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good morning welcome to Microsoft build
my name is John Knoll and I'm the chief
creative officer at Industrial Light and
Magic the Apollo moon landing was the
cutting edge of 1960s technology and
today with the help of my friend and
author of a man on the moon and each
Aiken hi everybody we're gonna recreate
the mission with some 21st century
technology using the power of Unreal
Engine and hololens to Andy well you
know Apollo 11 landed on the moon July
20th 1969 50 years ago I was seven years
old I was 13 and I've been waiting for
it for a long time and what made it
possible was this the saturn v moon
rocket
the most powerful rocket ever
successfully flown 363 feet too long and
each of its three stages had its own job
to do firing for a few minutes and then
falling away and it was all to take this
Apollo spacecraft and three astronauts
all the way to the moon you know one of
those really a conic memories images
from the Apollo program was the image of
this interstage ring falling back away
from the second stage you know I've
actually wondered what that ring was for
so the story is that when the second
stage was ready to ignite it was
weightless and so was the fuel inside
the tanks the drains for the fuel are
down at the bottom so they needed some
method to force the fuel to slosh down
to the bottom so the this interstage
ring has got these for solid rocket
haulage motors and they fire to provide
a little bit of thrust to make that that
slosh happen so the engines can ignite
cleanly okay and then once the engines
do ignite the fuel stays at the bottom
exactly so having done its job they drop
the ring away to save weight amazing
Apollo engineering
well let's take a look at the entire
Apollo 11 vehicle on the launch pad at
pad 39a at the Kennedy Space Center in
Florida and now we're gonna see Apollo
11 lift off and send Neil Armstrong Buzz
Aldrin and Mike Collins on their way to
the moon so you can see as the stages
expend their fuel they're dropped off
again to save that way
here's the interstage going off go stage
two and the only portions that leave
Earth orbit are the third stage and the
Apollo spacecraft and when they do leave
Earth orbit they're traveling at 25,000
miles an hour which is still the fastest
that humans have ever gone so on the
long the translunar Coast the command
module separates and now Mike Collins is
driving and he is going to use the small
maneuvering thrusters to do a kind of a
pirouette and there is a docking
mechanism that's in the nose of the
command module and he slowly approaches
lunar module until the docking mechanism
engages the top part of the LEM he pulls
the LEM free from the now spent third
stage and there's your Apollo spacecraft
and the last thing that has to happen
before they continue is that they turn
the spacecraft so that the sun is
shining on the side and they initiate a
very slow rotation they actually called
it the barbecue mode to even out the
sun's intense heat it's to avoid baking
just one side now the lunar module the
part that's actually going to land on
the moon is the ultimate in form driven
by function engineering you know for me
that's what really makes it beautiful it
had to be as lightweight as they could
possibly make it so for example in the
crew cabin in the asset stage the walls
are only about as thick as a few sheets
of aluminum foil it's just no
concessions at all to our dynamics or
anything yeah because it only flew in
the vacuum of space so it didn't need to
be aerodynamic it's like a giant
metallic insect
all right so they arrived successfully
at the moon Neil and Buzz transfer into
the lunar module and they begin what
amounts to a controlled fall down to the
surface and there are some tense moments
as they make their way down to the moon
I mean there's computer alarms that
threaten to abort the landing but the
experts in Mission Control tell
Armstrong and Aldrin that they can keep
going and once that's that's happened
and Armstrong gets a good view of where
it is the guidance computer is taking
him it's right to the rim of this giant
football stadium size crater that's got
boulders all around the rim that are the
size of automobiles he thinks I can't
land there right so Armstrong at this
point takes over semi manual control and
he steers the lunar module past the big
crater and flies on were hunting for a
safe place to land but knowing that his
fuel supply is diminishing as he's
coming down the thrust of the engine
starts to pick up dust from the surface
and that dust starts to spray out a
radially away from the center and starts
confusing Armstrong's perception of
where he's moving laterally and that's a
big concern because he really wants to
come down straight down to avoid
breaking off a leg or tipping over you
can see he's wandering around a bit and
when he finally does come down he's he's
sliding left a bit and that's because
the the sheet of dust is making him
think he's going coming right
finally they touch down and it's so
gentle that neither of them feels the
actual moment of contact with the moon
now seven hours later they've put on
their suits they depressurize the cabin
they open the hatch and here comes Neil
Armstrong emerging from the lunar module
to climb down that ladder on the front
leg of the Lander and so because that
landing was so gentle the struts didn't
really compress you know they were
designed to take that impact of landing
and so they're not compressed so there's
a much bigger step there between the
bottom rung and the pad but in the
moon's one-sixth gravity it's no problem
at all so he's down in the foot pad and
now he's going to be very careful very
methodical he's describing the
appearance of the very powdery surface
and now it's time to take that historic
first step onto the surface of the moon
and the immortal quote that's one small
step for man one giant leap for mankind
I'd like to give a big thank you to the
team at epic and Microsoft enjoy the
rest of the event thank you