The Moon: A tribute to the spirit of Apollo
Our Moon gave light to our most distant ancestors, was tracked and calculated by the ancients, has been personified in Gods and Godesses, and been the inspiraton for songs and poems. Even when storytellers create alternate worlds and fantasy realms where all else is wondrous and bizarre, time and again they leave our familar Moon in the sky.
In this presentation we've tried to capture the feeling of excitement, optimism and awe that marked the Apollo era. We've deliberately left out some of the more iconic moments and phrases that get used in most other Moon presentations, especially the now disputed "one small step for (a) man" sequence. Instead we've concentrated on less well-known images and audio to recreate the feeling of fresh wonder.
Captions:
1) Apollo 12 - View of the surface from the command module just prior to the descent of Intrepid. The large crater is Ptolemaeus. (The lunar module has been digitally edited out of the image. This is the only digitally edited image in the sequence. The surface features are untouched.)
2) Apollo 11 - Eagle approaches the command module
3) Video: Apollo 11 - The lunar module Eagle manoeuvres in orbit
4) Lunar Orbiter - The 93km-wide Copernicus crater in the Mare Imbrium Basin
5) Apollo 12 - View from the Command module in orbit
6) Apollo 12 - View of the Ptolemaeus and the (slightly smaller) Herschel craters
7) Apollo 17 - Bear Mountain and the eastern foot of the South Massif as seen from Station Five
8) Apollo 12 - The lunar module Intrepid as seen from the south-western rim of Surveyor Crater. The module came to rest at an angle of about 3 degrees.
9) Apollo 17 - View from the eastern side of Camelot Crater
10) Apollo 12 - The shadows of Pete Conrad (left) and Alan Bean in a crater with exposed bedrock
11) Video: Apollo 11 - EVA in the shadow of Eagle
12) Apollo 15 - Footprints of James Irwin and rover tracks near Station Six
13) Apollo 14 - Mission Commander Alan Shepard shading his eyes and looking toward Cone Crater
14)Apollo 17 - Loose rocks in the foreground in this shot of the South Massif taken from Station Nine
15) Apollo 12 - Reflection of Pete Conrad seen in the visor of Alan Bean at Sharp Crater
16 - 20) Earthrise: Apollo 11 - Earthrise sequence as seen from the Command Module Columbia, 20 July 1969
21) Apollo 15 - Earthrise as seen from lunar orbit
22) Apollo 17 - Jack Schmidt with the Rover at Station Seven
23) Apollo 17 - Up-Sun view of the rover from Station Five
24) Video: Apollo 15 - On-board footage of the rover
25) Apollo 15 - Footprints of James Irwin and rover tracks near Station Six
26) Video: Apollo 15 - 'Hops' up the ladder to the lunar module
27) Video: Apollo 15 - Slow-motion close-up of the Apollo 15 module lift-off
28) Video: Apollo 17 - Lunar module liftoff filmed from a camera mounted on the lunar rover. Ground controllers pre-calculated the required camera movement
29) Video: Apollo 11 - View from the lunar module
30) Apollo 17 - Orbital view from Challenger of the Sculptured Hills
31) Apollo 15 - View of the Tsiolkovsky Crater
32) Apollo 15 - Rough terrain near the lunar south pole
33) Apollo 15 - the Einthoven crater
34) Video: Composite video (with added starscape) from the Galileo probe
35) Apollo 15 - The lunar memorial set up by Dave Scott to honor those astronauts and cosmonauts who had died in pursuit of space exploration. The figurine is entitled 'Fallen Astronaut', and the card lists the names of those who have given their lives. |
