Video – Apollo 11 Launch – Celebrating 40 Years Of The Mission To Go To The Moon

By Gasparrini Wednesday July 15, 2009

To celebrate 40 years of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, here’s a video of the launch. A website has been setup to recreate the mission in realtime, as can be seen in the widget below:

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dave says:

7/16/2009 at 1:14 pm

There is no way in 1969 humans had the technology to send humans through the van allen belt, nevermind to the moon and back.
It amazes me people come to terms with the government lying over so many things but a bunch of ex-nazis and freemasons say they can perform space travel and everyone is totally sucked in.

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ridin the short bus says:

7/16/2009 at 1:21 pm

All in a days work… oh and ya Forgot Tang?… Ha!! -) It was incredible to watch… I hope we go back again and pick up the Flag we left behind and find the rovers we left as well… it would be interesting to see if the foot prints are still their from the origonal landings… “tranquility base here,,,”

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amodedoma says:

7/17/2009 at 3:38 am

#17 JP

I LOVE humanity, back then I was 8 years old and this was my first perception of a great achievement by my race. Not something from the history books, but right there, right then. I’ve felt the same thing since then, but never so acute.

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Olo Baggins of Bywater says:

7/17/2009 at 7:32 am

#21 dave, well you’re obviously right and 20,000 NASA employees were clearly bamboozled.

Where do you suppose all the LEMs ended up? I’d sure like to get one.

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MikeN says:

7/17/2009 at 9:15 am

#13 really, then why are these other countries that didn’t go to the moon doing so well in engineering and science?

>Man has dreamed of leaving this planet since man has dreamed. The guys at NASA made it real,

Not worth the money to send a few people into space. The moon landing was about beating the Soviets in space.

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Olo Baggins of Bywater says:

7/17/2009 at 12:01 pm

Mike, you still don’t get it. We were 30 years ahead of everyone else.

Dude, the entire friggin planet didn’t watch Neil make that step to see us beat the Soviets….they had quit the race several years earlier.

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