we landed on the moon 40 years ago

(28-07-2009 10:01 )steven6 Wrote:  I'm skeptical, i mean they probably could there but how did they get back?

Landing was actually much more difficult than taking off again.

(29-07-2009 13:00 )firekind Wrote:  its amazing what could be filmed remotely in 1969.

It was December 1972, not 1969.

As it explains in the video:

Lunar lift-off film for Apollo 17. The television camera was mounted on the rover which Gene Cernan (mission commander) parked about 145 meters east of (behind) the lunar module.
The ascent stage ignites and climbs, spacecraft foil and dust flying in all directions.
Ed Fendell in Houston anticipates exactly the timing of ignition, lift-off, and the rate of climb, and the camera tilts to follows the ascent. At pitchover, the throat of the ascent engine points down at the camera and its combustion is visible as a small bright light. The clip ends as Challenger reaches an altitude of 1,500 feet.

As you can see from these two videos, it took Ed Fendell a couple of attempts to capture the ascent correctly:

Apollo 15 in August 1971


Apollo 16 in April 1972