10 Crazy Facts About The Apollo Program | Answers With Joe

[@GoCoyote]

As a young man in the 1980's, I worked with an engineer who worked on the Apollo program. He told us that when they would send a technician into one of the modules with a piece of equipment to be installed, they weighed all of the equipment, hardware, instructions, and tools needed for the installation, AND THE TECHNICIAN. After the technician returned, they were weighed again, along with all of the tools and instructions. This was to ensure that nothing was left or removed from the module without being accounted for, as every gram counted when it came to the fuel burn calculations. They also conducted a vibration test at the end of assembly, and he said that there was always a handful of loose hardware found at the bottom of the modules afterwards.

[@mattkl4292]

Fun non fact, it's actually because George had sticky fingers and kept taking the nice 1/2" snap-on wrench. We couldn't accuse him (he had been there the longest) so we started weighing him on the way out. But as you know, once you weigh George you gotta weigh everyone, and here we are.

[@burntpieceoftoast4148]

@@mattkl4292 ^lmao, thanks for that. And OP, that's pretty cool!

[@andrewdillon7837]

How funny , they found a spanner inside the wall of the next module,(they stripped it because of the fire) , amongst other things,,

[@zyeborm]

@@mattkl4292 That's why they started finding perfectly calibrated poops in strange places?

[@madmaxfzz]

Tool Control at maximum! "Where'd my lighter go?"

[@StarkRG]

"Hey, Buzz?" "Yeah, Neil?" "You 'wake?" "Yeah, Neil." "I'm too amped to sleep." "I know what you mean, Neil." "It's just, so cool." "It really is." "I mean, I was on the NEWS!" "Yeah, me-- Wait, what?"

[@shrimppasta5544]

O O F

[@joescott]

I mean... Being on the news is really cool.

[@kostarak3160]

@@joescott Not if you committed a crime.

[@yaboi7914]

@@kostarak3160 Not with *that* attitude.

[@mmmk6322]

hijacking first comment. I can hear niel say for "a" man. It is sutble for sure but he says foraman not foreman. the r is followed with an a not an r that ends the word followed by man as in the word foreman.

[@carloscable]

I always understood its meaning as "one small step for "A" man, one giant leap for mankind", even though I didn't hear the "A" I got what he was saying. Great line

[@luke-alex]

Same. I really don't hear an "A" and don't think it was there, but I've always pretty much got the meaning. It's the contrast with "mankind", and context, that implies "man" wasn't being used in the larger sense but to mean a literal man.

[@beaker_guy]

I've always liked the idea that Armstrong (great man though he was) DID flub his line (who could blame him?); thus combining in one moment both mankind's crowning achievement and a subtle reminder that we humans aren't made to be perfect. (I mean, exhibitions of HUBRIS while touching the Heavens seldom end well from what I hear, so better to stay a LITTLE humble. ;) )

[@Kevin-jb2pv]

I always heard it as "One small step 'furrah' man" like in that kinda southern/ cowboyish accent.

[@adamlytle2615]

Yah... I kind of thought the 'man' meant the "men" of here and now and the "mankind" was humanity through all the rest of time.

[@mike04574]

@@luke-alex I thought man meant mankind, no mistake?

[@ImVeryOriginal]

From what I read, Armstrong really did bungle the line, you can even hear him making a weird pause after that, as if in embarassment. NASA later tried covering it by saying the signal cut out for a split second. And you know what? I actually like that and think it's a beautiful representation of humanity: an ape achieving such a momentous goal, something seemingly impossible, a legendary feat of ingenuity and determination and yet still so fragile and prone to error. It just adds another layer of meaning to the whole thing and makes the legend that much more relatable.

[@icebuildsrobots]

This is the ultimate example of someone coming up with a great sentence over hours and right when they're about to use it, their brain falls out of their head and fails to function.

[@ImVeryOriginal]

@@icebuildsrobots The ultimate stage fright moment, performing for the entire human race and fucking up lol

[@aliensasquatch7485]

This makes me like Armstrong even more.

[@patricklynch4926]

Idk. When I say the line with the a you can’t really hear it

[@PrinceAlhorian]

Fun fact: Buzz's first words "Beautiful View" His second was "Magnificent Desolation"

[@groofay]

That is one incredibly smart baby.

[@morganrobinson8042]

Jesus Buzz, Save some Aesthetic for the rest of us.

[@tatendam4956]

@@groofay wow I came here just to say those exact words

[@adamnixon2886]

I'm guessing you meant, his first works on the moon? There is no way those were the first words of a baby Magnificent desolation

[@drewlop]

@@adamnixon2886 Please stop underestimating Buzz, it hurts my feelings

[@LMacNeill]

My grandfather was one of those thousands of unknown people who helped made the Apollo missions happen. He was a mechanical engineer who worked for NASA for a good while in the '60s. I want to say 6 or 7 years? I don't remember precisely.

[@franksavaglioaus]

I love the Customs Declaration form. But also seek out Buzz Aldrin's Travel Expenses report. Travel was from Houston to Cape Kennedy, Moon, Pacific Ocean (USS Hornet), Hawaii and return to Houston... the claim was for $33.31. As someone who has filled out his fair share of travel expense reports, I love that moon walkers had to share that pain. Great video. Hit the mark pretty well.

[@josephcope7637]

Pioneers are never "ready" to meet the unexpected challenges they end up facing ... but their grit and courage enable them to overcome these obstacles and pave an easier path for those of us who follow.

[@michac.8283]

Decades after the landing, it still blows my mind that humans have done something like this. To walk on a celestial body that for thousands of years was just a distant light in the sky... just incredible. I wish I will live to see humans land on Mars, or perhaps some other moons.

[@djbeezy]

Mankind do do whatever we put our minds to.

[@The_ZeroLine]

The COVID vaccine temporarily teleports you to the moon. That’s why I take them in a spacesuit and do them frequently.

[@chookin1]

Mate.....mate.........we didnt go.

[@chookin1]

@@djbeezy That sounds like something out of Nimrods mouth.

[@michac.8283]

@@chookin1 oh I know, I'm just shilling out to NASA. Please don't tell them I said this, they will take my allowance!😳😳

[@666Blaine]

Modern Computer - "I can do anything the AGC can do at a million times the speed." AGC - "I can crash, reboot and pick up where I left off in half a second." Modern Computer - "..... F*ck you."

[@SuperVstech]

Amen!

[@tma2001]

aye and Joe forgot to mention that NASA had one of the largest mainframe installations outside the IRS at the time.

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

Modern computers can do that too, it's just Windows operating system that can't. Ubuntu does it just fine.

[@musaran2]

@@TheReaverOfDarkness Still, fast & lean OS is the exception. The sad norm is to quickly become bloated, slow and unreliable.

[@Theineluctable_SOME_CANT]

Programmers ain't what they used to was...

[@ronhudson3730]

Thanks Joe. I met David Clark when I was a teen. He married my aunt. His company made the Gemini suits and the metal fittings for the Apollo suits. They were also involved with the transparent helmet the astronauts wore on the moon. I’ll never forget watching them step out onto the moon on our grainy black and white tv, on a hot humid afternoon in Montreal.

[@thomasbrown8468]

Cool

[@ESL-O.G.]

Who knows... who knows random internet person 🤣

[@dafien530]

my grandfather worked worked for one of the contractors that helped build the Saturn 5 rockets.

[@fluxcapacitorQT]

There are missing key components of proof of that this event even happen. Also those fancy space suits had no directional climate control nor deep space shielded against ionizing radiation hazards.

[@dmeemd7787]

that's awesome! 👌

[@MrJdcirbo]

When you say that modern technology has vastly more power than the instrumentation used by NASA in the Apollo program, I agree completely... COMPUTER power. But the mechanical tech was really advanced. They had inertial guidance systems and rocket vectoring and all kinds of various chemical/hydraulic/non-computer-electronic technology at their disposal. Honestly, you can do anything you want with just about no computer assistance, but having a powerful CPU makes almost every task fast more efficient. So, from a mechanical engineering point of view, we had highly advanced, sophisticated technology. It was just all manual.

[@ryankroeger3264]

to be fair the Apollo program was not a safe venture today we need a 99.5% chance for survive while they were okay with like a 50% (arbitrary number but you get my point) chance which sounds ridiculous to me as a scientist but as an adventurer well board at your own risk?

[@shigekax]

@@ryankroeger3264 yes it's crazy how many things could and did go wrong

[@johndododoe1411]

The Apollo Computer was about as powerful as a modern Arduino Uno that beginners use to learn programming control systems. Except it had way more signal pins and ran at 6V instead of 5V. The MIT design team invented many ways to get the most from a control computer, including running a word code interpreted language like an Android phone, and restarting and continuing after every crash (they had a few during the Moon landings, crash messages 1201 and 1202 reported to tech support in Houston).

[@jja1483]

Like an automatic watch ⌚😏🌚🚀

[@dwightmagnuson4298]

Including a ship's sextant which was needed on the Apollo 13 mission....

[@notmyname327]

I just can't believe your videos are still getting better, I thought you had already reached max entertainment and educational value. PS: 18:59 It wasn't a solid joke, it was a gaseous one.

[@russellcarter6451]

Dad joke champion right here fellas 😂😂

[@TheDoomWizard]

I think you might like my channel as well then 😉

[@Hoopfan83]

@@russellcarter6451 🏆

[@davemcbeardface8976]

Fun fact that absolutely nobody asked for or cares about my wife’s step grandad help develop the steps that Neil walked down

[@joshbreaksk8IN]

I'm just here to say I care

[@susanfanning9480]

That's extremely cool. I remember that time in the world very well. Everything about that event was ultra fascinating!

[@White.Elemant]

Nice! The brother of my dad's friend was a chauffeur for Elvis. Almost related to a celebrity 🤣

[@davemcbeardface8976]

@@White.Elemant thats so cool

[@yomommaahotoo264]

Too bad it wasn't on the moon.

[@adamlytle2615]

One little bit of trivia I love: the landing legs of the lunar lander were built in Montreal. So the first "feet" on the moon were Canadian.

[@micheldesmarais7967]

I essentially just posted this before reading the comments first. I’m late to the show!

[@danielphillips3229]

Wow amazing

[@permiek]

Very cool

[@TJ-W]

Apollo 11 wasn’t the first thing to land on the moon.

[@adamlytle2615]

@@TJ-W fair enough!

[@queenannsrevenge100]

I got a chance to see a mock-up of John Glenn’s Mercury capsule up close once - the fact that they actually trusted their lives to those dinky shells, with technology that looked like it belonged more in a transistor radio than a spacecraft, made me respect those dudes all the more. I really agree we had no business being in space at that time, which makes their feats all the more awe inspiring.

[@westzed23]

The first astronauts were military test pilots. You have to have nerve and faith to do these jobs.

[@zyeborm]

Do keep in mind that a transistor radio was super high tech compared to the literally wooden aircraft that many of them had been flying not that long ago.

[@jimgriffiths9071]

The " All Joe" control room was KZbin gold! Loved it!

[@LocaLGh0sT]

My favourite is one that fainted.

[@tbouchard2789]

Mad respect for the extra effort here Joe, you make it easy for me to hook my friends to your channel🥼🧲🥼

[@bradwooldidge6979]

I was 10 in 1969. I was a science nerd. I remember Gemini and Apollo like it was yesterday.

[@theonetruerobb4852]

I was 14, a nascent suburban wannabe hippie. I set my alarm for 3AM, and watched it all live. Despite my comments above, I was thrilled then and remain so today.

[@richardpark3054]

Yeah, me too (born Jan, '59). And I remember like yesterday: my dad bought us a telescope, which we set up in the back yard. Yes, we could see the moon and Sea of Tranquility clearly, but couldn't see the Apollo 11 lander. Not surprising now, knowing a little bit more about telescopes and such. Nevertheless, a moving experience. Thanks, Dad.

[@greasee.monkey7224]

I am a bit jealous, I wasn't born until the end of Apollo in 1972. Yet 50 years later as we are preparing new moon missions I find myself captivated by the early moon missions and the feats we overcame to get there.

[@bradwooldidge6979]

@@greasee.monkey7224 Look at the bright side. Maybe you’re young enough to see a Mars landing!

[@greasee.monkey7224]

@@bradwooldidge6979 I'm hoping so.

[@pamelabrewer2955]

I love your show. I love your sense of humor. This one was special to me. I grew up with a father who was big on the space program. He would wake us up at 3 or 4 in the morning so We watched everything when it happened. Watching this one today brought back so many childhood memory's. Thank you so much.

[@StoicThrower]

Mine too! I even remember them taking us out of class at school to watch in the auditorium.

[@ChrisBrengel]

I have been saying for decades: "we had no business going to the moon in the 1960s" so I was surprised to hear you use those exact words! It was truly amazing that NASA and the US were able to pull it off. This is one of my life lessons: When human beings get their act together they can do incredible things.

[@MarylandFarmer.]

It always amazes me that we successfully got to the moon with 1960s technology when I think of the other things we we're building at the same time and how far we come from then. What I find even more amazing is that no one got left stranded on any of the missions. They really did have a great understanding but even more so a determination to make it happen.

[@fpost4629]

They did not go

[@tma2001]

@@fpost4629 that's good to know - have you told all the world's geochemists who have been wasting the past 50 years working on the 1/3 tonne of lunar samples yet! (btw the Soviets only returned 300g - hmm I wonder why ...).

[@fpost4629]

@@tma2001 you just keep on telling yourself what you have bin told.

[@tma2001]

@@fpost4629 whatever flat earther - have you come out to your family and work colleagues yet (I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that :)

[@peteosmussen9423]

I always took the quote as Neil saying “that’s one small step for me, but one giant leap for the species.”

[@odin5255]

I'm always just sitting here, waiting for a new Joe Scott video on Mondays. Thanks, your content is awesome! :)

[@garrettwilson7653]

Im right there with you, if i get on youtube and there isnt a new video i get sad and start watching some of his older videos lol

[@4077Disc]

Have you tried Nebula?

[@fookyu1621]

What a sad and pathetic life you lead... get a job.

[@odin5255]

@@fookyu1621 What a pathetic thing to say. I work my ass off every day :) Thank you.

[@TheDoomWizard]

You might like my weekly news update on Mondays too :)

[@john_michael_white]

I'm from Nottinghamshire in the UK, and we also would absolutely contract to near nothing the "a" in "for a man". And most other things if we can. "I am going for a pint at the pub" becomes "Am guwin furra pint't pub". Given many of the Pilgrim Fathers are from this way I so love the idea, however remote, that perhaps the Ohio way of speaking originated in part from here, and that the most famous sentence uttered by any human ever had a little bit of Robin Hood in it.

[@joescott]

Love it!

[@shanonshoffstall247]

I'm from Wapakoneta - or Wapak as we say. I agree that we do talk that way. I would say that ancestry wise it would be 60% German, 30% English, and 10% other.

[@ikitclaw7146]

from up north here and, we goin fot pint at pub, i think fot fits the sound we make to replace "for a" so we totally for go using an a

[@simian_essence]

@@joescott Confirmation bias. Obviously.

[@dongately2817]

There's more than one distinctive Ohio accent - north of Akron Ohio accents sound almost like a New Jersey accent - south of Akron you might as well be speaking to someone from Alabama.

[@hisoverlorduponhigh90]

We had the courage to throw our hats over the proverbial fence. This is the type of courage that produces the next level of technology.

[@charlesmurray3255]

Joe is a natural comedian, has me crying laughing at his antics.

[@Dinkylicious]

That part!! So true! He never fails to make me laugh or put a smile on my face ☺

[@coweatsman]

Too bad Joe said "7 times" to the moon instead of the correct "6 times". Joe needs to check his facts.

[@charlesmurray3255]

@@coweatsman sometimes he gets things wrong to make sure people are paying attention. You passed.

[@danielphillips3229]

Really? The jokes are terrible

[@charlesmurray3255]

@@danielphillips3229 If you Google a site called KZbin, you can create your own channel, 'Questions with Dan' go knock yourself out, show Joe how it's done. Good luck.

[@shannonparkhill5557]

"three weeks? Amateurs!!" you got me with that one!!

[@JJs_playground]

Lol.. I, actually, didn't understand that reference in Joe's video until i read your comment for some reason. Funny how the brain works.

[@zacharyash4321]

I have been watching these for about 4 hours now. Never gets old.

[@Aramis7]

The Apollo program is my absolute favourite era in human history and I say that as a non-american. The ingenuity, the risk-taking and the solutions they came up with given available technology is probably the highlight of human achievement. I strongly suggest to listen to the BBC's wonderful podcast series "13 minutes to the moon", which has interviews and incredible detail on the Apollo 11 mission, including a detail recount of the -you guessed it- last 13 minutes from separation to power descent to landing.

[@justsomenobody889]

Regarding that whole “mankind” quote discussion... it kinda blows me away that THAT many people were willing to put in THAT much effort over something so UNBELIEVABLY trivial

[@aaronbono4688]

@@FluxApex why would you want to get it "right"? We understand what he meant and that's what's important.

[@ThrottleKitty]

It's one of the most famous quotes in human history, if the quote is actually different that's actually pretty significant. It's like figuring out Shakespeare's first name was actually Wilfred and not William.

[@aaronbono4688]

@@ThrottleKitty I disagree. I think it's more important that we understand the meaning of it than every little word. Anyway when I listen to it there is no way there is an "a" in there. Even accounting for accents all you have to do is listen to the rhythm of his speech and you can tell he did not insert another word in there. But again this is semantics and it's really unimportant. You're getting fixated on it because it's some pivotal point in history but the meaning is what's important.

[@odysseus5872]

I've heard it a hundred times in every way possible and there is no "a". And it doesn't matter.

[@ThrottleKitty]

@@aaronbono4688 wtf are you talking about remembering the meaning of something but forgetting what actually happened? That's revisionism, an objectively terrible thing.

[@Original_Syn]

Wait so the Apollo 13 command module was named Odyssey? It’s a bit ironic that the mission that had something go wrong during it was partially named after the Greek story about a journey going completely wrong.

[@davidhoward4715]

Nice catch.

[@hopsiepike]

Be like baking the Parker Solar Probe Icharus.

[@zyxw2000]

Odysseus got home eventually.

[@hakonberg8003]

Gone wrong?? He sure had his adventures en route and he took his time, but he made it home to Ithaka!

[@Original_Syn]

@@hakonberg8003 Yes gone wrong. The entire story of the Odyssey was about Odysseus’ journey home and how Poseidon actively made sure that didn’t happen for 10 years by causing things to constantly go wrong in retaliation for blinding the cyclops Polyphemus (which was his son). Also are you getting Apollo 13 mixed up with a different mission because the 13’s crew made it home safely as well.

[@cpuuk]

I never had a problem with Armstrong's quote because I always assumed he said the "a", so it made perfect sense to me, could never understand why it confused others.

[@sgtearache5303]

yeah even without the "a" I never had an issue grokking the meaning of the statement...

[@joey551]

We knew what he meant, it wasn't an issue.

[@tonyhawk123]

Those saying he meant to say it, well, i can hear him attempt to say it. At times it feels like people are listening to different audio versions. It's right there!

[@larryscott3982]

Absent the a is marvelously poetic.

[@rcknbob1]

Then there's Arthur C. Clarke's quote of an "exasperated" Neil Armstrong: "That was what I meant to say, and that's what I thought I did say."

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

As I recall, the astronauts got around the lack of computing capability by bringing slide rules along (also known as slip-sticks). I learned to use one in my teens (late 60s, early 70s).

[@burntpieceoftoast4148]

Cool!

[@icebuildsrobots]

"Whoops forgot my calipers. Guess I'll measure this hole to 0.001mm accuracy with a ruler." Chads.

[@johndododoe1411]

Regular pilots also used slide rules to calculate their travels. There's a special slide rule that provides the most common pilot calculations with a few finger moves. Scott Manley used one where he took the written pilots test this year, just for fun. Of cause as an Apple employee he has access to way better.

[@OpenCarryUSMC]

I used a circular slide rule (Jepsen CR-3) and A SEXTANT for aircraft navigation training at Mather AFB Sacramento ca. IN THE 80’s!!!!!!

[@ethanjames0902]

the misinterpreted armstrong quote has always made sense to me. as in it’s only a small step he himself has taken, but the ramifications of the event is a giant step for mankind

[@donaldparlettjr3295]

Another thing that wasn't brought up. During Gemini Buzz was the genius that brought in scuba diving to replicate weightlessness so NASA built that huge pool that they use to this day to practice EVAs. Also Buzz was a mathematician whiz on rendezvous. We've met several times over the years and he is a cool guy.

[@QDWhite]

AKA Dr. Rendez-vous

[@timcarter1164]

Joe, the intro was hilarious. And probably not that far off from reality. And the Mild Flex, beautifully done. I love your channel, quality information, delivered in an entertaining fashion. Nice job as always.

[@trulyinfamous]

The customs from is definitely one of my favorite little bits of memorbilia from the Apollo era.

[@tara5742]

Finally, the Mild Flex! Congrats!!

[@Stellar-Cowboy]

Yeah we get it, you’re a member. Just kidding, I’m just jealous

[@SinisterAction]

HOW IS YOUR COMMENT 2 DAYS OLD??

[@julian.castro18]

@@SinisterAction wow wtf

[@Stellar-Cowboy]

@@SinisterAction are you new to youtube?

[@texasbuzzard4970]

Maybe we weren’t ready to go to the moon from a computer processing standpoint but damn the preparation nasa put those astronauts through was insane. I really doubt any other humans in history had so much training for one mission.... and the amount of money spent on the training 🤯

[@GigaBrand]

And here we are 20B deep in SLS lol

[@jb76489]

@@GigaBrand so less than half the Saturn v?

[@GigaBrand]

@@jb76489 And If we got even half the value of the Saturn program I'd call that a win.

[@nate788561806]

You guys fell for that? We never went to the moon. Lol.

[@JamesF0790]

​@@nate788561806 Come on man, get some new material. That joke is old.

[@caidyc]

This is my favourite out of many great Ask Joes! The beginning was fantastic! Learning stuff with Joe…

[@derivious2012]

Fun fact, the lunar software was hardware, actually knitted too

[@jamesshepherd2649]

The excitement of being on the news i am do glad you guys left that in :)

[@BrandanTheBroker]

Can't wait until we start reusing some of those names, we're overdue a Snoopy and Casper capsule

[@Raygo.]

Kennedy: ....we choose to go to the moon, and do the other things. History: Well... he did do quite a lot of "the other thing." 😏

[@tonyhawk123]

We chose to go to the Moon… because the Russians are ahead in the space race and we need to reassert our world dominance. But i guess not quite so catchy.

[@andie_pants]

US history summed up: _... and then the citizens publicly elected a President who grabbed 'em by the pussy._

[@thomashiggins9320]

@@andie_pants I'm pretty sure Kennedy never had to behave so crudely to get women, although I'm certain the money helped.

[@andie_pants]

@@thomashiggins9320 The means differ, but the ends invariably remain the same.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

As famous as that bit is, if you hear a few lines before that, he says what the other things are (climbing Mt Everest, Crossing the Atlantic by plane, and playing competitive sports).

[@johngreener9784]

Actually, I totally agree with your assessment! I am 59 so I was ALL into the space program as a kid! Now that I have 50 years under my belt (and under my grey hair, what's left of it) I have looked back and actually think " HOW THE F**K DID WE DO THAT BACK THEN????"

[@bboops23]

That speech, despite being fake had me tearing up. It's scary to think that was a possibility. They had to be prepared and I can't imagine having to sit there waiting with both speeches hoping to read one but afraid you'd have to read the other.

[@sam1812seal]

“Hydrogenated” the second way you pronounced it is correct. It’s also the name of the process by which food companies manufacture trans-fats, by hydrogenating liquid unsaturated fats.

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

I refuse to accept that. Just because it's popular doesn't make it right. The first way he pronounced it is consistent with the word "hydrogen".

[@QDWhite]

Hyd-RAH-genated is specifically the chemical reaction of saturating C=C bonds with hydrogen to convert them to C-C bonds. The name for simply dissolving hydrogen in water is up for grabs and could be HYD-row-genated if we want.

[@Strongbadathlon]

One of the more common products using hydrogenated oil is peanut butter.

[@RamiK101]

Imagine if Buzz had tore his pants on the moon as he bent over.. Headlines: Moon, mooned from the Moon.

[@stevelowe2647]

Wouldn't he have died?

[@RamiK101]

@@stevelowe2647 Of course! Just a silly joke... I knew someone would get technical lol

[@eddieanarchy]

haha, i like Moon Moons Moon !

[@sarge420]

Wasn’t the temp on the moon 250degF daytime and -250deg at night?

[@dewiz9596]

Luv that intro! It was the “computer issues” that originally piqued my interest in computers. It took a long roundabout way, but by 1992 I was running my own computer programming and data processing business. Retired in 2010. . . The “a man” issue was written about in Analog Magazine shortly after the landing. . .

[@kerrybaldino8826]

That was my favorite Joe intro yet! Great video too

[@bfox6433]

Deke Slayton, the guy that picked the crews, said that had Gus Grissom lived, he would have been chosen for the first Moon landing

[@pjduker05]

I'm a man who grew up, like Armstrong, in the Midwest. I can confirm that we commonly slide the word "a" into other words very quickly. "Can I get a-Coke?" Pronounced "can I get-uh-coke". The 3 words "get", "a", and "Coke" are blended together in one quick phrase. As someone who values language and accents, my natural Midwest accent drives me insane. Don't even get me started on my father saying "melk" instead of "milk". 😅

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

But it is NOT just where you grew up. It is also the language training that you had as a kid. How diligent are some parents in teaching their kids to actually speak properly? I have 10 siblings. I am second from the top. I got a GOOD education and learned good diction from my mother and from other people. My youngest sister (a twin) is second from the bottom along with her twin. THESE two did not get the attention from our mother that we-who-at-the-top did. My sister says "melk". When she was 9 or 10 or so, she was helping mom make supper for us. Beef patties were on the menu that day. She said, "Ham Buggers". I got after her for that but she was so used to saying hambuggers that she just could not say hamburgers. And Mom... yeah, she acknowledged that she had not spent as much time with her younger ones. When I speak with my sister today, I wonder which hillbilly commune she was brought up in.

[@pjduker05]

@@rickkwitkoski1976 you make excellent points my friend. Well said.

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

3:50 "One of these things is not like the others" My immediate response: sippy cups!

[@dabberd6203]

Great video Joe. The part about the size of the LM was really interesting. It makes you wonder about the crew of Apollo 13 who had to live in the LM for days while returning to Earth .

[@johndododoe1411]

They all did, Apollo 13 just had to return early.

[@davesvoboda2785]

To anyone who doubts we could go to the moon with such limited computers, first of all, the mainframes that were used to calculate everything that took big processing ahead of time, those weren't so limited. Second, asking that is like asking how you could possibly cook dinner without your computerized Instant Pot? That is to say, we existed and flew with NO computer processing power before Apollo, including the X15 and B52, and even the Concorde. We fought and won WW2 with no processing power in the hands of most warfighters, though of course Turing's Bombs were sort of exceptions. The original atom bomb had no processing power.

[@jcortese3300]

I think the reason they could use so little processing power was just due to how rigidly choreographed it all was. Once they lifted off, there were no further what-ifs, really. You can make do with very little processing power once you've gotten rid of all the diamonds in the flow chart.

[@danielpassigmailcom]

actually that's not true, the Apollo computers aboard the spacecraft were used for guidance and course correction all the way to the moon and back. (with help from the astronauts continuing to input data and measurements throughout the flight). Also it could and did communicate and control over 100 integrated devices in the spacecraft throughout the trip. Plus it could (and did) restart in the event of a computer crash in half a second WHILE STILL RUNNING.

[@Dinkylicious]

I can't put in words how happy your videos make me! You are so great!!! Much love! 💓

[@davedavenport8176]

Yet another fun fact: When joe refers to the device in your “pocket” has way more computing power then the systems on the Apollo. Likely it was in your hand or a holder as you were currently watching this informational video. Another is it’s not fair that Joe’s sponsor “Brilliant” is as intriguing as Joe himself is. Likely if you watch many of his videos it’s because you are simply interested in learning. And last is the sparkling ✨ of the gold plaque on the filing cabinet 😁 Love your Chanel Joe can’t wait for the Next

[@thomascraig3533]

Joe the quarantine joke was the best so far. Love your videos keep up the good work

[@bidlisiwtv]

I almost choked on my drink with that one.

[@vishaljoshi7796]

This might be one of the best episodes. Great work Joe! I am glad I got to see it.

[@rederager]

I love your stuff. You have the intelligent comedy. It’s not easy. The rhythm is great. I don’t know if you edit your own stuff but if not, kudos to your editor.

[@randyallison3757]

When my wife and I were in DC in May of 2001, we went to the National Archives. That speech that the President was supposed to make if the astronauts cold not leave the Moon was one of the documents on display that day. It was very chilling to read.

[@erik365365365]

“One of these things is not like the others” love it!

[@scottokeefe]

My father worked on all the Apollo missions. He was given a piece of the lunar lander that never made it to the moon of Apollo 13. It’s just a piece of liner. I now own it after my father’s passing.

[@frankf1095]

The opening sequence was spooky but really well done and really funny. Well done Joe!

[@hsavietto]

I've became aware of this "for a man" versus "for man" thing much later in my life. I grew up in Brazil and first learned Neil's moon speech translated to Portuguese, which carries the meaning of "for a man", without ambiguity.

[@ontheruntonowhere]

Is it possible to translate "for man" literally in Portuguese? According to Google, "for man" is "para o homen," vs "for a man", which is "para um homen." A small but definite difference in meaning. Which translation did you grow up with?

[@hsavietto]

@@ontheruntonowhere The translations you got are correct and yes, they have the same meaning as in English. The translation I grew up with was "para um homem" ("for a man"), maybe because it was the option that made most sense, so it was the one chosen by the first translators and the version stuck. Maybe I wasn't very clear, this ambiguity is possible in Portuguese, but the translation I grew up with has no ambiguity at all, and that's what I meant.

[@Incandescentiron]

This is the first time I had seen the 1/6 gravity training at Langley. That was very cool and super clever.

[@justinberdell7517]

You're right. We weren't ready then... for permanent habitation. Think about this. Explorers went to the south pole in the early 20th century, but we didnt create a permanent installation until 50 years later. Its pretty normal to begin with just getting there no matter what just to do it, and then later, when technology is ready, going for good

[@Zach-ku6eu]

By far, this is your best intro ever!

[@saimonmanalo]

I am still upset that we always forget about the third crew that had to orbit the moon alone... He was technically became the loneliest man on the world when the vehicle was on the farside of the moon cuz signals can't be reach there... Gotta give him more credits cuz without him the other two wouldn't be able to go to home

[@sassafrassiest]

Hey Joe! I’ve been a fan since 2018. I actually commented on one of your videos saying it was great distraction because I was so nervous about a job interview for my dream job. And you said good luck! I was so surprised that you took the time to reply, and it made my day. Well, I got the job. And I kicked butt at it for two years. And then, back in May, I interviewed for my NEXT dream job. I got that, too! And even though I’m working 70 hours a week right now, I’m so happy. And I still love your videos. Thanks for being an awesome way to nerd out in my spare time.

[@JGott0001]

I really enjoy seeing KZbinrs cite, shoutout, and collaborate with others. I know it probably helps the channel's own marketing or to appease the algorithm, but it's still cool to see a sense of community and commonality.

[@epifunny1]

He says remembering that it was really the ‘competition’ of the USA-USSR space race that even brought up the idea of going to the moon in the first place.

[@Rechtauch]

Automatic subtitles read "diabetes for mankind" 😀

[@jeremydecker4547]

No, I don't think that we were "ready" but mostly as prepared as we could be for something so monumental as the moon shot. The fact that we were technologically in our infancy when it came to space, and still put men on our only satellite planet, it is a testament to human resolve to touch the unknown, ready or not. Love your content and your humor! Keep up the great work!

[@cannibalbananas]

I dunno, I've always understood the difference of man vs mankind as "1 man vs all of the species". Also, love your videos, Joe, and all the knowledge you pass along. 👍

[@icebuildsrobots]

Maker here. TO BE FAIR all the Apollo computer had to do was simple PID based thruster control and also some basic math so it only would have needed to have the processing power of an Atmel microcontroller. It didn't have to be powerful. It just had to work.

[@wrightmf]

I read Chris Kraft mentioned just after Kennedy's moon challenge, he thought "we don't even know how to communicate a distance of 250,000 miles." I was thinking RF guys had to come up with the technology of compact UHF and 2.1 GHz radios and the antennas from scratch. Think of all the all-nighters these guys endured. Years ago an engineer gave a presentation to local college IEEE club, when he graduated in 1961, instantly got a job with North American, they put him in with a "bunch of antenna/microwave guys" in a mobile home alongside the main buildings. Sleeping on the moon... Gene Cernan wrote it was difficult for him to sleep because "we're on the freakin' moon!" while Schmitt easily dozed off. The Apollo computer vs phone technology is a bad analogy. It completely missed the point. Apollo computer ran on vehicle that had a lot more horsepower than anything else. And most importantly Apollo program had an infrastructure of immense size (and organized by George Low, Bob Gilruth, and others with James Webb able to get the money). Unlike Korolev couldn't get funding from the Politburo so their moon program was weak. It's 2021 and we are still faced with "if we can put a man on the moon, how come we cannot put a man on the moon." Because the infrastructure is not as strong, political goals are out of sync. SpaceX may do it as it seems Musk understands the most difficult is the factory and launch pad, not the spacecraft itself.

[@burntpieceoftoast4148]

I absolutely love the stories in these comments!

[@Scott_C]

After hearing about the tight interior of the LEM, the Starship should feel like a palace.

[@mmickle6191]

No matter how you think about it, one of the best features of the Apollo program is just how bonkers it was! 😄

[@WilliamBrowning]

A conversation that never happened: Caveman 1: I'm going to explore outside the cave today. Caveman 2: No, you need to stay here so we solve our cave problems.

[@WilliamBrowning]

@Mudkip909 Racist against cavemen? CANCELLED! :)

[@Otis-Spunks]

Saying "we weren't ready" is on the same level of saying any explorer ever was not "ready" for their voyages either. You should instead say that they were not ready according to your own 21st century standards.

[@donrobertson4940]

Exactly. Columbus wasn't ready to sail to Asia. But if he hadn't gone, he wouldn't have not found America.

[@superfluous9726]

*Neil Armstrong walking on the moon* : "Just like the simulations."

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

It was nothing like the simulations; he couldn't stop gushing about all the things they didn't expect!

[@MrT------5743]

@@TheReaverOfDarkness I would never use the term 'gushing' about anything Neil did or said. Even after he crashed of the LLRV he went back to work.

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

@@MrT------5743 Yeah, because he loved his job! He gushed about it all the time when not at work!

[@MrT------5743]

@@TheReaverOfDarkness tell me you know nothing about Neil without saying it. Nothing about Neil's personality would ever be described as gushing.

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

@@MrT------5743 Then you don't know me. I don't go by such coarse external signals, but what the person is clearly feeling inside. I didn't say he was a valley girl, I said he was proud of his work.

[@4thfrom7]

"Mom, look! I'm on the news!" - Lance Armstrong Excellent video, as usual!

[@Attila_Beregi]

all of these are super interesting but the customs declaration one was hilarious :D

[@joesterling4299]

I always heard "small step for *a* man." I'm from the same region of the country as Neil; so I guess that's why I was never confused.

[@angiev8836]

THE BEGINNING SKIT IS MY NEW FAVORITE THEY KEEP GETTING BETTER

[@anthonynonya]

When I was a young man we used to say "the eagle has landed" when we scored some pot. It wasn't until later I learned the luner lander was named eagle and I thought "ohhhhhh I get it now" hahaha

[@thomasdeas1941]

History brings perspective. Not brain cells.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

One of my favorite strains is called Apollo 11 (with a sister strain being Apollo 13). I suspect I'd like the 13 more, but 11 is what I've had my hands on so far.

[@ontheruntonowhere]

@@BaronVonQuiply Apollo 13 will absolutely blow your access panel.

[@oscarwatkins4696]

That beautiful opening sketch gave me a good chuckle!

[@1happypiranha]

I’m newly subscribed so haven’t seen all your videos but I have a suggestion; the computer on the Apollo spacecrafts was primitive yet brilliantly programmed. If you haven’t done a video on that, and if that’s up your alley, could you do one on that?

[@larrylambert1220]

Imagine going back to the moon, and the aliens living there telling us to pick up our trash.

[@paulknight5018]

This should have been sponsored by an underwear company!

[@PrinceAlhorian]

I laughed too hard at this.

[@mr.boomguy]

That would've been perfect!

[@fm9572]

Joe, I was born and grew up with the space race. I got my first desktop computer in 1978, one year after the launch of the Voyager probes. It was a TRS-80 'Model-I' with 4 KILOBYTES of RAM, and no internal hard storage. It had a modified connector to an old school tape recorder, it used for program storage. I learned BASIC on it, and "c" on the Apple II-e (a whopping 128 kilobytes of RAM, and a 5 1/4" *Dual* Floppy Drive) at middle school. Those who trash talk Windows have never used early DOS, where everything was done by command prompt. "Good old days" my pimpled right buttcheeck. The early Apollo missions may as well have been using sextants and analog paper calculators for guidance. *CoffApolloElevenCoff*

[@johndododoe1411]

Apollo spacecraft did use sextants to fine tune the navigation. The sextant was connected to the computer and the Astronaut had to push a button when the two lenses pointed to the two landmarks highlighted on their paper map. Some of those landmarks were stars, some were big things on Earth.

[@VaderBrasil]

Hi Joe, I'm from Brazil and would love to see more of your videos about the Apollo Program, especially about the missions after Apollo XIII, which many of us know very little about. Brazilian greetings.

[@dannydetonator]

You'd better be patreoning Joe, to get your idea pushed into production. There is heaps of content on YT and other places internet, if you're bom enough en ingles to search.

[@burntpieceoftoast4148]

@@dannydetonator sure, but not everyone can afford that, darlin.

[@flexabigg1]

You rock as always! Thanks for the laughs and informative video. Love your work.

[@DeputyNordburg]

Fantastic video. But... Please keep in mind the computer in the Apollo spacecraft was not the computer calculating their path to the moon. Apollo calculations were done on the ground in the "real time Flight Center" a building full of massive IBM computers, and next door to Mission Control.

[@markegan8784]

As a kid I asked Neil about his famous quote. He simply said, “I know what I meant”.

[@johnregel]

wow. I'm beyond jealous that you got to converse with him. That's insanely cool.

[@markegan8784]

@@johnregel my older brother married his niece. I wasn’t supposed to ask him “moon” questions when I saw him because it’s all he ever got… I immediately went to him and asked him moon questions every time.

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

@@markegan8784 And now you know why he never put you in his will.

[@markegan8784]

@@davidanderson_surrey_bc as a kid I got an 8x10 autographed picture that I spilled my Father’s coffee on. Years later I asked him to sign a book… and I never got the book back 😂. What I did get was the opportunity to listen to Neil and my father talk about the Korean War on the front porch. My father was one of the Marines cutoff by the Chinese at the Chosin Reservoir and Neil was fighting in the skies above him. I would just listen for what seemed like minutes but was probably hours. Dad never mentioned the moon. He told me something like, “to have a conversation both people have to have some understanding and experience of what’s being discussed. To ask him about the moon is to ask him to give a lecture - he’s understandably tired of giving them.”

[@michaelpipkin9942]

Through all of my fantasies going into space, I never thought of being stuck in a box of farts.

[@juthan0]

A great example of why waiting for the “right time” can be the wrong approach completely. I love the the quote from the script for the movie “Apollo 13”. “From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And it’s not a miracle. We just decided to go.” Human ingenuity is an incredible thing.

[@vartikamandan4215]

Really like this channel. It's very informative and live the way he explains all topics in very interesting way.👍👍👍

[@nolansprojects2840]

That intro is how techs and engineers at spacex feel when elon announces stuff like “we are gonna catch the booster” 😂