Apollo 10's Lunar Module Snoopy Is Lost In Space - Could We Bring it Home?

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The lunar module flown on Apollo 10 is the only flown lunar module which didn't end up crashing into the moon, or burning up in the Earth's atmosphere. After the testing in lunar orbit the ascent engine performed a burn to depletion which meant it escaped into interplanetary space.
At this moment the location is unknown, but people are looking for it, however it could take decades to be sure since it only comes into the vicinity of the Earth every 15 years or so.
If it were found however, would it be possible to bring it back to earth for inspection by historians and space archaeologists - time to fire up Kerbal Space Program with realism overhaul to try flying this mission.
Mike Loucks' did the math to figure out the possible orbits:
astrogatorsguild.com/?p=240

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  • @williamjamesrapp7356
    @williamjamesrapp73565 жыл бұрын

    My Father worked on SNOOPY during the Apollo missions -- He was a Quality Test Engineer for Grumman during the Apollo missions

  • @williamjamesrapp7356

    @williamjamesrapp7356

    5 жыл бұрын

    @C J HA HA HA YUP ! it is amazing that that technology made it into space at all.

  • @christianege4989

    @christianege4989

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@williamjamesrapp7356 Only amazing for people who don't have any clue of what this technology really was.

  • @dancolley4208

    @dancolley4208

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@williamjamesrapp7356 Aha!!! NOW we have a clue to the owner of that turd which was floating around in the space craft..it was the Grumman QA guy who planted it on board while going through one of the incredibly long list of checks !!!

  • @bernardcohen3245

    @bernardcohen3245

    3 жыл бұрын

    And my dad was the janitor who signed off on the LEM

  • @jblob5764

    @jblob5764

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Nature and Physics that is the most ridiculous statement ive heard all day

  • @Declan-pg8cg
    @Declan-pg8cg5 жыл бұрын

    My heart always goes out to Jim Lovell. Can you imagine going all the way to the moon twice, but no cigar? First time saying "I could be down there" & the second time saying "I should be down there". Still one of the finest men ever to have lived.

  • @shaenj

    @shaenj

    5 жыл бұрын

    which is why he was given the role he was. He has NO regrets why should you?

  • @suekennedy8917

    @suekennedy8917

    4 жыл бұрын

    LOL! No video showing the inside of the CSM-LEM with his wondrous piloting. Duct tape is not in the Apollo 13 Press Kit. Hoax!

  • @Declan-pg8cg

    @Declan-pg8cg

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@shaenj Exactly, he's a consummate professional. If I had done half the things he has I would have no regrets whatsoever.

  • @Declan-pg8cg

    @Declan-pg8cg

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@suekennedy8917 You are joking, aren't you? Please don't tell me you're another conspiracy Fruitcake with an absolutely shite understanding of even basic physics or science in general?

  • @edgarwalk5637

    @edgarwalk5637

    4 жыл бұрын

    Gene Cernan was the luckiest, he got to go on Apollo 17.

  • @fieryfeather
    @fieryfeather5 жыл бұрын

    -Analyze Snoopy's spin What are you doing -Docking Snoopy's rotation is 67-68 rpm -Get ready to match our spin with the retro thrusters It's not possible! -No, it's necessary

  • @stanleydodds9

    @stanleydodds9

    5 жыл бұрын

    Come on turd... come on turd!

  • @DanielSanchez-ew1js

    @DanielSanchez-ew1js

    5 жыл бұрын

    Cue dramatic organ music.

  • @ryandickson6761

    @ryandickson6761

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@DanielSanchez-ew1js DUNDUNDUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN

  • @RWBHere

    @RWBHere

    5 жыл бұрын

    DUNG, DUNG, DONE!

  • @ZuluMoose97

    @ZuluMoose97

    5 жыл бұрын

    I love we should see if Scott would be willing to recut the video using the Stellar theme music

  • @TheMrPeteChannel
    @TheMrPeteChannel5 жыл бұрын

    The Beagle has landed! (If we ever get Snoopy home)

  • @allangibson8494

    @allangibson8494

    5 жыл бұрын

    The retrieval vehicle would have to be the Red Baron (or the Dog House).

  • @TheMrPeteChannel

    @TheMrPeteChannel

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@allangibson8494 or the neighbor's killer cat.

  • @NemoConsequentae

    @NemoConsequentae

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@allangibson8494 My vote would be on it being _Woodstock._

  • @RWBHere

    @RWBHere

    5 жыл бұрын

    If they capture it by wrapping a shroud around the module, then surely Linus would be best, with his comfort blanket!

  • @allangibson8494

    @allangibson8494

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@NemoConsequentae Or a mission to put a tracking beacon on it...

  • @hannesgroesslinger
    @hannesgroesslinger5 жыл бұрын

    I'm sure NASA's new guidelines about naming spacecraft were predominantly motivated by fear of what Pete Conrad and his crew might come up with for Apollo 12.

  • @AmusedWalrus

    @AmusedWalrus

    5 жыл бұрын

    What do you mean?

  • @DARisse-ji1yw

    @DARisse-ji1yw

    5 жыл бұрын

    "Playboy" & "Bunny" .....

  • @PrograError

    @PrograError

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@DARisse-ji1yw definitely sfw

  • @5Andysalive

    @5Andysalive

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@AmusedWalrus Let's say they wera a much more lively group than most of the others. It's a bit of a shame the first landing was communication wise such a quiet affair. This is Apollo 12 landing: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ipaemryoYJiZfMY.html And Pete Conrad died (too early) in a Motorbike Accident.

  • @ENCHANTMEN_

    @ENCHANTMEN_

    5 жыл бұрын

    Surely they could just veto the name?

  • @JanStrojil
    @JanStrojil5 жыл бұрын

    Apollo 10 in the London Science museum was the first Apollo hardware that I saw with my own eyes. I still remember that feeling of awe. Go Charlie, go Snoopy!

  • @JohnMorley1

    @JohnMorley1

    5 жыл бұрын

    One day there might be a glass case next to it with that long lost turd in it. Then it will be more impressive.

  • @owensmith7530

    @owensmith7530

    5 жыл бұрын

    I examined the Apollo 10 capsule yesterday, both on my way into and out of the Science Museum IMAX to watch Apollo 11 (sadly the "First Steps" 45 minute version). I also had a long look at the life size LM replica, and the RL-10 and J-2 engines conveniently placed next to each other (they appear to both be missing the lower parts of their engine bells). But the best exhibition at the Science Museum was the Soviet one. I have seen an LK with my own eyes! And a Lunokhod!

  • @sparkplug1018

    @sparkplug1018

    5 жыл бұрын

    Best exhibit I've seen is at the Kennedy space center. They have the Apollo 14 CM displayed along with a Saturn V rocket and I believe and un-flown LM. And a replica lunar rover. So awe inspiring seeing all the hardware displayed like that. Really want to travel and see the rest of them.

  • @JanStrojil

    @JanStrojil

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@sparkplug1018 Yes, that is probably the best one (but don't forget Oschin Science Center in LA!). But when it comes to the wow factor, their introduction to the Atlantis exhibition is probably top; the American sure know how to do spectacle well. :)

  • @sparkplug1018

    @sparkplug1018

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@JanStrojil Atlantis is truly a sight to see in person. The memorial towards the rear of the hall is also one of the most moving I've ever seen. We do know how to display things for maximum effect thats for sure.

  • @purplealice
    @purplealice5 жыл бұрын

    I worked at Grumman Aircraft on Long Island when they were building the Lunar Modules, and occasionally I had the chance to see, and even touch, one of them during the assembly process. I am fairly certain that Snoopy was one of the ones I touched. (And I still have my green "Lunar Contact" button from when the "Eagle" landed.) So among the traces of human DNA that might be found inside Snoopy (disregarding the turd, of course), there could be traces of my DNA, which means that some microscopic part of me did make it into space.

  • @BaguetteGamingOfficial

    @BaguetteGamingOfficial

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'm really fucking jealous right now

  • @bogomir67

    @bogomir67

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@BaguetteGamingOfficial So am I!

  • @purplealice

    @purplealice

    5 жыл бұрын

    I wasn't wearing gloves whhen I touched the frame of one of the seats in the LEM. I just leaned in the doorway to look inside, and put out my hand for balance.

  • @gregc2222

    @gregc2222

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@purplealice Ahhhhh... Seats? In the LM? Think again.

  • @BaguetteGamingOfficial

    @BaguetteGamingOfficial

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@gregc2222 yeah something's not quite right there lol

  • @astrofox2409
    @astrofox24095 жыл бұрын

    Noticing the "Woodstock" name for the return craft. Nice touch.

  • @sparkplug1018

    @sparkplug1018

    5 жыл бұрын

    So many names you could pick for it. Id either name it Woodstock or Lucy. And when it lands we can declare the Beagle has landed, credit to a comment above.

  • @RWBHere

    @RWBHere

    5 жыл бұрын

    Linus. Comfort blanket used to capture the LM.

  • @reminiscingrocketeer1430

    @reminiscingrocketeer1430

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@RWBHere actually yes, the thermal protective blanket to aid in anchoring Snoopy and providing additional protection during reentry.

  • @StarkRG

    @StarkRG

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@sparkplug1018 Nah, Lucy would set up the final orbital capture maneuver and then would release the spacecraft right before it happened.

  • @jazzfan1994

    @jazzfan1994

    5 жыл бұрын

    I was thinking "The Red Baron" but this is better since you don't want to shoot it out of the sky.

  • @VosperCDN
    @VosperCDN5 жыл бұрын

    If this is done, one of the rockets sent for Snoopy better be called The Red Baron.

  • @AcidDropAnimations

    @AcidDropAnimations

    3 жыл бұрын

    OMG YES LOL

  • @donaldparlettjr3295
    @donaldparlettjr32954 жыл бұрын

    How interesting to get Snoopy back home to study a spacecraft in space for 50 years. NASA , this would be so interesting to see how items survive overtime.

  • @dwayne7356
    @dwayne73565 жыл бұрын

    Are there material science questions that can be tested or verified on something that has been exposed to cosmic radiation and cold temperatures for 50 years?

  • @sparkplug1018

    @sparkplug1018

    5 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely. Effects of solar radiation, micro meteorites and so on. That was precisely why Apollo 12 returned hardware from Surveyor 3 to Earth. They wanted to determine the effects of being on the Lunar surface for a few years. www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/documents/NTRS/collection2/NASA_SP_284.pdf Thats the report they generated, or at least part of it. Interesting read, especially that part about the microbes that ended up in the camera.

  • @RCAvhstape

    @RCAvhstape

    5 жыл бұрын

    After the Challenger accident, the LDEF (Long Duration Exposure Facility) was left in orbit for a much longer time than was planned. Eventually it was retrieved by another shuttle and a lot of good data was gathered from it. Since then we've had several chances to visit Hubble Space Telescope and see how it has held up as it aged, and of course Mir and the ISS have both yielded lots of data on long term mission hardware. But Snoopy would be special, since it has been in deep space for five decades, outside of the LEO gravity well and the Earth's magnetosphere.

  • @Bill_Woo

    @Bill_Woo

    5 жыл бұрын

    At first I thought, well duh we have things that have been exposed to cosmic radiation and cold temperatures for 50 _million_ years. Yet knowing the effect of a 50 year slice would indeed be revealing.

  • @ReneSchickbauer

    @ReneSchickbauer

    5 жыл бұрын

    Apart from the stuff already mentioned, it would also give us a very good insight into long term effects on electronics when they are turned off in space. As we send probes ever deeper into space, hibernating (turning off) spacecraft systems becomes more common for the coast phase of those missions. Some of those missions, like "Breakthrough Starshot", with coast phases in the range of 20+ this will become very important. In theory, it could be possible to send a probe (or many, many tiny probes) to another star only powered by solar cells. The probe would turn itself off when leaving the vicinity of our sun, and only get powered up again when it reaches the vicinity of, say, Alpha Centauri. The real question is if we can build electronics, radio- and science equipments that can survive long term exposure to space without power or thermal control. Recovering the Apollo 10 LEM and other derelict vintage space hardware could help us analyze the failure modes and start implementing better designs.

  • @teaser6089

    @teaser6089

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Coldern Ice Not true since if they still work after 8 years in hibernation. You can do a system diagnostic by sending a signal from earth and send the data back. Would only take 14 years. 8 years to get to Alpha centuri(At best) 2 years to send a signal. 4 years to get an answer.

  • @theCodyReeder
    @theCodyReeder5 жыл бұрын

    10:05 ah yes the good ol oberth effect at work. I learned about that from you ya know. Anyway in this case I think of it as some the energy gained from dropping the mass of the fuel down into the gravity well being transferred to the spacecraft.

  • @Hyperlooper

    @Hyperlooper

    5 жыл бұрын

    I love seeing my fave KZreadrs commenting on my other fave KZreadrs. Hope you are well, Cody.

  • @QuantumBraced
    @QuantumBraced5 жыл бұрын

    Imagine if Neil had said "Tranquility base here. Snoopy has landed".

  • @olliea6052

    @olliea6052

    5 жыл бұрын

    😂

  • @stargazer7644

    @stargazer7644

    4 жыл бұрын

    The Beagle has landed.

  • @KermitFrazierdotcom

    @KermitFrazierdotcom

    4 жыл бұрын

    QuantumBraced ☆ "Snoopy is hunched over in the backyard"

  • @MrSpuzzz

    @MrSpuzzz

    4 жыл бұрын

    QuantumBraced I’d have loved it. Totally Americana.

  • @TheScubapez376

    @TheScubapez376

    4 жыл бұрын

    If Snoopy had landed, it would of been Snoopy base 😃. Hence the LiM was called Tranquility that’s why it became Tranquillity base on landing 😆

  • @WoodworkerDon
    @WoodworkerDon5 жыл бұрын

    To safely "capture" Snoopy, if hard-docking points would be difficult, I suggest something akin to the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module on the ISS. Once found and station-keeping with Snoopy, the capture craft would inflate a BEAM-like module to engulf Snoopy. Deflate, at least partially, to softly secure Snoopy within the BEAM, then tow it on home.

  • @TheBonsaiZone
    @TheBonsaiZone5 жыл бұрын

    This is where you need a tractor beam for recovery.

  • @johnnyfavorite1194
    @johnnyfavorite11945 жыл бұрын

    To date, *the Lunar Module remains the only true, human crewed, piloted spacecraft ever constructed,* as it was designed solely to transport and sustain humans only while operating outside the earth’s atmosphere. (NASA’s MMU “Jetpack” wouldn’t count as it has no independent life support systems) All other crewed spacecraft were built to operate in both space and within the Earth’s atmosphere.

  • @tinldw

    @tinldw

    5 жыл бұрын

    Nope. There are & were many space stations with own thrusters

  • @Chris-Workshop

    @Chris-Workshop

    5 жыл бұрын

    one could argue that the stations are all meant to stay in place where they are. and the module actually went somewhere, like from the surface of the moon into an orbit. try that with the ISS ;-)

  • @PrograError

    @PrograError

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Chris-Workshop ask the russian ...

  • @johnnyfavorite1194

    @johnnyfavorite1194

    5 жыл бұрын

    Sergey tinldw Thrusters are necessary for any artificial object expected to maintain a planetary orbit. Does a space station meet the definition of a space vehicle if it is still fully dependent on the earth’s gravity to maintain a low earth orbit while completely lacking any designed capabilities for surface/orbit escape velocity or reentry? The Lunar Module was fully capable of independently maneuvering to and from the command module as well as landing on and launching from the moon. Calling a manned or unmanned satellite a vehicle or spacecraft may be a wee bit of a stretch if it still needs earth’s gravity just to go round and round with no fixed points of departure and destination?

  • @Chris-Workshop

    @Chris-Workshop

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@johnnyfavorite1194 well said!

  • @puremaga17
    @puremaga175 жыл бұрын

    The space poop can only belong to John Young, even though he and Gene Cernan were both Naval aviator's and fighter pilot's, only a combat pilot could carry on the age old Carrier tradition of the "Phantom Shi**er" Thanks Scott!

  • @brettwarren5976

    @brettwarren5976

    3 жыл бұрын

    * _Aviators_ and _fighter pilots_

  • @jimbodeek

    @jimbodeek

    2 жыл бұрын

    Young was in the Command Module Charlie Brown. The poop would probably belong to either Stafford or Cernan.

  • @thomasarledge1933
    @thomasarledge19335 жыл бұрын

    Yes Scott, we need to put the Floating Turd in the Smithsonian. Great Video...... Denton TX

  • @rodgersericv

    @rodgersericv

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's probably alive.

  • @spook_dad

    @spook_dad

    5 жыл бұрын

    I wouldn't like to be the one opening it up

  • @whorton4

    @whorton4

    4 жыл бұрын

    It has been in orbit longer than any human being. Who knows, it may have spawned some hideous space turd monster.

  • @davewilliams1157

    @davewilliams1157

    4 жыл бұрын

    thomas arledge , we could put it next to ground vibration sensors, disguised as animal turds, that were dropped on the Ho Chi Minh trail during the Vietnam War!

  • @clearingbaffles

    @clearingbaffles

    4 жыл бұрын

    thomas arledge give it to Nanci to replace the gavel

  • @thisnicklldo
    @thisnicklldo5 жыл бұрын

    They were correct to change the naming procedure - by now we'd have Lemmy McLemface.

  • @qzg7857

    @qzg7857

    5 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact Stanisław Lem was apolish sci-fi writer. LEM was named kinda after him.

  • @sparkplug1018

    @sparkplug1018

    5 жыл бұрын

    The crews logic for the name was actually pretty solid though. They picked a name that they thought would get children interested in science and space travel.

  • @tubularap

    @tubularap

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@sparkplug1018 -- Good point ! And The Peanuts were very popular then.

  • @dsandoval9396

    @dsandoval9396

    4 жыл бұрын

    What's wrong with Lemmy Mclemface!?!

  • @williamswenson5315
    @williamswenson53155 жыл бұрын

    A frugal approach for recovery might be to proffer a dog biscuit in LEO.

  • @EDEPole

    @EDEPole

    4 жыл бұрын

    A pizza would work better with Snoopy. Nice lateral thinking, thou.

  • @williamswenson5315

    @williamswenson5315

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@EDEPole Thank you. Lateral thought is an inadvertent characteristic of mine. I assume the pizza would be enticing to Snoopy's "Joe Cool" persona. As a big man on campus, he and his minions should be inseparable from that college staple of pizza.....................and beer, of course. Of course? What was I thinking?! You'd end up with frozen/ molten pizza (third degree burns to the palate) and either a beersicle or a mug full of nada. I'm sticking with the biscuit.

  • @davefarless9003

    @davefarless9003

    4 жыл бұрын

    Is that Lower Earth Orbit? 🌎

  • @TheFLOW1978
    @TheFLOW19785 жыл бұрын

    Floaters are the worst. Somethings are better left untouched. Fun video

  • @thiesenf

    @thiesenf

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ghosties are creepy too... The feeling you get when your body just produced something that could compete with the Tsar Bomba and looking down in the toilette and all you see is nothing...

  • @GetUpTheMountains
    @GetUpTheMountains5 жыл бұрын

    Good to see you still playing KSP, I miss that content.

  • @TheHacknor
    @TheHacknor5 жыл бұрын

    Somehow it would seem more fitting if it was ever done to put in on the moon as part of the lunar museum

  • @Kevin_Street

    @Kevin_Street

    5 жыл бұрын

    That's what I was thinking!

  • @ColinPaddock

    @ColinPaddock

    5 жыл бұрын

    That would obviate any need for a return aeroshell.

  • @1FatLittleMonkey

    @1FatLittleMonkey

    5 жыл бұрын

    "That belongs in a moonseum!" "So do you!"

  • @lezzman

    @lezzman

    5 жыл бұрын

    But then the hoaxers wouldn't get to see it since they wouldn't believe the lunar museum exists.

  • @KnightRanger38
    @KnightRanger385 жыл бұрын

    The ascent stage of the Snoopy lunar module is the only ascent stage of the 10 flown lunar modules (Apollo 5, and 9 through 17) still in existence. There are six descent stages still in existence on the Moon (Apollo 11, 12, 14 through 17). The descent stage of Apollo 5, 9 and 13 burned up in reentry in the Earth's atmosphere while Snoopy's descent stage crashed into the moon.

  • @sferrin2
    @sferrin25 жыл бұрын

    I'd rather see a SpaceX Starship bring back Hubble so we can put it in the Smithsonian.

  • @johnfrancisdoe1563

    @johnfrancisdoe1563

    5 жыл бұрын

    sferrin2 Why not resupply and upgrade instead?

  • @dougpowers

    @dougpowers

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@johnfrancisdoe1563 Hubble is an amazing piece of hardware, but she's pretty much obsolete by now. Her sensors are old and her mirror is a small 4.5 square meter, monolithic design. James Webb will have a segmented mirror with a whopping 25 square meters of collection area.

  • @blackhawks81H

    @blackhawks81H

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dougpowers And a total inability to see in the visual spectrum, meaning great for science, but not so great for the awesome beatufil photos, unfortunately.

  • @blackhawks81H

    @blackhawks81H

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bring back both. The sky is no longer the limit. If the US govt can piss away TRILLIONS of dollars directly into the stock market during the sillyvirus pandemic basically to almost no effect, then we can definitely give NASA a much, much, higher budget.

  • @epiccollision

    @epiccollision

    3 жыл бұрын

    ZoeQuinnIsAMurderer you’re welcome to wallow in more poverty...good luck.

  • @Allan_aka_RocKITEman
    @Allan_aka_RocKITEman5 жыл бұрын

    @Scott Manley >>> _"But you know of course it's really something you just want to put into a museum."_ Uh, did you mean the _ascent stage,_ or the _turd?_ 😝😝😝

  • @Jimfoxyboy

    @Jimfoxyboy

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes ;)

  • @hakrsakr
    @hakrsakr5 жыл бұрын

    If Snoopy could indeed be located and tracked, a mission to bring it home would in my(probably worthless) opinion be a fantastic mission solely due to the unique challenges it presents: spacecraft spin/trajectory/condition not fully or not at all known, far enough out to demand an autonomous solution, requires a capture vehicle big enough or clever enough to do the job, requires the capture vehicle hardware to be capable of a decade+ of hibernation in interplanetary space... all valuable lessons, never mind what we'd learn from studying Snoopy itself. Catching and returning something from space that was never designed to come back, or something on a fucked trajectory due to an accident is absolutely something we'll face in the future. And I think it would be better to learn these solutions on a shitty old lunar module than in a situation where lives and/or a multimillion dollar mission is at stake.

  • @proffmongo
    @proffmongo5 жыл бұрын

    Let's just use the spacecraft from "You Only Live Twice" to pick up Snoopy. ~!:^ P

  • @lezzman

    @lezzman

    5 жыл бұрын

    Now you're just being silly...you know full well that Blofeld destroyed the island launching facility before escaping!

  • @KermitFrazierdotcom

    @KermitFrazierdotcom

    4 жыл бұрын

    proffmongo ☆ I think there is at least one "Buran" capable of refit. I'm sure with the Proper diplomatic exchange, something could be arranged to the satisfaction of All parties. Do want the Jet Engine version!

  • @Brixxter
    @Brixxter5 жыл бұрын

    Oh yes... Finally the okulele intro is back

  • @sunnyjim1355

    @sunnyjim1355

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's ukulele.

  • @RoyNBarlow
    @RoyNBarlow5 жыл бұрын

    I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to see the next episode of this where you actually use starship to bring it down to the launch pad now. Pretty pretty pretty please.

  • @jamesmihalcik1310
    @jamesmihalcik13103 жыл бұрын

    I'm amazed at the information available in your videos, always learning new bits and the odd anomaly :) .. Thanks, Subscribed!!!

  • @danyelPitmon
    @danyelPitmon5 жыл бұрын

    I would love to see that lander sitting in a museum like the Smithsonian a piece of earths history of the Apollo moon landing that would be so cool to see

  • @LoricSwift
    @LoricSwift5 жыл бұрын

    "An Insufficient Amount of Gravitas"

  • @tetsujin_144

    @tetsujin_144

    5 жыл бұрын

    When Wernher Von Braun failed to demonstrate a proper appreciation for the seriousness of the situation he was in, his mentor Hermann Oberth was there to offer a gravitas assist. Von Braun later cited Oberth as a great benefit to his productivity, noting that at times it felt as though being in close proximity allowed him to accomplish far more with the same amount of effort.

  • @JohnDangcilGeekWere

    @JohnDangcilGeekWere

    5 жыл бұрын

    Bwahaha, thank you!

  • @a1001ku

    @a1001ku

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tetsujin_144 lol

  • @johngay8416
    @johngay84165 жыл бұрын

    News story today June 10 2019: Amateur astronomers in the UK are 98% sure they've located Snoopy!!!

  • @PeterTangney
    @PeterTangney3 жыл бұрын

    Based on the age old law of 'they who denied it supplied it' it's clear that the floater was from the command module pilot, John Young, who is sadly no longer with us.

  • @richie1326
    @richie13265 жыл бұрын

    Hey Scott, love the virtuoso ukulele intro... you are indeed a man of many talents!

  • @dronillon2578
    @dronillon25785 жыл бұрын

    Another cool history video, thank you. Please, what version of KSP are you using? List of mods would be awesome! Screenshot of CKAN in your next KSP video perhaps?

  • @dvwegner
    @dvwegner5 жыл бұрын

    Best transcript I've read. Multiple turds.

  • @CurtisDensmore1

    @CurtisDensmore1

    5 жыл бұрын

    The best line: "God almighty"

  • @sunnyjim1355

    @sunnyjim1355

    5 жыл бұрын

    "Houston, we have a problem."

  • @C40V15

    @C40V15

    5 жыл бұрын

    "confidential"

  • @skorpius752

    @skorpius752

    4 жыл бұрын

    You notice how there's only three people up there and NONE of them crapped it out. I'm sure it was a close encounter of the turd kind.

  • @Nekroleinchen

    @Nekroleinchen

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@skorpius752 the only explanation is that an alien took a shit into the spaceship

  • @conrailjohn6682
    @conrailjohn66825 жыл бұрын

    Great vid Scott! Hopefully it can come home.

  • @creed7779311
    @creed77793114 жыл бұрын

    I’m so glad you did this video. I’ve always wondered.

  • @reidhulshof3645
    @reidhulshof36454 жыл бұрын

    I can’t be the only one who’s greatly entertained by the fact that things can’t stay in lunar orbit very long because the moon is too lumpy and the gravitational field isn’t consistent enough

  • @ronaldgarrison8478
    @ronaldgarrison84784 жыл бұрын

    If Snoopy spun up to enough RPMs, it may have just flown apart. That would be kind of a drag, but it will be what it will be.

  • @mattc3696
    @mattc36964 жыл бұрын

    This reminded me of the Star Trek film, when they find one of the Voyager probes. Thanks, Scott, as ever.

  • @abelincoln95
    @abelincoln955 жыл бұрын

    Nice!! Love the new intro!! And the content, as usual....

  • @Carstuff111
    @Carstuff1115 жыл бұрын

    Woodstock helping Snoopy find his way home.... that would be epic!

  • @homomorphic
    @homomorphic5 жыл бұрын

    I did not expect this to lead into a discussion of scatology

  • @NZAnimeManga
    @NZAnimeManga3 жыл бұрын

    You're the only KZreadr to pronounce et cetera correctly, thank you.

  • @avejst
    @avejst5 жыл бұрын

    Impressive amount of work Thanks for sharing😀👍

  • @OSalviano
    @OSalviano5 жыл бұрын

    Snoopy, Come Home

  • @ZanderSwart
    @ZanderSwart5 жыл бұрын

    Hey Scotty Thanx for beaming me up again.

  • @CombraStudios

    @CombraStudios

    5 жыл бұрын

    Wait were you the first comment?

  • @ZanderSwart

    @ZanderSwart

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@CombraStudios It is very possible. Maybe the second.

  • @CombraStudios

    @CombraStudios

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ZanderSwart But I need to know it exactly

  • @HorribleHarry
    @HorribleHarry3 жыл бұрын

    I had always assumed snoopy was complete, thank you for clearing that up for me!

  • @rogerrobot9295
    @rogerrobot92954 жыл бұрын

    By the time we catch the LEM, perhaps we'll have a growing space tourism market. Then we can bring it back and put it in an orbiting zero-g science museum. It would be an awesome artifact to go visit. Great work Mike Loucks, and excellent presentation Scott!

  • @TheWeatherbuff
    @TheWeatherbuff5 жыл бұрын

    Scott, you're going to be reincarnated as "Scotty", and you'll end up working on the Enterprise. This is really cool stuff!

  • @fiveoneecho
    @fiveoneecho5 жыл бұрын

    Nobody: Elon Musk: Puts his old car in orbit. Recovers Apollo 10 floating poop.

  • @5Andysalive

    @5Andysalive

    5 жыл бұрын

    Well, poop can fertilze a planet. But who want's a Tesla on Mars.

  • @fiveoneecho

    @fiveoneecho

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@5Andysalive The first life discovered will be a strain of bacteria from the Apollo 10 poop. Snoopy broke the Prime Directive!

  • @whorton4

    @whorton4

    4 жыл бұрын

    What a waste . . .literally. Bill Murray would be proud.

  • @whorton4

    @whorton4

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@5Andysalive Who knows, maybe one day after the earth is destroyed, snoopy will find its way back and crash on earth. . . That delicate excrement may restart the totality of life on earth again.

  • @s.31.l50

    @s.31.l50

    4 жыл бұрын

    Cole Smith 😂😂😂🤦‍♂️

  • @josephjacobs5219
    @josephjacobs52195 жыл бұрын

    You're right about the Lunar Module being thin....I remember years ago one of the astronauts said he had to pay attention, if he moved his foot the wrong way,...He could easily put a hole in the floor.....Also, if you noticed, when Apollo 11 is docking...The medal really looks wrinkled up.....Very light weight......The night Apollo11 landed...We were just kids but we ran outside into the night and looked up at a full moon.....I'll never forget my brother saying...Human beings are walking (right now) on the moon.....We were amazed.

  • @hydewhyte4364
    @hydewhyte43645 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant bit of work.

  • @Kevin_Street
    @Kevin_Street5 жыл бұрын

    Today we propose Project Woodstock - a fifteen year mission that will employ new state-of-the-art capture techniques to retrieve a spacecraft from its long, lonely exile around the Sun and bring it back to Earth. Then we can finally close a chapter in the history books and conclusively determine who dealt it. We're looking at you, Tom Stafford. Soon science will provide the proof.

  • @idontwantachannelimjustcom7745
    @idontwantachannelimjustcom77455 жыл бұрын

    We can do a study of long term corrosion and heat cycling of the module. We can take biological samples to find out if any microbes survived the trip. We could find out if any of the lost telemetry data is still in the computer.

  • @JohnMorley1

    @JohnMorley1

    5 жыл бұрын

    My guess is that we won't have immunity to any new bacteria that have evolved on that turd in all these years.

  • @sparkplug1018

    @sparkplug1018

    5 жыл бұрын

    As far as the telemetry goes, its all still in there, what ever it had stored when it was powered down. As far as bacteria goes, I'm not sure I want to know.

  • @darrinpearce9780
    @darrinpearce97805 жыл бұрын

    I thought I knew all there was to know about Apollo but didnt know about the errant space turd. Seriously, thanks for the video Scott

  • @whoopwhoop3660
    @whoopwhoop36605 жыл бұрын

    Great vid Scott THX

  • @jedigecko06
    @jedigecko064 жыл бұрын

    Earth-crossing solar orbit? Possibly spinning? Sounds like an asteroid capture dry-run to me.

  • @Robert-xp4ii
    @Robert-xp4ii5 жыл бұрын

    (At the museum) Kid: "Daddy, what's that?" Dad: "It's a turd that was inside Snoopy." Kid: 😮

  • @dr.shalabhsaxena4420
    @dr.shalabhsaxena44205 жыл бұрын

    Great video as always

  • @TimeMeddler
    @TimeMeddler4 жыл бұрын

    Wow, excellent video. That software looks really cool.

  • @kaiserredgamer8943
    @kaiserredgamer89435 жыл бұрын

    12:51 Cape Canaveral staff be like: Staff 1: See that "comet"? Staff 2: Yea Staff 1: That's Snoopy! It's back!!! Cernan: *SNOOPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!* OMG I missed uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love u more than my wife!

  • @Mr.Deleterious
    @Mr.Deleterious5 жыл бұрын

    I vote Cooper from Interstellar to dock with spinning Snoopy.

  • @LuigiRBedin
    @LuigiRBedin5 жыл бұрын

    😊👍I enjoy this video. Thanks man!

  • @deanfawcett7113
    @deanfawcett71135 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video!

  • @jonathaniszorro
    @jonathaniszorro5 жыл бұрын

    0:13 someone's thinking about KSP...

  • @NoNameAtAll2

    @NoNameAtAll2

    5 жыл бұрын

    ?

  • @CountArtha

    @CountArtha

    5 жыл бұрын

    Eugene -Kerman- Cernan

  • @ARMAGEDONPRODUCTIONS
    @ARMAGEDONPRODUCTIONS5 жыл бұрын

    A little disappointed you didn't build a Starship and brought it down to the KSC for... further analysis! haha

  • @user-yj7ks9mb1e

    @user-yj7ks9mb1e

    5 жыл бұрын

    It may be part two of a new "Return Snoopy" micro-series?

  • @dannycacciato1234

    @dannycacciato1234

    5 жыл бұрын

    ha, i was thinking that should be starships official test flight or tsting refueling

  • @anarchyantz1564
    @anarchyantz15645 жыл бұрын

    "There's a turd floating in the air". I had never heard about this. Oh my goodness I am absolutely crying with laughter so much I had to stop the video. Seriously something you never think you would hear or read about from NASA. The "it wasn't me£ remarks after made it even more hilarious, I haven't heard anything funny as this in a long time. Talk about give a whole new meaning to the term "its a floater".

  • @realzachfluke1
    @realzachfluke13 жыл бұрын

    11:21 THE FLOATING TURD OH MY GOD!!!! I’m crying and laughing while reading that transcript 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @morskojvolk
    @morskojvolk5 жыл бұрын

    "Listen, it's just a simple thing to do..." bloody Hell.🤨

  • @kunneman
    @kunneman5 жыл бұрын

    Would be interesting to see to whom the poop belonged! I'd put down my tax dollars for that. So many sleepless nights....

  • @theophrastusbombastus8019

    @theophrastusbombastus8019

    5 жыл бұрын

    Forsenic report. Top secret. Fecal matter is not human. Isotope composition do not match with Earth origin. Last meal was chili.

  • @dotancohen

    @dotancohen

    5 жыл бұрын

    More interesting would be to see what biology has grown in it since. That presumably turd did not get the "mash with anitbiotics" treatment that the other turds got, and thus has been a rich nutrient bed with different flora possibly evolving outside the Earth's SOI for fifty years!

  • @akizeta

    @akizeta

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@dotancohen Damn, I don't want to be the guy to open that module after who knows what's been mutating in there.

  • @PiezPiedPy

    @PiezPiedPy

    5 жыл бұрын

    As long as it doesn't end up in a museum :|

  • @ComradePhoenix

    @ComradePhoenix

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@dotancohen we now have the worst possible variation on the classic "scientists accidentally create tiny civilization" trope.

  • @MrGoesBoom
    @MrGoesBoom4 жыл бұрын

    I love watching all these old Apollo clips...is there anywhere online that you can go to binge watch the suckers?

  • @boyurbeegaming36
    @boyurbeegaming364 жыл бұрын

    It works! I was starting to think my Portable Fecal Time Displacement Toilet was a failure. Finally my life’s work was a success. It’s a new age for mankind, we can now send poop anytime, anywhere, anyplace. Nobel Prize please!

  • @vikkimcdonough6153
    @vikkimcdonough61535 жыл бұрын

    7:14 - Could it potentially have spun up enough to have disassembled itself before we got to it?

  • @lucchesi87

    @lucchesi87

    4 жыл бұрын

    with its relatively small length and mass it would have to spin at incredible speeds to generate enough centrifugal forces to tear it apart...

  • @KermitFrazierdotcom

    @KermitFrazierdotcom

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sean McDonough ☆ Just seeing it would prove/disprove that Theory. Like one of those solar bulb spinners from the 60s.

  • @martythemartian99
    @martythemartian995 жыл бұрын

    HEY NASA! Nothing wrong with fun names for space ships. Don't be so full of yourselves. Marty has spoken!

  • @lawrencemiller3829

    @lawrencemiller3829

    5 жыл бұрын

    NASA called the Shuttle the Enterprise from Star Trek, but only after being directed by then president Gerald Ford (h/t Wikipedia)

  • @tetsujin_144

    @tetsujin_144

    5 жыл бұрын

    "Houston, Tranquility base: Landy McLanderFace has Landed."

  • @martythemartian99

    @martythemartian99

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@tetsujin_144 HA! (lmfao)

  • @thegardenofeatin5965

    @thegardenofeatin5965

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@tetsujin_144 Hasn't there been a Probey McProbeFace already?

  • @veterantrader7698
    @veterantrader76985 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant video

  • @ReneSchickbauer
    @ReneSchickbauer5 жыл бұрын

    I would really love to see a video dedicated to the AGS and the DEDA terminal. You know, going into much more detail, showing how the system worked, pictures of the hardware, how it was used etc.

  • @prepperpov5852
    @prepperpov58525 жыл бұрын

    Sure I’ll bring it home just gimme a minute... yeesh

  • @Mr.Deleterious

    @Mr.Deleterious

    5 жыл бұрын

    Love your AR vids

  • @MechE_Emma
    @MechE_Emma5 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video, what navball mod were you using in your KSP instance?

  • @Gazpachian

    @Gazpachian

    5 жыл бұрын

    The navball reskin is part of Principia, the skins may be available as standalones for use with Texture Replacer somewhere but I'm not sure.

  • @DroneMee
    @DroneMee5 жыл бұрын

    I was rrrealy hoping you were going to luanch a Starship and bring it home lol Awesome video as always sir!

  • @dis4815
    @dis48154 жыл бұрын

    This is top class, Mr. Manley! But for an actual recovery mission for something this fragile after literally tumbling around for 50 or so years in space, I think you'll need a veteran human crew and a humungous big rocket to go out to Snoopy, capture it VERY CAREFULLY, and then bring it back to Earth orbit (I don't think it'd survive re-entry, even in a protective shell). That's of course, if it's even intact now...

  • @darkguardian1314
    @darkguardian13145 жыл бұрын

    4:10 Good grief.

  • @MrGoesBoom
    @MrGoesBoom5 жыл бұрын

    I think it's a shame that they decided that the people who built, worked on, and ultimately flew the ships were forced to just pick boring 'important' names...naming them Snoopy and Charlie Brown was fun and interesting I think.

  • @randomnickify

    @randomnickify

    5 жыл бұрын

    ..."tranquility base here, Snoopy has landed"... brilliant way to enter history books ;)

  • @MrGoesBoom

    @MrGoesBoom

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@randomnickify Why not? Why should Eagle ( a bland generic name ) be considered more important, majestic, whatever than Snoopy?

  • @MrGoesBoom

    @MrGoesBoom

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Charles Yuditsky Ok, and why is that bad? Unless you have a dirty mind in which case that's on you.

  • @jimbodeek

    @jimbodeek

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@randomnickify Or how about this: "Snoopy's in the yard."

  • @7775Kevin
    @7775Kevin4 жыл бұрын

    Cool video, thanks!

  • @peterkjaerhtclarsen1851
    @peterkjaerhtclarsen18515 жыл бұрын

    Wow Scott you are amazing

  • @peppeddu
    @peppeddu4 жыл бұрын

    With the human waste left in the module and the sun baking it for 50 years I wouldn't be surprised if you find a new life form developing inside.

  • @stargazer7644

    @stargazer7644

    4 жыл бұрын

    Spacecraft don't generally bake in space. They have to be heated to stay warm inside. There's a lot more empty space at -270 deg C surrounding a spacecraft than there is hot sun shining on one side of it. That's why Apollo 13 froze on the way back from the Moon when they had to turn off the heaters.

  • @WoodworkerDon
    @WoodworkerDon5 жыл бұрын

    Send James Cameron to go find Snoopy. He thinks he's the greatest explorer of all time. Earth could spare him for however long it might take him to track down Snoopy and get a leash on him.

  • @Hyperlooper

    @Hyperlooper

    5 жыл бұрын

    I could actually see him doing this.

  • @epiccollision

    @epiccollision

    3 жыл бұрын

    Then the earth would be without James Cameron for years, that’s a net positive any way you shake it.

  • @Bobshouse
    @Bobshouse5 жыл бұрын

    I'd forgotten all about the poop incident, thanks for the memories and the laugh.

  • @a32k57
    @a32k574 жыл бұрын

    Space is it's new home. Maybe land it on the moon, finally.. otherwise- by the time we expend the effort to catch it, we could just put it in A more stable solar orbit.. and enclose it in an orbital exhibit.. in space it's dramatic effect. It's so hard getting things to space, I hate bringing it back down, that's risky too.

  • @Zerbey

    @Zerbey

    4 жыл бұрын

    Maybe when we finally get a Moon base they can pop it in a museum there.

  • @SnowTiger45
    @SnowTiger455 жыл бұрын

    Anything to do with Space Travel is "over my head" !

  • @fod3er
    @fod3er5 жыл бұрын

    I was wondering if it could still be pressurized

  • @JohnMorley1

    @JohnMorley1

    5 жыл бұрын

    No, it would have been depreasurised since leaving the astronaut's bottom.

  • @fod3er

    @fod3er

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@JohnMorley1 lol are we talking about the same thing? i was on about the capsule

  • @sparkplug1018

    @sparkplug1018

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@fod3er Considering how they let it go, its doubtful that it would still be.

  • @marzsit9833

    @marzsit9833

    5 жыл бұрын

    when they cut snoopy loose, the hatches on both spacecraft were closed. the reason they used the explosive bolts to separate the spacecrafts was because this was strictly a hardware test mission and they had to test the explosive bolt system in zero-g to see if it worked. grumman lunar modules were built out of thick aluminum foil over a tube frame, if snoopy's hatch were open the rapid decompression would have been visible on the video of the separation and most likely would have ripped the lem apart a bit. it probably isn't fully pressurized after all this time but it may have some pressure differential.

  • @ColinPaddock

    @ColinPaddock

    5 жыл бұрын

    marzsit Also, I’m pretty sure the telemetry showed it was still pressurized. After 50 years, between micrometeorite bombardment and spinning wildly from YARP, that thing probably doesn’t hold air.

  • @johnmccnj
    @johnmccnj4 жыл бұрын

    "By the time we get to it, it's highly likely that it's spinning on it's own."

  • @K-Effect
    @K-Effect5 жыл бұрын

    It does need to be put into museum

  • @dr_birb
    @dr_birb5 жыл бұрын

    I got clickbaited as a fan on Snoopy.

  • @geoffreylee5199
    @geoffreylee51995 жыл бұрын

    LEMs have a lot of aluminium in the structure.

  • @Lashb1ade
    @Lashb1ade5 жыл бұрын

    "The famous Apollo 10 Floating Turd... it's really something that you just want to put in a museum," - Scott Manley.

  • @fred_derf

    @fred_derf

    5 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if Snoppy has been vented to space, if so that would be one freeze dried poop!

  • @PTNLemay
    @PTNLemay5 жыл бұрын

    Hey Scott, did you have to do anything special to your install of KSP to get it to run stable? Or do the mods you have here work together right out of the box? I know with realism overhaul sometimes it needs a lot of fine-tuning.

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