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The Apollo 11 missing tapes were those that were recorded from Apollo 11's slow-scan television (SSTV) telecast in its raw format on telemetry data tape at the time of the first Moon landing in 1969 and subsequently lost. The data tapes were used to record all transmitted data (video as well as telemetry) for backup.
English: Neil Armstrong (1930–2012), commander of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, descends the ladder of the Apollo Lunar Module (or Lunar Excursion Module, LEM) to become the first human to set foot on the surface of the Moon. Transcription: I'm at the foot of the ladder. These LEM footpads are only depressed in the surface of that one or two inches.
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The landing site is about 185 miles from the moon’s south pole. According to a New York Times report , Odysseus was “aiming for a spot in the south polar region, a flat plain outside the ...
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The first close-up pictures of the Moon. Travelling around the far side of the Moon, including the "Earthrise" as our planet came back into view. The Apollo Lunar Module calmly drifting down at a low angle to the surface of the Moon, then burning its engines for a more vertical landing. Touchdown in the Sea of Tranquility: "The Eagle has landed."
Moonwalk One is a 1971 feature-length documentary film about the flight of Apollo 11, which landed the first humans on the Moon.Besides portraying the massive technological achievement of that event, the film places it in some historical context and tries to capture the mood and the feel of the people on Earth when man first walked on another world.
The moon landing, the Beatles' first appearance on American TV and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech are among the 75 Most Impactful Television Moments as ranked by the ...