From the archives: Apollo 11 moon landing leaves Walter Cronkite "speechless"

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@michaelj.r457 Жыл бұрын

This is the perfect counterpoint to Cronkite delivering the news of JFK's death. That was Cronkite struggling to hold back tears of sadness, representing the nation's grief. Here is Cronkite trying to hold back the joy, representing the nation's happiness, and both times he has to take off his glasses.

@fridge757 Жыл бұрын

I had the same thougjts when I discoveted this awsome TV broadcast. I didn’t know how tough was this landing. They touched the ground with 15s fuel left !! Best TV moment ever !!

@jgunther3398 Жыл бұрын

Not long after this, Cronkite was one of the main voices opposing NASA and had a large part to do with swaying public opinion such that apollo and the apollo applications program were cancelled. That put the world at least 50 years behind where we could have been technologically, changing the course of history

@marcschneider4845 Жыл бұрын

Talk about a life. Cronkite was at many, if not most, of the major turning points of the 20th Century.

@JustWasted3HoursHere 11 ай бұрын

And those two events are forever linked, because if it were not for JFK's bold challenge we may not have strived for the moon in the first place. And no doubt his death pushed us even harder toward that goal.

@RevGary 11 ай бұрын

@@fridge757🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡

@pbhoulden8212 7 ай бұрын

My then 93 year old great grandmother who was born the same year the telephone was invented witnessed this. Mind blowing.

@whitehorse8558 6 ай бұрын

How did she feel about this?

@MacLuckyPTP 2 ай бұрын

How did she witness this? Was she on the moon at the landing site?

@gives_bad_advice 2 ай бұрын

@@MacLuckyPTP They didn't have a t.v. showing Walter Kronkite, at the landing site, Sherlock.

@oscarfun100 2 ай бұрын

@@MacLuckyPTP Baking cookies for the three boys.

@Garf_malarf 2 ай бұрын

@@MacLuckyPTPlmao

@dd1862 Жыл бұрын

54 years later and this still gives me goosebumps like it did that night.

@bhaaratsharma6023 Жыл бұрын

That's amazing. Did you watch it live?

@dd1862 Жыл бұрын

@@bhaaratsharma6023 Yup, I was seven years old and fascinated by the moon. Three years later I got to meet and talk to Buzz Aldrin.

@vicentecasarez5073 Жыл бұрын

Did you see the part that says you’re watching a simulation😂😂 how was there a camera already there to see the landing? You never thought about that huh??

@dd1862 Жыл бұрын

@@vicentecasarez5073 The camera that captured the landing was mounted in the window of the LEM by Armstrong. The image of him stepping on the moon was recorded by a camera mounted on the descent stage of the LEM and remotely controlled by mission control. Bet you never bothered to learn anything, huh???

@october6432 Жыл бұрын

@@vicentecasarez5073 lmfao what are you talking about this isn't even the video of the moon landing, this is a simulation which was probably shown before the real landing was broadcasted

@ssilent8202 Жыл бұрын

I love how the decent talk was so casual. “That’s a slow speed for space flight” “It sure is”

@TELEVISIONARCHIVES Жыл бұрын

Neil sent me a Letter when I became an Eagle Scout. Still have it. Showed it to him when I went to the 25th Anniversary. Had the rest of the crew sign it.

@hovtchil873 Жыл бұрын

That's probably worth a ton of money now

@risksrewardsrelics51 Жыл бұрын

@@hovtchil873 Most certainly. Having Neil’s signature is rare. He stopped signing things because of autograph hounds.

@Ruda-n4h Жыл бұрын

@@risksrewardsrelics51 I have a signed copy of James Irwin's book, 'To Rule the Night', which I recently bought very cheaply on the Internet. I don't think the seller knew what they had!

@242-f5u 10 ай бұрын

That is truly priceless.

@Murray-wk3hz 8 ай бұрын

Wonderful a treasure you will never forget.

@DeadeyeJim327 11 ай бұрын

If those Moon landing skeptics want to see what animation and special effects were capable of in 1969, well, there it is.

@v1sionary100 10 ай бұрын

Have you watched what Kubrick could do at the time?

@allangibson8494 10 ай бұрын

@@v1sionary100And what he got wildly wrong…

@KrustyKlown 10 ай бұрын

Ironically, if CGI was available back then, that would have been more of a technology accomplishment than landing on the Moon.

@NxDoyle 10 ай бұрын

"Moon landing skeptics" is a very polite, generous description.

@SpawnMeister666 10 ай бұрын

Those sceptics are watching this and calling the moon landing fake because this footage makes it clear there were already cameras there before the landings...

@bondsons Жыл бұрын

My mom worked for McDonnel Douglas in Cocoa and was selected as part of the group that would work for NASA, assemble and solder the circuit boards that went into the landing modules and capsules in the Apollo program. I was 12 years old when she woke my sister and I in the middle of the night to watch this on TV. I knew it was important but, it wasn't until I got older that I truly understood how important. It makes me smile inside to know that although she is gone, some of her work is still sitting there on the moon.

@ryansmith1044 11 ай бұрын

What an incredible story. Your mother helped to make history.

@bondsons 11 ай бұрын

Thank you, she was a special person in so many ways.

@cherylb6755 10 ай бұрын

Wow. Great story! Thank you for sharing it.

@5roundsrapid263 7 ай бұрын

Wow. I can only imagine what she was thinking. She was one of thousands who made it possible. I’m sure she was a great woman.😊

@AndrewBlacker-t1d 7 ай бұрын

Lots of bs in bondsons' story. We all know the LEM was built at Grumman on Long Island. The actual capsule was built in California. What compels someone to tell outright lies?

@rathertiredofthemess2841 Жыл бұрын

I remember my grandmother saying, “I didn’t think I’d see it in my lifetime.” I was 6. We had Star Trek, and Lost in Space and other things, and I thought, don’t we do this all the time?

@youtuuba Жыл бұрын

MY (material) grandmother lived the rest of her life believing that we did not land on the moon, simply because she (with a 3rd grade education) could not conceive of how it would be possible and assumed that everyone else was similarly limited in their abilities, but also because her (very rural) church pastor believed it was a hoax and preached that to his congregation. Even many years later, I would try to convince her that it happened, but she steadfastly denied it.

@nasa_fanboy4434 Жыл бұрын

@@youtuubaweird how they can't do it now!

@74bshs Жыл бұрын

They could. There is just none of the "can-do" spirit of that era, and everything is gummed up by political correctness, politics in general, and DEI. @@nasa_fanboy4434

@Ruda-n4h Жыл бұрын

@@nasa_fanboy4434 The individual knowledge of everyone involved and the “organisational know-how” of how to actually run such a huge, complex project has been lost after such a long time. Much of the equipment is archaic, and many things cannot be bought “off the shelf” but have had to be specially manufactured. Re-designing from scratch is cheaper and better. However, it takes years to build up that sort of expertise and NASA is going through the same problems it had in the early to mid-60’s. Rocket technology has not progressed much at all and although modern computers are far more sophisticated, they are far more vulnerable to particle radiation than those that used low density integrated circuits and magnetic core memory, both of which are extremely radiation hard, so a new solution has to be found to a different problem. There is also no cold war imperative and no time limit placed on it by a president. We also live in much more risk averse times. All these issues are what has caused it to take so long this time around. Artemis 1 was an unmanned orbit of the Moon. Artemis 2 is a manned flyby of the Moon scheduled for 2024 and Artemis 3 is a manned lunar landing scheduled for 2025/26.

@GymChess Жыл бұрын

@@nasa_fanboy4434His grandmother despite her ”low education” was certainly on to something. People confuse education with indoctrination too much.

@jpsned Жыл бұрын

This brought tears and a smile to my face today. I feel incredibly fortunate to have experienced this landing while watching it with my family in our living room that evening, July 20, 1969. I was 10 years old. Walter's "Oh, boy." at 0:15 says it all. He sounded absolutely mesmerized and almost disbelieving about what he was listening to.

@jgstargazer 10 ай бұрын

Like you I remember that special evening so well. My family was glued to the TV as the landing approached. I took a quick look outside at the moon and thinking to myself they are about to land. I also noticed an eerie quiet in the neighborhood, everyone was home also watching the landing on TV. My sister said all she remembered of the Apollo space program was the "beeps", she was 5 years old when they landed on the moon.

@savvydirtfarmer 11 ай бұрын

In this moment, these men were so proud to be Americans. So proud of the accomplishment. Such a great moment in history. I wish we could recapture the sentiment.

@EricDKaufman 10 ай бұрын

I think they were proud to be human

@butchschulz9879 9 ай бұрын

We Were All Proud To Be Americans In That Time In History.. 🇺🇸 One Small Step For Man,,,, One Giant Leap For Mankind.. What Happened To Us ?? I Really Miss Walter.....

@dq1275 7 ай бұрын

@@EricDKaufmanYes, Neil, Buzz and Mike have downplayed being American over the years said in interviews that they felt like citizens of Earth doing it for Earth, more than Americans. You have to go into the KZbin archives for those however. That doesn’t get much air time in US media.

@CEOofBased56-hx7xf 5 ай бұрын

@@dq1275Source?

@TomDonnan Ай бұрын

Then why do they seem so depressed when they were talking about it after in a press conference?

@salvatoredestefano439 Жыл бұрын

Wally Schirra’s commentary was great. He said little but he said it all.

@davidpage3893 10 ай бұрын

He was a very good test pilot and engineer. On Apollo 7 the first manned test of the service and command modules he caught a very bad head cold and no gravity to clear his nose and throat. He got very irritated with the ground wanting the crew to work endlessly on tests, experiments, etc. He refused to do some of them and actually had a communication mutiny with the ground for 1 day. When he got back he was reprimanded for not following orders and he never flew on a space flight again. He was given this historic commentary with Walter Cronkite because he was the first to command and test the systems the new Apollo service and command modules. The lessons learned were applied to improve the efficiency and performance of the future missions.

@dq1275 7 ай бұрын

I feel Wally got teary eyed because of his dead Apollo I and other dead astronauts/friends. I believe 6 NASA astronauts died while performing their duties while still on Earth in the road to the Moon.

@bigdrew565 7 ай бұрын

@@dq1275Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Ed White. Ted Freeman, CC Williams, Charlie Bassett and Elliot See.

@trajancanada 3 ай бұрын

@@davidpage3893 All three Apollo 7 astronauts never went into space again after the mission. I don't blame NASA one bit for that decision. Head cold or not, the crew was surly and insubordinate. There was way too much riding on the Apollo missions to put up with tantrums. Only the best should get a flight on something so important.

@fuggedaboudit223 Жыл бұрын

I do so miss those old news anchors. True professionals.

@timlong9913 Жыл бұрын

Professionalism is nearly dead these days, especially on certain "channels"

@tgchism 11 ай бұрын

Back when a newscast was meant to just to inform not to manipulate opinions!

@Fivepointstang2 11 ай бұрын

Could you imagine Tucker Carlson at the desk giving commentary on this?

@tgchism 11 ай бұрын

He wouldn't have made it on the air in those days! Too much integrity required for him!@@Fivepointstang2

@Sherwoody 10 ай бұрын

@@Fivepointstang2 Tucker: We landed on the moon…just asking.

@terrymckenzie8786 Жыл бұрын

I remember my grandma was angry when they kept replaying the moon landing, and cancelled her Bonanza show. She liked little Joe 😂😂😂

@callicordova4066 7 ай бұрын

I like Little Joe, too, but not that much!

@rickr7599 Жыл бұрын

I watched this at home live with my mother...I was 18 then. We held on to every word Cronkite was saying as he spoke......we heard Armstrong say "The Eagle has landed!"....she & I were so proud to be Americans at that very magical moment.....that feeling can never really be put into words.....you would have had to be watching it all live just like us to know. The whole world watched it, too....Wow...what a memory I will always have to infinity.

@TheJoshA 11 ай бұрын

Do you still believe in Santa 🎅 too?

@rozzgrey801 8 ай бұрын

@@TheJoshA You think you're so clever, but while you're wasting your time on this conspiracy theory you're not seeing what the government are really doing, they got you chasing a red herring while their tricks are being done to you in every other way except the one you believe.

@bigfist255 4 ай бұрын

All you saw live was that crap ,no live landing, all a sim anyway.

@chrismoney1468 3 ай бұрын

Too bad it was all a Hollywood show.

@TorgerVedeler 10 ай бұрын

Even after all these years, this still bring tears to my eyes.

@RoseSharon7777 9 ай бұрын

Thats when we know the brainwashing has truly worked.

@HeWhoIsNamedPatrick Жыл бұрын

I love watching stuff like this. One of the few times America truly came together for a goal that changed history.

@gives_bad_advice Жыл бұрын

they had practice at it from WWII

@jgunther3398 Жыл бұрын

not everybody supported it. and after the first couple of moon landings, majority public opinion turned against nasa, and apollo was cancelled, putting us at least 50 years behind where we should have been now. not only in space technology but in the technology of our daily lives. cronkite had his part in it, insisting it wasn't worth it...

@dereklong2072 Жыл бұрын

The whole world did.

@MrBikboi Жыл бұрын

God I wish we had people like Cronkite today, he was phenomenal.

@Dr.Schlitz 10 ай бұрын

We do. The difference is us.

@ithanglow 10 ай бұрын

@@Dr.Schlitzwhat does this even mean lol

@chriswebster24 10 ай бұрын

They don’t make ‘em like they used to! They actually do, though. It’s just that the news, today, doesn’t want serious people, who give the facts, and tell the truth. It isn’t about reporting the news, anymore. Nowadays, it’s all about pushing the liberal narrative, and brainwashing people into supporting their insane agenda. If the national news media was unbiased, or if half of it was conservative, instead of all liberal, the Democrats would be forced to come back to the real world, or they’d never win an election. They don’t have to do that, though, because they have all the media on their side. If not for fake news, there’s no way Joe Biden would be in the White House, and half of the country would call a man in a dress a woman.

@prestonburton8504 10 ай бұрын

@@Dr.Schlitz i don't believe this is true - Cronkite spoke (or tried) to tell the truth - he called out Gen Moorland and McNamara for being liars and war mongers - sadly? the 'journalists' we have now? PAID PERFORMERS - by those that killed off the likes of JFK

@AxePlays-hc5dj 10 ай бұрын

Meaning us, as in the future reporters of the current generqtion could be like Cronkite. @@ithanglow

@tomacquistapace233 8 ай бұрын

My dad worked for North American Aviation (Downey,CA) the Prime prime contractor for Apollo pgm. I recall running outside later that day looking up at the moon and realizing that I would remember this 55 years later. My first job out of school was with Rockwell Intl during shuttle era. The trifling sum and magnificent return on investment of Apollo is one of the greatest aspects of this program.

@kurtb8474 6 ай бұрын

55 years ago today. I was 9 years old and glued to the TV set.

@markwhitney555 Жыл бұрын

I watched the launch at my best friend's house on Wednesday and watched the landing at home on Sunday. My dad was at work and my sister was outside playing but my mother and I were glued to the TV. Daddy was home in time to watch them actually walking on the moon though.

@briancooper4959 7 ай бұрын

I remember sitting in front of the TV watching this with my parents and three siblings. Almost no one spoke.

@groovyroses Жыл бұрын

Happy 54th Anniversary on the moon landing. I was only two when this happened. My mom said that they were watching this with me and thought it was amazing on having to witness this historic moment in space exploration. This is way before live cam were put on board the spacecrafts . I do remember later on in the Apollo missions like one of the astronauts golfing on the moon. That was pretty awesome to see. I'm so looking forward to see Artemis II(?) making another historic landing on the moon,.

@elenaava4842 Жыл бұрын

I hope you're joking. You understand that the deception of humanity will no longer work. The global deception is a flight to the moon.

@katchim366 Жыл бұрын

no such thing as moon landing, biggest hoax in mankind

@BootyGoblinesque Жыл бұрын

And this time being able to see the real thing, the real footage, live... Oh man it's gonna be something...

@furerorban1488 Жыл бұрын

I had the horror of being the first person to see Apollo 11 re-enter the atmosphere. 90 Miles off North Vietnam it looked like someone fired a missile at us. I was bridge watch on USS Saratoga. The xo came out and watched this red hot thing zoom across the sky. It took 4 hours and a call to Fleet to figure out what that was.The CO called me inside at the end of my watch. He is the one that told me that . Slava Orbanovi! Slava Ukraini! Hail to Victory!

@elenaava4842 Жыл бұрын

@@furerorban1488 You wrote: "red-hot Apollo."... So there would be no people in it.

@politicsuncensored5617 Жыл бұрын

Thankfully when Walter Cronkite was around it was fun and interesting to watch the evening news. Even as a kid with my parents. Not today. Thanks for the memories Mr. Cronkite. Shalom

@Paisly17 Жыл бұрын

I so miss my now late dad when I watched this. I then was a 9 year old boy in Australia and he and I spent many hours together watching it from takeoff until splashdown.

@DebraBesse 11 ай бұрын

I remember it like it was yesterday. I was 17 and driving back from the University of Illinois that night. I had driven with my future in-laws to take my boyfriend back to school that night. We were listening to the event on the radio. When they dropped me off I ran into the house to watch it on TV. My parents were up watching. I couldn’t believe it! I walked out the front door, stood on the front porch just staring up at the moon. It was just incredible to me!

@apolloskyfacer5842 11 ай бұрын

The Apollo 11 Moon Landing was such an astonishing achievement, it's quite understandable that many today are unable to actually accept that it happened ! And that mission was followed by five more (Apollo 12 14 15 16 and 17) Apollo 13 failed to complete it's mission and was a near fatal event for the crew.

@timlong9913 10 ай бұрын

you can tell who has a very loose relationship with reality by the comments from the skeptics on this video.

@Mark-yy2py 11 ай бұрын

The era of human achievement peaked that day. Still gives me goose bumps 55 years after.

@patrickthomas8890 10 ай бұрын

It’s up there for sure. Pizza is in the conversation for peak human achievement too.

@gengoku_art 9 ай бұрын

It kept peaking but the us government keep it secret from us till today

@smoaky123 8 ай бұрын

We have done FAR more impressive things since, however I agree when it comes to captivating us this is way up there.

@jb76489 7 ай бұрын

@@smoaky123such as?

@smoaky123 7 ай бұрын

@@jb76489 The Development of the Large Hadron Collider, The creation of the internet, Super computers and A.I., the development and use of the ISS.

@glenchapman3899 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for rekindling such a wonderful memory. I was a 7 year old boy watching this simulation. My grandmother suddenly screamed "I can not watch this" and covered her face with her hands. She thought we were watching actual footage at the time

@glenchapman3899 8 ай бұрын

@SherlockGnomes007 Yes they were. I was there and as a 7 year old I knew it was a simulation.

@glenchapman3899 8 ай бұрын

@SherlockGnomes007 I am not all that sure anyone cares what you believe.

@Tim22222 8 ай бұрын

@SherlockGnomes007 EVERYONE knew it was animation. People weren't as gullible back then as you'd like to think. (Yes, I was watching it too.)

@kloug2006 Жыл бұрын

No joke, that CBS simulation setup was great.

@kitcanyon658 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, much better than I would have thought could be done back then.

@gogamarra Жыл бұрын

It was a great production for its day, but the timing was off and we now know that Eagle was in critical trouble and miles off course. CBS was filtering out the flight controllers feed other than CAPCOM and they knew they were in trouble. One hint is the urgency in Armstrong's voice, urgently interrupting all for a readout on the 1202 alarm. This tone was very uncharacteristic for Armstrong, who was known as a very cool cucumber.

@toAdmiller Жыл бұрын

@@kitcanyon658My feelings exactly....never seen this before...

@STho205 Жыл бұрын

The animation from flight and Lunar perspective involved many of the VFX tech from MGM, that had worked on Forbidden Planet 13 years before. The landing with the flame animation spreading out was quite similar to the Disney animator that did the C57 landing in the movie. It didn't look much like the 2001 modelwork or animation for the fictional Pan Am shuttle landing the year before

@TheJoshA 11 ай бұрын

They used to say it was live footage

@toml.1408 11 ай бұрын

I was watching this with my family from Southern California. I was 12 years old. I was building a plastic Revell model of the Apollo Command Module and the LEM. I never finished the LEM. Incredible moment in our history.

@dr.nigelcool3771 Жыл бұрын

The peak of America's greatness. Perhaps the peak of humanity's greatness.

@tremsls 11 ай бұрын

Funny that a perceived moment of greatness was a sham.

@TheJoshA 11 ай бұрын

You're gullible

@handbrakebob 11 ай бұрын

@@tremsls🙄

@muzak913 10 ай бұрын

@@tremslsgot proof?

@rawnukles 8 ай бұрын

@@tremsls The hardest part was getting the big rocket full of fuel into low earth orbit. That's when it was heaviest and pushed through the thickest atmosphere, did the most work. But nobody denies that the Saturn V took off and went a into earth orbit. It was witnessed by thousands of people. Do you think the launch was fake too?

@Smitty65721 Жыл бұрын

I was 11 years old back then. I am an old man now and we still have not been back. I hope I live long enough to see the return and then to Mars.

@RidiculousRocketry Жыл бұрын

I was 9. I was with my grandfather when the landing happened. My father was in Vietnam. I too hope to see the return to the moon and Mars. My interest in space has always been very high due to what I experience as a young kid. I was at Wallops Island Virginia last week to witness my first rocket launch. The Antares launch of the Cygnus resupply mission to the ISS.

@claudiocorleone7856 10 ай бұрын

Same here 11 years old and I wouldn’t hold my breath with even another lunar landing. Reason: too many fail safe sensors on those rockets and built cheap.

@RoseSharon7777 9 ай бұрын

Because we never went. 😮

@JogInTheFog 8 ай бұрын

@@RoseSharon7777 prove it

@hunterwilk 8 ай бұрын

It really is a shame that deniers won't enjoy this with the rest of the world. One of the most amazing accomplishments in human history and they "do their own research" and miss out on the collective joy of the human spirit.

@gman7495 10 ай бұрын

I am so lucky to have witnessed the greatest achievement in the history of humankind on TV. We always watched CBS and Walter Cronkite. I remember seeing his reaction when they announced they had touched down on the moon...and of course, what came later...when Armstrong set foot on the moon. Something I'll never forget!!!!

@johnceragioli9671 8 ай бұрын

Mankind’s finest moment!

@OwenGood-rv3tw 6 ай бұрын

My father was born July 20. He turned 20 when Apollo 11 landed. He and my soon-to-be-mother were in his apartment in college watching this landing on his birthday. And they knew the world would never be the same again.

@writethisthat3613 10 ай бұрын

My mom and dad were yelling screaming applauding at the tv. I was a little boy, not really comprehending what was going on. It's a great memory.

@RoseSharon7777 9 ай бұрын

A memory that never happened.

@writethisthat3613 9 ай бұрын

@@RoseSharon7777 huh?

@rozzgrey801 8 ай бұрын

@@writethisthat3613 Just a bitter-assed troll trying to trash someone's memories.

@jody6851 Жыл бұрын

I'm old enough to remember the Moon landing and even watched it on CBS. I remember Walter Cronkite and Wally Shira tearing up exactly as seen here. This is the exact clip of that moment. What didn't come out until later is that the landing wasn't as perfect as it sounds here. As the LEM came close to the surface, Neil Armstrong realized they were coming close to landing on a big bolder and he had to take the controls to shift the LEM away at an angle to avoid smashing onto it. As he did so, he only had a few seconds left of fuel for the landing and the low-fuel warning light had gone on. What people forget is what a joyous moment this was not only for Mankind but for the US in particular. This landing for one happy moment helped the nation forget that the Vietnam War was raging and the US was losing scores of soldiers each day at this point. By 1969, the US was mired in the war against North Vietnam. During the same period as the Moon landing and all the previously successful US space launches, I remember having to watch each night on the 6 o'clock news -- on all three major channels in those days, America year before social media, having basically three major TV news outlets CBS, NBC, and ABC -- the nightly scrolling of the American war dead by name and rank each night at the end of the 6 o'clock news. After seeing the lists of dead for the day, I'd start my homework for the next day's classes. Nixon had become president and inherited a quagmire from Lyndon Johnson. He was committed to extricating the US from the war "peace with honor," but he was actually expanding it as negotiating leverage against the North by invading Cambodia and intensifying the B52 bombings of Hanoi and Haiphong until a peace conference was finally agreed to be convened among the US, North Vietnam, the Viet Cong, and South Vietnam in Paris. And even then, the parties haggled over the shape of the table until all sides could agree that no side was minimized by the seating (round). All this while Mankind and America was landing on the Moon.

@vicentecasarez5073 Жыл бұрын

It wasn’t real either. Who put the camera on the moon that recorded the whole thing??

@peacefrog0521 Жыл бұрын

Also the “1201” alarms @ 1:47, which could have caused them to abort, but were determined to be computer processing overloads.

@74bshs Жыл бұрын

I'm old enough, too, was between 7th and 8th grades, and a real Apollo fan. I remember this clip well, having seen it all in real time on CBS with Cronkite and Schirra (albeit in B&W). It was quite a day.

@ProductofCrew Жыл бұрын

@@vicentecasarez5073 where is there video of Eagle landing on the Moon?

@JoseyWales44s 10 ай бұрын

@@vicentecasarez5073 Why advertise that you are a fool?

@michaelmeden9117 11 ай бұрын

I get the same feeling watching it now as I did when I watched this live on TV. This is great stuff.

@Studio209Salford 7 ай бұрын

Cronkite instinctively knew when to comment and when to keep quiet. What a pro.

@jamesharp3445 Жыл бұрын

I watched this in grade school at the age of seven. It was amazing. Walter Cronkite was such a staple.

@Varzaak 8 ай бұрын

OMG, I watched this live. I was 5. Dad made me watch it. Wow, I just think back to that moment and I remember trying to comprehend how people were actually going to land on the moon. My grandparents grew up watching silent films. My dad with Buck Rodgers serials. Im sitting there watching it with them and it went from boring to the most suspenseful thing I can ever remember watching in my life. The whole "what does the moon really look like" thing was so powerfully fascinating. I got a telescope for Christmas a few years later, because I was still fascinated because of Walter's broadcast.

@briansalisbury4764 9 ай бұрын

I get chills watching this. Brings back so many memories. I was 7 years old and I remember my father making sure I watched it. I would not have missed it for the world anyway. Every true American was so proud that day.

@mikeo678 Жыл бұрын

What an amazing feat. Happy 54th anniversary.

@johnsita8129 9 ай бұрын

My mom sat my brother and I down in front of the tv and made us watch. She said we would remember this for the rest of our lives, and I was just six-years old then and I still remember.

@Tim22222 9 ай бұрын

Same here! I was 9.

@glenchapman3899 8 ай бұрын

@@Tim22222 I was 7 - Mum picked me up from school and US president was talking on the radio and I asked mum what the big deal was and she said "History is being made today"

@martensjd Жыл бұрын

It's wonderful every time Armstrong nails that landing.

@neilarmstrongsson795 Жыл бұрын

What you see is footage from the simulator. It was far too risky to travel out that far, so pieces of footage were put together to make it appear that way.

@martensjd Жыл бұрын

@@neilarmstrongsson795That might be why it says CBS News simulation.

@Ruda-n4h Жыл бұрын

@@neilarmstrongsson795 er, no.

@stevejensen3471 Жыл бұрын

@@neilarmstrongsson795 That's likely so. Both my Dad and his 4-star general bud who was head of 15th Air Force never believed it. Supposedly, with less than a minute of descent fuel left, Armstrong shut off the descent computer, took manual control of the LEM when he saw the original landing site in a boulder field, and somehow expertly flew it under extraordinary stress and not knowing where they were then going to a perfect landing! Dad and General Jim both being career USAF pilots who had flown 22 different kinds of aircraft between them including the SR71, called BS on it because they said there was no way in hell that without a physical baseline in 1/6th Earth gravity, flying the ungainly and heavily retrorocketed that could have remotely happened.

@larrygrove5649 10 ай бұрын

@@stevejensen3471 Well, guess that just shows you how wrong an "expert" can be.

@CareelBay 10 ай бұрын

Every time I see/hear this I cry. I just find this an utterly astonishing achievement even after all this time. ❤

@jmua8450 Жыл бұрын

I wasn’t even born and it still gives me chills.

@Davedio 10 ай бұрын

My family was stationed at Ft. Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska at the time of the moon landing...I was 7 years old and I remember my mother waking me and my three siblings up in the early morning hours to witness the first steps of man on the moon. I didn't really appreciate it at the time, but later became grateful that she decided the moment was too important to miss. This, and the watching the safe return of Apollo 13 a little less than one year later, were the two pivotal moments of my childhood.

@Gail1Marie Жыл бұрын

My husband used all the money he'd earned from his newspaper route to buy a color TV, only to discover that the first broadcast from the moon was in black-and-white. (Subsequent landings were broadcast in color, though.) What I remember is how quiet it was. We lived near an international airport, but no airplanes were flying. No vehicles were on the road. Everyone was glued to their television watching this momentous occasion. When my dad was 14, Lindbergh flew the Atlantic. When I was 14, men landed on the moon. I later worked for a NASA contractor and had the chance to see Neil Armstrong speak about Apollo 11. He was still using a slide projector with a round slide tray, which the audiovisual people were struggling to make work properly. (One of them muttered under his breath, "You can put a man on the moon, but....") Michael Collins spoke to our Squadron Officer School class. And I saw Buzz Aldrin at a local single-A baseball game. So I've laid eyes on all three of the men of Apollo 11.

@SamhainBe 9 ай бұрын

Remember watching that broadcast live when I was a boy - still brings tears and a thrill. Also, my dad worked for Grumman and actually made parts for the LEM...made me proud...made America proud.

@rgraz4929 Жыл бұрын

Mankind's greatest achievement. Armstrong had ice in his veins. I was up late sitting in front of the black and white TV trying to make sense of basic shapes as Neil set foot on the moon.

@ObamAmerican48 8 ай бұрын

Life was good that day. Cronkite is a legend. None of today's journalists can hold a candle to him.

@jimmylieb5225 10 ай бұрын

I remember watching the descent to the moon the afternoon and then later that night watching mesmerized as Armstrong and Aldrin stepped onto the moon. Those days will never come back.

@mikemccain9275 Жыл бұрын

i was 13 when we landed on the moon .. THE THOUGHT even at that age was remmebering kenedy saying we will land on the moon before the decade was out .. the one time the whole world was watching . on mostly black and white tv holding onto the rabbit ears at my home .. a time when all of 8 of us in the family were together jumped up and down .. now only five of us remain .. i hope we can all set togther for t he next landing we do .. 54 years is a long time but feels like yesterday . who would have had the vission knowing space played a big part in sitting here typing here .. ..we have come along long ways ..

@robertlcollins7362 10 ай бұрын

We were a Cape Canaveral last week, amazing place. Made you proud to be a American

@dq1275 7 ай бұрын

A must see visit for sure!

@MrPeterhemm 10 ай бұрын

I was a very excited 11-year old watching this!

@GGE47 Жыл бұрын

I was glued to the tv set listening, relieved that they made it safely. I didn't get to see the moon while they were on it because of a cloud cover. It was just a matter of them going outside to walk on the moon. I saw the live television picture they sent back and thought the fact that we could see them was almost as incredible as them being there.

@m.f.m.67 11 ай бұрын

30 seconds fuel call...What balls!!

@rgraz4929 11 ай бұрын

Armstrong had ice in his veins. That's why he as chosen after Grissom died (as he was original choice, so I hear. Not sure if it's true or not.) But Armstrong ejected out of a test run of the LLRV, just barely surviving, brushed it off and immediately went back to work!

@glenchapman3899 8 ай бұрын

@@rgraz4929 His heart rate was at about 170 during the last part of the landing. So there would have been so much adrenalin he was probably smelling colors lol

@rgraz4929 8 ай бұрын

@@glenchapman3899 Wow. Did not know that. Thanks.

@chriscarpenter1703 8 ай бұрын

Not only the fuel call, but the two computer alarms (the 1201 and 1202 alarms during descent) that nearly caused an abort. Absolute craziness.

@k1productions87 7 ай бұрын

there was still one last safety feature that would have saved their lives. If the fuel counter reached zero (which was purposefully about 10 seconds short), the computer would trigger an auto abort, using that last fuel to level out the descent and light the ascent engine. The likelihood they would have crashed was very low, but it surely would have killed the mission.

@benjaminmobleymobley3860 9 ай бұрын

This is man's greatest achievement....especially with the technology we had then. Truly amazing....

@k1productions87 7 ай бұрын

And before the year was even out, people at large were already giving up on it. Giving a "been there, done that" to... LANDING ON THE MOON!!!! It should have fundamentally changed what it meant to be Human, and what we could accomplish as a species.... but, nope. Old hat.

@gives_bad_advice 8 ай бұрын

Reading through the comments, it looks like the truthers are confused by the animation.

@sdcoinshooter 10 ай бұрын

I was eight years old when this happened, I remember as if it were yesterday.

@allgood6760 Жыл бұрын

Awesome! and thanks Buzz Aldrin for coming to NZ in 2010 👍🇳🇿

@bobdickerson3434 11 ай бұрын

This really brings back memories. It was almost like watching it for the first time.

@originalusername121 10 ай бұрын

You know things are getting real when Cronkite takes off his glasses.

@OwenGood-mb3wx Жыл бұрын

July 20, 1969 was my father's 20th birthday. He saw the landing and went to bed knowing the world would never be the same again.

@kurtdewittphoto 8 ай бұрын

Once Artemis makes the return to the moon, all the footage we'll be getting will be absolutely unreal.

@EtzEchad 10 ай бұрын

I remember watching this in a hotel in Miami after watching the launch four days earlier. Still gives me chills!

@AbeFroman-c3t 10 ай бұрын

Remember that people still think this is fake😂😂😂

@9ball989 10 ай бұрын

How was the pictures taken of them landing ? Was someone already there taking the video ? How is that possible ? Fake.

@tubecated_development 9 ай бұрын

@@9ball989 there were no pictures taken of them landing, except for the ones inside of the landing craft

@k1productions87 7 ай бұрын

@@9ball989 what pictures of them landing? Which "fake" pictures are you referring to?

@bigfist255 4 ай бұрын

@@tubecated_developmentunless they had a video player in the lem ,how did we get the pictures later ?

@tubecated_development 4 ай бұрын

@@bigfist255 They had a video player? You mean they were watching video cassettes in their downtime?

@pwepersonal2024 8 ай бұрын

"Man On the Moon" was issued as a 33-1/3 7 inch single with the complete audio and Walter Cronkite at that time.

@AndrewBlacker-t1d 7 ай бұрын

Huge error in the descent animation. The hypergolic fuels burning in the engine did not create a visible flame. Errors like this feed conspiracy theorists.

@willoughbykrenzteinburg 6 ай бұрын

Conspiracy theorists have no idea how hypergolic fuels work.

@SteveT-0 8 ай бұрын

Truly astonishing achievement that's not been beaten ...yet!

@JustWasted3HoursHere 11 ай бұрын

I still shake my head when I come across people who don't believe we went there, regardless of the MOUNTAIN of evidence that we did. Their mentality is, "I don't believe it, therefore it's a lie". It's no coincidence that none of the people who make this claim work in any of the fields they're criticizing.

@mike.j3913 11 ай бұрын

Your speaking without doing research. The moon is too hostile of a place for man to ever step foot on it No man has never been remotely close to the moon

@JustWasted3HoursHere 11 ай бұрын

@@mike.j3913Yes, it is hostile. Do you see them wearing shorts and flip-flops there? No. Ever notice that not a single person who denies that we went to the moon has any expertise in any of the fields they criticize? They don't know what they're talking about, but _they_ think they do. Like you.

@apolloskyfacer5842 11 ай бұрын

@@JustWasted3HoursHere✔

@JoseyWales44s 10 ай бұрын

@@mike.j3913 Proving what the OP said. Brilliant.

@Arfy900 10 ай бұрын

@@mike.j3913 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people involved over MANY years in the space program, and not just NASA were involved. You're saying ALL these HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people over all these years were involved in a secret conspiracy, and these HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people throughout the decades never said a word? The US Navy would recover the astronauts as they splashed down in the ocean. Again, shown live on TV. So ALL those Navy personnel on all those ships, over all those years were all involved in a secret conspiracy? M Astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee DIED in a rocket capsule fire in 1967, 1 remember it. Their deaths were part of a conspiracy???

@k1productions87 7 ай бұрын

I love how you can hear audible gasps in the newsroom as soon as he said "engine stop"

@2ndarmoredhellonwheels106 Жыл бұрын

I remember watching this live when i was 10. Cronkite was the man.

@jbrhel Жыл бұрын

I agree. I too was 10.

@BrianSmith-yn2zg Жыл бұрын

I remember watching this when I was 11, I miss Walter Cronkite, Schirra, Mudd, and all the late reporters of the era. Times have changed and not all for the good, but I do like my lap top and this stupid smart phone 😁😁and all these cute emoji's.

@timlois 10 ай бұрын

When they fade in/out to switch between the simulated images of the LEM, it reminds me of those awkward family photo portraits with different angles of everyone's face in different places on the print.

@ryanreedgibson Жыл бұрын

Six days old and only have 203 likes. That's a sad state of affairs.

@terrymckenzie8786 Жыл бұрын

But Hunter Biden…….

@Conn30Mtenor Жыл бұрын

The family watched this same broadcast. Small town British Columbia. Mum and dad liked Cronkite.

@teeconsigliano7631 8 ай бұрын

Seems like moon landing deniers confused the real thing with the animation and simulation.

@ZippyThePinhead 8 ай бұрын

I was a young child when this happened, young enough I didn't understand the historical significance of it. I had pretty much grown up with the space race, and the idea of going to the moon, so it wasn't a big deal to me at the time. Now 55 years later I can appreciate gravity of the situation, and the danger that they faced. To the people around me, my parents, siblings, and older friends & family members I can now see why it was a HUGE deal to them.

@erikbakker1531 10 ай бұрын

"Wally, say something. I'm speechless."

@markg7963 11 ай бұрын

These were real men, real astronauts, real leaders, real engineers, human ingenuity in its finest moments. The lessons of these amazing people I fear are getting lost in the chaos of modern times.

@jugheadjones5458 10 ай бұрын

Today Cronkite would be considered an extreme liberal. But from my memory he delivered the straight news without bias.

@Agarwaen 10 ай бұрын

this was prior to Watergate and republican strategy of calling anything just reporting facts "liberal news".

@jb76489 7 ай бұрын

Take your meds bro

@74bshs 11 ай бұрын

I watched this as a 13 year old on my grandfather's black and white TV. A moment I will never forget.

@wombatwilly1002 8 ай бұрын

Lots of nut jobs today say this is an abandoned warehouse in Oregon..lol

@olearyma57 8 ай бұрын

Well it was a set-up somewhere on planet earth ! Really we live ions further on in terms of technology and we can't even launch a rocket sucessfully.

@wombatwilly1002 8 ай бұрын

@@olearyma57 Look who's trying.Elroy Musk.

@declanedmison5442 8 ай бұрын

They keep this set right next to the lizard lair

@jb76489 7 ай бұрын

@@olearyma57wtf are you talking about? Falcon 9 launches are practically boring with how often they happen

@olearyma57 7 ай бұрын

@@jb76489 Don't think they were in 1969; you really must keep to the point.

@philaman1972 Жыл бұрын

I was born in 1972, but I think this is among the greatest technological achievements in human history.

@ourv9603 Жыл бұрын

Seeing those CBS animations I now understand why some people think the whole thing was staged. I get cha. Just like today, actually more people today in our computerized, pop culture special effects world we live in there are so many people who cant tell the different betwix reality & not. !

@bobmusil1458 Жыл бұрын

Only people who are uninformed and unwilling to learn claim that the Moon landing was faked. The more one learns what happened and how it was done, the more one understands that faking the Moon landing was completely impossible.

@lcs1956 Жыл бұрын

Mostly they are just trolls starved for attention. This is the only way they can get it.

@dritemolawzbks8574 Жыл бұрын

@@bobmusil1458There's also no motive or economic benefit from faking it and freely sharing a scientific accomplishment and data with the world. There was a race to the moon, so obtaining the international prestige of being the nation with the best rocketry and most advanced technology could be seen as a positive. Personally, I don't see why any government would invest the time and billions of dollars into a space program and lunar mission that could have been produced in a film studio much quicker and at a fraction of the cost.

@bobmusil1458 Жыл бұрын

@@dritemolawzbks8574 Actually, there's no way to fake the Moon landing. Not now, and even less in 1969.

@dritemolawzbks8574 Жыл бұрын

@@bobmusil1458 Yes. I know. There's a photon reflector mirror that still works. It measures the distance between the earth and the moon.

@happything100 8 ай бұрын

I remember it like it was yesterday. My father worked the night shift and took a small portable TV with him to work so he and his work buddies could also watch.

@N0remacsketch Жыл бұрын

We might have a new lunar landing this year and I’m pumped to see it.

@crookeddy 11 ай бұрын

Sadly I predict at least a 10 year delay. However, we did soft land an autonomous lander on the Moon today for the first time in 50 years.

@gslTM 10 ай бұрын

I am expecting humanity to return to the Moon in 2028 due to delays with HLS and SLS. I'm pumped too, but 2026 would kinda be crazy as well.

@tripillthreat 10 ай бұрын

What a great broadcast. These guys are blown away at witnessing the first animal from Earth landing on another celestial body. I love that they just let themselves be awestruck.

@BobConnor-n2g Жыл бұрын

He says it's a great simulation and animation and that might help explain some of the we did not land on the moon conspiracies. The networks must have had help from Disney, etc to make some of the simulations so the audience would know what was going on.

@FrankyPi Жыл бұрын

Of course there were sims made for TV to show what was going on and this is one of them, because the only thing that was live during the landing is audio and data telemetry, motion picture footage they recorded had to be developed later when they returned to Earth and live TV camera was deployed after they started EVA. A lot of people think these simulations as shown here were supposed to be the real thing and call the landing fake because of that, no wonder when this wasn't the actual real recording lol

@Nihaowilson 9 ай бұрын

So nice to see humanity at its best...

@markcarr5142 Жыл бұрын

I was born in 72. And although I didn't understand the monumental feat that this caused at the time, I can relate to it. When I watched Elon Musk launch those rockets, and they both landed side by side, I was at work, and jlwas clapping and cheering, and starting tearing up. What had been science fiction for so long was actually taking place live, and as other have said before, I'd never thought I'd live to see the day. I'm jealous of my son, who's 17, at the wonders and breakthroughs that his generation is going to be a witness to.

@TheFrenchPug Жыл бұрын

He's gonna have a t 2:28 ough life if things don't start changing. I'm worried about my grandchildren.

@KaoticReach1999 Жыл бұрын

@@JusticeAlways Oh pfft, what was this horrible, earth shattering history and background info that'd make you be the equivalent of someone in the back going "but but!"

@katchim366 Жыл бұрын

don't be such a fish, this is the biggest hoax of mankind... no one went to the moon....

@yassassin6425 Жыл бұрын

@@katchim366 On the contrary, there were nine manned missions to the moon and six landings. It would have been at least ten had it not been for the near catastrophe and aborted landing of Apollo 13 and the premature cancellation of the programme and with it, Apollo 18, 19 and 20.

@imEden0 Жыл бұрын

@@yassassin6425 Although apollo 20 was cancelled for not only budgetary reasons, but to clear a saturn v from the flight rotation to launch skylab, which I think is fair.