Freedom 7 flight from episode 1 of “From The Earth To The Moon”
In honor of the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11. [July 16 - 24, 1969]. Here is an excerpt from episode 1 of the HBO mini-series “From The Earth To The Moon” [The Mercury-Redstone Freedom 7 flight with Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., May 5, 1961.]
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Last minutes of chapter 6, “From the Earth to the Moon”. Credits: HBO Mission name Apollo 11 Command Module CM-107 callsign Columbia mass 30320 kg Service Module SM-107 Lunar Module LM-5 callsign Eagle mass 16448 kg Crew size 3 Booster Saturn V SA-506 Launch pad LC 39A Kennedy Space Center Florida, USA Launch date July 16, 1969 13:32:00 UTC Lunar landing July 20, 1969 20:17:40 UTC Sea of Tranquility 0° 40′ 26.69″ N 23° 28′ 22.69″ E (based on the IAU Mean Earth Polar Axis)
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I have flown as captain on several flights for ATK in their flare conformity program and these guys have got it together. They are now, here in Utah, beginning their commercial rocket program and just wait, you will see what can be done without beauracratic interference within the capitalist system and with SRB’s no less!
@joshatkins94 Constellation was doomed by politics right from the start. I mean, just look at the fact that they decided to go with an expensive, unsafe, and inefficient Solid Rocket Booster as the booster for the crew capsule. The reason? Because they didn’t want to alienate the contractor who makes the space shuttle SRBs.
Yeah, it’s sad to see the space program gutted like that, but there may be a silver lining in that the whole program can get a reboot now.
Watching these clips always makes me sad….back in the days of America’s “can do” spirit…..those days are long gone…..
@toddsmitts Not only that, he canceled Apollo and appointed his idiot vice president to decide where to go next.
@captainh321 As Buzz Aldrin said on Fox News in April, the decision to end American shuttle flights was made in January 2004 by the previous administration. It’s not the current President’s fault that President Bush and Congress decided to underfund Constellation.
@drey4lyfee There’s no guarantee a Republican president will be any more supportive. Nixon, for instance, was happy to reap the rewards of Apollo started by his predecessors, yet he did very little to champion it compared to them.
I didn’t understand why the capcom says CAPCOM CAN YOU READ? at 6:18. Montage error?
Obama is putting us behind in the space race. Someone wake me when the next 2 years are up so I can not vote for him.
@UdallIn72 Obama does have three spaceworthy adversaries russia, china and europe. The battle is now economic rather than prestige and the US is failing to even leave the starting box.
As for trust I will give you that. The media has become far too judgmental and will be the death of the US, and the west with it. Noone seems to realise the other bastard (i.e. china) dont play by the rules, they just constantly bend them and lie whilst doing so. We need to man up and beat them at their own game
@NowhereMan1966 amen. I was also born in 66. Im not american but Apollo was my early youth and thanks for the fantasic show. We played our own little bit part in it. I too want to feel proud for mankind again. Lets get back there and this time lets stay.
While this was the second human spaceflight, and only a sub-orbital one at that, it was actually the first successful landing of a manned spacecraft.
Gagarin ejected from his Vostok capsule.
That fact didn’t become clear until Glasnsot.
@DumbYankies
Well, Kennedy also had a spaceworthy geopolitical adversary and a much stronger economy than Obama.
Also, Kennedy was working at a time when most people sort of trusted the government.
@DumbYankies I was born in 1966 so I feel good to have seen the landings on the Moon. It musth ave been something to be a kid in the 1960s if you were interested in science to have watched the space program from Project Mercury onward. When I watch scenes like this, I get goosebumps in my skin and tears in my eyes, despite Vietnam and other problems, this was a good time in America if you were into science and space. I want to feel proud for my country again.
the soundtrack is abseloutely perfect in FTETTM. I’m from Scotland and it makes me feel proud to be american haha!
@toddsmitts Saturn 5 puts 45 tons into lunar orbit, 15 tons to lunar surface. Shuttle weights about 70 tons for the orbiter with consumerables. So something with about twice the grunt of a saturn 5s three stages. But also the shuttle is about as aero dynamic as a barn door so it has much more drag going up. And on top of that would need much better insulation to survive trans lunar reentry on the way back. That aside from the 70 tons not including fuel the brake in or boost out of lunar orbit
Compare kennedy A clear objective. A clear deadline. A clear purpose. To the Moon, by 1970, not because it is easy but because it is hard.
To Obama, no real objective, no deadline, no purpose. Maybe some space taxi, but now the russians, and maybe oneday around 2030 mars. And scrap constellation, but turn orion into a lifeboat (with nothing to launch it), and no real mention of an on-going US launched manned program. Complete disgrace, almost treason.
@captainh321 Yes it is a sad day. Come probably janurary 2011, Sir Richard Branson will have more manned launch capability that the entire US establishment (NASA, space taxi’s, USAF, whatever). Falcon 9 is fine and dandy but there seems to be NO coordinated manned spaceflight plan around it, atlas 5 or any other launcher. If Obama or someone was kicking butt to accelerate man rating of it and putting an Orion-lite on top, it wouldnt be so bad. But to date I SEE NO DRIVE in this direction.
@Naoviotaire He sounded like he said 30,000 feet.
@captainh321 They most probably have stuff out there, it’s just that they don’t tell most of us about it because they put the projects under the military instead, hence, no insight. The US black budget was estimated $50 billion in 2009 for classified programs. There are Americans up there now and even so after the shuttle.
@Naoviotaire i think he said “90,000 but the caption is wrong
@zoeconnolly Yeah, but if you were deaf, how would you hear or rather imagine the series’s beautiful music?
“9,000 feet,” then, “the drogue is freed at 21,000 feet”
@zoeconnolly then maybe you could redo the video and make the captions with youtube
11Gs, holy crap.
Great show.
@austenbosten Do you have any idea how big a booster would have to be to put something the size of a shuttle into lunar orbit? The shuttle was NEVER designed for anything but low earth orbit.
And for the record, the US was a space-faring nation in 1975, with the Apollo-Soyuz mission.
@yesiamawizardjonny We should be treating those men as heroes but because of emotionally unstable idiots like you we regard them as villains. I can’t wait for the day when we go back to the moon and find all the landing sites in exactly the right place. But I supposed you will find some way of explaining that away. Perhaps they developed some satellite that left all their equipment and footprints there and left no trace of itself. And that will come from some “top secret” government report.
@yesiamawizardjonny You can prove it? THEN PROVE IT! I am sick of you conspiracy theorist bullshitters who say they can prove it then don’t produce the goods. You say the Apollo samples were much different in mineral content and other properties than real samples brought back by unmanned vehicles. Have you analyzed those samples yourself? Or do you just blindly rely on the “expert” testimony of self-righteous pricks like Bart Sibrel who only want attention. You’re the one that is pathetic!
@yesiamawizardjonny …perhaps a family dog stole your virginity and traded you a Milk bone for your silence, still thats no reason to come on here blathering about when you’re obviously into the middle stages of “unhingement” -an emotional malady where by anyone that prints or says something opposite to your view causes an instant and manical reaction -please consider this is due to your beliefs being the main thing in your life thus causing you to “over” defend it …try dating (with a female)
@MightySaturn5 Yeah without reaching you lose something.
The white vest was Apollo 13
@danschaoticmind we won’t get to mars or a asteroid by 2030 (well NASA won’t anyways) because thanks to obama we no longer have a spacecraft so i say we just let the russians take care of that business and let the private sector follow behind.
@danschaoticmind at this rate i highly doubt we will even get there by 2030.
We need more movies like this to inspire young kids and show what amazing things humans are capable of, because the Hoaxheads are surely not gonna’.
@bulldaawg You use moon rocks as evidence we landed on the moon? Pathetic… When analyzed, the Apollo samples were much different in mineral content and other properties than real samples brought back by unmanned vehicles. The moon landing was fake, I can prove it and anyone with half a brain knows this is true.
The greatest event in human history.
@PeoplesWar I’m an atheist, but I think it was appropriate in that circumstance. “It’s just something I want to do”
@MightySaturn5 Many thanks for the response and you take care as well.
@mikefastener Yeah Mike -many of us wonder that ourselves…perhaps its a combination of far less money and the fact that without the threat of something akin to the old USSR pulling ahead in technology you turn inward and get lazy and bitchy.
Anyway have a great day and take care.
@Blahbevava Well said my friend
The moon landings were all faked in a studio. They never went to the moon. Here’s a link to some of the evidence.
3″W’s (dot) spurstalk (dot) com/forums/showthread (dot) php?t=144487
@mikefastener You are simply seeing the latest in more of the same politics. Ever since Nixon, a president comes in, makes big announcements, then fails to follow through. The fact of the matter is, NASA is basically the political grandstanding platform it has been. I was saddened at first, then sighed and said “Well that is just typical” If nothing else, we will be keeping the Orion capsule. But we have lost ARES and the Return to the moon in favour of a possible asteroid and mars by 2030.
@danschaoticmind Yoda! (You know the term is one of respect for your knowledge of Apollo.) My goodness–I am deeply saddened by Obama’s decision. I am not an American so I do not pay the taxes to fund these endeavours; however, I feel connected as part of the human race.
What has happened to you guys?
Thank God 413 was in. 412 is a douche!
@NASAvsPETE= I got two words for you.
one word DISNEY.
Well NIceguy your right, why did’nt we go further? If our politicians had any balls they would vote for massive increases in the space program. Obammie, wants to kill our space progam and give the money to the dead beats. Spend money on deadbeats and all you get is more deadbeats, spend money on the space program and you get advanced technology. Including the kind that makes the deadbeats comfortable. These idiots sure do not think past their noses.
I found it very beautiful and moving that Aldrin took communion on the moon.
@Blahbevava Settle down, swallow your pride please.
@mikefastener Of course! Also, during the Obama announcement, I spent a lot of time making phone calls and sending out emails and that sort. In the Process I ended up running into Homer Hickham. Anyways, they would only have to stir the tanks at set intervals since the comparative density was apparently close to the same. That sounds like my kind of lecture though lol! Bummer what Obama did to the space program though (I for one do not trust the go commercial only plan reminds me of the 90s)
@danschaoticmind Yoda! Are you still out there educating us Apollo lovers? Did I mention to you that I attended a live speech by Neil Armstrong? (He was a director of Eaton Corporation of which I was a senior manager.) He was hilarious!!! His subject: Why the world should love the Engineer!