I was born in "55. My dad was an avid space follower and as a result I am too. I still have an LP recording of John Glenn"s radio communications entire mission. My brother and I have both worked at NASA bases all over the country. He still has 1st issue stamps sent from the recovery carriers of most missions. Both of us have various items NASA that we hold precious to us. Needless to say, I cannot commend the people from NASA enough for what they have accomplished. The dedication and spirit of ALL of them is absolutely incredible. Second to none. There are so many unsung heroes in all of these clips it goes way beyond the flight crews.
You beat me to it. Well, except for the 'revelations' bit. I haven't watched the whole video yet, but at the halfway point, I have yet to learn about anything new to me, although with some good footage I hadn't seen. But I've been alive longer than the space age. Oh, wait! 39:00 I learned something new!
Probably because it's using copyrighted footage so they can't show it start to finish, as the video is about mind-blowing facts, so you have to edit to make it about the facts.
If you are someone who actually lived through the first decade of manned space exploration, you could probably enjoy these random vignettes from various moments in the space program. I think someone who is new to the story of the pioneers of space flight would be utterly bewildered by the non-chronological narrative.
@@geoffreyevans1549 I vividly remember Apollo 8 orbiting the Moon on Christmas Eve 1968. The crew read the first few verses from the book of Genesis. It was the first human voyage to the Moon, and it came at the end of one of the worst years in American history--Vietnam War raging, MLK & RFK assassinations, race riots, violent anti-war protests, Democrat convention riots, Nixon elected president. And the first human voyage to the Moon. It was literally like another world. One full of promise and hope for the Future and what Humanity might achieve. A transcendent moment in time. Anyone who lived through it will remember 1968 and Apollo 8.
I was 16 when they landed on the moon. I knew all about fuel cells at my Dad worked on it for P&WA. A good friends Dad worked for Hamilton Standard doing engineering on the environmental pack they wore for their EVA on the moon.
@@serronserron1320 Now they have high resolution photos of the moon where you can actually see many of the things left behind by the Apollo moon landings.
The only thing “mind blowing” is everything is out of sequence, it’s like they had all the historic footage and flung in the air and randomly edited it together
2 THINGS...... 1. this is not just about the Apollo program because half of it is The Gemini program. 2. Put it in chrono order...... If you do these basic edits, you will have a great little documentary.
Those who protested the twenty billion dollars that was spent to send people to the moon selectively ignored the fact that the same amount of money was spent during the duration of the Apollo Program on tobacco and cosmetics. The ROI (return on investment) from Apollo has been estimated at a conservative $400,000,000. Excellent program in terms of its public awareness and sharing of the accomplishment. I for one would have gone to the moon in a heartbeat had I been selected to go.
The timeline of this film was all over the place. Apollo 11, then Apollo 8, back to 11 then to Apollo 15 but hang on we can't forget Apollo 13. Let's take another look at Apollo 11 again. Oh did I mention Apollo 13 had a problem and did you know Apollo 8 was the first to orbit the moon? Here's some more footage of Apollo 11 just for the heck of it. Maybe they should have called this film: _Pulp Apollo._
The fact how scenes are glued together in totally chaotic order is mind blowing. Who did script and editing? Somebody heavily on drug's? And such thing looks as professionals did that... makes me cry.
Yeh, somewhere in there I'm sure they landed on the moon. Also Apollo 13 starts with their reentry- none of the explosive command module stuff that preceded and caused the reentry issues.
@@philidor9657 Even fact lists are sorted somehow. This is more like a personal notes or shopping list not aligned for linear presentation of topic. But i am sure that phrase you've mentioned can be used to push someones career forward in order to coverup shady and chaotical work.
I 've not watched this program yet because it's subject is 'About the Apollo Space Missions' yet a Gemini capsule is shown in the preview thumbnail. There is such a big difference between the two spacecraft, I can't believe that anyone not noticing the difference could accurately deliver information on this subject.
Dewayne, you're judging a book but it's cover, that's a sign of unintelligence so, ya, better not watch this documentary. It might confuse you with all the big words and bright lights. J/k xD Report the video thumbnail if you think it should be changed, but I doubt YT or the producer would give a crap. Nobody cares about nothing anymore, comments are just a false sense of self expression that nobody really pays attention to.
@@mentalizatelo until the feds come a knocking because ya said just the right combo and hit the nail on the head ,could be a dead end and a major breakthrough, I don't suppose a false sense of self expression could ever expose enough deception to be considered a threat to the devil's evil endeavor . The comment section just lets us get shit off of our chest weather we are disgusted or impressed , delighted or exited , pissed off because we decided we've been lied to one too many times , but yeah I'm with you , I believe there are many more people who don't give a shit , than there are who do. As far as Elons quest to get to Mars before too long , I hope he does because that's where he belongs , Take Bezos , Bill Gates , The entire Biden Harris administration and a few more bozos with you too .
@@mentalizatelo You're a joker, right? My comment is regarding a matter of fact- the photo chosen as a thumbnail for this article about the Apollo program shows a Gemini craft. Your statement "Nobody cares about nothing anymore...", is a matter of opinion (at best) and serves all the evidence necessary to realize you're blatantly ignorant.
Some of this footage is so incredibly clean, it looks like it could have been shot yesterday. It’s jarring to see 60 year old technology, fashion and history through such a clear lens, so to speak.
Some of the "footage" is 35mm or 70mm movie film which produced very high quality results even back then. And some is video which at the time was very low in quality by comparison. This is why some period TV shows like Star Trek can look fantastic, and others look terrible because they were shot on video.
I think very many people have a misconception about the quality of footage that was possible in the 60s and 70s. As has been pointed out already, the quality of VIDEO footage has dramatically improved over the last few decades since Apollo. However, the quality of FILM footage hasn't really increased that much. Much of what is seen in old Apollo footage was shot on film, so the quality is pretty dang good. There's not a whole lot of room for improvement in that technology. Film existed back then.....it exists today. It's sort of like comparing the quality of the back-yard game "Horseshoes". Not much has changed in the game. The same basic principal applies to film. Even the photographs taken during the era of Apollo (also on film) are of outstanding quality. In fact, even today - digital is merely an attempt to match the quality of what was capable of film decades ago. The goal of digital photography is not to surpass film in quality; but rather to surpass film in access. You can take a photograph or video and post it immediately to the internet. You can't do that with film. It has to be developed, etc. In other words, even still today (as far as raw quality), digital photography is an attempt to match the quality of analog film. Obviously, there are things you can do with digital images that would be impossible with film, but as far as raw quality goes, film photographs in the 60s were spectacular in quality.
There is a video on youtube called: "1968: Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated" that has recorded news footage from that event all of which was shot on video. The main anchor footage is in color, shot in the new studio, on what was most likely huge studio cameras. The location shots are black and white and probably done with a smaller more portable camera. It's a good "yardstick" to look at before judging the Apollo video.
@@jugganuat6440 Cameras can force perspective depending on the lens set up. Stay in your lane. Have fun in life, it's short. Don't worry about things you don't understand.
Needs a re-edit. An overview of the program timeline would have been helpful, also a better chronological order. Grissom dies, then later is flying; 13 canister problem repeats, etc. But overall an interesting video; thanks. These were such brave men!
I agree. Pretty disjointed segments but still a fairly good video. I remember watching a lot of this happening in real time as a teenager in NY. Then I went in the Air Force for 23 years!
The significance of Rusty Schweickart's "very special" five minutes during his EVA can't be understated considering that every minute of their time is usually occupied by work. To have that five minutes to himself under these circumstances must've been akin to a psychedelic breakthrough.
Those 5 minutes WERE work. He was retrieving the reels of video and audio from the mission which were stored externally. This was necessary on each Apollo mission.
You do understand that this is not a Documentary. It is a collection of 25 interesting facts. Maybe they could have grouped them in chronological order. but still its just a top 10 type video.
7:09 - A lot of people mistakenly believe that the way NASA fixed this was by using regular air. However, during every subsequent space flight after the Apollo One fire, the capsules went into space in the same, 100% pure oxygen. The "fix" was to lower the pressure from sea level, 14 psi, down to 5 psi. At 5 psi, oxygen infused items in the capsule (including the astronauts) are no longer explosively flammable. That's all they had to do, just lower the pressure. I recently had to be treated with a hyperbaric chamber (for 60 treatments) at 2.4 atmosphere... so, 35 psi. At that pressure, in 100% oxygen, I would literally explode if a spark went off in the chamber.
@@stujones3566 I think that they've designed the oxygen scrubbers (which convert CO2 to Oxygen and store carbon) for pure oxygen, and they only needed to lower the pressure. The USSR used 40% Nitrogen with 60% oxygen.
What they did was to allow regular air to remain in the cockpit while they waited for launch. Then after launch during the ascent the outside pressure dropped as the altitude increased and the cabin vented down to about 5 psi through the open cabin vent valve. At that point the cabin vent valve sealed the cabin to hold the pressure at 5 psi. While this was going on the air in the cabin was being replace by 100% oxygen by the environmental control system. This way of doing it eliminated the fire hazard posed by using 100% oxygen at high pressure on the ground but then in space they used 100% oxygen but only at 5 psi. The primary reason for using a one gas system as opposed to a two gas system was to save weight. Having a two gas system with both oxygen and nitrogen would weigh a lot more than a one gas pure oxygen system.
@@stujones3566 You should read my reply to this post above. But to answer your basic question the primary reason for using a one gas system as opposed to a two gas system was to save weight. Having a two gas system with both oxygen and nitrogen would weigh a lot more than a one gas pure oxygen system.
@@joevignolor4u949 -- Fascinating... thank you for that detailed explanation. That's very interesting and I did not know that's how they accomplished that. If you don't mind... how did the cabin valve work? Did it close automatically due to the pressure, or was it operated by way of a program or by the crew? Also, if you could clarify, did it seal manually by itself (meaning did the low pressure itself manually force it to seal) or was it an electrified device that was programed to automatically shut the valve? (I'm thinking it had to be the second one because I don't think you'd leave a device like I first described up to chance).
@@stujones3566 5 psi required a lower structural strength of the spacecraft hull. While that wasn’t so much a problem for the CM but was definitely a problem for the ultra light structure of the LM.
I was born in 1954, so I remember those times of the space program(s). I remember Kennedy's challenge to land on the moon during that decade and to safely return to earth. I can cite all of the key facts, but won't, I remember the space shuttle disasters that I feel ended that program plus the cost to replace the launch vehicles. So I feel I lived that history to some extent. All of those people did indeed have "The Right Stuff" to succeed in their mission. I feel they are our redeeming virtue.
@@CH-pv2rz Not necessarily, as the entire point of Gemini was to test and develop all the procedures necessary for going to the moon, as well as giving the planned Apollo commanders hands-on experience with said procedures. Schirra (G6, A7), Borman (G7, A8), McDivitt (G4, A9), Stafford (G6+G9, A10), Armstrong (G8, A11), Conrad (G5+G11, A12), Lovell (G7+G12, A13), Scott (G8, A15), Young (G4+G10, A16), and Cernan (G9, A17) The only one who didn't have Gemini experience before commanding an Apollo mission was Alan Shepard... and that was primarily because Gordo Cooper was being an ass, a.k.a. his normal self.
Apollo 8 - December 1969? Clearly the system of stitching these historic recordings together in random sequence was no accident - it was incompetence! At 22mins 10secs the caption over the launch of Apollo 8 reads "December 21st 1969" which would be five months after Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Apollo 8 was 1968 - this caption error may have been a typo, but it should never have passed editorial scrutiny - if there ever was an editor, director or producer, that is.
The “Rocket Equation!” Wp = Wi * (1 - e**(-dV/g*ISP)) Where, Wp = weight of propellant expended during the thrust arc Wi = initial weight of the vehicle V = delta velocity change g = Earth's gravitational acceleration (32.174 ft/sec^2) ISP = specific impulse of the engine (and fuel) in use Solving for dV (the final rocket velocity), the equation becomes: dV = -g*ISP*ln(1- Wp/Wi)
I went to see Buzz Aldrin speak at the Aeronautics Museum on Long Island a number of years back, and while we were there we got into a discussion with a guy who had brought his kids to see the same presentation. Turns out he worked at the museum. At this museum, they have on display the Moon lander that was built as the replica designated to stay here on Earth for mission control to reference during the mission. He brought us not only into the display area, but past all of the security areas and we got right up next to it. I touched history, it was amazing...
"Replica" is a bit understated. It was, for all intents & purposes, a functioning craft, minus a few of the obviously unneeded parts, like working engines/thrusters, fuel, life support, supplies, etc. But it did have a working computer, and all of the other MANY pieces of technology that were needed to simulate what was going on in space,..both for HOURS/DAYS/WEEKS/MONTHS of training before flight and for techs on the ground during flight to work out the "bugs" (see also: gremlins), that would occur. Using it to figure out the CO2 scrubber canister issue (square in a round hole), was one of its many functions.
@@kentkearney6623 The prop is the one they have out in display. This guy took us back into a maintenance area where there was a second lander not available for public view. Whether or not it was a prop, who cares? I'm not claiming the thing landed on the moon, just telling a story. I got Buzz Aldrins autograph that night, too!
@@heydude7568 Yeah they didn't go to the moon because it was dangerous. Just take a step back and look at how stupid that is. Just soak it in. Hey USSR, we're gonna just pretend to go to the moon. Don't tell nobody. Ok comrades our lips are sealed. These men were brave. They risked their lives for a living. I don't think any of these guys were like, "No friggin way I'm going through those Van Allen belts! They're just too dangerous!
2:39 I had that feeling of weightlessness once, but only for about a second. It was when the plane, while flying over Greenland, hit some of the worst turbulence I ever experienced. It picked me up out of my seat where I was introduced with a slam to the roof, and thrown back into my seat. The flight attendant asked me, "Are you okay?" And I said, "Can we ride again? Can we? Can we?" Oh, the expression on her face . . . if looks could kill, she would've gotten life without parole. EPILOG: The airline that treated me to that instant weightlessness adventure is no longer in business. I guess space rides never caught on as well as I imagined. But then, I'm just a cat.
I had a feeling of weightlessness once too. I was in the US Airborne Infantry and had the chance to train with the British Para. They train out of "jump balloons" which are smallish dirigibles on a cable from a 5 ton truck let up to 800 or so feet over a big flat grassy area. No wind, breeze hardly. The gondola fits 6 paratroopers plus the jumpmaster, and we exit one at a time by merely stepping off the edge of a 9x9foot platform. Six seconds of completely silent vertical drop....you can hear every one of your parachute lanyard-ties pop off as they released and that weightless feeling which is surprising at first, and immediately very cool! Free-Falling unhindered straight down for six seconds before your parachute deploys (and then full canopy 2 seconds later) is amazing. I have a hard time imagining astronauts living with this feeling days on end.
10:28 another fact - the “beat army” sign was there to wind up the other crew. It’s a Navy vs Air Force thing. Also, re: Apollo 1. Another fact - all previous Mercury and Gemini flights were also 100% pure oxygen. Had nothing to do with the Apollo spacecraft in particular - was pure luck it didn’t happen during Gemini or Mercury. Also, the hatch was inward opening largely due to Gus Grissom’s hatch exploding out after landing and Liberty Bell sinking during Mercury. Another fact - Gemini craft were originally designed to land as a paraglider. Also it’s the only craft of the first 3 programs that didn’t have an escape tower - it had ejection seats to save weight. Oh and Gemini 6 wasn’t Gemini 6 - it was 6A. You’d think the historian would know that. 11:41 Gus Grissom comes back to life. 13:06 “the next flight they’ll open the hatch on purpose in space” - then immediately jumps to Gemini 8 where oddly the hatch doesn’t open, and the “10 times faster than a bullet” comment is relative. Both craft are travelling at that same speed +/- 5ft/second.. This video is all over the place. The rest of this is 13. Bonus facts: Apollo 16 - first flight featuring the word “f**k” while on the moon. John Young: “I’ve got the farts again Charlie… I haven’t eaten this much citrus fruit in 20 years. And I’ll tell you in another 12 f**king days, I ain’t never eating any more”. Pete Conrad on Apollo 12: “I wish I could sh*t; I’d feel a lot better about it. I don’t - have the slightest inclination, but I just know what’s going to happen. It’s going to be the first sh*t on the lunar surface”. Talking of which - Bill Anders on Apollo 8 didn’t take a crap for the whole 6 day 4 hour flight.
33:30 Lovell says good night to Houston, immediately followed by crew preparing to re-enter earths atmosphere. I guess nothing happened that mission huh? 🤔
Not a mention of the sheared off switch on 11's Lunar Module. That switch controlled the ability to lift off of the Moon's surface. They ended up sticking a pen in the slot and it worked. I was lucky enough to speak to Buzz twice in my life and asked him what the moon smelled like. "Smelled like? We'll that's a new one. It was musty, we only smelled the dust that stuck to our suits and when we took them off there was a definite dusty smell." He's a hell of a guy and my only suggestion is that you never mention a possible fake landing to him. He will deck you.
I didn't know about the switch. Boy those guys must have been praying that they find something to turn the switch. I am sure Neil Armstrong heart rate didn't even go up. That guy was as cool in a crisis as anyone I've ever seen. If my plane was going down he is the guy I would want to have in the cockpit. No question...
It wasn't a switch that got damaged when Aldrin's backpack hit it. It was a circuit breaker. The plunger that gets pushed in to reset the breaker got broken off but fortunately the internal part of the breaker was undamaged. That's why sticking the pen into the hole where the broken piece had come from and pushing in was able to reset the breaker's internal mechanism so that electricity could pass through it and allow them to fire the ascent engine.
@@SlickArmor They are not the same thing. A circuit beaker is a device that monitors current flow in a circuit and breaks the circuit if the amount of current gets too high. A switch is usually a manually operated device used to open and close a circuit. In aviation applications, such as in the LM, circuit breakers often function as both a circuit breaker and as a switch simultaneously. In many applications putting a switch in series with a circuit breaker would be redundant and unnecessary. As such the switches are eliminated and the circuit breaker alone protects the circuit as well allowing it to be manually opened and closed. This is done to reduce complexity and weight and to allow all of the required devices to be packed together into a smaller space inside the cockpit.
@@joevignolor4u949 yes Joe I know all this. I'm just saying a circuit breaker is a current limiting SWITCH. It breaks current like a switch. Plus switches don't have to be manually operated but automatic instead. You said yourself a circuit breaker functions as a switch and a circuit breaker. Technically breaking a circuit IS a switch. And a circuit breaker is an automatic switch. I was just splitting hairs for the fun of it.
Damn when I was 30 I would have loved to be put through those tests. How fun! When I was a toddler, pilots flew over our house toward the Pacific Ocean breaking the sound barrier. We heard sonic booms everyday.
: Do you know of the women that did the Mercury testing? Several got as good results as the chosen astronauts. (must have been interesting passing the sperm tests)
You'd think that someone who does a video like this would know the difference between a *Gemini* spacecraft and an *Apollo* Spacecraft! Smooth move with the thumbnail, Ace!
In the early '80s and another career ago, my work took me to NASA Ames in the Bay Area. During a break in one of our meetings an Ames colleague asked if we wanted to see something interesting. We said yes and followed her throught the building and outside to another. When we entered it was a large room, dark and containing a mix of items. In the back corner, on a wooden platform, was the Apollo 17 capsule -- the last to take men to the moon.
@@TheScouseassassin it never happened ask yo mama why we cant go back to moon despite all technology how can american flag fly when there is no air lots of other thing there wastaqi it was staged in hollywood wataqi martungi
Miss you Mr Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom. You with Mr Edward White, and Mr Roger B. Chaffee will always be missed along with all the loses of the Shuttle. Each one of these guys had a first attached to his name. Gus Grisson was one of the first seven selected for space exploration. Edward White was the first American to walk in outer space. White became the first American to make an EVA. Then Roger Chaffee was the first rookie to be selected for the Apollo mission.
This is a nice presentation. I was in high school (graduating just weeks after Apollo13 made it home. The one thing folks of today need to appreciate is howtelatively "primative" technology was in that time compared to today. Plus we were flying to the Moon, landing, walking around (or driving. In the years since, we have only travelled to low earth orbit and Musk, Bezos, and company aren't even reaching orbit. The one thing that has always amazes me was the surprising fidelity of music reproduction in that time; kinda amazing...
With regards to the primitive part. I was surprised when I saw a command module at the Smithsonian, because it looked like farm implement type of machinery, more than a space craft.
It was! I was young but remember it. Russia only publicized their successes, and it seemed we couldn't get a rocket off the launch pad without it exploding. But then we did! It's a wonder we didn't lose more men, though, as it was rushed to meet President Kennedy's goal. That was a great time in our history, astronauts read Scripture from space and Congress called on people to pray for the Apollo 13 astronauts. Just a high and proud point in our history.
@@abc-wv4in "Russia only publicized their successes" - Correct, and it was all about their supposed superiority. Never mind the string of fatalities along the way.
I remember the horrible accident that killed the entire crew of the first Apollo mission. I was 8yrs old in the 2nd grade at Baily Gatzert Elementary, I and my class mates talked about it
I would have thought that The Smithsonian could nave done a better job with continuity. 25 MIND BLOWING facts, about the Apollo Space Missions. Just watched TWO different stories, about Gemini! The "interesting" thing about Apollo 13, was the O2 canister blowing up. While the Co2 scrubbing canister IS important, the rest of that recovery is SO much more. steve
You don't have to press enter and go to the next line when you're close to UA-cam comment window. It's not like it's regular, physical typewriter and you need to be aware of margins and to keep letters on piece of paper. This is electronics now and obviously no issues like that whatsoever.
At 22:15 you write that Apollo 8 flew on december 21 1969. Wrong! It was december 21 1968. Please check and restore. Thnx Mathis Coenen, the Netherlands.
I actually worked on the Space Program when I was a 19 year old in 1970. I worked doing tests how Sun in relation two different phases of the space station flight would affect routine job tasks. I it amounted to working in different lighting conditions it was for the space station program. I worked at N.A.S.A. in Mountain View California at Moffett Field Air Base. I got the job through Foothill College and because I had Superior vision and reflexes they took me long hair and all. After I show them my pass at the gate I could see the armed guards with the rifles, though they snap saluted me they kind of had who's this guy look on their faces. Because I flunked a class I lost my college deferment. This job kept me from ending up in Vietnam and it paid hella good. Considering the last job I had from the college job board had me pushing a wheelbarrow for 4 hours minimum wage . What a long strange trip it's been.
@@jamesflake6601 because the hoax has been pushed as far as it can. Going to the moon was only made possible by crappy visual effects that went right over the heads of the boomers. People today see through the lies. M (maybe not all but those who have eyes to see it)
This is a good history of man getting to the Moon. However, it is confusing with all the discontinuity with the constant changing between the various missions. If I had not lived through those years of the missions it would be hard to figure out what is happening. I love most documentaries of space flight but the editing makes the film jumping from one mission to another is distracting.
I have curiosity as well. I am curious to see if man will ever leave low earth orbit. We have been stuck in it for 50 years at least. Maybe we never left it.
@@tmo4330 why the rush? there is so much of this planet under the oceans that haven't been explored. I think those undiscovered secrets are key to survival of the human race.
@@scotmandel6699 Great comment Scot. There are many things on earth we don't know about. God is in control. The first catastrophe/judgement was water and only 8 humans survived. The next catastrophe/judgement is fire.
@@tmo4330 Maybe your loving God wants to make up for the 8 humans he failed to murder with his Flood. Not. Try real world solutions to real world problems. Burying yourself in your bible will fry your brain.
Yes, it's an amazing story of amazing stories. But it's hard to follow, the clips are all over the place. Impossible to follow in any semblance of order. The unfortunate result is that nothing makes much sense. One minute they are launching, the next it's multiple launches later. The timeline is not linear in any way. It does take away from the accomplishments of everyone involved.
I turned 10 years old three weeks before Apollo 11 landed on the moon. For those few days the people of our nation and of the entire world were united.
That earth fragment found on the moon got there, because of the Great Flood, when earth rocks were blasted into space by the breakup of the main continent into seven smaller ones, and various Islands.
The documentary has some great footage, although almost all of this stuff has been well known for decades and isn't really "mind blowing" anymore as the title implies. Also it could do with less dramatisation, both in the narration and especially in the background music. As for the timeline, as already stated by others it's really all over the place.
@@aemrt5745 You are correct. This was the first thing I thought of. I was 9 yrs old when we went to the moon, so for people of my generation, this was just something else we did. But for the youth of today, this is American history, or even better yet, history of mankind. It's history that today's youth really needs to know about. I think we often forget to ensure we provide information to our youth, in away that makes them want to know more, or engages their sense of curiosity. This type of video helps us do that.
@@sfcmp7005 Let's hope that the denier morons don't deter today's youth from developing a genuine interest in the mighty achievements of the space programs around the world.
Every dollar spent on the space program went to pay people , working for a living, who paid taxes and bought groceries, cars, raised their children who were educated and went on to follow their parents. Working for a living, not asking for another handout.
@David Armstrong Thr folk posting here? Of course not. Twelve astronauts did though. Wake up and stop listening to deniers whose only source of 'evidence" is each others' posts.
I give the Smithsonian a score of 3 out of 10 on this. Out of sequence, massive skips in storylines, and misuse of pictures. C’mon guys, you can do better than this
Apollo 1 wasn't pressurised to exactly the same, as it would've been in space. In space, it would've been pressurised to about 5 PSI, whereas on the ground, where atmospheric pressure is around 14 PSI, the capsule was pressurised to over 16 PSI.
@@allangibson2408 "The test was conducted with a 16.7 pounds per square inch absolute, 100-percent oxygen atmosphere." That's from the "Apollo 204 Review Board Final Report" At sea level that's 2psi of differential pressure. Also the cabin ruptured at 29psi
This is a fantastic documentary but I think it should of been done chronologically as it seems a bit all over the place. But great Movie archives and facts never the less.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea !" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
Some good info in this video but the editing is spotty. Apollo13's problems were discussed before the moon landing, then Apollo 11, then 13, then 8 or something. It's chaotic. That said there's some good info and rare interviews in this video.
@@fredjamison2693 Yes , we went ..... Settle down Fredo , you're still the smartest person in the room , everyone else on here posting up etc. ,, We are still Uneducated Idiots , and you are STILL the Alfred Einstein MENSA -Man !! 🙃👍
@@drewthompson7457 Drew, your car cannot even go 10,000 miles without maintenance, yet you believe some Aholes whent 243,000 miles in a tin can on radio waves and a can of gas? LOL.. wake the F up Drew..
@@fredjamison2693 : About 100,000 miles from the moon, 1 of them had to get out to change a tire. there wasn't much traffic, so they were safe. Stay asleep, you're suited for it.
Apollo 8 flew in December of '68, not '69. As of December '69 the U S had landed on the moon twice. Very disappointing effort from the Smithsonian, unfortunately nowadays it is not surprising.
The rebellion on Apollo 7 had a personal price since those that flew were always decorated upon returning, but they weren't and by the time NASA relented decades later two of the crew had passed away. One result of their defiance had an upside was the recognition that crews were being so badly over burdened with tasks often timed to the minute that those that flew afterwards had free time going forward in the set aside. Even before Apollo 11 landed missions were already curtailed and what equipment that was left launched Skylab to the Apollo-Soyuz rendezvous. In the nearly 50yrs since the last Moonwalk humans have only gone into Earth Orbit and may not leave it again perhaps until the 75th Anniversary of the first manned mission that orbited the Moon or at all anytime soon...
Apollo 13 avoided disaster because they were able to use the LM as a lifeboat. Now think about the possibility of the same problem occurring on Apollo 8. It would not have been survivable.
The sphere has a bubble in it which tells the pilot when he has reached zero G. It also looks like it would tell him if he is maintaining s straight course in the dive so he doesn't bounce the occupants against the sides of the aircraft. Good observation. Wow, what a weird looking "instrument".
I was born in "55. My dad was an avid space follower and as a result I am too. I still have an LP recording of John Glenn"s radio communications entire mission. My brother and I have both worked at NASA bases all over the country. He still has 1st issue stamps sent from the recovery carriers of most missions. Both of us have various items NASA that we hold precious to us. Needless to say, I cannot commend the people from NASA enough for what they have accomplished. The dedication and spirit of ALL of them is absolutely incredible. Second to none. There are so many unsung heroes in all of these clips it goes way beyond the flight crews.
My dad was a technician on all the Apollo missions, he passed away this morning. He will be missed.
RIP. God bless him and your family.
Sorry for your loss he must of been a legend they would of never made it to the moon without people like your dad
Condolences to you and yours.
My deepest condolences to your family and yourself Anthony. Your Dad was a part of history. Take care.
I'm sorry for your loss. You know this already, your dad was a rock star!
These are fascinating revelations, but this would have been much more enjoyable if the events had been presented in chronological order.
You beat me to it. Well, except for the 'revelations' bit. I haven't watched the whole video yet, but at the halfway point, I have yet to learn about anything new to me, although with some good footage I hadn't seen. But I've been alive longer than the space age.
Oh, wait! 39:00 I learned something new!
Or if it was true.
@@Vector_Ze Looks exactly like rocks from Antarctica.
@@MrMarco855 You're funny
@@MrMarco855 yes because you're qualified to make those claims, arent you? brainwashed conspiracy theorist
This was edited together by someone who can't keep their train of thought for more than a moment but the footage is beautiful.
Probably because it's using copyrighted footage so they can't show it start to finish, as the video is about mind-blowing facts, so you have to edit to make it about the facts.
Also they used a Gemini capsule for the thumbnail instead of an Apollo capsule.
Joe Biden edited it
Doing their best to sell bullshit.
@@darrellcrawford4946 ... was my first thought !
The added annoying background music soon took it a step further on towards Bidendiks followers.
If you are someone who actually lived through the first decade of manned space exploration, you could probably enjoy these random vignettes from various moments in the space program. I think someone who is new to the story of the pioneers of space flight would be utterly bewildered by the non-chronological narrative.
😂I was thinking the same thing ... I like to think I know more than most about the Apollo missions but that's just confusing
I was born in '63, I only really remember Apollo 11 and after.
Cronkite may or may not have given the best reporting. Hind-sight is 20-20.
Somebody put apollo 8 on the screen as being in 1969.
@@geoffreyevans1549 I vividly remember Apollo 8 orbiting the Moon on Christmas Eve 1968. The crew read the first few verses from the book of Genesis. It was the first human voyage to the Moon, and it came at the end of one of the worst years in American history--Vietnam War raging, MLK & RFK assassinations, race riots, violent anti-war protests, Democrat convention riots, Nixon elected president. And the first human voyage to the Moon. It was literally like another world. One full of promise and hope for the Future and what Humanity might achieve. A transcendent moment in time. Anyone who lived through it will remember 1968 and Apollo 8.
@@DuelingBongos Our country needed that sooo much and they came through. Very special time. Incredibly turbulent but very special.
I listened to Apollo 8 on my NEW AM radio, Christmas 1968! It was awesome!
I was watching it in our new color tv.
I was 16 when they landed on the moon. I knew all about fuel cells at my Dad worked on it for P&WA. A good friends Dad worked for Hamilton Standard doing engineering on the environmental pack they wore for their EVA on the moon.
Same here, I got a 9 volt transistor radio with earphone for Christmas that day.
@@peterlutz7191 I remember my dad when I was 5 getting me a pen looking batteryless pen crystal AM radio with speaker earplug. I thought it was magic!
That’s funny, because civilians couldn’t have personally owned radios until 1973.
"The moon landing was the television event of the decade."
The moon landing was the television event of ALL television and ALL history...
@Fred Jamison -- There is always one - How's your aluminum foil helmet.
@@Bruce-vq7ni perfect.
Second only to when Fonzi jumped over the shark.
@@Bruce-vq7ni My favourite are the ones that say the moon landings and international space station are fake but UFOs and aliens are real.
@@serronserron1320 Now they have high resolution photos of the moon where you can actually see many of the things left behind by the Apollo moon landings.
The only thing “mind blowing” is everything is out of sequence, it’s like they had all the historic footage and flung in the air and randomly edited it together
My mind was blown when Ed White (RIP) dies in the Apollo 1 fire, then comes back to life for his Gemini space walk.
lol
I have never seen such horrible editing in my life. Absolutely sucked
I think you figured out what the editor did.
22:17 They even got the date of Apollo 8 wrong, as it was in 1968. They put 1969. This is a poor documentary.
2 THINGS...... 1. this is not just about the Apollo program because half of it is The Gemini program. 2. Put it in chrono order...... If you do these basic edits, you will have a great little documentary.
Need to edit out the Red Herring at 42:00 as well.
Gemini is a big part of Apollo and they are sort of connected, so you could say its alright
Those who protested the twenty billion dollars that was spent to send people to the moon selectively ignored the fact that the same amount of money was spent during the duration of the Apollo Program on tobacco and cosmetics. The ROI (return on investment) from Apollo has been estimated at a conservative $400,000,000. Excellent program in terms of its public awareness and sharing of the accomplishment. I for one would have gone to the moon in a heartbeat had I been selected to go.
If they really went. I don't know for certain but.. Well I don't know there seems to be a doubt.
Lllll
@@davecamp1946 The doubt is in the minds of only the weak and stupid.
The timeline of this film was all over the place. Apollo 11, then Apollo 8, back to 11 then to Apollo 15 but hang on we can't forget Apollo 13. Let's take another look at Apollo 11 again. Oh did I mention Apollo 13 had a problem and did you know Apollo 8 was the first to orbit the moon? Here's some more footage of Apollo 11 just for the heck of it.
Maybe they should have called this film: _Pulp Apollo._
pulp non-fiction?
Thanks for that. I was thinking the same thing. How could Smithsonian screw that up so much - as if the writers were getting bored with the timeline.
Yes, it made it difficult to watch.
amen. its really annoying.
Underrated comment
The fact how scenes are glued together in totally chaotic order is mind blowing. Who did script and editing? Somebody heavily on drug's?
And such thing looks as professionals did that... makes me cry.
Its not a documentary. It's a facts list.
Yeh, somewhere in there I'm sure they landed on the moon. Also Apollo 13 starts with their reentry- none of the explosive command module stuff that preceded and caused the reentry issues.
@@philidor9657 Even fact lists are sorted somehow.
This is more like a personal notes or shopping list not aligned for linear presentation of topic.
But i am sure that phrase you've mentioned can be used to push someones career forward in order to coverup shady and chaotical work.
I think they were running low on oxygen...
Odd that you use an Image of the Gemini Capsule instead of the actual Apollo Capsule.
I was thinking the same thing.
@59:47 the narrator says the astronauts show us the image of earth from the moon that’s not true the shot is too close.
You'd think the Smithsonian would at least get that right
@@ZacLowing I think it's their MO to miss lead & obfuscate the truth...
Yeah that is odd
I 've not watched this program yet because it's subject is 'About the Apollo Space Missions' yet a Gemini capsule is shown in the preview thumbnail. There is such a big difference between the two spacecraft, I can't believe that anyone not noticing the difference could accurately deliver information on this subject.
Dewayne, you're judging a book but it's cover, that's a sign of unintelligence so, ya, better not watch this documentary. It might confuse you with all the big words and bright lights. J/k xD Report the video thumbnail if you think it should be changed, but I doubt YT or the producer would give a crap. Nobody cares about nothing anymore, comments are just a false sense of self expression that nobody really pays attention to.
@@mentalizatelo But yet you chose to comment on a comment. Time for some self reflection ya snide ........er.
@@mentalizatelo until the feds come a knocking because ya said just the right combo and hit the nail on the head ,could be a dead end and a major breakthrough, I don't suppose a false sense of self expression could ever expose enough deception to be considered a threat to the devil's evil endeavor . The comment section just lets us get shit off of our chest weather we are disgusted or impressed , delighted or exited , pissed off because we decided we've been lied to one too many times , but yeah I'm with you , I believe there are many more people who don't give a shit , than there are who do. As far as Elons quest to get to Mars before too long , I hope he does because that's where he belongs , Take Bezos , Bill Gates , The entire Biden Harris administration and a few more bozos with you too .
@@billholt7860 I stopped reading after "until". I don't care about your opinion. Go away.
@@mentalizatelo You're a joker, right? My comment is regarding a matter of fact- the photo chosen as a thumbnail for this article about the Apollo program shows a Gemini craft. Your statement "Nobody cares about nothing anymore...", is a matter of opinion (at best) and serves all the evidence necessary to realize you're blatantly ignorant.
Some of this footage is so incredibly clean, it looks like it could have been shot yesterday. It’s jarring to see 60 year old technology, fashion and history through such a clear lens, so to speak.
Some of the "footage" is 35mm or 70mm movie film which produced very high quality results even back then. And some is video which at the time was very low in quality by comparison. This is why some period TV shows like Star Trek can look fantastic, and others look terrible because they were shot on video.
@@DeputyNordburg I’m guessing it’s also been very well preserved, seldom viewed, and/or recently restored. It’s fantastic, I love it
I think very many people have a misconception about the quality of footage that was possible in the 60s and 70s. As has been pointed out already, the quality of VIDEO footage has dramatically improved over the last few decades since Apollo. However, the quality of FILM footage hasn't really increased that much. Much of what is seen in old Apollo footage was shot on film, so the quality is pretty dang good. There's not a whole lot of room for improvement in that technology. Film existed back then.....it exists today. It's sort of like comparing the quality of the back-yard game "Horseshoes". Not much has changed in the game. The same basic principal applies to film. Even the photographs taken during the era of Apollo (also on film) are of outstanding quality. In fact, even today - digital is merely an attempt to match the quality of what was capable of film decades ago. The goal of digital photography is not to surpass film in quality; but rather to surpass film in access. You can take a photograph or video and post it immediately to the internet. You can't do that with film. It has to be developed, etc.
In other words, even still today (as far as raw quality), digital photography is an attempt to match the quality of analog film. Obviously, there are things you can do with digital images that would be impossible with film, but as far as raw quality goes, film photographs in the 60s were spectacular in quality.
There is a video on youtube called: "1968: Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated" that has recorded news footage from that event all of which was shot on video. The main anchor footage is in color, shot in the new studio, on what was most likely huge studio cameras.
The location shots are black and white and probably done with a smaller more portable camera. It's a good "yardstick" to look at before judging the Apollo video.
Mind-Blowing that something so poorly edited was produced by the Smithsonian Channel
At least they are trying. But this video desperately needed someone else to give it a quick look.
Yeah...remove it and re-edit please Smithsonian. 👎
@59:47 the shot from the moon is to close it would be much further away
Whatever, still interesting.
@@jugganuat6440 Cameras can force perspective depending on the lens set up. Stay in your lane. Have fun in life, it's short. Don't worry about things you don't understand.
I really wanted to watch it all, love space history, but this back and forth in the timeline is just too much.
Needs a re-edit. An overview of the program timeline would have been helpful, also a better chronological order. Grissom dies, then later is flying; 13 canister problem repeats, etc. But overall an interesting video; thanks. These were such brave men!
I agree. Pretty disjointed segments but still a fairly good video. I remember watching a lot of this happening in real time as a teenager in NY. Then I went in the Air Force for 23 years!
It’s a free documentary, stop crying about the edit
I was literally just saying this I was asking myself who made this video? It's so poorly made
@@AcogR6 fr high quality content. Stop bitching lmaooo
The significance of Rusty Schweickart's "very special" five minutes during his EVA can't be understated considering that every minute of their time is usually occupied by work. To have that five minutes to himself under these circumstances must've been akin to a psychedelic breakthrough.
At no other time during mission was it more remarkable and for a person must have Ben almost (and I have no words)
Ok nhhher thanks again o
Those 5 minutes WERE work. He was retrieving the reels of video and audio from the mission which were stored externally. This was necessary on each Apollo mission.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 you ACTUALLY believe these serpent deceivers???
I used to see Schweickart when I did my lunch-time walks around the Capitol in Sacramento.
This was put together like the editor was suffering from a lack of oxygen
Bruh🤣🤣🤣🤣 true though
You do understand that this is not a Documentary. It is a collection of 25 interesting facts. Maybe they could have grouped them in chronological order. but still its just a top 10 type video.
True that. For starts why is the thumbnail for the video a picture of a Gemini?
One of the worst edited presentations I have painfully had to watch!!!!! Thats an hour of my life I will never get back 🙃
Lol
7:09 - A lot of people mistakenly believe that the way NASA fixed this was by using regular air. However, during every subsequent space flight after the Apollo One fire, the capsules went into space in the same, 100% pure oxygen. The "fix" was to lower the pressure from sea level, 14 psi, down to 5 psi. At 5 psi, oxygen infused items in the capsule (including the astronauts) are no longer explosively flammable. That's all they had to do, just lower the pressure. I recently had to be treated with a hyperbaric chamber (for 60 treatments) at 2.4 atmosphere... so, 35 psi. At that pressure, in 100% oxygen, I would literally explode if a spark went off in the chamber.
@@stujones3566 I think that they've designed the oxygen scrubbers (which convert CO2 to Oxygen and store carbon) for pure oxygen, and they only needed to lower the pressure. The USSR used 40% Nitrogen with 60% oxygen.
What they did was to allow regular air to remain in the cockpit while they waited for launch. Then after launch during the ascent the outside pressure dropped as the altitude increased and the cabin vented down to about 5 psi through the open cabin vent valve. At that point the cabin vent valve sealed the cabin to hold the pressure at 5 psi. While this was going on the air in the cabin was being replace by 100% oxygen by the environmental control system. This way of doing it eliminated the fire hazard posed by using 100% oxygen at high pressure on the ground but then in space they used 100% oxygen but only at 5 psi. The primary reason for using a one gas system as opposed to a two gas system was to save weight. Having a two gas system with both oxygen and nitrogen would weigh a lot more than a one gas pure oxygen system.
@@stujones3566 You should read my reply to this post above. But to answer your basic question the primary reason for using a one gas system as opposed to a two gas system was to save weight. Having a two gas system with both oxygen and nitrogen would weigh a lot more than a one gas pure oxygen system.
@@joevignolor4u949 -- Fascinating... thank you for that detailed explanation. That's very interesting and I did not know that's how they accomplished that. If you don't mind... how did the cabin valve work? Did it close automatically due to the pressure, or was it operated by way of a program or by the crew? Also, if you could clarify, did it seal manually by itself (meaning did the low pressure itself manually force it to seal) or was it an electrified device that was programed to automatically shut the valve? (I'm thinking it had to be the second one because I don't think you'd leave a device like I first described up to chance).
@@stujones3566 5 psi required a lower structural strength of the spacecraft hull. While that wasn’t so much a problem for the CM but was definitely a problem for the ultra light structure of the LM.
I was born in 1954, so I remember those times of the space program(s). I remember Kennedy's challenge to land on
the moon during that decade and to safely return to earth. I can cite all of the key facts, but won't, I remember the
space shuttle disasters that I feel ended that program plus the cost to replace the launch vehicles. So I feel I lived that history to
some extent. All of those people did indeed have "The Right Stuff" to succeed in their mission. I feel they are our redeeming virtue.
Yeah I saw that on TV too but to think that nobody else went for over half a century is kind of a joke
Yup and when they couldn't do it they had to fake it. They spent a fortune and had to fake it to save face.
@@rogerwilco99 And after all of that, turns out it never happened.
I like how the Gemini capsule is on the thumbnail
*gemini
@@thehypersonicbuild9919 thanks for correction!
Since the Video also contains Gemini Flights the thumbnail is appropriate. Its the title that is inaccurate.
@@CH-pv2rz Not necessarily, as the entire point of Gemini was to test and develop all the procedures necessary for going to the moon, as well as giving the planned Apollo commanders hands-on experience with said procedures.
Schirra (G6, A7), Borman (G7, A8), McDivitt (G4, A9), Stafford (G6+G9, A10), Armstrong (G8, A11), Conrad (G5+G11, A12), Lovell (G7+G12, A13), Scott (G8, A15), Young (G4+G10, A16), and Cernan (G9, A17)
The only one who didn't have Gemini experience before commanding an Apollo mission was Alan Shepard... and that was primarily because Gordo Cooper was being an ass, a.k.a. his normal self.
Space rocket thingies all look the same, no one will notice ....
Apollo 8 - December 1969? Clearly the system of stitching these historic recordings together in random sequence was no accident - it was incompetence! At 22mins 10secs the caption over the launch of Apollo 8 reads "December 21st 1969" which would be five months after Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon.
Apollo 8 was 1968 - this caption error may have been a typo, but it should never have passed editorial scrutiny - if there ever was an editor, director or producer, that is.
If you are watching this 500 years later, tip your hat to the pioneers of the space age
The “Rocket Equation!”
Wp = Wi * (1 - e**(-dV/g*ISP))
Where,
Wp = weight of propellant expended during the thrust arc
Wi = initial weight of the vehicle
V = delta velocity change
g = Earth's gravitational acceleration (32.174 ft/sec^2)
ISP = specific impulse of the engine (and fuel) in use
Solving for dV (the final rocket velocity), the equation becomes:
dV = -g*ISP*ln(1- Wp/Wi)
I went to see Buzz Aldrin speak at the Aeronautics Museum on Long Island a number of years back, and while we were there we got into a discussion with a guy who had brought his kids to see the same presentation. Turns out he worked at the museum. At this museum, they have on display the Moon lander that was built as the replica designated to stay here on Earth for mission control to reference during the mission. He brought us not only into the display area, but past all of the security areas and we got right up next to it. I touched history, it was amazing...
"Replica" is a bit understated.
It was, for all intents & purposes, a functioning craft, minus a few of the obviously unneeded parts, like working engines/thrusters, fuel, life support, supplies, etc. But it did have a working computer, and all of the other MANY pieces of technology that were needed to simulate what was going on in space,..both for HOURS/DAYS/WEEKS/MONTHS of training before flight and for techs on the ground during flight to work out the "bugs" (see also: gremlins), that would occur. Using it to figure out the CO2 scrubber canister issue (square in a round hole), was one of its many functions.
YOU TOUCHED A PROP.
@@kentkearney6623 The prop is the one they have out in display. This guy took us back into a maintenance area where there was a second lander not available for public view. Whether or not it was a prop, who cares? I'm not claiming the thing landed on the moon, just telling a story. I got Buzz Aldrins autograph that night, too!
did you get opportunity to ask buzz if it was living with the great lie that drove him to a lifetime of alcohol abuse?
@@heydude7568 Yeah they didn't go to the moon because it was dangerous. Just take a step back and look at how stupid that is. Just soak it in. Hey USSR, we're gonna just pretend to go to the moon. Don't tell nobody. Ok comrades our lips are sealed.
These men were brave. They risked their lives for a living. I don't think any of these guys were like, "No friggin way I'm going through those Van Allen belts! They're just too dangerous!
2:39 I had that feeling of weightlessness once, but only for about a second.
It was when the plane, while flying over Greenland, hit some of the worst turbulence I ever experienced. It picked me up out of my seat where I was introduced with a slam to the roof, and thrown back into my seat.
The flight attendant asked me, "Are you okay?"
And I said, "Can we ride again? Can we? Can we?"
Oh, the expression on her face . . . if looks could kill, she would've gotten life without parole.
EPILOG: The airline that treated me to that instant weightlessness adventure is no longer in business. I guess space rides never caught on as well as I imagined.
But then, I'm just a cat.
I had a feeling of weightlessness once too. I was in the US Airborne Infantry and had the chance to train with the British Para. They train out of "jump balloons" which are smallish dirigibles on a cable from a 5 ton truck let up to 800 or so feet over a big flat grassy area. No wind, breeze hardly. The gondola fits 6 paratroopers plus the jumpmaster, and we exit one at a time by merely stepping off the edge of a 9x9foot platform. Six seconds of completely silent vertical drop....you can hear every one of your parachute lanyard-ties pop off as they released and that weightless feeling which is surprising at first, and immediately very cool! Free-Falling unhindered straight down for six seconds before your parachute deploys (and then full canopy 2 seconds later) is amazing. I have a hard time imagining astronauts living with this feeling days on end.
@@RivetGardener Free falling outside of a plane isn't the same as floating around inside of one.
Rocky Mountain Airways!!! Great memories!
@@SlickArmor My buddy used to call the 500 feet exits "hop and pop." Almost as soon as you exit, you're on the ground.
Same thing happened over Greenland for me. Lasted about 1.5 hours, but only severe for about :15
10:28 another fact - the “beat army” sign was there to wind up the other crew. It’s a Navy vs Air Force thing. Also, re: Apollo 1. Another fact - all previous Mercury and Gemini flights were also 100% pure oxygen. Had nothing to do with the Apollo spacecraft in particular - was pure luck it didn’t happen during Gemini or Mercury. Also, the hatch was inward opening largely due to Gus Grissom’s hatch exploding out after landing and Liberty Bell sinking during Mercury. Another fact - Gemini craft were originally designed to land as a paraglider. Also it’s the only craft of the first 3 programs that didn’t have an escape tower - it had ejection seats to save weight. Oh and Gemini 6 wasn’t Gemini 6 - it was 6A. You’d think the historian would know that. 11:41 Gus Grissom comes back to life. 13:06 “the next flight they’ll open the hatch on purpose in space” - then immediately jumps to Gemini 8 where oddly the hatch doesn’t open, and the “10 times faster than a bullet” comment is relative. Both craft are travelling at that same speed +/- 5ft/second.. This video is all over the place. The rest of this is 13. Bonus facts: Apollo 16 - first flight featuring the word “f**k” while on the moon. John Young: “I’ve got the farts again Charlie… I haven’t eaten this much citrus fruit in 20 years. And I’ll tell you in another 12 f**king days, I ain’t never eating any more”. Pete Conrad on Apollo 12: “I wish I could sh*t; I’d feel a lot better about it. I don’t - have the slightest inclination, but I just know what’s going to happen. It’s going to be the first sh*t on the lunar surface”. Talking of which - Bill Anders on Apollo 8 didn’t take a crap for the whole 6 day 4 hour flight.
This was a pretty good and comprehensive summary, however I think the Apollo 13 coverage was the shortest and most succinct summary in history!
As a life long fan of human spaceflight, this presentation hit the spot! True American heroes.
Most important and impressive achievement of mankind and definitely the only thing A-mericans can be proud of.
@Fred Jamison I think you have been fooled about your flat earth.
@@peterdemkiw3280 Only? Lol!
@@michaelbee2165 yes, only, do you have an A-merican education, do you need "only" explained ?
Just like superman and spiderman. fake.
I cannot think of a better way to advertise Duct Tape!! Thank God they had Duct Tape with them on Apollo 13!!
33:30 Lovell says good night to Houston, immediately followed by crew preparing to re-enter earths atmosphere. I guess nothing happened that mission huh? 🤔
@@stuartb3609 not really.
Finally some high definition footage from that time, nice
Wow. All of this is totally real and I’m extremely pleased that $70,000,000.00 per day goes to NASA. Makes me proud of my country!
I hope Smithsonian realizes that their tag photo is of a Gemini spacecraft, not an Apollo spacecraft.
Not a mention of the sheared off switch on 11's Lunar Module. That switch controlled the ability to lift off of the Moon's surface. They ended up sticking a pen in the slot and it worked.
I was lucky enough to speak to Buzz twice in my life and asked him what the moon smelled like. "Smelled like? We'll that's a new one. It was musty, we only smelled the dust that stuck to our suits and when we took them off there was a definite dusty smell." He's a hell of a guy and my only suggestion is that you never mention a possible fake landing to him. He will deck you.
I didn't know about the switch. Boy those guys must have been praying that they find something to turn the switch. I am sure Neil Armstrong heart rate didn't even go up. That guy was as cool in a crisis as anyone I've ever seen. If my plane was going down he is the guy I would want to have in the cockpit. No question...
It wasn't a switch that got damaged when Aldrin's backpack hit it. It was a circuit breaker. The plunger that gets pushed in to reset the breaker got broken off but fortunately the internal part of the breaker was undamaged. That's why sticking the pen into the hole where the broken piece had come from and pushing in was able to reset the breaker's internal mechanism so that electricity could pass through it and allow them to fire the ascent engine.
@@joevignolor4u949 technically a circuit breaker is a switch although not universal.
@@SlickArmor They are not the same thing. A circuit beaker is a device that monitors current flow in a circuit and breaks the circuit if the amount of current gets too high. A switch is usually a manually operated device used to open and close a circuit. In aviation applications, such as in the LM, circuit breakers often function as both a circuit breaker and as a switch simultaneously. In many applications putting a switch in series with a circuit breaker would be redundant and unnecessary. As such the switches are eliminated and the circuit breaker alone protects the circuit as well allowing it to be manually opened and closed. This is done to reduce complexity and weight and to allow all of the required devices to be packed together into a smaller space inside the cockpit.
@@joevignolor4u949 yes Joe I know all this. I'm just saying a circuit breaker is a current limiting SWITCH. It breaks current like a switch. Plus switches don't have to be manually operated but automatic instead. You said yourself a circuit breaker functions as a switch and a circuit breaker. Technically breaking a circuit IS a switch. And a circuit breaker is an automatic switch. I was just splitting hairs for the fun of it.
The only reason I can't give this a thumbs up is because of the disjointed editing. But some of the footage was pretty awesome.
The Cats floating around on the Vomit Comet. Great idea by somebody!
The date shown for the launch of Apollo 8 was December 21, 1969 when in fact it was in 1968.
If i haven't already, i could watch this ninety three million times.
Damn when I was 30 I would have loved to be put through those tests. How fun! When I was a toddler, pilots flew over our house toward the Pacific Ocean breaking the sound barrier. We heard sonic booms everyday.
Cool V. Love....where was that ?
: Do you know of the women that did the Mercury testing? Several got as good results as the chosen astronauts. (must have been interesting passing the sperm tests)
You'd think that someone who does a video like this would know the difference between a *Gemini* spacecraft and an *Apollo* Spacecraft! Smooth move with the thumbnail, Ace!
In the early '80s and another career ago, my work took me to NASA Ames in the Bay Area. During a break in one of our meetings an Ames colleague asked if we wanted to see something interesting. We said yes and followed her throught the building and outside to another. When we entered it was a large room, dark and containing a mix of items. In the back corner, on a wooden platform, was the Apollo 17 capsule -- the last to take men to the moon.
Wink wink.
@@MrMarco855 Why wink wink?
This footage looks AMAZING who remastered it?
Cohesive, comprehensive chronicle of man's journey to the moon.
ITS YO MAMA JAOURNEY
Or a complete and utter load of bollocks because it never happened.
@@TheScouseassassin it never happened ask yo mama why we cant go back to moon despite all technology how can american flag fly when there is no air lots of other thing there wastaqi it was staged in hollywood wataqi martungi
Miss you Mr Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom. You with Mr Edward White, and Mr Roger B. Chaffee will always be missed along with all the loses of the Shuttle. Each one of these guys had a first attached to his name. Gus Grisson was one of the first seven selected for space exploration. Edward White was the first American to walk in outer space. White became the first American to make an EVA. Then Roger Chaffee was the first rookie to be selected for the Apollo mission.
This is a nice presentation.
I was in high school (graduating just weeks after Apollo13 made it home.
The one thing folks of today need to appreciate is howtelatively "primative" technology was in that time compared to today. Plus we were flying to the Moon, landing, walking around (or driving.
In the years since, we have only travelled to low earth orbit and Musk, Bezos, and company aren't even reaching orbit.
The one thing that has always amazes me was the surprising fidelity of music reproduction in that time; kinda amazing...
With regards to the primitive part. I was surprised when I saw a command module at the Smithsonian, because it looked like farm implement type of machinery, more than a space craft.
how has elon not reached orbit? spacex has brought astronauts to the iss
What you're trying to say is none of it happened.
@@dantama35 : I take you never worked on a farm. Maybe it looked like something in a McDonalds kitchen to you?
@@MrMarco855 Or is that what you want to hear?
These guys have "The Right Stuff" 👍
That woulda been one helluva time to be alive. My Father musta had a blast.
It was! I was young but remember it. Russia only publicized their successes, and it seemed we couldn't get a rocket off the launch pad without it exploding. But then we did! It's a wonder we didn't lose more men, though, as it was rushed to meet President Kennedy's goal. That was a great time in our history, astronauts read Scripture from space and Congress called on people to pray for the Apollo 13 astronauts. Just a high and proud point in our history.
@@abc-wv4in "Russia only publicized their successes" - Correct, and it was all about their supposed superiority. Never mind the string of fatalities along the way.
I dont know how old you are but you have the chance to witness the first steps on Mars. A chance these people will most likely never have.
I was constantly beaten and molested during the 1960s. Wasn’t that great
@@xD-ui5mt Mars? You are joking. Mars is 38,000,000 miles away. Man can't even go beyond 400 miles up in 2022.
"25 Mind-Blowing Facts About the Apollo Space Missions" with a photo of a Gemini capsule in the thumbnail. Well done. *Golf Clap*
Who the hell did the editing for this Video ? I hope he wasn't nominated for an award
Probably trying to avoid a copyright strike.
I remember the horrible accident that killed the entire crew of the first Apollo mission. I was 8yrs old in the 2nd grade at Baily Gatzert Elementary, I and my class mates talked about it
I was a third grader. I was devastated.
Such a horrible accident but you somehow make it all about you?
I would have thought that The Smithsonian could nave
done a better job with continuity. 25 MIND BLOWING
facts, about the Apollo Space Missions. Just watched
TWO different stories, about Gemini!
The "interesting" thing about Apollo 13, was the O2
canister blowing up. While the Co2 scrubbing canister
IS important, the rest of that recovery is SO much more.
steve
All of these clips are from their show Apollo’s Moon Shot
You don't have to press enter and go to the next line when you're close to UA-cam comment window. It's not like it's regular, physical typewriter and you need to be aware of margins and to keep letters on piece of paper. This is electronics now and obviously no issues like that whatsoever.
Neil Armstrong has been my favorite person of all time since I can remember. I remember telling anyone who wanted to know lol.
... Neil Armstrong along with Chuck Yeager --- these 2 guys were definitely wired a tad different at birth
@@nemesisxrox6773oddly enough apparently Yeager didn’t like Armstrong…
At 22:15 you write that Apollo 8 flew on december 21 1969.
Wrong!
It was december 21 1968.
Please check and restore.
Thnx
Mathis Coenen, the Netherlands.
I actually worked on the Space Program when I was a 19 year old in 1970. I worked doing tests how Sun in relation two different phases of the space station flight would affect routine job tasks. I it amounted to working in different lighting conditions it was for the space station program. I worked at N.A.S.A. in Mountain View California at Moffett Field Air Base. I got the job through Foothill College and because I had Superior vision and reflexes they took me long hair and all. After I show them my pass at the gate I could see the armed guards with the rifles, though they snap saluted me they kind of had who's this guy look on their faces. Because I flunked a class I lost my college deferment. This job kept me from ending up in Vietnam and it paid hella good. Considering the last job I had from the college job board had me pushing a wheelbarrow for 4 hours minimum wage . What a long strange trip it's been.
Kinda makes you wonder what happened. Nothing today is happening
@@jamesflake6601 because the hoax has been pushed as far as it can. Going to the moon was only made possible by crappy visual effects that went right over the heads of the boomers. People today see through the lies. M (maybe not all but those who have eyes to see it)
Space is Hollywood.
@@telx2010 : yes, those B-grade movies from the 50s and 60s still confuse some, don't they.
Here's an Idea for a new video
"Moon Rocks, the legacy of the most expensive stones in history."
I'd watch it...
A very interesting subject matter, but the ping-pong editing almost ruins the whole thing.
This is a good history of man getting to the Moon. However, it is confusing with all the discontinuity with the constant changing between the various missions. If I had not lived through those years of the missions it would be hard to figure out what is happening. I love most documentaries of space flight but the editing makes the film jumping from one mission to another is distracting.
Editing by multiple committees, and none of them talk to each other.
Everything is edited this way now. Flicker vertigo is a possibility.
How they got a photo of Neil Young taking the first step off ladder taken from moons surface. Where hus guitar?
I can tell you from personal experience; the Apollo crews "infected" people like myself with curiosity about our universe and space exploration.
I have curiosity as well. I am curious to see if man will ever leave low earth orbit. We have been stuck in it for 50 years at least. Maybe we never left it.
@@tmo4330 why the rush? there is so much of this planet under the oceans that haven't been explored. I think those undiscovered secrets are key to survival of the human race.
@@scotmandel6699 Great comment Scot. There are many things on earth we don't know about. God is in control. The first catastrophe/judgement was water and only 8 humans survived. The next catastrophe/judgement is fire.
@@tmo4330 Maybe your loving God wants to make up for the 8 humans he failed to murder with his Flood. Not. Try real world solutions to real world problems. Burying yourself in your bible will fry your brain.
@@phildavenport4150 2 Timothy 3:16.
This video timeline is all over the place…wish it stuck to a single time line.
Yes, it's an amazing story of amazing stories. But it's hard to follow, the clips are all over the place. Impossible to follow in any semblance of order. The unfortunate result is that nothing makes much sense. One minute they are launching, the next it's multiple launches later. The timeline is not linear in any way. It does take away from the accomplishments of everyone involved.
I turned 10 years old three weeks before Apollo 11 landed on the moon. For those few days the people of our nation and of the entire world were united.
I was only 5 years old but remember it well, believe that or not.
Even Russia acknowledged the feat, even though it must have hurt like hell to do so.
That earth fragment found on the moon got there, because of the Great Flood, when earth rocks were blasted into space by the breakup of the main continent into seven smaller ones, and various Islands.
The documentary has some great footage, although almost all of this stuff has been well known for decades and isn't really "mind blowing" anymore as the title implies. Also it could do with less dramatisation, both in the narration and especially in the background music. As for the timeline, as already stated by others it's really all over the place.
There were also like 5 about the canisters on 13....doesn't exactly make 25
@@aemrt5745 You are correct. This was the first thing I thought of. I was 9 yrs old when we went to the moon, so for people of my generation, this was just something else we did. But for the youth of today, this is American history, or even better yet, history of mankind. It's history that today's youth really needs to know about. I think we often forget to ensure we provide information to our youth, in away that makes them want to know more, or engages their sense of curiosity. This type of video helps us do that.
@@sfcmp7005 Let's hope that the denier morons don't deter today's youth from developing a genuine interest in the mighty achievements of the space programs around the world.
Every dollar spent on the space program went to pay people , working for a living, who paid taxes and bought groceries, cars, raised their children who were educated and went on to follow their parents. Working for a living, not asking for another handout.
Not to mention the numerous inventions drastically improved like medication, surgical treatment, passenger airlines, new materials and so on.
Paid a wage to lie for living. To the world. Whole famillys, and extended families and countries,Jobs that lie to the world. Thanks.
@@bradfordpal There's always one of you, but we let you live free and for free--when you should be paying a fee to be tolerated and taking up space.
The Brave men from the Apollo gave me a reason to join the U. S. Marines.
At 72 years of age I was able to witness it all.
At 65 years the same recall. I can remember watching tv as they were walking on it and going out side to look at the moon in amazement!
I,m 66 and proud to be a witness of that era.
Gee, you must be old now!
@David Armstrong Thr folk posting here? Of course not. Twelve astronauts did though. Wake up and stop listening to deniers whose only source of 'evidence" is each others' posts.
#1 mind blowing item: The cover picture is of a GEMINI CAPSULE GENIUSES!
The editing on this is pure chaos 😂
I give the Smithsonian a score of 3 out of 10 on this. Out of sequence, massive skips in storylines, and misuse of pictures.
C’mon guys, you can do better than this
I agree its kind of chaotic... But it is just a list of 25 interesting facts. Not a documentary. each "fact" is its own story.
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Apollo 1 wasn't pressurised to exactly the same, as it would've been in space.
In space, it would've been pressurised to about 5 PSI, whereas on the ground, where atmospheric pressure is around 14 PSI, the capsule was pressurised to over 16 PSI.
It was pressurised to 20 psi to simulate the space differential. The pressure rose to 26 psi during the fire.
@@allangibson2408 "The test was conducted with a 16.7 pounds per square inch absolute, 100-percent oxygen atmosphere." That's from the "Apollo 204 Review Board Final Report"
At sea level that's 2psi of differential pressure. Also the cabin ruptured at 29psi
@@9HighFlyer9 Correct.
@Brad Watson Wow! Coming up with all that must have burned a hole in your tin foil beanie.
@Brad Watson Here's another one: on 7/7 I pulled 4 boogers out of my nose. Amazing coincidence!
Great video. Thanks!
Not to sound too critical but I find it odd that you used an image of a Gemini capsule for the cover of an Apollo missions article.
This is a fantastic documentary but I think it should of been done chronologically as it seems a bit all over the place. But great Movie archives and facts never the less.
you are so right
Yes, I agree.
space fans include a lot of raymond babbits who can't stand anything out of sequence
Agreed but still the best video Ive watched for space race related facts.
Am I the only one who thought it odd that the thumbnail isnt an apollo capsule? :')
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea !"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
The thumbnail used for this video with the “Beat Army” is actually from the Gemini 7 mission. I expect a little better from Smithsonian….
Some good info in this video but the editing is spotty. Apollo13's problems were discussed before the moon landing, then Apollo 11, then 13, then 8 or something. It's chaotic. That said there's some good info and rare interviews in this video.
Thanks for this. Amazing. I remember the moon landing as a little kid.
Now you are grown and still believe they went?
@@fredjamison2693 Yes , we went ..... Settle down Fredo , you're still the smartest person in the room , everyone else on here posting up etc. ,, We are still Uneducated Idiots , and you are STILL the Alfred Einstein MENSA -Man !! 🙃👍
@@fredjamison2693 : what can't you understand about the landings? It's been 50 years since the landings, ample time to get someone to help you.
@@drewthompson7457 Drew, your car cannot even go 10,000 miles without maintenance, yet you believe some Aholes whent 243,000 miles in a tin can on radio waves and a can of gas? LOL.. wake the F up Drew..
@@fredjamison2693 : About 100,000 miles from the moon, 1 of them had to get out to change a tire. there wasn't much traffic, so they were safe.
Stay asleep, you're suited for it.
Now, the Agena spinning event kinda makes that centrifugal spinning machine seem not so silly....
Love this video!!! Please make more. Super interesting.
I love seeing the cats reaction to being weightless😂I hope it didn't hurt them, I doubt it did, didn't hurt the astronauts😉
Great video! I hadn't heard of several entries (besides anything A13 related) and I really enjoyed the extra tidbits.
Holy floating cats, Bat Man!
These are some very interesting facts
Only facts are its all a hoax or if you prefer conspiracy
@@Fox8ball. skyandtelescope.org/observing/how-to-see-all-six-apollo-moon-landing-sites/
@@Fox8ball. They were tracked by amateur radio enthusiasts all the way to the moon. Don't be so gullible.
@@Fox8ball. mate you forgot your meds..
@@Fox8ball. you just deleted your reply, did that embarrassed you?
And the illustration photo is a Gemini capsule... 😄
So the headline is about Apollo and the picture is a Gemini Capsule
Apollo 8 flew in December of '68, not '69. As of December '69 the U S had landed on the moon twice.
Very disappointing effort from the Smithsonian, unfortunately nowadays it is not surprising.
Very interesting keep it up
The thumbnail is Gemini. Well done.
26:48: "There was no safety net.
27:26: Neil fires ejection seat.
Funny, The Smithsonian knows NOTHING about
"continuity!" (At least, they don't show it here.)
steve
I started going back to see what i missed after a while i just gave up. This video is all over the place.
I can not believe all the errors in this video. Is this the best the Smithsonian can do?
The rebellion on Apollo 7 had a personal price since those that flew were always decorated upon returning, but they weren't and by the time NASA relented decades later two of the crew had passed away. One result of their defiance had an upside was the recognition that crews were being so badly over burdened with tasks often timed to the minute that those that flew afterwards had free time going forward in the set aside. Even before Apollo 11 landed missions were already curtailed and what equipment that was left launched Skylab to the Apollo-Soyuz rendezvous. In the nearly 50yrs since the last Moonwalk humans have only gone into Earth Orbit and may not leave it again perhaps until the 75th Anniversary of the first manned mission that orbited the Moon or at all anytime soon...
Apollo 13 avoided disaster because they were able to use the LM as a lifeboat.
Now think about the possibility of the same problem occurring on Apollo 8. It would not have been survivable.
02:18 that glass sphere filled with a liquid must have something to do with telling the pilots about the proper descend rate.
The sphere has a bubble in it which tells the pilot when he has reached zero G. It also looks like it would tell him if he is maintaining s straight course in the dive so he doesn't bounce the occupants against the sides of the aircraft. Good observation. Wow, what a weird looking "instrument".
I'm sorry but I just have to ask. Why was a video about the Apollo Space Missions posted with a thumbnail of a Gemini space craft?
The courage of these guys is just amazing
I know what you mean, imagine Buzz and Armstrong sitting up there lying to the world.
@@MrMarco855 : Don't worry, not every one has the intelligence to understand what happened. I'm sure you're doing your best.
@@MrMarco855 Ha Ha ..Soo true!
@@drewthompson7457 I think I must agree
@@drewthompson7457 These bots are well programmed.