Is this the best museum in the world - The Kennedy Space Center

[@lt1fd3s]

NO LAWRIE... the shuttle definitely will NOT!! fit in the shed...

[@lmm]

But if I hang it from the roof?

[@lt1fd3s]

@@lmm well the roof may cave in and then the shuttle would crush all your other toys!!!

[@lmm]

I'm sure it would be fine and the twine will hold it up no problems 😂

[@7891ph]

@@lmm You really do want to meet ole' man Newton for an in depth face to face, don't you????

[@lmm]

That made me chuckle 😂

[@Taggart00]

I loved the bit where Lawrie wanted to play with the switches more than landing safely

[@lmm]

I was in the moment

[@scottloudon14]

You're absolutely right. this, these things make not only America but everyone great again and again . Sorry I'm so late commenting.

[@lmm]

It was an epic machine. No worries, good people are still finding the video.

[@bentullett6068]

Must agree this is such awesome museum. I visited back in 2018 and I also had to weep a little when they revealed Atlantis.

[@lmm]

It's exceptionally well done isn't it!

[@lukegreen5341]

I've Might Go To Kennedy Space Center Museum Near Orlando Florida In The United States Of America One Day Before Universal Studios Florida And Walt Disney World Resort In Florida On My 30th Birthday Celebrations In 2023. Thanks Mate. X

[@andrewgurney6019]

Thank you, best video you have done.

[@lmm]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@AndySaputo]

I know I'm a bit late but I wanted to comment on how massive the Saturn V looks. I can't imagine the balls the astronauts had to have to be strapped to the top of something the size of a skyscraper filled with highly explosive fuel. It's insane.

[@lmm]

Absolutely! Such a tiny spacecraft in comparison to the rockets

[@fastbike175]

I hope you get a chance to see a launch while your here in the states. Seeing a big rocket move is so impressive.

[@lmm]

It's on my wish list for next time, would love to see a launch. I think we missed seeing one by two weeks on that trip. Shame really.

[@LiamE69]

Not a popular opinion but the shuttle is the single worst space programme ever. The concept for cheap reusable space flight went out the window when the military got involved and the orbiter's size ballooned to be able to do a mission (returning spy satellites) that was already dead/dying before the space shuttle first flew. With the designed locked in every launch had to put 78 tonnes of orbiter up there before you could even think about payload. The result? Instead of a cheap launch vehicle each launch ended up costing up to a billion and a half dollars. it was meant to fly multiple times every month. It managed 130 or so flights in thirty years. Oh but ISS they say. Saturn V could have put that up there in half a dozen launches. The cost of the shuttle programme meant everything else got put on hold for decades, with humanity limited to low earth orbit. People ask why we haven't been back to the moon. The shuttle is the answer. Look at the explosion in missions that we have had since shuttle stopped sucking up all the cash. Cassini, New horizons, the Mars rovers and orbiter, Swift, Nustar, IRIS, Sprint, Kepler, Gaia, WISE, Lisa, LRO, Dawn, Juno the solar observatory and many more. How much more could we have done with those missed decades? I for one, won't miss the shuttle one little bit. Saturn V on the other hand is all sorts of epic.

[@lmm]

I see your point, but I raise you, it's awesome?

[@LiamE69]

@@lmm Saturn V trumps awesome.

[@lmm]

I wonder what the cost was per launch? Shuttle vs saturn v. I mean we're obviously moving forward again with things like space ☓'a reusable rockets. They're cool.

[@LiamE69]

@@lmm In today's money about a billion $ per launch, with each launch able to put 140t into low earth orbit. The shuttle was running at up to 1.5 billion $ per launch to put 28t into low earth orbit. Putting a massive orbiter up there each time is doing reusable wrong. Space x etc is how you do reusable. You don't want to be sending up a 70,000kg+ orbiter every launch only to have it come back down again when sending each kilo to orbit costs tens of thousands of dollars. And then there is re-entry. Re-entry is like a prolonged fiery car crash. You want as little as possible to go through that and you don't want to be having to reuse anything that's been though it, as you have to basically rebuild it anyway.

[@lmm]

You do make a rather compelling argument. I had no idea that it was that expensive to launch.

[@rowanlewisuk]

Quality video. Enjoyed it thoroughly

[@lmm]

Thank you! Glad that you liked it :)

[@graemew7001]

Walking round there with the scale of everything gives an idea of what it must be like to be a Borrower!!

[@lmm]

I did feel very small! They are just massive things.

[@graemew7001]

@@lmm My Mam told me never to walk under ladders as I expect yours did too.....don't think they'll have thought about not doing the same to the space shuttle!

[@lmm]

@@graemew7001 not walking under space shuttles is definitely not one of the lessons passed down by my parents

[@jordanbailey3289]

They are amazing, I go to sleep with a model one hung above my bed! Question is do you like it more than your loco?

[@MrKeyboardCommando]

When I'm in bed, I'm just hungover. And there certainly aren't any models involved‼️👩🏼👩🏼👩🏼

[@lmm]

I don't think I like anything more than my Loco. I'll accept the shuttle is cooler though. And keyboard I wish there was a model in my bed!

[@MrKeyboardCommando]

@@lmm I know what you mean. You could always ask Jordan Bailey, he may have a spare one you could use‼️😝😝😝

[@jamiemorris5177]

I remember as a kid they flew the shuttle on the back of a jumbo jet a cross London it was fly so low it felt you could reach out and touch it

[@lmm]

Must have been an amazing thing to see. It got moved around quite a bit like that!

[@jamiemorris5177]

Yep it was pretty amazing and completely by chance Someone just shouted quick look what’s coming couldn’t believe it Was at primary school at the time our school went big for it all we all sat down to watch the 1st launch and went to the science museum as nasa had loaned a load of stuff to them to show

[@lmm]

That's still a pretty stunning thing to see. Very lucky there!

[@NedsTrains]

Nice video! But one thing did you actually go to Kennedy space centre or is it just the Leicester Space Museum? 🤔😂😀👍🚀

[@lmm]

I haven't done Leicester for years. Really should go back one day as I remember it being very good.

[@CowboyCarCrushing]

Welcome to Texas 👍👊

[@MrKeyboardCommando]

I bet you say that to all the South and Central Americans.🖕🖕🖕

[@CowboyCarCrushing]

@@MrKeyboardCommando Benavides Tejas

[@MrKeyboardCommando]

@@CowboyCarCrushing Ah, the town named after good old Plácido Benavides; rancher, railroader, and Confederate soldier.

[@CowboyCarCrushing]

@@MrKeyboardCommando no sir, my spanish isn't that good. You asked do i say welcome to Texas to Mexicans and Central Americans. I try to say it in Spanish.

[@MrKeyboardCommando]

@@CowboyCarCrushing If I remember correctly, " Welcome to Texas " would be " Bienvenido a Texas ". However, please don't quote me on that, because I could be horribly wrong.

[@logicn.reasoning9744]

I wonder what the space shuttle would sell for at auction.

[@lmm]

It's a good question. I bet there are some multimillionairs who would like it in their private collection - but then you can't actually use it. You could get the Russian knockoff instead?

[@brettb-h2831]

I guess subscribers on your channel only like trains or non-working fire trucks. It’s not everyday you stand under the first stage Saturn V motor and then return to a Jupiter motor wondering what the air issue is.

[@lmm]

I thought it might not do too well when we shot it, but the stuff there is super cool!

[@brettb-h2831]

Lawrie's Mechanical Marvels it’s always good to branch out to different stuff. You could even do a review on a singular wheel as even that in its entirety is a mechanical marvel.

[@lmm]

😂 😂 The single wheel might be a push 😂

[@Petalslash]

Proof standard measurements are better than metric.

[@lmm]

Standard is metric over here. I don't think that the unit of measurement is proven superior by anything there. Just made some calculations harder 😂

[@Petalslash]

Just a joke. Won't be as funny when metric makes it to the moon :) Never been back since NASA switched to metric just sayinnnnnnn. Great vids just busting your chops.

[@lmm]

I actually had no idea that they'd gone metric 😂 It's a pretty stunning place to visit though. Glad, you're enjoying the vids, thanks!

[@MrKeyboardCommando]

Damn, yet another missed chance to be first. My life is just a litany of disappointment. By the way, when is that obsolete space junk arriving at the shed⁉️🤨🤨🤨

[@lmm]

Nasa said as soon as it falls from orbit...

[@MrKeyboardCommando]

@@lmm Is it dropping straight into the shed, or are you going to have to collect it⁉️

[@lmm]

They said they'd deliver 😂

[@MrKeyboardCommando]

@@lmm The problem with that is you've got to hang around all day waiting for it to arrive, and it always comes when you're on the lavatory‼️🤨🤨🤨

[@lmm]

@@MrKeyboardCommando it'll be quite a shock when it arrives 😂

[@geoffcapeschamp]

The camera lens is hilariously dirty......

[@lmm]

I'm pretty sure that Jayemm remarked the same thing at the time. Sorry!