky-gazing software

celestia
stellarium

one day i want to take a picture just like this (cheers :))
 

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One of the greatest achievements of our species, and I doubt many of us give it any thought. I hope to see a Mars landing in my lifetime.
 
Seeing the moon landing was probably the most memorable event in my life. After 40 years it is still hard to accept the reality that they could achieve this amazing feat with the technology then available. The team that put them there was brilliant, but there is no doubt that Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins had the "right stuff."
 
It's almost unbelievable that they could achieve it within less than a century of flight, and just a few decades of computers and modern rocketry.
 
On google earth you can see the entire mars surface inch by inch if you want.
anybody know where we can see satelite images of the moon surface ormaybe the landing site if it really exists?
 
Calliope said:
Seeing the moon landing was probably the most memorable event in my life. After 40 years it is still hard to accept the reality that they could achieve this amazing feat with the technology then available. The team that put them there was brilliant, but there is no doubt that Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins had the "right stuff."
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I wasn't born then, but I think it is still the most phenomenal achievement of humankind so far.....

And yes, think about the technology compared to now.... I did hear that there was more computing power in a desktop computer than the entire Apollo program - and I heard that 10 YEARS AGO!!!!
 
rico01 said:
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the landing site if it really exists?
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apollo 11 20/07/69 mare tranquillitatis lunar lat 0.67N lunar long 23.49E
apollo 12 19/11/69 crater lansberg lunar lat 2.94S lunar long 23.45W
apollo 14 05/02/71 fra mauro luanr lat 3.67S lunar long 17.46E
apollo 15 30/07/71 hadley rille lunar lat 26.11N lunar long 3.66E
apollo 16 20/04/72 descartes lunar lat 8.60S lunar long 15.31E
apollo 17 11/12/72 taurus-littrow lunat lat 20.17N lunar long 30.80E
lunar surveyor 1 02/06/66 flamsteed p lunar lat 2.45S lunar long 43.21W
luna 2 13/09/59 lunar lat 29.10N lunar long 0.00E (first probe on moon)
luna 9 03/02/66 planitia descensus lunar lat 7.08N lunar long 64.37W (first soft landing)
luna 13 24/12/66 lunar lat 18.87N lunar long 62.05W
luna 16 21/09/70 lunar lat 0.68S lunar long 56.30E (returned soil samples)
luna 17 17/11/70 lunar lat 38.28N lunar long 35.00W (first moon rover drove 10.5kms)
luna 20 21/02/72 lunar lat 3.57N lunar long 56.50E (returned rock samples)
luna 21 15/01/70 lunar lat 25.51N lunar long 30.38E (moon rover drove 37kms)
luna 24 18/08/76 lunar lat 12.25N lunar long 62.20E (core sample at depth of 2m)

[courtesy of chong, lim and ang, photographic atlas of the moon, cambridge uni press]

on a day 6 moon mare tranquillitatis is the largest dark splotch visible at the equator equiv on the moon's surface - apollo 11 landing site at top NE corner of mare tranq

cheers :)
 
Now off to mars. I doubt with a price tag of .5Trillion dollar that is going to happen anytime soon.
Think of it this way, NASA could have sent two manned missions to Mars and back, for the cost of Iraq war.

But I am hopeful that with the advent of plasma thrusters it would be possible sooner rather then later. Next big thing in space is travel without booster rockets.

Mars fascinates me more than the moon. Moon you can always spot at night, but mars that is a different story. Interplanetary is more exotic.

Recently they had a whole article on Mars travel in a scientific magazine. It is also interesting that people in 1960s thought that by 2010 we would have colonized Mars... I think it might be possible by 2110.
 
My friends at work wanted to watch Apollo13 for the aniversary , but i hadn't seen the first 12 so i wouldn't have known what was going on !:banghead:
 
Calliope said:
Seeing the moon landing was probably the most memorable event in my life. After 40 years it is still hard to accept the reality that they could achieve this amazing feat with the technology then available. The team that put them there was brilliant, but there is no doubt that Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins had the "right stuff."
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Yep!! To this day I think that "Houston, the Eagle has landed" is the single most exciting sentence of the 20th century.

Though Apollo 8, the first one to go round the other side of the moon and the one that produced the first photo of Earthrise, was probably the most eye-opening of the Apollo missions. I still have the Sydney Morning Herald front page with that picture.

Ghoti (Space Groupie)
 
ghotib said:
Yep!! To this day I think that "Houston, the Eagle has landed" is the single most exciting sentence of the 20th century.

Though Apollo 8, the first one to go round the other side of the moon and the one that produced the first photo of Earthrise, was probably the most eye-opening of the Apollo missions. I still have the Sydney Morning Herald front page with that picture.

Ghoti (Space Groupie)
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Agreed. Still produces chills when hearing the recording.

I remember reading they only had about 10 seconds of fuel left when they touched down. That's a bit too close for me if I was Buzz Aldrin!!!!
 
Calliope said:
Seeing the moon landing was probably the most memorable event in my life. After 40 years it is still hard to accept the reality that they could achieve this amazing feat with the technology then available. The team that put them there was brilliant, but there is no doubt that Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins had the "right stuff."
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Unless of course the whole thing was an American scam to prove they had superior technology to the Russians in which case it is the anniversary of the landing that nevertook place.
Which could explain why the Hubble Telescope capable of taking photo's of deep space can't take photo's of the alleged landing sight. Regan ultimately admitted that the lazer star wars technology was bull****. Nixon couldn't lie straight in bed. More proof needed.
 
nulla nulla said:
Unless of course the whole thing was an American scam to prove they had superior technology to the Russians in which case it is the anniversary of the landing that nevertook place.
Which could explain why the Hubble Telescope capable of taking photo's of deep space can't take photo's of the alleged landing sight. Regan ultimately admitted that the lazer star wars technology was bull****. Nixon couldn't lie straight in bed. More proof needed.
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Hey Nulla, my drugged deluded friend, take a lesson in optics and you will be humbled.
 
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