THE MOON
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. It's changing moods are part of the human story.
And it seems fitting that the Apollo program, still renown today for its spirit and energy, should have fulfilled the fantasy of centuries and taken humans to the Moon.
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 every other Moon presentation, especially the now disputed "one small step for (a) man" sequence. Instead we've concentrated on less well-known images and audio.
Those images are not in chronological order, but are instead a selection from almost all the Apollo Moon missions. Likewise the audio. It's the spirit that we're trying to capture rather than the specifics of any one mission or event.
For those who do want the exact details, the detailed caption information for each image is presented below.
The music is a version of Franz Biebl's "Ave Maria" played and produced for us exclusively by Richard deHove. If you like the soundtrack it's available as part of our $10 download. The "Moon Pack" contains the short web version of the show; the full sized (and scalable) full length Moon show of 8 minutes with many extra still and video sequences; a long-loop Moon screensaver, an extended MP3 of "Ave Maria" and a selection of wallapers for both single and dual monitors. And of course full caption information to all the images and video.
We think it's an excellent and inspiring download for any Moon lover at just $10. Click here to download now.
And thanks as always to the good folks at NASA who kindly place all their data in the public domain, making this show possible.
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WEB SHOW CAPTIONS:
1) Title screen: 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) In orbit: Apollo 11 - Eagle approaches the command module
3) Descent: Apollo 12 - Intrepid about to descend
4) Surface: Apollo 12 - A view of Intrepid from the Surveyor crater
5) View: Apollo 14 - Mission Commander Alan Shepard shading his eyes and looking toward Cone Crater
6) Rocks: Apollo 17 - View from the eastern side of Camelot Crater
7) Rover: Apollo 17 - Geologist Jack Schmidt and the rover at Station Seven
8) Tracks: Apollo 15 - Footprints of James Irwin and rover tracks near Station Six
9) Reflection: Apollo 12 - Reflection of Pete Conrad seen in the visor of Alan Bean at Sharp Crater
10 - 15) Earthrise: Apollo 11 - Earthrise sequence as seen from the Command Module Columbia, 20 July 1969
16) Tracks: Apollo 15 - Rover tracks with Mount Hadley in the background
17) Lift-off: Apollo 17 - Lunar module liftoff filmed from a camera mounted on the lunar rover. Ground controllers pre-calculated the required camera movement
18) View: Apollo 17 - Orbital view from Challenger of the Sculptured Hills
19) Crater: Apollo 15 - View of the Tsiolkovsky Crater
20) Earth: Apollo 15 - Earthrise as seen from lunar orbit
21) Memorial: 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.
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DOWNLOAD 'THE MOON' & PLAY ANYTIME
If you enjoyed the 'The Moon'web show, then for just $10 you can download the full 8-minute show and a whole lot more...
The $10 Moon Pack contains:
- The original web version of the show to play offline
- The full 8-minute version of The Moon with extra images and video. It runs at 720 x 405 pixels, but can be resized larger or smaller
- Wallpapers for single and dual-monitor systems
- Full captions to all the shows
- A long-play screensaver suitable for both high and low-powered PCs
- A high-quality non-protected MP3 of 'Ave Maria' (full 8 minute version) by Richard deHove
The 'Moon Pack' is a 95Mb download from ShareIt.
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THE MUSIC
The music in this presentation is 'Ave Maria' written by the composer Franz Biebl and played by Richard DeHove. An MP3 version of the full 8-minute track is only available from Frontier Multiamedia as part of 'The Moon' download pack. Richard deHove's album "Worlds Beyond Number" is available online by clicking here. It is also available on iTunes here .
