On a space kick at the moment, saw Apollo 11, Apollo 13 and First Man. Anyone else got some good space movies/documentaries?
Can't believe these madmen actually went to the moon in a rocket in the 60s.
On a space kick at the moment, saw Apollo 11, Apollo 13 and First Man. Anyone else got some good space movies/documentaries?
Can't believe these madmen actually went to the moon in a rocket in the 60s.
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>Gravity
>Interstellar
>Life
From the Earth to the Moon is a very good miniseries on the whole apollo program, only two bad episodes in it.
And watch The Right Stuff.
No. Just no.
Watch The Right Stuff instead
I second from the Earth to the Moon. It's great.
The Reddit Stuff
Unironically, Hidden Figures
Thirding this, which one was your favourite episode anons?
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Spider and That's All There Is (the Apollo 12 episode)
Based user, I'd agree that those two are the best
Hello OP, I'm also on a big space kick over the past year. Take a look at The Right Stuff, it covers the (American) period from breaking the sound barrier through the Mercury flights. The film also features an EXTREMELY formidable ensemble cast of past-and-future sci-fa/sci-fi/thriller actors:
Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard, first American in space (Apocalypse Now, Silence of the Lambs)
Fred Ward as Gus Grissom, second American in space (Tremors)
Ed Harris as John Glenn, third American in space, first to orbit (Apollo 13)
some guy as M. Scott Carpenter, fourth American in space (not depicted in detail in the film)
Lance Henriksen in a minor role as Wally Schirra, fifth American in space and only human to fly all three of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo (not necessary to list other work)
Dennis Quaid as L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., sixth American in space (Enemy Mine, Innerspace)
Veronica Cartwright as Gus Grissom's wife (Alien, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (70s version), The Birds)
Mary Jo Deschanel as John Glenn's wife, who suffers from stammering (had a bit part as Dave Bowman's widow in 2010)
Harry Shearer as NASA recruiter #1 (The Simpsons Godzilla (1998))
Jeff Goldblum as NASA recruiter #2 (not necessary to list other work)
David Clennon as cynical reporter guy (The Thing (1982)
Donald Moffat as Vice Presiden Lyndon Johnson (The Thing (1982), again!)
See what I mean?
First Man is pure concentrated fucking kino. Legit one of the best films ive ever seen
Your name, José Jiménez
For all mankind
Moonshot
The red stuff
Fucking loved Spider.
Ok so Earth to the Moon and The Right Stuff is on my list, looks good. I'm also intermittently listening to the Apollo 8 audiobook at work.
I understand why they did it, but they kicked up the drama when they actually landed in that movie. I saw Apollo 11 later and they were pretty relaxed about it.
Also it had a TON of footage I have no idea existed, I never knew there were so many pictures/videos of that whole event. Definitely recommend that movie to anyone who hasn't seen it.
Fun facts about the North American X-15 (the plane he flies in the beginning) that you didn't know:
The X-15 fleet consisted of three planes: The X-15-1, 2 and 3. Armstrong was the first person to fly the third plane, the X-15-3, and this is the flight which is depicted in the film's beginning. Armstrong was one of only 12 pilots to fly the craft, which performed various hypersonic flights, high-altitude flights, and sub-orbital spaceflights over its career. The three planes were always drop-launched by one of two modified (non-standard) NB-52 carrier ships.
The X-15 went into space either two times, or thirteen times, depending on how you count. The two flights which broke the 100 km altitude barrier (the international standard) were both piloted by Joe Walker, who died a few years later in another plane crash (test piloting is very dangerous work). The other eleven flights topped out above 50 miles (the lower American standard) but never got above 100 km (62 mi). Overall, eleven flights above 50 miles (including the two "real" spaceflights above 100 km) were made by the X-15-3, the plane that Neil debuted, and the other two were made in the X-15-1. Armstrong himself did not fly any of these flights. The X-15-3 was destroyed late in the program, about a year or two before Apollo 11, having just broken the 50 mile mark, killing its pilot Michael Adams.
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user, you should watch the Apollo 12 PDI to touchdown video on youtube-watch them all, in fact. Each crew has their own personality, and while 11 are being very clinical and professional, to the point of being boring, 12 don't have the "first" pressure so they're just having fun with it. In particular, listen to the unreserved, confident joy in Pete Conrad's voice at 10:20 once they pitch over and he's exactly on target, recognizes all features, and knows exactly where he's at. This one is definitely the most "fun" of the bunch.
>I'm also intermittently listening to the Apollo 8 audiobook at work.
I'd also recommend "Into that Silent Sea" if only for the chapter where John Glenn tries to have a barbecue for a visiting Gherman Titov and proceeds to burn his garage down.
Twelve's crew were definitely the closest and I agree with the fun part. I actually got to meet Al Bean shortly before he died and he really was an absolutely great guy.
kubricks best work, the moon landing
>Apollo 11 will never screen in your country
AHHHHHHHHHHHH
Are there torrents for Apollo 11 yet? I've also been on a moon landing hype and watched everything else mentioned here except 'The Right Stuff' which is now on my list
Looks good. Just as the Americans are making First Man the Russians compete with their own space movie.
Just like the good old days
Yes
nice, that's my Friday night sorted then
ikr :
"A funny thing happened on the way to the moon"
you can find it on youtube. everything else is meaningless
Best crew: 12
Worst crew: 14
Capricorn One unironically
Bros...
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Agreed. t. guy who posted that
Name a greater human achievement than the Saturn V. I would've loved to have seen it launch in person. its so FUCKING HUGE
>Can't believe these madmen actually went to the moon in a rocket in the 60s
nobody with a brain can
The Right Stuff is required space kino.
Btw, this was from Apollo 8 and they were doing a radio broadcast from the moon on Christmas day. It produced the famous picture 'Earth Rise', pic related.Funny how they went all the way to the moon and the Earth is the most captivating thing...
I'll just leave this here.
I'll just leave this here, too.
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How's the jaw, Bart? Still butthurt everyone knows you're a liar now?
I wonder how the idea of docking was broached for the first time.
>let's split the rocket in two while in space, spin it around and and connect them again
>great idea bob
Liar about what, faggot?
you seriously think they went to the moon in the late 60s?
oh man lmao
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pls tell me you don't believe this is real
In early designs, they actually did want to land a rocket all-at-once on the lunar surface
Thanks Mr Aldrin
>I wonder how the idea of docking was broached for the first time.
Watch From The Earth to The Moon, they discuss it in Episode 5
Rather early around the time of space rendezvouz.
Neat I wish I saved more of these I have some charts but mostly just stuff related to the astronaut themselves.
wtf did they leave the camera man on the moon?
was this supposed to be real?!
Better than When We Left Earth?
yea wtf there's no electrical outlets to plug the cameras in, are they so retarded they thought we'd believe this?
>tfw neoliberal free-market capitalism has won
>tfw there's no opposing economic system to force the United States into achieving the glorious technological achievements of the Apollo program
>tfw we'll never land a man on Mars in our lifetime because the world's only superpower can't be arsed to do it
My favorite NASA project outside of Mercury/Gemini/Apollo.
>imagine thinking technology had a golden age instead of always being built on
>and that there's this magic technology that worked in the 70s to the point we could reach the moon but we no longer can replicate 60 years later
heh
Watch the video I linked, retard. "muh round windows" doesn't hold up, Bart knew this and still tried to lie to people about it.
Personal incredulity is not an argument. What about it suggest it's fake?
Apparently no one told NASA that or else this chart would've included post-Apollo projects and astronaut groups.
It just looks amazingly sexy.
>we no longer can replicate 60 years later
Absolutely could if there was budget and political will for doing it. Massive rockets aren't cheap.
>technology had a golden age instead of always being built on
You realise we used to have commercial supersonic flights? They no longer exist. The factories and tools used to make the Concorde have been destroyed. Does that make the Concorde fake?
so did they come back for the camera man?
The Martian. It's a documentary on mars. Very scientific and informative
>flying planes are the same as moon landings
quality debate
those are sci-fi
and bad sci-fi
>wireless broadcast cameras didn't exist in the 70s
best launch scene
They said they were going back for some cigarettes, he's still waiting up there.
You're right, they're even easier to pull off than moon landings, which only helps my argument: if supersonic commercial flights were possible 20 years ago, why do they no longer exist? Was the Concorde even real?
>60 years without going to the moon or even close
>w-we simply don't have the political will!
>60 year old tech is very expensive!
top keks really
>avoiding the moon landing subject
these fellas at nasa need better shills
The classic era isn't classic just because it was replaced by less exciting shuttles and low orbit missions. It's about people as well, although there were some old-timers who were NASA test pilots and were members of astronaut groups 6 and higher, generally the first 55 men chosen by NASA between 1959-1966 had to posses specific qualities, talents, character. Tailor-made for those rockstar missions even the "scientist" group. They were trained differently, they lived differently. They were never more special.
Of course again even later groups had some stars like Story Musgrave but those were mostly the last of their kind.
>moon
Moon was alright. It has Sam Rockwell in it.
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but how did they control the pan and zoom?
With buttons most probably.
>Ed Fendell in Houston had to anticipate the timing of ignition, lift-off, and the rate of climb, to control the camera tilt to follow the ascent
In the video description. They landed on the moon. You think they couldn't figure out how to tilt a camera?
I think he didn't know that cameras could be manipulated from the mission control room and though that it was some gigantic Ed Wood-tier oversight on the part of NASA filmmakers who were moving cameras on the supposedly deserted Moon.
21 minutes in, you can clearly see the window is square and the Earth is far away.
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>massive rockets get much cheaper because 50 years have passed
Why? What makes modern rockets so much more efficient? Propulsion tech doesn't advance at the same rate as microprocessors you realise.
>avoiding the moon landing subject
How so?
From Houston.
>Great thread about moon kino
>Autist turns up and thread degenerates into arguing over the most tired, stupid conspiracy theory of all time
For fucks sake
Good graphic, right down to the applicable (and not) call signs of craft. One obvious improvement: include the LMs, further improvement, include the X-15 flights, further further improvement, indicate missions with EVAs vs. not. Specifically, the best way to conceptualize the first era of American manned spaceflight involves a few different intervals.
First mission - last mission: Mercury-Redstone 3-Apollo-Soyuz (as is well-shown in your graphic). This entails
Timeline: 1961-1975.
Almost-all if not all of the men in your graphic came from FIVE ASTRONAUT GROUPS, The the first five such classes selected by NASA for human spaceflight. New astronaut groups continue to be selected on a regular basis. One of the best parts about First man is how it lets us get to know one of the forgotten astronauts, Elliot See, a little bit, before he dies. You can play a good quiz on these 55 guys, here:
Same as threads about The First Man with discussions about the single most boring topic related to space or the movie itself. The artificial controversy.
you didn't watch the first 10 apollos? and you skipped 12?
>Apollo II
whats so special about this mission? I dont remember this film
I know a lot about it but the design has always just looked weird to me. Sort of ugly/squat thing, in a way.
They painted it pink a few times (ablative coating), to the annoyance of the pilots.
What's wrong with apollo 12 user? I thought it was okay
You fucking retard, that was the first mission to land on the moon. The first 10 missions were tests and flybys.
some guys took a ride in a rocket or something idk
Thats Apollo XI, retard
I found it, noticed it didn't have some people who were selected so I hastily expanded on it. Not too happy but I don't have any software anyway. For X-15 I only collected the same type of photo for all 12 pilots with them standing in or in front of the plane fully suited.
I know about this quiz because I autistically played it over and over until I stopped forgetting about Jerry Carr. One of the things later NASA groups (because of the payload specialists and just how long the shuttle program was) or the Soviets (again the length but also because they liked to form groups and only consider one pilot to ever fly a mission) didn't have was that we can easily determine when the period starts and ends and it's also neatly organized into groups. 22 are still alive the last who passed away was Owen Garriott a couple weeks ago.
Another thing that I saved was Apollo "movie" posters. The problem was that one was missing so I had to make it myself. Not the worst effort but it's noticeable it's not as good as the rest. Posting the whole set.
>y-you have also autistically compiled details on who's still alive an who's not
let's be friends.
Moon shot is cool. as is the moon machines documentary series
I have one of Al Bean's paintings, can I join the club?
I think Spacewalker is a really good one, I'm definietly recommending it.
Pretty cool, have you got these in a higher resolution?
I really shouldnt be the first one to rec 2001
I made several lists. Their flying hours (James Irwin outclassed everybody by a longshot), wars (Ron Evans the only one who served in Vietnam), retirement dates (last Vance Brand in 2008) and so on. Also, and that's the most shameful, when I was bored at work I made a list of astronauts still alive and aranged them based on whose death would be the most noticeable/shocking to the public. If I remember Buzz was first and Don Lind last. It's mostly boredom but seriously I like reading books about men more than technical stuff just like I love the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.
Commendable autism, impressive.
No, and when I had to make the one that was missing it was difficult to make out what that was written at the bottom. It's all from various blogs and stuff like Space Daily, Insert Space, Le Voyage dans la Lune and Tough and Competent. I save a bunch of gifs and pics but this is a job for years and it's not even nearly done.
He painted with moon dust (with tools he used on the Moon). We're lucky we got a painter on the Moon. Shame about CC though.
2001 fuckin sucks, one of the most overrated films of all time. Oh look, half an hour of absolutely nothing happening in slow motion! So artful!
I disagree
Fair enough, they're still awesome and I'm saving them all
I know, I've got one of them hanging up on my wall
I found uniform, high-quality traverse maps recently.
I knew Yea Forums is the place to go. Space threads suck on /his/ (probably, I haven't been then in a long time). And by suck I mean that they get no replies. Not enough questions if Hitler could've won against USSR.
Agreed, they're some of the most comfy threads on here
Speaking of Apollo 13 there's a video showing the rotating CM with all the damage. Pretty neat.
Apollo 18. The sequel of Apollo 13.
*SM
>not making a nu-cover with nothing but the outline of a golf club
Scott was the most "proper" commander since Neil Armstrong. Even chose the right things to say. Perfect for what's unofficially regarded as the most successful mission (probably relative to the objectives as A17 is still the best and A12 the funniest).
Not so much a movie/documentary, but Aqua Teen Hunger Force, particularly the Space-cataz story arc.
what do these things actually show?
>"hey, what's Apollo 16 known for?"
>"Dunno, astronauts falling down, John Young farting..."
>"Let's just show the Rover again"
We end it with the guy who nearly killed himself twice during his career and it's a miracle his skills weren't questioned unlike Grissom (briefly) and Carpenter.
Nah I like Cernan he was a success.
Scott has some interesting stats:
-first place (no ties) for most EVAs performed during Apollo program, 5: (9, LEO stand-up, 15, only solo EVA and only stand-up only without actual walking on Lunar surface, 3 moonwalks/drives).
-something else I want to look into is during the nine moonwalk EVAs of 15-17, did the CDR and LMP perform solo and/or driver/passenger drives with the LRV (did the CDR always deploy/drive first or was that deferred in some cases to the LMP?)
-open questions:
-Crash site of Eagle's ascent stage
-Crash site of Snoopy's descent stage
-Crash site of Orion's ascent stage
-orbital location of Snoopy (ascent stage).
It's clear he was considered to be one of the best in his class (we don't know how he was ranked overall, Cunningham gave him rather high marks). My guess is he was somewhere in the top 3 with Collins and Bassett.
Where, exactly, the astronauts walked in relation to their surroundings and the LM. Basically walking and driving around craters and hazards, while never straying too far from the LM.
Apollo 11: one moonwalk, baby steps, getting the hang of it.
Apollo 12: two moonwalks, surveying the territory and acquiring Surveyor.
Apollo 14: two moonwalks.
Then things really start ramping up with the LRV.
Apollo 15: three moonwalks (and one lunar stand-up), begin using LRV to get several klicks away from the LM and do real exploring.
Apollo 16: three moonwalks, same profile.
Apollo 17, three moonwalks, same profile.
For All Mankind is the greatest space documentary with the greatest score
based Eno
Something else that interests me: it looks like on Apollo 17 EVA 2, at their furthest point out, that's the furthest that a human being has ever traveled away from their spacecraft (moonwalk, spacewalk or otherwise) on an EVA in space, I'd like to button that one down (as a fact).
>one helmet that looks different than other is also the one that we will never see on the Moon
This sucks and there aren't even any photos of Jim Lovell wearing it. He had a different one during training and he added the stickers right before the flight.
Nice, I like Eno so this is a double treat
But I know Collect Space took the best possible shot from the mission footage of I think Fred Haise holding it. I don't know much else despite my autistic interest I still have limited resources. Some books from the Outward Odyssey series and such maybe 20 in total but I couldn't find Carrying the Fire and I heard it's one of the best. Thankfully I read that it's gonna be published in my country sometime in July so fingers crossed.
Apollo is one of Eno's most popular albums but surprisingly few people seem to realise it was music made for a documentary
in reality a bunch of tracks from the album ended up not being used and music from Music For Films II and III ended up in the score instead but yeah, the score for For All Mankind is about 80% Brian Eno tracks
>flies with Gus aboard the Molly Brown
>names his ships fun names like Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Caspar, not some gay Greek shit
>curses and has a good time on the moon
>flies to the moon twice, becomes first man to fly solo around the moon because everyone else is too scared to do it
>agrees to fly the death trap Shuttle on its maiden voyage but shuts down stupid idea for an even more death-defying manuever
>divorces, re-marries, successfully reproduces
The Chad John Young vs. the Virgin Armstrong:
Still looking for a way I could watch Searching for Skylab.
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As this user mentioned, "from the earth to the moon" is an excellent 6 part series from 2008.
This youtube channel has a lot of great promotional videos directly from nasa at the time the launches were happening. Doesn't get more authentic than this although they are a little dated and corny at times.
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Apollo 11 has great visuals, but In the Shadow of the Moon is still the best Apollo documentary out there in terms of heart and firsthand stories from the men themselves.
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There is also a largely unknown PBS documentary series from 1994 titled Moonshot.
Its based on Deke Slaytons and Alan Shephards book of the same name, narrated from the perspective of Slayton.
It features interviews with many astronauts that passed away shortly after, like Pete Condrad. Every interview with him is pure gold
It's good. I wish I knew where to get "Deke!" it seems like the prime sourcebook.
Get yourself a telescope, remove the lens from a cheap webcam and begin exploring the Moon yourself. It's fascinating.
Rare clip with Pete Conrad from MOONBUG
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I wish I could find MOONBUG online.
It look really insightful, although the interviews were done with a camcorder in 1998.
On a full Moon I think about all the stuff that's still there. Looking directly at them but of course not seeing.
These men were true heroes, real life supermen.
You could make a epic First Man-type biopic about every single one of them.
They definitely have lived their lives to the max.
All that money wasted on the moon could've been used to feed millions of starving people.
Looks remarkably new. He died 20 years ago I keep considering him one of the guys who died early before they were managed to be interviewed in HD as old men for some documentary. But here it is. For one of the biggest jokesters he seemed awfully quiet after his career I only know of a handful of interviews with him. But these guys can change, suddenly Rusty Schweickart started appearing eveywhere after being mostly a recluse. Only Frank Borman still doesn't give a fuck about space.
It probably was. Clearly didn't help.
Snapped this a few years ago with my 200mm lens
For All Mankind is absolute kino, with a soundtrack composed by Brian Eno that has been used numerous times in other films. Definitely a must see for any space enthusiast.
The fist 30 minutes of Apollo 11 are straight up porn though
>the rocket on its way to the pad
>all those glorious shots of the Saturn V on the pad
>lots of really cool shots of the crowd
>badass sweeping shots of the numerous rows of computers and instruments in the control room
>that shot of the launch from more or less directly below
>the shot of the Saturn Vs vapor cone as it undergoes max q
>that shot of the third stage ignition for the translunar injection maneuver
>that inside the capsule shot of the sun rising over the horizon of the Earth during the translunar injection maneuver
The whole thing was just gorgeous. For All Mankind is more comfy, still beautiful at times, but its much older so its got that grainy feel to it.
the pc you're using could feed a few. get on with it, faggot.
>John Young kino when?!
Yet they can't do it today.
Wierd.
Well The First Man just barely made its money back. Not too soon. Maybe a show about Deke Slayton and his career. All these shows and movies that can even act like some cinematic universe and none showed the grand finale of his long personal journey that was so symbolic. I'd like another series like From the Earth to the Moon but this time going all the way until ASTP.
> Wasted on the moon
t. dumb nigger
Yes lets just sit on planet earth, fucking out some mutt mudball babies and catch a bad case of "extinct" by the first asteroid that hits us.
I think a John Young kino focusing almost entirely on his spaceflight career could work because every stupid asshole with an inability to focus would be nonstop captivated by mission after mission, as opposed to “bored” like they were with first man, which was not boring. Plus it gives an excuse to show different rocket launches and vehicles extensively.
Didn't one rather large asteroid barely miss us (in relative cosmic terms) but what's the scariest is that we didn't know about it until right before it did? That's very unsettling especially because we know that destroying such things is more difficult than we thought.
Last month a pretty decent sized asteroid had a 2.7% chance of impact for a bit, thats pretty crazy when you think about it. Im pretty sure Nick Bostrom (maybe im mixing it up) calculated that at some point thousands of years in the future a massive comet traveling at an insane rate of speed will have a 1% chance of impacting the earth, and if it did, would fucking destroy everything. We need to get our shit together with the impact stuff.
This is definitely a topic that interests me more through documentaries, the suggestions so far have been good, but how about Salyut 7 and 2001 a space odessy or operation avalanche?
I haven't seen the right stuff yet.
Money won't solve the human condition.
Those people are starving because they won't stop fucking, or learning what the Romans learned centuries ago: to pull out.
Why should a people enable destructive behavior to a species that is incapable of identifying its failure and fixing it?
This is why creating more resources wouldn't work. Thanos was fighting an idea.
>there's a movie about Salyut
OwO what's this
last bump. If it dies it dies I never had more fun in those space threads I'm sure I'll be back for more.
I wish I would've seen Apollo 11 at the kinoplex
I made a point of getting it done before it was gone, very nice time. Old quiet white couples who were engaged, understood everything that was going on, and kept their mouths shut except for the appropriate sensible chuckle and audible gasp at the right moments. Great screening, white people are awesome.