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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the first of three special Apollo 11 editions of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to that singular time in history forty years ago, here is the original Launch Sequence ¤ video (9:55), as you would have seen it, live, on television, starting at T minus six minutes and counting, on July 16, 1969, at 09:26 EDT. Over three hundred and sixty feet tall ~ a thirty story building. Almost eight million pounds of thrust. Mere words are inadequate.
And here are some things you might not have seen before: here is live footage from a number of the high-speed cameras ¤ involved in the Apollo 11 launch (3:16), and footage from the high-speed engine cameras ¤ of Apollo 8, 11, and 12 (3:48, no audio).
If everything works out as planned, knock on wood, we have some, I think, fine shows in the can for next Sunday night, when we’re on the moon, over two hundred thousand miles away, and a week Thursday night, when we return to Earth. We went a long way from home, folks, in space, in time, in technology, and in the history of our species.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Oy vey. Maz2. Ten paragraphs from a newspaper
column is not fair use. Two or three, maybe.
Oy vey yerself
Just saw that Biden quote.
Kate, I’m surprised Biden hasn’t really made it onto your radar yet. You need to come up with some kind of Biden theme: “Thank God Palin’s not VP” or something. This guy is making a gaffe every half hour.
You and I go back a long way, Maz2. I’ll never forget one short but brilliant exchange you and I had at the old Shotgun, nearly five years ago, before I was even Vitruvius. Still, I’ve been watching something happening here, and I’m going to discuss it in the next Reader Tips, so please let me defer to there.