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A real-time journey through the Apollo 17 mission

43 points by Crespyl 11y ago

clockworkelf 11y ago
How did they maintain the temperature of the LM and the astronauts suits for three days? With such extreme temperatures, that would require a lot of energy.
bfeist 11y ago
Hi again everyone. Today's the actual anniversary of the launch. As of 9:55pm EST, Dec 6, and until Dec 19th (when the mission ends), http://apollo17.org/?t=rt http://apollo17.org/?t=rt will drop you into the mission exactly 43 years ago to the second. The crew might be working, eating, walking on the moon, or even sleeping. At any time you can jump out of "real time" mode and explore the whole experience, or click to sync back up with today's date an time to continue along. Hope you enjoy.
ChicagoDave 11y ago
I just poked around the launch, the landing, the initial EVA, and the splash down on return. This is simply a beautiful historical reference.
oldo-nicho 11y ago
I've recently rekindled my interest of space flight by watching the series When We Left Earth (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233514/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233514/). Loving checking out some of this site too!
agildehaus 11y ago
I love these sites. Here's a similar one that covers the Apollo 11 moon landing: http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/ http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/ Great to hear the banter of Cernan/Evans/Schmitt during the launch. A Saturn V must be a hell of a ride. I hope we get back to this sort of thing in the next 10 years.
Wingman4l7 11y ago
I thought this would be something like Spacelog[1], which is impressive in its own right. I'm simply blown away by the integration of audio / activity graphs / images. [1]: http://spacelog.org/ http://spacelog.org/
bfeist 11y ago
Hi everyone, Thanks for the props. I'm the author of apollo17.org. I really appreciate the post.
- effie 11y ago
  It's beautiful. Thank you.
- maxden 11y ago
  This is really nicely done. Can you give a brief explanation of how you made it? One thing I was looking for, and might have missed, but is there a planetary/trajectory view where we can see the craft go through space in time with the events?
  - bfeist 11y ago
    I made it in these steps: - OCR data - Create timeline in premiere, time media to orig transcript (36 8-hour videos) - clean data by watching premiere by reading along OCRed data - Sync data with youtube playback via JS - create navigation scheme using paper.js - build data lazy loader in JS - collect photography, treat photography, time photography to timeline - ask my good friend, Chris to make it look nice for me The whole site is client-side. The entire mission is loaded into the browser upon start. There's no server-side. Ironic given that my roots are as a server-side dev. It took me years. I blogged about the making of here if you're interested: http://benfeist.com/category/apollo/ http://benfeist.com/category/apollo/
    - teh_klev 11y ago
      > It took me years. Truly a labour of love, much appreciated.
    - djaychela 11y ago
      Absolutely brilliant - I've only just had a chance to enjoy the first 15 minutes or so, and will be back for more when I have time, but thanks hugely for this immensely immersive experience. A real labour of love, but well worth it if the way I've just felt is anything to go by. I know that this will be taking up a lot of my time in the near future.

43 points by Crespyl 11y ago

How did they maintain the temperature of the LM and the astronauts suits for three days? With such extreme temperatures, that would require a lot of energy.

bfeist 11y ago

Hi again everyone. Today's the actual anniversary of the launch. As of 9:55pm EST, Dec 6, and until Dec 19th (when the mission ends), http://apollo17.org/?t=rt http://apollo17.org/?t=rt will drop you into the mission exactly 43 years ago to the second. The crew might be working, eating, walking on the moon, or even sleeping. At any time you can jump out of "real time" mode and explore the whole experience, or click to sync back up with today's date an time to continue along. Hope you enjoy.

ChicagoDave 11y ago

I just poked around the launch, the landing, the initial EVA, and the splash down on return. This is simply a beautiful historical reference.

oldo-nicho 11y ago

I've recently rekindled my interest of space flight by watching the series When We Left Earth (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233514/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233514/). Loving checking out some of this site too!

agildehaus 11y ago

I love these sites. Here's a similar one that covers the Apollo 11 moon landing: http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/ http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/ Great to hear the banter of Cernan/Evans/Schmitt during the launch. A Saturn V must be a hell of a ride. I hope we get back to this sort of thing in the next 10 years.

Wingman4l7 11y ago

I thought this would be something like Spacelog[1], which is impressive in its own right. I'm simply blown away by the integration of audio / activity graphs / images. [1]: http://spacelog.org/ http://spacelog.org/

bfeist 11y ago

Hi everyone, Thanks for the props. I'm the author of apollo17.org. I really appreciate the post.

effie 11y ago
It's beautiful. Thank you.
maxden 11y ago
This is really nicely done. Can you give a brief explanation of how you made it? One thing I was looking for, and might have missed, but is there a planetary/trajectory view where we can see the craft go through space in time with the events?
- bfeist 11y ago
  I made it in these steps: - OCR data - Create timeline in premiere, time media to orig transcript (36 8-hour videos) - clean data by watching premiere by reading along OCRed data - Sync data with youtube playback via JS - create navigation scheme using paper.js - build data lazy loader in JS - collect photography, treat photography, time photography to timeline - ask my good friend, Chris to make it look nice for me The whole site is client-side. The entire mission is loaded into the browser upon start. There's no server-side. Ironic given that my roots are as a server-side dev. It took me years. I blogged about the making of here if you're interested: http://benfeist.com/category/apollo/ http://benfeist.com/category/apollo/
  - teh_klev 11y ago
    > It took me years. Truly a labour of love, much appreciated.
  - djaychela 11y ago
    Absolutely brilliant - I've only just had a chance to enjoy the first 15 minutes or so, and will be back for more when I have time, but thanks hugely for this immensely immersive experience. A real labour of love, but well worth it if the way I've just felt is anything to go by. I know that this will be taking up a lot of my time in the near future.