To the Moon!
summary
July 20, 1969: Apollo 11 descends with computers spitting 122 1201 1202 alarms, a 26‑year‑old engineer orders them ignored because the flight software prioritizes critical tasks, and a one‑foot‑per‑second separation puff two hours earlier throws the lander miles off course. At ~2,000 ft Armstrong cuts autopilot, kills descent and guns forward, touching down at ~30 ft with 3% fuel left; the contact light confirms touchdown and Tranquility Base is declared. Rangers fail repeatedly; persistence and prioritized software save the mission.
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chapters (39)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:40Summer of 1969
- 4:23Apollo
- 7:27Analogy
- 8:49Project Ranger
- 12:52Gemini
- 13:28Steering Rockets
- 14:36Spacesuits
- 15:36Rocket
- 16:32Problems
- 17:48Spaceship
- 18:38Crew
- 20:10July 20 1969
- 22:43Walter Cronkite
- 23:30Radio Issues
- 24:22The Computer
- 26:53What 1202 Means
- 27:10Mission Control
- 29:08Look Out the Window
- 31:01Gun Sight
- 31:17Crater
- 32:16Gene Krantz
- 35:09Shutdown Checklist
- 36:35Tranquility Base
- 37:16The Eagle
- 38:52Thats my story
- 39:27Its your story
- 40:13Can we learn anything
- 40:42Why did their radios stop working
- 41:41Why did their computer crash
- 42:37Why were they off course
- 43:16One foot per second
- 43:54Two million parts
- 44:24Persistence
- 44:56Followship
- 45:52Heroic Moment
- 46:15Leadership
- 47:04History
- 47:19We saw ourselves
