Air Travel and The Space Race: Crash Course History of Science #37

[@anandananda2277]

"The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot eternally live in a cradle." - Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky

[@terraform7365]

Ananda Nanda hi

[@DragoniteSpam]

"rocket science didn't take off immediately" HANK.

[@Classica_1750]

Sailor Moon pose really? I love you Thought Café for validating childhood

[@kayleedork6153]

In the name of the moon I'll punish you ✌👈🌕

[@anthonyschroeder521]

With this said. von Braun was well known for trying to push rockets and humanity into space. That was always his goal, not warfare. One of my favorite quotes (reflecting the political reality of science), said by von Braun after the landing of the first V-2 hit London... "The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet."

[@DaDunge]

Exactly, my great uncle (actually the husband of my great aunt) worked for him at Carlshagen, and von Braun never liked being forced to use his genius for war.

[@genessab]

Someday we will look back and see Hank Green as another great explainer

[@gsentertainment8604]

Believe me when I say this, this is the best educational channel on KZbin.

[@scottmacgovern4259]

Shiv Kumar Hank and John have created such a unique channel. It is for sure the best!

[@mickmickymick6927]

Ten Minute History is better

[@eaterdrinker000]

In regard to space history videos, I miss the Vintage Space channel. I've forgotten the reason why Amy (the host) was taking a hiatus.

[@jlupus8804]

Crash Course Current Events! Cover 2-3 years of updates in science, nature, culture, politics, and more starting with the 2000s!

[@mavortius8388]

I wasn't expecting a Sailor Moon reference at 7:00 but it's perfect 😂

[@RangerRuby]

I love this Course! It mixes History and Science...Like its name: History of Science!

[@boyan3001]

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky?

[@dahawk8574]

7:01 - The Command Module was never designed to land on the Moon. That was the job of the Lunar Module. Strange that nearly 200 comments in, I have not seen anyone point out that glaring error. But overall, nicely done.

[@arielsandes]

A crash course series about space exploration would be wonderful. I would really like to be able to live what must have been an uplifting moment when man landed on the moon via the Thought Bubble. Congratulations on the shows

[@maverickbna]

Please cover the significance of Laika and her launch!

[@JaimeNyx15]

It's interesting that you guys did a combined aerospace history lesson instead of splitting air and space in two. Felt like we skipped a lot, but I guess there's only so much we can cover anyway, even if they had been divided.

[@camiloiribarren1450]

I’m loving learning from Crash Course! Thanks for the lesson of day! Hank, is that a TARDIS pin on your lapel? Nice

[@carlsagan1377]

Boy that’s a space shuttle

[@wmcapriceforum]

Great topic but I think Robert Goddard inventing the liquid fuelled rocket in 1926 deserves a mention. Ironically, Wernher von Braun himself once said, "Don't you know about your own rocket pioneer? Dr. Goddard was ahead of us all."

[@legendofcavy5192]

The safety bicycle was arguably 25 years old by 1903, but the bicycle is way older.

[@axelderboven8893]

What about Santos-Dumont ?! Not even a mention compared to the Wright brothers? I'm disappointed guys..

[@armorsmith43]

Axel Derboven well thanks to this comment I looked him up

[@superdau]

Yeah, what about him? He built his gliders after the Wright brothers. He made his first powered flight after the Wright brothers. And all of them were beaten by others for the first flight by years. So who should be mentioned?

[@arthurdiserbeau1736]

@@superdau both should be mentionned

[@zeitgeistx5239]

@@superdau many parts of the world do not recognize the Wrights as the first as they went DOWN A HILL arguably not self powered as it needed to be pushed off a hill. Where as the other guy did it on flat ground. The Wrights essentially built a powered glider that needed the lift from gliding to get off the ground.

[@anquelmartho]

Santos Dummont was the first to fly using an engine. The brothers were the first to fly with control over all the axis. In a way, both were the first to fly.

[@LuinTathren]

Am I the only one who got excited about future science during this video?

[@kayleedork6153]

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.~ Neil Armstrong. Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.~ Neil Armstrong. I love these quotes😁

[@Igor-vb1hv]

Not even mentioning neither Santos-Dumont nor Shivkar Bapuji Talpade nor Tsiolkovsky is very biased

[@23trekkie]

5:47 - guy who trained his whole life to be at least for 108 minutes outside the USSR...

[@danielgrass9881]

Orbits above a specific point are geostationary orbits, not geosynchronous orbits. Geosynchronous orbits don’t have to be above the equator because they, by definition, only must orbit with the same period as Earth. To stay above a certain point, you must be above the equator and orbit with a period the same as Earth’s rotational period.

[@dahawk8574]

DG: "Orbits above a specific point are geostationary orbits, not geosynchronous orbits." That's like saying, "A square is not a rectangle." Um, actually, yes, it is. Every single geostat orbit is also geosynch.

[@BlasphemousBill2023]

First I ever heard about Katherine Wright! Thanks!

[@WithoutWarning32]

Let's also take a minute to appreciate Charles Taylor, the master machinist, mechanic, and unsung hero to the Wright Brothers.

[@ktowill]

Lindburgh was the first solo flight US to Paris. Alcock and Brown were first in 1919 from Newfoundland to Ireland.

[@gilokdc]

No No NO, i expected more from crash course but murica' got the best of you, another history of the airplane video that forgets santos dumont!

[@fionafiona1146]

I know, French state sponsored aviation was important for the revolution and 3 Napoleons before America reached the west coast.

[@colehartel7206]

No mention of Richard Pearse either. It's almost like he thinks the Wright brothers were the only ones.

[@lncerante]

Why do we always hear the US side of the story? I'm sure there are much interesting things to talk about on the USSR side other than just the specific acomplishments

[@EvgeniBelin]

It is Spootnick, people, Spootnick. With a short "oo" :). Not spaatnik.

[@baronDioxid]

He didn't get the French and German names right either, but we love anglophones anyway :D

[@shubhankardasgupta4777]

Oopsnik

[@avatarmary]

7:01 Sailor Moon reference 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@yisraelkatz1958]

The moon rocket program may not have been named after the god of war, but the mars rockets were (at least according to Andy Weir). Also, anyone else find it ironic that Apollo is god of the sun but that's what is used for moon rockets?

[@EdwardDowner]

Come on Crash Course! RP1 is kerosene with other stuff added?! No no NO! It's the opposite. It's kerosene that's extremely purified!

[@EdwardDowner]

Unfortunately that was only one of the many factual errors in this episode.

[@LePezzy66]

As much as I love this series and CC, I think you focus a lot in only American history and achievements.

[@dahawk8574]

Any accurate account of airplanes and rockets will focus on what the USA & USSR did. These two countries dominated the major advancements. Germany and the UK round out the top 4, with progress in gliders and jets and the first short range missiles. Your criticism might make a lot more sense in a video on some other topic, but here on this Air & Space video, what the USA accomplished is a huge part of the story. Any accurate history book will tell you that.

[@andyrihn1]

It’s mind blowing that nobody was certain that the lunar module could take off from the Moon for the return journey. We couldn’t test it on Earth. We were pretty sure the math checked out but that was it.

[@gazepreyed]

6:59 Sailor Moon Reference ♡

[@inkspencil]

Anyone else just binge watch crash course??

[@tavernaproducoes]

I'm always a lil bit bummed when Santos Dumont is never mentioned when talking about aviation. I mean... The wright brothers were great and all, but they did catapult their machine - they needed a hill, while Dumont was hopping on his actual plane, literally flying to Paris for a coffee and back. The end of this video talks about the unfair treatment of Equatorial countries and voila, here's another one! The guy was not American, so of course he did not invent the plane, right?

[@dahawk8574]

You might want to check your facts. All 4 of the Wright flights on Dec 17th were on flat ground, and none of them used any catapult. The catapult was used later, after they had returned to Dayton where it was not as windy. As for the hill in NC, that was used for their glider flights in earlier years. After putting the motor on, they no longer needed the hill. The steps they took are extremely well documented. These guys were meticulous, and that was a big reason why they succeeded where so many others came up short.

[@JM-jb3vl]

@@dahawk8574 what about Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral instead of Charles Lindbergh

[@garciapedro7668]

The Soviet Union won this race!!! Made more useful strides… how are we using them steps on the moon tho?

[@danielmazin6153]

I think it's interesting that in the past few years of escalating tensions between the US and Russia the best bilateral relationship between the two has been on their space programs. And also nuclear research, giving the that last batch of elements discovered were created in Russia using material made in US, and researchers from all over. Hence a Russian team naming one of their elements after Tennessee state. I find some solace in that the fields born of the darkest parts of the cold war - nuclear bombs and the missiles to carry them - now make up our strongest ties.

[@wesleyrm76]

Wow, this video came to the present day. Wasn't expecting to reach this century so soon in the series.

[@alvarocafe]

Acknowledge aviation pioneer Santos Dumont!!!

[@EladLerner]

Love your content, but I'm disappointed how you just leaped over Robert Goddard straight to Von Braun. Von Braun himself said that most of his work is based on Goddard's patents, as he was the first person to build and test liquid-fuel rockets. I know you can't mention EVERY person in a field, but Goddard INVENTED the modern rocket as we know it. Just a small nod would have been enough.

[@dahawk8574]

I would have settled for a cameo with Jimmy Neutron's dog.

[@taiwoakinropo]

Well said... Planning to say the same thing. They also failed to mention tesla in an electricity episode. I'm beginning to doubt many other episodes have watched but knows nothing about.

[@AstroCharlie]

While Goddard was incredible, he was notoriously secretive, and many of his patents were actually filed posthumously by his wife. The SS also took serious issue with Von Braun's correspondence with foreign rocketeers when the VfR was nationalized as a research organization. Von Braun and Goddard corresponded, though Von Braun claims he never saw any of Goddard's patents. Goddard did beat basically every other organization to such notable firsts as controlled flight and liquid engine flight. Goddard even got to turbopumps on some designs before he passed away.

[@EladLerner]

@@AstroCharlieYes. Now, if Crash Course spent half an episode talking about how Rosalind Franklin only got recognition posthumously, I believe Robert Goddard should al least deserve a mention.

[@MotiveVideoBook]

Well said president Kennedy-!

[@martinsriber7760]

We choose to bang on the Moon, not because we are easy, but because we are hard!

[@SamAronow]

*OUTER* *SPACE* *UH-OH!*

[@youngarch1811]

Came in clutch I'm doing an IA and my topic is the space race

[@Yora21]

In 1927, Charles Lindberg was the 8th man to fly across the Atlantic.

[@simonburda2021]

I'm watching this episode after finishing 'Heretic' by Ayaan Hirsi Ali -thanks for the hopeful message CrashCourse, I needed it!!

[@SiriuslyStarkidHP]

As a resident of Huntsville, AL, (the home of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and, eventually, Von Braun) I’m proud of the strides we’ve made in space travel and the various technological advancements that go along with that, but it’s a painful and constant reminder that these advances were made by a Nazi...it hurts.

[@tessat338]

The breakthrough innovation that the Wright brothers made was to use an aluminum engine to power the aeroplane. For the first time, there was an engine light enough not to overcome the lifting power of the wings.

[@freakunleashed8152]

NASA is awesome

[@columbus8myhw]

Hey, quick question about your animation of the moon flag, wasn't there a secondary horizontal bar perpendicular to the flagpole holding up the top of the flag? So it couldn't wave like that

[@Frahamen]

Of course, Lindenberg wasn't the first one who flew over the Atlantic ocean, that honor should be given to John Alcock and Arthur Brown. Sure Lindenberg was the first solo flight over the Atlantic, but most important, he was the first American who flew over. Since the US have the biggest sticks, and the most infuencial media, Almock and Brown are almost forgotten and Lindenberg is in every text book.

[@lo3769]

Omg dat Sailor Moon reference

[@ProWhitaker]

Thanks for the video

[@rebootandcall]

Sorry to be a total geek about this, but at 7:05 you say "design a Command Module to land on the moon and then take off again". The Lunar Module landed on the moon. The Command Module orbited it. (Just ask Micheal Collins, the guy you don't remember from Apollo 11.)

[@WhdibAoqj]

Very nice ❤

[@jasongannon7676]

Mity fine rant, love it

[@rsr789]

I would argue that Apollo I was the real failure of the Apollo program.

[@RajuKumar-zt2uw]

you have got the best accent on youtube, love from india, the most enjoyable things are ur videos keep doing the good work sir

[@glorylyfe8314]

Great video. But I have to say, you mention that RP-1 is extra dangerous kerosene. This is actually false. RP-1 is kerosene that burns more efficiently/cleanly it is not especially powerful.

[@mikenorman4001]

At 6:30: Ahem. "Engineering" challenge, not "scientific." Thank you.

[@dahawk8574]

Hank clearly does not understand the distinction between science and engineering. These examples, on top of yours: 5:59 - He says that Gagarin's flight after Sputnik showed "...just how far the Soviet physical sciences had come... the USSR had evolved into a scientific leader..." 8:39 - "The Apollo Program was... a great example of Big Science. Research projects so big..." Apollo was a huge engineering program, which happened to do some science as a bonus. JFK's goal had absolutely nothing to do with science. And likewise, the Soviet's putting Sputnik & Gagarin in orbit were huge _engineering_ achievements.

[@geoffreywinn4031]

Educational!

[@victorabranches2384]

How come you guys from U.S. never recognize Santos Dumont's effort for the creation of the air plane? It's from everyone's understanding (except U.S.) that he came up with a functional plane before the Wrights brothers.

[@Walter.Kolczynski]

Has that desk always been so wobbly? First time noticing it and now I can't unsee it.

[@sabrinamblu]

RIP Oppy

[@annikathewitch3950]

The space race also gave us the wonder of tang

[@derheadbanger9039]

Next Chapter: SPACE FORCE!

[@JDSleeper]

I'm disappointed that Robert Goddard's experiments with rocketry in the 20s wasn't included.

[@s.k.theartist689]

SAILOR MOON!!!!!! 💛💛💛

[@RamdomView]

10:30 There's an anime about space garbagemen.

[@Actuallyshea]

I LIVE THERE!! Merritt island is my home and space is alive and well here in brevard county!

[@manchest_hair_united1161]

7:00 wtf! Sailor moon reference 😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍

[@hakusuna]

Dude, they finally made more ground... people thought the space race ended? Hell no. Its never ending. Its not a race anymore however. Its a privilege.

[@davidkhachatryan182]

RIP Mars Rover

[@lindavilmaole5003]

Space science paved the way for space travel which is our method to be able to get out from our cradle, EARTH. It is supported by big science....with its goals, can humans successfully live in space if not travel between planets? How safe is outer space for humans?

[@reysiejaycuares5289]

As late as the 17th century it was assumed that space could not be empty, and René Descarte argued that the entire universe must be filled. This was gradually shown to be wrong through work on air pressure by Blaise Pascal, Florin Périer and finally Otto von Guericke, who demonstrated that the density of the Earth’s atmosphere decreases with increasing altitude, and concluded that there must be a vacuum between the Earth and the Moon. Astronomers began to get an idea of the scale of our galaxy in 1838 when Friedrich Bessel made the first successful measurement of the distance to another star, working out that 61 Cygni is more than 10 light years away. What we now know to be other galaxies were thought to be contained within our own galaxy until 1923 when Edwin Hubble measured the distance to the Andromeda galaxy.

[@skylight6820]

The Space Race was considered important because it showed the world which country had the best science, technology, and economic system. After World War II both the United States and the Soviet Union realized how important rocket research would be to the military. Thus, most people agree that the space race ended on July 1969, when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon for the first time. As the climax of space history so far, the lunar landing essentially squelched the heated competition between the United States and the USSR. Besides, there is some knowledge that I've search about the facts of the Space Race. During the Russians they called their space as pilots cosmonauts meaning "sailors of the universe". While the Americans they were called as astronauts meaning "star sailors". Before Kennedy was assassinated, the Russians and the Americans were discussing working together to put a man on the Moon. Consequently, when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon in 1969, the americans people were become popular in history as the winner of the space race. However, the real pioneers of space exploration were the Soviet cosmonauts the russians people.

[@iftisambalindong7381]

The space science gave us information about the methods of space travel, which is really important to know how the space travel developed. With the use the discoveries and studies of space science, scientists invented machines that couls send us in the outer space.Because of these inventions, it lessen the time in travelling, sending mails, giving us information about weather and age of the universe.

[@ainiebaldecasa8800]

A space race is a trope, or way of organizing historical events into a story that makes sense. I’m so proud to all the scientist all over the world because they invented different things that can really help to us humans in our daily life. In fact, the air travel with two dudes came from a large family which is Orville and Wilbur Wright. Before I dreamed about flying into heavens to saw how beautiful our earth is. But then, hot air balloon, airplanes and other air transportation are existed and it was being modernized. According to the video that air is not space. Flying using a jet engine in a plane with fixed wings can get us high into the cold oxygen low strata of the atmosphere. But to escape the pull of earth’s gravity, we need more power.

[@sittiealyzahespinola9303]

Space science was one of the greatest invention of science, we travel on space to get on the place where we're wishing to go fastly unlike on early ages, space science was used for a war specifically on US and Russia. Astronomers used space science as the main tool, they've made a flying machine to fly over another planet and with the space science, they've studied the atmosphere, the condition of earth and things happening outside earth

[@ernestboston7707]

It would be helpful if there were links to the previous, and eventually, the next episode in the text section of your broadcasts.

[@niko-ni6ps]

Really, IT'S RECORDED IN HISTORY

[@gavinminton457]

I really hate to point this out but while the super collider was sadly cancelled in 1993, the space shuttle program was started in 1972. You said it was started the same year as the collider cancellation. Perhaps a 7 and a 9 got conflated?

[@dahawk8574]

9:08 - What he said could very well mean that _continued funding_ for the shuttle was approved on the same day SSC was axed. And for those who remember the big debate in Congress, the argument was that there was only enough funding to do either the Space Station or the SSC, but not both. Funding both was seen as excessive by many members of Congress. SSC got the axe. And Al Gore broke the tie vote which would have also killed the Space Station if Al had decided in the negative. So we got the Station. And the hole that had already been dug for the SSC was filled in, after $ billions had already been spent.

[@TheFred10000]

The space race -what people think it was: USA vs. USSR -What it actually was: Nazi scientists vs. Nazi scientists

[@b.sharp.]

Where did you buy that blazer?

[@thalias21]

Didn't even mention Santos Dumont?

[@BertGrink]

A Wild Amiga 1000 (mirrored) appears at 6:52~6:58

[@Jacknyancat]

Hello crash course, love the channel

[@user-zw5ww9tz1j]

Wow

[@brominebarium4709]

"wait for it" sounded like Barney Stinson

[@daviddesmondlee]

Not "Total Hooligans". It's "Absolute Mad Lads".

[@patrickcampos5014]

People should aknowledge Santos Dumont's part in flight history...

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

A dozen people in the comments did. seems like more than appropriate representatoin. None of the dozen or so European Pioneers were mentioned either.

[@sleeper_san619]

Notice he didn't mention China even talking about us sharing Info. I hope there's a space race 2. Competition drives innovation after all.

[@neventomicic330]

History of Astronomy in the 20th century?? Like Galaxies, observing new planets outside of our solar system, big bang, ...

[@sleeper_san619]

Also, apparently you didn't know that Apollo is also a god of DESTRUCTION. Just putting that out there.

[@peter4210]

DaVinci did draw a glider that did work when tested

[@youriefavre9003]

Santos Dummond created the first airplane.

[@Wolfiyeethegranddukecerberus17]

Here before 9 million subscribers!

[@SunriseFireberry]

The Space Race was some about science, some about propaganda, some about exploration, some about....

[@TacComControl]

"The apollo project was not named for the God of War" (eyes the Ares missions suspiciously. WHAT ARE YOU REALLY UP TO, WATNEY!?) ((Also yes, I know that Mars Is Ares, as far as deity names go, but never let it be said that I wasn't willing to ignore something like that for a dumb joke.))

[@kekkeyan8614]

Goddard and Korolev?

[@biswajitdey4225]

You forgot to mention about ISRO and its cheapest moon & mars project.

[@haydenjones230]

8th comment. My history teacher has us watxh this stuff all the time

[@MrEmrys24]

Does star sailors really do that pose?

[@NSXTypeRGTRLM]

I was hoping to hear about some bipedal nuclear armed tanks...

[@Eridelm]

Obviously Fon Braun did great impact to space technology but countries who became "first" already had their space teoretical school. America and Russia would have done this besides fon braun works