How NASA Learned to Land on the Moon

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@TodayIFoundOut Ай бұрын

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@mysticmikeable Ай бұрын

???... Height 363 feet NOT 282 feet! - Please get facts at least close....!!!

@mingfanzhang4600 Ай бұрын

😊😊

@mingfanzhang8927 Ай бұрын

😊

@ohasis8331 Ай бұрын

Quite a detailed and in depth treatise, thank you.

@mingfanzhang4600 Ай бұрын

@@mingfanzhang8927 #KFC

@thelittlehooer Ай бұрын

I love Tom Hanks' line in Apollo 13: "It's not a miracle, we just decided to go" Also the line in The Martian book: "What would an Apollo astronaut do? He'd drink a couple of whisky sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad, and fly to the moon in a capsule the size of my toilet. Man those guys were cool!!!"

@Jimmysage3273 Ай бұрын

🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸

@daryllect6659 26 күн бұрын

It never happened. No human has ever been on the lunar surface.

@SwaggyScallywag 25 күн бұрын

Surprised the Russians or anyone didn't make their own movie. Can't be faker than the NASA one

@alexjonessellsvitimins 24 күн бұрын

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@daryllect6659 23 күн бұрын

@@Jimmysage3273 BFD BFD BFD

@elwizschold Ай бұрын

The thing that gives me chills about Apollo 11 is the amount of time Collins spent practicing piloting back to Earth alone, as they weren't 100% sure Armstrong and Aldrin would make it back - so Collins had to be able to go back home alone.

@aemrt5745 Ай бұрын

He acknowledged that was his biggest fear of the mission.

@chrislong3938 29 күн бұрын

He also still holds the record for the loneliest man in history!

@ConsciousAtoms 29 күн бұрын

@@chrislong3938 No he does not. The Command module pilots of later Apollo missions flew solo in the CSM for a much longer time.

@mmicoski 29 күн бұрын

To go Home Alone... he should talk with Macaulay Culkin ... or maybe the other way around. 😂

@FrankyPi 27 күн бұрын

@@ConsciousAtoms Alfred Worden on Apollo 15 holds the record as he was the furthest from anyone when orbiting above the far side.

@004Black Ай бұрын

Although delivered at a blazing vocal pace, this long-form video was well worth the time. I was but eight years old when I watched with keen interest the first steps on the moon. It left me yearning to become an airplane pilot. My plans were dashed by 1973. My vision failed me and required corrective lenses. Simon and crew filled in all the missing holes in my recollection of the Apollo missions.

@rcnfo1197 Ай бұрын

Set the playback speed to 0.75x. That works for me and is less exhausting to listen to the narration. Anyone interested in the subject shouldn't mind the extra time.

@daisyoscarshow8368 26 күн бұрын

@@rcnfo1197great hint much appreciated

@Lurch-Bot 20 күн бұрын

I've never heard anyone cover the Apollo program quite like this.

@Matt.Thompson.1976 12 күн бұрын

@@rcnfo1197 Never thought Simon talks too fast.....he does talk too slow, and sound 'retarded' set to X0.75 though. It's bizarre to me you would rather listen 'slow and spooky' than normal. Whatever blows up your skirt man.

@Matt.Thompson.1976 12 күн бұрын

Never thought Simon talks too fast. Are you actually watching, or just listening?

@jasonmaclean719 28 күн бұрын

I don't care how advanced technology has come or what we can do currently. Pulling this off back then will never not be fascinating and incredible.

@itarry4 27 күн бұрын

Yhea I've always been amazed how they not only managed to design and build the things needed but that they were able to land on the moon despite using computing and processing power that wouldn't even be enough to allow us to even turn our computers on these days and that we all walk around with devices in our pockets that are vastly more capable and able than the stuff they managed to do that with. Those programmes must have been so well written, so precise and clever and we can't even write stuff that's as stable today despite having access to all the processing power and drive space we could ever need.

@jasonmaclean719 27 күн бұрын

@itarry4 arguably the last remnants of the greatest generation. The men who did the most with the least because it was the right thing to do.

@davidgeisler9885 26 күн бұрын

@@itarry4 their computer was designed to do very specific very few number of things. our phones do 1,000 different things

@itarry4 26 күн бұрын

@davidgeisler9885 yhea OK but never mind a smartphone, a calculator released in 2004 had 32 times more RAM and 14.500 times more ROM than the computer they used for the guidance, navigation, and control of the spacecraft. A spacecraft that took them to the moon and got them safely back again. The actual landing craft had even less ROM and RAM than the spacecraft. We're talking about them having to write programs that helped to guide, navigate and control the spacecraft on computers with memory able to store only 32,786 bits, when a single alphabetical character typically requires 8 bits to be stored. That means the Apollo 11 computer wouldn't even be able to store a 1000 word essay on its memory. It also had a processor which ran at only 0.043 MHz, which is several million times less than the iPhone, and that had to exacut the programs, process all the data and manage the data flow and they had to ensure that the programs they wrote were well enough written to not only run on it but run well and with no bugs, delays or failures. I don't think it matters it only had to do very specific tasks when they had so little memory and so little processing power. They had less than around 4100 characters to do it all with and such a ridiculously small amount of processing power to run it all. They couldn't afford a character out of place.

@daryllect6659 26 күн бұрын

It never happened. No human has ever been on the lunar surface.

@critterjon4061 Ай бұрын

I like how people think that the first moon landing is fake yet nobody seems question yuri gagarin went to space despite the Soviets never presenting any evidence to support it

@24934637 Ай бұрын

They always fail to take into account that it happened during the Cold War, and the Soviet Union had tracking equipment. IF the Soviets had discovered ANYTHING at all that put any doubt into the American claims, they'd have been all over it! The sheer number of people who were involved and would have had to be kept quiet about a fake just wouldn't be possible, especially for this length of time. I honestly believe that faking it would have been more of a challenge than a genuine manned moon landing.

@BlackEpyon Ай бұрын

The Soviets themselves confirmed, using their own radio telescopes, that Apollo 11 reached and landed on the moon. That on its own should remove any doubt.

@Rich-fr2yv Ай бұрын

It's clearly fake. Like birds and Avril Lavine

@alieffauzanrizky7202 Ай бұрын

Weird that the first claim of a fake moon landing was from the Soviets too. Coincidence?

@cardboard9124 Ай бұрын

@@alieffauzanrizky7202 they tracked and confirmed apollo buddy

@wmffmw Ай бұрын

We lived in Cocoa Beach in the 1960's. My father, our friends and neighbors made Apollo happen. An interesting time.

@hunterhalo2 Ай бұрын

To say the least

@itsme-qk2vb 29 күн бұрын

400.000 people worked on the moon landing

@Tevye123 26 күн бұрын

We lived in Cocoa mainland. My father did the telemetry for Apollo.

@uuzd4s Ай бұрын

Very Well Done on the detail given here. I have personal knowledge of the Apollo LEM throttleable rocket engines, built by TRW, for Grumman's LEM. A fellow who managed those TRW Rocket Scientists is a close friend of mine. I was going to mention the cause of the 1201 & 1202 alarms experienced by Neil & Buzz during the decent to the Lunar surface in the LEM, but you had correctly named the cause, something I've never heard anyone get correct before. It was Aldrin who turned on too many Radars outside of the checklist and caused those alarms, but he allegedly never admitted to it. Aldrin also put up an argument, on more than one occasion, that he should be the first to exit the LEM and make the first footprints. Armstrong was given the option to not fly w/ Aldrin but chose to do so anyways to avoid scheduling issues w/ other Astronauts on later flights.

@Steven_Edwards 5 күн бұрын

It is a shame Aldrin's ego sabotaged his stature and opportunity on a few occasions. I heard it said they specifically didn't want Aldrin to do it more than they had wanted Armstrong to be the one to make the first steps. That being said, age has a way of refining people and their character and Aldrin has managed to make a respectable name for himself and not just as the number 2 man. Maybe if he knew people would eventually have just as much respect for him for his contributions to orbital mechanics (something the other astronauts were reported to hate about him because he loved talking about his PHD on Lunar Rendezvous), and his advocacy for space and the future Mars missions. By contrast, I don't think less of Armstrong but do wish maybe he was a bit less humble and outgoing as for most of my life growing up (as a spacenut kid), I never heard Armstrong giving public speeches, of showing up at future NASA stuff or advocating strongly with corporations and universities. He just wasn't good at parlaying his place in history as much as he could have been to continue to do more great works.

@jessetorres8738 Ай бұрын

I went to Space Camp when I was a kid & learned that underneath all of the gray dust there is orange soil on The Moon, but because it lacks an atmosphere nothing can grow on it. This was discovered during the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, which was the last manned mission to The Moon. I also learned that the hardest part about making the moon rover vehicles was assembling the chairs due to their weight. The guys designing the vehicles were on a break sitting in lawn chairs when 1 of them basically said "Let's just slap 2 lawn chairs on the vehicle," & it worked since that's what they used on the vehicles for the next few Moon missions.

@jc6800 Ай бұрын

It's orange cause it's rusting? Isn't it made of iron?

@Slepnair Ай бұрын

@@jc6800it can't be rusting. Rust is caused by oxidation of metal which requires oxygen and moisture.

@jayyy4491 28 күн бұрын

No, orange soil is rare on the Moon and is localized to specific regions associated with ancient volcanic activity. Most of the Moon’s surface is covered in grayish regolith made of pulverized rock and dust from billions of years of meteorite impacts. Yes, the Moon appears to be rusting in some regions, particularly at its poles. This phenomenon was first discovered in 2020 through data from the Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter. Rusting occurs when iron reacts with oxygen and water to form iron oxide, commonly known as rust. It’s unusual. Scientists suggest that Earth’s oxygen, transported to the Moon via Earth’s magnetic tail (a region extending from Earth’s magnetic field), may be responsible. During certain times, the Moon passes through this tail, shielding it from solar wind and allowing Earth’s oxygen to interact with lunar minerals. The presence of trace amounts of water on the Moon may also contribute to the process. This discovery is surprising and highlights the Moon’s complex interactions with Earth and space.

@muttfist 27 күн бұрын

you guys are all morons. That is cheese smh

@daryllect6659 23 күн бұрын

Great story, bro!

@mcapps1 29 күн бұрын

What blows my mind is, from Man's first flight to Man's first flight to the Moon IS ONLY 60 YEARS.

@maxderp6588 27 күн бұрын

It'll take even longer for SpaceX 😂😅

@daryllect6659 26 күн бұрын

It never happened. No human has ever been on the lunar surface.

@kaijupredator4063 26 күн бұрын

@@daryllect6659You're an idiot 🙄 Yes we have, several times even. The evidence left behind is still there. China and India have both recently observed the Apollo base remnants from lunar orbit.

@markusszelbracikowski956 24 күн бұрын

The eternal pursuit of one more challenge isn't it

@daryllect6659 24 күн бұрын

@@kaijupredator4063 There is no evidence that humans have walked, or even been on, the lunar surface.

@billwyman9780 26 күн бұрын

My brain can't keep up with the number of words this guy continues to expel nonstop.

@permasun1 24 күн бұрын

Reduce KZbin playback speed in Settings. You’re welcome

@ez_company9325 24 күн бұрын

Neither can his. @30:28 or so he says lunar podule milot lol

@alexjonessellsvitimins 24 күн бұрын

@THEfonz-s5u 23 күн бұрын

@@permasun1 then he sounds drunk

@davidmirabal1994 22 күн бұрын

Yeah, I can see how intelligent people can be intimidating to you

@wmffmw Ай бұрын

My mother made a set of living room curtains lined with gold coated mylar from scraps of LEM Insulation. There were left over pieces from cutting and fitting gold anodized mylar sheets.

@montylc2001 21 күн бұрын

There was no gold in it.

@drakefarley53 20 күн бұрын

😂😂😂 no she didn't shut the fuck up and there was infact no gold anywhere on the sheets you stupid fuck

@robertpearson8798 27 күн бұрын

The development troubles with the F1 engines would make a good video subject on its own.

@victorthecarguy3126 21 күн бұрын

Would lobe to test one with modern instrumentation.

@richard-davies Ай бұрын

Here come all the people who think it’s fake as well as flat earthers. People who think it’s fake are an insult to humanity, as it’s so far one of our biggest achievements.

@Bertinator-nm9ld Ай бұрын

It's frustrating how much more common conspiratorial thinking has become, in this past decade. Nothing can ever just happen ever again. Everything has to be a conspiracy. Coincidences no longer exist

@KenDAKL4ever Ай бұрын

You are entitled to your opinion just like I am. The Moon Landing is a sham and I'm not falling for it. Common sense tells me that if they can land on the moon in 1969, why can't they land now? No interest in exploring the Moon anymore? The excuses NASA has given us makes no sense

@UceTee Ай бұрын

I have a question though, Why can’t we land on the moon again with all this new technology? Genuinely curious

@mh1970 Ай бұрын

Those arguments are so lazy it's a joke how easily you can debunk their claims. I saw some comments on a video about a probe on Saturn and I had to explain to "adults" that satellites and electronic sensors exist. They were like no way. So they have sensors on Saturn? Yes genius. How else would they be able to tell what's on Saturn? Magic?

@PGspeed88 Ай бұрын

@@UceTee We can, it just costs a lot of money and there's little reason to do so. Even so, there's already missions planned to return, named Artemis.

@daledervin3672 25 күн бұрын

hundreds of thousands of extremely intelligent and dedicated engineers funded by hundreds of millions of tax paying citizens and a handful of Americans with extremely big balls. That's how it was done.

@maxwellquebec8675 Ай бұрын

"Lunar Podule Milot" 🤣

@andrewlee6152 Ай бұрын

Was just about to say exactly the same.. Love a good spoonerism

@jimmurphy6095 Ай бұрын

I replayed that about 5 times.... Great stuff... I believe I've performed one or more of those in my time.

@markdunstan1031 Ай бұрын

Ha, ha, ha..........

@s.henrlllpoklookout5069 Ай бұрын

"Former administator strating"

@Dusk.EighthLegion Ай бұрын

@@andrewlee6152 My favourite is Jichael Mackson.

@g3netixmg36 Ай бұрын

He was quoted saying "One small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind." It makes more sense as well since he was talking about his step from the lander and how much progress mankind has made.

@jameswoodbury2806 Ай бұрын

My father was the head of the MIT team that developed the Apollo guidance system. 😊

@Pugjamin Ай бұрын

That was what he was planning on saying, but actually missed the “A” out when speaking.

@TodayIFoundOut Ай бұрын

We have a video on this misconception. There has been a lot of analysis on this point, but it *seems* Armstrong forgot to say the "a", though had intended to. Although there is much debate. What is clear is there is zero audible "a", and Armstrong himself admits from the available audio evidence he may have, in the moment, misspoke. Which is completely understandable given the moment and what he was doing and where: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJzGpIiHh5x4o6ssi=AqO6v9TabunHlHRs -Daven

@jamespaden8140 Ай бұрын

According to one source that quote was the "released" first words. There were in constant communications and monitored what the press heard by a small delay in broadcasting. His first actual words upon exiting the lander were, "It's covered in a powdery, grey dust."

@skunkjobb 28 күн бұрын

@@jamespaden8140 Yeah but the famous quote were the first words when stepping down onto the surface. The first words after touchdown were otherwise the more technical "Contact light, engine stop" and the rest of the post landing check list.

@jackvos8047 Ай бұрын

Skylab broke up in the atmosphere with debris landing in the indian ocean and Western Australia. The town Esperance in WA fined NASA $400 for littering.

@penultimateh766 Ай бұрын

Australia's only accomplishment.

@Wildman-zh8lg 27 күн бұрын

Efhbx

@bearlemley 29 күн бұрын

Through my retired Col. grandfather, we had passes to be at the new visitor center for the launch on July 16th, 1969. Mom drug her two children out of bed in time to drive up to the cape, but not in time to get passed the millions of other citizens trying to get as close as they could. We ended up to be invited by a stranger to walk through his yard and sit hon his sea wall to watch the launch. Now to ponder that the Starship is larger and more powerful that the proposed NOVA rocket is astonishing.

@phillipdavis3316 16 күн бұрын

Good video, better than most. Thank you for giving John Houbolt some love. The only thing missing were details the Saturn V problems and innovations. The common bulkhead resolution to save weight. The combustion instability issue and resolution with the F1.

@briantimmons4615 Ай бұрын

This in my opinion is the greatest science and engineering feat of all time. Until Mars is landed this won't be outdone.

@scottplumer3668 Ай бұрын

I think it will stand as the greatest ever even after a Mars landing because it was the first, and we hadn't even landed a probe on the surface yet. We know a lot about Mars already, so it's just an engineering issue at this point.

@aemrt5745 Ай бұрын

@@scottplumer3668 Maybe. But we did land Surveyor probes on the moon before Apollo 11.

@daryllect6659 23 күн бұрын

I know. If only it were real. Someday it'll actually happen. I figure within the next ten to twenty years. Maybe sooner, but I sincerely doubt it.

@aemrt5745 23 күн бұрын

@@daryllect6659 It was real. If you think it wasn't, you do not understand the topic. The theories are utterly laughable nonsense.

@aemrt5745 23 күн бұрын

@daryllect6659 and your expertise in Aerospace Engineering and Photography to make that judgment is?

@wilshade Ай бұрын

Tom Hanks' HBO series "From the Earth to the Moon" is a great way to learn, or like those of us who lived through it, review, how it all happened.

@braindead_entertainment Ай бұрын

Probably watched that series a dozen or more times

@russelljacobs760 26 күн бұрын

I love that series. Every doubter should watch it !

@daryllect6659 23 күн бұрын

@@russelljacobs760 It didn't change this deniers mind. No human has ever been on the lunar surface.

@russelljacobs760 23 күн бұрын

@@daryllect6659 umm yeah, you should keep that info to yourself.

@daryllect6659 23 күн бұрын

@@russelljacobs760 Why? You afraid the truth might get out?

@j.chappel1160 24 күн бұрын

My grandfather worked with Grumman and helped design the lunar module (LEM) and is arguably the greatest contribution of our family to the country… thus far. And, in case anyone is curious, the part of the module that he helped create is STILL on the surface of the moon.

@aemrt5745 24 күн бұрын

That's really cool! Have you ever visited the Craddle of Aviation Museum near the Grumman Beethpage facility in NY? I went there a few weeks ago. Incredible displays of two LMs, a simulator, and other artifacts.

@wildboar7473 24 күн бұрын

LEM sure hell aint! Those died in labs, we can argue on LM.

@THEfonz-s5u 23 күн бұрын

Is “still on the surface of the moon” It was in recent years photographed by ISRO (by Chandrayaan-2 orbiter)

@defcon12 Ай бұрын

I went to the aerospace center in Huntsville Alabama, and there I was told that Neil Armstrong was misunderstood because of his accent and the low quality of the radio signal. Apparently the correct quote from him is: “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” That “a” really makes the sentence more coherent.

@chrislong3938 29 күн бұрын

I'd read the Ohioans tend to run their vowels together a bit and so what he said was, "That's one small step 'foraman' (very small 'a'), one giant leap for Mankind". He did acknowledge later that it was inaudible. however and was no longer sure what he said. Also, technically, the first words from the Moon's surface were, "Contact light" by Aldrin... ;-)

@GerardStainsby-s4s 27 күн бұрын

Nah, nice try, like Spielberg trying to justify 12 Parsecs for the Kessel run. Poetically what would have made sense was "That's one small step for _one_ man, one giant leap for mankind" The pause between the two parts, I suspect, were due to Armstrong realising he'd missed a word and (correctly) deciding to proceed regardless. And CapCom is Spacecraft (Capsule) Communications, not Capsule Commander

@masudashizue777 Ай бұрын

On one of our school outings in Japan during the 60s, we actually went to see Walter M. Schirra and his Mercury capsule. Surprisingly, it was a small crowd and we got within 6 feet of Walter.

@michaeljacobs9532 Ай бұрын

My grandpa, Bob Pearson, trained them how to us the lander! Buzz brought my grandpa's ring with him to the moon, as a thank you.

@mako88sb Ай бұрын

I read Jim Irwin’s book, To Rule The Night, and he mentions that his best friend asked him to bring his wedding ring with him. Jim said no problem. After they finished the mission on the moon and rendezvoused with the CM, both he and Dave Scott somehow lost track of who was supposed to take care of the LM PPK during the transfer of everything to the CM. It wasn’t until they were on the way back to Earth that they realized they couldn’t find the LM PPK. They eventually realized it must still be on board the LM ascent stage which had been deliberately crashed into the moon for seismic studies. The contents of the PPK were now strewn across the impact site. Among the contents was a bunch of $2 bills and of course, that wedding ring belonging to Jim’s best friend. Imagine having to explain that to him once he got home.

@michaeljacobs9532 Ай бұрын

@mako88sb That's crazy! Do you know what the book is called? I would love to read it.

@mako88sb Ай бұрын

@@michaeljacobs9532 To Rule The Night is the name of the book. Pretty decent book about a crew that’s not as well known. There’s also Al Worden’s book titled Falling To Earth. Another point of view from the Apollo 15 crew. Highly recommended.

@michaeljacobs9532 Ай бұрын

@mako88sb very much appreciated! I will definitely look those up. I still work 20 minutes from KSC, so it's really cool to stop in at local antique shops and get old newspapers, and signed memorabilia from lesser know astronauts.

@penultimateh766 Ай бұрын

So your gramps did not actually go to the moon himself, right? Because THAT woulda been really cool.

@PsillyApeUSA Ай бұрын

My grandad helped program the life support systems for the Apollo mission(s). He was at Houston when they landed the first time and went to Florida went 13 went awry. He had some cool stories. I have a plaque which is a replica of the one put on the moon during Apollo 11 signed by LB Johnson lol. Good stuff

@richardmattocks 29 күн бұрын

The Saturn V Apollo rocket is a design classic. It just looks “right”

@mplsmark222 29 күн бұрын

It’s interesting how reality compares to the science fiction and fantasy of that time. Some things like the Saturn V look like a comic book moon rocket. But the decent/acent were way off as Simon explains, it would not work to fly Buck Roger’s space ship to the moon and get him home again.

@billsimpson604 26 күн бұрын

I wonder if the big fins are really needed?

@genestippell1833 26 күн бұрын

I was 11 in 1969... Always enjoyed science so I follow Apollo closely. the Saturn v rocket sitting on a launch pad had a Majesty no rocket before or since has ever had. Not only its profile, but the way it was painted gave it a "cool" factor. To this day, I think the Saturn v rocket scale models still sell very well. When Jumping around KZbin watching documentaries, podcasts, whatever-- subjects completely unrelated to science-- It fascinates me that in 2024, how many times I'll see a model of the Saturn v rocket in the background.

@BruceFeingold 27 күн бұрын

27:55 The landing struts were filled with a crushable aluminum honeycomb cartridge. Not plastic. The structure and testing is described in NASA Technical Note D-5029.

@J.MacInnes Ай бұрын

I have photos of my dad watching the moon landing on tv, you can just barely make out something on the tiny little screen with the whole family gathered around it.

@crystalweible152 Ай бұрын

My Dad got misty talking about it. ❤

@maryford3243 Ай бұрын

My parents woke me up so I could watch it.

@allangibson8494 Ай бұрын

The original signal was much clearer - but the frame rate was converted by pointing a broadcast TV camera at the slow scan monitor… So it was a TV picture of a TV picture…

@michaelgrosberg2665 29 күн бұрын

@@allangibson8494 due to (analog) bandwidth issues the original Apollo video camera had only 320 scan lines (compared to NTSC's 480) and a pitiful 10 frames per second refresh rate. So even the clearer signal was pretty dire.

@tannerdenny5430 Ай бұрын

Buzz aldrin has one thing to say about the aggressive flat earther.. 🤜

@Greg-b3b 29 күн бұрын

Freemason Buzz has admitted he wasn't on the moon

@itsme-qk2vb 29 күн бұрын

@@Greg-b3bsays the dimwitted 🤡

@markotrieste 29 күн бұрын

Yet he is a flat-earther himself when it comes to AGW

@tannerdenny5430 29 күн бұрын

@@Greg-b3b saying a thing does not make it true. Big claim you're making, you better have the receipts son

@Amradar123 28 күн бұрын

@@Greg-b3bHe never said that. Moon hoaxers and flerfs keep cherry picking parts of that interview and reframe it, the gullable liars they are. What Buzzaldron said in full in the interview with Zoey in 2015: ZOEY: Why has nobody been to the Moon in such a long time? BUZZ: That’s not an eight years old question, but my question. I want to know but I think I know. We didn’t go there (in such a long time) and that’s the way it happened. And if it didn’t happen (in such a long time), it’s nice to know why it didn’t happen (in such a long time). So, in the future, if we want to keep doing something, we need to know why something stopped in the past we want to keep it going. Money (is the answer). The original interview was 17 minutes long. Unscrupulous flat-Earthers deliberately showed us a specific segment without giving it the proper context. In another part of the interview, Buzz clearly said several times that the Moon landings happened. BUZZ: … so, we did send people in it around the Moon, then we sent people -another crew- to go around the Moon and then practice everything but landing. And then, a very fortunate person, many things going right in my life gave Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin the opportunity to make an attempt to make the first landing. All of us wanted to succeed, and we did … This is merely a language problem. It is common that we omit a portion of the question in the answer to the question. In this case, the question was “Why has nobody been to the Moon in such a long time?” Buzz answered like “We did not go there because of money,” omitting the “in such a long time” part of the question. By examining the question, we can determine the context of Buzz’s answer. The modus operandi of these unscrupulous flat Earthers was to omit the entire question and other parts of the interview, hoping that the viewers do not learn the context of the statement.

@otpyrcralphpierre1742 Күн бұрын

I remember as I sat in my parents living room eating a plate of home-made spaghetti and meatballs as I sat on the floor about three feet from the Magnavox B&W console television, and watched Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon. I'm 71 now, and I hope I live long enough to see Man set foot on Mars.

@crisptomato9495 Ай бұрын

Sudbury, the city I’m in right now, was actually used as an astronaut training area by NASA during the Apollo missions because the landscape here used to be so barren and depressing it mimicked the surface of the moon! 😊

@jsn1499 27 күн бұрын

I used to play junior hockey there sometimes. Indeed barren and depressing! lol

@jamesduggan141 Күн бұрын

@@jsn1499 not so much anymore.

@joelb8653 Ай бұрын

I was omly 12 years old but i remember the landing like it was yesterday.

@SlowlySailing-lc1cs Ай бұрын

I was six and I remember it the same way.

@cntrman1705 Ай бұрын

I was 7 years old watching it at my grandparents. I got my engineering degree because of my early love of space and science!

@the80hdgaming Ай бұрын

30:47 Lunar Podule Milot? 🤣🤣🤣

@doctorforkidz5129 Ай бұрын

I caught that too.

@louistart1173 Ай бұрын

Pilot

@andyluce7871 Ай бұрын

glad i wasn't the only one

@Pugjamin Ай бұрын

Thought I was hearing things.

@2660016A Ай бұрын

The whole narration seems a bit rushed. Think he must have been in a hurry to get out for a round of polo.

@TheTruthSeeker756 25 күн бұрын

Man what a HERO that guy Houbolt was!❤

@mr88cet Ай бұрын

38:15 - I’m pretty sure Stafford was Commander for Apollo 10. Later, Cernan was Commander for the final Lunar mission, Apollo 17. However, I gather Cernan had a proverbial “fight on his hands” to get that Apollo 17 position: IIRC, a few months earlier he’d crashed a helicopter, so some were using that as a justification to take him out of consideration. 39:18 - Yes, IIRC the “real” reason why the Apollo 10 LM was short-fueled was not that they didn’t trust the astronauts to follow orders. It was because that particular Lunar Module did not incorporate quite a few weight-savings measures from later designs. They had to short-fuel it to compensate for the extra weight.

@itarry4 27 күн бұрын

One of the things that has always most impressed me was that they managed to write computer programs that were both small enough, well written enough and totally able to do all the complex and important things they needed them to do and that actually worked despite the fact they only had such a small amount of processing power. I find it funny and annoying that they were able to write stable, complex and precise enough programs to get to and land on the moon but nowadays we can't even write programs that are stable, capable and decent enough despite having access to all the processing power, drive space and the far far more advanced machines that we have access to today.

@aemrt5745 27 күн бұрын

Not a computer guy so happy to be corrected. The AGC had a (relatively) simple job of doing calculations and running systems. Also, no GUI (Graphical User Interface). Modern software has tons more to do. Graphics, internet connections, security, etc. It's much more complex, causing far more failure modes.

@itarry4 27 күн бұрын

@aemrt5745 a calculator released in 2004 had 32x more RAM and 14.500 x more ROM than the computer they had to write programs that were capable of providing the electronic interfaces for guidance, navigation, and control of the spacecraft to get to the moon and back again and the actual landing craft had even less ROM and RAM to help them guild and land the craft safely on the moon in the place they'd decided was the spot they wanted to land. The computer on the spacecraft also had to be able to allow them to use a numeric display and keyboard for text communication. Basically it's stunning that they could write programs to do all of that and probably a bit more and make them so precise, reliable and totally faultless and.also actually fitted on the tiny amount of memory space they had access to. We're talking about them writing programs that helped to guide, navigate and control the spacecraft on computers with memory able to store only 32,786 bits when a single alphabetical character-say an “a” or a “b”-typically requires eight bits to be stored. That means the Apollo 11 computer wouldn't be able to store a 1000 word essay on its memory and then they had a processor which ran at 0.043 MHz which is several million times less than the iPhone and that processor had to process all the data and they had to ensure that the programs were well enough written to not only run on it but run well and with no delays or failures. I'm not a huge computer guy either but I had to find out about it all because when I heard about how rubbish the computing power was I had to try and understand what they'd had available, what it had to do and how they managed to do it so I hope I've managed to explain a tiny bit of just how stunning it was but I still don't really understand just how it was possible. Lol

@user-sm8wo3dj5z 24 күн бұрын

@@itarry4you are correct its insane how someone believes it

@EufemiaOki 28 күн бұрын

judgmentcallpodcast covers this. How NASA landed on Moon

@Observer_Effect Ай бұрын

Good to point out to even slight skeptics: we didn't just land on the moon, we did it 6 times! The language always seems to argue over it as if was AN event. The whole program from conception to last mission. The whole program from planning to last mission was about 15 years. 6 Landings (we tried for 7).

@ApolloKid1961 Ай бұрын

Hoaxers always talk about the moon landing or the van Allen belt, both in the singular. None of them know that the whole story started with Sputnik.

@davidthiel483 29 күн бұрын

During the 1202 and 1201 alarms about a computer overload situation They did not know that the rendezvous radar was to be the reason at the time... Buzz Aldrin noted at the time that this overload situation came about after the computer had been switched to program P68 when the landing radar was actuated and because of the clever design of the AGC seeing that the rendezvous radar was least important for landing and it's very quick reboot they still had the capacity to land. Buzz said after the mission that he thought that the rendezvous radar should have been on in case they had to abort the landing!

@cjh0751 25 күн бұрын

I'm not sure I'd have the courage to make the journey. They were very brave. I like terra firma too much. I need to watch this again. Well done sir 👍

@incenseandiron3828 Ай бұрын

I could’ve sworn I heard Simon say “the former administator strating” at 20:19 😂 I’ve watched it over like 5 times and that’s all I hear lol

@SedatedandRestrained 8 күн бұрын

He also say Lunar Podule Milot at 30:46 lol

@mr88cet Ай бұрын

IIRC, Grumman also independently selected Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous and had been studying how to accomplish it. That was part of the reason why they got the contract: They had already studied the problem in greater detail, so they provided a far more plausible bid for the contract.

@alexjonessellsvitimins 24 күн бұрын

@deaks25 Ай бұрын

45:21 I didn't know Grumman did this. That is such a flex.

@chrisbentleywalkingandrambling Ай бұрын

30:47 Lunar Podule Miler? Is that Luna Module Pilot or am I not understanding it? Not a piss take, really enjoyed this one and seeking clarification.

@RobotacularRoBob Ай бұрын

Flat Earthers: “We can’t go to the moon because we can’t leave the dome.” Also flerfs: “The moon is local, beneath the dome.” 🙃

@RobotacularRoBob Ай бұрын

@@TreeSymphony52Found the flat-brained flerf 🤣🤡💩

@joehorn1762 Ай бұрын

@TreeSymphony52 why are you obsessed with people comments you don't agree with? Why are you so angry about people talking about flaterthers?

@jc6800 Ай бұрын

We should get those 2 groups to debate 😂

@Wildman-zh8lg 27 күн бұрын

@@joehorn1762Who is mad

@joehorn1762 27 күн бұрын

@Wildman-zh8lg clearly, you.

@simonrancourt7834 29 күн бұрын

The LEM's "legs" where designed and built by Héroux-Devtech, a landing gear manufacturer near Montréal, Québec.

@b.thomas8926 Ай бұрын

Waits for the flat earthers to enter the comment section... Then finds that I'm not the only one waiting. Muwahahaha.

@b.thomas8926 Ай бұрын

@@TreeSymphony52 I'm disable, can barely walk, and suffer from severe nerve damage. What's your excuse?

@RobotacularRoBob Ай бұрын

Defending flat Earth shows YOU have no life 😂

@b.thomas8926 Ай бұрын

@@RobotacularRoBob That at me or the guy who just deleted his comment? Because I find the idea of a flat earth to be ridiculous.

@frankyanish4833 27 күн бұрын

@@b.thomas8926 I do not find the idea ridiculous; I just don’t see it bear out from the data. Under different physical rules, a flat earth is very workable.

@b.thomas8926 27 күн бұрын

@@frankyanish4833 I'm ok with having a fun conversation about fictional places, but not when it comes to hard proven science, and while keeping things in the context of the video. People where figuring out that the Earth was round 350 years before Christ. By 240 BC, they even had gotten close to an accurate number on the Earth's circumference. Geometry and observation is all anyone needs to prove it. Even school kids today can replicate the tests used 2200 years ago. And all that jives with modern science. The Earth is not flat. It's observably round. (its a bit wider at the equator due to rotational forces.) But I guess if you want to ignore how physics works, you can Terry Pratchett-it, and toss out all the rules and say we're on a giant plate held up by huge elephants while riding on the back of a ginormous space turtle. At least that sounds more fun than the gobbly-gook most flat earthers try to stand by and makes about as much sense.

@alessandropavone6705 Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@TodayIFoundOut Ай бұрын

Thank you! :-)

@jimjohnson5739 Ай бұрын

30:42 "...for the Commander and Lunar Podule Milot."

@mrshinebox1803 18 күн бұрын

That's a sterfectly adequate patement.

@andygray9285 Ай бұрын

A most memorable part of my life.

@penultimateh766 Ай бұрын

Wow, boring life dude.

@andygray9285 Ай бұрын

@@penultimateh766 You had to be there.

@deadaccount-rip 28 күн бұрын

@@penultimateh766wow, ironic comment, dude.

@Wildman-zh8lg 26 күн бұрын

@@penultimateh766I. Bet your millennial

@1936Studebaker Ай бұрын

30:47 Luna Podule Milot, you've got to slow down Simon!

@jimmurphy6095 Ай бұрын

John Glenn's quote sums it up nicely: “I guess the question I'm asked the most often is: "When you were sitting in that capsule listening to the count-down, how did you feel?" Well, the answer to that one is easy. I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts -- all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.”

@chrisd4228 Ай бұрын

Avro Arrow call out! Woot! 🍁

@dasjon66 7 күн бұрын

I do enjoy your videos, especially this series on manned space flight. I also enjoy the humour you creatively insert and, with that in mind, wondered if you intentionally called the Module Pilot the “Podule Milot’ at 30’52” time stamp (I had to play it again to make sure I wasn’t hearing things).

@dansv1 7 күн бұрын

Write the time stamp like this 30:46.

@warrencmarglin2413 Ай бұрын

everyone talks about the first lunar landing in 1969, but no one talks about the last lunar landing in 1972.

@jackvos8047 Ай бұрын

You mean manned landings right? The last lunar landing was Chang'e 4 in 2019.

@warrencmarglin2413 Ай бұрын

@@jackvos8047 yes

@tomasojones1751 Ай бұрын

Why would they? Both landings never happend.

@aaronjackson9274 Ай бұрын

@@tomasojones1751 listen….. do you realize how many people were involved in the Apollo program????? Tens of thousands… MORE EVEN! You really think the govt was able to keep that many people quiet… and where did the money go???? You can’t fake something that big….

@ModMax69 Ай бұрын

@@tomasojones1751 waiting on a livestreamed landing any day now

@claycassin8437 29 күн бұрын

You forgot "Rocket Ship Galileo", by Robert Heinlen, when describing previous sci-fi concepts of a single stage moon landing rocket. That book was a part of every space obsessed teenager's reading list way back in the day.

@anthonyperno1348 Ай бұрын

I love that they couldn't trust these 'test pilots' of Apollo 10 not to land on the Moon. The human element always makes science and technology a touch more romantic.

@blakekaveny 29 күн бұрын

The Apollo 10 lunar module didn’t have landing gear. Nor did it have enough fuel to land. It’s not that they didn’t trust them nasa decided that it was better to fully test the lunar module first before the first landing.

@Wurtoz9643 28 күн бұрын

@@blakekavenyit had landing gear.

@Ruda-n4h 9 күн бұрын

@@Wurtoz9643 It was too heavy to land.

@TranscendianIntendor 28 күн бұрын

I cannot compliment this episode enough. It is flat out great and of the work That Was Grand. Of the one word I can use to describe spirits turned to living body souls Grand is the best I know. Landing on the Moon was the best thing to happen in a time when war was ongoing. To live during this time has been Grand.

@memyself3510 29 күн бұрын

27:30 ah yes the tried and true and very scientific method of research, “flip it upside down and shake it”

@Glyn-r 29 күн бұрын

Neil Armstrong remains the top earning astronaut at $27,000 a year in 1969. Equal to $200,000 today. Buzz was on $19,000 a year and Mike Collins on $17,000 a year. All astronauts that went to the moon had to fill out a customs declaration form on return.

@cindylauritzen6325 28 күн бұрын

Yes, I saw that document somewhere on line. One of the questions was something like returning from... of course they answered the moon.

@THE_DEAD_METHOD Ай бұрын

It’s “that’s one small step for a man…”

@Pugjamin Ай бұрын

No, that was the planned line. He misspoke when saying the line and skipped the A

@TodayIFoundOut Ай бұрын

@RCFlyBoy314 Ай бұрын

Just got to this section of "Apollo" today, thanks for the addition! Helps to watch the comparisons

@s.henrlllpoklookout5069 Ай бұрын

5:14 The Saturn V WAS 363 feet tall, not 282 feet

@dhgmllcshea5038 26 күн бұрын

Launch vehicle was 282. That was just to get off earth and was jettisoned in the first 3 stages. That plus the Space vehicle was 363 ft. Overall at launch.

@s.henrlllpoklookout5069 26 күн бұрын

@dhgmllcshea5038 Simon is still wrong. The entire length of the Saturn V was 363 feet, including the CSM. The CSM was 36 feet long, including its engines which would have been nestled in the third stage of Saturn V. Without the CSM, Saturn V would have been *at least* 327 feet tall

@septopus3516 27 күн бұрын

Who was recording when the lor was leaving the surface of the moon? Tracking and panning and zooming

@andrewworth7574 27 күн бұрын

Why don't you Google it??

@Lee.S..B 27 күн бұрын

Ed Fendell back on Earth

@RobotacularRoBob Ай бұрын

I can feel the collective RRRREeEEeEeE from flat Earthers over this topic.

@pr0xZen Ай бұрын

Absolutely would looove that other video! 😃

@lorensims4846 Ай бұрын

Nixon HATED Kennedy and cancelled anything having to do Kennedy's Apollo Program in favor of the program Nixon favored and hoped he could associate his name with, the Space Shuttle.

@chunnelll 25 күн бұрын

I am a student of the space program in the 60s. And I knew all of this. The only thing I didn’t know in depth was the process in which John Houbolt was able to get everyone to view LOR as the favorite. So I appreciate that level of detail. I’m shocked, however at your lack of detail and other section such as when you said that Armstrong took over manual control. He did not. He was still in P 64 I believe. He was able to flip a switch that allowed the craft to maintain altitude while he was able to move horizontally without losing much in terms of altitude. At which point he resumed his descent after clearing the large crater. It was never a true manual landing. This was not a helicopter. This was a highly computerized descent.

@wildboar7473 24 күн бұрын

Sounds more truthful, be nice to see this Manual flying :)

@fwqkaw 23 күн бұрын

@chunnelll Do you know what sort of training he was doing in the flying bedframe when he had to eject? Asking for a friend.

@fwqkaw 23 күн бұрын

@chunnelll In the wiki article about the LLRV (Lunar landing research vehicle), 4th para, they talk about manually controlling the landing phase. Was this with a joystick or just fwd, back, L/R buttons? Seems a bit risky to practice flying the frame thingey just for button control.

@fillingtime Ай бұрын

Skylab did not totally burn up, it landed in Australia

@aemrt5745 Ай бұрын

Indeed, though that is a very loose usage of the word "landed"!

@JaseBDaley 26 күн бұрын

and it cost NASA $400 for littering. we didn't want ya american rubbish, then or now (trump)

@jonofthehill Ай бұрын

Simon has done so many videos on the Moon and our landing on it I think he could teach a course on the subject without notes. This is at least the fourth or fifth one on TIFO alone, and there are probably at least two each on his other channels.

@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958 Ай бұрын

Nobody ever talks about combining earth orbit rendezvous with lunar orbit rendezvous, which would have allowed launching all apollo components with saturn-1 rockets. The saturn-5 and giant F-1 engine was not needed. The lunar module and command/service modules could dock with an oversized upper stage or agena-style but larger kick stage to send them to the moon. Everything else would be the same. Saturn-5 was just a stepping stone to the nova rocket, space stations and colonies but that was just a story told while we beat the Russians to the moon and retired.

@Pugjamin Ай бұрын

Yes, I’m sure you’ve come up with a solution none of the greatest scientific minds of the time never even thought of.

@penultimateh766 Ай бұрын

Except the astronauts would have died from lack of water and oxygen in Earth orbit while they waited for NASA to assemble, truck out, and launch the Saturn-1 equipment shuttles. The VAB could only handle one vehicle at a time.

@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958 28 күн бұрын

@@penultimateh766 I thought the four bays in the VAB would have allowed up to four saturn rockets to be stacked at the same time. Surprising if it was only possible to stack one.

@h1jjy 18 күн бұрын

What gets me is how short the time is from the Wright brothers first flight to landing on the moon.

@antonyreyn Ай бұрын

Oh god the Moon get the Tin foil hats ready for the comments.

@TheTruthSeeker756 25 күн бұрын

Outstanding presentation!

@THEfonz-s5u 23 күн бұрын

If you like crammed speech.

@Ze-KeyKey Ай бұрын

Holy crap I got here right at release!

@playingindies6730 18 күн бұрын

Simon you should keep your leg still lol, I usually only listen but now I noticed your jacket moving all the time 😂 Unless something else is happening down there, in which case your focus is impressive!

@justinteal495 Ай бұрын

Just in case it isnt covered in this, lets go over how they managed to make a space suit that keeps you warm in temperatures of -450 and why the suits didnt puff out in the vacuum of space from the air trying to escape the suit

@robadams1645 Ай бұрын

If you actually wanted to know the answer to these questions, you would have watched the hundreds of documentaries on every aspect of the Apollo spacesuits. But you don't want answers, you just think these are "gotcha questions. Hint: they aren't.

@justinteal495 Ай бұрын

@robadams1645 do you feel better now??? Do you see type of commentate this comment on??? Did it occur to you that I was making a video suggestion? I didn't "gotcha" anybody but you certainly gotchyaself looking ignorant

@justinteal495 Ай бұрын

@robadams1645 and next time, instead of a shitty response like you made try something more along the lines of " I've watched videos that cover those topics, try searching blah blah bla, it's actually pretty interesting stuff", be helpful not a nuisance thinking they're being witty

@cindylauritzen6325 28 күн бұрын

The temperatures experienced by any Apollo astronauts were not the extremes that do occur on the moon. None of the missions were on the moon during a lunar night to experience that extreme coldest temperature. Nor were they ever on the moon during the time that is like the middle of the day cycle to experience the hottest temperatures. The scientists knew the temperature extremes and knew when they occured so planned the landings to avoid those. Also your comment implies you don't know how long a lunar day/night cycle is so that's why you believe they would experience those extremes.

@craigelliott4338 26 күн бұрын

@@justinteal495so, yes spacesuits do expand, however, they're made with a type of mesh that stops expansion. It's one of many layers that make up a suit. Google Russias first EVA. Thank me later. As for heating and cooling, astronauts wear an under suit that is clad with water filled pipes that keep them cool/warm enough. The actual suit has other layers too. Also, notice how all spacesuits are white? This is to help reflect heat.

@RackEmRack 8 күн бұрын

Enjoyed the episode as usual. Thank you. I bet the Apollo 10 guys could’ve landed on the moon. There’s no way they would change a bunch of variables (weight, fuel, etc.) because it’s a “practice run”. I’d imagine you’d want EVERYTHING identical to the mission. Who knows, maybe the Apollo 10 was supposed to be the landing but they had issues so they were like “that was a practice swing! Apollo 11 is real life. We got it on the first try!!” (Edit grammar)

@GizkaStew Ай бұрын

The most impressive part of the moon landing is how they got the spaceship to stay on a holographic projection

@Amradar123 28 күн бұрын

So cute 😊 Who is cleaning the projection screen and how?

@JaseBDaley 26 күн бұрын

you don't believe it was faked. nobody does. nobody is THAT fuckin retarded

@steveskouson9620 Ай бұрын

Maxime Faget pronounced fah-ZHAY. My parents had 2 of the Apollo 1 astronauts over for dinner. Gus Grissom and Ed White. I was about 6 then,and had NO IDEA this happened, heard this from my older brother. Dad also wrote a "paper" for NASA, about semiconductors. steve

@uncleruckus5686 Ай бұрын

Lol. You seriously think the moon exists?

@mh1970 Ай бұрын

Lol. You seriously think anything exists?

@armlegx Ай бұрын

The moon is a bird

@TodayIFoundOut Ай бұрын

Where else does the world get its cheese if it doesn't?!?! Answer me that! 😋 -Daven

@j.a.weishaupt1748 29 күн бұрын

Yes. But the moon is clearly flat.

@cindylauritzen6325 27 күн бұрын

Bell Aerosystems built 2 LLRVs and 3 upgraded LLTVs. Armstrong was using LLRV1 when he had to eject. He flew it 21 times successfully before the ejection and after that he had 6 flights in a LLTV. LLRV2 was only used for 6 test flights in California. All other prime and backup lunar module commanders completed training in LLTVs.

@mysticmikeable Ай бұрын

???... Height 363 feet NOT 282 feet! - Please get facts at least close....!!!

@JaseBDaley 26 күн бұрын

unless you're building a scale replica, close enough.

@mr88cet Ай бұрын

47:10 - Oh wow, I can’t believe I’d never noticed the similarity between the LM descent stage and the telescope base in Skylab! I was aware that Skylab had an egress hatch pulled straight from Gemini, but I hadn’t noticed the telescope base. Cool!

@Cre8tvMG 26 күн бұрын

Houbolt saved the space program and deeply affected history, simply because he had integrity and competence.

@stevefowler2112 24 күн бұрын

How we did it was with a boatload of money...the USA has only had two Programs with unlimited budgets; One was The Manhattan Project and the other was the Apollo program in the few years proceeding Apollo 11. For those that weren't around at the time it's hard to grasp the depth of the Apollo Program, which even had the effect of inventing a whole new job profession of the Systems Analyst with associated top tier University degrees (a retired Aerospace engineer who worked for a large American defense contractor's Missile Systems company and whose Dad was a Rocket Engineer with GE at Redstone Arsenal and The Cape from the early 50's until '76.

@TheWeatherbuff Ай бұрын

Thanks Simon. I was a little young'un in those days. My parents dragged me to a company BBQ on Apollo 11 landing day. I sat at alone the end of a picnic table listening to the mission on one of the radio stations in Philly. Seems like just yesterday.

@bradmiller6023 25 күн бұрын

The thing that alway fascinated me from my father's stories, he was one of the 8 person team that wrote the lunar lander program. The total computing power of both the command module and lem was 384k, and most if not all programs were written in assembler originally. The lander used a WWII artillery trajectory computer. The problem with the landing program was they wanted the the speed to be nanoseconds but with full computation they could only get the speed down to microseconds, the solution a round to .000, to shorten computation time to achieve nanosecond speed.

@andrewswatland4622 28 күн бұрын

Good job Simon, as usual. However the illustrations seem thrown together, where many do not hang together with the narrative

@SlowlySailing-lc1cs Ай бұрын

People with the insight, foresight and command of language like Houbolt were the driving force of programs like Apollo. A dying breed in the USA, sadly.

@davidm9090 25 күн бұрын

Even at 2x, that advert was tedious. But kudos for not having a 'special discount code'

@Gremlack13 Ай бұрын

I used to work in his Grissom’s home county/town in Indiana. His family still has a lot of pull in the county. It’s also a county that has had 3 astronauts grow up in, with only Grissom born and raised.

@vonkug 29 күн бұрын

As someone with 1000 hours in Kerbal Space Program, I went through the stages of grief as did von Braun. Trying to send a unitary return vehicle to the Mun is possible, but NOT easy. They're usually heavy enough to blow your landing gear off. Then ya boy is gonna have to walk to get rescued. And mapping rendezvous is a fucking nightmare, but if you miss you can just mulligan for the next orbit (usually).

@Batmans_Pet_Goldfish 29 күн бұрын

Yep. Orbital mechanics are a bitch. Though, I guess it is literally rocket science.

@ApolloKid1961 Ай бұрын

It was impossible to send someone to the moon in the 60s because they didn't have the technical knowledge. That's no excuse, then make sure we get that knowledge. And that's exactly the mentality that 400,000 people had to make this happen which resulted in 6 successful landings on the moon.

@Ruda-n4h 9 күн бұрын

A great deal of theoretical research had already been conducted during the Eisenhower administration (January 20, 1953 - January 20, 1961) from the formation of NASA in 1958 and it was known by 1961 that a moon landing was technically possible.

@kasahadragon9499 27 күн бұрын

Thankyou Gilles 💜

@genestippell1833 26 күн бұрын

Enjoyed the video, though I must admit after 40 something minutes of Simon speed talking I needed to sit in a dark room for 10 minutes waiting for my brain to slow down. I don't know if there's a documentary I haven't seen about Apollo, but almost all of them discuss the hardware and the technology to do it. What's just as fascinating is the math that had to be done to get the rocket to a specific spot on the moon. Keep in mind, the Earth is revolving around the sun, spinning on its axis, while the Moon is revolving around the Earth. None of these entities are static, all are moving pieces. When you see diagrams of the spaceships trajectory, they're all in two dimensions, with no moving pieces. Not only did they have to build a rocket that could go 25000 mi an hour to escape Earth's gravity, they had to work out the math to create trajectories that gets the rocket on the same plane as the Moon. All the math figured out on paper with pencils and slide rules. Amazing.

@ApolloKid1961 26 күн бұрын

They had mathematicians and computers back then too.