What Did We Leave on the Moon & What Will Happen to it in the Future?
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
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With the surprise lunar landing of the Chinese Yutu 2 rover and Chang'e lander, I thought it would be good to look at what we have left on the moon and what might happen to them in the future.
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The NASA document listing items left on the moon :
history.nasa.gov/FINAL%20Cata...
The search for the missing "Snoopy" Apollo 10 ascent module
astrogatorsguild.com/?p=240
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Pretty awesome that David Scott would leave a plaque commemorating not just his own fallen countrymen but also those of the soviets. What a cool dude.
When I first learnt of this plaque as a kid, I was overwhelmed with feelings and almost cried. There's something about humans uniting together for conquering space and being together in this journey that makes me emotional.
We are Humans of Earth, governments, countries, borders, languages - are just a way to separate us as stock for easier control. Those do not exist anywhere but our minds.
Yeah I thought that was a nice touch, and I'm sure it helped improve relations between the 2 countries during a difficult time.
Space travel works somewhat like sea travel at the time of Sailships. Sailors were helping eachother through the hardships of the ocean, it became a tradition. Glad to see Astronauts thinking the same way as space is an evenmore challenging and deadly environment.
One of the names on that Plaque has my last name on it!
RIP, Edward G Givens!
4 sale cheap. 12 Hasselblad cameras. Pick up only.
Do you do trade ups or?
3 open top cars for collection. Excellent condition, less than 20 miles on the clock, slightly dusty. Each 1 previous owner.
Ill swap you a rock for 1
nah, too much hassel
@@lukefrahn8538 take that Hassel Hoff this comment
Lol, shortchanging Apollo 10 so they wouldn't get cheeky and give it a go.
biggest cock block in human history
"Don't do it! Just don't do it."
LMAO the second he started talking about a dry run and getting within a few kilometers, i started thinking about how much i would be wavering on that decision to turn back.
@Nature and Physics Ummmm... yeah they do, ALL THE TIME. They are humans. And those at ground control are human. Humans do stupid shit all the time.
@Nature and Physics Not Apollo, but John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich onto Gemini 3. The crumbs from which could have short circuited electronics in the orbiter.
This is a fabulous science documentary. In depth, well researched, considered delivery and only 15 mins. Awesome!
3:05 "that theory was groundless" =) well played, full pun intended.
noticed that too
I’m just hoping this Chinese landing starts a low-key moon race again. We still have never built any permanent settlements on it
im too scared to fly, but i think the ultimate thing i could ever experience would be to stand on the moon and look back at Earth. it makes me get goosebumps just thinking about it.
*that are publicly acknowledged
Permanent settlements will happen on Mars, not moon. That is, if wisdom is also a part of the deal.
@@samsen201 you need a permanent settlement on the moon in my opinion it could act as a base of sorts make stuff there "make rockets that can be torn down and assembled into another rocket bigger or whatever is needed" could be used for refueling rockets could sell apartments or something for celebrity's / anyone who can afford it could have some kind of base like we have in Antarctica I can see many reasons to have a permanent structure or multiple maybe not people there all the time but at least a month or to at a time personally i think we should send the international space station to the moon to orbit or to mars to orbit instead of letting it burn up here on reentry
@@samsen201 Yeah! It would be easy. All you need to protect yourself from Gamma rays would be thirteen feet of water, six feet of concrete and a foot and a half of lead. That's just the radiation from the Sun. As for free protons travelling at almost the speed of light, I don't know n't know what you need?
No “Ums or Errrrs” no cool, no “ like” refreshing clear talk.
I loathe the “L” word lol
Like um, we went to the moon and errrr it was cool and also we did the L thing
ProllyStonedTbh imagine still using "ok boomer" as an insult thinking it is funny and still relevant. Your lack of intellectual ability is very evident in your comment
@ProllyStonedTbh
Okay millenial/zoomer.
@ProllyStonedTbh you betcha, soy boy
Somebody needs to get up there and clean up that mess!
john harris totally agree another junk yard for mankind
They lost the telemetry data needed to get back..............if only we had the technology to figure it out again...........
Thats why polar caps are melting
chipper442 So, how do You think they got There the first time, without any telemetry data? Ignoramus!
@@stevenhayter6651 That's not actually why the polar caps are melting, the reason why the ice caps are melting is because of global warming. We have something called smoke you know that. That goes up in the air and hurts our atmosphere and most of the heat can't go anywhere so they stay in earth. Tons of smoke will cause the earth to warm up and starts Global warming. With this Global warming our ice caps will start melting.
They deliberately underfueled the lander to prevent the apollo 10 crew from attempting a landing hahaha! This made me laugh.
They told the crew that but Id be surprised if that was the actual case.
@@1701_FyldeFlyer id venture to say that was actually the case as sometimes scientists can be a bit callous
@Meljov Not really. Remember, all the astronauts of the day were hot-shot test pilots who made a career out of doing the impossible. They all had experience untested craft and had lived to tell the tale. Those guy were the ultimate adventurer-jocks and NOBODY was gonna tell them what to do. It was like managing dragons.
@@adaeptzulander2928 Except nearly all were seasoned test pilots - a position that is based on doing *EXACTLY* what is told each flight, unless problems crop up.
@@lightyagami3492 Especially with Werner Von-Braun in charge. He had that extreme German stoicism thing going. Nobody is given more than the bare minimum of what they absolutely needed.
Show this video to a moon landing denier to show them the depth of what they dont know about the amount of data brought back by Apollo and earlier.
Still don't think they'd buy it. I think they're all just trolls anyway, nobody is so stupid that they really believe that crap.
Oh you mean like the fake moon rock given to the Dutch?
Quality content on UA-cam. So refreshing....
This is really comprehensive. It's accidentally the best summary of moon missions I've ever seen.
Wow, I didn't know about most of this and never even contemplated it! Simply amazing. I was riveted start to finish.
I had the pleasure of meeting Charlie Duke a few years ago. He told me the photo he left on the moon had actually curled up and shrunk with the heat within minutes of him dropping it and taking a picture of it. I suppose it would be like putting it in a oven.
Not too surprising when the daytime temperature reaches 127C.
Nathan Lewis it all made sense what he told me. It came from the man himself.
At least he tried to later cover his tracks when he realized the absurdity of the claim. . I suppose being an astronaut and all it never occurred to him before hand this might happen. You know when involved in a classified operation the truth can land you in jail for life.
Yeah, it gets really hot under those studio lights - Charlie Duke obviously didn't realise this LOL!!!
No, he just lied later about it curling up when he realized how ridiculous the stunt was.
Imagine being able to tell at a party: "My poop 's on the moon."
yeah and all the people at the party has been to the moon too
Question: The bacteria in the poop, did it survive? And, if so, will it evolve into poop aliens?
@@007ElSenor with this temperature range it boiled away on the next day
Dave_sic boiled? So what happened to the micro organisms? We think we know due to what happens here, but do we really know? Maybe that steam is now depositing organic human material in another Galaxy
@@007ElSenor To be seriously honest. Great question.
I guess not because there is very limited organic material available.
The poop astronaut might have to go back & 'deposit' some more to make sure the alien bacteria have enough organic resources to work with.
I have always wondered that myself. If we do ever begin mining on the Moon, collectors on earth will have a field day buying up stolen and very valuable Moon relics left from the 20th century! Thanks for this episode
Curious Droid!
I always enjoy your videos, I really wish that there were more channels on youtube that made videos as detailed as you do.
Instead the most trending/popular youtubers are useless braindead morons. What's wrong with the world....
@@AldenDoble genpop has never been the brightest bunch, but luckily here you don't have to succumb to them.
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@@vivekekka6507 yet, here you are
This guy needs to make a video explaining how it's such a problem for the modern-day Orion spacecraft to get through the Van Allen belts but they did it back in Apollo with no problem
There's no need for that. _Orion_ is a modern spacecraft, using modern sensitive electronics (unlike the _Apollo),_ is meant to spend _much_ more time in deep space than _Apollo,_ and is passing through a different parts of the Van Allen Belts.
Your error here lies in not knowing the details of the _Apollo_ and _Orion_ missions and assuming that the Van Allen Belts are uniform in shape and composition.
he has!
You and your shirt never disappoint. Good stuff man 👍
When I think about the astronauts that went to space in those little modules and absolutely no way to do anything but stay inside it, it gives me a horrible sense of claustrophobia. I don't even like to think about it.
This guy landed in the moon on 4/20 what a legend
Here's an interesting question. Did Armstrong avoid re-stepping on his original first footprint after the landing, and if so, would it have been erased by the takeoff of the ascent stage?
I think the footprint would have been protected by the decent stage. Obviously just a guess.
Footprints in lunar soil would be hard to get blown off and besides the ascent stage thruster just needed to fire a short burst to take off in low gravity and this would be incapable to erase the prints underneath the descent stage.
The descent stage served as a launch pad of sorts so it took most of the blast from the ascent stage so probably little dust was kicked up. I don't see how the astronauts could have avoided re-stepping on his first boot print however, it was right in front of the ladder, but maybe in the lower gravity they were able to avoid it. I think they only made one EVA trip outside in the entire mission, so they would have only had to avoid it a few times. I like to think Buzz was the last one to board the LM before takeoff and maybe he intentionally erased it and replaced it with his own boot print, and wrote next to it with his finger, "Buzz was here!".
@@eternalreign2313 But you just explained so well the sequence of Aldrin and Armstrong, where Neil had to "deplane" first; so wouldn't the reverse apply?
@@eternalreign2313 Buzz had to exit second and re-enter first because of the way the hatch was hinged. That's why the commander was the first to walk; the interior of the LM was too tight for the LM pilot to go first when they both had all their bulky EVA gear on.
Just found your channel and subscribed! Your presentation and information are incredibly detailed and enticing!! Where were you when I was in school!!:) Love your videos sir!!! keep them coming!!
Hey Paul. This is by far one of your best videos. Thank you.
I come for the shirts. I stay for the content
such a unique comment
Nicely put I actually came for the content and stayed for the shirt
So you mean to tell me this cat always be wearing these fire ass shirts?! (Insert black child & and white chick meme image here)
First time watchin this ch
His shirts are badder than Michael Jackson
@@bernardenorth yep. They get better. Way better! Lol
They left towels on the Moon, Douglas Adams would approve!
42:nd like!
I'm a bit of a space buff, but I learn something new with every Curious Droid video. In this video, several things. Such a quality channel!
Now that's was a Good Video on UA-cam, Well Done Curious Droid, Thumbs Up!
Did not know that they crashed some of the SIV-Bs into the moon's surface, I would have thought that they would miss the moon entirely and enter a solar orbit. Very interesting that they deliberately crashed them into the lunar surface. Also, the Apollo 10 bits were FASCINATING. The fact that they weren't given the full fuel load so they couldn't go down to the surface - quite prudent - and that the LM upper stage is still in orbit to this day. Great new insights into the Apollo missions which we've heard many times before. Wonderful work!
Find the LM!!!
Frequent Flyer Its definitely possible. Capture it and bring it to a museum or to a museum on the moon once there is a permanent colony. If left undisturbed the orbit will probably not decay any time soon so we have plenty of time.
Lies
Brian Messemer , Actually they shorted the upper ascent stage so when they aborted the landing profile they had about the same fuel load as if they had performed a takeoff from the surface. And of course it provided an incentive to stick to the flight plan and not attempt a landing. But the LM pilot Gene Cernan went back on the last flight Apollo 17. Lucky guy.
They are still looking for "Snoopy" the ascent module there is a piece here on how a few people are trying to track it down astrogatorsguild.com/?p=240
Very cool vid as always Paul. Thanks for posting,and very cool shirt!
Mueller-time Cult45 traitorous Republicans
Always looking forward to your next video! Very educational.
There is SO not enough great videos like this. thank you.
WHAT?! THERE ARE FREE HASSELBLADS ON THE MOON?? That's it, I'm going!
Might not be a bad idea. The money it would fetch would probably fund your entire mission. Bring back a few lunar samples and it'll fund your early retirement too. You just need a filthy rich investor to believe in your mission.
Elon, gimmie a call!
Yeah, but they use film. Eeeewwwwww. The cheep digital cameras can rival those old Hasselblads. Although maybe their lenses could be useful.
Yes, I've heard very good things about the new digital "Yashica".
How about that gold plated telescope? Could be worth more than the cameras...
“Proved that theory was groundless” 😏
Perfect British pun
Fabulous Paul, I watch all the time However first time commenting, this was one of your most enjoyable experiences you have offered, and Sir... I thank you !! Paul on Paul !!
Your videos are always so fascinating! Thanks!
Excellent video as usual. Carefully documented and highly informative.
One thing that is worth considering, and I can't remember if you have already talked about it in other videos in the past, is how those landing sites should be considered if we will ever colonize the Moon. Should they be preserved? And how? How can we avoid spoliation of those sites if the Outer Space Treaty prevents any country to claim a celestial resource such as the Moon or a planet, or part of it?
Sorry, I think completely differently. I am not a greenie by any stretch of the imagination, but I do get annoyed by the amount of litter here on Earth. It blows down our streets, floats down our rivers, washes up on our beaches, floats in our oceans. Now we are doing the same thing off our planet. Space surrounding the Earth is an absolute junkyard of obsolete and destroyed satellites. We have had 7 lunar landings and left junk there too. Mankind will never learn. It seems we are destined to litter wherever we are. I am ashamed of us! As for calling the articles left on the moon "artifacts", well is the first piece of paper or bit of rope James Cook dropped on Australian, New Zealand, Tongan, Hawaiian etc etc soil an artifact or just litter? It's just litter!
I had always wondered what kept the Apollo 10 astronauts from just saying "screw it" and attempting a landing (I don't think they would've done it, obviously). Now I know!
just 15 km away that is just so damn tempting
Evidentally, NASA suspected they might have tried it, which is why NASA short-fueled them to keep them from doing so. It seems the sort of pilot that ended up in the space program tended to be exactly the sort of pilot that took pride in taking risks everyone else would think of as crazy just to be the fastest, highest, or first pilot to do something, and NASA decided it was better to be safe than sorry where they were concerned! It certainly wouldn't have been the first or the last time that astronauts would have disobeyed orders, given half a chance to do something cool instead....
Just maybe Space Cowboys is a tad unrealistic...
Pietr Ayday i heard they also encountered some problems that were fixed before Apollo 11
Love your videos. One of the best channels on UA-cam.
Super! Great selection of pictures, vids and Infos!
According to Futurama, Lunar Park: There's sailors on the moon, they carried a harpoon. They tell tall tales and something else
😂🤣😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 I might be an old fart but I still miss that show.
Went to the moon, left garbage behind. Yeah that proves humans went to the moon alright.
Do you really think they should have left the surface samples there in order to recycle a bit of garbage?
In the future, the moon will look like a fuzzy dust cloud once the corporations start mining - so enjoy the clear view now while it lasts LOL!!!
@@PenisMcWhirtar One can only hope we can reach that level of activity there one day.
Pentti - If we do get active on the moon, it should be doing things that don't stir up a lot of dust. Like space observation, communication, orbital space station perhaps. But please, not mining!
@@PenisMcWhirtar Why not? It's just a dead piece of rock. You pretty much have to mine somehow if you want to build anything. Sending large amounts of materials up from the Earth is just way too expensive and energy intensive. Besides I don't think the adverse effects would be very substantial.
Thanks for making a video that i'll watch at least 10 times... A lot to absorb! Keem'em coming.
I love your channel. Such thorough history. Thank you!!!
Notice the absence of comments from moon landing deniers here ? Curious.
They only seek out the videos that pander to their fears and mis-informed beliefs. With stuff like this they are simply out of their depth, and therefore keep quiet.
landing is fake
You say something happens, you provide evidence. NASA has done so. Deniers say a conspiracy occurred. In 50 y, not one piece of evidence of a conspiracy. Not one piece of testimony. Half a million people worked on the Apollo program. Not one intercepted phone call or any other correspondence. No evidence of conspiracy. Deniers should be shamed.
dollar12 no conspiracy evidence in 50 ys. Any normal person would be shamed.
Chipchase comments about the lack of mentally challenged people then gets bombarded with replies from them 🤣
I love appreciate your interest in the Moon thanks for these vids will you be celebrating the 50th anniversary of A11?
Good to see the singer from Midnight Oil branching out and doing other things...
Thanks for another interesting video. I always wondered what happened to the Saturn Five third stage. Well now I know.
"that theory was groundless" I see what you did there!
_CD uploads... life is good!_
Someone should’ve wrote: “Kilroy was here” on one of the left overs on the Moon.
TAKI 183
This reminded me of a TV show in the 70s starring Andy Griffith called "Salvage 1" in where he was building a rocket to go to the moon to salvage all the stuff left.
About a year ago I was at JPL for work and I got to see the scoop from the surveyor probe and a moon rock. It just boggles the mind to know we blasted that thing to the moon with early 60s remote technology and it was picked up by human hands just two years later and brought back to earth.
That's awesome. :-)
I was in the lab next to the vault all samples are stored in. Being an instrument engineer opened doors rarely seen. We were there.
I remember Nixon talking to the astronauts on a land line
Claptrap, that story is so old and misunderstood. Google it to know the truth about that *ONE* rock.
Funny you said Google and truth in the same sentence. Most "moon" rocks contain traces of things like uranium 238 found only on Earth.
Loving the shirt! Reminds me of a really detailed graphite drawing!
it's a Batik shirt
Reminds me of 1970s paisley wallpaper.
This, Scott Manning, and vintage Space are my favourite channels about space.
Another super interesting video, presented professionally and clearly!
12:45 they're french flags now :)
No, they're actually Confederate flags.
@@lancer525 Gee, these morons really like the sight of their own senseless posts, don't they? They seem just as "woke" as the flattards, and just as literate and intelligent. Good luck making sense of the shite they spout.
Haha
@@phildavenport4150 it's a world war 2 joke.....
@@Gasolineworld That's the american civil war...
7:05 Defecation collection device.
Someone left a shitter on the moon.
“Shitter was full”
Thanks I enjoy watching your videos, saludos desde California. :)
That was bloody fascinating 🤗!
Thanks for using the metric system!
@John F Pretty big talk coming from someone stuck in the 19th century.
Pentti Kantanen. But the French metric system is from the 18th century. The US Federal government adopted it as the foundation of measures in the 19th century. It still is, and the most precise meter is still calibrated by the US NRC for the world starting after WWII.
You are free to use whatever measures you wish in daily life. Pursue your happiness.
(8:40) Were the commemorative Cosmonaut medals left by the Apollo 11 crew, or another US crew, or were they left by an unmanned Soviet lander?
On a separate note - this was another example of the fantastic production values on Curious Droid.
A truly exceptional channel in every way.
Apollo 11 left them
@@CuriousDroid Thanks for taking the time to respond.
That's heartwarming to hear - I'm guessing that there's a shared feeling of camaraderie between Astronauts and Cosmonauts.
Great job yet again Paul.
Wow! would never have guessed the effects of time, and elements on stuff left on the moon. Thanks.
Fascinating little video. I'd love to know the state of the Viking landers on Mars.
The USSR... first fragmentation grenade on the moon.
Delivered by what amounted to a rail gun 😂
I like to imagine many years from now someone will be bouncing around with a metal detector looking for those.
Always nice to have some new knowledge from the space race, good stuff, keep it coming, thanks a lot
@bogen broom DoD gets $1879 million per day. Actually, the federal budget deficit *increase* from 2018 to 2019 was over $561 million *per day*. The increase in interest from 2018 to 2019 on said deficit was $139 million per day. NASA's budget as a percentage of the federal budget hasn't been lower since 1958, and has been hovering just below 0,5% since 2011. So what was your point again?
Exallent vedio all the best..keep doing knowledgedfull vedios regards
Great video man, as usual!
Could you do a video about the missions that upgraded the Hubble Telescope? As a sequel to your video about the flawed mirror
Tell me more about the observations made by that 'gold-plated' telescope. Images, anything...?
@@Lurie2010 gold plated?
Do you mean the Voyager discs?
No, in the video at 08:12 it mentions (and shows) a "gold-plated telescope." I had never heard of it before and i certainly had not known of any images from it.
No. I am speaking of the telescope that Mr. Droid references at 08:13. Tell me more...
Next time people land on the moon, they should bring a vacuum cleaner
Without Freddie in a frock, they won't bring any atmosphere to the party . . . 'no luck' suck I'm afraid : )
Now go and think about why vacuum cleaners cannot work in a vacuum.
@@ahaveland - of course they do, they clean vacuum, hence the name:)
Just put a space suit on the cleaner
Obviously the guy was just making a joke...
Fascinating stuff - great video.
If one of Curious Droid’s shirts had been left on the moon, there would have been a crowd of Lunatics taking pictures of it the next day.
It would be kind of annoying if you came back to earth and realised you'd left you're wallet behind
OOF at least nobody be taking it lmao
Why take your wallet? To show your ID to the Lunnies when you landed?
Sir, your visa was just used in anorher galaxy to purchase UFO window tint...would you like to dispute this charge ?
@@montylc2001 😂😂😂😂😂
Rumour has it Elon Musk was locked out of his house for a night because he left his keys and wallet in the glove box of his Tesla....
Curious, that fact about the Ascent stage being underfuelled is more or less true... However, the "fact" about it being to stop the crew landing is completely made up from a joke comment the crew made after landing. Could they have taken off from the surface if they had landed though...? In theory yes they could. Its a fact that at the time of the staging, the descent stage had just over 6% of the fuel remaining which was about 2-4 minutes in normal usage. This was enough for them to go to maximum throttle and "blast" right back off again. I did some number crunching and this is what I came up with...:
NOTE: Δv stands for Delta-v
As is very well known, the Apollo 10 Descent stage was fully fueled and the Ascent stage was partially fueled. So in theory the Apollo 10 LM could have landed safely but not achieved lunar orbit on liftoff. Excluding the vehicle weight issue, there is a faint possibility they could have lifted off using the descent engine (basically just a case of turning it on again or even just leaving it running) which still had considerable fuel -- up to two minutes of unused hovering time or 6.5% of total fuel unused, or roughly 1,200 pounds mass. They could then have staged and used the partially-fueled ascent stage the rest of the way to orbit, if it was achievable.
Apollo 10's LM had a total mass of 30,735 lbm, with 18,218.7 lbm of decent stage propellant. The ascent stage at staging had a mass of 8,273 lbm, with 2,631 lbm propellant. Both the descent and ascent engines had a specific impulse of 311 s. Therefore the Δv of both stages was,
Δv (descent) = 311 * 32.174 * LN[ 30735 / (30735 - 18218.7) ] = 8,989 ft/s
Δv (ascent) = 311 * 32.174 * LN[ 8273 / (8273 - 2631) ] = 3,830 ft/s
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Δv (total) = 12,819 ft/s
For the six Apollo landings, the median Δv for powered descent and ascent are as follows (the variance from mission to mission was small):
Δv (descent) = 6,696 ft/s
Δv (ascent) = 6,063 ft/s
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Δv (total) = 12,759 ft/s
So, to conclude… Theoretically, it looks like Apollo 10 did have enough total Δv to just barely match that needed to land and takeoff again if Stafford and Cernan had touched down, took a picture out the window and then got the hell out of there
Wonderful calculations!
By which percentage was the ascent stage underfueled compared to the following missions?
@@3gunslingers Thank you very much for your kind words... The Ascent Stage for Snoopy was 51% of rated capacity.
@@Trek001
Interesting.
They really went for a big margin of error on the first missions.
If my impression is right the delta_v on the decent stage of later missions would be much smaller due to higher weight.
@@3gunslingers Essentially that is the case, yes... Remember that the other landers were carrying a lot of equipment. The LEM in this case was basically a test article. These calculations assume that the CM stayed in its assigned orbit - there was a much better chance of them making it down and up if the CM had "dipped" to the practiced rescue orbital altitude by prior and private agreement between the three astronauts.
I am very much of the view that Snoopy could have made a "touch and go" - ending their careers at NASA for sure - and returned back safe and sound
They would have had to leave the descent stage engine running. It was only a single use engine and could only ever be lit once. Also did you factor in losses to gravity? You'd be surprised how much Delta-V you can lose to gravity. Either way, you'd have to be happy with the idea of not making it off the moon to even try a stunt like that. The margins are so tight that a twitchy wrist on the control stick could mean the difference between seeing orbit and going splat.
Mate, this is brilliant. You truly are the Richard O'Brien of science!
Great video! .. I learned a lot! :)
Its really cool seeing Lord Varys hosting a you tube channel
That was original years ago.
@@krashdtrolling was to
Groundless... good one ;)
Glad people noticed that ; )
I really enjoy your UA-cam content.🤗🤗🤗
I ended up acquiring one of the few LM attachments that never got to the moon: a protective cover for the Commander x translation button that would be removed before every lunar mission. The coolest part is it smells just like aerospace stuff.
I like how you said the Russian probe was the first man-made object to intentionally impact the Moon. I'm now thinking of some folk hero who accidentally smacked the moon when trying to throw a rock or something.
I know the cold war accelerated space exploration and I know it wasn't possible but imagine if the USSR and the United states worked together but with the fury of a space race. Not against one another but in tandem against the extinction of humanity.
Ah, the stuff that dreams are made of
@Bob Dillahunty maybe even further in the solar system, but no we stupid humans push each other to the brink of extinction because we refuse to think about something because it hurts too much : /
Using 20% of the annual combined military budget would easily have settled a lot of the solar system by now.
+@@benbaselet2026 It is so das that it sounds not unlikeley that you are right : / : / :/
@Terry Winter That's why it was a "cold" war.
These videos are fantastic!
Another interesting and informative video.
Philip I just love your wry sense of British humor. You guys are great! Us Americans love ya dearly.
They thought the lunar lander would sink into the dust of the moon. But that theory was groundless. That's just too funny. That theory was groundless? Well...? No it wasn't. The ground was there and firm enough. But that's just too funny. That theory was groundless LMAO...
The Surveyor landers had already shown that landning without sinking in the dust Was fully possible.
Imagine if at some time in the future the human race is all but wiped out and we go back to living like we did in the stone age, we gradually advance in knowledge again and after a 1\4 million years they go to the moon and see the relics we left behind that they know nothing about.
It’s possible with a nuclear war... as Einstein said *”I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."*
Sadly this is all too likely.
The Apes are going to be surprised when they see human animals were there first.
That's what's happening now maybe we left a face on mars and structures on the moon before the great floods??? Don't really believe that ...maybe ...but just speculating
SW6 Better yet. Imagine us going to mars and finds relics of some species on earth that travelled to mars millions of years ago. It’s not impossible. There could be a time period where an intelligent enough species lived here on earth and we just haven’t found and geological evidence. Likely? Not at all. But not entirely impossible lol
Nice shirt!
I had one like yours back around '68.
If we ever do return to the moon we should build some kind of dome around all the historical sites to preserve them
I wonder how they worked out the mass of the moon rocks they brought back. I wonder if they had a scale that worked out the weight in lunar gravity or if they used a regular scale and worked out the conversion by hand. Or whether it was a spring scale or balance or something more esoteric. I know they were weighed on Earth once they returned, but they had to be exact in their ascent weight on the Moon so there had to be something.
Any scale would do. They can just weight the stuff in moon-kilos, as they bring the rocks on board. They can the weight the stuff they throw out in moon-kilos.
Yes, any scale with any units would do. You could use the weight of a fly's penis and as long as you use those units consistently it would work out. What I wanna know is what solution they utimately employed. Being it's NASA and size and weight were at a premium for the launch vehicle, it makes me wonder if they used some overly engineered solution.
Peter Stefurak moon kilos would be okay.. moon pounds weight less... 😉
I think we are at the edge of a new explorarion era of the moon. Maybe the Apollo landing sites will be a turism atraction maybe not to far into the future
The Chinese need to put a nice Chinese flag next to the bleached American one. Make it 6 inches taller, and take a lovely post card and send back. Title could be: "Slow and steady wins the race".
Too many aliens around for moon tourism
Great video! I had no idea that over a million years you'd get a meter of dust!
even on the moon, we couldn't help but drive some cars around like it was main street on a Friday night.
i love it!!
We can measure the distance from earth to the moon, accurate to within 3 cm. Unbelievable. Hats off to the scientists.
@bogen broom Source please.
ArKritz84 - what do you mean source please? So you don’t know that the new bs from nasa? You guys don’t even know what you’re cheering for
Moon landings is for children with childlike discernment, not adults
@@ninjaman1714 "A recent discovery based on observations by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, SOHO, shows that the gaseous layer that wraps around Earth reaches up to 630 000 km away, or 50 times the diameter of our planet." Is this what we're talking about?
And the actual quote "the moon flies through Earth's atmosphere." is by Igor Baliukin of Russia's Space Research Institute. Not NASA.
However you kick and scream about it, this does not actually change the distance to the moon (which I'm sure you'd LOVE) or anything else.
ArKritz84 - a resent discovery you say, hmm, that’s odd. They went to the moon without knowing of any atmosphere or possible drag/ resistance on the craft, we also see the ISS supposed to be travelling at 17,500 mph through this newly discovered atmosphere without the slightest flutter on the suits of astronauts doing their spacewalks. No sign of drag whatsoever on the solar panels attached to the outside either. Yeah, real odd!
I’m well aware of the new story so no need to come here as though your the font of all knowledge, you’re merely a brainwashed parrot who will digest and regurgitate any old nonsense he’s been fed.
ArKritz84 - one more point, this is not for you, the brainwashed fool btw, this is for those with an enquiring mind. They tell us, the moon is 240,000 miles away and yet we see only the clouds local to the moon being illuminated in the night sky, ones slightly further away remain in total darkness. An observation in-keeping with the knowledge of a small and local moon, impossible with one 240,000 miles away.
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I know that map.....
Griffin station ^^
The reason for the Apollo 10 crew not setting foot on the moon is quite enlightening... Never knew that bit... You're so detailed... Thanks.
@ Red Oxise
The lander not supposed to land was of course not fueled for a landing maneuver, and the re-start pad wasn't functional as well. This line of the video is just vrap.
Your shirts are legendary!
Guaranteed, the Chinese mission in 2019, collected ("stole") half of the items left behind to bring back and sell on Alibaba!
Bags I get the cube array.
07:12 Oh no, they left the towels!
Well... at least they know where their towels are.
Lol
Although it's expanding the range by a lot likewise it's often overlooked that the rockets and counterweights that sent Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2 and guessing New Horizons too are themselves on trajectories out of the solar system.
i like this guy... very informative