NASA's Forbidden Room | The Rubber Bunker

[@ITSHISTORY]

I hope you all like this episode; I wanted to share a fun behind-the-scenes fact. I originally read Saturn "5" Rocket, but double-check it to be sure; it turns out I ended up quoting a lousy source the second time around (reading it as "v"). As for Warner Van Buren, I don't have an excuse for that one! Lesson Learned

[@SailaSobriquet]

Props for 'fessin' up.

[@handyandyaus]

@@SailaSobriquet Only partly!

[@SailaSobriquet]

@@handyandyaus True. True. It was prompted 'fessing. But 'fess he did, and that deserves at least some credit.

[@jasonduncan69]

Also the fuel oxidized mix was kerosene and liquid oxygen. Liquid hydrogen wouldn't give thrust when mixed with kerosene.

[@wtmayhew]

The plural of craft is craft when referring to a conveyance. The plural is crafts when referring to avocations.

[@ShowMeTheMendozas]

99.999% of all people who will read your comment will not know what a conveyance is, or an avocation. Including myself

[@FanDancer]

@wtmayhew how many people do I hear saying fishes

[@amg2022]

Your mom taught me that too.

[@MickeyMishra]

There is so much in our space history that has just been lost to time. Its really crazy that they dubbed over those flight tapes as well.

[@goofyfish]

Really? Van Buren? Wernher Von Braun. 🙄

[@FanDancer]

The dj?

[@hugolafhugolaf]

It's Van Buren. Founder of the street gang the Van Buren Boys.

[@wox6908]

I swear this guy purposely mispronounces certain things consistently as some kind of long troll.

[@cjah135]

Saturn VEEEEE rocket 🤦‍♂️

[@ChrisACiufo]

Thanks for the education, as always. Nicely done.

[@gregswartz8924]

The F-1 engines in the first stage used liquid oxygen (LOX) and kerosene, not liquid hydrogen. The J-2 engines in the second and third stages used liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.

[@wtmayhew]

Came here to make the same comment, thanks for noting that.

[@gregswartz8924]

@@wtmayhew I really enjoy Ryan’s content, but misrepresenting the mighty F-1 engine?? I say NO! No sir! That cannot stand! 😏

[@wtmayhew]

@@gregswartz8924 Thanks, I concur. Some facts just have to be correct no matter what. I can still remember the unmanned test flights with the Saturn IB, so they were using Roman numerals early on. I’ll go with “IB” as Wikipedia’s article on said rocket names it that. Although I see “1B” used a lot. For example you can build an Estes model rocket “Saturn 1B.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen “Saturn 5” anywhere. I guess it is a little odd because we pretty much skipped over II, III and IV in the Saturn series.

[@gregswartz8924]

On a wonderful side note, when I was down in Houston visiting both NASA and the USS Texas… While in the USS Texas’ engine room, standing next to a steam cylinder that took up the whole room, I read that each engine produces 14,000 HP(I apologize if I mis-remember the placard). While looking at it, I was thinking about the turbo pumps used to pump the 1.8 metric tons of LOX and 0.8 metric tons of kerosene (RP-1) …PER SECOND… into each engine. These turbo pumps were each driven by a 53,000BHP turbine! 53,000BHP turbines just to fuel each F-1 engine. Day-yum! Again, sorry, this was just a side note from a Saturn rocket (and space stuff in general) enthusiast. 😁

[@wtmayhew]

@@gregswartz8924 Thanks for sharing that. The scale of the energy and sheer size of everything associated with the Saturn V stack is mind blowing. I never got to see a launch, but I got to visit the Cape December 27, 1971 and saw Apollo XIV on the transporter positioned at the pad. You really have to be there to appreciate how gigantic the rocket stack is.

[@johnmcdougald1238]

The VAB is still the largest Single Story building in the world.

[@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft]

It is so big that it has its own weather patterns.

[@davidjernigan8161]

Part of the issue the US had was that initially there were competing projects between the army and navy. The Navy's vanguard launch vehicle would have beaten Sputnik but it failed multiple times prior to a successful launch

[@cbspock1701]

The pad escape system for Apollo was featured on an episode of the Six Million Dollar Man

[@mskinner6502]

@@cbspock1701 Happen to know which episode?

[@rbeasley66]

Thanks for sharing another great story about our USA 🇺🇸 history!!

[@jeremycole8663]

Thank you!

[@JustRaiHere01]

Thank you, Ryan, that was an awesome bit of lost history.

[@ITSHISTORY]

My pleasure!

[@bryanmcdonald4351]

It seems like they could have built a highspeed trolley to get the employees out of the blast area instead of a multimillion dollar slide and bunker

[@maryhildreth754]

Saturn 5

[@michaelwhite2823]

Saturn 3, 1980, Farrah Fawcett

[@timewave02012]

if he had gotten it right, he'd probably have called Elon Musk's company "Space Ten"

[@tweygant]

Aw, come on Ryan you're from Chicago. It's not like you grew up under a rock 😮

[@stephendellefave6423]

So cool!! Ive seen what seems like a million documentaries and have never heard about this before. Super cool!! And id love to take a ride down the slide!!

[@DavidRuehl]

I recall my father working on an escape room at MILA. He spoke of a cable running from the LUT to the bunker. Hook up and go! I'm assuming this is the same room your showing. The chances of going down an elevator then sliding down a tube are next to nil. Although the cable had its own set of problems since they struggled to get the brakes to work properly. Long ago, and exciting times.

[@marki_mark3410]

aight whos the jackass who got the workplace water slide turned into a historical artifact?!

[@rougeneon1997]

I thought it was Kerosene and "LOX" aka Liquid Oxygen not hydrogen

[@keithmoore5306]

actually LOX was used with both of those kerosene and hydrogen was the fuel and the LOX was the oxidizer!!!

[@schr75]

The second and third stage was Hydrogen fueled. The first was kerosene.

[@rael5469]

9:19 That's how the emergency oxygen works on most airliners now days. However on the airliners I think the oxygen only lasts long enough for the aircraft to make an emergency descent to breathable altitudes.

[@alanlevy4694]

"They were shocked" 😂😂

[@lc3853]

This is top ten most socially awkward elevator rides.

[@genehunsinger3981]

Wernher von Braun

[@michaelwhite2823]

Say NASA's baby rubber bunkers five times fast

[@AlexandreLimberger]

@@michaelwhite2823 with some difficulty can say one 🤣

[@daverobinson6110]

Did it

[@duckinaroundlife]

When did space X start using both pads? 39B is still under nasa controll, ya know that lil Atremis thing. Space X uses 39A and SLC 40.

[@Eric-qo8vv]

Utility of caution mmmk

[@isaiahosborne4669]

NEW CALL OF DUTY MAP

[@troyfox4610]

Why do the seats have seat belts in the rubber room?

[@chrisvernier1443]

Because rubber is bouncy?😂

[@keithmoore5306]

because the concussion from the blast would throw your ass all over the bunker!!

[@daverobinson6110]

Federal law

[@c.hundley9714]

I thought man never went into space. Area 51

[@AdmiralJT]

Ive heard Saturn 'Vee' said by people my whole life, its pretty understood its V meaning 5 people... 😒

[@svenmorgenstern9506]

Ah, but was it a rubber baby buggy bunker? 😉

[@h.cedric8157]

2:19 *"Warner Von Buren"* 🤣💀🤣💀🤡

[@freetolook3727]

Why so many lauchpads?

[@michaelhband]

👍👍👍❤❤❤🚀🚀🚀

[@falke_blade9341]

Its braun

[@thundermite1241]

A rubber room a rubber room with rats & rats make me crazy crazy i was crazy onece

[@tomkeating65]

It was built in feet and inches, why must you convert to the metric system????

[@natchaos5604]

Go to bed grandpa...

[@AdmiralJT]

For all those other people who's counties didn't get to the moon first 😂

[@allangibson8494]

Because it was actually built in metric. That’s what happened when German engineers build things. Even the hatch bolts were metric. The Space Shuttle was the first manned spacecraft to use the imperial units…

[@grumpyhale821]

Confidentiality incorrect

[@SpeedFreak-LXIX]

In 1957 the Army and Navy adopted the metric system . Used as the basis of their weapons and equipment.

[@IncredibleCactusRoll]

The room is probably full of rats now

[@commanderjameson2708]

I saw what you did there.....

[@alg.5748]

There is a rubber room under 39A and a rubber room underneath 39B

[@Lex1uth3r]

Yea he says the numbers at @13:05

[@mike16241]

USA put the first object into space. Traveling at a minimum 125,000mph and cleared the atmosphere in a second.

[@rougeneon1997]

That man hole cover story is theoretical really.

[@keithmoore5306]

actually it was the poles in the 1600's a major dumbasski went into a powder magazine with a burning torch!!! he is currently orbiting Pluto!!!

[@AlwaysCheckmateNeverStalemate]

There's no such thing as space. It's all a psyop.

[@78gagta78]

All that wasted tax money on something never used then left to rot, how many homeless people could have been fed or given homes,