Apollo 11: The Complete Descent

[Homer J Simpson]

Pretty well done real time decent of Apollo 11 with overlays of spacecraft data, AGC active programs and activity, plus flight controller loop audio.

[newbrain]

Another very good documentary, from Italian blogger and debunker Paolo Attivissimo:
Moonscape

It covers both the descent and moon walk (no Michael Jackson).

[StillTrying]

When you're speaking to someone about something important a 2.5 sec delay before they answer is a long time, luckily they didn't have that problem.

[GeorgeOfTheJungle]

No woman has ever gone to the moon... Just sayin'

Sounds like a good theme of conversation for Christmas dinners!

[StillTrying]

How many people have been on the moon's surface.

I quite like one of the dramatised versions of the 1st landing done for the recent anniversary, can't remember it's name without looking though the Freeview recorder's 'Moon' folder.

[GeorgeOfTheJungle]

When you're speaking to someone about something important a 2.5 sec delay before they answer is a long time, luckily they didn't have that problem.

Stanley's sound engineers were that good... "One Giant Leap For Mankind"

[rdl]

That one is pretty good. There's also the one with Neil Armstrong narrating as the landing film is shown alongside video from Google Moon.

I don't know if this is the best version. I seem to remember a better one.

[Dr. Katzenfritz]

Everyone should listen to the BBCs amazing broadcast "13 Minutes to the Moon", where they take the descent to the moon as the centerpoint of a wide exploration into the Apollo program:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2

This website has a great animation of the the flight controller and capcom loops with some sort of chat like transcript:
https://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/

[German_EE]

What I immediately noticed was how calm and controlled the team at Mission Control were. Messages were flying around yet the system worked as everyone concentrated on their particular aspect of the mission and things only went up the 'pyramid' to the Flight Controller if he really needed to know something. The other essential part of all this was that only one person communicated with Eagle and this wasn't the Flight Controller, it was CapCom. This meant that Armstrong and Aldrin could concentrate on the matter in hand, landing the LEM.

The system was well designed and it worked well thanks to a good team and the right man at the helm.

[SiliconWizard]

No woman has ever gone to the moon... Just sayin'

<sarcasm>
Damn, this whole moon landing is just another white male oppressive thing anyway. Should probably even be erased from history so that future generations are not tempted to see this as an example of anything.

 

[Dr. Katzenfritz]

What I immediately noticed was how calm and controlled the team at Mission Control were. Messages were flying around yet the system worked as everyone concentrated on their particular aspect of the mission and things only went up the 'pyramid' to the Flight Controller if he really needed to know something. The other essential part of all this was that only one person communicated with Eagle and this wasn't the Flight Controller, it was CapCom. This meant that Armstrong and Aldrin could concentrate on the matter in hand, landing the LEM.

The system was well designed and it worked well thanks to a good team and the right man at the helm.

After reading a lot about the Apollo program and in this respect especially Flight Director Gene Kranz' book, I think that all the discipline and structured work - and I hate to admit that as a pacifist - came from the key persons being Veterans of the Korean war or even WWII. They passed on their work ethics to all the newbies fresh from university, mind you, the average(!) age in mission control 1969 was 26 years!
A very military and disciplined approach to the organizational processes, and it seemed to have worked rather well.

[StillTrying]

The dramatised version of Apollo 11 which I thought was good and accurate for a dramatised version was
8 Days: To The Moon And Back

can't find a full free online version

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0006p5f/8-days-to-the-moon-and-back

[GeorgeOfTheJungle]

An interview with Buzz Aldrin