What if Apollo had crashed on the Moon ?
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- For all of the celebrations surrounding the first manned lunar landing of Apollo 11 in 1969, what is forgotten today is just how close they and the other Apollo missions flew to the edge of disaster.
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Apollo 11 came within seconds of aborting the landing because they had over shot the landing area and were running low on fuel.
This was only one of several issues with the Apollo missions that arose that could have led to the loss of the mission and crew, though as it turned out only Apollo 13 came close to this happening. This excludes the Apollo 1 accident where the crew died because of a fire as they rehearsed a launch on January 27th, 1967.
Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice a during the launch and although it knocked several electrical systems, the main navigation system continued to work and the rest of the mission proceeded successfully.
On Apollo 16 the engine back up system malfunctioned on the command module as it orbited the moon which resulted in the flight being 1 day shorter but mission control determined that they could work around the fault instead of aborting the mission.
Even Apollo 11 was a test flight, with it building upon the previous mission’s results and achievements. It was to be the first attempt at a manned landing and was driven as much by the desire to achieve President Kennedys directive to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade as it was to beat the perceived threat from the Soviets getting there first, US national pride was at stake if either of these failed.
As Apollo 11 was to be the first landing, NASA wanted to make sure that it would be as event free as possible, so they chose to land on the largest flattest part of the moon that they could find, officially known as site 2, it was a 10 mile long elliptical area in the northern sea of tranquillity.
The idea was that the flight computer on board the lander would guide it down to from 50,000 feet to 500 feet above the surface where Neil Armstrong would take over the controls for the final landing.
However, Armstrong became aware early on that things were not going to plan and that they had already flown over the landing site and were heading to a boulder strewn area now known as west crater which about the size of a football field.
He assumed control from the flight computer and manually flew over West crater and another smaller crater before landing at the outer edge of site 2 about 4 miles from its intended target, and uttering the immortal words, "Houston, Tranquillity Base here - the Eagle has landed."
As he was making the final descent, mission control estimated that they had just 25 seconds of fuel left at the time they landed, although this was later revised to 45 seconds after the mission.
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Imagine being Mike Collins and having to take that lonely trip home alone without Aldrin and Armstrong.
I've always wondered that too. I also wonder what his solo training was?
Couldn't imagine a 3 day trek home wondering if the men you'd just gone there with were dead or not, yet...
If you read his excellent book "Carrying the Fire", in which Collins himself tells the story of his career from test pilot to Command Module Pilot, the prospect of leaving his friends on the moon and returning alone was the only thing that ever really gave him nightmares. He was never in his life happier than when Armstrong and Aldrin successfully returned to the CM.
@@lengyel It's a scary thought!
I watched a documentary called “Far Side of the Moon” or something like that. In it, they had Collins talking about how it dawned on him while orbiting the far side of the moon that he was the most distance person from all the rest of humanity had ever been alone, and the overwhelming peace he felt with God in that moment. Truly spiritual
"Houston, we are out of fuel!"
- Flight control: "Hello, who is this?"
LMAO !! Another scenario:
Apollo: "Houston, we are out of fuel".
Flight control: "Well, good buddy, there's gas at the next exit. What's your 20?
Reminds me also of a Rodney Dangerfield joke:
"I tell ya, my wife doesn't love me. I called her yesterday and asked her if she wanted to have a romantic evening at home. She said "Who is this?" I get no respect...
New phone who dis?
@@eamesaerospace2805 lmao
you peeopl think your funny but youre really just ASSHOLES
"We have good news and bad news Michael. The good news is that you're promoted to captain of the mission and it's your time to shine! The bad news is that your buddies are dead or dying and you need to snap a few pics."
"Congratulations, you're now the first man to go to the moon... and come back."
@@JonatasAdoM not exactly, since Apollo 8, the crew has been orbiting the moon, so the first would be the crew of Apollo 8 ;)
@@bennybau123
Borman Lovell Anders (Apollo 8) orbited moon
Apollo 9 performed lm redocking in earth orbit only
Apollo 10(Jim mcdivvit) almost reached the moon as dress rehearsal for Apollo 11
@@ashgreninja7521 apollo 10 wasn't jim mcdivvit
@@alexanderleeart Apollo 9 was mcdivvit, Apollo 10 was Stafford
Sorry my bad
In a book I read about the astronauts, one of them said there were no "suicide pills". According to the book he said the easiest and quickest way to end it all on the moon was to vent the air in the LEM to the outside. He also said if there was a survivable crash, most likely they would continue to report on conditions and observations until their oxygen ran out.
Dutiful to the end.
@@Andrew-ep4kw yes and the actornaut Don Pettit, when asked " what do you do if there's leak( in the window seal)?" His response was " well then we've got a leak", he goes on to say that there's probably some procedure but he doesn't know it. He's the same deceiver that, when asked " what do you do on the ISS?" Good ol' Don says " I do science and I fix stuff. Honestly, it's such a 🤡show and one would have to be completely third eye blind not to see it. ❤🙏🇨🇦🍒
Cutting communications, that's cold.
That s the Government for you
These astronauts were well aware of the risks they were taking.
Honestly though, what would you tell your crew if they got stuck on the surface on the moon and there is no way you can bring them back?
Major Missile At least something.
Yeah you'd hope to be able to talk to your loved ones one last time
The thumbnail for this video cracks me up! It is like Neil Armstrong jumped out of the lander 50 feet from the surface and landed face first, THUNK! "Houston we have a belly flop."
You just made me smile
now i feel bad for leaving my kerbals in space :(
I always start a new save if any of my Kerbals die, I also try to keep them somewhat comfortable during long trips. This results in me having to build huge and complex space crafts lifted by obscenely big boosters for longer trips.
Go rescue them, I did !!
I can't stand watching someone just leaving them years in space on fast forward. I imagine their lives being miserable inside of the craft.
This is why you send the rescue team first.
I understaf a second ship to save them
I think that Apollo 8 was at least as monumental as Apollo 11.
It was the first time anyone had ever left the Earth for another body in space.
They did it without a LEM as a lifeboat too.
History could have gone like this
1. Apollo 11 crashes on moon after running out of fuel - crew lost
2. Apollo 12 blows up on launch when struck by lightening - crew lost
3. Apollo 13 lost on way to moon - crew lost
4. Program canceled
Actually, 11 wasn't close to running out of fuel. The times that you hear Charlie Duke call out are the "bingo fuel" times-the point at which, if they couldn't make an immediate landing, they'd have to abort. That gave them enough fuel to fire the descent engine full thrust to give them some altitude, jettison the descent stage, and fire the ascent stage engine. The needed the altitude because once they cut the descent engine so they could jettison the stage, they'd be falling back toward the surface until the ascent engine could fire. I saw a quote from Cernan one time who said that you needed to get at least 200 feet above the surface to give yourself enough time to jettison, pressurize the ascent tanks, and fire the ascent engine, and arrest your descent.
lightning*
And yet We ROCKETED!!! LITERALLY!!!! Awesome age of Aquarius Soooo Adauatious! Proud to be an America citizen of Earth!!
Reality:
1.it worked
2. it worked again
3. had a problem but still worked
4. Program canceled because the miltary industrial took over control of the whole country.
Don't forget Apollo 10 - LM lost control due to one astronaut flipping a switch when the other astronaut had already flipped it. LM came within seconds of its roll becoming unrecoverable.
It would have hit the Moon.
Mission control we are out of fuel
NASA mission control = we don't know you
Cold huh
"Out of fuel" wasn't the scenario. The concern was that the ascent engine (which had it's own propellant tanks) wouldn't fire for some reason.
If they ran out of fuel before landing, they would just fire the ascent engine and return home. There was no doubt a good chance that they would crash rather than abort being so close to their goal.
@jimmyfly
They would rather die rather than making a false abort. And it's not always clear when they're out of options.
@jimmyfly
Frank Borman (Commander of Apollo 8)
"I would rather die than make a false abort."
I'm sure that attitude is common among astronauts making a first attempt at a Moon shot, and knowing there are serious risks.
What’s amazing is that Apollo 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 were all missions where NASA had performed mission objectives that had never, ever been done before without any serious problems happening and all astronauts safely returning to earth. That was truly an amazing time in space exploration for both the United States and for NASA.
jimmyfly Yes. I know that each Apollo mission from 7 through 11 built off of what had been completed in previous missions. However, each successive Apollo mission did something that had never been done before in the history of space flight without any problems, which to anyone should be considered amazing.
jimmyfly All of the astronauts on those missions safely returned to Earth, and that’s what counts.
The Saturn V launches that were unmanned were a first for NASA, as prior launch vehicles tested each stage as its own launch. The Saturn V was the first multistage rocket tested as a single vehicle, or as they called it "all up".
Five Word Horror Stories: "Goodbye Houston, thanks for trying!"
Ya thanks for trying to get nowhere! They couldnt talk to anyone on the moon. That is bullshit, wishful thinking tho.
The tragedy is that we stopped going.
It's extremely expensive for seemingly little gain. Back then, there was the cold war, the head to head with the Sovjet Union. Spaceflight was perfect for this competition. Nowadays, it's different. I don't think the scientific data alone gathered from the Apollo missions would have justified its cost. It was 'beating the other side' that was the driving force behind the space race.
ugh! Not another one.
jam biggest Another twat who thinks the moon landings didn’t happen.
Haven't you got bs conspiracy theories to spread or something?
THE REAL TRAGEDY IS PRICKS LIKE YOU, STILL BELIEVING THIS CRUD, AFTER YEARS OF PROVING IT'S ALL FAKERY
Growing up the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo Astronauts were my Heroes. I always wanted to be an Astronaut. Most people cannot fathom the skill and courage these men put forth to achieve putting a man on the moon.
n you ended up on you tube - where people are more famous than astronauts :/
Tony, that Moon was on a movie studio in Nevada desert 🌵
@@TheGecko213 No it wasn't
I am watching this video 2 years later, not realizing i have already like it lol!
Buzz watched it too. He never knew they were talking about him.
Holy crap. “The crew had no knowledge of this during the mission.” Oh my goodness. I would have felt kinda slighted by NASA and distrusting after finding that out. Like oh thanks guys. Glad you had a backup plan in mind. 😂
Nasa is nothing but polished shit. Every disaster that has cost lifes were easy avoidable and due to sociopaths that run the program.
it is sad, but they have no other choices. Just like in exploration age, you sent some sailor, hope everything will alright.
@@mickolesmana5899 They had no other choices wow you are dead wrong
@@cantthinkofnameyeah7249 everyone knows the risks
@@BBSHOCKZ Your statement is so broad it carries literally no point
If they were stranded on the Moon they could have survived on the endless supply of cheese
Excellent-point...
And Wallace and Gromit would have come to rescue them anyway. Sorted.
The moon is expensive cheese and in space they can’t age they would be immortal
And hung out with the DreamWorks fishing kid
Greatest engineering achievement in History.
(in my opinion)
Agree. Hopefully our children will say the same thing about the next great achievememt.
Absolutely. And if you had to narrow it down further, the Saturn V is probably the most remarkable part of the equation.
@@jshepard152 no kidding! I mean, the F1 engines alone are basically miraculous!
Indeed.
about what ? The IPhone ? Skype that never works ? Facebook ?
Hi, quite like your videos. Found them to be well researched, informative and out of the ordinary. Keep up the good work!
I saw an interview somewhere with Buzz Aldrin. They asked him about being stuck on the moon or if the rocket didn't fire to bring them back up. They asked him what would you do. He said they would keep troubleshooting until they ran out of oxygen.
After browsing through this comment section, I've decided to invest heavily in the Acme Tin Foil Hat Corporation.
10/10
ALCAN shares are constantly rising! Ever since the internet became a thing and gave these science denying cretins a platform, in fact.
It would only sell in the US, not worth investing in it ;)
Nice one
and ham radios.
Please make videos about all of the specific apollo missions. The differences in mission profiles, specifics and mission objectives.
NASA has all that on public file.
yes. do one using correct data regarding the VAB and not the one you already did with massive errors.
Thanks once again for a fascinating and thought provoking video. The quality of these just gets better and better and you are rapidly becoming my favourite YT channel. Long may your curiosity continue.
What balls those cats had.....
That's hilarious. "Houston, we have a problem..." Quick, turn off the radio! *CLICK* Ok, who wants to go to happy hour?
Um, so Houston, we failed to ge toff the moon, what do we do? Houston? You there? Um guys, they cut communications. Do we have pills? No? Um.
Imagine they turned off com but those guys still managed to come back
@@OompaL0ompa Im afraid they would kill them anyway.
@boloyoo yeah someone would have killed someone for sure
thamonkaface999 that would be so legendary
They would cut communication, DAMN SON!
That’s some cold hearted shit right there
They’d actually cut communication to give the two astronauts privacy in their final moments, though, I think that would’ve been a few minutes later ‘cause I heard from somewhere that Mission Control would’ve stayed on the line for a while
The most nail biting part of the mission for me was the take of from the moon. That's the part that would give me nightmares, just imagin the last release mechanism not detaching . You only get one go at leaving the moon . That goes for every moon mission, just thinking about it gives me the shivers, that's all it takes . It's always the little things that catch you 😱
On the descent, Buzz Aldrin decided to enable the ascent rendezvous radar. He reasoned, if there were a problem during descent, it would be much easier--since the ascent radar was active--to acquire and dock with the lunar orbiter. This procedure was never previously agreed upon or rehearsed--it was just Buzz's helpful idea at the time. Therefore, with both ascent and descent radars simultaneously providing data to the lander's computer, the computer became overloaded, issued periodic error codes and frequently reset. The descent calculations were therefor inaccurate and resulted in the lander flying past its intended primary target. My information comes from recalling bits of past information, and hopefully I am correct. NASA took many risks and there were other potential disasters. (I need to catch up on these videos and hopefully have not repeated a previous topic.)
I'm going to have to refresh my recollection. I do not recall two parts of this story you mention. 1) I do not remember hearing that the activation of the ascent rendezvous radar was deliberate. I thought it was either left on or turned on by accident. 2) I do not remember hearing that the overload caused them to overshoot the landing. I've always understood that the computer was putting them down in the correct place; it was just covered with boulders, so Armstrong took over and deliberately overshot the landing.
They landed long because the docking tunnel was not 100% vented prior to undocking and that minute amount of residual pressure released at undocking pushed them off course a wee bit and it caused them to land beyond the targeted landing spot.
All insertions and injections are based on mission timelines, so, that little extra kick meant PDI started on time, but further west than nominal, therefore a long landing. When they were flying windows down to verify visual landmarks to reaffirm correct tracking, Armstrong noted they were hitting those landmarks early.
I don't think that NASA would have actually turned the radios off. I found a new article that said the official protocol was to declare 'deliberately closed down communications' as a euphemism for suicide. I doubt that the most professional scientists and engineers in the world would think that leaving their astronauts alone and confused while they died would ever be appropriate.
The guys in the module are not stupid - they knew, even before training began that there would be no rescue, and still would had no hesitation of going, anyway.
They choose test pilots for a reason.
It's still so amazing that it ever worked. There were so many points of failure and yet it still worked!
Yes, I think Neil Armstrong too expressed surprise that all the links in this 'daisy-chain' (as he called it) of events held together . . .
Blue Square
Alan Shepard mentioned he was sitting on top of the collective efforts of thousands of low-bid contractors.
Hahahaha! Of course it worked! It was in the script. Hahaha!
Magic Rooster yeah, I bet they scripted Apollos 1 and 13 too
They developed the technology that made it work as they made incremental progress to the moon landings. Sometimes a little after it was needed.
One thing I find interesting in this regard, is that immediately upon setting foot on the Moon - apart from his famous "One small step.." pronouncement - Armstrong began describing the geology of the surface. This was probably one of the scientific responsibilities of the mission, and they had to take every opportunity they had to relay as much information as possible back to Earth in the event they might not return.
Always double check Mechjeb
Q: What if Apollo had crashed on the Moon?
A: The next cake delivered to mission control would have been decorated a bit differently.
Cake and sympathy.
Tea and sympathy
The cake is a lie
Death by hypoxia is actually one of the least painful ways to go. You get lightheaded and giddy, filled with a euphoric "I CAN DO IT!" feeling... which is ironic, because you really, _really_ *can't* "do it", no matter what "it" was, except pass out and ...
... yeah.
@Denis Franks That wouldn't happen unless they would voluntarily shed their suits, right?
and you know this how?
Love how that model rocket lifts off the set so effortlessly
Whoa...! Thanks CD for putting this out there. I was born in 1965 and never once considered this scenario, at least not in the level of detail you've provided. Wow. (Thank you, again.)
I watched in wonder as Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, and with no less wonder as the other Apollo missions landed. But in all that time - or in the 50 years that have passed since - did | ever wonder what would have happened if these brave men hadn't returned. Thank you for this really enlightening video.
It's crazy how it got struck by lightning. & still able to proceed.
Some quick thinking from some people at mission control saved the day and help to reactivate some systems.
dcwhitworth A guy called John Aaron was the controller who recognised the issue and made the call to toggle a switch which restored systems. Apollo 12 was very close to abort when that call was made.
Jake Pughh 60's tech, man. Built for life
and thus began the phrase "steely-eyed missile man"
Jake Pughh - power of film production
50 years later its still the greatest human achievement
Not really though
This is my new favorite channel! I'm obsessed! Oh, and the shirts!
5:20 Jesus, that speed tho is terrifying lol
when you see an Apollo capsule up close, you see how tight and tiny everything is/was.
brave people.
Yes. So where did they put the moon buggy?
@@SaxonSuccess Lander
I started scrolling comments and ended up falling into a conspiracy theory troll hole.
It's unfortunate that the moon landings will be remembered as "Cost too much" or "Did we actually go". One can only hope privatization of spaceflight will result in laying the moon landing question to rest for good. But even then, there will be deniers.
"swear on the bible that we went to the moon"
The "moonlandings" is THE conspiracy theory itself. Some people actually believe that mankind traveled to the moon 6 times.
WarthDader74 Dumbass
And when you say "some people", that includes every scientist who has ever looked at the samples and or the data.
Funny how experts don't have a problem with it, but you do.
I really want to introduce the moon landing deniers here to Buzz Aldrin's fist.
I'd take the Bible with me.
Simon Ruszczak - "Buzz" Aldrin [the man who never blinks] is a Bible-denier.
+ Kevin Gomolchak, It was Ed Fendell at mission control, he had control of the camera on the Rover which was parked up to observe the liftoff. It took him 3 attempts (Apollo 15 he missed it, 16 he got it a bit better) he finally nailed it on the 3rd attempt Apollo 17.
Kevin Gomolchak The old classic caught in a lie, blind panic launch a violent attack scenario.
That buzz Aldrin punch showed he was caught unaware and in a blind panic punched the guy
If Buzz had put his hand on the Bible and swore that he did land on the moon the guy would have kept on believing his conspiracy theories. People just don't let go of those things. Like when Obama showed his birth certificate. It then became a forgery.
"What if Apollo had crashed on the Moon ?"
they'd try again
or
that would be it
Jim Lovell said the missions didn't carry suicide pills. Buzz Aldrin said that if the ascent stage didn't work for any reason they would have just carried on trying everything they could think of until they ran out of oxygen and lost consciousness. That is after all what one would expect an astronaut and test pilot to do.
Thanks for the video. No matter how you slice it, it took courage to get into that capsule and embark for the moon.
Apollo 11 (2019) shows this well. See it in imax
Thanks for sharing that. I worked on all the Apollo Block II CSM's during the fire abatement modification program after the Apollo I fire. I worked on Apollo 13 when the oxygen shelf was changed from three small tanks to one larger tank which was what blew up on 13. There were many things we Space Mechanics never knew, and something new is always being brought to public view.
That memo...none of you knew about it Earthside? Assume that the worst happened and they did just cut off communication like that...how would you have felt about that? Not even allowing families to say goodbye?
R/thathappened
I just imagine what the course of history would've looked like had the Apollo 1 disaster never happened...
I dont usually comment, but I really need to say your videos are fabulous. Thanks.
Why was NASA’s plan to cut communications? To save everyone the trauma of listening to the astronauts plea for help? And the astronauts had no idea that this was the plan? Cold!
Literally and figuratively, _cold_
Here's a question for all the conspiracy nuts. If the whole thing was faked, why would there be a need for a protocol if the mission failed? Also why would Nixon have a speech prepared for the worst case scenario? If you had filmed the whole thing on a sound stage why would you even bother with the protocol and speech?
John Burke
Those dolts are good at asking questions. Not good at all at answering them.
they have the same letters for a hundred scenarios ,any moron knows that " wed like to let the families know we are thinking about them" age old drivel ,no doubt there was one for when someone shot trump /clinton/bush/bush yadda yadda
@@mcfcguvnors Can you explain why youtubers have the expertise and budget to prove the moon landings were faked but Russian government never has?
Part of the verisimilitude. If you didn't have a speech ready, people would say it was fake. The Moon race was expensive and scientifically useless. Both sides were in on it the fake. After Apollo, the Soviets concentrated on their manned low Earth orbit program and the United States on unmanned exploration and commercial development of satellite technology. It was a covenient and obviously productive division of labor.
That's the conspiracy theory explanation. They had to have multiple fake missions and Apollo 13 to make it look real. Another reason for the Soviets to go along with it with was that it good for the brand. It made all advanced countries look good in the eyes of the world's unwashed.
Don't take the trolls too seriously.
You can present any evidence or start asking questions or making serious remarks, the trolls will always revert back in loops into their own little trolling minds.
Don't expect adult reasoning with them.
Armstrong said he wasn't concerned about running out of fuel. He said he was prepared to let the LEM drop if they were within 20 ft. He also said he was prepared to land in the crater full of boulders.
I believe that Neil Armstrong would have landed the Eagle even IF they had gotten below the "abort" point. If they fired him later...so what? He knew he was getting so close to landing. He was NOT going to abort because of some arbitrary rule about how much reserve fuel he might need. Running out of fuel was a small risk compared to what they had already gone thru.
It was fake dummy!
Everything was planned, both success and failure. The management of the mission was exemplary. This combined with the "Right Stuff" made it a success. Of course HR stepped in paid them an extra $8 a day for being off base ;-) I watched it live with my Dad, I was 5 and I remember it well.
And faking it
I was at KSC for that launch. We we a better country then!!!
For a while I didn’t believe they really went to the moon. I reckon I believe it now. Tired of people think I was nuts.
We never really went
@Mase Mason because our instinct brought us to where we are now, right?
@Mase Mason Congratulations. You have shown the world that you are an idiot.
Milt Farrow yea in the prehistoric era
Aldrin & Armstrong: Hello NASA, we having a problem. We've ran out of gas.
NASA: New phone, who dis?
"We're sorry, the number you have dialed has been disconnected or is no longer in service. Please check the number and try again, or dial your operator for directory assistance. Thank you."
i like the way he narrates.
I’m entering the newest comments to find idiots who think the moon landing never happened.
Wish me luck
Ok, I’m literally not even 10 comments deep and I already found 4
@@gdhammr8113 make it five-oh brainwashed one who believes everything the media prints.
Thank you. A very professional video. I look forward to future videos!
What a nightmare! Thanks goodness all the Apollo missions took place without such a fatality. We were very lucky!
Came expecting nothing but comments saying the moon landings were fake.
Only found comments talking about said comments.
gg.
Set comments to "Newest" and enjoy
90% of the comments are about the moon landings are fake but they have no proof or evidence about it and they just flat out state it.
Positron bait fail
Like your own comment. Nice.
Loool
Just found your channel. So refreshing. Keep up the great work!!
Personally, in the event of not being able to ascend , I would have requested (had I knowledge of that contingency) that NASA not cut off communication. If the ascent stage could not be fixed, I would wish to continue to feed back as much scientific data as possible before my life support gave out.
"Let me not seem to have died in vain... Let me not seem to have died in vain."
-- Tycho Brahe
These people are heroes. I wish I could see our mother Earth fade away in the distance, as I'm thrown away towards Mars, one day.
I've been watching your videos all week. I love this channel.
I always knew Lord Varys could have been an interesting UA-camr . 😂
Man, this channel got grim real quick, didn't it
Yeah, I wonder if Curious Droid is going through a bad patch. Maybe we should tell him how much we appreciate his videos. Like, a _lot!_ Tell all your friends, tweet, blog, tell the world!
NEY Industries Like that, except I'm not tapping the thumbs up in case it gives you ideas.
NASA was set up by Eisenhower to be CIVILIAN.
This video made me think of his resemblance to Varys from Game of Thrones. If the ever need to replace the actor, this man is a shoe-in.
Ya, cuz we are all seeing how nasa's fakes everything once the cameras can't follow their rockets any longer! 42% of Americans are waking up and seeing the lies they have been taught and don't like it one bit! I didn't wake up till I was 61 and I am now 72 mate! There is still time for yas all!
So every time they tell they've "lost communication" means they're just ignoring the lost project?
Pretty much. There are a lot of probes still flying that just have dead electronics.
I read somewhere, I think it might have been in one of Aldrin's books, that the "suicide pill" never existed.
If a crew wanted to do themselves in, all that was necessary was to reduce the cabin pressure until they passed out.
Armstrong said in an interview that during the final portion of the lunar descent, he wasn't particularly concerned about the fuel level: he'd flown the LLRV/LLTV many times, both in development and then in training, and that craft was ALWAYS nearly out of fuel as touch neared.
..... I would hope that astronauts on these missions were given a 'suicide pill' in case they found themselves in a hopeless situation, and wouldn't have to spent days waiting for a slow death.
This has been asked several times. I don't remember what astronaut said that, but he sad about the following: when you are in space (or on the moon), you don't need a suicide pill, you have the vacuum. If you want to die, just open the hatch or your space suit, you will lose conscious quite fast and after some more time, well, you die. That's it. As effective as any suicide pill.
+soriac.... Good to know. Thank you
+soriac
Thank you for knowing you don't _freeze_ or _explode_.
i would think death by vacuum would hurt like a bitch though
hope they brought some morphine too to counter that
Manuel Schneider Every day a stranded Apollo astronaut stayed alive was a day closer to figuring something out for a chance at getting back home.
I have to believe part of the checkout and discrimination for astronaut candidates was how they MIGHT behave in terrible, gruesome situations.
And I have to also believe the selection of the Apollo astronauts wad as good as it could be.
NONE of these guys would have diminished their performance in any way, even after learning they would not get back home or die or fail in any other way.
The astronauts in Apollo were as good as it gets.
Fortunately, the mission succeeded. Otherwise, we'll be seeing corpses the next time we visit the moon.
There is more computing power in the sim card of your mobile phone than what they had on the entire Apollo 11 project.
There is NO computing power in a SIM card - just data storage. The computing power is in the 'phone.
Nope, SIM cards are actual crappy microprocessors which have pretty direct access to a lot of components on your phone. That's why in some places people use SIM cards for their online banking. They can be programmed using Java Card which is a horrible abomination of a language where not even strings are available. Here's a talk on the subject:
ua-cam.com/video/31D94QOo2gY/v-deo.html
Thank you for that reference. Interesting !
There’s more computing power in my toaster than those computers
So what? Most of the computation was done in big computers on Earth and transmitted to the capsule.
That soup can identified as a rocket capable of escaping lunar gravitational pull
_Apollo 12_ kept flying because hero John Aaron had the crew quickly switch SCE to AUX.
And don't forget Beano, who actually knew what "SCE to aux" meant ;-)
Right on! Can't forget Beano! No offense meant to Gordo but I can imagine this creeping half-second of dread, looking at the panel (literally just a half-second, though) thinking _set what to what_ ?!
Bet he went home whistling that day ;)
Given the complexities surrounding the return flight from the moon, I have sometimes wondered whether it would actually have been physically possible for one person to return successfully. I'd appreciate any thoughts on that question.
The craft was piloted by a single man most of the time. With help from NASA checking over math it seems completely possible to return singlehandedly.
The studio where it was filmed would have burned.
They couldn't let that happen!
@Luis Toby ok
Such stories don't seem real to me. This video is propaganda
The Shining by Stanly Kubrick would have never been filmed.
Thats right. Because we never really went
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I don't think that such chances would be taken today. One engine to blast off from the lunar surface - with 50:50 odds and one engine to blast out of lunar orbit - another 50:50. The astronauts were test pilots and saw 50:50 as good odds. It's a miracle that these missions were as successful as they were. Also, the fault on Apollo 13 had been on all of the previous missions, so that was a miracle in itself. Thanks for the work put in to your videos.
after watching this video it is very easy to realize all the conspiracy theorist who say it was faked, are not only completely full of shit , but deliberately ignorant. God job!
At 1/6th gravity how heavy was the lander without the astronauts in it? I wonder if it had ended up on its side, and the astronauts had gotten outside if they could have muscled it back into an upright position and gotten back and took off!
Tech info is readily available.
If it landed on its side the craft would of crumbled. The thing was paper thin in several areas.
@@IgnobleKin it still had a frame. If it landed softly enough, and on a flat surface, perhaps it could be essentially intact with all primary systems functional, especially if the frame had extending side frames to keep the soft areas from impacting the moon surface and being destroyed. This type of design considerations need to be incorporated in our future lunar landers as we go back to the moon.
First successful moon landing of course had to happen in the golden 1969 year
69? *NICE*
Noice
@@lauragodridge8966 noice
Your commentary is always excellent! I watched the first moon landing as a 9 years old boy. It was T H E TV event. Nothing in the TV could reach this sensation! Greatings from Vienna
I lived in Vienna when I was still alive.
Man that shirt is great!
WTF do you mean 1960 tv cameras can orbit the moon and take a picture resolution of 1 foot across but the new LRO has a resolution of 330 feet across!!! Im seriously curious how some 60 years later we’ve gotten worse at taking video of the moon?
Go and jump back into your corner and face the wall . You are embarrassing.
for the same reason we still use gunpowder in fireworks despite having had nuclear explosives for over 70 years: the right tool for the right job.
If you watch again from 5:29 you'll hear him say that the pilot would have used a film camera, and the Command Module would have been less than 60,000 feet above the surface. The LRO's maximum resolution is 20 inches per pixel, and it orbits higher.
What altitude is the camera at? Lunar orbits can be terrifyingly low as there is no atmosphere to cause drag that would decay the orbit. That's how. They aren't taking video from 6 miles above the surface.
*....OR WHAT IF THEY CRASHED IN A STUDIO...? DUN DUN DUN....*
Apollo 13 nearly did
The movie of Apollo 13 is real footage?
Apollo 13 landed on the moon in real life? Hollywood making shit up again. FFS
bob niblit Apolo 13 went round the moon and came back using the moon's gravity and a 12 amp battery as propulsion to get the correct trajectory. it wasn't just a movie. it nearly crashed into the real moon, not one in a studio.
Good thing they took that spare battery then. It's a shame they didn't get to land so they could jump around in all that moon dust.
One thing I've thought about is if the two astronauts were stuck on the moon because of a mechanical or technical failure. They would have known they only had a few days to live. Air, fuel/power, water and food would all soon run out, and it wouldn't matter what would run out first. Being stuck in such a predicament would be horrible. Then there is Mike Collins, who would have to travel back to earth alone. Depending on the timing, he might have left moon orbit when they were alive and arrived back to earth when they were dead.
Then that means they actually went there.
This all seems illogical. I'm starting to side more with the hoax theories.
Many people are doing the same thing.
But isn't it odd that none of them are actual scientists?
+clyde8her - It's not about 'sides'. It's about evidence. Why the tribal mentality?
+clyde8her - Nutcase.
@clyde8her I'm sure you will. And that is entirety your personal prerogative. Far be it for me, a mere idiot, to bother engaging in further discussion with a nutcase.
One question though, and it's not a loaded one, nor a rhetorical one: Why so much emotion invested in NASA and Apollo landings?
It makes precisely no difference to my life whatsoever. Just curious, that's all.
No problem! They had ambulances on the Hollywood Moon Studio!
Imagine being the first man on the moon. You and your comrade are stranded there, away from everyone else. With no plan to come back home and mission control silent.
It's cool. Too bad we never went to the moon.
But we did
Why cut communications ? sharing is caring.
If your going to lose lives.....may as well "science the sh!t" out of the moon
while your waiting for a lunar Uber.
within the golden age of Athena there was spoken of two types of teachers . philosphers and sophists . philosophers would tell the truth and sophists would deceive the common folks... Α Ω
Wonderful video. Extremely informative and great atmosphere. Thank you
You look like that bald guy "Lord something" from Games of Thrones 🤗😊
Vikram Jain Goddamn, we commented at the same minute 😂 lord varys
Infinite Horizons hahaha phenomenal 😊😊 he even sounds a bit like him.. this made my day 😊😊
This is completely false, NASA developed a new technology at that time for the recovery operation, now it is called as Alt+Ctrl+Delete 😂😂😊
Is their anyone who seriously believes this fairy tale 🤷🏼♂️ How can they crash on the moon when they didn’t Even manage to get out of Earths Orbit ... Never in Human Scientific History has a new attempt at anything been successful first time out . Are you seriously trying to tell me the lunar lander that was never tested out of earths atmosphere would work ..it’s just bat shit crazy 😜 Apply some common sense to all aspects of the Apollo missions and you gradually realise we have been conned 🤷🏼♂️
whos Evan?
Good point. This MI 7 Curious Droid is a douche bag. Excuse the language.
Armstrong knew exactly where to fly around on that Hollywood set
Hollywood set? The lander and the equipment has been imaged by probes from different countries. Are China and India in on it too? They sure like to help the US..
What if Apollo never went to the Moon
What if conspiracy theorists took off their tin foil hats and got jobs?
@@ct92404 what if people like you would actually do some research instead of being a troll on the internet...
@@RAM_638. Yeah, right...all your "research" comes from conspiracy theorist websites.
@@ct92404 NASA's a conspiracy theories website? oh.....
@@RAM_638. What did you find on NASA? Certainly nothing to support your idiotic, delusional conspiracy theories. You would find diagrams of the Saturn rocket and the Apollo spacecraft. You could find an explanation of the Hohmann Transfer maneuver that was used to fly to the Moon. You could even find schematics of the Apollo Guidance Computer. People have used them to build working models of the AGC. But of course, a schizophrenic nutjob like you wouldn't understand electronics or orbital mechanics. All you understand is bullshit conspiracy theories.