The Cosmonaut Who Almost Walked on the Moon
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- Опубліковано 11 тра 2020
- On March 18th, 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov stepped outside of his Voskhod 3KD spacecraft for a total of 12 minutes and nine seconds to become the first man to ever walk in space. It was a harrowing mission - Leonov’s spacesuit pressurization failed during the walk, and he was nearly unable to return to the spacecraft. Leonov had a cyanide capsule with him should that actually have been the case. It was perhaps due to this experience and Leonov’s proven ability under pressure, then, that he was chosen for another historic first. The Soviet’s top-secret mission to the moon called for a similar spacewalk transfer to a Soviet landing vehicle. The Soviets intended for Leonov to be the first man to walk on the moon.
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I met Alexi Leonov a number of years ago when he visited my local astronomical society as part of a UK tour. One of my prized possessions is a book on the Russian Space Programme which he signed for me.
He brought one of the gloves from the pressure suit (which nearly killed him!) that he wore during his space walk. It felt strange for me to actually hold something so steeped in history.
Wow.
Thanks for sharing this memory; I met him in 1992 in Moscow and had a long interview with him. Lyosha, as the ones who were close to him called was an extraordinary man, full of life and humor! I wish I had the chance to meet him again, but life circumstances said not. But I have one of his paintings on one wall and every time I see it I cannot avoid smile thinking in him. Greetings from Buenos Aires!
That's rad!
Here's more background:
www.astronautix.com/data/thesovietmoonprogram.pdf
BC Bob you are not very bright.
Alexei was a very capable cosmonaut and an excellent character. Deserves all the respect he gets.
Meh, my uncle Einar was better.
Indeed he does Declan.👍
Yessir.
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Uncle einar is a very very old meme in Iceland. He's always better hahaha.
Cosmonauts rock!
A bit clumsy as a navigator though...
I'm a proud American and I look at this dude as a hero for the USSR and for all of mankind.
@matthew styles lol nice 👌
@El Mostrito lmao 🤣
El Mostrito, They did you a favour 😂
Uriah Light so glad to hear, let’s make your words heard in both governments & celebrate 🎊
You might be delighted to learn that when Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon he cheered them on, got a bunch of cosmonauts together and partied hard. It wasn't a popular move with the politburo but loved by his fellow cosmonauts who all believed in the significance of the Apollo 11 feat.
"Becoming an artist was too expensive, so he chose to become a fighter pilot"
...well what would you say about that
Imagine being a selected to be a fighter pilot because one is too poor for art school. We really live in a different time.
One profession actively involves doing something that could save lives while the other is done purely for the enjoyment of others. No wonder the former is made easier to access than the latter.
happens all the time in the us military, filled with people too poor and too stupid to get into college
@@r.m.5548let me guess, you got a liberal arts degree or some shit like that ?
@@alexeygavrikov9472Nope, back to russia with you troll.
This stuck me too 😂
He was, as they say here in America, "a steely-eyed missile man." A pioneer to who helped pave the way for humanity to hopefully, one day, reach out and touch the stars.
He passed away last October, at age 85, after a long illness. Godspeed to you, sir, on your final journey into the cosmos.
@BC Bob It's a NASA highest-class term of endearment. You can hear it referenced in the film "Apollo 13," said to the engineer who designs the CO2 filter after it works in the capsule
Definitely "The Right Stuff"
amen
@@RobPanico I think it was also used during one of the Apollo 12 mission. The vehicle was struck by lightning twice. Scrambled the downlink telemetry. One engineer in Mission Control suddenly remembered seeing the exact problem in testing.
"Tell them to set SCE to AUX"
Telemetry was immediately restored, allowing the mission to continue. This earned Aaron the lasting respect of his colleagues, who declared that he was a "steely-eyed missile man".
@@HazDaGeek Yeah, I think that was the original use of the term.
As a proud American, it amazes me of all the stories of selfless heroism of individuals who thrived despite the Soviet system. Just goes to show, that there is greatness in every nation. Thank you for celebrating one of the finest humans of the 20th century!
That whole first generation of Astronauts and Cosmonauts was a bunch of extremely skilled and brave risk-takers.
Many Russians miss the Soviet system as do many in former Soviet states. Why do you think Putin is so popular? Putin grew up in and loved the USSR and that is no secret. The Soviet system may be thought of as evil by Americans, but many Russians look back on it with pride. As you say there is greatness in every nation and perhaps we all should consider that more. Stay safe and well my friend.
@@knightowl3577 I'm sure their satellite states don't feel the same way. I'm sure the Baltics are quite happy to finally be independent. I doubt Poland wants to be invaded and become a satellite state again.
@@knightowl3577 Please don't send me to gulag
@@knightowl3577 Correct, as the CCCP tried to care for their citizens unlike Russia Federation or the United States. The big problem with their economy was the lack of computers & that 1/4 of their GNP was going towards defense since they feared the US would start WWIII, thanks to comments & invasion plans of Patton & MacArthur. These clowns didn't comprehend that there were spies which relayed their aggression to Moscow...
As an Oklahoman I love the term Oklahomski.
quiet peasent oklahomski!😃😂
Right? I wonder if he got "y'all" stuck in his head.
U some sort of oklacommie ??
@fattywithafirearm
I imagine that it would put a 'bright golden haze on the meadow'.
😋
Same here
"Because I want.....to.......be....a movie star"
Leonov
Astronaut is the highest job you can get in my perspective. He's a star who want to be a movie star. RIP Leonov..
You already were
@@amrfwws4461 ur not wrong by highest.
I thought he said moving star
A soviet said "the earth is round" guess that's why some americans dont belive it...
Guess he thought the earth was oblong?
StillSalty lol brilliant 👍😂😂
Their flat earth belief comes from blocking very heavy objects with their head. Having less brain activity than a sack of bricks doesn't help either.
Of course it's round. Everyone knows that. And flat, just like a plate. :0
@Ken Shearson I bet you say simp alot and are a virgin.
Stafford and Leonov would become BFFs after their joint mission. Stafford has a grandson who is named Andrew Alexi after Leonov, and Leonov has a granddaughter named after one of Stafford's daughters.
Leonov, whom Stafford said went from a "big communist to an investment banker," helped the Staffords adopt two boys from Russia, serving as Stafford's character witness.
When Leonov died, a frail Stafford - who is several years older than his Russian counterpart - stepped up and publicly spoke to his friend from beyond the grave in the Cosmonaut's native tongue.
"“Alexei," he said, "We will never forget you."
The museum in Hinton ,OK is great, I have been a few times. lots of artifacts from that time are on display.
holy shit people working together instead of callin each other names. Can we have more o this pls
I never knew that about the two of them and their offspring.....very cool.👍 ty for sharing that info.
Awesome
Picard (Not a Russian) was the first to go up in the late 30's he said that the Earth looked flat with an up turned edge. And he took photos. Why didn't this Yuri Gagarin take a picture ? Because Photo Shop wouldn't be invented for another 50 years, that's why. The Earth is flat, don't trust people who tell you that you have to work until your 65.
The clip of him speaking at the very end made me grin from ear to ear.
Picard (Not a Russian) was the first to go up in the late 30's he said that the Earth looked flat with an up turned edge. And he took photos. Why didn't this Yuri Gagarin take a picture ? Because Photo Shop wouldn't be invented for another 50 years, that's why. The Earth is flat, don't trust people who tell you that you have to work until your 65.
I wonder why the moon and the sun is round but earth isn’t. Orbital mechanics don’t work with a flat planet.
Btw. you can’t see further than the horizon so thats more proof that the earth is round🌎🌍🌏🌞🌖🪐
@@super_ficial dude YOU THINK THE EARTHS FLAT? LOL HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THE MOST RECENT SPACE LAUNCH IT LITTERALY SHOWS A PERSPECTIVE OF THE EARTH BEING ROUND
@@atv22345 I've been watching since Sputnik and why are you shouting ?
Their science is totally depended on gravity and yet gravity doesn’t even pass as a hypothesis. Because there’s nothing at all to be measured or tested, but not only do they get away with calling it an excepted working theory, they use to explain everything. Gravity is merely a law of authority, it’s based on social proof only. It’s not a law of physics. It’s an incantation, a lie.
It’s dark magic called science and we have all been under this spell for a very long time.
What kind of law says that if we can get high enough then we never have to come back down ?
ºIf gravity can bend even light than how is it that Helium and Hydrogen (The two must abundant elements in the universe) completely defies gravity's effect ? It has been over four hundred years and not so mush as a single graviton has been isolated.
ºThere’s no experiment for gravities validation nor can it be demonstrated or reproduced.
Calling falling objects gravity bound is like calling stolen goods, free.
ºThings do not fall to the center mass of gravity they simply fall down because thin air doesn’t have the density to support any thing heaver than thin air, the ground however does, it’s all about buoyancy and density. (Things that are finer will rise, things that are grosser will sink/fall)
ºIf it is gravity that keeps the oceans in their beds as the Earth spins a thousand miles an hour then insects couldn’t fly and clouds couldn't float in fact everything would be crushed.
ºIf it’s the Moon’s gravity that causes tides then why aren’t lakes, pounds and steams affected ?
ºIf gravity could raise oceans then we would feel it, we would weigh less.
Tides are caused by electromagnetism. Water is diamagnetic and is repelled by the Suns positive magnetic field and is compelled towards the Moons negative magnetic influence.
ºHow is it that there is no gravitational relationship between the Sun and the Moon ? When the Moon is between the Sun and Earth that's one thing but when the Sun and Earth are both pulling on the Moon then the Moon should be slamming into the Earth unless the Moon changes speeds and trajectory which it does not.
ºThe Suns gravity will pull a comet directly towards the Suns center mass of gravity and yet this same gravity will somehow prevent an impacts from occurring. This is pure monkey science.
Gravity answers everything that official experts can’t. It’s the gravity of their situation.
ºGravity failed as theory, it even failed as a hypothesis. It was rejected by its architecture Sir Isaac Newton in 1666 and yet its consider one of the four fundamental forces in nature along with electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces.
ºGravity fails as a theory, but it’s accepted as a basic fundamental law of nature ! Think about that for a moment.
ºOnly an imaginary and magical force such as gravity could make life on a round ball Earth seem possible, which just happens to contradict the Bible and so gravity becomes the law of the land (No pun intended) in accordance with the authority and is strictly enforced in every learning institution in the world.
ºThe reason we can't sense Earths five different motions is because there is none.
ºOur world is Photoshopped and we’ve been duped. The evidence is abundant !
If the Earth was spinning then all the oceans would be drawn towards the equator and then flung out into space.
ºIf the Earth was a ball then we wouldn’t be able to see the Statue of Liberty standing 326 feet above sea level from 60 miles away. It should be at an impossible 2,074 feet below the horizon.
ºIf the Earth was traversing space then we couldn't have constellations. The stars would be chaotic, there would always be new ones and never familiar ones.
ºThere’s a curvature, but we can’t see it. There’s a spin, but we can’t feel it. There’s a space, but we can’t go to it. There’s a force, but we can’t measure it. Meanwhile, Albert Einstein invents nothing, discovers nothing, has no breakthroughs and proves no theories. And yet he wins two Nobel Peace Prizes for writing on chalkboards ?
@@atv22345
ººRemember to Moon landings ? Yeah, the moon that you can see stars through ? The moon that we can see daylight through ? The moon that is supposed to be a 1/4 million miles away yet somehow we can easy see details on it, instead of it looking like a street lamp from far away ? The one that NASA brought back petrified wood from ? The one that NAZA lost all eight years of footage of ? The one that NAZA lost all telemetry of ? The one that NAZA destroyed the technology of ? The one that we don't know how to return to after half a century of progress, developments and advancements ? The one that suddenly there's a deadly Van Allen belt in our way ? The one that two dozen astronauts got right the very first time and didn't even get a sunburn ? The one that gave us the miracle of Apollo 13 when the American audience was turning in to reruns, of "I Love Lucy" because the fake moon landings was so boring ? The one that NAZA would not give a direct feed to the media ? The moon that the tax payers had to watch in fussy black & white on their colored TV while Nixon talked live to the moon on a mid twentieth century rotary phone ? The ones where rockets went into cartoon animations (Courtesy of Walt Disney) four minutes after blast-off because NASA doesn't know how to mount a camera or use a telescope ? Yeah, I'm sure we walked all over it. I'm surprise they didn’t bring back some cheese, instead we get rocks. Rocks that somehow according to NASA were stolen, contaminated and then recovered. Now isn’t that interestingly convenient ?
If the Earth and Moon is really traveling 66.600 mph through space then as soon as the 25,000mph Saturn V rocket left Earth it would have been left behind forever. Also combustion and thrust are not possible in space. If you hit a wall with your fist you’ll get a response. Your fist is hurt and your wall is dented. If you hit thin air you might feel a breeze but if you hit nothing, there won't be a response. And expanding gases would have nothing to expand against.
When this was brought to NASA attention fifty years after they were supposed to have gone to the Moon nine times, then suddenly they give us this crap. "The Moon is inside Earths atmosphere " And now they tells us that they found pockets of gravity on the ISS right after one of the astro-actors was filmed falling on his ass in what was supposed to be zero gravity.
NASA is Santa Claus for adults
There are people who think that we went to the Moon and then there are people who think.
ººIt took a Nazi that Hitler could trust: SS Officer Wernher von Braun; who’s signature sent tens of thousands of people to be worked to death to make the NAZA’s/NAZI's lies believable, while another 1600 top americanized Nazis scientist keeps the fourth Reich alive and well.
ºThose rockets travel in a parabolic arc. Out over and into the ocean once they’re out of sight and those shuttle crafts were nothing more than outlandish airplanes.
ºThat image in the sky that they call the ISS, the one that cost the US tax payers over a $1,000,000 an HOUR has been up there for over 20 years and it's in such great condition that they say that they are going to keep using it for another 20 years. Space must be the safest place in the world (so to speak). Apparently there isn’t any extreme temperatures or space debris or micrometeoroids or solar flares or radiation or even aging to worry about. Americans are so easy it's no wonder that the US its scammed more than all the other nations combined.
ºDid I mention that science lies about everything ? You can watch a satellite at night which is no bigger than a school bus for eleven minutes and traveling at a mandatory orbital speed of 17,500 mph that’s over 3,200 miles. In witch case we should be able to see the headlights on a school bus 1,600 miles away. Satellites are balloons, we pay billions they pay mere thousands.
He’s a legend in the Space community. Led a great life mostly under an oppressive government.
All gouverment is oppressive and harmfull. Time the circus of and for morons need to go.
what a fascinating man
2:15 checkmate flat earthers
The doc glossed over it a bit but the capsule that contained the cosmonauts and the propulsion/life support module were still attached to each other by a thick cable that didn’t release when they began re-entry. This resulted in terrifying flat spin that didn’t end until the cable finally burned up. Like all the early astronauts/cosmonauts these guys were unbelievably courageous in the face of ridiculous amounts of risk. These are the Magellan’s of our times.
"We could have landed in Red Square"
that would have been quite the spectacle
@Enclave Officer Z841 It would have resulted in fire & death when the capsule braking rocket fired automatically...
@@davidhollenshead4892 for everyone outside the capsule ...
@Justin H Rust was his name and he did it in a Cessna 172
@@davidhollenshead4892, Voskhod was a modified Vostok spacecraft designed to carry more than one cosmonaut. In the Boston configuration, the cosmonaut would have to eject from the spacecraft as the Soviets landed their spacecraft on the Russian and Kazak steppes instead of the ocean like NASA's Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo and SpaceX's Crew Dragon do; and landing on solid earth can actually injure the cosmonaut if he or she (can't leave out Matushka Valentina) didn't eject. Voskhod had the ejection seat removed and solid-fueled breaking rockets added (as the crew would have to remain inside of the spacecraft) and as such, landings were kept out on the steppes of Russia and Kazakhstan. Also, Soviet computer technology was virtually non-existent - all Soviet and Russian manned spacecraft up until 2002 used the GLOBUS mechanical computer - whereas NASA, using onboard and ground-based digital computers, got spacecraft trajectories so accurate that U.S. Navy personnel were asked to purposely place their ships ten miles away from the splashdown zone so that an Apollo CM would not accidentally land either on the carrier deck or the elevator.
Alexei Leonov was my favorite cosmonaut -- I think he was all Americans' favorite. His humor was a delightful form of disarmament in the cold war. He and Tom Stafford pal-ing around produced the very image of peace and cooperation. Thank goodness for both of them and the peaceful sharing of space.
Good post, DD. On 10/24/1960 "the Nedelin catastrophe" took place. The Soviet rocket exploded, killing Marshal Mitrofan Ivanovich Nedelin, commander in chief of the USSR's Strategic Rocket Forces, his top engineers and technicians.
Nedelin was so confident in the success of the mission that he placed himself, engineers and technicians very near to the launch site, treating it like a celebration.
They all perished in the blast and flames. Being a prideful, competitive man it cost him his life and those with him.
"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."-King Solomon
And it was because of this folly that such occasions were forbidden thereafter by the Soviet Government.
Leonov should consider himself lucky. If he had walked on the moon, he would have spent the rest of his life defending against self-certified detectives and UA-cam Ph.Ds claiming that he didn't.
USSR did not have this film productions like USA even today so if he walked on the moon it will be real for sure ;)
Buzz punched a guy who called him a liar.
Leonov would have been more subtle... he would have shot him.
K2 Mally oh hell I forgot about that..Buzz was way old too and he got downright sideways in that ass 😂 Dude was being very disrespectful and Buzz was having none of it.
@@intel386DX It's not possible to "fake" a moon landing.
@@ThatBoomerDude56 it is not possible to land man on the moon. Even today humanity can not accomplish that.
Landing a space capsule in the Red Square. Imagine the massive balls it would have taken. Holy shit. I love it. 😂
Nothing really that dark about this one, just a good bio of a Human Hero!
Maybe the dark part is the potential alternate timeline of the USSR winning the space race.
@Leviathan TM I meant for some people, especially people who lived during the Cold War. Plus it would’ve increased the chances of a worldwide communist timeline.
Except he almost died and would’ve been the first person to die in space.
Is it just me or does this guy give anyone else heavy 'sunglasses inside' vibes
_..I Wear My Sun Glasses At Night..._
It's just you. I think he sounds like his head bobs around a lot while he talks. I know for a fact that it's just me...
Sunglasses is cool daddio!
I actually wear sunglasses inside lol. I get headaches easily with lights thanks to an angry firecracker in Iraq well over a decade ago.
.... I most definitely wear UV blockers (sun glasses) indoors after 9:00 PM.... relaxes my eyes after (or during) prolonged exposure to sunlight, TV and computer monitors, among other light sources....
No matter the nationality, all these astronauts have that swagger and hot-shit look about them.
They are usually ex fighter pilots. Ever seen top gun🤣
What a brave man he was. It was a sad day to learn of his passing last year. It was also heart-warming to read how respected he was, world-wide. Sometimes people's achievements transcend boundaries and help us all join together and become human.
I am an American and I love my country. Additionally I'm of Polish, Hungarian, and Ukrainian descent so I have a deep rooted hatred for the Soviet Union. That being said, I have no problem whatsoever with the citizens of the former Soviet Union, the atrocities weren't their fault. I can say without reservation that those cosmonauts are true heroes and their courage is an inspiration.
Don't deep hate make deep love
@@lapraxi I love the people, but my disgust for the leadership and tyrannical apparatus is not something I can let go of. The Hungarian Uprising is just one example of what I'm talking about. Some family members were involved and others fled to the US as refugees. Some closer relatives who had come here in the opening decades of the 20th century worked as translators for arriving refugees.
@@JustIn-op6oy But now regular russian citizens have so much hate towards the western world and even their neighbors.
The evil wich guided USSR is the same wich drives the United States of Terror.
USSR was even a lot lesser hypocrite than the new Nazi's.
But can understand your love for your Nazi country wich is also deeprooted....
It's not the Soviet Union you should hate. You should hate Stalin, krushchev, Gorbachev, and not to forget raegen, nixon and Kennedy. You know why and you're being ignorant
Alexei Leonov was very candid, and made very clear how utterly transformative the experience was. He was not shy to explain how his life, mind and humanity became wholly revised and new. He spoke on it many, many times. Yes, it is true his suit malfunctioned slightly. It became over pressurized, making it very difficult to ingress via the vestibule. He corrected by loosening a glove seal.
"...and Leonov's proven ability under pressure..." - 0:25
Wasn't that experience lacking (all) pressure?
OH YOUUUUU
Iowa 599. You're not right. His space suit was swollen in a vacuum more than it's been calculated and he could not squeeze through the hatch. The oxygen supply in the suit was designed for only 20 minutes. In the end, Leonov relieved the pressure in the spacesuit and, contrary to the instructions for entering the airlock with his feet, decided to "swim" face forward, and, fortunately, he succeeded. Leonov spent 12 minutes in outer space.
@@Mishef-3832 jokes aren't accurate, but that is, from another viewpoint. The lacking pressure (of space) caused the suit to swell.
*ba dum tis*
Piccard (Not a Russian) was the first to go up in the late 30's he said that the Earth looked flat with an up turned edge. And he took photos. Why didn't this Yuri Gagarin take a picture ? Because Photo Shop wouldn't be invented for another 50 years, that's why. The Earth is flat, don't trust people who tell you that you have to work until your 65.
His art is beautiful! I actually remember the joint Apollo-Soyuze orbital mission. It was a great day for humanity. We need more like it!
Absolutely! Maybe if our two nations could make cooperation in human space flight routine we could build a space station for all nations! An international space station! Sadly I think Ron and Gorby are more interested in nuclear proliferation and mutually assured destruction😷
@@scottjustscott3730 Perhaps a joint moon or Mars mission.
@@scottjustscott3730 I see what you did there lmao....
His paintings are amazing!
This is one of the best Dark Docs as well!
Here are some of them:
www.astronautix.com/data/thesovietmoonprogram.pdf
Leonov went on to Apollo-Soyuz which was a truly historic mission. He and Tom Stafford remained best friends. While this may not have been a real tough mission, it was very important and paved the way for future cooperation.
Аbsolutely correct! I was so, so happy when that happened, 😊👍🌹✨🤩
Imagine if the two countries worked together, how many lives could have been possibly saved.
No one would have gone to the moon...
Imagine how much farther along our space technology would be. What SpaceX is doing now would seem quaint.
@@bloggingoreo True, I can't disagree with you there. I'm speaking from a overly optimistic perspective, like when the dude from A Beautiful Mind said if we all cooperate, we all get laid.
@Justin H It sounds good on paper, like the Communist Manifesto, but it just can't work in real world. It's human nature to form tribes and bump heads.
JFK wanted cooperation with the Soviet Union in space. Imagine cooperative Space Missions. No build-up in Vietnam.
I would love one of his paintings
Of a meal in space during Apollo-Soyuz, he said "The best part of any meal is not what you eat, but with whom you eat."
Loved to paint (those are actually nice) and loved to kiss American girls while wearing a cowboy hat and speaking "Oklahomski"... I'm glad we won the race, but I think I would've been alright with this guy being the first if we hadn't. Seems like a cool cat.
i agree, but you didn't win nothing. the soviets where first at many other things. why has everything to be a competition? i love you americans, i love the russians, why don't you guis just get along?
Alexei Leonov seems like a very special and cool human being. Seeing he was also a talented visual artist is very inspiring honestly. He deserved to be the first human to reach space.
This guy operates so well under pressure it’s insane, cool head even when nearly lost in space, incredible.
This guy had titanium balls.
RE Landing: "I eyeballed it." 👁️
What a lad. His real passion is obviosuly art, and him being an astronaut is his side hustle.
Much respect for Alexi, what difference does it make that he was Russian, the cosmonauts and astronauts are doing this for mankind, all of us. Great video. 🖖👽
You, flat Earthers, heard that?! “The Earth 🌎 is round”!
That video sure was convincing!
@@joebeastyg5686 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Ya but it's not sphere it's flat
@TrashGAMING ok
Sure it’s round. It’s a disk.
Two of my old buddies, one of whom was a Marine vet from WW2, traveled from New Jersey to Houston just to meet this man. If you haven't read his autobiography, read it. Great story.
Leonov is a great example of why the Soviet space program remains an amazing piece of history.
"The Cosmonaut Who Almost Walked on the Moon", He was just missing a ride there.
7:35 That's the R-7 Vostok launcher, not the N-1 moon rocket.
Yeah many people in their videos talk about a rocket but then show a completely diffrent rocket on the screen.
@@randomguy-jd8su And it makes me angry.
Voskhod*
Bro that was AWESOME!! Thanks for sharing that story with us. I really cannot wait to see more of your work soon!
Your videos are always incredibly well done. They bring me great joy.
That picture of the Russians and Americans in space together was so wholesome
You showed a Soyuz rocket, not the N-1 while describing the soviet moon rocket. The N-1 had no detachable side boosters like the Soyuz does, and the N-1 had a huge single base with the 31 rockets, sort of like the new SpaceX Superheavy booster.
Jeez get a life buddy
@@DEADG6D He is correct. Either the maker of this video was lazy or ignorant of the details of the subject matter.
Rip, its actually the R7 vostok
@@pinba4136 it's Voskhod.
Great Video. Thanks for putting this out. Please keep them coming. :-)
Respects to all cosmonauts and astronauts pushing the humanity ahead on conquering new frontiers.
Thomas Stafford I believe was from Weatherford Oklahoma, I've been to the Stafford Air and Space museum there and it's pretty awesome.
This channel is my favorite. Even the cold war... The pressure of 2 great nations trying to reach the moon.
The pressure of a cold war whilst the Us were actually involved in a war during the Apollo missions,one that cost thousands of lives. But nevermind lets cheer everyone up and win a pretend race that i would imagine every soldier in Vietnam were on tenter hooks. Dont you see this is a feel good distraction from the carnage happening in Vietnam.
Great video. I have always liked and admired Leonov. I love his achievements and I love his charm and character. He always had a twinkle in his eye.
That was a really fascinating account. It was a great video also very well crafted.. Thank you for putting this together. Best wishes.
NEVER FART IN A SPACESUIT
Skidz Holeshot yuo need to
I'd only heard his name through watching/reading 2010: The Year We Make Contact, since the Soviet spacecraft they use is named after him.
From what I gathered a true gentleman, humble in person. And a true pioneer.
You're that type of channel when the content is so interesting that i forget to hit like because i instantly get into the story.
Technological innovation between nations in competition really made that era. That's what was cool...the push for National pride thru discovery - not weapons systems. All these guys were heroes for putting their heart and soul into the unknown.
@Roy G Biv...make no mistake - the military backing & applications were paramount. BUT - at least going head to head in 'firsts' was a positive takeaway for human achievement
Korolev died from surgery complications not an accident.
Correct a operation for removing his hemorrhoids. A sad day … if he would not have died USSR would not only have :
- the first satelite
- the first men in space
- the first women in space
- the first spacewalk
- first robotic mission to the moon
- first robotic mission to Mars
- first robotic mission to Venus
- the first space station
but also the first men on the moon. People now a days still profit from the work he did sixthy years ago. It was only thanks to Korolev that the Soviets were so far superior back then. All honours and respect to this genius.
Yes. Its these type of sloppy errors that the Dark Docs videos include time and time again that makes their accuracy suspect as a whole.
Korolev died during surgery for an abdominal tumor because they could not intubate properly due to having his jaw broken in the gulags and also he had been in poor health for some time. Valentin Glushko made this unflattering statement about hemorrhoid surgery and the cancer story was confirmed by Korolev's family.
@@swissbiggy Korolev was a genius in the true sense of the word.
Leonov was a great guy really, not many people like him left. Smart and strong like hell but modest and thoughtful. He died in 2019. Wont be forgotten.
Great vid. I alwats love stumbling upon content like this on youtube.
And of course anyone who has either read the book or watched the movie 2010 Odyssey Two would remember his name.
Truly a remarkable person. And unlike a certain Austrian, he could actually make very nice artwork.
Also well worth checking out the excellent Russian movie "Vremya Pervykh" aka The Spacewalker (2017).
1:12 What a time... Couldn't afford art school. Goes to pilot academy instead.
What great history! He seemed like a nice guy from all the video's. Well chosen for the space work i would say! Plus the Apollo Mir handshake changed space forever!
Awesome video. Thanks for making it.
Is it just me or someone also wonder how someone can take a cyanide pills when he is in a spacesuit?
Keep it stuck between your cheek and gum. The espionage types would have in a false tooth
David Matthews: Crikey, a cyanide filled false tooth. Choose carefully what you eat. A broken filling is bad enough.
i was just scrolling to find this out also
Mit Seraffej “Now remember, chew on the LEFT side only!”...
DOH!
7:35 Speaking about N1 rocket, showing pictures of Sojus?
Sho nuff! Good eye, Chuck.
BTW, it's spelled Soyuz in rushglish.
And real Chuck Norris can spot such errors with his eyes shut! :)
Soyuz*
It's the Voskhod rocket, very similar, but they do have some big difference, the Voskhod rocket had no escape tower, but the Soyuz rocket did.
Thanks for the video. Well done !
Fascinating story. Thank You!
Soviet selection process for cosmonauts:
Must work in temperature ranges of extreme hot to extreme cold within 1 day.
Can catch a bottle of cognac from a helicopter.
Can prevent colored pencils from jamming in critical space systems.
8:07 Any fellow old fogies automatically hear the MTV theme in their head when this popped up?
grovermatic right here I want my MTV
@@SK22000 I keep expecting Kurt Loder to come on with MTV News.
@@andie_pants Wanna feel old? Kurt Loder is 75 years old.
This was a very good video! Nice to see both sides working together!
Thanks for the excellent research....An all well done....Thanks very much...!
I doubt that he could have walked on the moon considering the weight of his balls, even in low gravity
"The Earth is round."
Flat Earthers heads explode.
Now if only the two U.S. and U.S.S.R. instead cooperated in building a moon base instead of a space station, that would have been great.
hE sAiD RouND NoT SpHeriCal.
earth is round like pizza
@@bluumish with or without pineapple?
I met him in 2006. Fantastic guy and still very excited about space and the future; excellent video.
Regardless of politics, these cosmonauts are brave and had the right stuff. Fantastic to see cooperation between rival ideologies
"Flat earthers HATE this man! Find out why!"
I don't hate him and I'm a "Flat Earther" but not in a sense the others are. I trust and believe in the word of God unlike you and I don't believe any man walked on the moon so before you say someone hates something make sure you know what you are talking about. I have 1 question to ask you and don't give me the same "Bullcrap Answer" that NASA gives American "sheepels" 😆. If a Russian Astronaut walked on the moon 🌙 whats taking you guys so long to go back?. Like NASA did Russia loose the technology?. Even Buzz Aldrin confessed that he and his buddies didn't land on the moon.
@@HawkeyeAssassins-zh4nz The Apollo moon landings were driven largely by cold war political factors. This made expending the vast sums of money and effort possible on both sides. But once the Americans landed on the moon and won the race the funding dried up and the risks weren't acceptable anymore to either side. Since then there hasn't been a new reason to go back there, although that is starting to change. The technology was never lost. Its the capability that was lost as the US moved on towards the shuttle and the space station. And Aldrin never "confessed" to anything. Space deniers took what he said while talking to a little girl out of context and twisted it around to make it seem that way.
The flattard is trying to communicate !
Flat earthers are a special kind of stupid. Take for instance the guy that killed himself with his rocket trying to prove the earth was flat. Well he proved something that day.
@@john.brown. that was just sad actually but shows how much your ignorance can make you do dumb stuff
it was cheaper for him to become a cosmonaut than to become an artist and many believe the soviet union was a bad country
Wow, what an accomplished person Alexei Leonov was. Seemed like a great guy all around.
My mans basically said "I'm gonna die either way so might as well try it"
What a hero
The Soviets
Communists, yes...
Brilliant rocket scientists, also yes
Brilliant minds and great thinkers always flourish - regardless of the political system. Sadly quite a few were ahead of their time and others were executed/imprisoned/banished even by cultures/empires respected for their great power and prowess.
I'll tell you this from the history of motorsport. The Soviet era Kamaz trucks and the Czech design Tatra trucks lasted and won the most grueling and toughest endurance rally event - the Paris-Dakar Rally - beating their western counterparts backed up by wealthy industrial corporations such as Mercedes-Benz, the FIAT Group (Iveco trucks), Dutch DAF (who themselves created a powerful turbo-monster) and Renault.
The Czech Jawa motocross motorcycles actually won the 125 and 250 cc motocross championships and also dirt track and ice racing championships in the 60's and 70's, which was amazing considering they had a small fraction of the budget the western motorcycles had for their racing teams.
Mind you this was still during the Cold War.
I'll tell you another anecdote from the automotive world. Back in the late 80's a British car magazine tested the contemporary off-road vehicles on a challenging obstacle track and found out that the while expensive brands like the Range Rover broke down the cheap Soviet Niva 4x4 was the only one which lasted the whole course. Consequently they became very popular with British farmers living in rural parts where they had to traverse places with bad roads, or no roads. Refinement? No. Did they do the work they were designed to do? Well indeed.
Tom Hanks should adopt a Russian accent and portray Alexi Leonov.
another great video!
Getting stuck outside the capsule would have put me off space forever, I'd have taken up knitting.
LOL!! :) :)
When I saw the title:
Me: Oh, the guy died?
Then I saw the desc:
Me: Oh, Alexei? He died?
Then I remembered:
Me: Wait Alexei died last year
6:58 anyone else see that ufo’s shadow?🤘🏻👽
I was wondering if any one else had seen it. If you pause at 6:59 you can see the shadow of a typical flying saucer then the shadow becomes blurry and loses it's shape as it zips by at great speed.
A very brave and resourceful man and an artist to boot!
I always give your videos a like. This wasn't my favorite but still the very good
For me Soviets Won in Space Race
1. First artificial satellite: Sputnik 1
2. First animals to successfully orbit the earth: Belka and Strelka
3. First on the moon: Luna 2 probe
4. First man in space: Yuri Gagarin
5. First woman in space: Valentina Tereshkova
6. First spacewalk: Alexei Leonov
7. First remote-controlled rover on another celestial body: Lunokhod 1
Right except it was a race to the moon and we didn't so boldly sacrifice animals or people in those efforts the same way. They had plans to get them into orbit but not back to the earth alive.
The Soviets did win the space race. The US won the moon race. Its about the only thing the US did before the Soviets so naturally that is what it is all measured by :D
First to land a probe on Venus and send back pictures.
Erm, how would've he taken a cyanide capsule whilst wearing a space suit.
Usually you’d keep it between your cheek and gums or maybe under your tongue.
Amazing man, amazing footage.
Great vid! You make great vids.😀
That man is a hero and a good man in general. Just goes to prove to you we have commonality with the Russian people. Paz, Peace, мир
I had to throw Spanish in there since I speak Spanish as well. 😊 😂 ✌🏼
-- NO -- Cosmonaut "almost walked on the Moon" because the Soviets couldn't get the N1 to work.
The Soviets later developed the Energia rocket, which was capable to get 32 tons into lunar orbit. They had the capabilities but not the aspiration.
My penis is unbelievably small, but Energia would only provided theoretical lift capability, landing on the Moon required many other pieces to work too. A lot of work and who knows how it would end. Soviets lost interest in blowing money because success was far from guaranteed and they lost the race anyway.
@@olasek7972 The Soviets main problem was to have a rocket with enough lift to reach the moon. They were far far ahead in their development of their moon lander and the likes compared to their N1 rocket.
My penis is unbelievably small NO, they weren’t far ahead in the development of the moon lander, their moon lander which looked like total crap (and for a single astronaut only) was never even lifted into space. It was a piece of earthy junk that never flew.
They should have faked the moon landings.
Great video, and Leonov gave the space program his all. To go outside and thrive under pressure...balls of titanium! A true son of the stars.
He seems a really lovely guy and creative and imaginative person. God bless him.