"Houston, tranquility base here... The eagle has landed" Gives me chills every time. What an amazing era and generation of humans :)

I swear i knew you were gonna drop something for the apollo 11 landing anniversary!

My uncle would have LOVED to see the LM landing like this - he worked on the lunar modules as an engineer at Grumman. I only had about a 10% impression of the progression of the landing, you've filled in the other 90%.

Great animation, you have gotten me interested into learning 3D animation so I can make animations like this.

And that's a beautiful 3d replication of the Eagle! Really, really lovely on the eyes.

Beautiful high velocity dust plumes radiating out. Beautiful glowing engine cowl. So great and the attention to detail is excellent, excellent

1:36 Literally all my KSP landings.

God bless you! I recorded this from TV on 3” reel-to-reel in 1969 when I was 11. This view finally makes sense of all those call outs. Gives me goose bumps!

The Eagle is very nicely done! The trajectory though feels a bit strange when you see the LM standing still and Buzz Aldrin doing "3.5 down, 9 forward". He's describing their movements towards the surface, in feet/sec. Here the animation really doesn't match, so I'd suggest trying to at least partially make it correspond to his voice because this is like watching a sports game with commentary saying one team scored and nothing's happening on screen. He reports mostly velocity and altitude but also the Landing Point Designator Angle (LPD angle), so it's like "700 feet (altitude), 21 (ft/sec) down, 33 degrees (LPD)". 33 degrees is a lot(!). One thing that's scary about their descent is really the forward velocity, they were trying to find a spot to land and it took a while and had them going horizontally for quite a while. Also at the end when he says "Contact light", this is a reading from a thin wire that was under the LM that extended _below_ its landing legs and was there to detect the surface right before they reached it. So it's not actually the lander's legs that first touched the moon but this contact sensor, and when he reports "Contact light" it's because this sensor is now touching the moon (some argue this is the moment they "landed" since from that point on some part of the LM was touching the moon). This would be an amazing details to include in an animation.

Wow, just wow!

I was just thinking that if the recording was captured on earth, then they actually landed 1.25 seconds sooner than they said, since it takes that much time for their message to reach earth.

Brilliant video! I was glued....totally got goose pimples and a tear in my eye. Well done!

Your Animations are a gift we didn't deserve

Thats a cool perspective..

I like how you animated the dust disappearing right after shut down. Neil said that element of the landing was something they didn't train for in the simulator and sort of surprised him. Not that he didn't understand it, just that he wasn't expecting it. No atmosphere, so the dust immediately settles. Well done.

This is totally insane animation.🤯🤯 Keep up the great work man🚀

Beautiful animation. Outstanding piloting!

Amazing animation as always

Loving the "contact light okay engine stop!" this time around 🙃👌

Very nicely done! Thanks!

Great job!

I really love these videos you've been doing

unbelievable work!

Amazing animation!

Amazing !

That was incredible!

Nice stuff 😉

Great animation. I would've moved that camera so the sun wasnt obscuring the view.

Wow this is so cool

Awesome !

July 20th is also my birthday, and i got the LEGO Saturn V!

I've always wanted to see a simulation of what it would have looked like to witness a landing from the ground. Thanks so much!

I genuinely don't want to nit-pick a fabulous piece of work, but you've missed the foot-pad probes. They stuck out several feet under the bottom of two (?) of the foot-pads and were the sensors that lit the "contact light" telling the astronauts to switch off the engine and let the craft drop to the surface (1/6th G remember). This is recreated in From The Earth to the Moon, and you can see them in the famous footage of eagle from Columbia before the descent.

side-by-side with onboard camera would have been nice

Amazing! I am in awe of your skill...You did forgot the contact sensors on the legs... little foldable sticks that hung down about 30"? When touched the ground they would fold and thus "contact light"

Woah that's insanely realistic!

Nice, very nice!

Amazing

Whoa! This is insane

We have video/film of the various ascent stages taking off due to placing cameras on the surface pointing at the LEM prior to that. But I always wished we had a camera with extra radiation protection/longer batter life that could be radio enabled to power up and landed a subsequent LEM near a previous site so we had a good external shot of one of the LEMs landing.

When Houston called out 30 seconds that's how much fuel they had left

Well done. I watched this happen.

SUCH A GOOD ANIMATION NEW SUBBB PS: im obsessed with space

I never thought the landing would look that rubber-bandy, if you catch my meaning. Are those motions really accurate to what was flown?

Playing KSP gives you a good idea of what kind of maneuvers they needed to perform while landing!

Great animation, thanks a lot. Just a tiny observation: I believe the color of the Sun is pure white in space and therefore also from the Moon, as it only appears yellow through Earth's atmosphere caused by Rayleigh's scattering. Just a minor detail you can include in the next one. Please keep up the awesome work! I thoroughly enjoy every piece!

Wow!

That's the smudgy preset of optical flares glass textures if i'm not mistaken

Woooow

the exact second that it lands

Would have been a lot better without the jjabrams lens flare through the entire video.

Rally racing or Moon landing

Pov: ur a moon rock some random day in 1969

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Here is mistake. They landed much faster, they didint levitale there above ground- there was no fuel for that

Oh so the first thing that touched the moon wasn’t the eagle, It was a camera

When did "turn the lem" happen in the decent?

Nice, except they never "hovered" or hesitated in anyway. Fuel consumption was their main issue along with a computer overload. Neil just wanted to find a clear spot to land.

Hey CBass. How do I share an idea with you?

An animation from an animation

why would you animate the sun blinding out half the picture?

Pretty sloppy landing if you ask me. They came down almost 100 yards from where the camera was!

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"A bunch of guys about to turn blue" ... Yep back in the days when men were men. No women in that workplace !

i'm not sure I understand why you deliberately ruined the view like this, right into the sun and what with those blue reflections in the middle..

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Great job!