The Eagle has landed

[WebbPA]

35 years ago today!

[Felix/FFDS]

I remember staying up to see it the grainy images.


Of course, it never really happened, it was all taped in a remote studio in one of Area 51's hangars  :)

[denishc]

YEAH!!!!!!!!  Go NASA!!!

 I'm like Felix, I remember staying up and watching those fuzzy images too.

[ozzy72]

This was a couple of years before I was born, but they were still landing men on the moon when I was tiny. Think its time to pop back and get the evidence to prove the conspiracy mob wrong

[Hagar]

This makes me feel old. If memory serves me right the launch happened while I was at work so we listened to live reports on the radio. Later on I saw those grainy images transmitted live via satellite. I might be wrong but I think this was the first time this had been done on mainstream TV. My opinions on this subject are well-known here so I won't bore you by repeating them. In my view this vast improvement in communications was a more important product of the space programme than the moon shots themselves.

PS. http://www.tvhistory.btinternet.co.uk/html/moon_tv_cov.html

[WebbPA]

Apollo 8 was on live television orbiting the moon on Christmas Eve, 1968.  Surely your memory can't be so bad you dont remember them reading Genesis (the Bible not the band).

[Hagar]

Don't forget I live in the UK. http://www.tvhistory.btinternet.co.uk/html/moon_tv_cov.html

[WebbPA]

No Apollo 8 on BBC?  No wonder people complain about it so much.

Since we're reminiscing, my parents let me sit up late to watch the first EVA.

[Hagar]

I didn't say it wasn't shown - just that it might not have been live as you saw it in the US. Recorded reports would certainly have been featured on the news & special programmes. I wouldn't have seen any of this as 1968 was the year I got married & we couldn't afford a TV set. We didn't need one as we made our own entertainment.

[RichieB16]

Since we're reminiscing, my parents let me sit up late to watch the first EVA.

Which first EVA?  The one the Soviet Alexei Leonov did (which the tape was actually a fake) or the one that American Ed White did?

Probably White's walk I'm assuming, just out of curosity-was it done on live TV?

[ATI_7500]

...(which the tape was actually a fake)...

Err? Really?

[RichieB16]

The video of Leonov doing the spacewalk was a fake-he did actually perform the walk, but they didn't film it.  The famous video where he floats out of the hatch and waves his arm-then floats around was done after the fact back on earth (I think in a neutral-bouancy tank).

[ATI_7500]

Well..at least he made the first EVA,didn't he?

[RichieB16]

Well..at least he made the first EVA,didn't he?

Yes.

[Hagar]

This is fascinating stuff Richie. I respect your great knowledge on the subject have no reason to doubt what you say. I've searched the web but can't find any reference to this fake video. Can you give me a reference?

It seems to me that there are more myths & legends surrounding these first few years of space travel than almost anything else I can think of. I can understand the USSR wanting to hide some of their technology from the West but I can't understand the lack of evidence on most of these achievements. A lot of it seems to be due to lack of foresight. If they could put a man out in space & bring him back safely surely it's not that difficult to make a video recording or even take a few photos of it. I would have thought that concrete & undeniable proof would be one of the priorities or why bother to do it in the first place?