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Apollo 11 Descent: Stunning New Imagery

Apollo 11 Descent: Film and LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) Imagery. Side by side view of Apollo 11's descent, showing the view out of the lunar module's window side by side with the broader panorama reconstructed from LRO data.Video Courtesy of GoneToPlaid.

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Added: Jul-20-2012 Occurred On: Jul-20-2012
By: menderman
In: Science and Technology
Tags: NASA, Apollo 11, LRO, moon, Menderman
Location: United States (load item map)
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  • Man I am SO GLAD I was alive during this part of the space program! I remember watching all this like it was yesterday! I was GLUED to the TV!

    Posted Jul-20-2012 By 
    Tommyr (1023.14)  

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  • still get goosebumps, great moment in American,,,,,World history

    Posted Jul-20-2012 By 
    hbon56 (132.70)

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  • But wait a minute...accourting to several idiots here on LL, we never landed on the Moon.

    Anyways...great post.

    Posted Jul-20-2012 By 
    fotoman4u2 (3388.10)  

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  • Truly amazing. I always wondered what the boulder-field that forced Neil Armstrong to fly the LEM further than expected looked like!

    Posted Jul-20-2012 By 
    tanktop (326.08)  

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  • You can see the point Neil realises the programmed descent will put them in a field of craters and starts flying along the surface searching for a clear landing spot.

    The most epic piece of flying since Orville in the Flyer.




    Please forget the wars and do this...I think Afghanistan has cost about 10 Apollos or something now...fucking depressing...

    Posted Jul-20-2012 By 
    gnark1ll (535.56)  

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  • Neil Armstrong: The coolest motherfucker to ever walk the planet (and the moon)

    Posted Jul-20-2012 By 
    LOUIE the LIP (90.00)  

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  • like my BALLS!

    Posted Jul-20-2012 By 
    fobfob77 (14247.12)

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  • Props to the baddest asses in world history. Fuck yeah.

    Posted Jul-20-2012 By 
    Saros (790.90)  

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  • WOW!.. That was very cool.


    BTW, has anyone ever seen this?

    <edit> Well, it looks like that web site is down for a bit.

    Anyway, it was the speech that was prepared in case something went wrong.

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    The following speech, revealed in 1999, was prepared by Nixon’s then speechwriter, William Safire, to be used in the event of a disaster that would maroon the astronauts on the moon.

    The speech was sent to Pres More..

    Posted Jul-20-2012 By 
    wharris (2245.12)  

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  • Brilliant!!! You can almost get inside Armstrong's head as he picked out his best choice for a landing site. I'd like to see LRO imagery of all the landing sites at this scale...

    Posted Jul-20-2012 By 
    Ally_Gator (497.10)  

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  • what's that thing they landed on or right next too?

    Posted Jul-20-2012 By 
    fobfob77 (14247.12)

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  • Well that was stunning...

    Posted Jul-20-2012 By 
    paperboy (293.10)  

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  • Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.

    Posted Jul-20-2012 By 
    Arizona_Patriot (3118.66)  

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  • Cool stuff, I find the original missions and imagery much more impressive than the tokens of today. In 2012 with all the latest and greatest tech, image mapping missions and the like we still have inferior moon resolution compared to the 60s for some weird reason.....

    Posted Jul-20-2012 By 
    N4CR (941.40)  

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  • 43 years

    Posted Jul-20-2012 By 
    untitled-1 (172.20)

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