Apollo 11’s journey to the moon, annotated

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Published 2018-10-23

The moon landing was a feat of engineering, accomplished through the careful deconstruction of a 3,000 ton spacecraft.

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Apollo 11 launched on July 16, 1969, carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins on a journey to pull off humankind’s first moon landing. The eight-day journey was made possible by the careful deconstruction of the Saturn V rocket and Apollo spacecraft, and made use of a technique of docking components of the spacecraft in lunar orbit so the astronauts could land on, and then launch from, the lunar surface.

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@Vox 4 years ago

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@afterburnerfox 5 years ago

Michael Collins The forgotten astronaut
@mubx4323 5 years ago

Micheal Collins, the most humble astronaut ever
@tajrian4579 3 years ago

The amount of math and calculations the engineers had to do in order to make all of that happen in 1 go makes THEM the real heroes !
@ManofOneGod 4 years ago

Imagine accidentally leaving the moon rock samples in the other module.
@jonas1015119 5 years ago

Im still amazed the 180° turn and docking with the lunar module mid flight worked without modern computers.
@ThomasG_ 5 years ago

The idea of splitting your craft in half, spinning one half around, and then reattatching the halves - while flying through space at high speed - terrifies me.
@matthewclarkson8648 4 years ago

To think that only 60 years before, we had just invented the airplane.
@himmelsamuel4749 2 years ago

REST IN PEACE MICHAEL COLLINS 1930-2021
@iman2341 5 years ago

Whoever did the animation and art-style for this video deserves a raise. This is a beautiful updating and utilisation of the visual style of original program.
@shotsfiredandmissed9068 5 years ago

And I'm watching this video with a computer that is a 100x more powerful than what they used to get to the moon. Amazing.
@brie3679 4 years ago

All this footage makes me so excited for when we go back. Just imagine the photo and video quality we will get.
@narutothewinnerof100 3 years ago

When you're a kid the name Neil Armstrong is one of the first names you learn about in Science class. It's quite amazing the magnitude of what these men accomplished.
@chromearome798 5 years ago

Flat Earthers have left the chat
@kartikajaya886 5 years ago

Every single KSP player have done this so many times
@jamirimaj6880 3 years ago

"So why didn't we return to the moon then?" I can tell you a 150 billion dollar reason why.
@goat9295 4 years ago

Those famous words: One small step for man... "I didn't get the second phrase"
@Mr.SneakyShadow 5 years ago

Just think your smartphone you are currently using to watch this video has vastly more processing power than apollo,
@savagesooner4891 5 years ago

Lance Armstrong, Buzz Lightyear, and that other guy...
@kato76109 14 days ago

Michael Collins must've been an introvert like me. He probably finally felt the most at peace for the first time in his life lol