How astronauts prepared for the Apollo 11 Moon landing | BBC Global

Apollo 11 launched on July 16, 1969, carrying the first men to land on the Moon.
In the months leading up to the historic take-off, Nasa put the crew through gruelling, relentless simulations in order to prepare them - and BBC Tomorrow's World paid a visit.
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[@Scorp308]

And cue the conspiracy nutters in the comments section.

[@catonehere]

It’s now a conspiracy theory that it actually happened

[@Scorp308]

@@catonehere Yes. Men did walk in the moon in 1969.

[@catonehere]

ok @@Scorp308

[@Freaksnake]

@@catonehere You answered your queue rather predictably.

[@justinratcliffe947]

​@@Scorp308Damn right

[@starcrib]

Amazing colleagues, technology of that Era. What Juggernauts. 🌍🌎🌏

[@righteoustera9731]

So we went to the moon in 1969, and with all the technology we have in 2024 we would have been going every week to visit. But we are not WHY?

[@JctsUK]

You can Google that quite easily and read quite a long list of reasons why we haven’t gone back since 1972

[@marievam]

because they went nowhere

[@mikep9604]

The ongoing Artemis program is completely different and more challenging compared to the Apollo program. The Artemis 1 was launched in November 2022 and the Orion spacecraft orbited the moon and returned. The goal of the Artemis 3 mission is to land on the moon. Assumptions about weekly flights are not realistic. One flight is so expensive that it would not be possible. And there is no reason for such frequent flights.

[@ObscureStuff420]

Because there's no reason to go there. It costs a ton of money and all we get is to bring back some rocks

[@mikep9604]

@@ObscureStuff420 The purpose of the Artemis program is to land on the moon again. The reason to go there is scientific research. And the Artemis program also has different goals compared to the Apollo program. The Artemis program includes a plan for a base where astronauts can stay on the moon for long periods.

[@user-ky5dy5hl4d]

How did they get to the Moon when the video depicts the Earth turning the wrong way at 1:33?

[@tubecated_development]

Of course, you realise that was an old animated/simulated infographic (probably printed backwards) from early TV days. 💤 You also do realise it takes much longer than that for the Earth to rotate?

[@thegreatdivide825]

It's a training simulator and the spacecraft travels west to east anyway. That's what they are going to see up there 🤦‍♂️

[@raymondtonns2521]

the Apollo 11 crew had less computing power than is in you phone! would you go for the ride?

[@tubecated_development]

You cannot go to the moon in or on your phone. This is the stupidity of the smartphone generation. You really are scientifically-illiterate.

[@TonyChan-eh3nz]

Yes.

[@alkacil2504]

Yes because main computations were made by big IBM mainframes on the ground. Only the results were transmitted to the inboard Apollo computers.

[@TonyChan-eh3nz]

@@alkacil2504 the Apollo computers still had to do some work. They couldn't always rely on ground controls for things like passing behind the moon

[@alkacil2504]

@@TonyChan-eh3nz I did'nt say the contrary. For example, the trajectory between earth and moon where computed on the ground. The landing were piloted by inboard computers (about 1s sampling interval, which was suffisant in the moon gravity).

[@TNT_FPV]

👍👍

[@The_Reality_Filter]

Just watch Interstellar. If you know, you know.

[@tubecated_development]

The movie and social media generations. Lost in a world of make believe. Inverted reality + Dunning-Kruger Effect. Your scientific-literacy is inversely proportional to your availablity of data.

[@justinratcliffe947]

Shut up all you in the comments. We landed. GET OVER IT

[@catonehere]

Prove it @@justinratcliffe947

[@wimkuijpers1342]

@@catonehere Over more than 10 years, Project Apollo involved 400,000 people working at major contractors such as Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, IBM, Motorola and MIT University. Converted to today, the costs were 217 billion dollars. After Apollo 11 there were 5 more other landings.

[@catonehere]

within six years 😂😂@@wimkuijpers1342

[@johnnyq4260]

BS

[@elmensajero7295]

"A ship exactly like this" NASA: We destroy all blue prints of it / Due people notice on the film the hatch was to small to fit the astronaut with all the gear on, jajahaha, get rid of the evidence. BBC could you describe every button on the panel? what do?, or is just to se impressive on the movie? / 55 yrs and never went again? wow, is like my friend on high school said went on vacations with top models, but never went again ever.............

[@muddwhistle7833]

😂😂😂ohh no! Your one of them, NOBODY HAS EVER WALKED ON THE MOON! Most people don’t’ t understand how many things have to go right to get home safely from a moon landing, it’s 99.99% impossible

[@erac5855]

You kind of answered your own question. That’s why they tested all of the technology very rigorously. Engineered to perfection.

[@elmensajero7295]

@@erac5855 Van Allen radiation belt is the first, is impossible to pass without die, they didn't even consider it (they didn't know exist), proof they never went, that camera there is how they record all the lies

[@tubecated_development]

@@elmensajero7295you of course think you know more than Dr James Van Allen. This is a perfect example of how social media and smart phones have helped create generations of people like yourself who are the living embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. When in reality, you are scientifically-illiterate like virtually 30% of the rest of the so-called developed world population. smh. Make it make sense…

[@Meshalleez]

0:26 "When the first American astonauts landed on the moon" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yah right

[@waynelsexton3488]

Nowadays we pay nasa billions to NOT got to the moon.. make it make sense

[@tubecated_development]

Your brain or your data banks (or both) are faulty. NASA during Apollo got around 5% percent of the whole GDP just to work on ONE mission, ie sending two men to the moon and gather a few moon rocks. Today NASA gets around 0.5% (ten times less) of GDP, but has over EIGHTY current missions, including: - Design, build and send Artemis/Orion to the moon, and to send crew beyond the moon. - To design and build a moon base - To design and a build a lunar orbital space station (gateway to Mars) - Design build and send Dragonfly to explore the prebiotic chemistry and habitability of dozens of sites on Saturn’s moon Titan - To send Clipper to conduct detailed reconnaissance of Jupiter’s moon and investigate whether the icy moon could harbor conditions suitable for life - Send Perseverance, ie Mars Sample Return (MSR) campaign, to bring pristine samples from Mars to Earth for scientific study - To install in space the Roman Space Telescope (formerly known as WFIRST, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope) - a mission concept to answer vital questions in both exoplanet detection and dark energy research. - Continue developing and expanding the Earth Observing System (EOS) satellite system interacting with the following climate science areas: radiation, clouds, water vapor, and precipitation; the oceans; greenhouse gases; land-surface hydrology and ecosystem processes; glaciers, sea ice, and ice sheets; ozone and stratospheric chemistry; and natural and anthropogenic aerosols.

[@carolc.776]

I get where these conspiracy theories come from. Def suspect with all the cameras and fake shots of real space and the moon. Lol

[@tubecated_development]

Do you not know anything about TV animation/simulations and infographics? smh

[@carolc.776]

@@tubecated_development what are you talking about? My simple to understand comment to complex for you to be nice?

[@tubecated_development]

@@carolc.776 Your comment was incredibly simplistic and I understood it perfectly well. My response was neutral, ie neither nice nor nasty. I was asking you a question. EDIT I do admit to being surprised at the simplistic nature of your accusations.

[@marievam]

Lies

[@factsoverfear9771]

Suuuuuure 😂😂

[@edkrzywdzinski9121]

Oh well then.... that proves it. Damn... you foiled NASA with your brilliant, infallible logic. Tin foil hats off to you sir.

[@martf1061]

​@@edkrzywdzinski9121 how can you be so sure?? Is it because you saw it on T.V. 😏

[@edkrzywdzinski9121]

@@martf1061 Nah. I got it from KZbin, like where you get all your inside information exposing the Illuminati plots.

[@wimkuijpers1342]

@@martf1061 Not only the Apollo missions were on TV, but also its predecessors Gemini and Mercury. And not only films but also thousands of photos.

[@user-lj7jk5lv5f]

Who said there was ever a landing. 😂

[@ApolloKid1961]

Apollo 11: 20 July 1969. Apollo 12: 19 November 1969. Apollo 14: 5 February 1971. Apollo 15: 30 July 1971. Apollo 16: 20 April 1972. Apollo 17: 11 December 19721.

[@vijaypoola8733]

Moon Landing 😂😂😂

[@wimkuijpers1342]

6 moon landings

[@martf1061]

There you have it folks... This video clearly explains how the footage shown that day on every US citizen's T.V. screen was made possible. Wasnt real after all... 😣

[@erac5855]

You’re kidding, right? There’s extremely obvious differences between what is a simulation or an artist depiction, and the real thing

[@tubecated_development]

@@erac5855 you’re talking to the smartphone antisocial-media mememe generations, possibly the most scientifically illiterate and general dumbass generations of all time since those skull-capped Dark Ages peasants depicted in the Monty Python film

[@thegreatdivide825]

You must be from Texas to be that dumb

[@factsoverfear9771]

😂😂😂😂

[@catonehere]

Hahahahahaha

[@martf1061]

They rehearsed the scripted scenario. The moment the "landing" footage was broadcasted on television, That's the exact moment that T.V. became the most dangerous weapon of all times... " Possibility to make believe anything, to almost every citizen, at the same time" - nobody questionned the truthfullness of what they heard and saw on T.V. " Has to be true.. They said it on T.V. " 😆😆 Good thing that it's not like that anymore.. 😋😛😛😏 There is a recent new movie that just came out, explaining and showing the how the biggest hoax was realized..

[@jespernibbelink8068]

It's people like you who make me lose faith in humanity.

[@Ricardo_098]

Cómo se llama?

[@jespernibbelink8068]

It's people like you who make me lose faith in humanity.

[@erac5855]

Sorry, you’re completely wrong. There are many many many hours of Apollo footage, not to mention thousands of pages of transcripts. If it was rehearsed and a movie, why would they do it six times, and why would the scripts be up to 12 days long? Have you ever seen a movie lasting 12 days? And also, have you seen the new movie that just came out? It’s making fun of conspiracy wackos, and it’s fiction anyway

[@elmensajero7295]

@@erac5855 Why they never went again after 55 years?, and why tesla, amazon are trying to replicate the tech? to go again? just build the old shiet and go, oh i forgot the van allen radio belt discovered after 1969, is a life dead barrier..........and how to pressurize a small cabin VS all VACUM SPACE????, when they open the hatch will instantly DIE!!!!!!, do you know they never show a hatch footage until people questioned on 2015?????

[@Seven.Heavenly.Sins.666]

They flew to the moon and back to earth in that piece of junk? Get real!

[@thegreatdivide825]

Get some intelligence

[@Seven.Heavenly.Sins.666]

@thegreatdivide825 I should become as stupid as you.😅🤣😂😂🥰

[@Olga-yx7hb]

Bullshit

[@justinratcliffe947]

Which is what YOU are

[@elmensajero7295]

@@justinratcliffe947 when they never went after 50 yrs later you know is BS, is like buying a land in front of a lake and never went back jajajaja when they burn all the blueprints and say We don't have that tech any more, yo know is BS, when al Pyramidz can't be replicate with today tech you know this is major BS jajajaj