What's-His-Name, the Apollo Astronaut You've Never Heard Of
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That's one lucky shoulder dislocation.
Two.
It saved Mel Gibson's life in one of the Lethal Weapon movies...
Yeah. I thought so, too.
Reminded me of one of my high school friends' dads.
He played football at Marshall but got sick and didn't make the trip to North Carolina that ended with the return flight crashing at the airport and killing everyone on board.
One year to the day before the fire.
*He died at the early age 57 due to a heart attack not very lucky ..*
Donn Eisele's son Donn is one of my best friends and music partner. We play swing music.
Apollo 7, Mission "C",
Once had a space-based mutiny,
Led by Commander Schirra, Wall-e
Because a bad head cold, had he.
His crew named Walt and What's-His-Name
Were forced to follow in his game,
But their careers were not the same,
Grounded, they would not have fame.
So if this poem left you shook,
It's spacey rhymes did set a hook,
Then its high time you took a look,
and sent me off my own signed book!
Thanks! (deep bow)
*applause*
I declare you the winner, though I have no authority to do so! well played.
If I had a vote, you'd get it.
I see what you did there. 😬
Michael Collins' second book, an overview of the whole Space Program, was dedicated to his colleagues of the New Nineteen who had died, and recently this list had been added to. Charlie, Ted, C.C., Roger and Donn.
Thank you, Amy, for this presentation on Donn. His son, Donn Jr., lived near me in Waimanalo, Hawai'i for many years. I got to know him through a mutual friend who is a well-known blues musician here. Donn Jr. is an accomplished jazz and blues guitarist who used to perform regularly with my friend. Of course, he would occasionally get asked if he was one of the Isley Brothers singers from the '60s, and was good natured about it. He and his family are back on the mainland now, but it was good to get to know him here and learn some "behind the scenes" things about his dad, who I have always remembered since his days as a NASA astronaut. Aloha nui...
Of all the Apollo astronauts, he was the Apolloest.
YEs
GeekRedux ore AppoLowest
so his shoulder saved him from burning on the launch pad
Recipe for an Apollo C-Mission:
For this autumn treat, spend a few years preparing the ingredients, using a few billion dollars and the hard work of 400,000 people.
1. Prepare rocket by stacking an S4-B on an S-1B first stage. Place 1 Command/Service Module (CSM) on top. For better results, use a Block II Command Module.
2. Pour 20,000 kg liquid hydrogen and 127,000 kg kerosene into tanks (keep refrigerated).
3. Place 3 pre-trained humans inside the Command Module, preferably of the Eisele, Cunningham, Schirra variety. If these are unavailable use Cernan, Stafford, and Young.
4. Burn first the kerosene, then the hydrogen, for 10 minutes. Season with generous helpings of liquid oxygen.
5. Let the spacecraft rise to the correct altitude and velocity, then separate rocket and allow the CSM to float free.
6. Marinate humans and CSM in orbit for 11 days, mixing in tests of the computer, navigation, propulsion, and support systems. Optional: take some savory pictures of planet below.
7. If tempers start to rise, remove helmets from humans and administer drugs to relieve congestion.
8. Place Command Module on trajectory to reenter atmosphere, baking the spaceship to a golden brown. Ensure heat shield is facing forward to prevent over cooking.
9. Reduce heat, unroll parachutes and dip Command Module into cool water. Let sit for 69 minutes.
10. Extract humans and use the information gathered to go to the Moon at a later date.
11. Can be served with ice cream.
Enjoy!
HA! Ok, this is gold. Especially the direction to marinate the humans in the CSM. Winner! Shoot me an email (find it on my website -- amyshirateitel.com) and I'll get your book sent out to you!
Our best astronaut by far--John Young. He flew Gemini, Apollo (also walked on the Moon) and was the commander of the first Space Shuttle flight
He doesn't seem to have been liked by the shuttle astronauts who worked under him.
I met Eisele in Columbus, Ohio shortly after the flight. There actually was a "Donn Eisele" day in Columbus that included a parade, a reception, and a news conference. Enter Avery, a "cub" TV news reporter for the local CBS station. We had a few things in common; both Navy officers, both in the Masonic lodge, and most exciting to me, both pilots. I'd graduated from Ohio State University's flight program. Although not an astronaut candidate because of my eyes, I knew some of the local aviation experts from my TV news experience. And being aggressive, I asked the first question at the news conference! Somewhere, I have a still photo of me interviewing Eisele. And I have an Apollo flight suit patch. That's was my only connection to the space program until, in the late 1980s I worked at Strategic Defense.
Jim Lovell made the trip 2 times but never could step on the Moon - AP8 and AP13
Where has this channel been all my life? Talking about 60's Space Race and the all the stuff I love to bore my family about? Subscribed!
This might be my favorite Vintage Space video. I MUST have that book! Great work. So excited.
I learned a lot from this video that I had not known before watching it. Thanks Amy
Amy, this type of video is what I had ment in Vintage Space, Profiles in space. The Unknown story and the person behind it. Just those short stories. Love your show.
Ohhh YEAH, Isley... I loved that song "It's Your Thing"!
"I can hear Cronkite now. And as Apollo 7 lifts off, we bid a fond farewell to Wally, Walt, and What's-his-name"
@@Constantine-the-Great2000 good catch. A great scene really.
Any man or woman who makes it into the astronaut program is worthy of being remembered and respected. It’s truly an accomplishment that many people never rise to. Thanks for pointing him out to be remembered. 😊
I don't feel so out of place now finding this channel and being a geek!! Great channel!!
Walt Cunningham wrote a book 40 years ago (The All-American Boys) that takes an inside look at NASA and the Apollo 7 flight. It is probably if not the first, one of the first books to show astronauts as larger than life with the same human faults as everyone else, the faults being magnified by their positions.
Great stuff Amy! Have you thought about doing other videos on other "unknown" astronauts such as those unfortunately killed in training such as Ted Freeman, Elliott See, Charlies Bassett as well as those who never flew at all due to budget cuts such as Curt Michel?
Great Vid!!! Thank you Amy!
RIP to the Group 3 Astronauts who never flew in space: C.C. Williams, Ted Freeman, Charlie Bassett (aircraft accidents) and Roger Chaffee (Apollo 1 capsule fire).
Don't forget the unofficial eighth Mercury astronaut, Jose Jimenez, portrayed on phonograph records and TV by comedian Bill Dana. Reporter: "Mr. Jimenez, what do you call this ... a crash helmet?" Jimenez: "Ohhhh, I hope not!"
Joseph Cope "so Mr Jimenez, why do they call it a blast off?"
"Because I have to take a blast before I go off...."
Abbas Zaidi Thank you. Your hilarious posting brought back a flood of good memories. I was only 12 when Alan Shepard was launched. It seems like yesterday.
That would be a great episode, but we are probably too PC to discuss such shenanigans these days.
"You're on your way, Jose!"
J Shepard Unfortunately, you're right. Personally I've never allowed political correctness to affect what I say or write. I consider it to be an abridgement of my liberty. I just practice common courtesy. If others find my communications offensive, they're misinterpreting me either by mistake or on purpose.
I'm old enough to remember Bill Dana doing his Jose routine with Ed Sullivan. I believe he was a native Puerto Rican.
Apollo mission types
A - Unmanned Saturn V and Command/Service Module (CSM) development (Apollo 4, Apollo 6)
B - Unmanned Lunar Module (LM) development (Apollo 5)
C - Manned CSM evaluation in low Earth orbit (Apollo 7)
D - Manned CSM and LM development in low Earth orbit (originally planned for Apollo 8; flown as Apollo 9)
E - Manned CSM and LM operations, a simulated lunar mission in an elliptical medium Earth orbit with an apogee of 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km)); never flown
The planned sequence was changed when it became clear the first manned Lunar Module, LM-3, would not be ready in time for the December 1968 launch of Apollo 8, so this was flown as a lunar orbital mission using just the CSM (sometimes referred to as "a C Prime mission") and the E mission was canceled.
F - Manned CSM and LM operations in lunar orbit, a "dress rehearsal" for the first landing (Apollo 10)
G - First manned lunar landing (Apollo 11)
H - precision landings with up to two-day stays on the Moon, with two lunar Extra-Vehicular Activities or "moonwalks" (Apollo 12, Apollo 13 (planned), Apollo 14)
I - long duration CSM lunar orbital surveys using a Scientific Instrument Module mounted in an empty Service Module bay. These were incorporated into the J missions.
J - longer three-day stays using an Extended LM, with three LEVAs and a Lunar Roving Vehicle (Apollo 15, Apollo 16, Apollo 17). Apollo 18 to 20 would have been J missions. Apollo 15 was originally planned as an H mission but was promoted to J as the program was curtailed.
Nice, also, that list reminds me of linux man pages XD
What a cool UA-cam Channel.
Toi?!? Ici!! Tu vois, il y a toujours mieux...
*même chose pour mon orthographe...
Mais qu’est-ce que tu fais ici mon vieux ?
Nice to get a heads up on one of the more obscure astronauts. Thanks for that.
Schirra basically pissed off NASA and he did not care since he was retiring. Yet he never stood up for his crew and they got burned by NEVER flying again. Yet schirra did appear on TV during Apollo missions.
yeah, sometimes the class clown has another side
maybe it would have been better to allow each individual crew member to decide weather or not to wear their helmet doing re entry
Congrats on finally getting the book out!
Strange that i havent found this channel earlier on! NICE one :)
The competition Limerick
There once was a spaceman called Eisele
Who's name isn't known very widely
One mission he flew
An Apollo Block 2
He didn't spend his time very wisely
Best VS ever IMO. Great job!!
Amy your vids are the Most Apollo vids ever!
:) Super! What a nice addition to my Apollo library:)
C.C. Williams has one of the greatest quotes. "I'm a Marine, I'm a trained killer."
Wow! Thank you for this
Please keep it coming!!
Always great. Thank you
I can relate to Donn Eisele much better, that I can to all the other "perfect" astronauts.
Once again, thank you for sharing the story!
What I like to see is a review and your opinion of "From Here To The Moon". It is one of my favorites of the series on Apollo. Also, like to know your thoughts on Al Sheppard from his Mercury launch to his running of the Astronaut Office to Apollo 14. The story of the Astronaut's nurse and some of the rumors about affairs with some of the Astronauts.
You are so smart Amy! love you
since it never left earth orbit we see,
and a lunar module there was not to be,
then that means the mission type must be c.
I wonder how the NERVA and Orion videos are coming, really excited to see those.
The Apollo 11 gantry has been relocated at Kennedy Space Center to the Saturn V building and is now part of a quite moving memorial to the Apollo I crew that died I the block 1 fire. Worth a visit.
Hey Amy, can you look at discussing the internal issues/conflicts between the astronauts and MCC or anyone and how that affected them at the time but eventually wound up being accounted for in current day policy (ie. giving astronauts breaks in space, etc etc) (ex. of Apollo 7 and Skylab 4, and then anything else that you may know of). Thanks
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Apollo 7 was a C mission - in fact, the only C-type mission flown. Thanks for making these videos!
2:09 into video: person shown most prominently in the scene; has a round face: That's Gus Grissom (1926.4.3-1967.1.27), one of the Mercury Seven; he was killed in the Apollo 1 fire. What's really tragic is that Deke Slayton, a Mercury 7 member who was grounded for medical reasons, intended that Grissom should be the first human to walk on the Moon.
This is absolutely fascinating stuff. I enjoy this kind of thing a LOT.
Thank you. Could you do a video on why the astronauts and
controllers started calling each other "Babe" in the early days?
well done! Very informative
Apollo 7 was technically block 2, but the couches and some other equipment weren't ready for the launch date so block 1s were used in their place.
Digging the new hair color👍👍
I have his autograph....from 1966
I was born and grew up in the Hilltop part of Columbus in the 1950's-60's and was very caught up in the space program at the time (built model rockets, took classes in space science at the science center downtown, even built and spent a couple of days living in a full size mock-up of the Gemini!). We lived close to the West High School where Donn Eisele went (years earlier). Shortly after Apollo 7 flew there was a luncheon in downtown Columbus for him and through a friend's dad I got invited to not only attend but sit at his table. I was in high school and it was a school day but it was a Friday and there was a big football game that night and the entire day was going to be devoted to pep rallies and such. I thought having lunch with an astronaut was much more important! I called my school to tell them what I was going to do but could only leave a message with a secretary because everyone was busy getting ready for the rallies. Then I spent most of the day at the luncheon. It was an exceptional experience and I got to personally spend time with him over lunch. Monday morning went I went to school I immediately got called in to the principals office and was told that my absence was inexcusable! I ended up with 30 days of detentions but it was well worth it, one of the more memorable experiences of my high school years.
I instantly recognized Donn Eisele's name, although the context would be most likely from being grounded for Apollo 1.
Apollo 7 "C type mission" not to be confused with Apollo 8's very special "C Prime Mission". By the way Amy I think Cunningham of that crew did serve as back-up maybe on Apollo 12 so the idea that they were all banned after that flight is only half the story.
Apollo 7 was a type C mission, a manned Command/Service Module (CSM) evaluation in low Earth orbit.
Also, and more excitingly, it was a mutinied mission!
The mission also got some radical pictures of the S-IVB stage in orbit (which is actually my phone's wallpaper).
C is for Manned-CSM-evaluation-in-low-Earth-orbit, that's good enough for me! It's also a mouthful
Well if you know your Apollo crews off by heart, you know Donn Eisele. Like her and also me. I already did know about this story before watching it but I wanted to watch Amy describe it. She's so cool!
Apollo 7 was a test flight in low earth orbit, aiming to demonstrate the command and service module and crew performance, space vehicle and mission support facilities performance, and the command and service module rendezvous capability. The Apollo 7 was launched by a Saturn 1B rocket. Then followed Apollo 8, that was the first manned flight to the Moon and this was the first manned mission for the Saturn 5 rocket. The mission repeated the tests and procedures of the previous mission, only this time in Lunar orbit. Apollo 9 was again in low earth orbit, that tested all the components and procedures of the Apollo space craft (CM, SM and LM including separation and redocking of the LM). The same tests were performed again in Lunar orbit by Apollo 10. Some say that the ascent module of the Apollo 10 LM had ballast instead of propellants, just in case the astronauts decided to test the LM all the way down. All these missions were a step by step approach to the Apollo 11 lunar landing. All tests of the Apollo spacecraft components would be done in LEO first and then repeated by the following mission in Lunar orbit.
What I remember most about the Apollo 7 mission is one of the astronauts (Schirra?) holding up a sign for the TV camera reading "Are you a turtle?" After which NASA had "technical difficulties" with the TV link.
Dear Amy many thanks a lot for incredibles vintage space videos you offer to us! Now, I would like to know where are locate the antenas of Saturn V rockets during first minutes of the flights?
And I thought Don Eisele (Isley) was one of the Isley Brothers. "You know you make me wanna SHOUT"! etc. hahaha
Hey Amy love your channel
Wow, I learned something! Also, can you do a video on Stratolaunch?
In San Diego, the site where General Dynamics bench tested the Atlas rocket engines in the 60's still exists. The size of the blast deflectors, are amazing. Have you ever visited this or any similar sites? And will you do a report on these, before they disappear from history
I will never forget Ole What's His Name.
I really enjoy learning the more "real" and yes, painful, stories about the astronauts. I was of an the time when they were larger than life and that's what I believed. But I did know they were people too. So what the hell was Shepherd thinking? There hopefully must be more to the story.
Good work, Amy.
Do you have any info about the modern engineering study of the Saturn V engine fuel pumps? I have heard snippets about how much pressure they were able to handle and how current engineers were surprised that designers in the 50s and 60s could create something that powerful.
Best. Teacher. Ever.
That book is definitely on my "to buy" list. It looks like the book is part of the Nebraska Press oral history - which I have a number of already and they are all pretty good.
I don't normally reply to myself but just wanted to update my previous post to say I have bought the book and am reading it as we speak. Don certainly doesn't hold back. He was also a very articulate chap.
Edited to say that I have now finished reading the book. It was very good and |I only wish he had written a bit more. Amy's historical context section was excellent as well.
(In the voice of Julie Andrews)
When you sing you begin with do-re-mi
When you go to the moon you start with Mission types A, B, C
A, B, C
The first three Mission just need to be…type A, B, C
Mission type C, a test with a man or threeeeee
Type C, a manned test of the CSM, uh, eeeeeeeee
Type C, an alligator floating free
Type C, a flight with 2 Walters and what’s-his-name Don Eiseleeeee
Type C, it made the flight controllers so antseeeee
(From the hit musical The Sound of Moon-sic, which includes the major hits, Apollo 16 going on 17, My favourite things (that low gravity brings) and the sensational but slightly dry SCE to Auxiliary.)
LOLOL
Vinnie Ice Gallagher Her voice now is too graveleeeee. LOLOLOL
There once was a man from Ohio
who flew on the 7th Apollo.
Though his name escapes me,
the mission was Type C,
and clearly his motto was YOLO!
The mission wasn't only about the shiny Block II but it was also the Saturn IB's first launch that put crew into space. The mission was a Type 'C' :D
I know of Donn Eisele as an adulterer and part of a "mutiny" aboard Apollo 7. I obviously don't know him that well, so I might have to check out the memoir.
I don't know if you've been asked this but, have you watched the HBO specials From the Earth to the Moon? I thoroughly enjoyed them, some more than others, but still a great series.
Having much more contact with the actual people involved in the early NASA programs than most, how do you think the series stacked up to the "reality" you have experienced?
All the best
All American Boys by Walt Cunnighman. Very cool book with some insight into the myth of apollo 7.
I was expecting this to be about someone I've not heard of but it's about Donn Eisele. ;)
Sounds like a good book anyway.
For the only flight of mission type C,
To test the block II module was key,
Though reentry and tempers were hot,
For astronaut heads filled with snot,
They landed, at last, in the sea.
really interesting, grats on the book :-)
When you talked about the coffee mug it had me thinking. I know you've talked about the tuna fish. But have you ever really did a dedicated vlog about the food that the astronauts ate on trips to the moon. Did they have coffee or some form of coffee. I could imagine if they had to go cold turkey without the caffeine. Milk would be powdered but what about sugar, salt, pepper?
Amy, how about a video on lunar ascent and docking..?
I watched this video before going to bed last night, and literally dreamed about meeting Eisele, and my dream actually remembered the name, even though consciously I had to hunt through the comments to remember it.
I dig the merch
Oh Amy. I love you
Apollo 7 was set as a type C. The first manned low earth orbit to evaluate the CSM (command service module). Mutiny aboard the flight was due to an over-booked schedule and bad tempers form suffering a head cold. The loss of further missions came when Schirra basically told Mission Control to "piss off" concerning their reentry without wearing helmets.
Congratulations on Completing this Compilation of Contemporary Chronicles Collected and Circulated for your Craving Community of Captivated Commenters! As to the Correct Category which Contains this Command Capsule's un-Commemorated Cruise 'Cross the Cosmos, to my Contrition and Contempt, I must Confess I have not a Clue.
I concur.
David Lawrence I 'C' commedically your clues correctly
Correct and concise, but slightly confusing.
Very Cleverly Concocted.
That's cool about the book. I have a signed Walt Cunningham "The All-American Boys" book.
Apollo 7 was part of the necessary but relatively unflashy effort to put men on the moon. Great things require a lot of unseen, unglorified work. Glad to see him get his due in your video.
Even the glorified astronauts had to do a ton of unglorified work. Their lives weren't that glamorous for the most part.
Apollo 7 was a C mission. I have always considered it the most important mission in the Apollo program. Had it failed, I believe the program would have been cancelled if lives were lost again. Getting back into space after Apollo 1 was not only a technical and industrial challenge, it was a test of our will.
Really interesting video
Great job when is pt2 Saturn V build happening
I would love to hear a description of the Apollo renumbering that happened after the Apollo 1 fire. As I'm sure you know, the fire was not directly related to Apollo 1 since it was just a capsule test, but the astronauts widows asked that the Apollo 1 mission name be tied to their husband's accident to cement their place in and importance to the program.
Exactly what the numbering would have been, why they skipped 2 and 3, and what flights actually took place before Apollo 1 are still a little blurry to me and I'd love to hear an in depth analysis of the events and timeline.
Thank you.
Lovin' your hair Amy.. Hey, where's the Saturn V? Did you break it (again)?
Mission type C it was
To Earth orbit it went
With men and CSM
Sorry, not haiku. ;>)
Just read about him today!
You should do a video about the Apollo Service Module SIM on Apollo 15/16/17
Giving props to forgotten space cowboys. Awesome! And at this point, 20,000 views with 1,200 likes. That's the best like/view ratio I've ever seen.
Hi. Im REALLY enjoying your Vid's. Please, Keep em up.
I have a 'detail' Question you might know the answer to, or enjoy figuring out.
Ive been touring the Apollo 11 Command Module 3D tour on the Smithsonian site, (Highly recommend it too).
Why, on Apollo 11 CM, were there EVA handles and attachment points when no scheduled EVA was planned? Seems like a costly weight addition, No? Would I be rite in assuming it was a contingency inclusion?
Again, Love your work.
Thanks,
MSC, New Zealand
As a teenager, I followed the space program closely, including this flight. At the time, of course, we had no idea that there were problems with the crew. I believe with Apollo 7 we saw the first TV broadcast from space. Also, for the first time, the TV audience could clearly hear and understand every word from the astronauts.
Schirra was the comic and prankster of the Mercury group, and some of his hijinks were on display on this flight. During the broadcast, the crew held up two small, hand-lettered signs to the camera. The first read, "Greetings from the beautiful Apollo Room, high atop everything". The second sign read, "Keep those cards and letters coming in, Folks." Students at MIT responded with a "Send a card to Wally" campaign, and NASA was flooded with card and letters.
To me, "Apollo" always brings to mind the "Wally, Walt, and Don" show.