Apollo Linkup

The journey going to the moon was exciting and hair-raising; the trip home was even more so. The ascent engine on the Lunar Module had to work perfectly, and it performed well. Armstrong and Aldrin were reunited with Mike Collins in the Command Module. The Lunar Module was jettisoned, ultimately headed for impact with the moon's surface. The voyage home had begun.



There were quite a few TV specials on last night celebrating the moon landing. The History Channel showed a short 30 minute segment entitled "Live from '69." It had some Wally-to-Wally coverage, but it was far too short. The only segments I hadn't seen before were the Disneyland and Central Park remote segments, and some intros. I wish that they could have shown a lot more. When I was at the Paley Media Center last week, the library catalog had quite a few recordings (liftoff, moon walk, and splashdown) of this coverage (possibly in excess of 8 hours).

Check out the CBS News website for the video "1969, The Epic Journey," which appears to be a 49 minute summary of the mission that Cronkite narrated (and broadcast after Apollo 11 had splashed down).