To the Moon
summary
A chronological retelling of Apollo 11’s build and landing: early Ranger crash-into-moon probes after seven tries, parallel Gemini test flights, construction of the Saturn V and a two-part Apollo spacecraft (command module + lunar module), and the lunar module’s manual deviation during powered descent that triggers 1202/1201 alarms and a two-second call by guidance engineer to ignore them. The lander carries 2 million parts, burns down to about 3% fuel and lands successfully, illustrating how tiny failures and trust in procedures and people save a huge project.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 3:22Megabyte
- 5:10Apollo
- 21:22Powered Descent
- 27:224:10 PM / Five Minutes Altitude: 11 000 m Fuel: 50%
- 42:30Little Things
- 45:181.3 k/hr
- 46:04Two Million Parts
- 47:37Leadership
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