Where were you when Apollo 11 landed?

[ngcles]

Hi Leon & All,

Originally Posted by leon

Have a look at the movie, "The Dish", my favorite movie of all time I have played it to death.

As a matter of trivia, I believe the home of the "Mayor" or "Shire President" (can't remember which) in the movie is in fact the current (Forbes) residence of the Catholic Bishop of Forbes-Willcania.

His name is known to many here -- Chris Toohey, a well known amateur astronomer in the Central-West Astronomical Society and formerly President of the Sutherland Astronomical Society.

I've also played cricket (with a tennis-ball) in the Parkes dish too ...


Best,

Les D

[kinetic (Steve)]

Originally Posted by redesford

Here is the Apollo 11 landing with the Flight Director on the left channel and the Air-to-Ground on the right channel. Note the famous 'fuel calls'.

Thanks Stephen,

I had heard the 'twelve oh one alarm' recording many times over the
years but never anything after the touchdown.
I didn't realise the audio continued almost a full minute afterwards with
'stay/ no stay' decisions still being made by Flight.
Awesome stuff....still get goosebumps listening to that audio.

Thanks for sharing.

Steve

[Jay-qu]

I was a collection of atoms spread far and wide around the planet. It wasnt until about 19 years after the moon landing that the atoms coalesced into a coherent being.

[stephenb (Stephen)]

Originally Posted by kinetic

Thanks Stephen,

I had heard the 'twelve oh one alarm' recording many times over the
years but never anything after the touchdown.
I didn't realise the audio continued almost a full minute afterwards with
'stay/ no stay' decisions still being made by Flight.
Awesome stuff....still get goosebumps listening to that audio.

Thanks for sharing.

Steve

No worries Steve,

After a few solid hours of searching I located the source of the audio (at least the site where I originally downloaded the audio)

http://www.apolloarchive.com/

I'm sure some others may already be aware of this, but for those who are not, look under Apollo Multimedia in the left menu. All the audio for all the Apollo missions are there.

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Originally Posted by Lert

I was on shift at the OTC (remember us?) Carnarvon Satellite Comm station in WA.. We were looking after several voice/data circuits between the Carnarvon tracking station and the USA.. Saw the TV off Satellite at work. Still pretty pleased to have played a small part in history..

Hi Lert,

Yes I remember OTC, was a trainee technical officer and worked there from '88 to 91 and remember working in the Satellite Earth Station in Oxford Falls when the Gulf War I was going round and patching through the TV feeds to Channels 7,9 and 10. It was humbling to be part of that event but I cant compare that to the moon landings. - Awesome!

Cheers

Chris

[bones]

Turning 40 in a few weeks, I just made it and sometimes refer to my age as being born just before they landed on the moon. Anyway, I was only about 3 months old so unfortunately I don't have any memories of this epic event. I was probably asleep in the cot..