50 Years Ago Today, July 16th 1969, the Apollo 11 Mission Launched.

[Racey]

At 13:32 (UTC) 06:32 (Pacific Daylight Time), Apollo 11 Launched to send Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins on a journey to the moon.

Channel 4 in the UK is running a real time live stream that started this morning replaying the events and radio transmissions as they occured.

 

[RitcheyRch]

 

[TeamGreene]

Fucking Buzz is a bad ass!

 

[pronstar]

Cool pic of Neil Armstrong’s family watching the launch 50 years ago

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[Cobalt232]

NY Times interviewed my dad Wilfred and his friend Chuck a couple of weeks ago. Chuck is still working in the parachute business.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/13/science/apollo-moon-nasa-engineers.html?searchResultPosition=3

 

[SixD9R]

At 13:32 (UTC) 06:32 (Pacific Daylight Time), Apollo 11 Launched to send Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins on a journey to the moon.

Channel 4 in the UK is running a real time live stream that started this morning replaying the events and radio transmissions as they occured.

American greatness right there!
I heard a joke once, maybe not even a joke but it was something like “some countries are good at soccer and others have been to the moon”
Completely fucken badass that’s what landing on the moon in 1969 was.

 

[monkeyswrench]

American greatness right there!
I heard a joke once, maybe not even a joke but it was something like “some countries are good at soccer and others have been to the moon”
Completely fucken badass that’s what landing on the moon in 1969 was.

Moon landing, first to break sound barrier, SR71's...with slide rules and brass balls!

Damn, I was really born to late!

 

[ChumpChange]

Watched it in real time this morning. Was pretty cool to see it synced up.

 

[SoCalDave]

Can't remember what channel or the name of the documentary that was on recently but that fame really messed-up Neil Armstrong's life.
Looking forward to seeing the movie when it comes out next week.

 

[SixD9R]

That was awesome!
Did that asshole reporter work for CNN?

 

[MisplacedSooner]

I have a awesome story about the day I met NASA pilot Charles “Sam” Gemar at a small airport outside of Wichita Ks called Lloyd Stearman Field.
There is a nice little restaurant at this small airfield where my pipeline flyer has his hangar and his house in the same building.
We finish lunch and are getting ready to leave and we walk outside and he introduces us to a friend of his that just landed a Stearman bi-plane and proceeds to tell us about him being a NASA pilot, shook hands and talked for maybe 15 minutes or so. He asked if I had ever ridden in a bi plane and I said no, he asked if I wanted to take a ride with him and I said no thanks, he asked me if I didn’t trust him to fly a plane, I said no, not at all but with you having been to space and back, I reckon you don’t have much to lose since you made it back. He was a cool and crazy guy. Feel honored to have met him.

 

[Racey]

Entering the Eagle.

 

[old rigger]

I love that clip. Although it's 17 years old and Aldrin was 75 ish at the time and not 89 as he now, he could probably still kick that fuckers ass.

 

[throttle]

caught this IMAX private screening (Apollo 11) the other night in Irvine. Was pretty LEGIT!

https://imaxmelbourne.com.au/movie/apollo_11_the_imax_experience

I had chills. Where were you when it landed on the moon?

 

[Racey]

Entering Lunar Orbit.


That Apollo 11 Documentary is absolutely phenomenal. The only good thing CNN has produced in the last decade.

 

[Racey]

About 1 hour away from the exact 50 year mark of the touchdown on the lunar surface