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Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

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Post by bfeist »

Sparkware wrote: post #111
bfeist wrote: post #3

Thanks for the share. I'm the author of the site and am happy to answer any questions.

I'm running Firefox 67.0.2 on Linux Mint 19 (fully patched) and the site does not work. It sit waiting for the interface to fully load and the Youtube video pane shows the "three dots" image when Youtube cannot reach the audio. Nothing else loads but I do see the individual audio channel links - none work. I did try your Apollo17.org site and it works beautifully in the same Firefox browser. And if I run Google Chrom…

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Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

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Post by bfeist »

jregane wrote: post #64

This is so great! Thank you. Just a little confused by the real time counter being set a month in advance.

When it's not during the anniversary 9-day period, it pick the closest time it can and uses today's time of day.

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

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Post by bfeist »

gridspy wrote: post #66
bfeist wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a bit of a messy bedroom. Ideally, I'd get some real software devs involved to rewrite it using a modern framework. This is just a pile of JS and some JQuery. One thing of note is that there's no server-side services in this architecture. The browser does all of the work itself. Kind of remarkable when you think about it.

If you don't mind the sharing part, don't be embarrased about the quality of your source code. Quality will come from getting lots of eyes on it. You made it actually happen, that is very special even if the code is a huge mess.

It's based of my previous project: https://github.com/bfeist/Apollo17

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

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Post by pault »

hirundo wrote: post #10

I was six years old during Apollo 11 and have just fragmentary memories of it. One is of my grandfather tearing up at the lunar landing and saying "when I grew up I used to carry flint and steel to start a fire" ... which would have been in the 1890s. If he grasped what he was seeing I think he'd be about as future shocked by the internet as exemplified by this link.

I was really entertained by the banter between the crew as they're orbiting the moon, given the gravity of the moment. They're almost jovial, which is a pretty stark contrast to the way it's depicted in hollywood. Especially First Man; that movie was so brooding it was hard to take seriously.

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

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Post by marvin »

bfeist wrote: post #97
marvin wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was convinced this was an official NASA exhibit made for the 50-year anniversary. Fantastic work and much appreciated. My dad will be psyched; he was 17 at the time of the launches, and this fits in great in the recent tradition of "slow entertainment" that happens in real time over multiple days :)

Thanks very much. I'm a NASA contractor now, so it it's partially a NASA project from that perspective. Can you post some examples of "slow entertainment"? I like that this website might be fitting a genre I didn't know existed.

It does indeed, in a spectacular way -- the other examples of this genre aren't interactive, and don't have nearly as much data. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_television, for a nice overview of the various TV-broadcast examples of this :)

My experience is just from the Norwegian Broadcasting Company, e.g. with "The Bergen Line minute by minute" [0] which is around 7 hours, or "A coastal voyage from Bergen to Kirkenes" [1] which is 134 hours. These were both sent on national TV in Norway. IMHO not nearly as interesting as the Apollo missions, but something you could have on as background scenery during a day or week at work, at a social gathering or something like that.

The silliest example I've seen was a bunch of students who built a live-updated clock for 24 hours, out of a sort of plywood template. They lined up in front of a camera at the Bergen train station (20 meters behind the camera at the start of video 0, incidentally) and worked in shifts for the 24 hours that the broadcast lasted. [2] (Unsure if the link is available internationally).

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7VYVjR_nwE

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Qn_GEPvNs

[2]: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/klokken-minutt-for-minutt

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

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Post by Sparkware »

bfeist wrote: post #121
Sparkware wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm running Firefox 67.0.2 on Linux Mint 19 (fully patched) and the site does not work. It sit waiting for the interface to fully load and the Youtube video pane shows the "three dots" image when Youtube cannot reach the audio. Nothing else loads but I do see the individual audio channel links - none work. I did try your Apollo17.org site and it works beautifully in the same Firefox browser. And if I run Google Chrom…

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Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

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Post by remarkEon »

NeedMoreTea wrote: post #84
marvin wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was convinced this was an official NASA exhibit made for the 50-year anniversary. Fantastic work and much appreciated. My dad will be psyched; he was 17 at the time of the launches, and this fits in great in the recent tradition of "slow entertainment" that happens in real time over multiple days :)

It's the sort of thing I'd love to see NASA do for Skylab, Voyager, and other missions, where we used tune in for regular updates. It was all a huge free PR boost for the US - most of my generation were somewhat hooked on space going through school. Then there was all the associated programmes explaining how it all worked, the plan or the why, and the artist's impressions of space stations, manned Mars plans or Lunar…

>It's the sort of thing I'd love to see NASA do for Skylab, Voyager,

I'd love to see the same treatment done for the Mars landings.

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

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Post by nmc »

bfeist wrote: post #3

Thanks for the share. I'm the author of the site and am happy to answer any questions.

Awesome website!

I have two remarks about the speed units displayed on the dashboard:

• Why is the Mach number showed while out of the atmosphere? It depends on the local speed of sound which is not really definable there

• Why is the speed not shown International System units? As a Kerbal enthusiast, I would love to see metres per second

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