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Post by PhantomWolf on Jan 26, 2009 16:59:01 GMT -4
Well I remember getting up to watch the first Columbia launch (and getting up to watch it again when it was delayed due to weather) but I was too young to have watched Apollo 17 launch (a bare 6 months) and obviously wasn't about for any of the others.
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Jason
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Post by Jason on Jan 26, 2009 17:01:40 GMT -4
I did manage to watch the first Columbia launch.
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Post by VALIS on Jan 26, 2009 20:28:04 GMT -4
Me too. I had to skip a few hours of school but my mom agreed it was well worth it
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Post by AtomicDog on Jan 26, 2009 22:30:36 GMT -4
Here is some video of commercials broadcast during CBS's coverage of Apollo 15:
As noted in the YouTube commentary, if this was the first EVA, this broadcast took place Saturday, July 31, 1971.
I remember Grape Tang, too. Not bad.
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Post by AtomicDog on Jan 28, 2009 16:08:01 GMT -4
These videos really bring back memories - I remember now that CBS finished their landing simulation early, and had their LM on the Moon a full 37 seconds before the Eagle actually touched down! I don't know where the poster got these videos, but I would love to see them in all of their DVD glory - Tang commercials and all. I must "respectively" disagree. I hated Cronkite's commentary. He was shouting "Man on the Moon" seconds before Armstrong stepped off the ladder. He came within about a half a second of "talking over" Neil's first words. (one small step....) That's one of the best things about the spacecraftfilms series... no commentary... An notable exception being Apollo 14. There's some guy on that set who can't seem to stop himself from repeating everything said...it is VERY annoying. I wonder why that is the exception...perhaps the quality of the tapes was better? I agree that commentary during critical, self-explanitory parts of the missions was superfluous, but there was a lot of dead air to fill waiting for something to happen, and I'm glad that the networks decided to fill it with stuff like this: About 2:55 into this clip NBC reporter explains the working of the Apollo TV camera before the first broadcast from the CM. And this clip showed the audience what Neil was going to be busy with during the landing (at 1:15 in the video): Remember, there was no NASA TV at the time, and all of the explaining of what was going on during the flights was left mostly up to the networks.
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Post by Grand Lunar on Jan 28, 2009 19:48:21 GMT -4
I was -5 when Apollo 11 landed, and was born just eight months after Apollo 17 left. I missed the whole thing. I was -11 during Apollo 11 and -8 during Apollo 17. I born about a year before Columbia's first launch. The first launch I clearly remember seeing was Discovery's launch after the Challenger disaster. We saw it at school.
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Post by raven on Jan 28, 2009 19:58:31 GMT -4
For people who lived at that time, I have a query. I remember reading in an a science book of the year for 1969, that during the Apollo 12 video camera fiasco, a simulation was presented to illustrate what the astronauts were doing on the moon at that time. Does anyone remember anything like this?
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Post by spacecraftfilms on Jan 29, 2009 8:52:01 GMT -4
Yes, there were several simulations, one was with a LM mockup and suited "astronauts" and NBC had these astronaut "marionettes" that simulated what was going on. We cover this in our new documentary, "Live From The Moon." More details at collectSpace.com and at www.livefromthemoon.tvMark
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Post by dwight on Jan 29, 2009 13:30:29 GMT -4
There is one thing about the live network telecasts that can't be captured any other way, and that is the overall excitement everyone had over history being made right in front of their eyes.
I have the complete Apollo 8 and 10 CBS telecasts and they are a joy to watch! The knowledge of the presenters makes it all the more fun to watch. There is an atmosphere that draws you in. I became a couch potatoe watching those feeds last year!
And one more thing. If you can check out Mark's film! It will be good!
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Post by voodoo on Feb 12, 2009 9:10:44 GMT -4
Although I was alive at the time of the Apollo 11 landing, I was too young to really remember or understand it. (The earliest memories that I can clearly date are from later that same summer). My primary media connection with the landing was a Front page from the Toronto Globe and Mail with the headline "Man on Moon" in huge tyoe, which my parents kept, and which I still have.
For someone of my age, spaceflights were part of the landscape, and strange as it may seem, moon landings seemed almost routine. I can remember seeing one of the later Apollo launches (probably the launch of Apollo 16) just because my brother happened to be watching it. Ironically, we started studying space in school just after the end of the Moon program, and that's where I became a space enthusiast -- just a bit too late!
The first space launch I went out of my way to see was the ASTP launch in July 1975 -- there, I arranged to see it at a friends house, as they had *colour* TV (we still had a lousy B & W set at that time). I can still remember the announcer saying "This is almost certainly the last launch of a Saturn rocket from Cape Canaveral, and the last manned launch until the Space Shuttle in 1979 (!)". And I later was able to stay home from school (thanks to indulgent parents) to watch the first launch attempt for STS-1. I'm still hoping to get to Cape Canaveral and see a shuttle launch before the program ends.
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