Apollo 11 - Day 5 (Full Mission)

Apollo 11 - Day 5 (Full Mission)

20th July 1969 - Probably the most important day in human spaceflight history to date. This day starts at GET 89h 38m and includes Crew transfer to the LM, seperation of the CSM/LM, LM descent to the surface, the moonwalk and post moonwalk activities. The video is 11 hours long and ends at a GET of 114h 53m.

Timeline:
00:00:11 PAO during sleep period
00:05:11 Good Morning
00:23:20 The Black Bugle
01:39:50 Landing Gear Deploy
02:31:30 LM/CSM Seperation Sequence
02:35:40 The Eagle Has Wings
03:59:10 PDI
04:12:10 Contact Light - The Eagle Has Landed
04:13:10 The Checklists thru to Moonwalk
07:49:20 On the Porch
07:52:55 One Small Step
08:12:10 Magnificent Desolation
08:21:00 The Plaque
08:24:00 Move the TV camera
08:34:50 Flag
08:44:50 President Nixon
09:23:00 EASEP Deploy
10:06:20 Off The Surface
10:34:00 Goodnight Columbia
10:34:40 Trash and PLSS Dump
10:57:40 PAO into Sleep Period

If you would like to donate to this and future projects (any money donated will go towards purchasing hardware/software for use on these series) paypal.me/Lunarmodule5 - any donations are received with gratitude and thanks!

With grateful thanks to Robin, Pat, Ben, Stephen, Dwight, Britt and Vinny and Ed without whom this project would not have been completed or be so complete in coverage.

All Video/Audio/Photographs courtesy NASA

I highly recommend following the series whilst reading the Apollo 11 Flight Journal - https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap11fj/i...

and the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal - https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/

Other great sites to link to which I have sourced for information or material in the making of the series-

The Apollo Audio Collection - https://archive.org/details/nasaaudio...
Virtual Apollo Guidence Computer Homepage - https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/
Orbiter Space Flight Simulator - http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/
Apogee Books - http://www.cgpublishing.com/

Facebook Groups

Mercury, Gemini & Saturn/Apollo Era!! Facebook page -   / mercurygeminiapollo  
Apollo 11 Facebook Page -   / apollo11celebration  
Space Hipsters Facebook Page -   / spacehipsters  

The following books were invaluable in the making of the series

Apollo 11 The NASA Mission Reports (Parts 1, 2 and 3) - Robert Godwin
Footprints in the Dust - Colin Burgess
A Man on the Moon - Andrew Chaikin
Carrying the Fire - Michael Collins
Failure is Not an Option - Eugene Kranz
First Man - James Hansen/Neil Armstrong
Forever Young - James Hansen/John Young
Last Man on the Moon - Eugene Cernan
Rocket Men - Robert Kurson
Man on the Moon - Peter Fairley
The Invasion of the Moon - Peter Ryan
Chariots for Apollo - Courtney Brooks/James Grimwood/Loyd Swenson
LEM Lunar Excusion Module Failiarisation Manual - Grumman
How Apollo Flew to the Moon - David Woods
Apollo - A Chronology 1 to 4 - NASA
Growing Up with Spaceflight - Apollo Parts 1 & 2 - Wes Oleszewski
Live TV from the Moon - Dwight Steven-Boniecki
Moonwalker - Charles and Dotty Duke
Digital Apollo - David Mindell
From the Trenches of Mission Control to the Craters of the Moon - Lunney/Bostick/Reed/Deiterich/Kennedy/Von Ehrefried/Boone/Stoval/

and a hundred other books that I have been reading about from 1975 onwards, too numerous to mention!



The Full Mission Series Production - An Explanation of the Process

Production began in February 2018 with the intention of release on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11's launch day (subsequently the pre and post flight press conferences were added). Each video took between 1 and 3 months to produce, working about 10 hours a week.

Full Mission videos start with editing of the available audio for that particular day, sometimes split bewteen 3 tracks of audio (air to ground/flight directors loop/crew onboard tape). Once that process is completed the available TV transmissions or other associated video is positioned along with 16mm film taken by the crew. Photographs are placed in the mission timeline aprroximately near to where there were taken in the mission. Captions are then added to give pertinent information. The gaps that are left visually are filled with screen captures of the spacecraft from the Orbiter Space Simulator. Positions of spacecraft are approximated to what would have been seen on the mission, but during TLI, CSM RCS and SPS burns (LOI etc) the orientation is as near as I can get it to the actual (with sage advice from RW). Once these screen captures are in place the Apollo Guidence Computer (Virtual AGC) screens are captured. This involves setting the AGC time to the PAO announcements during the flight, screen capturing them and then transferring them to the timeline. Finally the title sequences are added.

Final editing of the whole video takes place with a run-through of the whole thing before the render of the video. Video sizes vary from 4 to 24gb.