Apollo 9 - Three To Make Ready (1969)
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- Опубликовано: 3 дек 2011
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Astronauts: James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott, and Russell L. Schweickart Stresses the testing of the Lunar Module, the spacecraft that will land men on the Moon. Featured are sequences of launch, the successful rendezvous, EVA, and Earth terrain. These photographs of the Earth terrain become dividends from space.
JSC-500 - (1969) - 22 Minutes
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One of my favorite Apollo missions. Anyone who grew up in the 70’s, 80’s should remember watching these type films in elementary school on the reel to reel projector. Watching this with the music and narrator brings back good memories.
Often overlooked and sometimes misunderstood mission - it was a great success and paved the way every bit as much as Apollo’s 8 and 10. 😎
And it was a damn dangerous mission, as was 10.
Im
I was presented with the "Snoopy Award" at Rockwell's Downey, CA plant by the Apollo 9 crew, still have pictures. Snoopy awards were given for job performance and 16 mm short movies were sent to home town TV stations. I recognized a number of NASA administrators and other notables in the mission control scenes. Apollo 9 mission went well.
The observations of Earth and of human activity -- like pollution -- were a truly new perspective in 1968-69 and in keeping with the "consciousness-raising" provided by Apollo 8's "earthrise" pictures. The first Earth Day took place in 1970, just over a year later.
Great mini-documentary. Brings back memories of following all the advancements as a kid, and watching it develop into the space program that brought us to the moon. It was the golden age of space exploration.
And anyone who thinks it was all a hoax needs to have their head examined and realize we were a whole lot smarter then than you jerks are now.
It was truly a glorious time to be a kid and absorbing all the technological achievements as they made every test and triple checked all the systems as they were built.
Thanks for bringing it back to all of us who grew up watching this.
You can hear the narrator's excitement and that kid like absorption of what's going on to the choice of his words. One man spacecraft, front porch etc ... And also the astronauts. I'm photographing everyone who's taking a photograph. Beautiful
Brings back many childhood memories watching the flights of Gemini & Apollo.
What a voice... I can listen to the narrator all day long...
It sounds like Walter Cronkite.
@@stewban007 It's not Cronkite. It may be Ken Nordine "King of the Voice-Overs". Check out the Voyager video on Vintage space. (link below) That's his voice. And it's almost identical. It may be the same voice, just slightly different film playback speeds or clarity on the audio. Ken Nordine is also well-known for his "Word Jazz" recordings.
ruclips.net/video/NPEEQm7bzcI/видео.html
Plamenoyd Yep! He has that deep Bill Kurtis-like voice.
@@BoilerBloodline Voices were trained for radio back then. Understand, TV was really only 20 years old and it used live voice narration a lot.
u2mister1 Too bad such voice training is no longer around. Such voices truly make the program.
Apollo 9 lacked the Christmas Eve wonder of 8 or the heart stopping history making of 12, but 9 was crucial and a spectacular success.
They didn't mention the fact that the astronauts had a terrible time in the docking maneuver. They chased the module around again and again before finally figuring it out. It is not simple to dock, it is not linear.
The first half of Apollo 9 was a nearly flawless series of Lunar Module tests. The second half was a hint of the Skylab missions to come. What a wonderful confluence of space eras!
Awesome old school video. Love it!
Amazing video. Even though the mission was just as important (if not more) in comparison with other Apollo flights, I've always underlooked Apollo 9, but after seeing this, I can say that I will no longer do that. The mission had some pretty interesting elements. First time the CSM was docked with the LM, first time the CM hatch was opened in space enabling David Scott to do a marvelous EVA (in which his red helmet was simply gorgeous, it gave class to the activity) along with the LM distancing and later approaching the CSM like it was returning from the lunar surface. Closing with these outstanding background songs, it gave the flight even more leverage and importance.
IronMan, check out the late 90s miniseries From The Earth To The Moon for an episode devoted to Apollo 9 and all the firsts they accomplished. It's a great series.
@@bc1969214 LOL... you beat me on the draw with that one. FTETTM is an excellent series, and episode 5 "Spider", the one we're both referring to, is probably the best of the lot.
@@bc1969214 Yes my friend, I already saw it and I keep watching regularly, that is a damn fine series! Tom Hanks, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer worked their asses off to portray the Apollo era to its maximum extent and detail.
IronMan93 I too have the FTETTM series which I have watched over and over since it’s release in 1998. I think both Apollo’s 9 and 10 have been sort of over looked in the history books. Apollo 9 because it came right after the historic Apollo 8 mission, and Apollo 10 because it came right before Apollo 11.
I was asked on another thread recently to list my favorite Apollo missions in order, and here is what I put: 8, 11, 13, 12, 15, 14, 10, 17, 7, 9, 16.
???? How did RS get outside of the LM?
Thank you Von Braun.
@EnZed And a hero to the Allies. He convinced Hitler to pour tons of scarce war resources into a V2 program of no military value when they could have built more tanks, fighters, or bombers.
@@SpottedSharks von Braun had his own ambitions that really had nothing to do with Hitler's. He only signed up to the Nazi party as an end to a means, his personal ideology was totally different. So yes, his efforts did re-direct resources and indirectly assist in the downfall of Hitler, as you said, but I doubt that it was his basic reasoning.
The exhaust on that rocket is crazy big.
My uncle was part of the team that designed the life support systems for the LEM.
Whats lem
@@onthenarrow Lunar Excursion Module.
@@8avexp so basically he put a whole bunch of cardbox models together ..
@@onthenarrow All I know is, he put in long hours at the Grumman plant in Bethpage. Sadly, he passed away in 2000.
@@8avexp apologies my friend i dont mean to troll like that
The most interesting thing is that the ascent stage of the Lunar Module stayed in orbit until late 1981.
Really, I didn't know that.
The translunar S-IVB boosters are still in heliocentric orbit, somewhere.
The full Saturn stack had enough thrust to send the lunar missions outside the Earth-Moon system altogether and out of the solar system, actually. Of course, that power wasn't fully used for a manned mission.
@@bostonseeker most of them. A couple were flown into the moon to test seismic arrays left behind by previous missions. The found out that the moon rings like a bell.
I doubt that it orbited that long. The lunar module had 3 million parts, all made of cardboard and tinfoil which is not as durable as you may think.
@@paultweedlie3697, you're right, but in the vacuum of space, there was nothing to cause any wear on it. This LEM ascent stage reentered in August of 1980 or 1981. I remember is on the CBS news at the time.
Inspiring!
Jim McDivitt was another great astronaut who ran afoul of the Paladins of the Pad, Shepard and Slayton. But he was a cussed fighter and took over the Apollo Spacecraft management and fought back with all his considerable intellectual strength. If not for him, there would not have been an Apollo 15, 16, and 17. He gave up his shot to command a lunar landing mission because he was a far better man and an infinitely better astronaut than Shepard or Slayton. Those two, and Nixon, killed the Apollo program and essentially manned space exploration up until now. McDivitt was adamantly opposed to the worthless Space Shuttle and he was right.
Agree. I particularly don’t see what people see/seen in Shepard! He had a total of 15 minutes in space without reaching orbit velocity and yet he through his weight around to get a commander role in 14. More talented and higher skilled astronauts missed out or got put back because of it. No respect for that or Shepard
Thank you👍🇳🇿
Wernher von Braun is one of my greatest idols!!!
He was a Nazi and was responsible for the death of many slave labor
3:35
Damn. I never realized how much the S-IVB actually vented. It's practically constant!
6:34
Little fun fact about the descent engine: The throttle valve was designed so that, under almost any failure mode, it would always fail OPEN. If this stuck open throttle was detected the landing would be immediately aborted. Imagine it as if you're in a car backing a trailer into a lake and suddenly the car is going full speed away from the lake. It's not a great situation but it's better than plowing into the lake/crashing into the lunar surface.
10:00
After the descent engine has done its job and faithfully carried the LM to the surface, the crew thanks it by (sometimes) partially crushing it under them LEM when they land. This happened on 17 and (I think) one other mission.
15 bell was dented
CaribSurfKing1
Ah, thank you.
+Jonah Beale (RCFlyer) Dave Scott was freaked out about blow back, so he immediately cut the engine on 15, so it was the highest vertical velocity when the pads hit of all 6 landings and the back leg went into a small crater ( which lowered the engine bell even further into the surface ). Still 15 is greatest location and mission in my book! Best ascent video as well!
The "venting" you are referring to was the planet earth rushing by below.
Slippin' the surly bonds of Earth 😎
High Flight
Muito legal! O que pouca gente sabe é que a União Soviética tb tinha seu programa para a lua o Zond mas como tiveram problema com o foguete N1 desistiram da lua e se concentraram em suas estações espaciais.
Si.
The spherical interior form is the fuel tank. It has a curved top to better withstand the interior pressure
Damned ambitious
So many specific questions I've asked about this mission have always been ignored.
Likely because they were such stupid rhetorical questions
37rainman
What kind of a reply is that?....given that you don't even know what questions he has.
@@37rainmanmoron
That open hatch at 8:28 was amazing. I didn't know that was ever opened in space.
It was, beautifully done. And with David Scott's red helmet it became even better.
Actually it was opened at almost all Apollo missions on the way back to "home".
The reason is, that there were instruments and test equipment mounted at the outside of the service module. One astronaut had to go out and bring them in before the CSM seperation was done before landing.
@@kallewirsch2263 J missions only (15-17). 10 through 14 the CM main hatch was shut from lift off to splash down, as the same as 7 and 8.
@@richardvernon317 The deep space EVAs are eerily more fascinating compared to landing on the Moon.
very interesting in this Apollo-9 thanks to NASA !
+Yln Murthy ==> Right ! :)
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Thanks NASA for taxing the American people and spending much of your $20 billion annual budget on Hollywood props and Photoshop.
@@paultweedlie3697 You are an idiot.
Loved the funky 60's drums. What happened to the module and lander?
Imagine the footage if we'd done Mercury,Gemini & Apollo in this era. McDivitt passed on Apollo 8 for this little feast of test flying.
The USNS Vanguard was in mid Atlantic supporting this mission.
I was 12 when this mission was launched remember it ,im 66 now. Time moves faster than you think
Probably the most important lead up mission before 11.
Just a few months after I was born 👍
This was an earth-orbit mission so it wasn't as "sexy" as the lunar flights, but those lunar flights couldn't have been accomplished without the success of Apollo 9. So many necessary "firsts" were demonstrated on this flight.
Must understand the module thing I've forgotten what it's called already
If it weren't for the fact I know this is a NASA production, the music for some space sequences makes it almost like 2001: A Space Odyssey at times.
It's the Blue Danube waltz.
Weird music in this. But at least not the usual 60's/70's sinister "space music" they often used in film
Reminds me of Space: 1999.
@darthfurious80 The top of the S4B engine(3rd stage of Apollo rocket. They show them leaving away from it shortly afterwards.
Music from lost in space,perhaps?
Rest in Peace James McDivitt 🙏 Died last Year 😢 age 95
So, yeah, Houston.... This thing marked "docking probe".... We need to keep this? Chuck it... Roger....
And that ladies and gentlemen is how "we " earthlings got to the moon and back in one piece ) Pity there isn't more in depth narration regarding the testing backed up with photos / drawings or videos .
These mission films were only a short summary of the flights for the public NASA filmed every stage of testing, research & training, & produced Huge amounts of more in depth film explaining everything.in detail. It was all freely available.
Is the descent stage still orbiting?
Those astronauts have balls the size of coconuts and are as cool as a cucumber in incredibly stressful situations, performing technically and physically demanding tasks that most of us couldnt do with both feet on the ground. Hats off to the best of the best.
True, but you have to look at it in historical terms of the day. Most of the early Apollo crews were all either military or test pilots and the Vietnam war was in full swing at the time so if they hadn't been in Florida, they may well have been in Asia getting shot down by the Viet-Cong.
Being an astronaut was potentially safer and turned you into a celebrity. Sort of win-win really.
@@poruatokin... if you didn't die in the process!
Any idea why they launched on a Saturn V versus a Saturn 1B for a LEO mission?
All-up testing. The point was to send Saturn V-Apollo to the Moon, so Apollo 9 was also the first test of all the hardware atop the giant rocket.
I don’t have the balls to be alone in the LEM in earth orbit. You’re trapped: you can’t get home in an emergency
I agree, pretty flapping dangerous, no heat shield. It took a lot of guts to fly in the lunar module in earth orbit!
Big difference now. Instead of a huge battleships grey control console taking up a huge amount of space in the capsule ( electro-mechanical switches and relays are bulky), we'll have multi-function touch screens which take up almost no space. Instead of bulky checklist books, a few tablets will do the trick (with some backup paper manuals in case they get broken).
Of course there would be a difference now, that's kind of obvious. But to think that we accomplished all this with absolutely cutting edge 1960's tech is an amazing thought when you consider that it's been more around 50 years since! For example, "computers" in the 1960's, were giant beasts that took up large rooms, consumed enormous amounts of power and cooling, and that took hours to process problems. Yet, we had not one, but two computers onboard Apollo, one in the CM, and one in the LM. In contrast to the room-sized computers of the era, the Apollo computers only took up 70 watts each and were maybe the size of a couple of shoe boxes each. The two primary computers were incredibly advanced. Our first foray into "modern" computing with integrated circuits. 72 KB of programs, data, and work space, and in that they crammed a fly by wire system so that the computer could buffer the astronaut's flight inputs, a fault tolerant OS that could drop low priority tasks and keep high priority tasks running, fast reboot with no data loss in the event of an error, and more. While the computer was capable of running all phases of the mission completely independent of ground navigational support, it was relegated to more a backup role because at the time, people were unwilling to stake their lives on such a bleeding edge design.
Before the Garn Scale, there was the Rusty Scale.
Sì vede lontano un km che sono video montati a dok........ mi spiegate come mai per ammarare ci vanno tre grandi paracaduti con velocità di rientro molto Ridotta mentre per allunaggio velocità 38000 ombrellino di Meri Poppins???
The balls on these fellows!
Apollo 9: wet dream of any test pilots
Great video but who was responsible for the music on these old NASA videos? It's so intrusive!
Apollo 9. Is. My. Favourite. Mission
Peter Jones my favorite Apollo mission was Apollo 8.
I'm an 8 guy
Here is my ranking of the Apollo missions from favorite to least favorite: 8, 11, 13, 12, 15, 14, 10, 7, 9, 17, 16.
keith espinoza
I think I'm with you on that ranking!!! I looked at 10 and thought that should get a better ranking, but it's tough to put it ahead of any of the ones above it. Maybe I'd move 10, 15, and 14 around in that cluster depending on which I've read about most recently. And maybe I'd flip 16 and 17 only because of the fart talk on the hot mic.
I'd like to get into a heated sports talk radio style debate over this!!! (Stephen a. Smith style...)
Michael Lorge yes, I agree there could be some shuffling in that15, 14, 10 cluster. Unfortunately the history books have sort of skipped over 10, which was a very important mission. 16 is at the bottom, for me personally, only because it came right after my brother was killed in an accident, so I really wasn't paying attention to that mission.
Jim McDivitt 1929-2022
At 9:24 that’s Galveston bay on earth.
Henry Salinas yup, you can clearly see Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston Island
Who's the CAPCOM next to Deke at 6:46?
Irwin
I found it - Stu Roosa. One flight before 😉.
Ah...that makes sense. Thanks!
Who is the narrator. Sounds like Christopher Glenn, but his Wikipedia page says nothing about this.
I love how basic the graphics were in these 1960s NASA videos, and yet some say they could have faked the footage of the lunar missions.
The conspiracy theory about faking the footage does not propose NASA using CGI. 😂
Seeing that and thinking about flying to Mars in that reminds me of that episode with the two astronauts and one keeps farting......
"Stop doing that!! "
Zoomer30 That's funny.
It was a Gemini capsule that had been planned for Mars.
At that time the USA was waging a war in Vietnam and sending men to the space.It 's amazing the power of that country.What is left of that country now?.
they said they sent the S IV b away, does that mean they manually deorbited it ?
The S-IVB engine was triggered remotely from the ground, similar to how stages on later missions were remotely directed to crash into the moon.
They refired the J-2 and put it into orbit around the sun
"We're getting ready to dock, very precise moment, need to conce- OH MY GOD! Rusty just yacked all over the windows! Oh man it's in my mouth"
Red rover red rover come over.
I think you had to say Uh... between every other word
It's almost ubiquitous in pilots and ATC bods.
16:14 min. White UFO (tic-tac type) on THE left...!!!!!!! (Hovering above THE water)
Helicopter.
No...!!! NOT THE grey/Greenish helicopter on THE right...I AM TALKING ABOUT THE BRIGHT WHITE (NO ROTOR AND NO BLADES) TIC TAC TYPE UFO COMING INTO THE SCREEN FROM THE LEFT AT 16:14 UNLESS YOU THINK IT IS A BUOY THAT CAN HOVER IN MID AIR LOL
Okay boomer
@@prestonb.f. because they are
The "grey-greenish thing" is a ship, possibly a carrier. The white "UFO" is clearly a helicopter. Keep taking the medicine, seems like you missed a few.
I wonder what was the purpose of putting that obviously Super-Fake video of the Earth in there from 10:24 to 10:55???
@CrewPostor Not CGI. Just obviously models. But there's lots of that in this video. Why not use real footage, why fake stuff?
@@theconspiracydentist Your brain is the only thing that's fake around here.
@@theconspiracydentist That's Earth, dingbat.
This is to EDUCATE Agent X Security: the "whole globe" is not visible because they only went a couple of hundred miles up. They didn't leave Earth orbit. You can't see the whole globe until you get about 50,000 miles out. There, have you learned anything?…. Also, TRY USING PUNCTUATION SOMETIME!
For all the nonbelievers. Those animations are the quality for making fake video stuff in 60's. Did the landings look like that?
Find out what 4 did
Apollo 4 was the was the first uncrewed test flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle.
Mighty Men; awesome God.
Brave men, there is no empirical evidence of God.
Spoilt by the music,,
Is Obama out taking credit for this too ?
Meaning what? He was 8?
Dumb comment
Mike Btrfld yep, absolutely
Hey! people, how you can believe that?
Very simple. It happened. All any moon hoaxer has ever proved is their own stupidity.
Gerardo Arriaga Cervantes
There will always be some who will fall for it
It's real, you career short school bus rider.
Are stars visible from space? if you have answered yes, you have debunked Apollo 11 - 17. If you answered no, you have debunked the earlier Apollo missions. Which is it?
It depends on your shutter speed, if you ar on the shadow of the moon, you can make it long enough to capture starlights, if you stand ine teh reflection of the moon, then no you can't. ( I don't even know if one of which you talk is on either side, it's juste a theoric statement )
The only worthwhile thing to come out of all these moon conspiracy theories is Buzz Aldrin punching Bart Sibrel in the jaw.
ChilltownThing _Are stars visible from space?_
*To the human eye? Yes*
_If you have answered yes, you have debunked Apollo 11 - 17._
*Nope! You hoaxers need to learn some things about cameras, videography and how they differ from the operations of the human eye instead of making blind presumptions. Film and Digital imagers do not work the same way as your eye/brain relationship does. The human eye can vary contrasts, exposure and color all the way down to the individual rod or cone [in the Retina] which is fed individually to the Brain. Your brain assembles the image. Film and Digital imagers (at this time) cannot vary down to the pixel the same way. That's why they are called, "Dumb Imagers." So when shooting film or digital, you have to set for a specific lighting condition (In the case of space, its either based on bright sunlight or very low Star light. Only the human eye can see both at the same time. That's why every star sky and background behind a lit forground scene in a movie is a visual effect by computer or a matte.*
_If you answered no, you have debunked the earlier Apollo missions. Which is it?_
*How about option #3 which says "Neither your option #1 or #2 are correct," as I just proved. Your comparison is ignorant, incomplete and therefor conjecture based.*
1959Edsel I loved that too! Bart is obviously trying to make a buck. He sells crap and takes donations. Most SFX artists know that the Moon missions could never be faked on the scale and detail you see in those videos. Especially not back in 60's and 70's.
***** True. Not to mention, the background plates and backdrops in 2001 A space Odyssey was about as good as Matte artists could get back then. No where on the scale of high res photos taken by Apollo. Star Wars was a real breakthrough in High resolution Mattes pates and they couldn't get as close to what you see in the missions. By the way, I saw stars in 2001 and Star Wars background but not in the Moon landings??? Or even the TV show Space 1999. How could Kubrick screw that up with the moon? LOL!
The Soundstage hoax doesn't take into account one crucial hoax killing factor. Where is the stage located? On Earth right? That means everything around you is effected by strong earth gravity not feather light moon Gravity. Astronaut arms and legs, Clothing, tools, dust, cables, parts, misc debris, exploding debris from the LEM liftoff; every little tiny thing would all have significant weight on Earth but bob around differently under light moon gravity. How are you going to simulate all that without high advance CGI/VFX? The computer only recently got advanced enough to do it. Practicals today still has not achieved such detailed feather lightness as you see in those videos. The best you got was wires and ramping up the camera. Neither are nearly sufficient. The amount of wiring required would be ridiculous and unable to be hidden from the camera. Look at what they went through with Sandra Bullock in the Behind the Scenes of Gravity and that's trying to simulate MicroGravity which is actually much much much easier than moon gravity.
What was the point of going? Haven't returned in 47 years. What a waste of time and money.
Thank you for proving you're a buffoon.
Okay boomer
Perhaps you're right it may have been a waste of money. However at the time it was done there was certainly much support... but if Society is going to waste money... seems to me this is a much better way of doing it then paying for a war
@@thechickenmaster6543 I saw your little Asian girl videos you fucking pervert. Your name should be :The chicken choking pervert....
So, finally, here comes a sensible answer - It was all political - at the time, the USA and USSR were in the midst of the cold war that involved many "hot" wars around the rest of the planet normally supported by one of these two. The reason for going to the moon was to try to dominate the cold war propaganda machine, that would in turn finally bring stability to much of the rest of the planet. Had it not been for Apollo then the USSR may have remained much stronger in space and militarily, the Berlin wall may never have fallen and Eastern Europe, East Asia and South America would have been in much more turmoil than they are today.
On top of that, the reason why so many tech companies exist in the USA today and why the new leaders such as SpaceX are investing in the USA is based on the foundation of the technology that was developed 50 years ago. The world could have been a different place with tech dominated by Microsoftski and Appleski
Remember, Elon Musk's first plan for his SpaceX business was to purchase ex-cold war soviet missiles. Imagine if the USSR had maintained its lead in technology, he may have set up SpaceXski in Kazahkstan instead of California.
Can't believe people accepted this as real.
Can't believe there are so many uneducated morons in this world.
Rob Wigglezz Your brain is the only thing that's not real around here.
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The kind you clearly aren't getting to your brain...
10.24 fake and a very good fake for the time just goes to show they could fake things
Really goes to show the Apollo Mission stuff is real.
Hi B, hope that you are well. Unfortunately, your personal incredulity is proof only of itself. Take care.
The music. Ruins it. Trying to concentrate on docking. But. They play damn gay music.
Looks like a failed dock. Piece of junk lem was discarded .
Why the drama and jokes. Its $1.2 billion dollar machine. . Throw it away.
Just do your job.
I think. This is a hoax.
It's not "gay" music! @ 09:32 during CDR Jim McDivitt's test of the LEM, it sounds like some kind of a classical music minuet by Bach or Mozart. @ 11:33 when the LEM's ascent stage jettisons the descent stage, the music sounds like something from Johann Strauss. Anyway, it's good music.
@@JeffGR4 I'm not up on classical music so I will trust your judgement.
Stop lying to the people.
WHY DON’T THEY SHOW , THE WHOLE GLOBE , EARTH 🌎 .? . FROM SPACE ? . INSTEAD , THEY GIVES US CARTOONS .😎🤣😂🤣🥼🙈🙉🙊🚀🚀🚀🚀......WHAT ARE THEY HIDING .? . 🤣....WERES THE REAL , STARS 🌟 ..........
By their emojis ye shall know them.
ALL THIS IS AN ILLUISON. ephemetherson
Eric you need to be educated on the subject your probably a flat Earth believer also
@@chriszachem2012 NO ! I AM NOT a FLAT EARTH BELIEVER. THE EARTH IS ROUND AND A GLOBE. NEWTON'S LAWS OF MOTION EXIST. BUT I DON'T FUCKING BELIEVE THAT MAN LANDED ON THE MOON. MACHINES ! YES ! PERIOD ! ephemetherson