{"id":4416,"date":"2019-07-20T10:18:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T15:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2019-07-20T12:07:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T17:07:45","slug":"apollo-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=4416","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fifty years ago today, humans did something pretty cool. We managed to land two of us on the Moon<\/a> and then bring them back home safely. Half a century later, it’s still an impressive accomplishment — and one which we haven’t duplicated since that era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow the descent from Lunar orbit to Tranquility Base in “real time” (plus exactly fifty years) by starting the following video clip at 19:59:42 UTC today (July 19, 2019). This is equivalent to 15:59:42 EDT for the U.S. East Coast; 14:59:42, 13:59:42, and 12:59:42 respectively for CDT, MDT, and PDT. (If you’re from one of those enlightened areas that don’t use Daylight Subverting Time, you’re probably smart enough to understand UTC, too.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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