Now on bbc news its time for click. This is click 1001, a space 0dyssey. In honour of the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing, weve got massive rockets, space station robot arms, and we bounce sound off the moon. Why . Because its there. We choose to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. So that president john f. Kennedy in 1962. On july the 16th, so that president john f. Kennedy in 1962. Onjuly the 16th, 1969, so that president john f. Kennedy in 1962. 0njuly the 16th, 1969, three astronauts, neil onstream, edwin barrs alden, and collins repair to fill that as they were on apollo 11 buzz aldrin. Fill that as they were on apollo 11 buzz aldrin. The first Great Mission to land on him in. Three men to represent the combination of of the green. Here at nasa in houston, texas, Mission Control monitored every aspect of the launch. These days its used to monitor the International Space station, the actual control room used for the apollo 11 is undergoing a bit of a refurbished in honour of the 50th anniversary. Marcos flores is one of the current missing controllers for the current missing controllers for the iss. There was no guarantee that apollo 11 was going to be successful. Im in, it was really cutting it, dangerous stuff, wasnt it . Definitely. There is a lot of risk involved in the mission themselves and how dangerous they we re themselves and how dangerous they were and in terms of landing successfully on the moon. Saturn v moves out of its Huge Assembly building and heads for the launchpad. To build the launch vehicle, neser contracted boeing, north american aviation, the douglas aircraft company, and ibm to help build a rocket that would end up being the largest and most powerful ever built nasa. Call that a rocket . This is a rocket. Inside here is the saturn v rocket. Stage one gets you off the launchpad and up one gets you off the launchpad and up to one gets you off the launchpad and uptoa one gets you off the launchpad and up to a speed of 6000 mph. Two and a half minutes later all of this fuel is burnt. You dont want to carry an empty casing into space so you ditch it to save on weight. Then five rocket engines in stage two ignite and send you into the upper atmosphere. At 115 miles up all that fuel is gone, too. You have ditched the second stage. And this rocket on stage three fires you around the earth and into orbit. Then it powers down and, a little while later, it restarts. This time it sends you to the moon. So heres the thing. That bit there. Thats where the people sit. All the rest of it is fuel. Laughter. While the rocket was incredibly powerful, so, at the time, was the Computing Power required for the apollo programme. Even though in Popular Culture the computers of the day, which in this case we jade mayne frames, are often compared unfavourably to contemporary technology. The 360 75 had one mips. And it had won of real memory all1 million bytes of real memory and 4 million bytes of real memory and 4 million bytes of auxiliary memory. The numbers you hearfor the iphone that i own are anywhere from 10,000 times as fast as that to even a million. They even saw one that was 100 million times as fast. Homer programmes the actual code used for the descent and accent of the Lunar Landing module. And in 1969 it kicked in, as Neil Armstrong piloted the lunar ladder onto the moons surface. Landau. Music plays. Weve had shut down. The eagle has landed. Armstrong exited the landing module and uttered the immortal phrase. Thats one small step 4man, one giant leap for mankind. Now, is any good tourist nose, photos are a must. Armstrong and aldrin also left a plaque and a flag. And took a phone call from president richard nixon. Hello neal and buzz, im talking to you by telephone from the oval room at the white house. And this certainly has to be the most historic phone call ever made. And what did we learn from the Apollo Missions that we still use today . We are leveraging a lot of the experience that we gained with the vehicles themselves in terms of the rocket design, the capital design, and what it takes for us to safely, you know, up to space and bring it back down. So lets head to the front of the International Space station. Thats not something you get to see every day. We are now in front of the International Space station. Alison mcintire as chief of nasas space vehicle mockup society and she is giving us a tour of her realm. We are in amongst past spacecraft, prototypes of future ships, and a replica of the International Space station that is used to train future astronauts. We have a canadian, three americans, and then two russian crewmembers. Every american who is flowing to space since 1980 has has trained in this facility. We had an emergency scenario where you pump smoke into the module and they run their procedure through it. And nasa is responsible for all the integrated training. So while the crewmembers may go to russia to get their russian systems training, to europe to get training on the lombaerts European Space agencys module, and here we do integrated training, the emergency scenarios, here we do integrated training, the emergency scenarios, and then these routine operations, which is sort of a day in the light. Even though youve got part of the Space Shuttle in here and you have a clone of the International Space station and spacecraft of the future, too, there are echoes of apollo everywhere. This is 0rion, which will take astronauts close to the moon in 2022. And its design is very familiar. This is significantly larger than apollo, but a similar shape. And thats because, while technology changes, physics dont change. So the physics of this entering the atmosphere is the same as it was in apollo. Everything inside is higher tech and we are incorporating things like exercise equipment, but it has to fit into a very small volume, a toilet has to fit into a very small volume. Did apollo not have a toilet . Apollo did not have a toilet. They deserve a medaljust for not have a toilet. They deserve a medal just for that. Not have a toilet. They deserve a medaljust for that. Yes, yes. To what extent did the Apollo Missions shape our understanding of how to do the moon . Quite a lot. When we first started launching space missions, not just apollo, but started launching space missions, notjust apollo, but mercury started launching space missions, not just apollo, but mercury and gemini, we didnt know if humans could eat in space, for example. Just fundamental questions, what will happen to the body when youre free floating in zero gravity . Will happen to the body when youre freefloating in zero gravity . And there is one extremely important change that will we will see in future missions to the moon. Tell me about the people that will be the next people to stand on the moon. So our administrator has said that the next people to land on the moon will be the next man and the first woman will be on that First Mission and put boots on the moon. And so thats very exciting for all of us. Honestly, right now, our rational call is about 40 female astronaut corps. So they have some great astronauts to choose from. They will get the best of the best and it doesnt take much for that. Hello and welcome to the week in tech. Sticking with space, it was the week that Virgin Galactic announced its plans to go public in announced its plans to go public in a merger with the new york listed investment firm. The move means a big cash boost for the human spacelike company. In the European Space agency showed off a 3 d printing skin and bones technique designed for low gravity. The idea being that injured astronaut could one day rustle up a bone or two while on a voyage to mars. The agency also unveiled a bouncing bot destined for the styles. The aptly named spaceport could navigate the moon, mars, or asteroids named spaceport could navigate the moon, mars, orasteroids by named spaceport could navigate the moon, mars, or asteroids by hopping about rough terrain. A down on earth, it was also the week British Airways was slapped with a £183 million fine after half a million of its customers details were compromised in a Security Breach last year. The penalty from the uk watchdog information commissioners offices the first to be made under new gdpr rules. Instagram launched a new gdpr rules. Instagram launched a new anti bullying ai, nudging users are you sure you want to post this . And twitter bad words that dehumanise others on the basis of religion band. Ajustin pipe au summit, this robo farmer could soon be picking the leaves for your salad. The veggie bot from the university of cambridge uses Machine Learning to identify and carefully pick ripe lettuces. You could be waiting a while for your dinner, though. We have more details on Tropical Storm barry on our website. Being an astronaut on the International Space station requires yea rs International Space station requires years taught to and so what are we contrary to it is all down. And pull there is a docking vehicles right now fly up get close enough that the arm can read it and then the and manually attached it. So it is a little bit more of a i there are two controllers for the arm, to move it forward , controllers for the arm, to move it forward, back and roll it and pinching, forward, back and roll it and pinching, judge that much from the actual scene. Instead, i pinching, judge that much from the actualscene. Instead, i need pinching, judge that much from the actual scene. Instead, i need to get my the camera mounted on i am really there is you are in is emulated, we can either reset if you mess up, but we dont have that luxury put it away from the worst thing. If you are way off you could hit the once the dragon is lined up with the markings on. I grabbed. This is one of so many and call but i have to you are on the fast side, but you got it what you want to see it should be small relative to you are. A recent poll suggests that one in six brits believe the moon in the age of the moon landings were a hoax is nvidia have tried to use technology to prove they have using a powerful graphics represent our light behaves in the moon, debunking a popular the moon we decided to do some digging of our own, and reasoning he never acquired. If someone based on nonsense, it doesnt matter how much reasoning you do with them, you will never reason them out reasoning did not get them there are anomalies with the photographs, directed it in a film setting, area 51. The technology did exist to get to the technology did in 1959. Just. The technology did in 1959. Just. The cameras were based on 500 l systems. We had many modifications, viewfinders, and a mirror system. All of this was removed to save weight. It was then locked into a chest bracket on the arsenals suit. It was literally moving the body, tilting the body to frame up the images. We cant see any styles because the contrast range and the Service Images is too high. Because the contrast range and the Service Images is too highm because the contrast range and the Service Images is too high. It is a bright day and you stand outside a house and open the door to the house and look in. You cant see any of the detail because its too bright where you are. So this is as close asa where you are. So this is as close as a modern equivalent as we would have. It has a 100 megapixel sensor. We look to the surface today would not be able to capture stars and lunar surface detail in the same image. One of the issues of doing it in the studio is the dust on the moon. And when there is no atmosphere dust behaves differently to when there atmosphere. So now you would have to have a studio which you evacuated and had a vacuum in. And now all the same since have to really work in the studio has to be unbelievably fortified to withstand the pressure of the atmospheric pressure outside the studio pushing in on the vacuum. You have to try really ha rd in on the vacuum. You have to try really hard and have great faith in the fact that you could fake it. Why dont they have faith in the scientists and the engineers and the astronauts and the 20,000 companies that made it happen . Theres no faith that lot. But Stanley Kubrick and his films that, theres lots of faith. The Lunar Mission comes as a climax of the space race that the United States and soviet union have been competing in since the mid 19505 for technological supremacy. The soviets possessed advanced tracking capabilities of their own and have used them to track missiles as well as spaceflight. So the inability to detect a conspiracy of this nature seems unlikely. Moreover, they would have had every incentive to expose this in order to score a major propaganda victory. Apollo engineers were very well aware of the benella basin. It charted a course to where it is quite weak anyway. Van allen belts. You would think that having moon rocks on the earth would be living proof that the Conspiracy Theory has been debunked. Those rocks are still being studied today. Some of them are sealed up, never yet been touched, because the scientist, even back in the 605 in the 705, knew that technology would get better with time and there will be able to make new scientific discoveries full up we have, left by the apollo astronauts on the moon, reflectors, these are passive experiments, a capsize, you can buy a laser at them. Bounce lasers from the earth to the moon to understand the earth to the moon to understand the changing behaviours of the moon and its orbit. It is not enough for the deniers, they will always see conspiracy. Conspiracies have been around for decades, they have a new lease on life in the age of the internet. Things like facebook groups, all these disparate ideas where people come together and find each other in away we have never had before. The romans had conspiracy theories, they just before. The romans had conspiracy theories, theyjust didnt the internet. Now we still have conspiracy theories because we are humans and our brains are fallible, and we have the internet, its a perfect storm. The moon is so far away, nearly 250,000 miles in fact. But somehow, lj rich has found a way to get closer. If you cant make it to get closer. If you cant make it to the moon, dont worry, you can always leave a message. To the moon, dont worry, you can always leave a messagelj to the moon, dont worry, you can always leave a message. I am in croatia, and ntf labs event. Music tech fest runs it, it is a community of sound lovers who thrive on pushing the boundaries of music using technology. And this evenings entertainment is out of this world, an interactive work of art called system moon. Right now, people are queueing up behind me talk to the moon. Its the perfect time of year for this planetary cosmic art project, and proving very popular. Now i can hear you. Good evening and welcome. Via a live Internet Connection into the cabin, my words are carried on radio waves from the telescope two hours outside of amsterdam in the netherlands. I will speak into the microphone, and you two will do something with my voice, related to the moon. We are going to put it on a radio wave and were going send it to the moon. 1. 25 seconds later my words reach the moons surface. My words are bounced back down to earth and i hear them after the return journey, back down to earth and i hear them after the returnjourney, 2. 5 seconds in total. Hello moon people. Hello moon people. Whats the weather like up there . Whats the weather like up there . Whats the weather like up there. What kind of music you like . What kind of music you like . In 1956 this was among the worlds first moving radio was the amountand worlds first moving radio was the amount and is. After decommissioning it was lovingly restored and is now used for Science Education and art project like this one. I have to say, i have done strange things in my time, but i am not sure quite what they are. Next day, i caught up with the artist, martin, to find out how she and the moon got on speaking terms. I always wanted to become an astronaut, anna am in love with celestial bodies and in love with the universe, and i am in love with the universe, and i am in love with the fact that we are made of stardust, and i have been watching universe documentaries since i was a kid, andi universe documentaries since i was a kid, and i believe that it has a wonderful transformative effect, kid, and i believe that it has a wonderful tra nsformative effect, to leave your system, literally, go to another sphere, another celestial body, bounce back and what happens is, inside your mind, you are going to see the world from the outside, the earth from the outside, and you are going to realise that actually we are on a spaceship ourselves. A lovely way to democratise celestial communication, and for earthlings like me, it might be the closest ill ever get to the moon. And thats it from the Flight Control one here at nasa. For now. Because next week, we will be back to look even further into space, i cant wait. Dont forget, we are on social media, youtube, facebook, instagram and twitter, thanks for watching, i will see you soon. With the weekend upon us, the weather is looking generally dry and settled for many of us, it has been a warm, humid week but actually things have been turning a bit fresher, through the weekend, plenty of spells of sunshine, one or two showers around, it wont be quite as hot and humid as it has been earlier in the week. The reason for the dry and settled theme is this area of High Pressure that is building its way in from the west, so that will slowly squeeze away a ny leftover showers, we will still have one or two showers on saturday morning, particularly for parts of nor