Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

I love the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, but I was staggered when I came across

https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/

(plays mission audio in real time accompanied by Video and the transcripts of the comms, highlighting which of the mission control channels are active. The landing itself is awe-inspiring - skip forward to 102:27:57 - 'go for powered descent')

If you liked it, you'd probably also enjoy the three Omega Tau Podcast episodes with David Woods, one of the contributors of the NASA Apollo Flight Journal [1]

https://omegataupodcast.net/83-how-apollo-flew-to-the-moon/

https://omegataupodcast.net/97-how-apollo-explored-the-moon/

https://omegataupodcast.net/176-the-gemini-programme/

--- 1: https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/

Interesting that there's an entry for Apollo 13 as well, although the page (unsurprisingly) doesn't contain a surface journal: https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/a13/a13.html

Off-topic, but gosh, isn't this dead simple nonsense-free content-rich website easy to navigate & quick to load

From the Apollo 12 journal, Alan Bean is directing Pete Conrad out of the hatch for the first time from the interior of the lunar lander.

> 115:16:39 Bean: Doing good. You're headed right square out the hatch. You'll have to bend over more, though. (Pause) Wait. Wait. Wait. Oops. Come forward a little. Move to your right, you're...There you are. Now go. You were getting that little... (Pause) You got to kneel down a little more. (Pause) Well, I'll push you (down) if you don't mind. (Pause)

I had never made the analogy to a child leaving the womb before I read this.