How Apollo 11 made it to the Moon and back

Getting humans to the Moon and back was a carefully choreographed journey, with the landing on the lunar surface just one part of the historic Apollo 11 mission carried out by astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. Narrated by legendary BBC presenter James Burke, who led the commentary on the Moon landing, this animation shows many of the crucial steps involved for humans to walk on another world.

[siddharthsparsh]

Imagine orbiting around the moon alone just with a blind hope that your fellow mates would come back as promised. Scary!

[SingingPostman]

I was 15 in 1969, and I still remember this awesome historical event. I have a 50th Anniversary T-shirt from Mr. Buzz Aldrin. Thank you so very much for sharing.

[AayushSapra]

Didn't they fight over who will step out first

[bombgiggity]

If NASA lost their technology to get to the moon and back, they just have to watch this handy dandy YouTube video.

[r.aditya]

Apollo era scientists and astronauts were at a different level altogether. We with all resources are still far behind compared to what those Bravehearts did with mere punch cards.

[PramodShetty]

i have one question. How did Eagle(the carrier that took off from moon surface) inspite of being so small, was able to generate enough force to leave the moon on an orbit and join Columbia(the carrier orbiting the moon)
Generally in Earth, you need a carrier as big as six times the actual satellite just to throw out the satellite with a critical speed.

[greenleaf]

How many times has Collins orbited around the moon? And why hasn't he taken some pictures of space during these unique moments in the shadow of the moon?

[Timeworks]

So amazing to see how it happened, would be epic to walk on the moon one day

[rg]

How did people even learn how to get to the moon and back safely?? That looks super difficult to do.

[TJEnnis]

I just enjoy this story every time I hear it. A Classic!

[youcefmerah]

they tried using science for eagle ascending didn't work, so they used Magic

[WilliamsShamir]

It's amazing how flawlessly this worked...
When developing software, for example, there are so many bugs found and so much debugging going on when developing a new thing that was never developed before, and a lot of times things don't run flawlessly on the first time you run the code...
Really amazing how it worked so well.

[samdilworth]

It really is crazy how they did that with the technology that they had at the time.

[all]

It's hard to believe this even after more then 50 years later !

[scamreader]

How that thing flips upside down then goes back again into the original module to pull out and hook into another module before flipping again and ejecting all while in space seems so unreal to me, how really is it possible>

[warrenw]

Serious question, would it not take significant propulsion to get off the moon? He made it seem like they were driving up the street to meet up “eagle ascended from the lunar surface to randevu and dock with Columbia” lol. Seriously though what am I missing?

[vasilisgeorgiou]

“I'd go to the moon in a nanosecond - the problem is that we don't have the technology to do that anymore. We used to, but we destroyed that technology and it's a painful process to build it back again.” Don Pettit, NASA...hmmmm nice cartoons

[Muush]

0:16 why was the CSM separated with the main body and turned 180 degrees then docked? Why wouldn't they launch the rocket with it already docked?

[lostfan]

How'd they get off the moon??? The animation just shows the LEM floating off the surface.

[AlBeZed]

If I hadn't been on the moon at the time, I couldn't believe it.