Apollo Crash Sites: Lunar Modules & S-IVBs

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After landing on the Moon, what ever happened to the Lunar Ascent Modules? Turns out they were crashed onto the moon for Science!
Here are all the known crash sites of the LM Ascent Stages, S-IVBs and why they were impacted on the Moon.
Plus a brief history on how they were found by independent researchers.
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[@GhostGiraffe]

Around minute 9:30 we said “Moon’s Magnetic field” but it should be “The Moon’s Gravitational Field”. Thanks for the feedback we do read every single comment ;)

[@robsalvv5853]

Terry Winter reaallllly? Lmao

[@michaelgreene7385]

@Terry Winter Is that true? I'm sure you have proof that they were "faked" don't you? I'd like to see this proof, if you would be kind enough to share it with us . Thanks in advance.

[@michaelgreene7385]

@Terry Winter I will, and thank you for your time. I'll be back in touch with you.

[@jeffcard3623]

I'm sorry to see that my old cartography professor was duped by the apollo propaganda campaign and is therefore wasting his time looking for something that doesn't exist. Or perhaps there are apollo artifacts on the lunar surface, they just didn't have people on them since no human has ever been to the moon. Look at Jarrah White's Moonfaker series an weep at the voluminous evidence that the moon landings were the greatest hoax ever perpetrated.

[@engzualbrightside7583]

@Terry Winter WE DEFINITELY LAND ON THE MOON BUT SOME PHOTO'S WERE definitely EDITED.Why? to hide all the Building Structures that were already there when we landed.

[@markwardel6751]

Something very poetic about relics from a better time on Earth lying silent and abandoned on another world. Great video.

[@wardenphil]

A second reason for crashing the LMs was for safety: They didn't want them to interfere with any later mission. Even if they weren't deliberately crashed, they would have eventually come done on their own.

[@GhostGiraffe]

True

[@stefeniedavidmusic]

true

[@josephomelia2696]

Yes, I had read that also. Most of the later LM ascent stages were deliberately crashed, what about Apollo 10's 'Snoopy' though? It might be not so with this one...

[@wardenphil]

@@josephomelia2696 The Ascent Stage was sent into solar orbit. I should think the Descent Stage crashed.

[@allangibson2408]

Apollo 11 wasn’t commanded to crash. It was just left in orbit. The orbit it was jettisoned into is actually one of the few stable lunar orbits so it may still be in orbit.

[@TheBeardedFrogSage]

It's amazing how even though we have proof of the lunar missions, conspiracy theorists still believe a tinfoil hat crackpot over their own eyes. It's a sad world we live in.

[@wendelallen2539]

Each one of the Lunar Landers was fired at the Moon from low-Earth orbit (without humans onboard) where they ultimately crashed. These crash sites prove nothing more than that. Apollo never sent men to the Moon.

[@joshuawatling1314]

This is one of the best videos I have seen. Straight to the point, informative and well made. That is hard to find now on KZbin. Keep it up dude!!

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks a ton!

[@rollacoastaride1937]

at last! a video about the Apollo program that is refreshing, informative, interesting, and most important, NEW !!!, thanks for sharing.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Haha thanks so much! We got a few more new Apollo mission ideas but making them fun to learn is hard.

[@MrRCGNL]

Go and have a look to Apollo 11 ..... Not on your I-Thing, but in a cinema ... Saw it yesterday .... magnificent shots, especially when the Collumbia and Eagle were connecting again, filmed from both craft, shown beside each other filmed in supurb quality (70mm FILM) taking into account we're talking about '69 where digital imaging did not exist.

[@marknesselhaus4376]

Yes, this was refreshing new material and I enjoyed it very much :-)

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks!

[@westonding8953]

We should emphasize the later moon missions. Apollo 11 is 1 of 6 successful landing missions. Don’t get me wrong, it is ground breaking, but I don’t think anybody other than Neil Armstrong gets any recognition. Even Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins are barely remembered.

[@samsignorelli]

I've seen these crash site pics before...but never realized how close the Apollo 12 LM crash site was to it's landing site. Wonder what the distance was.

[@rocketmentor]

Good video but one suggested change, the title, change to 'Impact' sites, the word "crash" gives the impression of unintended.

[@gasgaslex_photos]

Clickbait title..

[@fakshen1973]

You're arguing semantics that mean nothing. Did the landers impact? Yes. Did they crash? Yes. The denotative verbiage is correct. It's only your own personal connotative values attached to the definitions that are problematic.

[@GhostGiraffe]

This guy gets it

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks Roxanna for the suggestion:)

[@TheCeleron450]

Or Intentional Rapid Disassembly point.

[@wallaroo1295]

After watching the video, I can imagine someday in the next few decades, hopefully before I die, after permanent bases are built -- that the discovery of Apollo 11 will be a global memorial location along with the original landing sites. Akin to when the Titanic was found. In the more distant future, I can see it being a Global Lunar Park where tourists go and a museum structure will be built around it... That will *probably* all be after I am gone, but it is nice to dream about.

[@sweetjrewing5435]

🤣😂😅 You actually believe they landed on or even come close to the moon, As many lies the government tells us,,you are a Bafoon 🤣

[@tusse67]

@@sweetjrewing5435 and you appear to be a mouthbreathing nobody convinced that if you cant understand something it cant be real.

[@RinoaL]

I cant wait until we get some archeologists on the moon and dig up the debris to see if anything recognizable survived. i bet it would look a lot like an airplane crash site.

[@scottyj6226]

I wonder if they'll find all the tv remotes that the aliens stole.

[@blackbirdpie217]

The moon has a "lumpy" gravitational field, not magnetic field. Great video.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Dang it! Thanks though.

[@Jagdtoq]

Presumably the larger impact sites have a higher density

[@allangibson8494]

@@Jagdtoq more iron and nickel, less silicon.

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Maybe it is the *MONOLITH.* 😊😊😊

[@ThatTinyDude]

that's awesome we finally found snoopy!

[@jwingo7257]

Snoopy still exists and has been found orbiting the sun in a huge orbit!!!!

[@Chris-it2uc]

I hope in some years they would bring it back to earth 🙏🙏🙏

[@goop3213]

Just don't get to close to the edge of the world we don't want you falling off now....

[@k1productions87]

Even if they could rendezvous and dock with Snoopy, bringing it to Earth would be a problem as the vehicle is too fragile and flimsy to enter Earth's atmosphere. If we had a space shuttle, it could be mounted in side the payload bay and brought down,... but alas we do not. ... now, this doesn't mean we couldn't make a newer, better one, but time will tell. A long... LONG time

[@Chris-it2uc]

@@k1productions87 Good idea but Spacex can bring it back.

[@k1productions87]

@@Chris-it2uc Not any time soon

[@cmdrpausanias2332]

Your mixture of science fact and fiction, with seriousness and silliness is intoxicating Giraffe.

[@onyourmarkphoto]

I have always wondered what the evidence of these crash sights would look like. Maybe one day we'll be able to explore the landing and crash sites but in a way without disturbing the area so it can be preserved as it always was. Can you imagine being able to be able to stand on over a clear plexiglass that protects the Apollo 11's descent stage and look around at man's tracks of the first steps on the moon. Or preserve some of the old cameras they left on the surface to save weight? In any case, this was such a great show to watch. Thanks for sharing it.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Yeah it was fun for us to discover what was known about the wreck sites were. It’ll be neat if one day they can send a Lidar equipped craft over the site and we can reproduce it on Earth.

[@onyourmarkphoto]

@@GhostGiraffe How awesome would THAT be? You'd think we'd be able to produce something a bit close based on the photos they have from the mission on the surface.

[@joevignolor4u949]

Unfortunately the Apollo sites will probably end up like the wreck site of the Titanic, which has been picked clean by profit seeking relic hunters.

[@Q3ark]

You guys are doing brilliant work! Love the gaming stuff you produce, but this is so much better.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks so much pal really appreciate that :)

[@echelon2k8]

Shame it couldn't have been Apollo 11's LM still floating around in space. Bringing that home eventually in one piece so many year later would've been 'almost' as awesome as what it helped us to achieve back in '69.

[@westonding8953]

We don't even know where the Apollo 11 LM crashed on the moon. I wonder if they will try to look for it.

[@kevinadamson6830]

The lunar modules were far too fragile. It would only survived in the cargo bay of a shuttle.

[@echelon2k8]

@@westonding8953 You might like to check out a recent (July 29th) article called 'New Evidence Suggests Apollo 11's Lunar Ascent Module Could Still Be Orbiting the Moon'.

[@westonding8953]

@@echelon2k8 oh nice! Do you think they will try to find it? It’s probably like searching for a pin in Delaware. (Let me calculate when I have time.)

[@echelon2k8]

​@@westonding8953 I hope so. If it is still actually there, that guy in the article seems pretty confident that it might be possibly found in as little as only 8 hours of total searching time. Sounds like that would be worth a try at least!

[@zekthesnack1093]

when i watched lazer cops, i wasn't expecting to be watching something like this one day

[@GhostGiraffe]

Haha thanks! We have loads of science videos if you want to check out our science playlist. Cassini mission to Saturn, the James Webb Space Telescope and more ;)

[@jumboJetPilot]

I spent a morning with Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin. He had a little pebble from the moon that he kept. I got to examine his moon rock. He died shortly afterwards.

[@GhostGiraffe]

He was so young :(

[@jumboJetPilot]

Ghost Giraffe he was. And he actually had a heart attack on his way back from the moon. That was the first of his heart problems. What a nice guy! I thought the world of him. For all the bad press Apollo 15 ended up receiving, I don’t think he deserved a bit of it.

[@mako88sb]

@@jumboJetPilot I read his book and it was interesting to find out that Jim Irwin quickly lost interest with flying while in flight school. Main reason it would seem, was he didn't like the bumpy air in Hondo, Texas. ;D. He actually tried quitting but when he was told his only way out was to sign something saying he was afraid of flying, he decided to stick with it. Sort of reminds me of Al Worden. There's a guy who's probably the only pre-shuttle astronaut who didn't dream of becoming a pilot when he was a kid. Just kind of fell into it and look were he ended up. Yes, it's sad that they got all the bad publicity when Al Shepard and the Apollo 14 crew did essentially the same thing with some silver coins and only got a mild reprimand. On the other hand, there wasn't much of a monetary benefit derived from it compared to the stamp issue but still, they kind of set a precedent doing what they did.

[@jumboJetPilot]

mako88sb that’s very interesting! He came to visit my high school that morning and he gave a fantastic presentation. But they pulled two of us aside, myself and another guy who was a year ahead of me in school, to spend additional time with him because they knew the two of us wanted to be military pilots. I was a freshman in high school at the time. And that’s interesting that he lost interest in becoming a pilot; I didn’t know that. Later on, I was sent down to TX to go through the EFS Program at Hondo on the T-3 Firefly myself. We completed two weeks of academics and on the Friday afternoon before the Monday when we were supposed to have our first flights, the Air Force grounded all T-3’s due to safety reasons. It never flew again. And later on yet, I eventually instructed at Air Force pilot training (JSUPT). I had several students who showed up very afraid to fly! Most overcame their fear, however, and I only had one student who didn’t. She eventually became a physical therapist for the Air Force and so all ended well for her.

[@mako88sb]

@@jumboJetPilot Well, it's great that you got to meet him. I thought it was pretty funny that some rough air put a damper on his career ambitions considering once he got over it what he was in store for. It's just fabulous reading about how these guys grew up and eventually became astronauts. I highly recommend both books by him and Al Worden. I think I have every book about the astronauts but my two favorites are from the CMP's point of view, Mike Collin's "Carrying the Fire" and Worden's "Falling to Earth".

[@nastybastardatlive]

Hey, did they ever find out where Alice Kramden landed?

[@readmore3634]

________Hahaha.........I'm pretty sure...........on her feet.

[@gpiano88]

You're a riot Norton!

[@joserivera2045]

Lol yeah she did land with a bang! Zoom! she needed that push

[@jshepard152]

Have my like, sir.

[@stevenpilling5318]

You can always tell who the oldtimers are!

[@aberrantpotato7605]

This is one of the best plot twist for the channel!!! I Love this video

[@GhostGiraffe]

It was us all along!!! BwaHahaha

[@markevans2294]

Also unknown is what happened to the descent stage of Apollo 10. There's some speculation that both in and the Apollo 11 ascent stage could still be in orbit.

[@charlieboutin3341]

Excellent video! Made me subscribe. I’ve been obsessed by spaceflight since late 60s. This answered my curiosity about LEM impacts. Thanks a million. 👍👍. I wrote to astronauts at NASA in 1972 when I was 10 and got quite a few of their autographs, some of my most cherished possessions. Thanks again for great film. 🚀

[@GhostGiraffe]

That’s amazing! Thanks for the sub! We make lots of science videos and we usually include some sci-fi gaming aspects to them. That way kids who play games can appreciate the science being done today that will hopefully take us to the stars

[@magnum8264]

I wish l would have thought to do that!

[@ivolol]

Love this type of content from you Giraffe, hope you get to do some more of it in the future!

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks so much! We plan to :)

[@mrzorg]

You just gained a sub... This is serious stuff dude.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks pal!

[@hewiy33]

I was born December 24th 1968 during Apollo 10 mission as the vessel was going around the dark side of the moon. It"s really amazing that I have a well documented event on my birthday. I didn't know that the lander is in orbit and it is kind of nice that there's a part of this legacy in time floating silently out there.

[@a.fonz.9522]

You were born when Apollo 8 orbited the Moon. There was no LM. They saw the first Earthrise. They were the first humans to orbit a celestial body except Earth. Jim Lovell was the pilot.

[@hewiy33]

@@a.fonz.9522 I can never keep track of wich mission it was thanks for the clearity. My Mom said the first thing the nuns said was that they made it around the moon.

[@rougehawk]

You rock dude. I loved this. Thank you.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks! So happy you enjoyed it

[@StevenBanks123]

I like the narrator’s calm delivery.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks

[@gordonfreeman42]

Man…I got a little verklempt knowing that Apollo 10 is still out there, trying to get home.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Love that word thanks!

[@BELCAN57]

"Snoopy Come Home!"

[@jonhare392]

Maybe Elon could send up a falcon heavy to dock with snoopy and bring him back on top of the falcon 9 maybe have one waiting to take it home that has a bigger fuel load because of the increased weight.

[@manio22]

The facts, the info, the voice, the editing, the presentation...bravo.

[@GhostGiraffe]

I was concerned by the “...” haha so happy you enjoyed the production:)

[@GJones462-2W1]

I have always wanted to see a map of the places (and the tracks they made) of the lunar rovers from the Apollo missions, detailing where, and how far they want from their LEM's. I think that would be awesome to see, provided if one could still see the tracks after all this many years after...

[@dks13827]

That's all out there !!!! Enjoy.

[@nyx7432]

This was ACE! Nicely done. I had NO idea this is how the hardware ended up, including the boosters!

[@GhostGiraffe]

Very happy to hear that. Same here we were curious as to what ever happened to those craft and were surprised.

[@mako88sb]

Yes, fascinated me as well when I first found out about it. Especially after reading Jim Irwin's book "To Rule the Night" were I found out that due to a bit of a communication mix-up, the LM PPK was inadvertently not transferred to the CM and left on board the LM. The mistake wasn't found out until after the LM impacted on the moon. Among the items now strewn across the lunar surface was all kinds of personal items from friends and family and at least a hundred 2-dollar bills. Plus one friend had Irwin include the fellas wedding ring in the PPK. I always wonder if sometime in the future when/if lunar colonies and more extensive EVA's are carried out if they will find any of those items. At least they will have a place to start.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Oh man what a goof! That’s pretty cool trivia. Thanks

[@mikecorleone6797]

Elon musk really needs to retrieve snoopy and study it.. 50 years in space has to have a ton of info on space radiation on electronics..

[@stephenhicks826]

Would be very expensive!

[@Bogolyubovos]

Mike CorLeoné never affected the film in the cameras! Mm. Mm. Wonder why? They were not shielded!!

[@mikecorleone6797]

Great-heart Charity actually if you see the current original pictures they are almost unrecognizable.. the picture quality has decayed significantly since then

[@linqtrader]

Musk will have to retrieve his so-called driver in space first. What a scam.

[@mikecorleone6797]

It can be done...

[@millstonebarn]

Fantastic, Ghost Giraffe... Your enthusiasm is infecious! I had never even thought about where the LMs had finally come to rest. So educational.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks ol pal! Very glad you liked it

[@kiowa21]

Thanks Ghost for another amazing video. I really enjoy this factual content you create, in a world of Facebook conspiracy theories talking nonsense you make me feel safe again!

[@GhostGiraffe]

Haha happy to hear that! Thanks for the nice comment:)

[@johnbatchler8551]

It takes along time to look for those crash sites I found one Apollo 16 third stage

[@maxtro429]

This is so awesome and inspiring ! Thank you for the video

[@GhostGiraffe]

Aww thanks for the kind comment :)

[@MJmjollnir]

guy i just discovered you while looking for tipsin starcitizen ... you gave me tips on game that i already spend 666 hours make me cry when you compared elite with reality and make me cry like a baby when you found voyager... just writing about it made me cried again... guy you won a follower, may it be for elite or for the space stuff

[@GhostGiraffe]

Wow that’s fantastic to read! Thanks so much and we are very happy to have you here :)

[@albclean]

Thanks!! Always wondered about the ascent stage impacts!

[@GhostGiraffe]

Us too!

[@ShadowTear]

Great work! Looking forward to the upcoming videos. You guys are incredible!

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks! Very appreciated =D

[@paulbfields8284]

We never went to the moon.. yea right. Amazing human beings ti make such things happen.. I remember that this going to the moon stuff became boring.. imagine that.

[@nebtheweb8885]

Correct! "WE", meaning you and me, have never gone to the moon. However, 24 astronauts have gone to the moon, 12 of them walked on the moon, and 3 of them went TWICE. .

[@slehar]

The fact that the moon has a core, suggests it was all once molten (as we know it was) so all the heavy stuff sank to the core. Therefore your average meteorite is likely to be denser than the crust, and that is why it has a gravity "lump".

[@GhostGiraffe]

Great explanation! Thank you

[@gregmenego2200]

What happened than to the theory that the moon is a chunk of earth.?....always had my doubts.

[@GhostGiraffe]

That’s the same theory. It came together as a molten mass from Earth.

[@slehar]

@@gregmenego2200: The moon IS a chunk of earth, mixed with a chunk of thea, but right after the collision, the core of Thea merged with (sank into) the core of the Earth, while the lighter mantle of the Earth and of Thea combined to make the moon.

[@gregmenego2200]

@@slehar Yea right.

[@BELCAN57]

One of the best presentations I've seen on KZbin.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thank you soo much

[@x86thasm56]

becouse it's ur first one

[@chopchop7938]

Fantastic! It is amazing to see what happened to the rest of the Apollo spacecraft 50 years after it happened. It's like finding the Titanic when you remove the water. Thanks for sharing.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Exactly

[@xkitejunkie]

Love this video! Absolutely fascinating! 👍 Really looking forward to future videos in this style.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks! Check out our other science videos about Hubble falling to the Earth or the Cassini mission to Saturn. We love sharing everything we learn ;)

[@potatoisland7214]

Am I still watching Ghost giraffe? Or a really good channel? Both

[@RocketTCoyote]

This video made a positive impact.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Hi-yo!! lol very happy to hear XD

[@stefeniedavidmusic]

Having grown up and watching all the lunar missions, it makes me sort of sad that they crashed the LMs but I see why from one of your viewers comments.. It must have been very sad for the people that built them and for the astronauts. The LMs did the job and kept them alive. Like you say, it's like sinking Columbus's ships Someday they will go back and perhaps pick up the pieces for history's sake. Thanks for this.

[@sausagefinger8849]

Yes M8 the Apollo 10 Lunar Module still dangling there in space time with its AGC and all that other archaeological gold.... It’s not hard to visualise “Snoopy”, in a Museum at some point in the future. Wow can you imagine?Love the cut of your jib Man.

[@gratefulamateur1393]

Amazing. Nice work.

[@inokainemis]

thank you for showing the real beauty of the universe along side the gaming awesomeness you show on your regular videos.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks so much! We feel love making these two types of videos and very happy you like them too. Thank you for the kind comment :)

[@kadj1016]

A most excellent production. I was in awe over the time spent making this! Great job!

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks

[@HalloranIllustrations]

Awesome video, but I need to point out that the LEM was built by Long Island based Grumman. My father was on the team that built the Orbiter and Lander.

[@atlas8827]

Must have been an honor to be in that project.

[@YDDES]

Halloran Illustrations The lunar orbiters were made by North American Incorporation. Weren’t they?

[@HalloranIllustrations]

@@YDDES No. The orbiter and lander was Grumman. Other corporations were also involved in the mission, but not the moon vehicles.

[@YDDES]

Halloran Illustrations search ”Apollo Command Module” on Internet. You Will find that it says that it was made by North American Rockwell.

[@HalloranIllustrations]

@@YDDES Actually you might be right. During the events of Apollo 13 the command module and lunar module were vastly different. They had to jury rig a device to help supply to the lunar module with oxygen for the trip back to Earth. Good call.

[@eatshit2863]

Outstanding work here on this video. I am impressed.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Coming from someone whose name is Eat Shit, I take this as high praise. Thank you so much kind sir!

[@clivehorridge]

This is a superb video, congrats and respect for al, the hard work that’s gone into this... And it’s one for the flatheads that deny everything just because there’s been no published photos of these planned impact sites. Unless I missed it, why are there no photos of the lunar take-off pads? Good work anyway... 👍🏻🇷🇴🇬🇧

[@stevenemert837]

Adventure and Gaming - "lunar take-off pads?" That would be the LM descent stages, which of course are what are imaged by the LRO.

[@stuartsm]

Bruh! Not gonna lie. It feels like I am watching someone present a PowerPoint presentation. But man very informative! SUBSCRIBED for life!

[@InstigatorDJ]

What about the fact that the moon rings like a bell for up to 30 minutes when struck?

[@YDDES]

instigatordj001 That just means that it vibrates, not that it produced sound

[@Mickt6]

if the hi-rise cam 2009 moon satellite is so powerfull then why all thses blurried photos ?

[@kennywall3046]

My late inspiring single parent mother "Bettie Wall" manafactured Saturn-V S-IVB wire harnesses which remains lay among these moon impact sites today :)

[@GhostGiraffe]

Amazing!

[@a.fonz.9522]

ברוך השם . Very cool. יהי רצון שאלוהים יברך את נשמתה. May Gd bless her soul.

[@chriscoast2coast1207]

Thanks for sharing the immensely detailed Moon mission Lem crash sites. The video is based on data gathered by 2 people both independent not affiliated with NASA.Great job the next best thing to a sequel of the original Blockbusters Moon missions released back in the day by NASA. Not much Technicolor looks like many of the clips are editing from there Moon mission movies.

[@Razorusskie]

That was a really fun and interesting video! Will want to share it with the science department at the school where I teach music. Thanks!

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks! Please do share it! Not a lot of people know about these wreck sites let alone about seismology on the moon :) Let us know how it goes

[@Dan123TheStarman]

Overall, a really great production! But as _Dave B_ already mentioned a few days ago, the only major flaw I found was when the audio creator said at about 9:28 that the moon has "such a lumpy magnetic field" but then goes on to talk about differences in its "Gravitational Field". The moon does have a little bitty magnetic field, but it's so weak, it barely gets above its surface where it's the strongest. It's GRAVITY that pulls any lunar orbiting object closer; just like any satellite around earth.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Yeah we got schooled there lol thanks so much for the feedback we really want to get things right.

[@see_ian]

This is very well done, thank you!

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks so much :)

[@EdWood1st]

Great video. I was ten years old in 1969. Despite Vietnam it was a fun time to be a kid! I can remember many times in school when I should have been listening to the teacher I was drawing pics of the Apollo, Gemini, and Mercury capsules My Bic pen was the Saturn V. Gulf gas stations were giving away cardboard replicas of the lunar module free with a fill up Everywhere and everything was about space and the moon We had to beat those dang Rooskies to the moon and we sure did! Also living in the Cincinnati area I was fortunate enough to experience the rise of “The Big Red Machine” It’s ashamed politics has ruined the sport for me but back then? It sure was a great time to be a kid!!!

[@Declan-pg8cg]

You've got an automatic subscription from me. Excellent video. I'm recruiting a team to go get Snoopy next year & have it displayed in our first Lunar museum, anyone interested?

[@YDDES]

Have You found any ”easy to fool” people yet, so You can get their money?

[@kevinbrookes5760]

Love this, I was only thinking the other day about where the ascent stages ended up. Great video, thank you

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks for the nice comment:) happy to help !

[@ssjsjb]

Awesome as always see you in the black.

[@bjjetrich]

Yeah, a video on the effect of masscons on the tidally-locked position of the moon would be great. Thanks for this video.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks for the idea. We will try that sometime! The hardest part is making it fun to watch

[@Alrukitaf]

Tidally locked position of the moon? It’s the moon that causes the tides, not the tides that locks the moon’s position.

[@rasho9393]

Maybe one day we will be able to catch “Snoppy”

[@GhostGiraffe]

:) yeah

[@scottjustscott3730]

Snoppy! I'm dyin'! Haaaahahaaa ok it wasn't that funny.

[@TheSteveSteele]

I had one of those “All Systems are Go!” posters that is shown at 10:58. My father worked at NASA at that time. They were made out of felt or a similar material. I believe mine was orange, can’t remember. But it looked exactly like that one! Wow.

[@alekzztenelov9980]

Eeeee!!! Spawrks!! When is Elite series? P.S. Great job! Video is really cool! Greetings from Russia!

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks! We have a new elite video about how to make the longest jump ship in game next week

[@dieselrotor]

So well done Man ! Loved this. I was on the edge of My chair waiting to comment on "Snoopy" and how You forgot or didn't mention and BAM, You nailed it !

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks man! Also appreciated the restraint there haha. Lots of people chimes in before seeing the whole thing lol

[@potionseller8943]

You guys deserve more attention you’re legitimately one of my favorite channels and your elite videos got me back into the game. Keep making good content my dudes

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks so much for the kind comment! Feel free to help us share the videos because that always helps so much :)

[@TheDisabledGamersChannel]

What an amazing channel and great great content, subscribed !

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thank you! Very much appreciated!

[@donniemontoya9300]

My gosh it would be incredible to watch one of those crashes. Seeing something impacting at such a shallow angle would be quite violent.

[@nothanks3236]

Lobby FDev to put Snoopy into Sol as a POI!

[@JulianusMaximianus]

I hear that FDev are putting Kevin Spacey legs onto the next update.

[@kiowa21]

Brilliant idea

[@johnunderwood-hp8rj]

Great video. Immediate subscription. Of course it would be amateur astronomers who found the impacr craters. Just like it will be video game designers who give us the ability to visit the other bodies in our solar system. Great job, guys.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks so much! Really appreciate the sub! Hope you’ll enjoy our videos to come. We like to mix science education into sci-fi gaming videos from time to time as well

[@paulriggs42]

Amazing ! Thanks !

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks!

[@Firebrand55]

Nicely researched. I watched/listened to every NASA project at the time. I remember Snoopy, probably the most personified LM; nice to know it's still Out There, trailing Earth.........hoping to get back home??!

[@serban6995]

I'd like to see a series with tutorials on how to use NSA raw imagines sites and how to find cool stuff...great idea. so I subscribe on your channel :)

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks! We are working on exactly this. It’ll take some time to put together but it’ll be pretty neat

[@mikehindson-evans159]

Thank you for the time, dedication and sheer effort which you invested in producing this informative video explaining what happened. Having followed the Apollo programme at school, learning about MASSCONs and the other jargon of the time, it is nice to know than more than 50 years after the 1969 landing, we are still learning about our moon and the kit which took us there. Great to see the footprints, tracks and rover paths clearly visible on the surface - a fitting testament to Humanity's unquenchable thirst for knowledge and to "see what is out there".

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks so much for watching:)

[@timholmes4331]

LPH-5 Picked up the crew of 10 May of 1969.

[@bradgoodman9137]

Outstanding! Now I suppose both the landed and crashed Surveyors can be found. The Lunar Orbiters were, as I recall, crashed on the far side.

[@GhostGiraffe]

The most amazing thing is that Apollo 12 landed right next to a Surveyor and brought back a part of it to Earth

[@anthonylosego]

Perhaps starship could go find it, gobble it up, and return home with it in a few years. Say 2028?

[@anoopsahal1202]

If these were left in orbit , would they eventually become a hazard to future craft that may need an orbital plane not to cross a LEM orbital plane ?

[@nastybastardatlive]

Here's a thought I just had from reading your comment: If there were some ancient earth civilization from millions of years ago, and they had the high technology it takes to build the pyramids, quarry, move, and stack bricks that weigh 1200 tons (trilithon @ Baalbeck Lebanon.), and make flying cities (vimanas in the Indian Veda's), well then I imagine they launched satellites as well! If they did, then they are still up there, as pristine as the day they were launched. Nothing corrodes away in the vacuum of space. (Long response, but what do you think?)

[@GhostGiraffe]

Around the moon there’s only a few orbital lanes that aren’t affected by the mascons so eventually they would impact the moon. Having said that, if the moon didn’t have such a weird gravitational field then yes they would be tracked and more or less easily avoided. Our satellites around earth do the same thing. Occasionally they have to move them out of the way of each other but it’s not very often. I think the term for that is convergence?

[@anoopsahal1202]

Man in a Van. Hello, my origins are rooted in Hindu culture and my father used to go on about ancient technologies described in Indian religious texts. Flight, nuclear weapons, space travel, video technology across continents et cetera. I used to listen in disbelief and nothing much seems to have arisen to convince me of these Myths. We may yet find evidence of ancient technology is. My belief is that God will not introduce us to other alien cultures as we cannot get on with a group of people that have slightly different skin colour never mind people rooted in different Biologies. I have a firm belief in the Christian God and I know that we are distantly separated from meeting Aliens and their technologies as surely God cannot have confidence that we wouldn’t react with needless aggression.

[@jshepard152]

@@anoopsahal1202 I tend to agree with your statements, but as we don't have the capability to travel to the stars, and likely never will, if we met aliens it would be because they came to us. The difference in our technology and theirs is something we can scarcely imagine. We'd be like cockroaches to them. If there is life out there that can travel among the stars, we'd better sincerely hope they don't come here.

[@anoopsahal1202]

Thank you J Shepard , my philosophy is based on the Bible, scientists are find that laws of physics change at quantum levels compared to macro levels, they say that time alters with speed, what else will change in different states of being that they have yet to discover. They say that Christians rely on faith. Which scientist has actually seen an atom ? A scientist can only infer that they exist but this allows them to believe in the atom , Christians call this Faith! What I am converging on is that our abilities and knowledge are tiny and there are many beautiful surprises in store , i can’t wait.

[@thehotyounggrandpas8207]

A beautiful piece of work. Hats off, Sir!

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thank you very much kind Sir!

[@neuro6164]

GG, awesome video. Keep em coming! Will send to my Flat Earther and Moon Hoaxer friends.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks so much for the share and kind comment:)

[@johnr9282]

Hey there why don't you listen to Buzz Aldrin himself tell 8 year old he never went because they can't it easy to research

[@johnr9282]

@@eimantasmerescenkovas7792 yes NASA gave him all the cameras to shoot 2001 space Odyssey. They were in the credits till people started catching on. The interview you speak of he said he is a scuba diver not a astro NOT. Words have meanings just like history (his- story.)which is a lie agreed upon. NASA admits we haven't been out of low earth orbit. Check the Nazis tombstone Von Braun that is. All comes out in the end

[@johnr9282]

@@eimantasmerescenkovas7792 you are the one to hat needs to open there eyes and actually look into shit. Instead of talking shit

[@johnr9282]

@@eimantasmerescenkovas7792 because it's the same agenda they received 190 million dollars just last yr. It's called money laundering.why does NASA own more studios then any movie company

[@DumbSkippy]

Awesome video Ghost Giraffe ! Thanks heaps bro!

[@GhostGiraffe]

You got it pal! So happy you enjoyed that :)

[@GamerLivingWill]

You're getting really good at documentary videos. Hope to see more!

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks for the nice message :) we hope to do more too

[@cronicmocker]

Hey now, Wouldn't they be able to tell from the moon's seismographs that were monitoring moonquakes, when or if any of the missing Apollo lunar landers hit the moon surface . Even a glancing blow on the lunar surface would register... Also.... I once watched a video of a. Lunar seismograph and after a NASA spaceship, possible a satellite, slammed into the moon, the seismograph registered shaking for over an hour! This led the NASA team to believe that the moon was hollow. This video showed something completely different.

[@harrycallahan692]

Really great factual information and very enlightening! Thanks.

[@GhostGiraffe]

No prob! Was fun to make

[@bognogus]

I loved this. I haven't seen nearly half of these images and had no idea about these. I'm looking forward to your following ones!

[@GhostGiraffe]

bognogus Thanks for watching man!

[@markyounger1240]

I hope the conspiracy theorists watch this. But then, they won't understand this either!

[@Flat_Earth_101]

After visiting the national Space museum and looking at the lunar lander I decided they never landed and took off from the Moon but they could have crashed landed. So far the evidence is suggesting that could be the actual case.

[@christianege4989]

@@Flat_Earth_101 Ahm, the old "it looks fake to me so it must be fake" idiocracy from conspirtards.

[@Flat_Earth_101]

@@christianege4989 have you seen the lunar lander in person? I'd also like to note it's quite obvious that NASA has faked more then a few things and if you can't see that, then I can't help wake you. Maybe if you listen to Madonna's New songs God Control and Future, that will wake you up.

[@radioactiveowl95]

@@Flat_Earth_101 Holy shit, I've seen some dumb stuff from conspiracy theorists but not them telling me to listen to Madonna to find "tHe TrUtH", that's a new level

[@Flat_Earth_101]

@@radioactiveowl95 wake up

[@AlpineTerrier]

Very good, thanks for making this, you just got another subscriber.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Very much appreciated! We hope you enjoy our other science videos about Cassini, James Webb and also our sci-fi gaming videos too. We try to be as entertaining and educational as possible;)

[@AlpineTerrier]

Ghost Giraffe - not only is your science content informative, it’s very well researched, spot on presentation and your narration conveys the message excellently, a natural teacher/presenter.

[@guytitanic]

Smashing!

[@GhostGiraffe]

XD

[@WonderingMind2750]

Thank you for the video Ghost Giraffe. Very well done.

[@GhostGiraffe]

Thanks so much for watching and for the kind comment :) have a great day!

[@mako88sb]

This is for Just MeMe who appears to have a problem with explanations that make sense and seems to have muted my comments in the thread he started. Just MeMe: "Not to mention the death toll for whistle-blowers trying to wake people up, like poor Gus Grissom..." If you're going to kill someone for such a thing, don't you think it would be better to do it when he's flying alone in one of the T-38's( 2 killed accidentally this way)they routinely traveled in instead of killing 2 other astronauts and setting back the program for almost a year while they investigated the cause of the fire? Anyway, just another pile of speculation without the slightest bit of verifiable proof. Just MeMe: "Compartmentalization. It's SOP for the military and DoD contractors. I never said compartmentalization didn't exist, I read about it in Herman Wouk's book "War & Remembrance" when I was a teenager. What I said was that the top secret Manhattan project security based on compartmentalization that went so far as to keep VP Truman out of the loop failed miserably keeping the Soviet Union from obtaining enough info that they developed their own bomb by Aug 1949, and it even looked a lot like the "Fat Man" one used on Nagasaki. Nobody's going to convince me that a project as publicly open as Apollo was, supposedly somehow managed to pull off a hoax of such a magnitude that everybody involved except the people who supposedly orchestrated the hoax was successfully kept in the dark and nobody ever felt the need to try and blow the whistle or has come forward in 50 years. Not without some credible verifiable proof that is. Speculation is not the extraordinary proof required to back the extraordinary claim that the landings were hoaxed. Just MeMe: "Succeeding on the first try without casualties, in 1969, was a statistical impossibility." That's your biased uninformed opinion. The most technically difficult part of landing on the moon was building a large enough rocket to get the necessary payload into LEO for the TLI burn. Of the approximately 400,000 people involved with the Apollo program, roughly 300,000 were needed designing and building the Saturn family of rockets plus all the logistics required to prep them for launch. Prior to the Apollo program, the USA experienced about a 40% failure rate with its rocket launches which were pretty small and relatively uncomplicated. Of the 32 rockets in the Saturn program, all 32 of them were successfully launched. These were some of the most complex machines built at that time culminating in the Saturn V with its 13 successful launches. The people developing these rockets had an expected failure rate for the Saturn 1 & 1B of 50% but every one of them made successful launches. A big reason for such a turn-around success story is the fact that all the components built for these rockets had to be rated for a 99.99992% reliability requirement. I'm sure there were people like you back then that would have scoffed at the thought that such complex machines could launch successfully 100% of the time but too bad. Just like the command/service modules and lunar modules. For example, the LM ascent engine frequently made the notorious "show stoppers" list as a problem that could stop the enormous nationwide Apollo program dead in its tracks. They did tests to make sure any oscillations caused by combustion instability would eventually dampen out. That test involves detonating a bomb(more like a blasting cap) inside the nozzle during a test firing to make sure spontaneous instability wouldn't lead to an engine explosion. The troublesome ascent stage only received approval after passing 53 consecutive bomb tests. Btw, this bomb testing method was developed after 3 of the expensive F-1 engines for the Saturn S-1C were destroyed during testing. This was just one of the problems they had to overcome and meanwhile the Russian version of the Saturn V, the N1 heavy lift rocket blew up spectacularly 4 out of 4 times with the Russians cancelling their moon landing program after the last failure. Unlike the Russian launches, every Saturn launch was televised and publicly by hundreds of thousands of people. Every guy at the controls during the landing phase(except Apollo 15) was a former naval aviator who excelled at landing high-performance jets onto carriers at nighttime and all kinds of foul weather conditions. These guys were then selected to become test pilots were split second decision making under some of the most stressful conditions meant life or death. Plus they had to land prototype high-performance jets for the very first time. The upper echelon of caliber of these guys were selected to become astronauts and received years of training with the best of them becoming the Commanders who got the highly specialized hands-on experience with the LLRV's & LLTV's. These were the 7 guys who were trained to land the LM .Obviously, Apollo 13 didn't make a landing but Lovell was prepped and trained just like the 6 that did land. The Lunar Module Pilot never got the extensive training on the LLRV's & LLTV's as his main job was to reduce the Commanders workload and handle everything else involved with the landing except the actual controls manipulation Seems to me NASA made the right choice on how to select the right people for such a crucial job. It worked so well that they used the same system with the Shuttle. Just MeMe: "All your points are typical of "moonies" who accept media narratives." Nope, these are irrefutable facts that scientists and engineers from around the world at the time verified and in the following decades successive generations of scientists & engineers had access to everything related to it regarding the engineering plus all the scientific, peer reviewed evidence, data and samples. For example, there simply wasn't the technology back then to fake live TV broadcasts that were clearly in a 1/6th G environment as well as a vacuum plus interaction between the crew and mission control. Don't mistake the difference between film and special effects vs a live TV video broadcast as most hoax believers do. "Whatever. You rubes need your NASA binkies. It's pointless trying to get thru." Well, like I said, that post of mine as been asked of numerous hoax believers to refute with credible verifiable proof and nobody has. Most don't even attempt to and your effort only dealt with one point and not very well so chalk up another failed attempt by a hoax believer to come to his senses about his poor critical thinking skills. The fact is, the vast majority of you folks could be taken to the moon and shown everything left behind and you would still say it wasn't good enough for you to change your mind.

[@Bogolyubovos]

mako88sb your a good troll. Stop wasting your time! The earths not a ball!! Wake up!

[@mako88sb]

@@Bogolyubovos And your the perfect example of the detrimental effects of generations of inbreeding. Time for the block. Adios loser!

[@graemeyoung3678]

Excellent video fella, very informative

[@GhostGiraffe]

Glad it was! Thanks for watching

[@frankmontanez2330]

I enjoy feeling Educated! Thank you! 🔥🇺🇸

[@GhostGiraffe]

Hurray! We enjoy doing it :)

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

Hey, guess what. You know that thing you did last century when you'd call a year like 1911 or 1919 as "NINETEEN-eleven" or "NINETEEN-nineteen"? You know you can say it easier that way in this century too? Instead of saying "two thousand eleven" or "two thousand nineteeen," save some effort in syllables by just saying "TWENTY-eleven" or "TWENTY-nineteen"!

[@hubbsllc]

One impacted at an angle of just one degree?? Will someone please make a good simulation of that? What a cool thing that would have been to watch!