Posts: 231 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: May 2009
posted 09-01-2016 09:13 PM
This video is a montage of images of Apollo 11 commander and first man on the Moon, Neil Armstrong, with the soundtrack of a speech he delivered in Australia, almost exactly five years ago (August 24, 2011).
The speech goes a long way to showing Neil’s sense of humour, his generosity to others involved in the Apollo program and a unique perspective on the historic events he was part of.
As part of the speech, Neil introduces and commentates the world premier of an incredible video (starts at 27 minutes) that will end forever any discussion of faked moon landings.
Neil guides us through the landing using a side-by-side merge of footage from the 16 mm movie film shot by a camera mounted in the front window of his lunar module ‘Eagle’, along side Google Moon footage using imagery from NASA’s 2009 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Landing video produced by GoneToPlaid.
The two sets of footage, separated by 42 years are bought together and synchronized to show the final few minutes of the July 1969 decent and landing on the Sea of Tranquillity. It is truly compelling and you get the sense that Neil was temporarily transported back into the cabin of the Eagle for those few minutes.
Tragically, Neil passed away one year and one day after delivering this speech, at the age of 82. He was a true gentleman and wonderful representative of human kind and will be forever remembered and sadly missed. Ad Astra Neil Armstrong.
EDIT: Relinked to later version with some minor tweaks and image resolution fixes.
dss65 Member
Posts: 1156 From: Sandpoint, ID, USA Registered: Mar 2003
posted 09-02-2016 12:51 PM
Wow. That was absolutely priceless. Thank you for sharing it.
posted 09-02-2016 03:36 PM
Thank you very much for posting that fine video. It is Ab Fab.
One portion jumped out at me right about the 20 minute point when he was discussing the critical importance of "orbital velocity multiplied by the square root of two." He stated that "In all of history so far as we know only 24 humans have ever reached escape velocity." That number should be 27?
David C Member
Posts: 1015 From: Lausanne Registered: Apr 2012
posted 09-02-2016 04:10 PM
quote:Originally posted by Cozmosis22: That number should be 27 ?
No, Lovell, Young and Cernan went twice, wasn't really likely that Armstrong would be wrong.
posted 09-01-2016 09:13 PM
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