NASA DOCO - To The Moon - Pt1 - Awesome!

[@ronaldwelch3168]

When I got back from Vietnam on August 1968, I was fortunate enough to get a job at John F. Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida! I was hired by ITT/Federal Electric Corp. as a Electronic Tech. in Communications. I was on the Apollo/Saturn Launch Team for most of the Moon shots! I was 22 yrs old and I was so proud to be a part of the effort, that beat the Soviet Union to the Moon! I wish that I could turn back the clock and relive those moments in history! That was about 52 years ago, now I’m almost 74 years old- sometimes it seems like yesterday! It’s amazing how time seems to fly by so quickly! May God continue to Bless our great Nation, and help NASA to once again travel to the Moon and beyond! 👍🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏👍

[@steverodgers8425]

Thank you for your service, Sir!

[@jimreily7538]

Sometimes you read comments on KZbin that are just genuinely remarkable. They're like finding gold. Thank you so much for sharing this account. And thank you for doing what you did. You, quite literally, helped mankind take that giant leap. Anyone who is inspired by astronautical achievements - by exploration, scientific enquiry, and human advancement - owes you a debt of gratitude. Thank you again. Truly.

[@kongmik]

They did not go to the moon. Its not possible.

[@greasee.monkey7224]

Thank you for your service, both in Vietnam and in the space program.

[@meredithlidstone1576]

Holy moly, my mother also worked for Federal Electric back then. She was a technical writer at the Cape!

[@mnealbarrett]

DOCTOR Van Allen was a very approachable lecture professor at the University of Iowa. Anyone could approach him after one of his lectures and ask him about this sort of thing. Funny thing, none of the 'Apollo doubters' ever did, according to him. He was very very open about his disdain for the people who would misuse his name for conspiracy theories, and continue to do so after his death.

[@bassmith448bassist5]

Best documentary I've ever seen on the lunar program. As an amateur space geek, I've watched a bunch of them. This one was the best. No propaganda, no BS. Just a solid well told story.😎

[@christianege4989]

@Brad Watson Moron

[@NarlyLyfe]

agreed.

[@fedupwithfedforever4151]

Now THIS is a documentary !......Absolutely AMAZING.....One of....If not the BEST I've ever seen!

[@davidbernadine]

Thank goodness for John Houbolt's persistence and determination.

[@teefkay2]

He’s very lucky. In political bureaucratic environments, “persistence & determination” combined with the most ub-forgiveable sin, “Being right when the bureaucrats are wrong”, is frequently a career-ending move. For a recent example, look at the many members of the CDC & NIAID & other Public Health departments, who are no longer in the field of public health because they had the audacity to tell the Narcissist-In-Chief that he was “wrong” in his clueless proclamations about a field (virology & infectious diseases)in which he had ZERO knowledge or experience. Worse, as proven by his recorded conversations with Bob Woodward, that prick KNEW that he was lying to the American public, & he KNEW that those epidemiologists (who he fired) were right!

[@JPMadden]

The documentary should have mentioned that the concept of lunar orbit rendezvous was first proposed by the Soviet-Ukrainian engineer and mathematician Yuri Kondratyuk in 1919. Also, in 1923 the German rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth wrote about LOR in his doctoral dissertation. I don't understand why the other NASA engineers thought rendezvous in lunar orbit would be more difficult or dangerous than in Earth orbit.

[@JPMadden]

@@teefkay2 I agree with you, but your comments have nothing to do with this documentary.

[@hikesystem7721]

@@teefkay2 Yes, but back then, there was not widespread indifference to reality and there were still some occasions where some things were valued more than money and power.

[@keithulhu]

People who wanted Direct Ascent had been watching too many movies.

[@8-bitsteve500]

Roger Chaffees parents wow.. that bit really choked me up big time. Obviously heartbroken but you could see how proud they were of him. RIP

[@jamesanagnos6123]

hahaha fuck you and Roger fucking scumbags

[@8-bitsteve500]

@@jamesanagnos6123 I'm sure your parents weep at night, knowing they've failed and their child is a attention seeking little scumbag who'll never amount to anything.

[@jimreily7538]

I said this in another comment, but it was pretty painful to watch that. Particularly to hear that the astronauts had suffered - they had screamed, endured what was likely intense pain, physical and emotional - it's morbid. I found it hard to come to terms with that. I still do. I think it would be inhuman not to be moved, at least in some way, by having that knowledge.

[@michaelwills1926]

Someone forgot their meds today 🤔

[@rawyld]

@@jimreily7538 It is horrible to hear when they died of Affixation (CO2 poisoning)

[@buckshot704]

Lovell and Bormann are quite the pair! Two of my favorite Apollo-era astronauts. A perfect Gemini, and Apollo 8 team; Bill Anders completed that ensemble.

[@strawnobi]

I've always been fascinated by this stuff. I met Jim Lovell when I was in college in 1995. His story is amazing even though he never walked on the moon. The Apollo program shows what the human race is capable of when it is focused and determined. Apollo is one of the greatest if not the greatest triumphs in human history.

[@heatherjones2701]

I know this is late, but I met him on several occasions back in 2001 and 2002. I was a receptionist at a boarding kennel in Lake Forest Illinois where he owned a restaurant and he boarded his dog(a golden retriever) there a lot. Him and his wife and his oldest daughter (she boarded her collie there). My boss (and friend) got him to sign on her Apollo 13 DVD, but I'm a reader, so he signed the novel for me. He's the only "famous" person I've met, and I admire him, and consider him one of the best and famous astronauts in history, and he's such warm, and friendly person. My 9 year old son has been obsessed with space since he was 4, and his dream is to work for NASA (not sure if he wants to he an astronaut,) but he definitely wants to be a NASA scientist

[@Psychiatrick]

The moon is a light, NOT a reflector! Man NEVER left earth for space only going into high atmospheric orbit! To go further would be an "obit"! LOL! (research what Tesla called the moon's self illuminatiing ...

[@paultrusten6205]

strawnobi Absolutely, and July 20 should be a U.S. national holiday commemorating the United States’ unbelievable achievement of the greatest breakthrough in human exploration of all time. It will never be duplicated.

[@ghz24]

@@Psychiatrick The moon reflects both light and radio waves as any HAM radio operator knows. Look up EME moon bounce and then realize what a doofus you are being.

[@calvinhobbes7504]

Well said. And it will be a LONG time before Americans - or anyone else- does anything even remotely as wonderful again. One look at the internet billionaires we have now clamoring about their egotistical ideas .... and you'll see what I mean.

[@Buzzbox3rd]

A beautiful epic story of what man Can achieve if really put to the test , everyone involved in the Apollo program are heroes to me .

[@bobsingh5521]

Buzzbox3rd Man and Woman

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@bobsingh5521 People always forget the women, especially the women whose calculations were a huge part of our successful moon landings.

[@kcbarbo78]

⁠@@bobsingh5521”man” is a gender neutral term in this case meaning “mankind.” Even as a woman who believes women should be recognized for their contributions and accomplishments, this type of virtue signaling is silly.

[@paulcarter2907]

ONE OF THE BEST DOCUMENTARY'S I HAVE EVER SEEN...

[@zimma2330]

ther's one that's better. it'a called 'a funny thing happened on the way to the moon' when you're done with that, watch 'astronaughts gone wild' z.

[@ghz24]

@@zimma2330 Both are full of lies and I can prove they know they are lying. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpKzkK1ue5ZjpbM

[@kongmik]

They never went to the moon

[@JinxMarie1985]

.m

[@alex-internetlubber]

@@kongmik You contribute exactly nothing to the world

[@marspp]

I want to go for a pint with Jim Lovell... he’s like everyone’s favourite happy grandfather. This is a really good doc: no BS, just the story told by the people who did it.

[@KarlKrogmann]

I met him. He was a patient at the hospital I worked at. It was like meeting one of the Beatles.

[@devilisahomo]

A science fiction story. Nothing true about it It was all faked

[@KarlKrogmann]

@@devilisahomo Dumb fucking hick.

[@heatherjones2701]

@@KarlKrogmann I met him several times back in 2001 and 2002 in Lake Forest Illinois. I was a receptionist at a boarding kennel,(he owned a restaurant there), and he boarded his dog there. He's the only "famous" person I've ever met. He signed my copy of Lost Moon. I agree, it was awe inspiring.

[@marka2520]

@@devilisahomo you're a lot more gullible than anyone who does believe it happened.

[@charuchoudhari3673]

John Houbolt, Werner Von Braun, the mercury/gemini/apollo astronauts, the NASA engineers and everyone who made it possible to land men on the moon are real heroes and shows why American ingenuity has made the USA is the greatest nation on earth. They all deserve medals for their above and beyond the call of duty service to this country.

[@CharlieBam]

I think Von Braun owed us big time lol

[@ui6144]

Thank you very much for uploading this. I first saw this documentary almost 20 years ago, recorded it and burned it on a CD, which I eventually lost. The most fascinating and unforgetable documentary about the space race.

[@cappnzak]

Great men,...and women too,of course.A wonderful effort and fascinating times. Thank you for the post.

[@wallybrown9509]

Reading from Genesis was the most appropriate thing anyone could do. Perfect

[@pastorpidgeon5980]

Indeed

[@philcoombes2538]

@@wallybrown9509 for the 31% of Terran humanity that is Xtian, yes...

[@petemoore5104]

What those incredibly brave men did back then stands testament to mans curiosity. We stand on the shoulders of giants today with technology that they never had. The whole of my life has been as a result of them. Mere words cannot grasp my gratitude for them. For all of them, and the future ones.. I humbly thank you.

[@floatthecreek]

@todd peachey Dumb Ass!!!

[@ianb9028]

@harrylongbaugh1 it wasn't environmental issues that stopped the Apollo program it was economics and a lack of public support. NASA realized that building one shot rockets cannot be justified. They also realized that to go further into space required an understanding of impact of zero gravity on physiology and programs to determine the extended flights necessary to get to Mars etc. Hence Skylab, the ISS and similar low earth orbit programs

[@topilot]

Just got back from the Apollo 11 50th celebration of the manned moon landing at KSC. I have become a space history fanatic and a annual pass member to the KSC. This video was absolutely one of the best I have seen on the technical achievements leading up to the manned moon landing. It had some great footage of the interviews and gathering of Borman, Lovell and Anders.

[@Habibi46611]

Yes, John Houbolt is rarely mentioned (LOR), too. Wernher von Braun later thanked him and Houbolt Said that was joining his happiest days.

[@ct6502c]

@Dan Reidy STFU, you schizoid loser. No one takes you nutjob conspiracy theorists seriously.

[@cronistamundano8189]

I've seen this now maybe one hundred times. It never fails to amaze me the coolness of Sttaford and Cernan. "Is it going to snare with what's left of Cernan?", and Cernan acknowledging that it was the way to go... these guys were brave. And whatsmore they flew toghether again in Apollo 10!

[@williamb4920]

i feel genuinely grateful to live in the same world as these men and women

[@williampalmer6814]

Brings back memories of my youth glued to the TV during all the coverage of my heroes in the space program. What a terrific documentary, especially from the Apollo 8 crew.

[@11sophiemarie]

An amazing documentary, extremely interesting. Being a lover of history, I rarely miss an opportunity to learn a bit more about those daring men. Their wives were unsung heroes. The caliber of those men and women, will never be seen again. Nor will those times of wonder and awe.

[@jmjaxson]

I borrowed this documentary from the library years ago but it's still as awesome as when I first watched it. There are three others documentaries that are a MUST WATCH......'Moon Machines' that is in six parts that covers the Saturn V, guidance computer, command module, spacesuits, lunar module, and the lunar rover. The other two are.....'Failure Is Not An Option', and 'In the Shadow of he Moon'.

[@stevenkeirstead6305]

Thank You. A truly great documentary and Thank You for sharing it. Wonderful.

[@medievalmusiclover]

So great video. Wonderful thinking guys.! Best video about landing Moon.

[@HatsTour]

Roger Chaffees parents must be so devastated when giving that interview but there's something so admirable about their courage and dignity.

[@gmc6218]

Well noted

[@DrTWG]

@Hats - Yes indeed - a parent should never have to bury a child - truly awful. Roger Chaffee had been one of the reconnaissance pilots during the Cuban Missile Crisis I believe . Deke must have rated him highly to get a seat on Apollo 1.

[@heldercapela]

Hats Tour ...Let's not forget and give our condolences to family and prayers to the best man on Appolo program Gus Grisson ....a truly good character , good hearty and family man , they're still waiting for answers from NASA

[@unknownguy3229]

iam sure they are lol

[@Blitterbug]

@@unknownguy3229 Pardon??

[@Afrocanuk]

John Cornelius Houbolt was the single most reason no one got stranded on the Moon. He deserves his own documentary

[@laatkrijt7040]

Oh this is the best documentary i ever saw. At 37,54 Roger Chaffee´s folks grief. Thats so heartbreaking. Never saw that, never.

[@jimreily7538]

It hit me very hard. Just to see that- to know they suffered before they died, is very hard to know.

[@jshepard152]

37:54

[@teefkay2]

See my (jaded) comment above regarding “media tactics”.

[@K-Boogie7999]

Fascinating documentary thanks for posting it !

[@harrietharlow9929]

As I look at the technology of the era--the computers look so primitive next to what we have now and yet they were able to take the astronauts to the moon and bring them back safely. I am awed by the courage of the early astronauts and cosmonauts. It took a great deal of courage to go where no one before them had gone. I remember the excitement of the era--and when the Apollo 11 astronauts made it to the moon... The night of the moon landings, I was allowed to stay up late--and as Armstrong made his way down the adder, we were definitely excited and when he stepped onto the lunar surface, we went wild with happiness. That truly was an era like no other and I'm gad I was alive to experience it.

[@mark07027]

Outstanding ! Great presentation of the history of US spaceflight and the flight of Apollo 8.

[@ohmusicsweetmusic]

if only it were true..

[@unknownguy3229]

yes great i wonder how they manged all those studio hours ...

[@CarbonGlassMan]

@@ohmusicsweetmusic It is goofball.

[@CarbonGlassMan]

@@unknownguy3229 You people are ridiculous.

[@ohmusicsweetmusic]

@@CarbonGlassMan you know, it's kinda one of those things that history will look back and just laugh. why? because it's so obvious. It's just that right now few people have any reference points with which to understand it so they just believe what they're told. It's like telling a 5 year old that a man is going to make a cross country trip in a go cart in 3 days without a fuel stop. A five year old knows what a go cart is but has no ability to judge time or distance. Dude, the moon is 238,900 miles from the earth, but see you have no frame of reference to understand that. You think it's space and you see the moon right there so the distance means nothing to you. EXCEPT for the supposed Apollo missions the farthest we have ever gone is space is to the space station and that is 234 miles. So think about it just for a moment.... 234 miles vs. 238,900 miles. You just have to answer one question: how did the Apollo missions have enough fuel to make it there and back? Where was it storee? Do you think there was some kind of space wave they magically took or a Moon tractor beam? That's all you have to answer. How did we have enough fuel to make it there and make and where was the fuel stored? It's common sense, man.

[@m140775]

What a video!!! Thank you.

[@bobcurrie1642]

"When the engines all reach correct thrust, the rocket sends a command...'Let me go.'..."

[@wedgeantilles7731]

Excellent! Thanks for sharing!

[@honibis]

Awesome documentary. Incredible hard work and lots of risks to be taken.

[@5Andysalive]

Aside from the low video quality, this is amazing. The complete lack of Discovery Channel Hollywood bullshit makes it so much more interesting and watchable. It cut's a lot of corners of course but it's not annoying to watch...

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

The sad thing is that, relating to the Apollo 1 fire, the inward opening hatch was only stipulated because of the issue Gus had had with his earlier Mercury flight where the hatch blew prematurely. To prevent this, NASA made the door open inward so that the internal pressure would keep it closed...which it did. The hatch was also overly complicated to open and close. The danger of using 100% pure oxygen also was brought up several times at various meetings beforehand but nothing was changed until after this tragic accident (that set the program back about a year and a half).

[@StormsandSaugeye]

The cruelest irony is that had gus Grissoms capsule not had a malfunction with the explosive bolts, they would have used them on Apollo. I'm... not a fan of irony.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

@@StormsandSaugeye Yep. If that had not happened then the Saturn-1 door would have been outward opening. I also remember hearing that the danger of using 100% oxygen was mentioned months before the all-up test but no one listened. (At 100% oxygen and one atmosphere of internal pressure virtually everything becomes flammable)

[@peanut1001x]

& horribly killed 3 men

[@raymondj8768]

Strong brave people will always pay the price of progress !

[@vlad-pm2zr]

Great bunch of guys!

[@johnnylooping2105]

This is maybe the most awesome space documentary I’ve ever seen

[@kongmik]

you are a tv news believer

[@robertglenn5398]

Thanks for the information on this matter. It's appreciated

[@LoressaClisby]

I always thought the lunar lander was a strange but brilliant craft, I didn't know it was John Houbolt's solution. Extraordinary.

[@markwiedman6795]

Watch Episode 5 (Spider) of "From The Earth To The Moon" series (1998, HBO) for how and why the LM was needed and built. Whole Episode is basically about how Houbolt's Lunar Orbital Rendezvous plan was conceived and finally approved and how the LM was designed and manufactured by Grumman.

[@julieritt]

There's actually a book called "The man who knew the way to the Moon" about his fight for LOR.

[@julieritt]

@@markwiedman6795 Thanks! I've been meaning to pick that up on DVD - or perhaps just buy it online. Would you recommend it in general? (Mind you, I've read "Moon Shot" - not the one by Deke and Al (that's next on my list after I finish "Deke", having just finished Collins' "Carrying the Fire") but the other one - A Man on the Moon, Last Man on the Moon, In the Shadow of the Moon, Failure is not an etc. I'm sure you get the idea - lol.)

[@markwiedman6795]

@@julieritt I bought the DVD set (4 DVD's) about ten years ago (2009, about $45.00). Unfortunately, Episodes 3 & 4 on Disc One won't play. At that time (10 years ago) I had those two episodes on VHS Tape recorded from TV, so it was no big deal. I eventually found those episodes online and downloaded them and burned them to a DVD.

[@tariqchoudry6810]

My respect to the crew and the people at ground control. you were great and did great against all odds. i solute you all.

[@Alex.h10]

Thank you for uploading this.

[@stevenchillmaid632]

Absolutely brilliant, RIP to those who a fallen trying

[@cud0s]

awesome documentary thx :)

[@chriscowman]

This is very interesting. Thanks for posting :)

[@johnm3850]

I was very fortunate to be coming of age as we were landing on the moon and also the pride of being a american at that time.

[@erictaylor5462]

My parents sort of missed the first steps. They were watching on TV and as Neil said "That's one small step..." my mother felt me kick insider her for the first time. Now a doctor my tell you that I was just responding to the adrenaline in my mother's system. My mother was excited and I was responding to that, But I know that I knew what was going on, and I wanted to see. But my mother's bug round stomach was in the way. Unfortunately, I wasn't quite ready yet. It would be the end of December before I finally came along. By then I was feeling pretty resentful because I'd missed another moon landing because my mothers even bigger belly was still in the way.

[@erictaylor5462]

@ThePariss333 "American" refers to citizens of the United States of America. While technically, you are correct, practically, you are not, and it is how words in a language are used that counts. Just call a Canadian an American and see what happens. Not sure what you are talking about fantasy for. I was responding to the OC who mentioned that he enjoyed coming of age when the moon landings were taking place, and I just mentioned I happened to be born while the moon landings were taking place. Unless you are saying the moon landings were faked. If that's the case, we can all disregard everything you say.

[@Johnny53kgb-nsa]

Great documentary! These astronaut's we're hero's.

[@themainproblem]

This was an amazing collection of engineering talent.

[@Wolfennsteinn]

John Houbolt has just passed away at 15 April 2014 , he is 95 years old when he died. Godspeed John :'(

[@HatsTour]

Yeah, I just read that. Can you imagine the moon landings without him? Would have been like trying to land a plane on the moon on its tail. Many of the people speaking in this I knew of because of other documentaries I've watched but it's the first time I heard his name and it's a shame because he was such a huge factor in getting there (and most importantly, safely back). Quite obviously a great man and you have to admire his persistence. His life should be celebrated - his role in mans greatest achievement was pivotal.

[@mako88sb]

HatsTour Finally got a chance to watch both parts. Excellent documentary. Learned quite a bit from it. I hadn't heard of John Houbolt until the From the Earth to the Moon mini-series. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. Not many would of had the intestinal fortitude to keep at it considering the heard winds he was up against and knowing full well his career could be in jeopardy. Also amazing was finding out from the mini-series about Yuri Kondratyuk who came up with the LRO concept back in 1916.

[@delnajamusic]

He still a genius...for all history of spaceflight...

[@solcutta-zt9uw]

Well at least now he really will be able to visit space

[@unknownguy3229]

right into the bottomless pit lol god lol your supporting a anti god bunch of masonic bullshit //you speak of god but which god

[@erictaylor5462]

53:00 The entire idea that people thought the moon was made of cheese came from a 17th Century philosopher. The quote was taken out of context. At the time they were just coming out of the geocentric model, realizing that the planets, sun and moon were much larger than they seemed to be, this person said, "I would sooner convince a person that the moon was made of cheese than it was larger than a wagon wheel." He was comparing what everyone would consider two ridiculous ideas and saying that the moon was the size of a world was even more ridiculous than it being made of cheese.

[@sophier5508]

I have watched a large number of documentaries on this topic and I still learnt new things with this one. And it was very emotional, very moving. Roger Chaffee's parents made me cry, what a terrible moment.

[@alex-internetlubber]

This documentary is incredible as someone who's seen a bunch of NASA stuff, lot of new material

[@tmst2199]

So many enthralling moments. A must-see.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

By the way, this series is available on Amazon for about $13. Just go on there and search for "Nova To The Moon" under "Movies and Television". There's also the successor to that series coming out July 30th called "Back to the Moon" for about $4 more.

[@jimreily7538]

Thanks very much for this valuable information. Definitely going to buy both. Cheers

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

@@jimreily7538 "Moon Machines", also an EXCELLENT 6-part series that was on The Science Channel in 2008, is available on KZbin for free. _Highly_ recommended! Here's the playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6bGk2eKqdlkpbs The episodes are: - The Saturn V - The Command Module - The Lunar Module - The Navigation Computer (very interesting!) - The Lunar Rover - The Spacesuit (also very interesting!)

[@Bugman541]

I've been watching these kinds of documentaries all night. I literally cant actually believe that there are human beings alive, who believe that the moon landings etc. was faked. I mean .... the level of ignorance of these people genuinely causes me concern for the future of mankind.

[@joedmac78]

I totally agree. How could they fake it with so many people in the know? that is the part that's impossible. Im glad this doc was made while these old timers are still around.

[@Davidn1]

Bugman541 Ignorance is unavoidable. Some people are born with the brain of a monkey, and can not accept that humans can accomplish things like Beyond Earth travel.

[@musicbruv]

***** They went in the lunar morning were the surface temperature was about 70 c, you don't seem to realise that heat cannot travel through a vacuum except as radiation but this form is easily reflected by a shiny or white surface, try to think how a vacuum flask works.

[@wildboar7473]

***** Boy some fanatics, they are soo upset of some "fiew crazies"....it's like they are afraid of something, the truth? A 45 year old tale that was accepted and forced in schools, backed by "all the scientists".... See not what angle has to do with baking the surface, absoute zero in vacuum (for matter), unless sunrays absorption which easyly bring baking.... even in some protection in LEO it is major danger. Getting there threw worst temperatures that will melt all beside stainless steal and tatanium. But made of aluminium and nice clear glass windows.... against meteorites and radiations that keep growing in deadlyness.

[@Davidn1]

***** Exactly how much heat do you get from "other stars, quasi-stellar objects, black-hole accretion disks, gamma-ray bursts and so on." I suspect a few degrees.

[@MPYarnall]

John Houbolt didn't receive credit for Lunar Orbit Rendezvous? He received the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1963!

[@richardroddenberry2079]

I was in the Air Force, stationed at Patric AFB which was near Cape Canaveral. I had a badge to get on Cape Canaveral and in 1965 I and a couple of my guys snuck out there to watch Gemini 6 take off. The lanch was aborted with a very loud explosion. We balled off our truck very fast. It turned out Gimini 7 went first then Gemini 6. They rendezvioused successfully. Even today it was the only time we had two launched spacecraft up at the same time. Also, the man in charge of Gemini navagation wasmy best friend at a church in Satellite Beach Church.

[@donniebaker5984]

My uncle bill hauled the atlas in his airplane from jpl to cape Canaveral ..his airplane was the only Douglas C-133a Globemaster in the world ... I was aboard that airplane in 1966 at age 16 as my uncle bill took me aboard to check it out ..we where all over that thing .. even crawling out in the wings checking out the miles of wiring that fascinated me as the order it had been installed with ... Later I became an electrician and still hold strict order wiring anything I do ! It was William "Bill" Hargis who flew a fully assembled atlas missile with the tail hanging out the back of his airplane that no other man had ever done ...so keep that fact under your hat as I doubt if that was ever declassified ! Hehehe

[@pooryorick831]

This was America at its best. How far we have fallen. We would never be able to pull this off now.

[@rockethead7]

Well, we'll see. Artemis is funded, and is moving forward. Astronauts have been named and are in training. Additional Orion capsules have been ordered. SLS is accelerating development. The landers... well... like it or not, the SpaceX lander has been chosen (I'm not a fan of that choice), and is under development.

[@kongmik]

Best lie.

[@pooryorick831]

@@rockethead7 Hey Rocket Head. Are you one of those "moon shot was a hoax" people? If so that ship sailed a long time ago. It has been so thoroughly debunked over many decades. You need to find another hare brained conspiracy theory that's more contemporary. There is the "Trump will be reinstated as President in a couple weeks." Or the really timely "Joe Biden and his radical left wing deep state is railroading Trump for political reasons." That one, silly and insane though it is, will at least be cutting edge conspiracy nonsense. C'mon. Get with the times! 🙂🤯😁

[@rockethead7]

Sorry for the 10 month late reply. Your response wasn't in my notifications, and I just now saw you asked me questions. To respond to you, um, what in the world are you talking about? How does anything I said even remotely indicate that I'd be a denier of Apollo? You said we would never be able to pull this off now. I responded by stating that we'll see. Artemis is proceeding. Thus, we ARE trying to pull this off now, which negates your original posted message. Artemis was funded by congress in 2019. There have been some poor choices (in my opinion), but, the project is proceeding. You were the one who claimed we can't do it now, and I was pointing out that we ARE doing it now. I think the biggest slowdown will be the choice of SpaceX for the lander, while so many more competent rocket companies were available. But, I posted absolutely nothing to indicate that I'd deny Apollo, and I was pointing out that YOU were probably incorrect by stating that it can't be done now, because they ARE doing it now.

[@alecfoster6653]

When National Geographic made great documentaries.

[@uploadJ]

What? You're saying you're still not convinced global warming is a crisis? Added: Who else missed the sarcasm? Added: /sarc tag

[@CarbonGlassMan]

@@uploadJ No.

[@TarotKiller-z7h]

Declassified Government Docs CONFIRM - FLAT Non-Rotating Earth kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaq2pp2diLSabdk

[@twoedgedswordfreeofdark5545]

Bull 💩🥵

[@michaelric3540]

Right? Actually learned a few things.

[@bigdave5707]

John Houbolt didn't get the credit he deserved. He was a genius who had to deal with a bunch of egotistical Eggheads!

[@narajuna]

Never heard of him.

[@Afrocanuk]

John Houbolt was the single most reason why no Apollo astronauts got stranded on the moon.

[@pedrodiaz5540]

Big Dave John C. Houbolt, unsung hero, without him I doubt that the program succeed

[@MrDoneboy]

POS Dickheads would be my response!

[@b1lleman]

Great stuff. THANK YOU

[@genegroover30]

Awesome Documentary. Just Awesome.

[@kongmik]

Awesome lies.

[@erictaylor5462]

Really, Gemini was part of the overall Apollo Program.

[@phoenixrising4573]

In a way, but there was a lot more to the Gemini program than just the LEO capsules that got flown. Gemini was a very capable capsule from a maneuvering standpoint, and honestly it was becoming a divergent fork of spacecraft development to what Apollo was. if you look at what was going on in the mid-late 60's, considering it made more sense as that divergent fork. Unfortunately, from Nixon on, Space became a make -work program cash cow, and the US gov stopped caring about exploration.

[@gavinmackie5185]

The Gemini Program is nearly forgotten today?

[@dieselscience]

Today, in 2014, more people the world over believe the Apollo program faked the Moon landings and that global warming is real. Go figure.

[@gmc6218]

dieselscience Agree Global warming is a con as well , can't believe that the whole World has been sucked in by it , it's just another element of the 'new world order' political con job administered by the United Nations , even the founder of Greenpeace agrees it all a political con job , the reason he quit Greenpeace because the globalist Liberals infiltrated it and took control.

[@gavinmackie5185]

G Mc You mean globalist Leftists. Most of the world doesn't buy AGW (Anthropocentric Global Warming) either, just the sad and stupid useful idiots, these Leftists shout loud and often enough to people like yourself that they appear to be the majority. They never were the majority and never will be. Remember, Obama got into office the second time round because of massive electoral fraud by the Democratic Party, ony 25% of registered voters in America are Democrats. That 2012 result just doesn't add up.

[@JacquesLapeyre]

Holy fuck you guys... you do realize NASA says global warming is real? Who the fuck are you gonna believe? Fucking dipshit morons. Goddamn.

[@dieselscience]

No. NASA says the earth is in a cooling trend. www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/10294082/Global-warming-No-actually-were-cooling-claim-scientists.html

[@pedrodiaz5540]

Dr. John C. Houbolt, master of masters

[@jpsned]

Dr. Houbolt worked with my Dad in the mid-60s and 70s at ARAP (Aeronautical Associates of Princeton) when I was a kid. I remember him and his wife coming over for dinner with my parents. 🙂❤️

[@GardaOrban]

#15 was my favorite landing. The 1st of the J-Missions, carrying the lunar car and the service module was equipped with the high-gain VHF antenna. Jim Irwin and Dave Scott at Hadley Rille

[@rockethead7]

Well, it was the worst "landing" of all of the missions (taking the word "landing" literally), because it could nearly be called a crash landing... engine bell all smacked up and crumpled when it hit the ground... worst slope of any of the landings.... But, beyond that yeah, in my imagination, if I could go to any Apollo site, I'd pick Hadley first. Beautiful lava flow, towering mountain, St. George crater, yeah, big stuff. But, ask me tomorrow, I might say Taurus-Littrow. That was pretty darned impressive. I'm almost changing my mind while typing.

[@chrislong3938]

This is a great documentary and there are others equally great such as Failure Is Not An Option which is Gene Krantz's book and video series and then there is Moon Machines which explores in more detail all the little things needed to get the job done! Both are also available here on YT and they are both fantastic! Houbolt is one of many unsung heroes of NASA and I'm glad to see him getting his deserved recognition here. The Krantz videos talk about him as well in good detail!

[@erictaylor5462]

The Soviets were utterly astonished at the American response to their launch. Considering the historical context, it was the International Geophysical Year, where the nations of the world carried out scientific explorations of our planet. It was meant to foster cooperation between the nations of the world, especially those who had contradictory political philosophies (mainly the US, China, and the USSR). Sputnik 1 was designed to study the properties of the exosphere (the extreme upper limits of Earth's atmosphere) and Explorer 1 was was designed to measure the radiometric environment of near Earth space, specifically looking for radiation belts that were theorized to exist. Both projects were announced ahead of time and scientists all over the world eagerly awaited the coming data. It's just that no one really expected the USSR to succeed. The real fear was, yo could put something in orbit, you could drop it anywhere on the planets you wanted. It was a real concern. Also, you could put cameras on such a device and over fly any country you wanted, something that was ambiguous legally. When airplanes became a thing in 1904 it quickly became a legal problem. It is against the law (and has been for thousands of years) for someone from one country to enter the territory of another country without permission. To do so with military equipment or personnel is an act of war, called "invasion." But what about airplanes? Is being *OVER* a country the same as being *IN* that country? President is extremely important in law. Until the first country being over flown by an airplane complained, it *WAS* not the same thing, being over a country. But the first time it happened, the country being flown over complained, and the courts answered this question. It was, in fact, the same. In the mid 50's people could see that satellites in low Earth orbit would be very useful, but there was a huge unanswered legal question. Was flying over a country in space (above the atmosphere) the same as flying over that country in the atmosphere (which was not legal by this time)? When Sputnik launched the United States (or any country) could have filed a motion in international court arguing that it was the same thing. Had that happened, space today would be inaccessible, because in space you can't simply go around. It's why the US didn't complain about Sputnik flying overhead. Because the US didn't want it to become illegal.

[@tempestnz1]

They didn't go to the moon it was filmed on earth. How did they get past the van Allen radiation belts when they can't go through them today. If they could get through the radiation they would be mining helium 3 on the moon

[@erictaylor5462]

@@tempestnz1 Don't be an idiot. The radiation belts were not a problem then, and they are not a problem now. We can get through them today, we just haven't had the will to go through them. Just because you have never been to (whatever city you have never been to) doesn't mean you CAN'T go to that city.

[@gehlen52]

From the Mercury/Redstone class vehicles to the Apollo/Saturn V vehicles, like going from the Model A to todays Cadillac in only a few years.

[@mikesimmons852]

And then having almost zero progress for 50 years...

[@sukieme1]

Sept today"s Lack is still a piece of shit

[@shawneangay7508]

Wow,Neil Armstrong died 3days after my dad....daddy was 2 years older.... Dad was my hero!!

[@spaceflightengr]

Sorry to hear. Always remember....

[@shawnweed265]

My dad, uncle, and grandfather were all North American Aviation, then later Rockwell men in SoCal...I grew up in the 1960s and was just so proud that all my family were working on the space program...Everyone back then wanted to be an astronaut...

[@waltercarter6163]

We now know that "astronaut" is just a fancy word for "crisis actor". They don't go anywhere. They're just lying hoaxers. Sad but oh so true.

[@shawnweed265]

@@waltercarter6163 Maybe...but as of today, 536 people astronauts have been to space from over a dozen countries...not counting the ones who died in pursuit of that endeavor...The idea that it is a huge ruse, with tens of thousands of people complicit is indeed a possibility...but I submit, not a probability. Believe, what makes you happy.

[@shawnweed265]

@@waltercarter6163 You crack me up...ok...I'll bite...since clearly you believe, without question, that all the astronauts, politicians, captains of industry, workers...from multiple countries...are all part of this master deception...sell me..what makes you so sure?

[@cindystyles2671]

Shawn weed, no. Science/physics do not lie. No human has ever passed through van Allen's radiation belt. NASA admits they don't have the tech to do so. Allen Dean admitted on film they never left earth orbit. The Apollo "footage" is easily discounted, too many photographic anomalies- no stars visible, shadows in different directions from only one light source (The Sun) no crater under the "Lunar Lander" where there should be, same backdrops in supposedly different locations, etc, etc.. Going into orbit is one thing. Passing through 25000 miles of radiation that would fry an elephant to a crisp is quite another. Also the Apollo missions were captured on film still in earth orbit when they were saying they were half way to the moon. If they did it in 1969 why can't they do it now??? Think about it. One day the Apollo missions will be acknowledged just as all those weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have been--- NON EXISTENT. The laws of physics do not lie.

[@waltercarter6163]

@@shawnweed265 Start with Apollo. I did. The evidence against Apollo is never ending. Take your time and review the evidence at your own leisure. Let me know if you need links. Once you understand that NASA hoaxed Apollo, you have to believe they've created hoaxes before Apollo and since Apollo. They (NASA) are all Freemasons. Freemasonary is a men's club based on corruption. For many years, I was proud of our astronauts. I ordered dozens of authentic NASA mission patches and had them sown on my child's jacket. I'm no longer proud o our fake space achievements. NASA is the one thing that makes me embarrassed to be called an American.

[@ChrisBrengel]

Great documentary! Major props to NatGeo

[@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp]

This is a Brilliant Documentary!

[@LeofromFreo]

“The first people to see the Earth as it really is.”

[@LeofromFreo]

Joe Blow The only thing flat around here is the top of your stupid head. No, really.

[@narajuna]

@@LeofromFreo Funny, so you really see it as "flat" dear? So did Picard and Concorde passengers.

[@LeofromFreo]

Wide Open weren’t they after the first years of manned space flight, Ducky?

[@narajuna]

@@LeofromFreo ??? no sense, thanks for admitting as Many that it looks flat. cosmosmagazine.com/space/the-first-photograph-of-earth-taken-from-space 66 years before FE revival menace threat to pagan Globe, this is a old photograph without the huge fisheye lensing :)

[@narajuna]

@Nature and Physics No clear, your ball should have a clear one at that hight, just as most media show. Yes your BC Greek Globe minds had many gods. The Chrisitians took up the flame afterwards.

[@ZheadMonkey]

Liev Schreiber (Sabretooth in Wolverine:Origins) ;)

[@KINTONGVIN]

amazing

[@allandavis8201]

I started watching this documentary once before but never got to watch it to the end, this time I am determined to watch the history of what I believe to be mans greatest achievement, and yes I know that it was America that did go to the moon, but without input and expertise from many nationalities it would perhaps not have happened, in fact without the USSR it might still not have happened. Thanks for sharing this interesting and informative film. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@robertwieczorek5838]

I love how Q is the voice for this narration. Awsome

[@tilesetter1953]

Who is Q?

[@alli-kat2329]

@@tilesetter1953 Q is a Star Trek character played by John DeLancie lol

[@tilesetter1953]

Ok

[@cedarshoals529]

"We sang that damn song for two weeks"

[@ceojr1963]

The people that think we never went, might not think going to Hawaii is possible either, cause you can't walk there. I am sure someone like them lived in Europe in the 1400's and 1500's till they also sailed to the land beyond the seas and saw vast forests and shorelines. The silly things people say about not going to the moon is just annoying.

[@spokev]

I keep hearing that Gemini is "almost forgotten"... who doesn't know of, or remember, the Gemini program?!

[@cardcounter21]

Older space heads like myself remember Gemini but I doubt most young people today would have heard about it let alone know what it was!

[@onlyme112]

I was a young boy at the time and I remember many of the details all these years later.

[@spokev]

At the time of the Apollo 11 landing, July 20, 1969, I was 9, about to turn 10 years old. I built models of and read books about the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs and spacecraft. The entire manned space program continues to be an interest to me to this day. I'm always learning new things about it and I think astronauts, especially those early pioneers, were some of the bravest people on (or off!) the planet! They did things no one had ever done before, faced dangers no one conceived of and did it with dedication and resolve rarely ever seen. Those guys are my heroes.

[@hikesystem7721]

Excellent documentary! Great footage. I think Lovell took moonrise photo. I've heard tapes in which voices in capsule state Lovell has the color camera and is taking the photo. The others were snapping away with black and white cameras.

[@IMEMINE.]

Fitting to be watching this on earth day

[@MrSmithaustin]

The most powerful man made machine ever built.

[@mrmeaner5901]

You my friend should go with Dorothy and toto to the wizard of ox, and ask for a brain, ah get a heart to, and some courage, because you have been well and truly NAASARD , SMH!! ,

[@danm936]

@AstronomyToday wouldn't the Tsar bomb be more of a device than a machine?

[@dennis9707]

Gus Grissom -A great name for an astronaut. He would have been a great moonwalker.

[@bawbremy]

Virgil Ivan “Gus” Grissom.

[@DrTWG]

I love that scene from "The Right Stuff" re the Life magazine deal and his name. Tom Wolfe used the term Gus Gruffisms to describe his bad tempered utterances.

[@DrTWG]

@Dan Reidy Ha ha ha ha ! Who dreams this shit up?

[@vivek27789]

@Dan Reidy Wow you must have been a great confidant of Gus Grissom for him to tell u that. 🤦

[@yan24to]

He definitely had the right stuff.

[@johnpringle9967]

Just absolutely astonishing! How 400,000 people accomplished this is so amazing that many people to this day can't believe it. I remember Christmas '68 shopping with my Mom the night Apollo 8 was cleared to go to the moon. Every store in our town had a black and white TV in the window and there were crowds around every TV. I remember being late for school the morning Alan Sheppard did his thing, and I remember the 301 fire. I remember staying up so late the night Neil Armstrong stepped out. JFK took a bold step and fired thousands of young people to enroll in the physical sciences which probably launched the digital age and untold technical advances. I'm not religious, but the Genesis reading... wow. We are an exploratory species and I think a move to Mars could well save the US from it's present demise. Just do it again... Every time I see a non military rocket lift off, I get chills and I have to fight off tears and over emotion. By 2050, it'll all be but over for us unless we get off the pot. Getting rid of Trump would be your best start. Push him in front of a bus or something and put a turnip in as president. The US and the world would be better off. The US needs to get back to the exploratory mindset that formed it in the first place and made it the great nation that it is not now. You people need another JFK... not a turnip. Out of 350 million people, there must be one....?

[@sukieme1]

If what you say is true maybe JFK was the last good demakraute and get a life, demy's are closer to NAZIS them Trump could ever be, wake up!!!!!!!!!!! and by the way the turnip lost, get over it or crawl bacK into your tube of chips PRINGLE MAYBE YOU WILL GET CHILLS FROM THAT

[@aviewtoill]

Well after 7 months, obviously not!

[@honeychurchgipsy6]

John Pringle - I remember watching the Apollo 11 landing on a black and white TV in the UK. I can still remember how scared I was that they wouldn't get home safe - and that they might have brought some nasty moon virus with them - didn't they go in to quarantine? I also remember listening to the Apollo 13 accident, in our kitchen, with my mum - when they lost contact with Earth we sat there staring at the radio, hoping.

[@jimhughes1962]

honeychurchgipsy6 ~ Do you remember H. G. Wells’ radio hoax “War of The Worlds”? People all over America completely freaked out when they heard it because they believed without a doubt that it was actually happening-the earth was being attacked by alien invaders from space! Surely if it was in the media it must have been true, right? ~ So when Apollo 11 was said to be landing on the moon you watched and were captivated by the momentous event, an extremely grainy low resolution image, on a little black-and-white TV set (remember the Blair Witch Project?). And what you were being told that you were seeing certainly must have been actually happening because it was being presented to you by trusted reporters, and they wouldn't have reported anything to the American people that wasn't true, especially something so important, right? That would have been inconceivable-which is exactly why no one even considered the possibility. And why would anyone have considered it? We were Americans, by God, and America had just beat the Russians to the moon, and achieved the greatest feat in human history! Of course it was real; no question about it.

[@YDDES]

Please tell me which scenes in "2001" makes You believe that Kubrick made the Apollo films. Also how You think they were made, because I happen to know how every effects scene i "2001" was created (not by Kubrick, but by his SFX staff including Douglas Trumbull, famous for "Close Encounters" and "Blade Runner", for example).

[@duken3767]

Wonderful achievements, time to go back to the moon, to me, it's still hard even today, may lack of dedication.

[@humbleone6405]

So why don't we or anyone else return to the moon?

[@Tomi.762]

The world Broke

[@Rickswars]

Because they never went in the first place.

[@DavidGigg]

They did it six more times after the first moon landing and 9 times if you count landings and orbital flights. You make it sound like you believe they only did it once and never repeated it. They had achieved most of their scientific goals and there was no perceived economic benefit. Pretty much it was simply cost - program cost about $100 billion in today's money. Same as to why we no longer have supersonic jet service (Concorde) - it was not economical. But twenty years ago you could fly New York - London on Concorde in less than half the time it takes today - 3.25 hours vs. 7.5 hours. These all can be done but are hugely expensive

[@JCSolo]

@@DavidGigg When have they went back recently? Think about it. It's 2018 and we have not been back since? Exactly. Also, if the suits they wear are protected from radiation, why wouldn't they use those to clean up the spilled radiation on Earth? That's off topic but a valid point. I don't think they went at all.

[@DavidGigg]

That's right, they have not been back since 1972. I thought that was a well known fact. I have explained in my reply as to some of the reasoning, maybe you didn't actually read it. Please explain the reason to spend $100 billion to go back to repeat something already done. The focus and the future budget is to go to Mars in the next 20-30 years - again this is a well known fact.

[@gruff5]

people aren't interested in exploration?! How do you explain the ISS then? Or all the other European-NASA space missions?

[@armr6937]

Human beings haven't been futher than 248k miles away from Earth, unless you believe in alien abductions... That was April 1970, 44 years ago.

[@1USAUSA]

Marco Ara you must be joking right????? that 248k miles is already in question by millions of skeptics... i dont think we went beyond 350 miles from earth...

[@armr6937]

vasanthmuthu And the Earth is flat as a pancake, it can't be round! I don't see any roundness when I look at it. The fact that millions of people question something doesn't make it false. Humans have a stupidly long record on being mistaken and defending the wrong position.

[@LarS1963]

No, they don't. Unfortunately. And it's made worse by the fact that we have handed all power in this world into the hands of economists, who are concerned about nothing except the bottom line. ESA and NASA receives but a trickle of what Europe and even more so, USA spends on military. Sad, but true.

[@1USAUSA]

Marco Ara When Columbus set out on a voyage to go to India, he accidently found the NEW MASS OF LAND OR WORLD as they put it. Then, he reported back to the kings and the queens about his new discovery. After that, every god damn people in Europe wanted to invade this new world which they did. This new world came to be known as North America or United States TODAY. However, not before Native American were RAPED, MURDERED and ABUSED at the hands of the Europeans. What is my point? Man is known to be RUTHLESS and HEARTLESS when it comes to MONEY and POSSESSIONS. Because Columbus was able to reach this new land, many others made trips back and forth until they decided to move to "America." Here NASA claims that they have engineered crafts that can SAFELY and SUCCESSFULLY take men to and from the moon back in 60s/70s NOT ONCE but 6 times without a single SCRATCH on their bodies some 250,000 miles into space and yet they can't repeat that today or at least improve on these old technologies. Hell, they walked on the moon 50 years ago but have not build their much anticpated MOON BASE. These days all you hear about from these NASA Assholes is MARS THIS AND THAT. Really, so we conquered the MOON????? Why not setup a post on the moon like US GOVERNMENT loves to do on other countries' soil? Remember Marco you can only LIE for so long. In the end, people are going to DEMAND answers. Eventually, time will reveal the truth as it is happening right now. People are waking up to NASA HOAXES and SCAMS. These NASA ASSHOLES are riding SKY HIGH fooling people, because there is no other independent agencies to verify any of their so called PROJECTS or SPACE PROGRAMS - NONE. PROVE they actually traveled 250K into outer space.

[@snacklepussPSN]

From birth everything we sense and do is based in blind belief in that we immediately accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that:

[@caseyplooy1696]

SinisterSnacklepuss GamesNetwork .........lame👎🏻

[@dosmastrify]

My God I miss having documentaries like this

[@markmerrell4655]

Excellent job!

[@paulscott5566]

"The price of progress comes high at times." Honor, duty, dignity, service dedication.

[@prwexler]

(45:36) Earthrise!

[@elguinolo7358]

You can see that only if you are orbiting the Moon. If you were standing of the Moon surface, you would see the Earth in the sky exactly at the same position all the time.

[@AgnostosGnostos]

German technology and German scientists constructed the Saturn V.

[@wullymc1]

You mean NAZIS?

[@AgnostosGnostos]

Dinky Doo Actually until the conquer of the moon the USA authorities were preventing any leak about the participation of Jewish slaves during mass production of V2 German rockets. Afterwards the scandal broke and Werner Von Brown was soon moved from NASA rocket center in Huntsville Alabama to an insignificant office of NASA in Washington. In 1972 he retired from NASA at the age of 60. Despite his very dark past Brown could offer more. He was against Space Shuttle because he believed it was too dangerous and expensive. He was of course right.

[@wullymc1]

@@AgnostosGnostos It wasn't just Von Braun there were hundreds of them. Von Braun was in the SS!

[@heldercapela]

Achillears Labrou.....in the name of deception and fraud to deceive humanity as well after that was done on war

[@AgnostosGnostos]

Dinky Doo Correct but not an active one.

[@seaturtledog]

It is amazing the number of super smart people that worked together to achieve their mission. I also believe that we would have never invested the time and money if this space exploration would not benefit the military. todays computers, Youtude videos and our cell phones can thank these genius scientists for their work.

[@JaJ0001]

Awesome documentary

[@kongmik]

Awesome lie