Vintage Space Visits the San Diego Air and Space Museum!

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[@Guywithcrazyideas]

Enthusiasm, intelligence, and beauty all bottled-up in one great gal. Watch her career rocket to the stars.

[@SilvanWespi]

And it's in landscape mode. Awesome, Amy!

[@fa.h.]

Ofc, she arent a noob.

[@SilvanWespi]

No, but her last museum clip was in portrait mode. It was an ad hoc livestream, though. This one is well produced. And content is top notch, as always. I'm not complaining whatsoever 😉

[@fa.h.]

Silvan Wespi Oh, I didnt remember...

[@peterloftus6259]

I never tire of space and air museums so for me you showed me enough to make me want to go. Back in the day you could climb into a mercury capsule and see just how tiny it was. Apollo was huge in comparison.

[@paulseyes]

Amy, I just love your raw enthusiasm. Will never get enough of your videos. Thank you ever so much. Your book was an awesome read, thanks again.

[@capcomSATX]

Great tour, Amy! Enjoyed your exuberance. If I was the museum curator, I would have waived the rules and let you to climb right into that Apollo 9 CM! After all, you've done so much for keeping alive interest in space history, even for those folks who weren't born yet during the early years. Keep up the good work!

[@orangelion03]

A great museum and well worth a visit to San Diego fir this alone. On a visit in the 80s, my wife and I got a docent tour into the workshops in the "basement". THAT was fantastic!

[@corycrowell3852]

Nice little 'quickie' tour. :-) Love your shows. I started there on opening day 1980, with 25 planes sitting on a waxed floor. Left in 2000, with 68 (!) aircraft and spacecraft on display, with about another dozen or so stored off-site. In 1980, you could stroll all 100,000 square feet of museum, see and read everything in about 45 minutes. Nowadays... it would TAKE days. And, yup, I was the guy who uncrated the Anders suit from NASA.... ;-)

[@saballenger]

More Museum tours please! These are some of my favorite videos to watch.

[@joseluisestopinaojeda9536]

You are wonderful,thanks for such amazing visit.Very apreciated for us the foreigners (well at least for me).Thank you.

[@rudyossanchez]

Amy at a museum it's like. Squirrel! !!!

[@cgruttke]

Yay! I went there this year for Buzz,Al,Charlie,Walt and some flight controllers from Apollo. Also Bob Hoover happened to be there for the event also.So got to meet him before he passed. Cernan was a bit Ill so he couldn't make it.

[@Jagermaster13]

To me there's nothing cooler than being under that Saturn V at the KSC visitor center. I started crying.

[@Hunter_Counts]

I love going to that museum

[@harrychung433]

Made it a point to have great weather while you were visiting the museum, Amy. It is a great place to spend lazy day looking at our air/space history. Use to be able to meet and talk with some of the old aviators/ground crewmen of these crafts. Very interesting stories that you won't hear or read in publications. By the way, that is a Lockheed A-12, along with a Convair YF2Y-1 Sea Dart , sitting out front of the museum.

[@leonbrooke5587]

I was there in August and it is the best. Will definitely go back the next time I'm in the USA. Apollo 9 was amazing. Love your videos!

[@billbuhler6969]

Just watched some you tube videos on the computer guidance and software. The rope memory is just fantastic. I think the guys at MIT were the greatest engineers. What the people in this country can do!

[@Markle2k]

Sea Dart! World's only supersonic seaplane. Oh yeah, and an Oxcart.

[@sfcbjs1]

back in the 80s, early 90s, apollo 9 was on display at the Jackson Community College space museum. it was completely encased there with one of its parachutes deployed above it. very, very cool.

[@daviduhlmeyer813]

Your museum videos are getting better. The last time I was in that Museum was long ago - it has changed significantly.

[@bremms1]

It is a nice museum. I was there 1.5 yrs ago. Nice that you have a friend working there. KSAN is one of the few airports that's in the city.

[@PapasDino]

Another "gotta go in my lifetime museum" is the Air Force Museum in Dayton, OH at Wright Patterson AFB...talk about awesome! Thanks for the tour!

[@russellhltn1396]

Been there - twice. Advice: when you arrive, go find the desk in the corner where you sign up to visit the presidential hanger. It's on the base proper, so you have to sign up in advance and take a bus over there. You can't do it on a whim.

[@bennylofgren3208]

Can you visit it if you are not a US citizen?

[@PapasDino]

I just checked their web site and it appears that a picture ID may be required to visit the 2nd half of the museum with the actual aircraft which is on the base but there is no mention of any citizen requirement; the main museum is accessible without having to enter the base. It's well worth a visit and really can't be appreciated totally in only one day.

[@bennylofgren3208]

Dino Papas Thank you, most helpful!

[@gtv6chuck]

Dino - the Presidential aircraft are now located in a new wing attached to the Museum, so you don't need to go on base to see them anymore. I can't believe the size of the place now - it was only one building when I was a kid, then 2 when I was there 15 years ago, and now it's 4, plus the missile building!

[@kendamron4985]

The San Diego Air and Space museum is awesome and we'll worth the time. Go see it.

[@gongo09]

I love these tour videos, keep it up! Great work!

[@graphosxp]

When I was in middle school the school principal mentioned that our science teacher had previously worked for NASA and had helped build the Moon Buggy. After that I saw my science teacher as ten feet tall! I would love to see videos on all the 'unsung heroes' behind the scenes of NASA who never left the ground. Great video!

[@markfryer9880]

There is a doco about building the moon buggy for the Apollo Program. The amount of space they had to fit it into was insanely small on the LEM.

[@cmdrterrorfirma4244]

My family was down there for some other event, and I wanted to go through that museum but the family all wanted to get on to our next destination. Wish I had been able to stay a few hours for it. but... thanks for showing it off as a consolation prize for me.

[@jono.7350]

Thank You For Posting, You're Videos Are The Best!!😎✨

[@n7565j]

Ms Space, My family and I went to San Diego to Comicon in 2012, should I say, they went to comicon, and I got to check out the Air & Space museum :-) (I'm a Blackbird fanatic, but their space collection is AWESOME!!!) Could have spent a week exploring their facility! If you have time, check out the USS Midway, I thoroughly enjoyed both :-) Thank you for taking us along for the ride :-)

[@Ntmoffi]

You sound super excited during the whole video.

[@TheBRMueller]

That is so cool! Looks like I have something to do over the holidays. Thanks.

[@davidtoddhoward]

Awesome! Thanks for the tour. This place is defo on my list 😎

[@monitor1862]

Your videos bring back a lot of great childhood memories. I was in elementary school when the Apollo missions started and my school had the mission logos painted on one of the walls (Gumdrop and Spider, Charlie Brown and Snoopy, etc). Thank you for the videos and keep them coming! BTW I'd probably have to touch (or at least try to) Gumdrop if I ever visited the museum. .

[@thumper11954]

love your videos...great source of information. ....

[@Clonetrooper87]

Oh man, I live in San Diego! I love that museum!

[@OlafoWaffle]

Just gonna add this to my bucket list.

[@phillipmorales8213]

I can't believe you came to San Diego and I didn't know! Damn I visit the Air & Space Museum all the time. I hope you come back to San Diego again someday!

[@jamiegodman715]

I love the aerospace museums Amy. Nice job!

[@ripwolfe]

Love your enthusiasm for it all! I used to live in SD but haven't been to the Air and Space Museum in ages. So glad to have gotten a glimpse it. (And there's an outdoor amphitheatre right next door to the museum; talk about problem with being in the flight path!)

[@pd2210]

looks like a whole lot of fun!

[@migo833]

another awsome video. Thanks :)

[@GratiaCountryman]

You'll love the Udvar-Hazy wing of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. It's in what was an airport hangar, right next to the Dulles Airport airfield, and has an observation tower where you can watch the planes. Plus, Space Shuttle Discovery is there.

[@yipper503]

Amy actually did a live-stream video at the Udvar-Hazy Center just a few weeks ago. You should watch it. Her spontaneous tour of the place is great!

[@GratiaCountryman]

Paul Rubens I just saw it. Her enthusiasm is contagious! I pinch myself over living so close to this treasure!

[@RMoribayashi]

Most of us would remember a 7 year old Cilnt Howard as the childlike alien Balok in "The Corbomite Maneuver" in the original Star Trek series. Also Director Ron Howard often casts his younger brother in his movies.

[@stridermt2k]

So lucky! That looks awesome

[@mdschm1]

Interesting pink highlights...fit right in SAN Dog. 😀

[@aarona3411]

Nice! I also went there with my dad not too long ago. It's like being a kid in a candy store

[@bronzedivision]

Awesome, love your videos and I'll have to go there now it looks great. If you're ever near San Francisco you have to make time to visit the USS Hornet museum in Alameda. It's probably not as huge as San Diego or the Smithsonian but there's quite a few cool artifacts none the less not to mention the ship itself which recovered the Apollo 11 crew.

[@gtv6chuck]

One of my bucket list places, for sure. I'm trying to see as many SR 71's as I can. If you haven't been to the Kansas Cosmosphere branch of the Air & Space Museum yet, it's amazing as well. That's where the Apollo 13 and Grissom's Mercury 2 capsule are, as well as the largest collection of Soviet spacecraft/equipment outside of Russia.

[@mute8s]

Wow I don't remember seeing that capsule there. It's been a long time though. But while writing this comment I remembered that one day out of each month the museum is open for free. Well I hope it is still that way. It's a good thing I live in San Diego. :) I'll be going soon.

[@Phantompain7]

The SR-71 would be worth the trip alone omg, bucket list!

[@n7565j]

They are scattered all across the country in various museums and air fields. Do a search for their location, there might be one near you :-) Also, check out Richard Graham's books on the SR, everything you'd ever want to know about that awesome machine!!! Got to meet him at Sun n Fun in 04, really nice man, and superb speaker :-)

[@Phantompain7]

cool thanks for the info. I'm from Canada though , I'm only 2.5 hour from grand forks , Think there is a big base near by.

[@martinjh999]

IF you are ever in the UK try and make it do Imperial War museum Duxford - They have one! flic.kr/p/u1K8A - Also wish I was in San Diego right now to visit the museum...

[@Kalumbatsch]

It's the one next to the suit, right? I was surprised to see how small it was, but it makes sense since it was a spy plane. Very hard to see.

[@samsignorelli]

It's not an SR....it's an A-12 Oxcart... the single-seat precursor to the SR.

[@shivainvalidos6873]

4:10 Mars mohawk guy! I hope we'll go ice fishing on Europa soon!

[@Tommytoes75]

This is so cool, thank you! Wish I could visit there myself, this will have to do for now! :D

[@terrycurran780]

Love your work Amy

[@87SRV]

awesome love the tour. more tours please .

[@keithlambell1970]

I enjoyed my visit there this year, all the way from the UK. Nice plug for the book :-)

[@faisalhalim]

Thanks for this video. I went there in November 2016, so seeing this video brought back memories. It would have been cool to have had your descriptions of the items there beforehand, btw -- your excitement is infectious.

[@bender7565]

I was watching an older vid about supersonic flight it was a little biased since it was a USAF production but the second it began I noticed it was Amy!!

[@kevinwparker]

Was there in 2003 (after doing the zoo that's in another part of the same park) and really enjoyed it.

[@kallevayrynen7259]

Been there! Very nice. Also the automotive museum next door has quite impressive displays of cars, especially if there is a theme display such as Ferrari's or Porsche's theme expos there.

[@jamesgreenidge]

Kudos!! Great travellog!! Wish the museum had honorable mention with a X-20 scale model. We should pass a hat to get you to tour Star City!

[@kierachell.]

Ayy! I was there this summer! My great-grandfather was one of a few Soviet engineers who came over to US to collaborate on designing Catalinas. (you can see one hanging at 0:55 ). I even got into the museum archives to find more records, but they seemed rather overwhelmed with other projects.

[@CaptainTripps107]

Have you ever been to the Cosmophere in Hutchinson, KS ? They have the actual Apollo 13 command module there on display , along with a lot of cool Soviet stuff. Love the videos

[@michaelclark737]

"Ooh, nailed it!" lol!!!

[@schwabpm]

Amy, I live in the San Diego area and the Air and Space Museum is one of my regular haunts. Maybe we will bump into each other there sometime. Have a wonderful day!

[@englishracer98]

One more thing that is worth viewing is the Convair Sea Dart next to the A-12. It was similar to the F-102 and the F-106 (the Deuce and the Six) designed to land and take off from the water on either one or two hydrofoils. The Navy kind of lost interest as carrier aircraft and operations improved. Thanks again Amy for another wonderful video!

[@samsignorelli]

The crash during a public demo in front of Navy brass and the press didn't help. My father was an engineer at Convair..the Dart was one of his projects. I'm the surviving member of the restoration crew for that particular Dart.

[@ReggieMose]

here's to hoping that everyone enjoys Balboa Park as much as the locals do. fun fact: most Tuesdays they have select museums/places that offer free admission for San Diego county residents. I can't remember if the Air & Space museum is part of that rotation though.

[@IgnemFeram01]

Gunna have to go there sometime.

[@UTubeGlennAR]

:) Nice mini aviation museum fix, Thank You...... :)

[@mizzyroro]

Hi Mom! Hi Dad! We feel like we've met the family ;-)

[@geos569]

Hi Amy, I'm a longtime subscriber to your channel; first time posting a comment. I always enjoy your content! I remember the 1st time going to the San Diego Air & Space Museum. The center court yard was not covered. Note the F-4 Phantom "chasing" the MiG-17. That F-4 is dressed up as "Showtime 100". For those interested, this museum was an automotive museum and it's courtyard garden & fountain (still) features Ford's V8 logo. The museum also features another unique exhibit centered around Northrop-Grumman's reproduction of the Horton Ho-229 flying wing, that was used to test radar cross section and low-observable technology. Did you have a chance to see it?

[@corycrowell3852]

Never an auto museum, but Ford exhibit building for the 1935 expo... hence the V8 logo fountain. Also, F-4 is Showtime 112, the aircraft Duke and Irish bagged their first two MiGs in. (NOT "dressed up as"... it's their ACTUAL plane.) :-)

[@colinp2238]

Amy you tease us here across the pond, thousands of miles from San Diego with no or little chance to visit so please do a more detailed video of these wonderful museums.

[@robertsheplar4828]

Great post. Now I really want to go there. It's only on the west coast and I'm only on the east coast, so it may be a while before I get there.

[@Senor0Droolcup]

Joining your Apollo 9 love! Too many firsts!

[@Mrpamperedpassions]

Very good! I live in San Diego and I have some spectacular pictures of Apollo 9 that from that museum to share with you. I may even sign up for Twitter to do that. The trick is to go there at around right before sunset then you don't get the reflections. I am disappointed that I didn't know you would be in our neighborhood, as you really are passionate about Vintage Space and it would have been a pleasure to meet you. Best wishes and safe travels!

[@undersee604]

Cool video

[@GSXStage2]

You should make an effort to visit the National Museum of the U. S. Air Force. Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Shuttle all covered, as well as the X-15A-2. You'll love it.

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

So... WHY do these vids have thumbs down on them? If you don't like them don't watch them. Great stuff Amy!

[@RichardGMoss]

I wish that you had announced this visit, I'd love to have you give a guided tour with (I'm sure) much more info than can be squeezed into a video!

[@Danny-dr3gn]

Love Jim Lovell my favourite of all them

[@glensmith654]

Yeh Jim Lovell is great but if I could meet anyone it would be Gene Cernan or Dave Scott hell I would love to meet anyone who worked on the Mercury, Gemini or the Apollo missions.

[@rachaeltyrell9851]

Jim, alo g with Bill and Frank, was a hero for me after Apollo8, I was so glad he made it back on 13. Charlie Duke caught my attention after watching For All Mankind, where in a shot at mission control he looks with such childlike wonder at the screen it's a genuinely moving moment, and one I must freeze so I can make a painting of it. You an tell him and John Young had agreat time driving the rover from Charlies excited comments. Great guys..

[@glensmith654]

Yeh a magical time indeed there was so much promise.

[@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504]

Glen Smith Faked promise unfortunately

[@QwazyWabbit]

Apollo space suits were custom made for each astronaut. If Anders was backup for Apollo 11 then a suit would have been made for him. If he never flew a mission, the suit would remain unused.

[@BadaBingPictures]

That's cool! Another interesting video. Speaking of museums, I was recently at the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow, Russia. It was so interesting, looking at the evolution of their side of the space race and seeing a mockup of their shuttle reminded me of your older video while walking around. Totally worth a look if you ever happen to be over there.. 😁🚀

[@jconradh]

I saw that F4U Corsair! Have you ever been to the Toronto Science Center? Last time my twin and I were there they had a display of the LEM you could walk into with all sorts of buttons and switches. I nerded out at the age of 12! 8^)

[@JosephHF]

J'adore! Amy, is there any chance of you making a trip to the Blackbird Air Park in Palmdale, CA?

[@russdill]

I think it's real interesting that the only people who have experienced what it's like to be inside the Apollo modules in zero-g are the Apollo astronauts...and the Apollo 13 actors. I think this connection is really interesting and would like to hear more about the filming of Apollo 13 and the actors experiences in recreating not just the appearance of the Apollo program, but many of the experiences.

[@merlemorrison482]

I was there shortly before this - wish I had been there to possibly meet you.

[@GREGGRCO]

OMGosh! someone who is like me !! really enjoyed your visit and tour !! I will actually try see this place ! how does one find where all the space museums are? thanks again !

[@Gort58]

Perhaps the 'mystery' suit belonging to Bill Anders was the IV version of the Apollo A7L suit he would've worn as back-up CMP on Apollo 11.

[@unipalooza.]

DANGIT!!!! I was in San-Diego last Christmas

[@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.-]

Just missed her.

[@UtopiaV1]

If you're ever in San Diego best catch a Charger's game before they head off for LA! Love the Vid Ms Teitel, would love to see that museum but it's a bit of a trek for me (Lancashire, UK).

[@Imperator3838]

I wish I could visit San Diego museum, but is so far away from me. Love your vids

[@jedimatt33]

Amy, ever been to or planning to go to the Pima Air and Space museum in Tucson AZ any time soon? I would love to have the chance to meet as big a space nerd as myself (meaning you)! Waiting for your book to be available at the library so I can read it. Love what you do for this amazing history! Keep it up!

[@ernststravoblofeld]

Squirrel!

[@Phatman2167]

Wish I knew you were coming. I live near there. It would have been great to meet you. Too bad you never got to see the original museum. It was destroyed by an arsonist in 1978. Back then it was free and I would hang out for hours looking at the displays.

[@PalimpsestProd]

Loving the museum visits. Polarizer filter on future visits?

[@ColKorn1965]

The Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow made me go "Wow!" I imagine the museum in San Diego would do the same.

[@Itsthatoneguy371]

You should check out the Dayton Air Force Museum in Ohio. A lot of cool aircraft and space displays there too !

[@hamaki__]

Holy shit! You did meet Eugene Kranz? Nice one!

[@Obin127]

I've got Jim's real signature from when he done his book signage on lost moon in 1997

[@crashinflames]

Amy, you should swing by the National Museum of the USAF in Dayton...pretty good stuff in there. Plan on 2 to 3 days to see most of it though.

[@michaeltuz608]

How about a visit to the Armstrong Air & Space Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio? It's a small museum, which makes for a more intimate viewing experience and makes it easier to absorb everything without being overwhelmed. Despite the smallish size, the museum has some unique and important artifacts on display; such as the Gemini VIII capsule, an Apollo XI moon rock, and an F5D Skylancer jet aircraft -- one of only four that were built -- which test pilot Neal Armstrong flew.

[@michaeltuz608]

Amy, I just found your video from last October in which you discussed the Skylancer, and Neil Armstrong's connection with it. Nicely done, as usual...

[@nismo025]

haven't been in one in years!

[@bigbaddms]

Very cool! Balboa Park is totally amazing, but for some reason I haven't been to the Air and Space museum there. I'm going to make it a priority now! BTW that Apollo 13 event looked amazing... how did I miss that one!?