The Lost Liberty Bell

[@AnimarchyHistory]

Here we go again! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! COMMENT FOR THE ALGORITHM!

[@gripen777]

FALCONS FOR THE FIGHTER GOD! COMMENT FOR THE ALGORITHM

[@OLDMANWAFFLES]

WE MAKIN OUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM WITH THIS ONE 🔥🙏🏼

[@KoishiVibin]

animarchy meester animarchy you're next.

[@MeIGuess.]

I Commented.

[@jeffstaples347]

All glory to the hypno-algo!

[@f104starfighter]

Gus was so traumatized and pissed off by this incident that he designed the Gemini spacecraft to be recovered on its side so it wouldn't flood. Highly recommend reading his autobiography about the development of the Gemini craft 👀

[@jamesharding3459]

I can imagine! He survived being launched into space atop a pile of what basically amounts to high-test explosives, orbited earth several times, and survived re-entry -- just to have his capsule sink underneath him!

[@k1productions87]

CORRECTION: Yuri Gagarin only completed a single orbit, over the space of an hour and a half, not several.

[@fightertales]

Thanks for the correction! I think my brain transposed the Atlas Mercury mission profile in when writing that bit.

[@Tank50us]

There are some rumors that Yuri wasn't actually the first man in space... the exact numbers vary depending on who you talk to, but there may have been people sent up by the Soviets... who came back... erm... extra crispy... But given how secretive the Soviet Union was (and how secretive Russia still is), we may never know the truth. Yuri may very well have been the first, but at the same time, several others may have been sent up only to come back charcoal.

[@k1productions87]

@@Tank50us That could have been the case a few decades ago. But, since the beginnings of the International Space Station, previously Classified documents within the Russian space agency had to be de-classified, as a condition of the cooperative endeavor. Its how we first learned exactly what happened to Laika in Sputnik 2. Also, we give the Soviet leadership WAY too much credit when it comes to backing their space program. The entire project stood on the edge of cancellation time and time again, and that was after only exploded test rockets and some dead dogs. If, however, they had killed a PERSON during one such flight,... Yuri would have never flown. Russia may have boasted doing many things first,... but that hardly means they had full support from the Politburo.

[@Tank50us]

@@k1productions87 this is true. And why I added the caviot of "depending on who you talked to". After all, they still have yet to admit to the amount of people who actually died as a result of the Chernobyl disaster and aftermath.... and that was in more recent memory. So even here, I'm willing to give some credit to the idea that maybe there were people who went up before Yuri, but didn't come back alive. The people in charge writing the death off as a different kind of accident or something. Or just bribing certain people to look the other way.... we may never know the full scope sadly.

[@k1productions87]

@@Tank50us Declassifying Chernobyl and declassifying the space program are two completely different animals. NASA's involvement only applies to spaceflight, so doesn't include nuclear programs and other such disasters

[@dictatormalenkov3522]

To remember: - Falcon hates Spuntik beeping - Hates Red in Space - He loses his cool when he sees a red start outlined by gold and a hammer and sickle inside

[@joedatius]

based

[@sijul6483]

I wonder what his reaction would be when he realizes the Soviets also beat the US in the Cold War. (See: Yuri Bezmenov interview, and Hollywood Was Always Red by The Razorfist (discusses origin of the 'Red Scare')

[@joedatius]

@@sijul6483how the fuck did the Soviet win the cold war when the Soviet union literally COLLAPSED and later adopted more and more western economics, sorry but that's just a baffling statement

[@cpte3729]

​​@@joedatius he's referring to a conspiracy theory called "cultural marxism" that says every gay, black, and jewish person (and feminists, trans people, etc, Bezmanov just picked whatever people off a list would republicans to cum their pants and buy his book basically) in the united states is a sleeper agent left behind by the Soviets just before they collapsed to destroy america, therefore their continued existence as human beings with rights means the soviets "won". Which is funny because the Russian government, whose ex-KGB head officials would presumably be controlling these agents, thinks the CIA sent gay, black, and jewish people to weaken THEM.

[@terrynewsome6698]

When man dare the stars but are still humbled by the rage of the sea

[@thelastholdout]

It is such an incredible tragedy that Grissom survived this, only to die in the Apollo 1 accident. The description of those events that I've read is horrifying. Thank you for covering this incident, Grissom deserves all the recognition he can get.

[@thecamobaron]

I've seen Liberty Bell in the Cosmosphere plenty of times, as my family visits often. But I never knew what the full story of this beautiful piece of history. Thank you Falcon!

[@wolfbyte3171]

I was there several times when they ran their "Future Astronaut Training Program" (FATP) space camp. This was when the shuttle was still running, so the whole camp ended with teams doing missions in the shuttle simulator... the Falcon III. Also, Odyssey, the Apollo 13 capsule, is at the Cosmosphere too!

[@FMAlchemist2006]

Not so long ago, new and restored footage from the failed rescue of Liberty Bell 7 confirmed that it was static electricity from the chopper that fired the explosive bolts. The electric arc is visible and in that exact moment the hatch blows open.

[@fightertales]

I would love to see that.

[@nobodysman143]

I distinctly remember doing a 4th grade project on Gus Grissom, and remember how instrumental yet overlooked his contributions to the Space Race and the space program as a whole (In regards to mainstream history on the space program). Man graduated as an engineer from one of the best engineering colleges in the US, and it showed in how he addressed the issues he had in regards to his experience with Liberty Bell 7.

[@kaiserwilhelmii5109]

A fitting tribute to Gus Grissom. Well done Falcon.

[@notarealfirstnamenotareall746]

While unconformed, the first possible human launched object into space was quite possibly a manhole cover. Before Sputnik the US was doing nuclear testing and blowing up radioactive stuff in the sky was realized to be not good so they blew it up underground. The manhole cover that was on the pipe going down to the testing site was blown skyward and never seen again. High speed camera footage later showed it only appearing in a single frame. Its lowest possible speed calculated using the camera shutter speed as a reference would have been greater than required exit velocity. If it didnt burn up while exiting the atmosphere then it was the first man made object in space. Thats right, the Americans probably beat the soviets to space with a nuclear bomb powered gun. Now thats American.

[@TheBearInTheChair]

Urgh... while that sounds so awesome, I still, however, give that to a touring German scientist between 1939-1945, and it even came back down during that test! But, hey, we still got the first safe vertical landing during our Redstone flights

[@sp4cepigz174]

It’s funny how certain school assignments can make an impact on a person growing up. I still Remember my 4th grade project in Neil Armstrong. Never heard of the man but after reading a book on him and writing an essay I’ve always been extremely fascinated after that

[@Solnoric]

I got to meet him in the early 2000s. Dude was cool as ice, totally unflappable.

[@guard13007]

So glad you included the details of how it was shown that Grissom definitely did not blow the hatch. A shame that he was portrayed so negatively elsewhere, even after we know he didn't do that.

[@Cattomic_Bomb]

The soviets didnt beat us to space, we put the first object up there when we sent a manhole cover to space by detonating a nuke under it.

[@Thatweirduncle]

I live about 30 minutes from Hutch Ks, and I've got to say, they have a lot of cool ass shit in that place, like Liberty Bell 7, a walkway for the Apollo missions, and a mock-up lander, but the coolest thing is the SR-71 they just have casually hanging above the entrance.

[@RealGracefulGoose]

Not to mention *The Apollo 13 CM.* I stumbled into that place essentially by accident on a road trip once, almost cried in joy

[@samuelmathis3483]

My Grandfather did flight test with gus, and Gus talked him into joining NASA. Ive got some neat oral historys of those early space days if you are interested.

[@SunnyAznable]

The Pig of Lazers has sent me, and I will surely stay. Love all that I have seen of your content so far sir. 🖤

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

It would be rather interesting to hear you LazerPig and Pacman discuss the upcoming Artemis moon missions on a future episode of the Even Rounder Table.

[@jamesharding3459]

If you haven't already, check out Scott Manley. He seems to be KZbin's resident space guru.

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

@@jamesharding3459 been watching Mr. manley for 10 years.

[@ENCHANTMEN_]

We're going back to the moon to stay, and we're not alone this time! I hope the politics work out such that we can cooperate with India, too!

[@graywolfalphaone]

I remember when they pulled up liberty 7. And I remember the disappointment when they showed the state of the inside latter and you could see the tape. I felt bad for the late gus. For the record. I still believe him. Rest in peace gus.

[@fightertales]

Gus did everything right.

[@KoishiVibin]

i swear that art is probably soon once i get over my largest project to date

[@TheBearInTheChair]

"... Germany went on a vacation between 1939 through 1945." Never heard it put better😅

[@Where-Am-I-Again-My-Guy]

I envy anyone who can do research and not go mad of boredom. I love history and love learning about it but doing research on my own kills me. I am glad for some of these youtube channels exist.

[@buuf456]

That strange combination: cartoon twink and patriot.

[@cpte3729]

usually the cartoon twinks are the opposite, ton of them are anti government neo nazi domestic terrorists.

[@NedAndre]

We're living in a new golden age of youtube content, boyos!

[@bunyemp]

"well keep this short" proceeds to go back a few thousand years. That had me rolling 😂

[@hellionmanor]

LET'S! GOOOOO

[@hyacinpollo3424]

Thought I'd check out your channel after listening to the 'even rounder' table podcast. I'm really taken with your presentation style and narration, keep up the good work and I hope many more people make the decision to sub! :3

[@neves5083]

I don't know if this is relevant, but there is a movie from the air force i think, called "lifeline in space". It is extremely high quality stuff and talks about how people at the time envisioned what logistics of the space exploration would be for the U.S And don't know is there is space for this in this channel but is really cool and Interesting, i recommend watching Edit: the correct name is "Lifetime: Aerospace logístics tomorrow" 4:35 I love how he resented Sputnik xD

[@Purple-durple]

Nice I was looking for some high quality content

[@fightertales]

You came to the right place

[@CountSaftig]

I’m really exited to see longer form videos from you, you should try this more

[@hippypunk]

Good one man, nothing to add or critique. If you ever make it to a little place on the great plains called Tulsa Oklahoma stop by the Tulsa Air and Space Museum, it's cool and has grown a ton in recent years, they added more to their space flight section too and it's located at Tulsa International Airport.

[@AlRoderick]

Gus Grissom's government name was Virgil, the five Tracy brothers from Thunderbirds are named for the Mercury 7. One has to wonder why they didn't name any puppets Walter and Deke.

[@WhatIsSanity]

You're a good narrator and the artwork is really impressive. You're lucky to have such a skilled artist working with you.

[@fightertales]

Luckiest man in the world.

[@WhatIsSanity]

@@fightertales Awww

[@guard13007]

Minor nitpick: Compression heating is the cause of danger during re-entry, not friction.

[@A_levs]

HOW DO YOU NOT HAVE MORE SUBS. CHANNEL CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED

[@fightertales]

Muh algorithm

[@A_levs]

@@fightertales shh don’t tell KZbin but I’m gonna watch all of your vids, and comment and like all of them. I’m gonna algo the fuck out of the rithm.

[@just_admi0833]

Finally a longer video Love your content

[@floridachess9328]

I love showing the Mythbusters Rocket Man after Wan Hu to show how ridiculous trying to reach the stars on a black powder rocket would be

[@wingshad0w00982]

One of the things near me is (or rather was) Grumman. They developed the lunar lander and space shuttle here. A dock my mother worked at was where the space shuttle wings were taken to a boat and down to (I assume) Kennedy. The local air-space museum has a test Lunar module, and an actual complete lunar module, for one of the last Apollo programs (that didn’t launch obviously)

[@DvorakJosef]

The Swine sends its regards.

[@ValkoSix]

Falcon casually dropping awesome content on a Sunday. Hell yeah!

[@twistedyogert]

Correction: The heat during reentry is mostly caused by the compression of air around the spacecraft. At the extreme velocities encountered during reentry, the air is compressed so much that it is actually heated to a plasma. That is why the telemetry doesn't work during descent since the plasma blocks the radio signals.

[@fightertales]

Thanks!

[@JacobT-1]

You're awesome! Along with your art and creations.

[@WredWolf]

I'm so glad that my intricate web of youtube collaborations has led me to your channel. I didn't really have an interest in aviation history before deciding to check out the guy with the fighter pilot anime avatar from that one podcast, but I'm interested in it now. I hope your planning to talk more about the space race since it wasn't until today that I learned why so many sci-fi things are called Grissom. I can also assure you I was excitedly being very American with you throughout every comparison to the soviet space accomplishments.

[@SpartanNat]

This may be from a Philadelphian POV, but I firmly believe that Liberty Bell 7 should be placed either at Independence Mall in Philadelphia along with the real Liberty Bell, or it should go to his hometown of Mitchell, Indiana.

[@coryfice1881]

Fun Fact so much of Robert H Goddard's concepts were used in the creation of the V2 that he was able to tell them when he saw the insides of a captured V2 rocket and was very upset to see his inventions were stolen.

[@jamesharding3459]

b-b-b-but von Braun was a totally original genius and single-handedly invented rockets! Puny Americans could never build one! He designed the Saturn V that put men on the moon while NASA was trying to figure out how to make tubes! /s if it wasn't obvious. More seriously, it's quite disappointing how much credit Braun gets for simply copying Goddard's work, and even more annoyingly, gets credited with designing various Cold War-era American rockets -- despite never being involved with the design of a single (American) rocket that ever made it off the drawing board. Honestly, getting him out under Op. Paperclip was a bit of a waste. Braun didn't contribute jack shit to the US space program, and the Soviets had (arguably) the most gifted rocket scientist in history, Sergei Korolev.

[@coryfice1881]

@@jamesharding3459 Literally not only was Von Braun annoyed the disney short that was shown here showed an entire history of rockets and before the V2 was made rockets were treated as the next big thing. They tried to put them on bikes BIKES.

[@robertoroberto9798]

I love it when I tell Wehraboos that Robbert Goddard made the first liquid fueled rocket two decades ahead of Germany.

[@cpte3729]

​@@jamesharding3459 i fucking hate how "NASA BAD BECAUSE NAZIS" is a meme because of von braun when he literally just stole it all from Goddard and the Soviets poached just as many nazi scientists

[@Spaceman404.]

Ah space flight, I feel right at home.

[@dukethedragon9096]

Man dude, your video quality and writing just keeps getting better and better!

[@whyjnot420]

let us not forget the illustrious Jon Grissom Academy.

[@WHERMST_]

Technically the first object in space was a manhole cover from one of our nuclear test so America sent the first thing in space albeit not on purpose so ya ‘Merica number 1

[@robertoroberto9798]

We still don’t know if that thing survived or disintegrated from the thermoaerodynamic forces from immediately accelerating escape velocity.

[@polaman1]

Dope video. I really appreciate how in depth you were with progression of early space flight attempts.

[@DJXelto1997]

Oh shit he’s talking about space stuff. Let’s fuckin go! *finally hits sub*

[@franklinkz2451]

Very poetic that both liberty bells cracked

[@dgoodwin619]

Just learned about you on the even rounder table. This was the first of your videos that I have seen. I am preparing to binge all your content! Subbed

[@harbingerx7793]

Great presentation. It's nice to hear and learn about significant, but popularly obscure moments of history.

[@mediawarrior5957]

Later found the capsule and recovered it, and finding it onthe sea floor was not EASY TASK, large ships are far easier to detect with sonar, but a small capsule not so much.

[@fightertales]

One of my favorite documentaries came from that!

[@gigabyteguru2452]

Guess what. We may have accidentally beat the soviets to putting a man made object in space when we detonated a nuke underground and the shockwave and gas launched a 2000 lb safety hatch at five times escape velocity.

[@eternity303.]

What is your favorite plane that is still in service? Mine has to be the f-16, as my father flew it in the air force, and was in the air force for I think 27 years.

[@fightertales]

I do love me the F-15 Eagle

[@pyronuke4768]

Astronaut (n); contraction of the Greek roots for "star" (astro) and "sailor" (nautēs). Therefore, astronaut translated literally is "star sailor" You know what this means?? *SAILOR MOON CONFIRMED!!!*

[@scottyoeskovic348]

Another great video!

[@gwilymbevan655]

Get FFT notifications immediately click Bliss.

[@darianjcarroll]

Please keep making videos, these are awesome.

[@QuantaBee]

Extremely well done! I love NASA history, and it seems we've come a long way since Mercury!

[@leonst.7471]

Oh took all of Lazerpigs video to find the the 3rd host of the rounder table podcast.

[@Moonhermit-]

Ah, Wernher von Braun. Constantly shooting for the stars, occasionally hitting London suburbs instead.

[@fightertales]

OOF

[@liesdamnlies3372]

These jokes are the best. “Notable nice guy who had no ties to the SS or any form of forced labour for his rocket development…” Scientists and engineers who did extraordinary things through horrific and unethical means should never be free from critique for the latter when we acknowledge the former. (Oh, and “a consistent and incessant Communist beeping”. I’m ded.)

[@admiralekul8303]

I wonder why NASA was utilizing a variant of the s-58 to recover capsules when if I'm not mistaken (which I very much might be) wasn't the CH-37 still around at the time,unless it was just too expensive or something in which case fair enough because as sick as that heli looks it did drink a lot of fuel.

[@fightertales]

Just a speculation, but it may have had more to do with what could safely operate off of carriers

[@TheKolian1996]

Why are we here? We all are here because of some distortion of space time matter... Or maybe some moderately evil pig told us to go here. And stay

[@F-5E3_Tiger_II]

Another great video man!

[@captainbanjo1617]

Woot, another falcon video!

[@skyeshi3570]

Can you do a video about the avro arrow, and the in the works avro arrow 2 some time?

[@salicazsali]

I never knew about this, thanks for educating me.

[@kaijupredator4063]

Though riddled with inaccuracies and full of overdramatic unnecessary scenes, i love the movie "The Right Stuff" and would recommend it to any Space program enthusiast. I've seen it dozens of times and still enjoy it many years later.

[@fightertales]

oh don't get me wrong I love it too

[@z-dog6831]

From Lazerpig

[@nitehawk86]

Checking in and subscribing.

[@sel1114]

Falcon playing Reentry (lets fucking go)

[@atomicshadowman9143]

Grissom High School graduates better represent!

[@Kippling]

Loving the music

[@fightertales]

Thanks! Karl Casey knows his stuff

[@eightnen]

im so glad i subscribed

[@Castia158]

4:57 Never change falcon.

[@armaghanrayyan]

More space related videos please

[@theoneduckson2312]

Great video bro keep it up

[@samstarkweather5172]

It's kinda annoying how Hollywood likes to depict astronauts, especially those with a test pilot background like Grissom and the Apollo 13 crew, as panicky like that. These guys were and are trained to remain cool, calm, and collected through the most extreme scenarios.

[@mikewazow]

please make more videos i love them

[@Butter_Warrior99]

History be wild.

[@35Cypher]

Falcon....what gun are you using that can shoot down satilites and can I borrow it? Just for like 5 minutes. NAFO/NCD will approve of my plans...

[@fightertales]

That's classified

[@TheVicty22]

Gosh I love niche space related stories

[@haroldhenderson2824]

Liberty Bell 7 is just a few miles from me. The Kansas Cosmosphere did the restoration and is the permanent home.

[@standardpractice6816]

i want to be like this man

[@fightertales]

Be better than me

[@Apoc2K]

Thumbnail game on point as usual.

[@joedatius]

Another great video video :D thank you cool jet twink i hope u have a nice day

[@solarflare623]

Could you talk about the one time a steam train shot down an FW-190 (without a gun)

[@johnsatan117]

There is a song called Skeletons (By Pop Evil) its very spacey, I guess, idk. It's the song I always listen to at once while playing a space game.

[@jeffstaples347]

Hell yeah, great storytelling

[@autofox1744]

3:03 I mean... both White Sands and Baikonur had scorpions and camel spiders. No word on if the Americans were betting on scorpion vs. camel spider fights like the Soviets, though.

[@clippedwings225]

This is really cool! I love flight and especially love space so more would be cool! Maybe on the Gemini program? Like how Gemini 8 spun out of control?

[@fightertales]

Gemini definitely is an interesting topic...

[@randy4903]

Is that Reentry? I love that game.

[@fightertales]

Yes it is, Mr. Marsh

[@lornamorgan3575]

I've always hated that portrayal of Gus Grissom.

[@notnamend1316]

good

[@reeky8244]

Where are the likes? this is good.

[@alexanderboulton2123]

I never realized how strong your upper Midwest accent was until this video

[@fightertales]

It's a curse

[@alexanderboulton2123]

@@fightertales It's awesome

[@thebanditintheobj5337]

Definitely a enjoyable video