From the Archives: Apollo 11 astronauts discuss their historic moon landing, 1969

Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins discuss their historic landing on the moon and the future of space exploration on "Face the Nation" in 1969 with CBS News Anchor Walter Cronkite, CBS News Correspondent David Schoumacher and Howard Benedict of the Associated Press.
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[@sheilamcenany1314]

Such intelligent, humble humans.

[@dks13827]

yes................ we need them. such men.

[@twilightfilms9436]

Fascinating! Thank you for sharing a piece of genuine history!

[@Famous-Potatoes]

I watched this program on a Sunday with my grandmother when I was 10yrs old. This was a real news program. The generational divide between her and myself was immense. She was listening to men who had been to the moon but when she was my age she didn’t have electricity, indoor plumbing, television, a car or even a wooden floor and radio was the modern marvel of her life. I remember, a few years before she died, trying to explain how to her how to operate our new Amanda Radar Range (microwave oven). She couldn’t comprehend it and insisted on placing metallic objects inside so she could watch electricity arc across the rim of a gilded teacup. On the other hand, I already had grown up with all these comforts and absolutely expected space travel to become a regular part of my life. I had no doubts. But what happened to that future that was sure to come and carry us on to wonders untold? Now I’m nearly a great grandfather and it’s my descendants who will inherit what was to be my future. Who was responsible for making my generation wait an extra 40yrs to see the future that’s finally on the horizon but we won’t be able to enjoy?

[@greenharvestproductions6743]

Thank you very much for the uploading this video

[@omariagraciela]

Quite interesting. Worth saving!

[@lox_5017]

I would have love to get this on dvd for my video collection.

[@darciek7175]

14:37 Great insight Neil! I wonder why that isn’t the case today.

[@rachelzuniga5300]

Posture says it all !

[@Wisdom808]

Guilty liars. They duped all mankind and still to this day the masses are fooled.

[@djtforever1414]

The Woodstock festival was happening on this date.

[@sergei6572]

Thanks from Russia. In 1994, Neil Armstrong replied to my letter and sent me a photo with good wishes. Eternal memory to the pioneers of space.

[@John.Christopher]

❤❤❤

[@sergei6572]

@John.Christopher Thank you. With a name like yours, astronauts John Glenn and John Young also responded to my letters. 🙂 Best wishes to you and your loved ones. ♥️🤝

[@BenRush]

@@sergei6572 very cool!

[@TELEVISIONARCHIVES]

I got one because I became an eagle scout back in the 1970s. I still have it

[@xyz.ijk.]

Wild to watch this!!!

[@Heliosphan33]

The comments are so sad. I feel bad for all of you.

[@SaintJ-x8z]

I’m so proud of the comment section well most of it. Well done you’ve woken up

[@h.dejong2531]

People who claim the moon landings were faked have not "woken up". They have been deceived by charlatans. I've looked into the arguments used by those charlatans, and they all fall apart.

[@problemsulfer]

there is no energy in this interview. I wonder why? they talk about the moon landing like it was a trip to the grocery store.

[@robertb.3651]

They didn't look excited at all. They looked carefully wagging every word if one wrong word could have great impact on them and their families......

[@notmyemail506]

I highly doubt after you've done something like this you'd be excited to talk about it for the 500th time

[@BenRush]

Dude with the "don't tread on me" avatar thinks he's an independent thinker. Thumbs up, chief.

[@Luna-wg6ic]

​@@BenRush He's letting everyone know he's a snake in the grass.

[@MissMystique187]

@@notmyemail506 interview was done 1 month after... 500 times LOL

[@notmyemail506]

@MissMystique187 500 was just an exaggeration, for that one month they were definetly hounded with questions about it

[@davidbaez3756]

HISTORIC

[@ApolloKid1961]

Just a quick refresher: For over 10 years, Project Apollo involved 400,000 people from major contractors such as Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, Rocketdyne, Grumman Aircraft Corporation, Jet Propulsion Labs, IBM, Motorola, MIT University and 20,000 other subcontractors and even after 55 years, there was not a single whistleblower? In today's money, the cost was $341 billion. After Apollo 11, there were 5 more landings. Apollo 12 through 17 except 13. After that, there was no urgent reason to go back and NASA's budget was drastically cut. All of the contractors listed shut down their production lines, thus losing the technology to build a new moon rocket. The blueprints and other documents are still preserved.

[@marlonbrando33]

Just because you work on something doesn’t mean you have insight to what’s really going on, nasa hires more graphic designers than actual astronauts that tells me everything I need to know when you look at the photos

[@marlonbrando33]

Maybe they got rid of the tech because there are many billionaires that have the money to rebuild and they would find out that’s it’s not possible to get to the moon

[@ApolloKid1961]

@@marlonbrando33 Those graphic designers are used to color the infrared photos of the James Webb telescope, among others, according to the wavelength. Dave McKeegan, a professional photographer, made a special video here on KZbin about the analog photography of the Apollo missions. I don't think you've looked at all 8,000 photos that are online. You've probably never used a random search engine to ask how many manned moon landings there have been. All you have are your gut feelings.

[@ApolloKid1961]

@@marlonbrando33 The only technology that has disappeared is the infrastructure, not the documentation. And they are not going to use 60 year old technology anyway. Isn't it strange that the current richest man is busy going to the moon? Read more about project Artemis.

[@marlonbrando33]

@@ApolloKid1961 all you have is propaganda from people who benefit from you believing their lies, there no way you believe we did something 60 years ago that can’t be done today I lose service when I go camping but there was a phone call placed from the moon in 1969 use your own brain to think

[@williamoleary9330]

Two of my children just went through K-12 and not in one semester either in Elementary, Middle or High School they learn about the United States Space Program’s history. Not the Mercury, Gemini or Apollo Programs nor the Astronauts that were apart of them. And not the Space Race. They’ve only learned about all of this because my wife and I taught them. Do our School Systems today not want children to be proud of American Ingenuity and Exploration?? Why is 30+ years of American History being completely ignored by our K-12 School Systems??

[@THOUGHTCRIME_No1]

@williamoleary9330 Because of embarassment and shame to have fooled the world?

[@JAMESGANG-f5u]

Probably trickles down from the top. In many ways kids are actually tougher to fool. They sometimes ask the tough questions and NASA hates those.

[@TheWokeFlatEarthTruth]

@@THOUGHTCRIME_No1 So provide the credible and reliable evidence to back up your claims. Take care.

[@bitlerrumer210]

@@TheWokeFlatEarthTruththe fact that it’s been 50 years and we have never been back and “lost the technology” to go back should be enough evidence to tell you it’s all a lie

[@Luna-wg6ic]

​@@bitlerrumer210You make Forrest Gump sound like a genius.

[@ApolloKid1961]

We had the technology well before 1969 and plenty of time to practice: March 16, 1926 Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fuelled rocket. October 3, 1942 A V2 built by Hermann Oberth and Wernher von Braun reaches an altitude of about 85 kilometers, which is already the edge of space. October 4, 1957 The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to be put into orbit around the Earth. September 9, 1959 Start of the Mercury program with the aim of studying the functioning and behavior of humans in space and to return the capsule including astronaut safely to Earth. April 12, 1961 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is the first man in space and the first to orbit the Earth in a Vostok 1. Development of the Saturn rocket had also begun. February 20, 1962 John Glenn makes 3 orbits around the earth with an Atlas 6 rocket as part of the Mercury program. April 8, 1964 First unmanned flight of the Gemini program. Spacewalks, docking of spacecraft, long-duration space flights and precision in orbits were practiced in preparation for the moon missions. January 27, 1967 Fatal plugs-out test Apollo 1. November 9, 1967 Unmanned test flight Apollo 4. January 22, 1968 Unmanned test flight Apollo 5. April 4, 1968 Unmanned test flight Apollo 6. October 11, 1968 First manned flight Apollo 7. Testing of Command and Service module. December 21, 1968 Apollo 8. First flight Saturn 5, First to the moon, First behind the moon. March 3, 1969 Apollo 9. Practice with the LM around the earth. May 18, 1969 Apollo 10. Practicing with the LM around the moon. July 20, 1969 We are go for TLI.

[@BenRush]

Right? And all the mouth breathers on here can say is "dey look nurvous"

[@ApolloKid1961]

@@BenRush Indeed, and back then media training did not exist. Unfortunately, few know that there were 5 more missions after that.

[@MissMystique187]

you have actual footage of these? not fake stuff like the moon landing though

[@ApolloKid1961]

@@MissMystique187 There were 6 moon landings, all of which were broadcast live and continuously, sometimes lasting for hours. It's only your gut feelings and your ignorance that makes you think it's fake.

[@JAMESGANG-f5u]

Neil Armstrong always seems so meek. Lacking confidence in his speech. Rarely making eye contact. He acts like an 8 year old who’s being scolded when answering relatively simple questions. Not simple questions necessarily, but questions that require simple answers in regards to the deep amount of knowledge and experience we’d all assume that Armstrong must surely possess.

[@Blaztoize]

strength for a man comes in many different forms. you should know this. Should he be acting like Ric Flair?

[@oliverhwd]

@@Blaztoize we head over to Mission Control to hear man’s first words as he steps on the moon. “I'm Ric Flair! The Stylin', profilin', limousine riding, jet flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin' n' dealin' son of a gun!”

[@h.dejong2531]

Neil Armstrong has always been uncomfortable being in the public eye. I suspect he's not neurotypical, like many people with extreme intelligence.

[@Heybrother-24]

Yes, cz he didnt make it

[@jg5875]

Such an accomplishment. And also interesting to see how much more “media savvy/trained” the astronauts are today.

[@Bax365]

Brilliant.

[@Jacquelyn5283]

18:30 truth searching vehicle! Clue he gave in his last speech

[@AutismusMaximus1]

Why wasn't the director / Kubrick invited?

[@rachelzuniga5300]

No one is excited

[@KevinVenturePhilippines]

They were all pilots, not children.

[@BenRush]

They were test pilots, not idiots who deny the moon landing.

[@theeraphatsunthornwit6266]

Read neil face! He cant straightforwardly tell you ok ? His family life is on the line

[@h.dejong2531]

Neil walked on the moon. He was an engineer, not an entertainer.

[@theeraphatsunthornwit6266]

@h.dejong2531 nope. He aspired to be an astronaut but ended up an actor.

[@ronrendina8986]

Like all these interviews they look not to excited for lieing about the moon like football players they already aware of the outcome

[@notmyemail506]

They didn't lie about the moon they went there

[@rogerrolex6981]

Every single one of them is lying. Just play it backwards

[@oliverhwd]

60 years later and the population has completely dumbed down. These questions simply wouldn’t be asked by today’s journalists.

[@John.Christopher]

Its absurd, isn't it? Sad and infuriating.

[@Elemental-dy7us]

60 yrs later why can’t they do it again?

[@oliverhwd]

@ There’s nothing there for them. Unless they want to start building bases on there. The cost of going back there versus what they get from going again, is far too much. People are starving in America, the people don’t want to hear about their tax dollars being spent on moon missions. Which is fair enough.

[@MissMystique187]

@@oliverhwd BUT THEIR TAX DOLLARS ARE GOING TO PISRAEL AND UKRAINE lol....

[@Tom-p3f]

“Journalist” is a strong word…none of those people on MSM are journalists in any sense

[@AutismusMaximus1]

Are we still going with this farce?

[@SaintJ-x8z]

Honestly my thoughts exactly

[@AutismusMaximus1]

@@SaintJ-x8z Check: Kubrick confession.

[@h.dejong2531]

The Apollo landings remain real. Tons of evidence confirm this.

[@h.dejong2531]

@@AutismusMaximus1 You mean, the fake "confession" from a mockumentary, by an actor who doesn't even look like Kubrick? Great bit of "evidence" there, pal.

[@DarraghQuinn-d8o]

These men were accompanied to and from the moon by UAPs. That is why they appear so anxious.

[@TruthBliss]

It's tough to have to pretend one has walked on the moon.

[@jamesedmonds6526]

They talked about everything, but the missing time on camera just before landing.

[@lorretta69]

Well it’s a conspiracy theory video. It’s edited and cherry picked to fit the conspiracy. Watch a more reliable video.

[@Mozart1220]

LOL. WTF are you babbling about?

[@h.dejong2531]

During the approach to the moon, the Lunar Module could transmit either telemetry or a TV signal, but not both. The decision was taken to transmit telemetry. The only TV camera on the LM was in a compartment on the descent stage, where it would be in position to view the ladder, so they could show the astronauts coming down the ladder. So during the descent, no TV coverage was possible. After the landing, the astronauts took a while to organize themselves for the EVA, and TV coverage started with the start of the EVA.

[@thesheffinator7124]

Was your Geology training adequate?" Excuse me while I roll around the floor laughing, now that's comedy.

[@Mozart1220]

It was not asked if it were COMPLETE, but ADEQUATE for the job they had to do.

[@yoskarokuto3553]

NASA SP287 " WHAT MADE APOLLO A SUCCESS ??? " " of course , the way we got this job done was with meeting , big meetings , little meeting hundreds of meetings ! the thing we always tried to do in these meetings was to encourage every one , no matter how shy , to speak out " WHY MANY MEETING AND TRY DON'T SHY TO SAY SOMETHING IS ULTIMATE SECRET TO MADE APOLLO A SUCCESS ??? YOU CAN GO TO THE MOON WITH " MEETING AND DON'T SHY TO SAY SOMETHING ??? " 🤔🤔🤔

[@susanteki3943]

Korowai#casting off

[@bakedbeans3181]

ASTRO-NOTS......🍿

[@bandoytcx]

Imagine faking the moon landing and have to lie for the rest if your life......sad days

[@h.dejong2531]

Why would we imagine that? the landings are real.

[@Benjamin-d7f2u]

Noooooooooooooooooooo way,they went🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮👊👊👊👊🤬🤬🤬🤬🤮🤮

[@h.dejong2531]

Moon landing denial is as dumb as ever.

[@toddlipira8726]

It's interesting how these men are clearly not predominently engineers or scientists, but pilots. (Their discomfort is very obvious). •Go to Mars by 1981. 😆 •Take the family. 😅

[@BenRush]

Neil Armstrong was a professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Cincinnati after Apollo, and Buzz got his PhD from MIT in astronautics.

[@Niebo_NiebiesnyPawel]

Good actors

[@defiverr4697]

Are you implyimg a fake lamding? Armstromg showed the exact trajectory of his descent via 42 year old video marching crator by crator, rock for rock. The only good actor is Brando, Marlon Brando.

[@Wisdom808]

These guys are terrible liars. They have never broken the firmament.

[@notmyemail506]

How does one break something that dosent exist?

[@John.Christopher]

as a skeptical person I find these conspiracies incredibly ridiculous.

[@ApolloKid1961]

If a firmament really existed, dinosaurs would not have become extinct and humans would not exist.

[@h.dejong2531]

Tons of evidence prove the Apollo landings are real.

[@willielaserbeamen]

A base on the moon!!! LMAO

[@SaintJ-x8z]

Pride comes before the fall Pride comes before the fall Pride comes before the fall

[@marsspacex6065]

The shuttle was an expensive technological dead end that nasa kept going far too long and these people were too optimistic as the Saturn 5 production was permanently shut down with a year or two of this interview. The focus should have been reusable and refuelling rockets that SpaceX is now developing with starship.

[@Mozart1220]

Yes, and our focus should be on warp drive, but wait...? WE DONT HAVE THAT TECHNOLOGY YET. Musk built what NASA already had in the works. He didn't "invent" anything. His ONLY advantage was not having to go on his knees before congress for money.

[@h.dejong2531]

The focus was on reusable rockets: the Space Shuttle. Unfortunately the path NASA ended up choosing was so technologically complex that it was barely within the financial means of the organization, and things like the SRBs were done as a cheap-to-develop interim solution because the proposals for e.g. boosters that could fly back to the Cape and land as aircraft were too expensive to develop.

[@kaf-yp5om]

I know we landed on the moon cuz i heard it on the radio. Its real just like " war of the world" was!

[@defiverr4697]

Still livimg in 1924?

[@h.dejong2531]

You didn't just hear it on the radio. We have tons of evidence for the Apollo missions from multiple independent sources.

[@MrRichard57000]

this must be proof that the moonlandings realy realy happend,bit of a bummer that the manned mission to mars didn t pull of at 1981....and you can t see that they ar lying trough their teeth

[@KevinVenturePhilippines]

Child keeps crying and says what?

[@Luna-wg6ic]

​@@KevinVenturePhilippines He keeps saying everything he heard in a liars echo chamber. I'm surprised he's not mentioned the dome yet.

[@scottt7586]

Men never landed on the moon

[@TheWokeFlatEarthTruth]

So provide the credible and reliable evidence to back up your claims. Take care.

[@7.3powerstrokin]

​@@TheWokeFlatEarthTruthtinfoil hat boy 😂

[@TheWokeFlatEarthTruth]

@@7.3powerstrokin ?

[@Mozart1220]

@@TheWokeFlatEarthTruth What claims?

[@237BCE]

Masons sitting around talking. Amazing.

[@TheNatural1981]

Shame it was all another Psyop.

[@h.dejong2531]

The Apollo missions are real, as proven by tons of evidence. In 50 years nobody has presented a single shred of evidence that the Apollo missions were faked.

[@MissMystique187]

harry potter is more real than the moon landing.

[@ApolloKid1961]

Why moon landing in the singular?

[@h.dejong2531]

The evidence says otherwise.

[@jasperstjock2325]

Gang of liars!!!

[@TELEVISIONARCHIVES]

Go away

[@KevinVenturePhilippines]

Child says what?

[@Mozart1220]

PROVE it.

[@Heybrother-24]

Fake

[@pohpooooo]

Fake news

[@KingNate03]

Actually, this was when broadcast journalism always strove to remain unbias and to abide by stringent standards of integrity and objectivity.

[@TELEVISIONARCHIVES]

He's one of those flat-earthers. Thinks we didn't land on the moon@@KingNate03

[@bandoytcx]

Yup. Never did moon landing

[@CS-mo7xp]

It's sad that this potentially informative and educational discussion is ruined by way too much immature clowning around and foolish hi-jinx, especially from Neil 'party time' Armstrong. There's a time and a place fellas...

[@John.Christopher]

lol

[@dks13827]

why dont the hoaxers just watch this one video ?? why ?

[@MissMystique187]

we are here and see nothing... just more lies.

[@ApolloKid1961]

@@MissMystique187 What lies?

[@h.dejong2531]

@@MissMystique187 In 50 years, nobody has presented a single shred of evidence that shows any of the Apollo landings was faked, much less all of them. All the deniers ever come up with is contrived 'arguments' that turn out to be baseless.

[@mushi9766]

Wow

[@dominicoconnell1584]

E Musk says 9x amount of fuel needed for moon visit than what these used, how the f did they manage it 😂. From moons surface earth would have looked incredible and big...never took a picture/video 😂 They coped with temps on moon no problem, first one 93 degrees 🥵. An object falling needs burning fuel to slow it and land safely which they did but never scorched/disturbed surface 😂👏🤥

[@ApolloKid1961]

Gut feelings are not evidence and what you claim is neither here nor there.

[@killgatescovidlie1301]

They sure all look miserable and lying for someone who’s been “ on the “ moon”

[@Ruda-n4h]

Based on what doughnut?

[@vagnertavaresjr]

@@Ruda-n4h Imagen you just did something incredible that no one on earth had done...don´t you think you would be excited to share the news?? be proud with a smile from side to side...talking fast and trying to explain sensations, actions, motives... I think one would be happy for quite some time... Pay attention to body language and eye contacts... they look more ashamed, guilty and tense... lack of details... everything is just wrong...for what they had supposedly just accomplished...

[@Ruda-n4h]

@@vagnertavaresjr You need to understand the bigger picture. After splashdown the astronauts were transferred to the mobile quarantine facility on the aircraft carrier Hornet. After washing and shaving they spoke to President Nixon and their families, where you see them elated, smiling and waving. After this they went through extensive debriefing in isolation and by the time they appeared at the press conference on August 12th, were tired and bored after the grind they had been through and the comedown from such a high. Stoic military men born in 1930 were also not natural performers on TV and answered questions in this stilted manner. If you watch the whole press conference it lightens up a lot and they start smiling and joking. Armstrong was an awkward public speaker as you can see from his press conference after the Gemini 8 mission in 1966. He was much more relaxed during his interview with Patrick Moore on 18th November 1970 which is available on You Tube. Aldrin explained his depression after Apollo 11 in an interview with Ludovic Kennedy on the 4th March 1980. There is a picture on the Internet of Carlos Alberto the Brazilian captain in 1970 just after he has received the World Cup trophy. He looks rather humble, tired and sad after such a momentous achievement that he knows he won’t repeat again.

[@JayDee-b5u]

@@Ruda-n4h The mental gymnastics are amazing. It's obvious they are lying. Actors on a tv set.

[@Ruda-n4h]

@@vagnertavaresjr In 53 years there isn't anything I haven't seen or read about any of this. You can't compare today's show offs to men of that time. After splashdown the astronauts were transferred to the mobile quarantine facility on the aircraft carrier Hornet. After washing and shaving they spoke to President Nixon and their families, where you see them elated, smiling and waving. After this they went through extensive debriefing in isolation and by the time they appeared at the press conference on August 12th, were tired and bored after the grind they had been through and the comedown from such a high. Stoic military men born in 1930 were also not natural performers on TV and answered questions in this stilted manner. If you watch the whole press conference it lightens up a lot and they start smiling and joking. Armstrong was an awkward public speaker as you can see from his press conference after the Gemini 8 mission in 1966. He was much more relaxed during his interview with Patrick Moore on 18th November 1970 which is available on You Tube. Aldrin explained his depression after Apollo 11 in an interview with Ludovic Kennedy on the 4th March 1980. So no I 'm not surprised by any of it because I would have been like that too.