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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- “Chasing the Moon,” a film by Robert Stone, reimagines the race to the moon for a new generation, upending much of the conventional mythology surrounding the effort. The series recasts the Space Age as a fascinating stew of scientific innovation, political calculation, media spectacle, visionary impulses and personal drama. Utilizing a visual feast of previously overlooked and lost archival material - much of which has never before been seen by the public - the film features a diverse cast of characters who played key roles in these historic events. Among those included are astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Frank Borman and Bill Anders; Sergei Khrushchev, son of the former Soviet premier and a leading Soviet rocket engineer; Poppy Northcutt, a 25-year old “mathematics whiz” who gained worldwide attention as the first woman to serve in the all-male bastion of NASA’s Mission Control; and Ed Dwight, the Air Force pilot selected by the Kennedy administration to train as America’s first black astronaut.
Learn more about CHASING THE MOON, including where to watch the full film: www.pbs.org/wgb...
Learn more about CHASING THE MOON, including where to watch the full film: www.pbs.org/chasingthemoon
Please help settle an interpretation dispute over the speaker of a critical phrase -- "do not speak to him do not socialize with him do not drink with him to not invite him over to your house" -- was it Frank Borman or Ed Dwight?
Part 1 of the PBS special ‘Chasing the Moon’ has several clips from Frank Borman which have been quoted in the NY Times as verifying Ed Dwight’s account of a racist directive from Chuck Yeager to shun Dwight while he was at the Aerospace Research Pilot School in 1963.
This appears to be based on a [presumably] innocent editing misstep.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/chasing-moon/#part01 beginning at 1:17:46
Borman: “…It was extremely important to get to the moon ahead of the Russians - beat the Russians” 1:17:46
Immediate cut to Dwight’s voice [similar to Borman’s and NOT identified in subtitle].
“But Yeager, Yeager - he’s a piece of work. Yeager had called in the entire instructor staff, and he announced that white [mem?] were trying to cram an N-word down our throats. If’n Kennedy is using this to make racial equality so do not speak to him do not socialize with him do not drink with him to not invite him over to your house, ah, and in six months he’ll be gone. [1 18 16] [etc]…
to 1:18:16 [switch back to Borman voice] Yeager said, now wait a minute, Dwight’s not doing so well…. [etc]
Politics!
Political correctness
WingNuts on all sides...
See:
Hidden Figures...
My other comments, here...
J.C.
The song captures the grandeur of the moment so well. I try to imagine my parents and grandparents watching this on tv as it happened. Chills.
Perfect music during the launch scene.
Fascinating how these historical moments are updated to fit with modern perspectives. A high schooler in the 2020s sees the moon landings as distant as the Great Depression was to kids born during the space race.
60's people where more advanced thans us. We try hard to do the same today.
The music is nice.
This was so beautifully done. Chills every time.
It actually captures.. A moment.
The reality of man... Or women. Come on??
So glad you feel that way!
The music is amazing..suits the film perfectly
This was a superb documentary series, fascinating, profound and at times very moving. I liked the voice-overs (doubling as interviews) did not take away from the images onscreen. It was appreciated that the background music was just that ...background.....but still did the job ! Wonderful.
7:50 is where it hits
Thank you for the long cuts! So rare these days!
I must have watched the whole thing at least 20 times.... It's spellbinding.
The quotes are incredible and so well suited: "“I had a press pass - and so I was there and had access at 3-4 am and stood by the operations building and watch these three guys walk by on the way to the moon -It is like watching Columbus sail out of port”
“This is just a beginning perhaps of a new stage of the evolution of the species something comparable to crawling of the first amphibian creature out of the primeval swamp on to dry land” - I wish we had some excitement about something--what great language and imagination and helped frame the significance of this epic historical journey.
If we still had the mentalilty of Warner von Braun (and the other German scientists) and all the 400k engineers technicians who were all part of Mercury Gemini Apollo era -- if we kept carrying over their knowledge intellect and never had let that all fall by the wayside because of the shuttle, well, there's no telling where we'd be today in aerospace. I highly doubt we'd STILL be trying to get the SLS off the ground. We never should have stopped advancing the Saturn V. I shudder to think what the Saturn would be like today had we kept going, or what it could do.
Perhaps the best general presentation of the space program ever! It is hard to conceive of the vision, work and sheer genius that went into this incredible feat. I wondered why they included so much from the "why spend money on space when folks are poor" crowd until I realized this was the foundation for the quick demise of manned space flights. History will look back and shake its head at the ease with which emotion, fear and guilt won out. As long as people exist, there will be poor and rich, those with glamorous lives and those with boring ones, those curious about the universe and those who couldn't care less.
smb12321 Eloquently put. 👍🏻
I agree that space exploration is a worthy endeavor and that we were misguided to cut funding for NASA. However, I like that they also explored at least one facet of the controversy about funding since at the time, many people felt that the money would be better spent funding programs to boost education and help people out of poverty.
smb12321 ... I agree with all you say, but also great news today from the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison currently on a goodwill visit with President Trump in Washington, the Australian Federal Government is committing $150 Million to NASA for the continued exploration of the Moon and Mars, and speaking as an Australian taxpayer I'm very happy about that, especially after the Australian Space Agency was just established in July 2018, it's time that Australia got involved with the new Space Race!
@@alanrandall49 Hooray!!! We live in incredible times - wealth, clean air, lots of food and water, low violence, leisure time, free entertainment, instant contract, A/C, et
In the US it seems Dems emphasize R&D and Republicans manned flights. Not sure why (if true) but I'm convinced that a global mission to Mars would united us far more than any "ism" out there. I've noticed the scary trend of a rise of anti-science views by the Left / post-moderns who were once supporters of fact-based conclusions.
@@smb123211 ... The one big worry that we do have is Global Warming and Climate Change, which seems to be getting worse at an accelerating rate, a good example is the earlier onset of wild-fires in California over the last couple of months and the current extensive bush-fires and drought in Sydney and Queensland Australia!
07:47 the Saturn V really was a beast ! and just how the music fits sooo perfect :)
One thing I found personally quite moving was the footage of the sci fi magazines, and artwork of bases on the moon and Mars that really seemed imminent when I was a kid. A time when you could dream about these things being possible. Ah well...
American Moon is an amazing documentary
Yes well done on so much, not something YT wants you to see.... but there is one with a few shills hanging around.
Love this series one of AmericaExperiences best! Great footage, editing, thrilling to watch--we have never matched this as a nation--a shame to lose momentum. Awe inspiring--tear producing!
Dr Wernher Von Braun put first man to the moon. thank you.
Anan Wantana you mean to say the war criminal Wernher von Braun ?
State your fact , what war crime did he commit ?
Heil Von Braun.
@@mikshin9825 "He used force labor..."
No, he didn't do that. He was the chief rocket designer, not the Fuehrer. He was not even in charge of the production of the rockets or the construction of the test facilities.
"....V-2 killed between ....[blah, blah, blah]..."
And, yet, do we blame the designers of the tanks, rifles, machine guns, and aircraft for the deaths inflicted with the weapons they designed? ....No. Name me ONE German, Japanese, Italian weapons designer prosecuted for his work.
"He never showed any guilt for his actions."
Thank you. That's because he was not guilty of any crime. (I think what you meant to say was "remorse". But, the fact is, we NEVER prosecute enemy weapons designers.)
Dont know if he was a war criminal, but a NASA Superstar with lots of praise :)
Even Saturn 5 father nazi Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph was loved. But he did get kicked out.
It Was Real .
thank you very much for sharing this documentary. I bought the french version but couldn't disfrute of the original sound version which were not included in the DVD :(
Badass simply badass
Still breathtaking.
All I can say is WOW!
Wonderful film.
Anybody know what tracking footage was used during the launch scene? I can't find it anywhere.
What is the song playing during the launch?
M83 - wait
This Great Ocean
The NASA publication....
J.C.
Those of us who were there....
Need no "re-imagining" of HISTORY!
For your politics!
Political correctness!
THUMBS DOWN ALL!
J.C.
We altered conditions to suit life. There is no guilt, only pride at fulfilling our destiny as a successful species. We are naturally territorial which means we seek new frontiers.
Dogs or apes? Most Human beings seek better richer lands. You live in the desert? Where have we altered conditions towards life? Star Trek regeneration??
@@narajuna There are literally hundreds of examples but let me give you a personal one. One hundred years ago the centre of Africa was a steaming jungle full of tsetse fly. Then David Livingstone came along and started the movement of colonists seeking their fortunes, and soon farmers ploughed the land for cash crops and in the process the vegetation changed to Savannah, much more suitable for human habitation. The same can be said for most other countries but at different dates.
"We altered conditions to suit life."
Kids Definition of life · 1 : the state characterized by the ability to get and use energy, reproduce, grow, and respond to change : the quality that plants and animals ... There is no LIFE on moon.
A FLY IS LIFE - ANIMAL AND HUMANS DID NOT EVOLVE FROM ROCKS
Everywhere on earth is suited for LIFE.
1984
Re-writing History!
J.C.
Where's the evidence for NASA racial bias against Ed Dwight, the black pilot? While in the USAF "Aerospace Research Test Pilot" school [NOT an 'astronaut school'] Dwight came up before the NASA 'Group 3' astronaut review board in 3rdQ 1963, the top 2 students [of ~15] were picked by NASA [Dave Scott and Ted Freeman]. Dwight admits his evaluation scores weren't that high due to all the weekends away that the White House demanded he do speaking tours stead of studying / practicing. He thought he deserved a pass on his lower grades because the White House wanted him picked no matter what, for symbolic reasons, and because he insisted top-skill test pilots weren't needed anyway since the capsules were continuously remotely-controlled from Houston anyway [which wasn't actually accurate]. The class ended as scheduled in December and the students dispersed to test pilot related assignments, as always planned.
It's featured in the series man.
@@0zblox -- The program editing gives the false impression that Frank Borman was verifying Dwight's claim about Yeager's alleged order for the other students to shun him, but that audio clip was by Dwight himself, not by Borman. Where was NASA ever involved, anyway? I still don't see it.
READ:
The Rocket Team
by
J. Fredrick Ordway....
From The Berlin Rocketflugzplatzen, of 1929 to July 1969 <
HISTORY!
J.C.
It should be noted: when Sputnik went up our poverty rate was 23%. The census reports that in 1969 (moon landing) it was 12.2% despite billions for space. Since then, NASA, on a shoestring budget, has explored the moon, sun, planets, asteroids, launched a space station and two vessels beyond the Solar System and identified thousands of exoplanets.
During this same time we've spent trillions(not billions) to alleviate poverty and the result? After rising in the Obama years we are back to 1969 numbers. You'd think anyone with an IQ > 1 would see the discrepancy and ask, "WHat are we doing wrong?"
Truth!
We had terrible backward deep south type schools in rural Tampa FLA
1956
Sputnik got us NEW SCHOOLS!
USF at an abandoned WWII AAF primary training airbase
New classrooms at my Mango Elementary....
Horace Man Jr. Hi....
( WE boomers were on double sessions!!)
Then a new
Tampa Bay Tech!
For 1970....
Thank you IVAN!
Spacebo!
J.C.
Your iq is less than one. Get with the program, kiddo.
@@TX_BoomSlang Yeah, folks looking for the truth always say, "Get with the program"
Who sang the song “ No Time”
It’s a song by M83 - wait. Great music
1:57
6:00
wow
Don't see why you felt the need to give Ed Dwight so much attention, or to even mention him.
The guy was never good enough to make the grade, and that's all there is to that story.
Pardon my ignorance, but is that a Peter Gabriel song starting around the 6 minute mark?
M83 - Wait
The band is called M83- the song is called Wait and the song that they play on episode 3 during the finale is by the same band, called Outro.
Hey , does anyone know who sings that song in the back round? Because I can almost swear it was Peter Gabriel!!! But, when I looked it up?, It said it was some other guy, that I never heard of?????? Help me out some body? It's killing me!!!!!
(S.O.S.)
Wait - M83
@jiva34 - Looked real enough to me, I was a young adult back then. So you think it’s all a big staged fake? Weird.
Big bang
Always trying to project some guilt: man has left behind the rusty cage that he leaves behind him....I ask you: why does the wilder-beast move on as he grazes? Man is a part of nature just as the wilder-beast....why can’t he use up resources in one area and move on just like other animals?
Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese 🧀😋
neil armstrong was yuri gagarin look at images
Ten....NNiiinnnee.........oooOo../\.oOoooo
fake.............................
Holy Molly. That thing punched straight through the Dome ! Oh wait. There's no such thing.
excellent performed hoax
Somebody please explain to me what NASA or the Apollo program had to do with Ed Dwight's complaints about racism?
Chuck Yaeger's racist comments and the way he was used by NASA.
@@shellius == OK, what way was he 'used; by NASA, for what purpose? I'm still not following you. And what comments do you think he made, based on what witnesses?
@@shellius -- What would it hurt you to spell his name correctly?
The answer, of course, is nothing unless one subscribes to the idea that money for increasing knowledge and exploration should be handed out to folks based on skin color. Space exploration and its contributions - computers, cell phones, materials, etc - have done more to create wealth than all the welfare programs combined.
@@shellius -- I'm presuming you deleted your comment about NASA people saying they heard Yeager say it, in episode 1, because you double-checked and found you had misremembered it, good for you. It happens to all of us.
Amazing how watching that with that soundtrack in the background can bring a lump to a mans throat 50 years later, but.....it seems a rather well kept secret that ..well ..the Nazis helped to put man on the moon, we can only imagine if Von Braun had insisted on the Swastika being planted in place of the the stars and stripes
You sound resentful that the Yanks won the moon race over your team?
If you watch this and your reaction is “they give too much time to the woman” or “there is insufficient evidence of racism against Ed Dwight,” you have some seriously motivated reasoning 😝
"...you have some seriously motivated reasoning. [retarded emoji]."
I'm not sure what "seriously motivated reasoning" quite means. Motivated by ...?!?
....A commitment to factual evidence (which is what a commitment to reason demands)?
To leftards like yourself, the very fact that Ed Dwight was winnowed out from the process (like the VAST MAJORITY of the candidates trying to become astronauts) is sufficient evidence to declare, "It was because of racial prejudice that he was passed over!". ....So, the explanation for all of his other colleagues who were also winnowed out is what, exactly?
Nothing is real. But it makes for a really really great show...
Moron
Nincompoop
Fake moon mission ?
Amazing. How you can watch so much detailed film, & listen to the stories of the monumental people that made this incredible event happen - listen to all their tragedy, heartbreak & victories - & Still.deny it is something that I find pitiful.
@@paulward4268 They have the 'mind set ' of some sort of cult.