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I love Tom Hanks' line in Apollo 13: "It's not a miracle, we just decided to go" Also the line in The Martian book: "What would an Apollo astronaut do? He'd drink a couple of whisky sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad, and fly to the moon in a capsule the size of my toilet. Man those guys were cool!!!"
I like how people think that the first moon landing is fake yet nobody seems question yuri gagarin went to space despite the Soviets never presenting any evidence to support it
They always fail to take into account that it happened during the Cold War, and the Soviet Union had tracking equipment. IF the Soviets had discovered ANYTHING at all that put any doubt into the American claims, they'd have been all over it! The sheer number of people who were involved and would have had to be kept quiet about a fake just wouldn't be possible, especially for this length of time. I honestly believe that faking it would have been more of a challenge than a genuine manned moon landing.
The Soviets themselves confirmed, using their own radio telescopes, that Apollo 11 reached and landed on the moon. That on its own should remove any doubt.
My mother made a set of living room curtains lined with gold coated mylar from scraps of LEM Insulation. There were left over pieces from cutting and fitting gold anodized mylar sheets.
I went to Space Camp when I was a kid & learned that underneath all of the gray dust there is orange soil on The Moon, but because it lacks an atmosphere nothing can grow on it. This was discovered during the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, which was the last manned mission to The Moon. I also learned that the hardest part about making the moon rover vehicles was assembling the chairs due to their weight. The guys designing the vehicles were on a break sitting in lawn chairs when 1 of them basically said "Let's just slap 2 lawn chairs on the vehicle," & it worked since that's what they used on the vehicles for the next few Moon missions.
I read Jim Irwin’s book, To Rule The Night, and he mentions that his best friend asked him to bring his wedding ring with him. Jim said no problem. After they finished the mission on the moon and rendezvoused with the CM, both he and Dave Scott somehow lost track of who was supposed to take care of the LM PPK during the transfer of everything to the CM. It wasn’t until they were on the way back to Earth that they realized they couldn’t find the LM PPK. They eventually realized it must still be on board the LM ascent stage which had been deliberately crashed into the moon for seismic studies. The contents of the PPK were now strewn across the impact site. Among the contents was a bunch of $2 bills and of course, that wedding ring belonging to Jim’s best friend. Imagine having to explain that to him once he got home.
@@michaeljacobs9532 To Rule The Night is the name of the book. Pretty decent book about a crew that’s not as well known. There’s also Al Worden’s book titled Falling To Earth. Another point of view from the Apollo 15 crew. Highly recommended.
@mako88sb very much appreciated! I will definitely look those up. I still work 20 minutes from KSC, so it's really cool to stop in at local antique shops and get old newspapers, and signed memorabilia from lesser know astronauts.
He was quoted saying "One small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind." It makes more sense as well since he was talking about his step from the lander and how much progress mankind has made.
We have a video on this misconception. There has been a lot of analysis on this point, but it *seems* Armstrong forgot to say the "a", though had intended to. Although there is much debate. What is clear is there is zero audible "a", and Armstrong himself admits from the available audio evidence he may have, in the moment, misspoke. Which is completely understandable given the moment and what he was doing and where: ua-cam.com/video/nkcsUQR7EmI/v-deo.htmlsi=AqO6v9TabunHlHRs -Daven
According to one source that quote was the "released" first words. There were in constant communications and monitored what the press heard by a small delay in broadcasting. His first actual words upon exiting the lander were, "It's covered in a powdery, grey dust."
Skylab broke up in the atmosphere with debris landing in the indian ocean and Western Australia. The town Esperance in WA fined NASA $400 for littering.
I love that they couldn't trust these 'test pilots' of Apollo 10 not to land on the Moon. The human element always makes science and technology a touch more romantic.
Although delivered at a blazing vocal pace, this long-form video was well worth the time. I was but eight years old when I watched with keen interest the first steps on the moon. It left me yearning to become an airplane pilot. My plans were dashed by 1973. My vision failed me and required corrective lenses. Simon and crew filled in all the missing holes in my recollection of the Apollo missions.
I have photos of my dad watching the moon landing on tv, you can just barely make out something on the tiny little screen with the whole family gathered around it.
The original signal was much clearer - but the frame rate was converted by pointing a broadcast TV camera at the slow scan monitor… So it was a TV picture of a TV picture…
Here come all the people who think it’s fake as well as flat earthers. People who think it’s fake are an insult to humanity, as it’s so far one of our biggest achievements.
It's frustrating how much more common conspiratorial thinking has become, in this past decade. Nothing can ever just happen ever again. Everything has to be a conspiracy. Coincidences no longer exist
You are entitled to your opinion just like I am. The Moon Landing is a sham and I'm not falling for it. Common sense tells me that if they can land on the moon in 1969, why can't they land now? No interest in exploring the Moon anymore? The excuses NASA has given us makes no sense
Those arguments are so lazy it's a joke how easily you can debunk their claims. I saw some comments on a video about a probe on Saturn and I had to explain to "adults" that satellites and electronic sensors exist. They were like no way. So they have sensors on Saturn? Yes genius. How else would they be able to tell what's on Saturn? Magic?
Sudbury, the city I’m in right now, was actually used as an astronaut training area by NASA during the Apollo missions because the landscape here used to be so barren and depressing it mimicked the surface of the moon! 😊
Very Well Done on the detail given here. I have personal knowledge of the Apollo LEM throttleable rocket engines, built by TRW, for Grumman's LEM. A fellow who managed those TRW Rocket Scientists is a close friend of mine. I was going to mention the cause of the 1201 & 1202 alarms experienced by Neil & Buzz during the decent to the Lunar surface in the LEM, but you had correctly named the cause, something I've never heard anyone get correct before. It was Aldrin who turned on too many Radars outside of the checklist and caused those alarms, but he allegedly never admitted to it. Aldrin also put up an argument, on more than one occasion, that he should be the first to exit the LEM and make the first footprints. Armstrong was given the option to not fly w/ Aldrin but chose to do so anyways to avoid scheduling issues w/ other Astronauts on later flights.
@@tomasojones1751 listen….. do you realize how many people were involved in the Apollo program????? Tens of thousands… MORE EVEN! You really think the govt was able to keep that many people quiet… and where did the money go???? You can’t fake something that big….
I went to the aerospace center in Huntsville Alabama, and there I was told that Neil Armstrong was misunderstood because of his accent and the low quality of the radio signal. Apparently the correct quote from him is: “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” That “a” really makes the sentence more coherent.
Simon has done so many videos on the Moon and our landing on it I think he could teach a course on the subject without notes. This is at least the fourth or fifth one on TIFO alone, and there are probably at least two each on his other channels.
John Glenn's quote sums it up nicely: “I guess the question I'm asked the most often is: "When you were sitting in that capsule listening to the count-down, how did you feel?" Well, the answer to that one is easy. I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts -- all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.”
My grandad helped program the life support systems for the Apollo mission(s). He was at Houston when they landed the first time and went to Florida went 13 went awry. He had some cool stories. I have a plaque which is a replica of the one put on the moon during Apollo 11 signed by LB Johnson lol. Good stuff
I used to work in his Grissom’s home county/town in Indiana. His family still has a lot of pull in the county. It’s also a county that has had 3 astronauts grow up in, with only Grissom born and raised.
On one of our school outings in Japan during the 60s, we actually went to see Walter M. Schirra and his Mercury capsule. Surprisingly, it was a small crowd and we got within 6 feet of Walter.
Anyone else know he actually said “one small step for A man, one giant leap for man kind” his accent makes it disappear and it’s funny to think it’s been misquoted for 50 odd years and even by Simon now lmao
We have a video on this misconception. There has been a lot of analysis on this point, but it *seems* Armstrong forgot to say the "a", though had intended to. Although there is much debate. What is clear is there is zero audible "a", and Armstrong himself admits from the available audio evidence he may have, in the moment, misspoke. Which is completely understandable given the moment and what he was doing and where: ua-cam.com/video/nkcsUQR7EmI/v-deo.htmlsi=AqO6v9TabunHlHRs -Daven
We have a video on this misconception. There has been a lot of analysis on this point, but it *seems* Armstrong forgot to say the "a", though had intended to. Although there is much debate. What is clear is there is zero audible "a", and Armstrong himself admits from the available audio evidence he may have, in the moment, misspoke. Which is completely understandable given the moment and what he was doing and where: ua-cam.com/video/nkcsUQR7EmI/v-deo.htmlsi=AqO6v9TabunHlHRs -Daven
Just in case it isnt covered in this, lets go over how they managed to make a space suit that keeps you warm in temperatures of -450 and why the suits didnt puff out in the vacuum of space from the air trying to escape the suit
If you actually wanted to know the answer to these questions, you would have watched the hundreds of documentaries on every aspect of the Apollo spacesuits. But you don't want answers, you just think these are "gotcha questions. Hint: they aren't.
The immortal words that are always misquoted. The line was "That's one small step for a man..." That one small letter changes the phrase from nonsensical to iconic.
As @Pugjamin said. Not misquoted. It's a misquote from available audio evidence to say he said the "a". We have a video on this misconception. There has been a lot of analysis on this point, but it *seems* Armstrong forgot to say the "a", though had intended to. Although there is much debate. What is clear is there is zero audible "a", and Armstrong himself admits from the available audio evidence he may have, in the moment, misspoke. Which is completely understandable given the moment and what he was doing and where: ua-cam.com/video/nkcsUQR7EmI/v-deo.htmlsi=AqO6v9TabunHlHRs -Daven
@TodayIFoundOut the irony that I have tried to post my long form answer to your comment 4 times and it has just disappeared with no evidence... is brilliant.
People with the insight, foresight and command of language like Houbolt were the driving force of programs like Apollo. A dying breed in the USA, sadly.
Plz come back to biographics Plz come back to biographics Plz come back to biographics Plz come back to biographics Plz come back to biographics Plz come back to biographics Plz come back to biographics
Maxime Faget pronounced fah-ZHAY. My parents had 2 of the Apollo 1 astronauts over for dinner. Gus Grissom and Ed White. I was about 6 then,and had NO IDEA this happened, heard this from my older brother. Dad also wrote a "paper" for NASA, about semiconductors. steve
There’s many indescrepancies, show print vs museum boots sole , shadow intercepting , Van Allen Radiation Belt . Mirrors could be placed using rovers..
Thank you for this, I’m so tired of the regular thought processes that mostly consist of paid advantages point of view. The counterpoint of that being unconventional maybe the most pertinent of choices due to time and financial constraints. “Smarter people didn’t have enough financial backing and exposure to become competitively fissionable in the idiology of the 60’s”
Not one word about the 3 men lost during Apollo 18? I bet Sin One doesn't even know half the galaxy got nintendo powergloved by Xantham Gum or whatever his purple name is
Nobody ever talks about combining earth orbit rendezvous with lunar orbit rendezvous, which would have allowed launching all apollo components with saturn-1 rockets. The saturn-5 and giant F-1 engine was not needed. The lunar module and command/service modules could dock with an oversized upper stage or agena-style but larger kick stage to send them to the moon. Everything else would be the same. Saturn-5 was just a stepping stone to the nova rocket, space stations and colonies but that was just a story told while we beat the Russians to the moon and retired.
Except the astronauts would have died from lack of water and oxygen in Earth orbit while they waited for NASA to assemble, truck out, and launch the Saturn-1 equipment shuttles. The VAB could only handle one vehicle at a time.
Nixon HATED Kennedy and cancelled anything having to do Kennedy's Apollo Program in favor of the program Nixon favored and hoped he could associate his name with, the Space Shuttle.
got my hair cuts with these dudes as a kid, barber's S/E corner of Cark at Rosecranse Downey Ca just down the drive from Rockwell Downey. sat inside a scorched Gemini and Apollo casules' on a trailer in the parking lot as a kid, smelled like burnt circuit boards and Ozone before I new eithers name.
Armstrong claimed multiple times that what he said was that 'that's one small step for *a* man, one giant leap for mankind'. Which would make much more grammatical sense. He says that the radio simply didn't pick up on the *a*. The statement as recorded makes no literal sense.
We have a video on this misconception. There has been a lot of analysis on this point, but it *seems* Armstrong forgot to say the "a", though had intended to. Although there is much debate. What is clear is there is zero audible "a", and Armstrong himself admits from the available audio evidence he may have, in the moment, misspoke. Which is completely understandable given the moment and what he was doing and where: ua-cam.com/video/nkcsUQR7EmI/v-deo.htmlsi=AqO6v9TabunHlHRs -Daven
What I wanna know is; If the first mission to Mars is going to be a truly multi national effort, are we going to see another USA flag waving ceremony?🙄
In 2021, NASA entered into a firm fixed-price contract with SpaceX valued at US$2.89 billion, spread over a number of years to develop and manufacture the Starship HLS lunar lander, as well as the execution of two operational flights: an uncrewed demonstration mission and a crewed lunar landing. Also, NASA intends to award Blue Origin and SpaceX additional work under their existing contracts to develop landers that will deliver large pieces of equipment and infrastructure to the lunar surface. NASA plans for at least two delivery missions with large cargo. The agency intends for SpaceX’s Starship cargo lander to deliver a pressurized rover, currently in development by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), to the lunar surface no earlier than fiscal year 2032 in support of Artemis VII and later missions. The agency expects Blue Origin to deliver a lunar surface habitat no earlier than fiscal year 2033. Can Space X safely land NASA astronauts near the lunar South Pole before China’s uses a reusable launch vehicle to deliver their first crewed mission at the lunar South Pole? If China reaches the lunar South Pole before us, would this affect the world’s opinion of our technology and our ability to conduct large projects?
because it essentially is. Its on such a small scale it would be like saying that for any equation considering time, you should account for general relativity
@@michaell.445 I said essentially because you are right, its not a vacuum. But its so close to a vacuum that for most models, a perfect vacuum is assumed
Hi Mr Simon, and thanks for this nice exposé on mankind's most challenging engineering effort of all time. I was especially interested in your more detailed treatise of John Houbolt's efforts and achievements, as the 1999 NOVA/PBS "To the Moon" video only gave limited insight into this fine fellow's life. ua-cam.com/video/7tYC3fj9Aac/v-deo.html
Ya. But they could have faked all of this engineering. PS - “to fake all of this …..it would have been easier to just go to the moon” - Neil DeGrasse Tyson
@MrVivi0001 the early Soviet space program ran by Sergei Korolev who was born in Ukraine. A great engineer but he didn't develop the V2 rocket of which was the bases for all modern rockets. That was Wernher von Braun. The very first primative rockets were developed by the Chinese.
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???... Height 363 feet NOT 282 feet! - Please get facts at least close....!!!
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Quite a detailed and in depth treatise, thank you.
I love Tom Hanks' line in Apollo 13: "It's not a miracle, we just decided to go"
Also the line in The Martian book: "What would an Apollo astronaut do? He'd drink a couple of whisky sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad, and fly to the moon in a capsule the size of my toilet. Man those guys were cool!!!"
I like how people think that the first moon landing is fake yet nobody seems question yuri gagarin went to space despite the Soviets never presenting any evidence to support it
They always fail to take into account that it happened during the Cold War, and the Soviet Union had tracking equipment. IF the Soviets had discovered ANYTHING at all that put any doubt into the American claims, they'd have been all over it! The sheer number of people who were involved and would have had to be kept quiet about a fake just wouldn't be possible, especially for this length of time. I honestly believe that faking it would have been more of a challenge than a genuine manned moon landing.
The Soviets themselves confirmed, using their own radio telescopes, that Apollo 11 reached and landed on the moon. That on its own should remove any doubt.
It's clearly fake. Like birds and Avril Lavine
Weird that the first claim of a fake moon landing was from the Soviets too. Coincidence?
@@alieffauzanrizky7202 they tracked and confirmed apollo buddy
We lived in Cocoa Beach in the 1960's. My father, our friends and neighbors made Apollo happen. An interesting time.
To say the least
My mother made a set of living room curtains lined with gold coated mylar from scraps of LEM Insulation. There were left over pieces from cutting and fitting gold anodized mylar sheets.
Tom Hanks' HBO series "From the Earth to the Moon" is a great way to learn, or like those of us who lived through it, review, how it all happened.
Probably watched that series a dozen or more times
"Lunar Podule Milot" 🤣
Was just about to say exactly the same.. Love a good spoonerism
I replayed that about 5 times.... Great stuff... I believe I've performed one or more of those in my time.
I went to Space Camp when I was a kid & learned that underneath all of the gray dust there is orange soil on The Moon, but because it lacks an atmosphere nothing can grow on it. This was discovered during the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, which was the last manned mission to The Moon. I also learned that the hardest part about making the moon rover vehicles was assembling the chairs due to their weight. The guys designing the vehicles were on a break sitting in lawn chairs when 1 of them basically said "Let's just slap 2 lawn chairs on the vehicle," & it worked since that's what they used on the vehicles for the next few Moon missions.
It's orange cause it's rusting? Isn't it made of iron?
@@jc6800it can't be rusting. Rust is caused by oxidation of metal which requires oxygen and moisture.
My grandpa, Bob Pearson, trained them how to us the lander! Buzz brought my grandpa's ring with him to the moon, as a thank you.
I read Jim Irwin’s book, To Rule The Night, and he mentions that his best friend asked him to bring his wedding ring with him. Jim said no problem. After they finished the mission on the moon and rendezvoused with the CM, both he and Dave Scott somehow lost track of who was supposed to take care of the LM PPK during the transfer of everything to the CM. It wasn’t until they were on the way back to Earth that they realized they couldn’t find the LM PPK. They eventually realized it must still be on board the LM ascent stage which had been deliberately crashed into the moon for seismic studies. The contents of the PPK were now strewn across the impact site. Among the contents was a bunch of $2 bills and of course, that wedding ring belonging to Jim’s best friend. Imagine having to explain that to him once he got home.
@mako88sb That's crazy! Do you know what the book is called? I would love to read it.
@@michaeljacobs9532 To Rule The Night is the name of the book. Pretty decent book about a crew that’s not as well known. There’s also Al Worden’s book titled Falling To Earth. Another point of view from the Apollo 15 crew. Highly recommended.
@mako88sb very much appreciated! I will definitely look those up. I still work 20 minutes from KSC, so it's really cool to stop in at local antique shops and get old newspapers, and signed memorabilia from lesser know astronauts.
So your gramps did not actually go to the moon himself, right? Because THAT woulda been really cool.
He was quoted saying "One small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind."
It makes more sense as well since he was talking about his step from the lander and how much progress mankind has made.
My father was the head of the
MIT team that developed the Apollo guidance system. 😊
That was what he was planning on saying, but actually missed the “A” out when speaking.
We have a video on this misconception. There has been a lot of analysis on this point, but it *seems* Armstrong forgot to say the "a", though had intended to. Although there is much debate. What is clear is there is zero audible "a", and Armstrong himself admits from the available audio evidence he may have, in the moment, misspoke. Which is completely understandable given the moment and what he was doing and where: ua-cam.com/video/nkcsUQR7EmI/v-deo.htmlsi=AqO6v9TabunHlHRs -Daven
According to one source that quote was the "released" first words. There were in constant communications and monitored what the press heard by a small delay in broadcasting. His first actual words upon exiting the lander were, "It's covered in a powdery, grey dust."
Buzz aldrin has one thing to say about the aggressive flat earther.. 🤜
30:47 Lunar Podule Milot? 🤣🤣🤣
I caught that too.
Pilot
glad i wasn't the only one
Thought I was hearing things.
The whole narration seems a bit rushed. Think he must have been in a hurry to get out for a round of polo.
Skylab broke up in the atmosphere with debris landing in the indian ocean and Western Australia. The town Esperance in WA fined NASA $400 for littering.
Australia's only accomplishment.
I love that they couldn't trust these 'test pilots' of Apollo 10 not to land on the Moon.
The human element always makes science and technology a touch more romantic.
Although delivered at a blazing vocal pace, this long-form video was well worth the time.
I was but eight years old when I watched with keen interest the first steps on the moon. It left me yearning to become an airplane pilot. My plans were dashed by 1973. My vision failed me and required corrective lenses.
Simon and crew filled in all the missing holes in my recollection of the Apollo missions.
I have photos of my dad watching the moon landing on tv, you can just barely make out something on the tiny little screen with the whole family gathered around it.
My Dad got misty talking about it. ❤
My parents woke me up so I could watch it.
The original signal was much clearer - but the frame rate was converted by pointing a broadcast TV camera at the slow scan monitor… So it was a TV picture of a TV picture…
Here come all the people who think it’s fake as well as flat earthers. People who think it’s fake are an insult to humanity, as it’s so far one of our biggest achievements.
It's frustrating how much more common conspiratorial thinking has become, in this past decade. Nothing can ever just happen ever again. Everything has to be a conspiracy. Coincidences no longer exist
You are entitled to your opinion just like I am. The Moon Landing is a sham and I'm not falling for it. Common sense tells me that if they can land on the moon in 1969, why can't they land now? No interest in exploring the Moon anymore? The excuses NASA has given us makes no sense
I have a question though, Why can’t we land on the moon again with all this new technology? Genuinely curious
Those arguments are so lazy it's a joke how easily you can debunk their claims. I saw some comments on a video about a probe on Saturn and I had to explain to "adults" that satellites and electronic sensors exist. They were like no way. So they have sensors on Saturn? Yes genius. How else would they be able to tell what's on Saturn? Magic?
@@UceTee We can, it just costs a lot of money and there's little reason to do so. Even so, there's already missions planned to return, named Artemis.
Avro Arrow call out! Woot! 🍁
Waits for the flat earthers to enter the comment section... Then finds that I'm not the only one waiting. Muwahahaha.
@@TreeSymphony52 I'm disable, can barely walk, and suffer from severe nerve damage. What's your excuse?
Defending flat Earth shows YOU have no life 😂
@@RobotacularRoBob That at me or the guy who just deleted his comment? Because I find the idea of a flat earth to be ridiculous.
I can feel the collective RRRREeEEeEeE from flat Earthers over this topic.
Flat Earthers: “We can’t go to the moon because we can’t leave the dome.”
Also flerfs: “The moon is local, beneath the dome.” 🙃
@@TreeSymphony52Found the flat-brained flerf 🤣🤡💩
@TreeSymphony52 why are you obsessed with people comments you don't agree with? Why are you so angry about people talking about flaterthers?
We should get those 2 groups to debate 😂
Sudbury, the city I’m in right now, was actually used as an astronaut training area by NASA during the Apollo missions because the landscape here used to be so barren and depressing it mimicked the surface of the moon! 😊
Very Well Done on the detail given here. I have personal knowledge of the Apollo LEM throttleable rocket engines, built by TRW, for Grumman's LEM. A fellow who managed those TRW Rocket Scientists is a close friend of mine. I was going to mention the cause of the 1201 & 1202 alarms experienced by Neil & Buzz during the decent to the Lunar surface in the LEM, but you had correctly named the cause, something I've never heard anyone get correct before. It was Aldrin who turned on too many Radars outside of the checklist and caused those alarms, but he allegedly never admitted to it.
Aldrin also put up an argument, on more than one occasion, that he should be the first to exit the LEM and make the first footprints. Armstrong was given the option to not fly w/ Aldrin but chose to do so anyways to avoid scheduling issues w/ other Astronauts on later flights.
A most memorable part of my life.
Wow, boring life dude.
I could’ve sworn I heard Simon say “the former administator strating” at 20:19 😂 I’ve watched it over like 5 times and that’s all I hear lol
Absolutely would looove that other video! 😃
Just got to this section of "Apollo" today, thanks for the addition! Helps to watch the comparisons
I was omly 12 years old but i remember the landing like it was yesterday.
I was six and I remember it the same way.
I was 7 years old watching it at my grandparents. I got my engineering degree because of my early love of space and science!
everyone talks about the first lunar landing in 1969, but no one talks about the last lunar landing in 1972.
You mean manned landings right?
The last lunar landing was Chang'e 4 in 2019.
@@jackvos8047 yes
Why would they? Both landings never happend.
@@tomasojones1751 listen….. do you realize how many people were involved in the Apollo program????? Tens of thousands… MORE EVEN! You really think the govt was able to keep that many people quiet… and where did the money go???? You can’t fake something that big….
@@tomasojones1751 waiting on a livestreamed landing any day now
I went to the aerospace center in Huntsville Alabama, and there I was told that Neil Armstrong was misunderstood because of his accent and the low quality of the radio signal. Apparently the correct quote from him is:
“One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
That “a” really makes the sentence more coherent.
Simon has done so many videos on the Moon and our landing on it I think he could teach a course on the subject without notes. This is at least the fourth or fifth one on TIFO alone, and there are probably at least two each on his other channels.
John Glenn's quote sums it up nicely:
“I guess the question I'm asked the most often is: "When you were sitting in that capsule listening to the count-down, how did you feel?"
Well, the answer to that one is easy.
I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts -- all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.”
My grandad helped program the life support systems for the Apollo mission(s). He was at Houston when they landed the first time and went to Florida went 13 went awry. He had some cool stories. I have a plaque which is a replica of the one put on the moon during Apollo 11 signed by LB Johnson lol. Good stuff
I used to work in his Grissom’s home county/town in Indiana.
His family still has a lot of pull in the county.
It’s also a county that has had 3 astronauts grow up in, with only Grissom born and raised.
On one of our school outings in Japan during the 60s, we actually went to see Walter M. Schirra and his Mercury capsule. Surprisingly, it was a small crowd and we got within 6 feet of Walter.
Anyone else know he actually said “one small step for A man, one giant leap for man kind” his accent makes it disappear and it’s funny to think it’s been misquoted for 50 odd years and even by Simon now lmao
He wasn’t misquoted, he misspoke, the planned line included A, but in the moment he accidentally skipped over the A.
@@Pugjamin I'm sorry but his quote wasn't planned by anyone but himself and his admitted to saying a and every source says he did
We have a video on this misconception. There has been a lot of analysis on this point, but it *seems* Armstrong forgot to say the "a", though had intended to. Although there is much debate. What is clear is there is zero audible "a", and Armstrong himself admits from the available audio evidence he may have, in the moment, misspoke. Which is completely understandable given the moment and what he was doing and where: ua-cam.com/video/nkcsUQR7EmI/v-deo.htmlsi=AqO6v9TabunHlHRs -Daven
Just posted an interview
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It’s “that’s one small step for a man…”
No, that was the planned line. He misspoke when saying the line and skipped the A
We have a video on this misconception. There has been a lot of analysis on this point, but it *seems* Armstrong forgot to say the "a", though had intended to. Although there is much debate. What is clear is there is zero audible "a", and Armstrong himself admits from the available audio evidence he may have, in the moment, misspoke. Which is completely understandable given the moment and what he was doing and where: ua-cam.com/video/nkcsUQR7EmI/v-deo.htmlsi=AqO6v9TabunHlHRs -Daven
Just in case it isnt covered in this, lets go over how they managed to make a space suit that keeps you warm in temperatures of -450 and why the suits didnt puff out in the vacuum of space from the air trying to escape the suit
If you actually wanted to know the answer to these questions, you would have watched the hundreds of documentaries on every aspect of the Apollo spacesuits.
But you don't want answers, you just think these are "gotcha questions.
Hint: they aren't.
The immortal words that are always misquoted.
The line was "That's one small step for a man..."
That one small letter changes the phrase from nonsensical to iconic.
Not misquoted, he misspoke. The planned line was to include “A” but when he spoke, the A was missed.
As @Pugjamin said. Not misquoted. It's a misquote from available audio evidence to say he said the "a". We have a video on this misconception. There has been a lot of analysis on this point, but it *seems* Armstrong forgot to say the "a", though had intended to. Although there is much debate. What is clear is there is zero audible "a", and Armstrong himself admits from the available audio evidence he may have, in the moment, misspoke. Which is completely understandable given the moment and what he was doing and where: ua-cam.com/video/nkcsUQR7EmI/v-deo.htmlsi=AqO6v9TabunHlHRs -Daven
@TodayIFoundOut the irony that I have tried to post my long form answer to your comment 4 times and it has just disappeared with no evidence... is brilliant.
Disappointing lack of aluminum millinery in these comments 😞
The Eagle has landed.....
Simon?
Oh god the Moon get the Tin foil hats ready for the comments.
30:45 Lunar Podule Milot… that is all
People with the insight, foresight and command of language like Houbolt were the driving force of programs like Apollo. A dying breed in the USA, sadly.
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Maxime Faget pronounced fah-ZHAY.
My parents had 2 of the Apollo 1 astronauts over for dinner.
Gus Grissom and Ed White. I was about 6 then,and had NO
IDEA this happened, heard this from my older brother.
Dad also wrote a "paper" for NASA, about semiconductors.
steve
Can't blame the skeptics. Live crash test dummies. Well done! Eradication of smallpox was arguably a greater human achievement.
Starfishes love this
Very comprehensive
There is a lunar module in the Space and Rocket museum in Huntsville, Alabama, as well.
There’s many indescrepancies, show print vs museum boots sole , shadow intercepting , Van Allen Radiation Belt . Mirrors could be placed using rovers..
Today, I learned the astronauts were like "fk it we ball" if they had to stay on the moon. 🌙 🌔 🌕
Thank you for this, I’m so tired of the regular thought processes that mostly consist of paid advantages point of view. The counterpoint of that being unconventional maybe the most pertinent of choices due to time and financial constraints.
“Smarter people didn’t have enough financial backing and exposure to become competitively fissionable in the idiology of the 60’s”
I didn't wait before our TV set, I just saw a short mention about the Moon landing on an evening news broadcast. But then, I'm not an American.
43:59 added thrust…
And I get an ad
Not one word about the 3 men lost during Apollo 18?
I bet Sin One doesn't even know half the galaxy got nintendo powergloved by Xantham Gum or whatever his purple name is
Nobody ever talks about combining earth orbit rendezvous with lunar orbit rendezvous, which would have allowed launching all apollo components with saturn-1 rockets. The saturn-5 and giant F-1 engine was not needed. The lunar module and command/service modules could dock with an oversized upper stage or agena-style but larger kick stage to send them to the moon. Everything else would be the same. Saturn-5 was just a stepping stone to the nova rocket, space stations and colonies but that was just a story told while we beat the Russians to the moon and retired.
Yes, I’m sure you’ve come up with a solution none of the greatest scientific minds of the time never even thought of.
Except the astronauts would have died from lack of water and oxygen in Earth orbit while they waited for NASA to assemble, truck out, and launch the Saturn-1 equipment shuttles. The VAB could only handle one vehicle at a time.
Nixon HATED Kennedy and cancelled anything having to do Kennedy's Apollo Program in favor of the program Nixon favored and hoped he could associate his name with, the Space Shuttle.
Gene Cernan was LM pilot of Apollo 10, Stafford was Commander. Cernan commanded 17.
Been to Jules Verne house in Amiens (his wife was from Amiens). Cool stuff there 👍
30:46 The Lunar Podule Milot
???... Height 363 feet NOT 282 feet! - Please get facts at least close....!!!
Less than 100 years passed between Kitty Hawk and Apollo 11.
got my hair cuts with these dudes as a kid, barber's S/E corner of Cark at Rosecranse Downey Ca just down the drive from Rockwell Downey.
sat inside a scorched Gemini and Apollo casules' on a trailer in the parking lot as a kid, smelled like burnt circuit boards and Ozone before I new eithers name.
Armstrong claimed multiple times that what he said was that 'that's one small step for *a* man, one giant leap for mankind'. Which would make much more grammatical sense. He says that the radio simply didn't pick up on the *a*. The statement as recorded makes no literal sense.
We have a video on this misconception. There has been a lot of analysis on this point, but it *seems* Armstrong forgot to say the "a", though had intended to. Although there is much debate. What is clear is there is zero audible "a", and Armstrong himself admits from the available audio evidence he may have, in the moment, misspoke. Which is completely understandable given the moment and what he was doing and where: ua-cam.com/video/nkcsUQR7EmI/v-deo.htmlsi=AqO6v9TabunHlHRs -Daven
to explain it like Neil would: they went there first, landed, then stepped on it.
Presuming the United States won the space race and beat the USSR to the Moon, what exactly did that accomplish?
Wonderful
Walter SchirAA and Don IslEE
I guess the next video is going to be explosive.
How were the first steps on the moon filmed?
Aliens
Camera on one of the legs of the lander
@xodiaq that's right, I know that, thank you
What I wanna know is;
If the first mission to Mars is going to be a truly multi national effort, are we going to see another USA flag waving ceremony?🙄
Holy crap I got here right at release!
Nah...nm, to easy.
“Into the shadows” video in 3yrs:
“How American nuked the moon Pt2, electric boogaloo”
Lunar podule milot? Lol😂-17:34-35 time stamp
I was here
Whistler! Not going to tell you agin! Didn't go there!!
Ah yes, the Lunar Podual Milot
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"Lunar Podular Milot"??😅
Fake news, my uncles friend cousins Coworker said so. He does his own research.
In 2021, NASA entered into a firm fixed-price contract with SpaceX valued at US$2.89 billion, spread over a number of years to develop and manufacture the Starship HLS lunar lander, as well as the execution of two operational flights: an uncrewed demonstration mission and a crewed lunar landing. Also, NASA intends to award Blue Origin and SpaceX additional work under their existing contracts to develop landers that will deliver large pieces of equipment and infrastructure to the lunar surface. NASA plans for at least two delivery missions with large cargo. The agency intends for SpaceX’s Starship cargo lander to deliver a pressurized rover, currently in development by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), to the lunar surface no earlier than fiscal year 2032 in support of Artemis VII and later missions. The agency expects Blue Origin to deliver a lunar surface habitat no earlier than fiscal year 2033.
Can Space X safely land NASA astronauts near the lunar South Pole before China’s uses a reusable launch vehicle to deliver their first crewed mission at the lunar South Pole? If China reaches the lunar South Pole before us, would this affect the world’s opinion of our technology and our ability to conduct large projects?
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Just here to laugh at the firmament people 🤣
And why havent we went back to militarize it yet
So Simon, no belief in fake?
Ha! Docking.
@unclerukus5686. Of course it is. How else would the New World Government be able to keep us under control? 😂😂
Space isn't a vacuum. Whyyyyyyyyy do people keep saying that. Even Dr Tyson knows that but still says it.
because it essentially is. Its on such a small scale it would be like saying that for any equation considering time, you should account for general relativity
Nah. That's why you had to add the word essential as a qualifier. It's just a pressure difference. Vacuum implies a suction by the movement of a gas.
@@michaell.445 vacuum does not cause suction of other gas? Gas just fills vacuum
@@michaell.445 I said essentially because you are right, its not a vacuum. But its so close to a vacuum that for most models, a perfect vacuum is assumed
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Hi Mr Simon, and thanks for this nice exposé on mankind's most challenging engineering effort of all time. I was especially interested in your more detailed treatise of John Houbolt's efforts and achievements, as the 1999 NOVA/PBS "To the Moon" video only gave limited insight into this fine fellow's life. ua-cam.com/video/7tYC3fj9Aac/v-deo.html
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Lunar podule milot is proof that simon is a robot and not real.
Ya. But they could have faked all of this engineering.
PS - “to fake all of this …..it would have been easier to just go to the moon” - Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Simon, please try to pronounce 'Grumman' properly... it sounds like gruh.muhn .. The Grumman company seems to pop up in your videos a lot there.
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Lunar podule milot 😂😂😂😂
No one's been to the moon .
Getting to the moon was big but let's be honest US will always be number 2 in space.
Voyager 2 spacecraft is still working 47 years later, and likely the only man made object to be intact long after Earth exists.
@captlazer5509 Which would not happen if Russians did not prove you can actually go in space.
@MrVivi0001 the early Soviet space program ran by Sergei Korolev who was born in Ukraine. A great engineer but he didn't develop the V2 rocket of which was the bases for all modern rockets. That was Wernher von Braun. The very first primative rockets were developed by the Chinese.