Apollo Moon Landing Anniversary Concert at London’s Science Museum
July 13th, 02009 by Austin Brown
Chief Curator Dr. Tim Boon at London’s Science Museum sent us a note to let us know about an event they’ll be holding later this month.
This July 20th will be the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11’s landing on the moon. To celebrate, the Science Museum is premiering a new live arrangement of Brian Eno’s 1983 album Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks.
An ensemble known as Icebreaker will team up with pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole for the performances, which will be accompanied by original footage of the moon landings compiled by Al Reinert. The audiovisual serenity will take place inside the Science Museum’s IMAX theater.
New compositions based on recordings from space by Douglas Benford and Iris Garrelfs will also be featured and they’ll take place in the ‘Making the Modern World’ gallery. The gallery is home to the Apollo 10 Command Module as well as Prototype I.
If you’ll be in the area and you want tickets, call 0870 870 4771.
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Posted on July 13th, 2009 at 8:11 am
ok so here is a question …
if the moons light and dark sides are constant, matching the rotation of the earth,
and if the apollo 11 mission landed on the light side,
in theory you should be able to see it with a telescope of high enough power. What power would i need? where would i look? do you think you could see the lander, the flag, and some footprints? How come there isnt any photos of them from earth bound telecopes or satalites?
Posted on July 13th, 2009 at 8:41 am
A quick google turned up a pretty good answer to your question: http://calgary.rasc.ca/moonscope.htm
“From the above table, even ignoring the limitation imposed by Earth’s atmosphere we can see that we would need an optical telescope with an objective mirror about 100 meters (about 328 feet) in diameter to just about be able to see the landers and the rovers.
Since the largest Optical telescope in the world is only 10 meters in diameter, the cost of building such a telescope could be more than the cost of going there and taking a picture with a normal camera.”
Posted on July 15th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Hi,
i just found a quite interesting documentary about the 40th anniversary of moonlanding! NATGEO celebrates the 40th anniversary of the moonlanding, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdaBwh20nIk