Another short clip of Michael Collins What Apollo 11 pilot Michael Collins feared most during critical NASA mission
On occasion of the landing on the moon 50 years ago a German bank is paying special tribute to Michael Collins in a current advertising campaign emphasizing the fact that the landing was a result of team work both on earth and in space. A safe return to earth was only possible because Collins did the job assigned to him.
Neil Armstrong was buried at sea. "Armstrong was a Lieutenant in the US Navy reserve. He originally joined the Navy in 1949, training at the Naval Air Station Pensacola and becoming a pilot. He flew 78 missions in the Korean War—a total of 121 hours in combat. He left the Navy to complete his space engineering degree and master, and then joined NASA." "But he always remained a US Navy man. Perhaps that's the reason why he chose to be buried at sea. Or perhaps it's because he was such a humble and private man. According to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus "he never wanted to be a living memorial, and yet to generations the world over his epic courage and quiet humility stands as the best of all examples."
You all know what this represents. In case this was missed on the other thread. Pic shows the Moon Landing survivors from Parkes, Honeysuckle Creek and Tidbinbilla tracking stations at yesterdays 50th anniversary at the abandoned Honeysuckle Creek site.. Australia's own astronaut Dr Andrew Thomas was the guest of honor. See if you can spot him. No doubt the Moon landing was an incredibly proud moment for all Americans. We sometimes forget that it was an enormous feat to send a rocket to the moon, then land a craft on it, then walk on it. I do have one question about which I have been wondering. As Armstrong used up almost all of Eagle's fuel changing the landing position.. how did they still have sufficient fuel to return to Columbia? Or have I missed the obvious?
Restored archive footage and even new footage. Enjoy. https://freemovies4k.org/all-movies/97433-apollo-11-2019.html
How did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin leave the Moon? They had 30 seconds of fuel left. "Imagine you’re driving to the junkyard to sell your nearly worthless old diesel pickup. In the back of your truck is your motorcycle, with a full tank of gas." "You’re getting close to the junkyard, but you’re also running low on fuel in your truck. You’re worried you may not actually make it there. If you don’t, it’s not going to be worth the money required to have the thing towed, you plan to just abandon it on the side of the road (I know, you’re a bad person, but it’s only a parable, don’t get hung up on such details)" "Finally, you pull in to the junkyard, noting that you barely had 30 seconds more diesel in the truck." "After you sell the pickup, you hop on your motorcycle and drive home." "If you’d had to abandon the truck by the side of the road, you would also have hopped on your motorcycle and driven home." "You weren’t out of fuel (your motorcycle had a full tank,) you were just out of fuel that the Truck could run on." "The LEM decent stage ran very low on fuel on the way down, while Neil tried to find a suitable landing spot. They came very close to having to ditch the descent stage, fire up the ascent stage, and go back up to meet Michael Collins (aka the loneliest man in the universe) to return home, without having landed." "But they weren’t out of fuel in the Ascent stage, it had full tanks ready to go. It was only the pickup truck, aka the descent stage, that was nearly dry."
Very interesting. Didn't know that. Thank God they always had enough fuel for returning to their spaceship.
Below is rare color footage of Neil, Buzz and Michael on the Australia leg of the Apollo 11 Goodwill Tour in November,1969. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07...lian-tour-footage-in-new-documentary/11291456