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also, it'd be awesome if he went there in his own space suit without telling the staff in advance that he was going to wear it, and see how long it took for someone to realize it's a replica
@@josephdigiorgio free for the public.. so who's paying for it? lol The public literally pays for every single thing the government does. 80-85% of it comes from the middle class, people who make 50k-250k per household. 70% of it comes from the 50-150k households.
To be honest they should put together an app/phone tour of the air and space museum with Adam for visitors. Maybe like a 2-3 hour version, and an extended one for repeat visitors. I bet it would be a massive draw for people to visit again. I know when I was in and out of DC I would always visit the Air and Space museum on breaks (or in the winter hang out in the warm humid botanical gardens two buildings down); and I would have really valued taking trips “with Adam” over a series of visits.
@@LogicalNiko oh man, so jealous! I'd giva anything to visit! Unfortunately my medical situation means it looks like i'll never be able to, consider yourself very fortunate! 👍🏻
I go to that museum EVERYTIME I go to the DC area. It is a NATIONAL TREASURE for aviation knowledge. THANK YOU for doing episodes highlighting the collection.. please consider doing a tour of the restoration part of the facility
I absolutely adore the Udvar Hazy center. I try to go out there at least once a year, the amount of aviation history crammed into one building is incredible.
This place was great to visit. I ended up getting pictures of the X-Wing being worked on in their conservation room (sadly from a distance and one floor above it). One thing videos and pictures never convey is the SIZE of these rockets and planes. Seeing this all in person is another experience completely.
The attached string as a visual aid for airflow is a classic "instrument" for glider pilots. It is glued to the front of the canopy window and provides a super intuitive piece of information about how the glider is moving through the air.
Adam, When in Washington, DC you should arrange a visit to the Naval Ship Research and Development Center (NSRDC) David Taylor Model Basin. This is where the Navy develops and tests ship designs using scale models tested in water. Tuft tests to study the flow of water along ship hulls. They have facilities for testing resistance and propulsion, wake, cavitation and seakeeping to name a few. Bob
Thank you Adam, and thank you Tested. 2022 had been rough, but the content on here has been consistently great whether it's an impromptu live stream or a huge pre planned video, or anything in between. Love you guys!
Your excitement for aerospace technologies makes me even more excited for aerospace technologies. I always enjoy every video you've made over the years!
If you are ever in Roswell, New Mexico, skip the UFO museums and visit the Roswell Museum of History. It has a section devoted to Robert Goddard. It has a replica of his workshop with some of his machine tools and equipment and his prototype rockets. Its a shrine to tinkerers and rocket nerds.
The strings are called tuffs… so tuff testing. I’ve used this method myself in rocketry as well as automotive racing. So cool you mentioned this technique.
This is kinda hits home with me, because i replicated a museum case at my mother's house for her. Pieces of archaeology she had found and that been put on exposition in her teens moonlighting as an archaeologist. I only had pictures for reference.
I was looking for more Adam Savage commentary on Mythbusters' Confederate Rocket project where they set off their full scale test inside the shop - albeit inside a cargo container dubbed "the bunker". They nearly blew up the lab. Smoke everywhere and some nearby artifacts suffered heat damage. Good times, miss you guys. :)
The Udvar Hazy air and space museum is my favorite in the DC area. If you’ve ever visited the DC area, or live there as I do, and haven’t been to this museum, you’re missing out. Considering DC has more museums and monuments then just about any city in the world, that’s really saying something.
It does to the degree it will disrupt laminar flow. That can only be visible with smoke or dye trails in a tunnel. But for the more macroscopic scale interactions of the flow like tip vortices or notable turbulence, it doesn't have the inertia to disrupt that.
Adam, you should come to Hutchinson, KS sometime and visit the Cosmosphere. An SR-71 in the lobby, the Liberty Bell 7 (the one that sank) and Odyssey, the Apollo 13 Command Module. There's also a complete V2 rocket and a lot more. Weird that it's in Kansas, but it has the largest combined collection of US and Russian spaceflight artifacts in the world.
I think I noticed - very briefly in your video - an engine from a V-2 (although the rocket was developed as the A4). Or, at least, the combustion chamber and nozzle from a V-2. It was missing the turbopump, gas generator and a couple of hundred yards of plumbing. It would be super cool if you could make a video about this item. (Unless, obviously, you've already made such a video and I simply haven't spotted it.)
I love visiting there. When you walk in and there is the SR, and you can see the Shuttle behind it - it is awe inspiring. It is a reminder of what people can do when they throw away the things that divides them. We live in a time where so many people are weaponized against each other over silly things like politics, beliefs, and opinion - so when I see what people can do when they have ability to actually work together it reminds me that fortunately some of us can see past what propaganda we are fed.
Look just ahead of the forward end of the canopy on the F-14 Tomcat. There is a string there used for exactly the same purpose. It let's the pilot know how much lateral angle of attack there is at the nose.
Before used on rockets, "strings" were used on test airplane wings to track air flow; and, before airplane wings, strings--known as luff tell-tales--were and are used on sails to monitor the sail's performance and as an indicator of when to adjust a sail's tension and orientation. Someone more knowledgeable of sailing history than I am will have to say when that practice first began.
It dates back to at least the 1600’s because they were also used to furl the sails on square rigged ships. Their are lines of twine across each sail to tie to the spar rigging to keep the sail taught.
imagine this for a tiny 25lb bi-prop rocket used on the x-37b reaction control system, built by the Marquardt wizards that built the Apollo RCS. on the 25 pounders, the fuel and ox streams were aligned to thousandths of an inch for proper impingement and stable combustion. some thrust pulses were measured in fractions of a second. i was astonished watching the 30 year pros carefully lining up the two tiny streams of fuel and ox.
I remember 1974 Dad asking our tour guide why all the American, Pre German rockets were painted one color. He told us the reason for the checkerboard pattern,(on Post German rockets) was because the German's filmed/broadcast everything, and being able in real time to see how thing were going at launch, were paramount to a safe, and successfull launch.
when will you visit the spruce goose? it's an awesome plane. plus there is more at the wAAAm museum. alot of vintage vehicles and some electric vehicles from the early 1900's
@Adam Savagge's Tested: Do you happen to have a photo looking through one of the gold visors at a light source? Ideally, looking at the sun, but I'll take whatever I can get at this point.
Adam, have you ever visited the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL? They have an unused Saturn V that was ready to be launched on display indoors. It’s a beautiful museum with many amazing artifacts.
@@WalnutandSteel I can't find a post anywhere. Where did you see it? Neither the community tab here or his twitter has any mention of it. :( Hope he recovers swiftly and completely! No long CoViD!
Adam, you may have already been but as a Huntsvillian I am obligated to tell you: visit the US Space & Rocket Center here in Huntsville, AL. It's an amazing museum and has two Saturn V's -- one standing upright on the campus grounds and another on its side and broken into sections. There's also a fine collection of rocket engines.
Arguably the ONLY reason for a sane, intelligent, sentient human being without rabies to visit Alabama. Jokes about your state aside, it is truly an amazing museum, I've been there and was blown away by the sheer scale of these magnificent rockets, it really is something else. It's a shame the museum is wasted on all those illiterate, inbred Alabamians 😉 sorry I couldn't help myself
@cleverusername9369 Don't apologize. Alabama is one of the toilets (AL, MS, and LA) of the US and rightly deserves criticism and ridicule. Fortunately Huntsville is pretty good at not being like the rest of the state.
Regarding these Apollo suits: my understanding is, that the entry into the suit is on the back. How is this entry closed, such that it is air tight? Can someone point me to information about this?
Looking at the Gemini helmets, I can see what lego must have based their early space set helmets on, they look pretty similar, I'm sure racing helmets were also a big part of the picture as well.
We're whalers on the moon We carry a harpoon But there ain't no whales so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune. I mean, you could clearly see the harpoon near the Mercury boots.
It would be nice if the museum would create digital 3D models of all the parts of these historic items, so that hobbyists can reproduce them in 3D printers.
The Udvar-Hazy Center? You mean that one the teleports from Virginia to a California Dessert in Transformers 2 between the time everyone enters and the leaves the place?
Next year is the 90th Anniversary of the American Rocket Society's ARS-2 launch, I thought it would be cool to try to rebuild that early rocket but I don't have the skills to do it yet.
I saw a couple of articles about the Saturn Rocket engines. The articles said that so much of the knowledge about the engine construction was in the minds of the makers, the constructers , and not in the specifications or the drawings, that NASA could not make any more when they needed heavy lift engines. So, we bought engines from the Russians.
If you ever want to see some truly interesting rockets come over to the Roswell, NM Museum and Art Center. There you will come face to face with Robert Goddard. His lab, His launch stand, and His Rockets.
Adam talks about the efforts of the engineers who worked on these engines. Here's an interview of Sonny Morea, an engineer who, in his 20s, was assigned the awesome responsibility of overseeing the development of the F-1, the 1.5 million pound thrust engine that propelled the Saturn V moon rocket. ua-cam.com/video/yZ_M3N3LSIE/v-deo.html
As someone working with software development... It's a similar but different experience. You get to work with, for and against open source projects. Some of which took hours and hours of several people's time. And git blame let's you look at what happened. But trying to replicate a piece of code is a challenge. You do end up with a massive code base you don't know. They might use features you never knew about. just to find the root cause of some bug. Even if you debugger doesn't step in correctly. Once you found the cause and it's 4am, you get really good rest for a day or two before working towards a fix.
Which is what I yelled at the screen *right* before Adam said "in fact, I think I might". What's the next level up from replicating museum-grade artifacts? Replicating the museum required to display them.
when mentioning the "contractors who put that thing together" it may not be the best choice of editing to show the engine of the V2 in that exact moment...
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Question: If Adam could get away with owning any one item from the smithsonian, what would he take (assuming he had the space for it)
also, it'd be awesome if he went there in his own space suit without telling the staff in advance that he was going to wear it, and see how long it took for someone to realize it's a replica
Whenever you need to know about science you can ask a dumb savage. ..err, I mean, Ask Adam Savage. 😂
@@majorkurn you know for a fact he'd get space poop. 😅
@@josephdigiorgio free for the public.. so who's paying for it? lol
The public literally pays for every single thing the government does. 80-85% of it comes from the middle class, people who make 50k-250k per household. 70% of it comes from the 50-150k households.
Please tell me there is a 4 hour extended cut of adam wandering around the air and space museum
Tested, MAKE IT SO
The "Savage" Cut
To be honest they should put together an app/phone tour of the air and space museum with Adam for visitors. Maybe like a 2-3 hour version, and an extended one for repeat visitors. I bet it would be a massive draw for people to visit again.
I know when I was in and out of DC I would always visit the Air and Space museum on breaks (or in the winter hang out in the warm humid botanical gardens two buildings down); and I would have really valued taking trips “with Adam” over a series of visits.
@@LogicalNiko oh man, so jealous! I'd giva anything to visit! Unfortunately my medical situation means it looks like i'll never be able to, consider yourself very fortunate! 👍🏻
@@LogicalNiko Fantastic idea! I really hope someone from the Smithsonian reads your comment!
I go to that museum EVERYTIME I go to the DC area. It is a NATIONAL TREASURE for aviation knowledge. THANK YOU for doing episodes highlighting the collection.. please consider doing a tour of the restoration part of the facility
when i visited the mall twice, i spent 16 hours at the air and space museum. could have been 16 days.
I absolutely adore the Udvar Hazy center. I try to go out there at least once a year, the amount of aviation history crammed into one building is incredible.
They even have history for hang gliders!!!
It was one of the 4 must visits on my US holiday :D
I love how Adam nerds out and shows his enthusiasm, its so contagious
I always love the excitement Adam expresses for this kind of stuff - it is infectious and inspiring.
I would kill to have grown up with Adam Savage as a father!
I love Adam's videos and the ones like this keep it up and God bless
The world needs more Adam Savages
Adam sneakily making his own space program 🙂
love watching your channel you get so excited like a child so watching always gets a really feelgood moment even on shitty days
This place was great to visit. I ended up getting pictures of the X-Wing being worked on in their conservation room (sadly from a distance and one floor above it). One thing videos and pictures never convey is the SIZE of these rockets and planes. Seeing this all in person is another experience completely.
The attached string as a visual aid for airflow is a classic "instrument" for glider pilots. It is glued to the front of the canopy window and provides a super intuitive piece of information about how the glider is moving through the air.
Adam,
When in Washington, DC you should arrange a visit to the Naval Ship Research and Development Center (NSRDC) David Taylor Model Basin. This is where the Navy develops and tests ship designs using scale models tested in water.
Tuft tests to study the flow of water along ship hulls. They have facilities for testing resistance and propulsion, wake, cavitation and seakeeping to name a few.
Bob
I can tell you're old because you signed your name at the end of a UA-cam comment. God love ya Bob
Thank you Adam, and thank you Tested. 2022 had been rough, but the content on here has been consistently great whether it's an impromptu live stream or a huge pre planned video, or anything in between. Love you guys!
Please do make that display case!! That would be so epic!
Too much hard work that we can't imagine .
You and Everyday Astronaut NEED to do a collab episode about space...
Employee of Rocketdyne here! thank you Adam for expressing my passion
We never get tired of watching it Adam. TY for sharing it.
Your excitement for aerospace technologies makes me even more excited for aerospace technologies. I always enjoy every video you've made over the years!
If you are ever in Roswell, New Mexico, skip the UFO museums and visit the Roswell Museum of History. It has a section devoted to Robert Goddard. It has a replica of his workshop with some of his machine tools and equipment and his prototype rockets. Its a shrine to tinkerers and rocket nerds.
Been there, bucket list. It may not be the real thing, but it felt like walking in the shadow of a giant.
The strings are called tuffs… so tuff testing. I’ve used this method myself in rocketry as well as automotive racing. So cool you mentioned this technique.
This is kinda hits home with me, because i replicated a museum case at my mother's house for her. Pieces of archaeology she had found and that been put on exposition in her teens moonlighting as an archaeologist. I only had pictures for reference.
Creating a display like that in your cave would be an AWESOME flex!
Super glad I found this channel.
Nice touch with Adam wearing an Omega Speedmaster
I was looking for more Adam Savage commentary on Mythbusters' Confederate Rocket project where they set off their full scale test inside the shop - albeit inside a cargo container dubbed "the bunker". They nearly blew up the lab. Smoke everywhere and some nearby artifacts suffered heat damage. Good times, miss you guys. :)
That place is great. Must go again!
The Udvar Hazy air and space museum is my favorite in the DC area. If you’ve ever visited the DC area, or live there as I do, and haven’t been to this museum, you’re missing out. Considering DC has more museums and monuments then just about any city in the world, that’s really saying something.
2:00 - Doesn't the string itself influence the air currents too? Is it accounted for somehow or is it insignificant?
It does to the degree it will disrupt laminar flow. That can only be visible with smoke or dye trails in a tunnel. But for the more macroscopic scale interactions of the flow like tip vortices or notable turbulence, it doesn't have the inertia to disrupt that.
Adam you should engineer YOUR own bi-prop engine it’s a huge undertaking but would be incredible
Adam, you should come to Hutchinson, KS sometime and visit the Cosmosphere. An SR-71 in the lobby, the Liberty Bell 7 (the one that sank) and Odyssey, the Apollo 13 Command Module. There's also a complete V2 rocket and a lot more. Weird that it's in Kansas, but it has the largest combined collection of US and Russian spaceflight artifacts in the world.
I think I noticed - very briefly in your video - an engine from a V-2 (although the rocket was developed as the A4). Or, at least, the combustion chamber and nozzle from a V-2. It was missing the turbopump, gas generator and a couple of hundred yards of plumbing.
It would be super cool if you could make a video about this item. (Unless, obviously, you've already made such a video and I simply haven't spotted it.)
👍😎 I went there in 1969 (before Apolo 11) can still picture some of it, wish I could go back.
Adam just found his next project.... brilliant!
I love visiting there. When you walk in and there is the SR, and you can see the Shuttle behind it - it is awe inspiring. It is a reminder of what people can do when they throw away the things that divides them. We live in a time where so many people are weaponized against each other over silly things like politics, beliefs, and opinion - so when I see what people can do when they have ability to actually work together it reminds me that fortunately some of us can see past what propaganda we are fed.
Look just ahead of the forward end of the canopy on the F-14 Tomcat. There is a string there used for exactly the same purpose. It let's the pilot know how much lateral angle of attack there is at the nose.
Before used on rockets, "strings" were used on test airplane wings to track air flow; and, before airplane wings, strings--known as luff tell-tales--were and are used on sails to monitor the sail's performance and as an indicator of when to adjust a sail's tension and orientation. Someone more knowledgeable of sailing history than I am will have to say when that practice first began.
It dates back to at least the 1600’s because they were also used to furl the sails on square rigged ships. Their are lines of twine across each sail to tie to the spar rigging to keep the sail taught.
The Smithsonian Institute can’t be fully enjoyed in a month, let alone the Air and Space Museum. I loved my visit even if it was too short.
imagine this for a tiny 25lb bi-prop rocket used on the x-37b reaction control system, built by the Marquardt wizards that built the Apollo RCS.
on the 25 pounders, the fuel and ox streams were aligned to thousandths of an inch for proper impingement and stable combustion. some thrust pulses were measured in fractions of a second. i was astonished watching the 30 year pros carefully lining up the two tiny streams of fuel and ox.
Adam, how long did it take you to assemble your collection, and where did you get your collection from?
One of my favorite places too...
Adam have you ever tried the apollo 11 HD VR experience? you go to the moon and back in VR.. its incredible
I remember 1974 Dad asking our tour guide why all the American,
Pre German rockets were painted one color.
He told us the reason for the checkerboard pattern,(on Post German rockets) was because the German's filmed/broadcast everything, and being able in real time to see how thing were going at launch, were paramount to a safe, and successfull launch.
when will you visit the spruce goose? it's an awesome plane. plus there is more at the wAAAm museum. alot of vintage vehicles and some electric vehicles from the early 1900's
@Adam Savagge's Tested: Do you happen to have a photo looking through one of the gold visors at a light source? Ideally, looking at the sun, but I'll take whatever I can get at this point.
Dont the strings glued to the side of the rocket change the airflow and create their own air currents and vortices?
Please, what were you referring to when you said “...an oft repeated canard...”?
05:15 " ... will include a link in the description .........."???
I wonder if the strings are originally from sails, as they use strings so you can see how good your airflow is over the sail.
Tim Dodd would be proud of this video!
F-1 Saturn V or RS-25 Engines are my favorite!
Adam, have you ever visited the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL? They have an unused Saturn V that was ready to be launched on display indoors. It’s a beautiful museum with many amazing artifacts.
More from the Smithsonian air and space please. As somebody from the UK, it's highly unlikely i'll get the pleasure of visiting.
I hope Adam is feeling better. Get well soon
Why? Did something happen?
There was a post last week that Adam had covid.
@@WalnutandSteel I can't find a post anywhere. Where did you see it? Neither the community tab here or his twitter has any mention of it. :(
Hope he recovers swiftly and completely! No long CoViD!
I can’t find it anymore either
A complete replica stand? just like the stand at Smithsonian?
Adam, you may have already been but as a Huntsvillian I am obligated to tell you: visit the US Space & Rocket Center here in Huntsville, AL. It's an amazing museum and has two Saturn V's -- one standing upright on the campus grounds and another on its side and broken into sections. There's also a fine collection of rocket engines.
Arguably the ONLY reason for a sane, intelligent, sentient human being without rabies to visit Alabama.
Jokes about your state aside, it is truly an amazing museum, I've been there and was blown away by the sheer scale of these magnificent rockets, it really is something else.
It's a shame the museum is wasted on all those illiterate, inbred Alabamians 😉 sorry I couldn't help myself
@cleverusername9369 Don't apologize. Alabama is one of the toilets (AL, MS, and LA) of the US and rightly deserves criticism and ridicule. Fortunately Huntsville is pretty good at not being like the rest of the state.
Regarding these Apollo suits: my understanding is, that the entry into the suit is on the back. How is this entry closed, such that it is air tight? Can someone point me to information about this?
Looking at the Gemini helmets, I can see what lego must have based their early space set helmets on, they look pretty similar, I'm sure racing helmets were also a big part of the picture as well.
Hey when your checking out Rockets, and Jets do you ever take pause and think of Jessi
Mind blowing
Awesome planes wow you are awesome adam sir.
We're whalers on the moon
We carry a harpoon
But there ain't no whales
so we tell tall tales
and sing a whaling tune.
I mean, you could clearly see the harpoon near the Mercury boots.
It would be nice if the museum would create digital 3D models of all the parts of these historic items, so that hobbyists can reproduce them in 3D printers.
The Udvar-Hazy Center? You mean that one the teleports from Virginia to a California Dessert in Transformers 2 between the time everyone enters and the leaves the place?
I'm surprised how often you're out this way given you are in California.
Or did you just spend a week over here and capture a TON of video?
scaled composites used string and a pickup to get to space even in the 2000s, if it works it works!
And here we have an early attempt at a rocket. Engineers were trying many external materials, some thought making it furry would have a an advantage.
Thanks.
I assume that the Gemini Boots go over the pressure suit?
A colab with Elon Musk would be so crazy
im guessing that you're taking extra pictures, to make sure you got every single detail right on your own replica.
Adam knows amazingly little about rocket engines. Watching EveryDayAstronaut you can learn to spot different designs and their basic operation.
Good video
Where were the rockets Adam?? Make another video!
Hey, I still love your work!
I was just there two weeks ago!
Next year is the 90th Anniversary of the American Rocket Society's ARS-2 launch, I thought it would be cool to try to rebuild that early rocket but I don't have the skills to do it yet.
You should tell them that this annex is near Dulles International Airport (IAD)
Need to walk around with everydayastronaut and talk about going to space and rocket engines.
I saw a couple of articles about the Saturn Rocket engines. The articles said that so much of the knowledge about the engine construction was in the minds of the makers, the constructers , and not in the specifications or the drawings, that NASA could not make any more when they needed heavy lift engines. So, we bought engines from the Russians.
It to9k me a long time, also, to understand that the visor assembly was over the bubble helmet.
Oh was that a fritz x ?!
On Christmas eve I'll be 16 months nicotine free! Adam is definitely one of my favorites I'm surprised he didn't do makers secret Santa
In the movie Ford Versus Ferrari they show the Air Flow with Strings. I thought it was a way cool idea and made some sense.
Few things hurt my soul more than watching old clips of the space program and hearing the reporter pronounce it as "Jimminy".
Yo they made redstone rocket engines back before minecraft was even a thing, wild.
Won't the strings themselves create disruption on air current and cause issues.
Nice rocket history! This is going to be a good one.
Some people see ugliness in technology. I see beauty.
If you ever want to see some truly interesting rockets come over to the Roswell, NM Museum and Art Center. There you will come face to face with Robert Goddard. His lab, His launch stand, and His Rockets.
Adam talks about the efforts of the engineers who worked on these engines. Here's an interview of Sonny Morea, an engineer who, in his 20s, was assigned the awesome responsibility of overseeing the development of the F-1, the 1.5 million pound thrust engine that propelled the Saturn V moon rocket. ua-cam.com/video/yZ_M3N3LSIE/v-deo.html
Nice.
As someone working with software development... It's a similar but different experience. You get to work with, for and against open source projects. Some of which took hours and hours of several people's time. And git blame let's you look at what happened.
But trying to replicate a piece of code is a challenge. You do end up with a massive code base you don't know. They might use features you never knew about. just to find the root cause of some bug. Even if you debugger doesn't step in correctly. Once you found the cause and it's 4am, you get really good rest for a day or two before working towards a fix.
The Mercury boots were made by Dehner in Omaha Nebraska they will make you an exact pair to your size
Aren't they called tell-tails?
Hi! Your mic is clipping, hard to listen to :(
MAKE THE CASE !
Which is what I yelled at the screen *right* before Adam said "in fact, I think I might". What's the next level up from replicating museum-grade artifacts? Replicating the museum required to display them.
"Im going to cobble my own Mercury boots."
Not something you hear every day.
when mentioning the "contractors who put that thing together" it may not be the best choice of editing to show the engine of the V2 in that exact moment...