You mean Apollo 13? I don't know what Apollo 11 is...I'm sure it starred the other guy from Busom Buddies....

I don't see where there are any anomalies in that video. Those are perfectly standard expected delays. You have to keep in mind, too, that you don't have to wait for the other guy to quit talking before you start talking again. Those people were extremely well-practiced at talking to each other; and even over great distances they could anticipate and finish the other guy's sentence. You do it yourself all the time: Your brain finishes someone else's sentence before they do--especially people you know....

The RX TX(receive/transmit) was/is performed on different channels.

This meant that they wouldn't miss something said if someone accidentally started talking before the other finished.

The transmissions that I have heard always seem to have long pauses after the "key tone" is heard(a beep after the microphone button is released).

Firstly, please for the love of all things holy to all people, stop using the word PROOF in thread titles.

Secondly, there would be more than a two second delay because you're not taking into account the signal processing time between earth stations and relays, depending on which side of the earth is facing the spacecraft. If you have Australia acting as the apollo/earth link, they have to relay the signal halfway around the world to Houston and back again using 1960s satellites.

Look at TODAY'S satellite links when you have a correspondent in Europe, and they are live with an anchor in NY. There is a very obvious delay, and it is probably close to two seconds, and this is how many years after Apollo??

I think the OP has a point. I've always thought about the time delay also. It's also a good way to tell if those sneaky monkeys at CNN are faking their "reports from the battlefield", too.

Originally posted by m.red
i was watching the movie apollo 13 when i came upon a couple questions that didnt make sence to me. it involved communications from the astronauts and the space station on earth.

1.how do astronauts communicate with earth?
a. a satellite from earth sends radio signals to the space craft on the moon.

What makes you claim that? Care to name the satellite used for Apollo 13....?

i guess my question is how are we sending information to the moon faster than the speed of light?

Just why do you think that?

Originally posted by m.red
tell me why the first mission to the moon was in comunication with each other faster than the speed of light.

It wasnt - just why do you think it was?

I really tried to watch that movie, rented it yesterday. But golly, was that movie so lame and boring that I was like, "do you have anything else that is interesting?" I don't know, that movie was so slow at getting somewhere that I totally lost interest in it. I want my money back. I don't think we even made it past the first 15 minutes of it.

Originally posted by m.red
i think that because they are sending and recieving messages faster than we can really send them.

No they are not - why do you think they are?

Communications for Apollo were carried out through radio on a special "S-Band," I believe specific to the Apollo missions. The signals from the moon were received through radiotelescopes in various locations. Transmissions to the moon were in a tight beam to the lunar module.

I believe Wikipedia's meaning, as far as the Early Bird satellite, was that it was used for earthbound communications so that television coverage of the event could be transmitted around the world. They did not communicate through the Early Bird....

ETA: Oops. I see Spoor has a better answer. I'll go with that....