Apollo 40 years on

[ryan]

Hey guys, NASA put this up.
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo40/
I like the animation of Wally Schirra they made.

 

[MajorTom]

Hey guys, NASA put this up.
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo40/
I like the animation of Wally Schirra they made.

They should fix one thing...they showed the command module, with parachute bay covers already blown off, happily in orbit. And no service module. Would have been a terrible week-long mission indeed...

 

[Moonwalker]

It's great to see at least a slight increasing enthusiasm again these days at NASA regarding Apollo and also the future, Constellation. We really need this I think, and also a US President and government which pushes it almost like Kennedy did once to give NASA a new direction out of LEO finally.

I just can't wait for 2010, 2014/15 and finally 2020 to see a continuation of what had been stopped 36 years ago.


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They should fix one thing...they showed the command module, with parachute bay covers already blown off, happily in orbit. And no service module. Would have been a terrible week-long mission indeed...

I don't even know why they always tend to use these god damn wrong artistic stuff (they already did so in the 1960's). They shoud use original images and videos and do it the way like "In the shadow of the Moon" or Discovery Channel did it for "When we left Earth". That's what I call great remembrance video stuff.

Apollo doesn't deserve to be turned into a kids comic in my point of view. At least not on a remembrance NASA web page. They seem to have a strange public relations department.

 

[tblaxland]

The Apollo 7 16mm colour film from on board was pretty cool to see.

 

[Kyle]

The Apollo 1 thing was good.

 

[astrosammy]

Yes, the Apollo 1 thing is nice, is from that Day of Remembrance thing:http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/dor/index_noaccess.html

 

[Missioncmdr]

They should fix one thing...they showed the command module, with parachute bay covers already blown off, happily in orbit. And no service module. Would have been a terrible week-long mission indeed...

Not to mention another error. The video says that Apollo 7 launched from Kennedy Space Center. Not true. Apollo 7 was actually the last manned NASA mission to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

 

[Matt]

That was good, I liked that.

 

[Moonwalker]

Not to mention another error. The video says that Apollo 7 launched from Kennedy Space Center. Not true. Apollo 7 was actually the last manned NASA mission to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

This error is almost 40 years old now just as the video is :lol:

 

[MajorTom]

Not to mention another error. The video says that Apollo 7 launched from Kennedy Space Center. Not true. Apollo 7 was actually the last manned NASA mission to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Dude, you're a space encyclopedia!!