Can you imagine being one of these men just out in the void hundreds of thousands of miles from Earth and stuff starts going wrong like this? Jesus Christ. These guys had nerves of steel.

@jameskeyes9112

5 ай бұрын

Armstrong's save on the Gemini mission. Dude was in a hard place, but used his skills to save the mission.

@rundownaxe

3 ай бұрын

Without taking anything away from their incredible story. It's isn't like they are not used to working through problems. I large part of their training clearly is exactly that. I would be curious to know the number of hours / days they have spent troubleshooting and preparing contingencies for every situation in the simulator.

My Dad designed the redundant guidance systems for the Apollo program. It was used on ONE mission. He died a year ago. I didnt know until after he died. Engineers dont brag much.

@lunarmodule5

5 жыл бұрын

Hats off to your Dads work... regards LM5

@dks13827

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for all of that. Where did he live ? What company ?

@chrzoc

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a bit vague, there was several guidance redundancies in apollo for various modules...Are you speaking of the AGS? The LM redundancy to the PGNCS? Because that was used I believe 4 times for various reasons (including testing) or the analog IMU guidance computer in the instrument ring adjacent to the top bulkhead of the S-IVB? That was only used from the temporal period of launch to S-IVB sep. Did he work for TRW? I think there may have been one other obscure redundancy that had some connection with tracking the Delta-V variances induced by the ulage motors or RCS to normalize the trajectory / P22 position calculation but I could be totally off on that, it’s been a long time since I went that deep. Whatever the case pretty cool. If you find out which specific system let us know

@andrewsstation6436

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like your dad was a very humble man. I am very sorry for your loss.

@MrGrace

2 жыл бұрын

RIP to pops 🙏🏿

“Nice work.” “Let’s hope it was.”

@EdWeibe

5 жыл бұрын

eerie isn't it? 12:20 to above comment

Much different than the movie! Cool heads in control for sure--

@josephweiss1559

Жыл бұрын

No time for difference of opinions with limited oxygen

@animula6908

5 ай бұрын

They had a job to capture the real life drama of days and portray it in a couple of hours, and they’ve always said they hoped it would spark interest that leads to deeper research and understanding. So I forgive them. They did an excellent job dumbing it all down enough where kids like I was could enjoy the movie and follow the action.

The burn is at 11:25 into this video.

@asabry4126

6 жыл бұрын

And lasted 2 seconds haha.

@10Exahertz

4 жыл бұрын

@@asabry4126 13 seconds

@Moutopher

4 жыл бұрын

@@asabry4126 it lasted 14 seconds

@hobbitassassin1

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate :)

@joby19881

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that!

I love how you do this - you bring these missions back to life in ways that the history books and TV movies/documentaries just haven't done. Having the real transmissions alongside the ORBITER animation really puts things into perspective. Keep it up!

@lunarmodule5

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ferrari - its a time consuming passion! But I think it looks ok and am glad it puts it into perspective.

@SKOMediaGroup

7 жыл бұрын

This is absolutely wonderful, what you have done with these missions. I've listened to and watched the Sts-1 series. First time through Apollo 13... Amazing work!

@F-Man

7 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah. The STS 1 series is just as riveting as this Apollo 13 series. STS 1 truly was the "ultimate test flight!"

@incargeek

6 жыл бұрын

Ferrariman601 “The worlds greatest all electric flying machine” :)

@lunarmodule5

5 жыл бұрын

@@SKOMediaGroup thanks SKO

Wow. It's amazing how focused and unemotional these men are. (They almost sound bored with all the goings on.) I suppose that's essential if you're in a craft out in space where split second timing and thinking on the fly are necessary for survival.

@evanfinch4987

9 жыл бұрын

That's one of the main criterion on which they were selected.

@flyingfixed

9 жыл бұрын

Evan Finch I thought it was because they were gud at space.

@PMLGLeadTheWay

9 жыл бұрын

flyingfixed Their background was as test pilots...very cool and calm.

@Zoomer30

8 жыл бұрын

It's called "hypothermia". Makes everything more mellow.

@ArthurDent0042

8 жыл бұрын

At this point, the temps hadn't yet dropped so much -- the powerdown hadn't yet been completed.

Love this series. Thanks for uploading them!

@lunarmodule5

5 жыл бұрын

You are most welcome Craig.. regards LM5

Thanks for the video LM5. I appreciate the amount of work that goes into producing them. Looking forward to the next in the series.

@lunarmodule5

10 жыл бұрын

You are welcome as always Larry - next one will be up in a week or so!

I really appreciate you putting these together. It's a level of documentation that I think is vital for keeping what happened 40+ years ago alive. I am so passionate about these missions and love what you've done. Keep it up.

@lunarmodule5

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment Alex - I am aiming to complete the Apollo 13 series by Spring 2014! Its taken longer than I thought it would but hope its all been worth it.

@sanjayyashwantsohani4820

5 жыл бұрын

Yes the paperwork was amazing.The way they modified Carbon Dioxide Scrubbers with the material available onboard is just like Sci-Fi but TRUE.

@prof.hectorholbrook4692

2 жыл бұрын

Agree.

I remember visiting the Cape with my Dad when I was about 17 and saw Apollo 13 on the launch pad a day or two before takeoff. I went to Melbourne Fl. to vist my new college ( FIT) and my dad wanted to see the Cape after seeing the school. While looking at the Saturn V standing there in all of its majesty, I remember saying to my dad something like: Me: "Dad, I have a bad feeling about this one" Dad: "Why"? Me: "Why don't they change the number from 13 to something else?" My dad just shrugged his shoulders. Miss you Dad.

@sanjayyashwantsohani4820

5 жыл бұрын

Actually the mission could not achieve moon landing but LUCK or more correctly the paperwork down on Earth was so AMAZINGLY accurate that the crew could be directed to land on Earth safely.

@-danR

4 жыл бұрын

It was a _good_ mission inasmuch as that although it failed in a landing, many of the landing objectives were recovered in later missions, it served as an irreplaceable template for learning to devise protocols on-the-fly for when things really go really wrong; but nothing went wrong that proved fatal. In the balance it was the best of all worlds.

@xdg6451

Жыл бұрын

Hmm I’m the 13th person to like your comment and it makes me wonder if anybody took their “like” back after realizing they were #13?

Fantastic end of year treat! Thank you my friend!

@lunarmodule5

10 жыл бұрын

You are most welcome - Have a great 2014 Keno

This is pure gold! Thanks for the effort in putting this all together!!

@lunarmodule5

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks for the memories, I was almost 14 at the time. I've been absolutely fascinated by space ever since. I was fortunate enough to have worked on Titan II missiles at Davis-Monthan AFB when in the Air Force. The technology even when built in the early 60's was awesome. Thanks

Excellent. Thank you for making and posting this. Apollo was the greatest accomplishment of our time.

@lunarmodule5

8 жыл бұрын

+G.Gordon Woody u r more than welcome...thanks for taking the time to comment

Thank you for this great series.

@lunarmodule5

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks Francois! I appreciate the comment and am determined to get the series done asap

LM5, Thank you for the memories. When I heard the news on the radio I was driving a Triumph Spitfire on Jones Bridge Rd to UoM.

Animation is first class. Gives an appreciation of what was physically happening.

Thanks for assembling this. Well done, better than the movie as this brings insight into the training and professionalism of mission.

Love those audios great work!!!!!

@lunarmodule5

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bramston

This was really over-dramatized in the Apollo 13 film. It was made to seem to be extremely time-critical and there was crew discord portrayed. In the movie they were having a helluva time just keeping the spacecraft pointed the right direction. And they had to slam off the engines at some precise moment to lock in a survivable trajectory. Damn you, Ron Howard!

@jacobcastro1885

3 жыл бұрын

Jim Lovell spoke to Ron Howard about that. Ron explained there's not a lot of ways to convey the stress to the audience other than over dramatization, especially for a general audience. Jim agreed, and the argument scene stayed. It's a movie, not a documentary (although I prefer the documentaries).

@KingdaToro

2 жыл бұрын

The timing does need to be precise, the final delta V can be adjusted with RCS after the burn but only to an extent. What wasn't accurate was all the maneuvering they did during the burn, rather than just getting it pointed in the right direction before burning the engine.

one of the coolest conversations that ever happened

@markschaumann3012

4 жыл бұрын

That's a firm...

Absolutely brilliant what a great piece of space history.

@lunarmodule5

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Paul...glad you liked it... regards LM5

what a heck of a job!!! thank you !!!!

@lunarmodule5

10 жыл бұрын

What a heck of a comment!! Thank you! ;-)

PTC Passive Thermal Control; also known as the Barbecue mode, in which the LM/CSM stack was oriented with its long axis perpendicular to the Sun so that, when the spacecraft was put into a slow rotation around that axis, heating and cooling would be relatively uniform.

@lunarmudule5: Outstanding as usual! Thanx again!

@lunarmodule5

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks Diego, appreciate your comment

I would never have been considered for the astronaut corp because I would not have been able to keep from saying," Hey, I can see my house from here!"

Excellent history. It's crucial that the real story, minus Hollywood melodrama, be preserved. Thank you.

@lunarmodule5

3 жыл бұрын

welcome Brian

There should be a lot more likes I feel. Good video

I was given an Omega Speedmaster as a BD gift on July 30, 1969, just after the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. Since it was built before the mission it didn't have the "first watch on the moon" logo on the back. But it was one of the first 861calibre Speedmasters made after the change over from the Lemonia 321 cal. around October 1968. Aldrin's Omega had a 321 cal movement on the moon so technically, the 861 is not the original "moon watch" even though subsequent lunar moon walks may have been with Speedys using the 861, I'm not sure. However, I have every reason to believe the Apollo 13 burn was timed by the 861 Cal. movement. I'm trying to find out from the Omega Museum because I can't find the answer anywhere else. Only true Speedmaster dorks, like me, would care but to me it's important to know the true history. DPA

@Skive_67

3 жыл бұрын

Did you ever find out?

if you listen real close when the PAO is updating you can hear how "busy" Mission Control was during this evolution...

Gene Kranz’s book gives a bit of background to this. At this time the crew were desperately tired and in need of sleep, but the burn was essential as was the PTC (passive thermal control) which followed. The PTC had never been done before using the LEM and Mission Control was aware that a very tired crew could make mistakes. Gene Kranz and his fellow controllers knew the PTC was needed to avoid hot spots and cold spots developing in the spacecraft which could damage it, and there was a big row between Gene and Deke Slayton as Deke was insisting the crew had to have a sleep period immediately but Gene knew the safety of the spacecraft was more important so the crew had to wait and get the PTC going which was far from easy.

The movie shows the SM pointing towards the Earth when they perform the burn but they still have the Earth in sight on the LM window!

it's insane that they're just telling them the info to put into the guidance system, like verbally, frickin walky talkies. totally awesome however

Aquarius was the most beautifully named Apollo craft.

Like being there !

Reason #1636 why I couldn’t be an astronaut...I would have been freaking out during the entire mission (post-oxygen tank burst)...

Watching the movie they made it seem like it was a wild ride the manual burn the two of them trying to control it. Listening to this is was way more stable then the movie. And sounded like Mission Control had them burn then count the number of pulses to re align it on earth.

I remember having to watch the moon shots, they postponed some of my favorite shows just to show them. I thought they needed to take a vote on how many want to watch these same old moonshots and how many want to watch the great shows that were on at the time, let alone saturday morning cartoons.

Real heroes know math

I remember this day and later after the splash down someone in Houston realized that they forgot about the added weight before the burn...the moon rocks they would have brought back.

@MuckyWaters

6 жыл бұрын

I doubt it's true, there was a lot of weight and balance changes they would have had to account for, after all, they flew with the LEM attached to the command module all the way back to Earth using the LEM's propulsion system. I'm sure with all the recalculating they had to do and the things they had to account for they took into account the fact that they didnt land on the moon and pick up any rocks.

@Uejji

6 жыл бұрын

No, the moon rocks thing was invented for the film. In the real mission, the reentry attitude differed due to venting from the spacecraft

@MasterChief-sl9ro

5 жыл бұрын

Not true. I heard them talk about it. They had to align the CM using a Sextant. Which had to use the Earth as the reference point. It also had to be done as soon as possible. As the closer they got to earth. The more accurate they had to be and used more fuel. So they were just few degrees off. Which is why the blackout lasted so long. On reentry... And the space craft never drifted. All the oxygen bottles were empty. Before they went around the moon...

An excellent reminder... Before you communicate? Before you navigate? Before you operate? Before you survive...

lunarmodule5--saw your request for information on the barbecue roll on collect space so you could represent it correctly in the animation. More kudos!

@lunarmodule5

8 жыл бұрын

+Evan Finch Yeah I didn't get much of a response so I gave it my best guesstimate based on what the transcripts said.....I thought that was the best way to do it..

I came here because i didn't believe the crew would have been so excitable and panicky as portrayed in the movie.

Still cannot imagine living in the lunar lander when it was almost nothing more then an paper bag in space.

How do they define a direction? Spherical coordinates? What are the axes? What are they labeled?

Thanks so much ;...I grew up watching all this .Maybe you did also....Quite a time.....Apollo 8 was one I remember vividly;.....That was the best Christmas ever. First guys to ride the Saturn 5........This space stuff was center-stage framed by all the greatest rock groups and music that may ever come .......and our government occassionally made the right decision.

@jeffreyhinkel3490

9 жыл бұрын

jeffrey hinkel or one everybody could live with

@lunarmodule5

9 жыл бұрын

jeffrey hinkel Hi jeffrey - I was just too young to have seen this; appreciate your comments - I will point you in the direction of the Apollo 8 series which is now being produced.....hope you like that one too - regards LM5

@jeffreyhinkel3490

9 жыл бұрын

I can't really remember any of the Mercury or Gemini stuff but that 1968 Christmas was so exciting.......I had the Revell model of the Saturn 5 and it rolled down between my bed and the heating unit on the floor and partially melted the Ist stage.........I was mortified.......9 years old you know !!!!

@djackman4229

9 жыл бұрын

jeffrey hinkel Yes, I remember the XMAS 68 one also at age 11 as very very special. When they read from Genesis - in the beginning was the heaven and the earth it was exactly right and very profound.

@jeffreyhinkel3490

9 жыл бұрын

dale jackman That may have been the Christmas i got the Saturn 5 model from Revell !......I accidentally let it roll down between my bed and a floor unit space heater and the bottom of the !st stage melted !!!!!!......Oh my god !!.....I was so crushed.....That was a big deal at 9 years old.

The art of the capcom . . . to convey complex information in simple sentences in reassuring tones. Had the capcom hesitated or fumbled or doubled back this would have put the wind up the astronauts and maybe caused them to panic . . .

@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars

5 жыл бұрын

That's where you show how little you know about the astronauts. Capcom was actually one of them, in fact one of them, on this mission, was the original Command module pilot. He'd trained with them for over a year. That's why they can talk in shorthand.

It's funny how they ask them how much correction they needed to do and they said "oh 6 or 7, we only went off a couple degrees" compared to the movie where they fly all over the place.

@Noyoki

2 жыл бұрын

Still a terrifying thing to think of with the situation since a few degrees being mostly out of the pull of either the earth or moon gravity means slingshot at best, flying away at worst. Fortunately, it's also an easy recorrect

@respectdawildo_danjones508

2 жыл бұрын

Lovell verified that the movie had to dramatize it and that there were other events he thinks were more critical

Just so I am not mistaken, is it correct to say that the LM was not directly pointing at the earth during the burn? Instead it was pointing somewhat perpendicular to the earth?

I'm years late for the video.... Just curious about something. I read that Katherine Johnson (African American woman who was a "computer") helped with Apollo 13. I thought I read that it was with guidance for a burn using the stars. Is this the burn? Or was there another area where her calculations helped? Thanks!

I was a sophomore in high school when this actually took place.

@AnnBearForFreedom

4 жыл бұрын

Ha! I was in 5th grade! Yeah, I'm an old cuss, lol

@thickdickwad7736

Жыл бұрын

You are a very Old man !

okay fred, wait to burn

LM-5? Is that Eagle on Apollo 11? Given that the first manned lunar module was 3 (Spider) on Apollo 9, Aquarius would have been LEM-7. LEM-9 didn't fly because the original Apollo 15 mission was scrubbed and LEM-10 became the first J-mission lander.

Better than the movie. The actors portray too much hysteria.

I wonder if they ever tested the Command Service Module engine. Once it was disconnected to see if it was damaged. Not that it mattered. They could not control it once they powered it down..

@lunarmodule5

5 ай бұрын

You answered your own question - once they powered down the CM there was no way to fire the engine - If electrical power from a fuel cell had been available I am sure that they would have looked st the engine - fuel levels/oxidizers etc but I somehow think, that, even then, they would have had second thoughts using it - its all conjecture but good fun to think about

@WizzRacing

5 ай бұрын

@@lunarmodule5 They powered it back up. But I doubt they had any way to signal it. As once the CM is released. All the communication went with it..

I believe the wildly overdramatised burn in the movie was because they needed viewers who are completely uneducated on spaceflight/physics/aviation/anything relevant, needed to know that if that burn didn’t work how they needed it to, they’re dead. The massive amount of stress displayed in the movie at that moment made it clear to anyone, even a child the ‘gravity’ (no pun intended) of the situation. A further example of this is why the movie shows the news reporters explaining in very basic layman’s terms just how narrow that entry corridor was. I don’t believe it was intended to make the astronauts look like they weren’t able to keep a level head or anything like that.

@kyleburnett4795

2 жыл бұрын

This is just incorrect. If the burn didn't work how they needed it to, they could have just done it again.

The burn was something like 24.5 secs right? Was it computer controlled for accuracy, or manually fired?

@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars

5 жыл бұрын

It was entirely manual.

@ericcsn

3 жыл бұрын

exactly 14 seconds. manually timed by the famous Omega Speedmaster Professional watch that are issued to astronauts and which are still used today

The movie portrays Fred Haise as shivering with a fever in a thin jumpsuit. It seems odd they wouldn't have put him in his EVA suit or pressure suit like a blanket. Any thoughts?

@ArthurDent0042

8 жыл бұрын

Fred developed a urinary tract infection. All three astronauts were "connected" to the urine collection system for longer than originally intended because overboard urine dumps were stopped so as to avoid interference with position fixes from the ground. Only Fred got sick from this, however. They thought about putting their spacesuits on, that would have been too much cover -- they would have overheated. Without any way to wick away moisture, they would have gotten damp with sweat. They would have eventually had to remove the suits -- cold and wet is far worse than just cold. There weren't any blankets or other sources of cover (I believe that was remedied on future flights).

@daffidavit

6 жыл бұрын

You would have thought they would have put on their space suits and taken them on and off just before they started to sweat. Not completely off, but down to their knees just before they started to over heat?

@forthector7188

6 жыл бұрын

you're living in a couple of phone booths with 3 dudes and no towels, and the air just recirculates--never really freshening because everything is turned off to save power. You've got exactly one set of clothes. Once you get them wet, they are wet the whole way home m8. Worth the risk? Why when you can just huddle together for a bit.

@Nghilifa

6 жыл бұрын

I saw a interview with Fred Haise a while back. He stated that he used the Lunar Over-Boots to retain some body heat. When asked if he shared his boots with Jack Swigert, the CMP (who didn't have any, as he obviously wasn't going to walk on the moon) , he simply answered "no". That was a little funny!

@bigdrew565

5 жыл бұрын

the problem was, they wouldn't have been able to run the suit compressor. overheating would have been a problem. and if you're cold, the worst thing you can do is start to sweat. it just messes you up even more. And what would have they done for Jack? he could have put his pressure suit on, but no place to plug it in, regardless.

This was significantly less dramatic than in the movie...

@Vsor

2 жыл бұрын

Thank god the movie wasn't realistic. I would have slept through it. Even the guy at 13:00 sounded like he was falling asleep.

This was to reset free return. Do you have a clip on the PC+2 burn?

@lunarmodule5

8 жыл бұрын

mj...it is included in the series

@Nghilifa

6 жыл бұрын

This was the PC+2 burn. The burn to get them back on the free return trajectory happened before they passed behind the far side of the moon, before they had shut down "all" of the systems. This was the only manual burn in the flight, and it had to be done in order for them to re-adjust their re-entry trajectory.

21:49 Lovell frustration? actually I think he's talking about taking a good poop.

I thought this video was going to explain the manual burn itself, in terms of what exactly it was and why it had to be done and anything else about it. I think I understand it, but I want to be completely certain. It's nice to hear the actual transmissions from the actual mission. But unless we understand more exactly what it is and what it meant/means, it's difficult to understand it as a whole.

@ZooNamed123

6 жыл бұрын

chrisgast the burn was to speed up the crew's flight home. Without the burn, they would have returned home far after the ran out of life support.

@Nghilifa

6 жыл бұрын

No, this burn was to adjust the re-entry angle, hence why they are burning perpendicular to the direction in which they are travelling.

@sanjayyashwantsohani4820

5 жыл бұрын

A little knowledge of Spherical Geometry,some physics and one can appreciate their work,really great.

@AnjektusStudio

Жыл бұрын

Then go and watch a documentory then If you like to understand more. Their like 123456789 docentorys here on Ytube.

I'm curious why the craft is perpendicular to the moon and Earth in the backgrounds, even burns - would you think they should be pointed at the Earth to get there? Also are they in BBQ mode, I see a mild rotation perhaps to keep the temps stable from sun's heat

@TheBetito123

6 жыл бұрын

Matt Schademann Actually i think it was to adjust the reentry position so they dont enter directy at earth instead to make them enter in an angle

@maggou90

6 жыл бұрын

The problem was, that they were a little too slow so the earth would move away from them over the days. They had to burn perendicular to the earth to adjust to the earth moving, otherwise the entry angle would have been too shallow.

@Nghilifa

6 жыл бұрын

It was to adjust the re-entry angle. If they had burned directly towards the earth, they would have raised the trajectory to such an extent as they'd miss the re-entry corridor and instead end up in a highly elliptical orbit around Earth, running out of consumables before re-entry. Most burns (in any lunar mission) were perpendicular to the motion of the spacecraft, the exception being the lunar insertion burn and trans-earth injection burn.

@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars

5 жыл бұрын

They were flying a ballistic trajectory. The ship was pointing towards where the earth WOULD be when they got there.

The movie made it seem much more dramatic. In reality it was bearly a burp.

@jamesneilsongrahamloveinth1301

6 жыл бұрын

The capcom is translating the urgency, the anxiety and at times confusion in Mission Control into clear commands and reassuring soundbites for the astronauts. That was his job. Without that the astronauts would have panicked. For the whole picture one needs to listen to the Flight Director's Loop. The audio is preserved uncut and covers the six or so hours following the oxygen tank blow-out. It is available on KZread. Check out 'Apollo 13 Accident - Flight Director Loop'. After listening to this one realises what a pale shadow of the real thing the film was.

@Zoomer30

4 жыл бұрын

@@jamesneilsongrahamloveinth1301 Yeah, I've listenes to it a few times (actually cast it to my TV) One thing the loop reveals is how long after the TV show that the accident happens (even the NASA film shows it happening right as they end the show) Even after they request the stir, it's quite a few mins. You can also hear some "static" that many have been the initial short (not the famous sound you hear at 55-54-53)

@warprat

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesneilsongrahamloveinth1301 I listened to that... really revealing. Those guys at Mission Control really saved the crew's bacon.

Forgive me if this has been answered already. It sounds like there is a news reporter covering this the whole time. Was there a radio station that you could listen to to hear the entire mission? I have watched Walter Cronkite's five hour broadcast for when Apollo 13 returned to Earth but never got to listen to this. It's fascinating

@erichaynes7502

2 жыл бұрын

Great question I'm pretty sure the networks only provided updates for the 3 -4 day trip back to earth..until those last 5 hours then it was continuous. NASA did install systems in Astronauts family houses so the family could hear what going on, this was done for every mission.

@respectdawildo_danjones508

2 жыл бұрын

I think Houston had a PR rep for the handheld nasa radios that were public to break down the language

@CaptainBuzzBee

Жыл бұрын

To me, it sounds like you are referring to the NASA public affairs officer. This was all before NASA TV and the internet. I believe this was all just for the media to listen to on-site.

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to find the people who disliked this and ban them from the internet permanently?

@Tsumami__

6 жыл бұрын

randomunavailable uh they’re probably mostly children who did so

@TowGunner

6 жыл бұрын

Those are conspiracy whack jobs who believe we never went to the moon. There’s nothing better than seeing Buzz Aldrin punching one of them in the face.

@kurtfrancis4621

6 жыл бұрын

Ban them from Planet Earth!

@tomdick693

6 жыл бұрын

yeah, you can find them.....they're called "liberals"

@SaltyChip

6 жыл бұрын

You never hit the wrong button on a touchscreen? People don't realize how many accidental downvotes are just because of fat fingers or accidently touching the screen. Plus old people...

Very cool but this is a famous and famed event in space travel not an infamous one.

What’s Lovell saying at 8:00? “I hope the guys in the back room who thought this up….?”

@itsbmeGaming

10 ай бұрын

“ right, knew what they were sayin”

This was like literally balancing a broom on your hand and if you mess up then you would end up dead. This is what years of training in the military and up to the mission has taught you. I mean you think landing a plane on an aircraft carrier where's it's night, it's raining, and there is wind that's hard enough as it is that 99.9% of people couldn't do. Now doing a manual burn literally blind only using the earth as your guide and doing it in 10 seconds.

@kyleburnett4795

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure why you're saying if they messed up they'd be dead. If for some reason they were off on their course correction they could have done it again.

@Heytherebuds

2 жыл бұрын

@@kyleburnett4795 not sure of they had enough fuel to correct and land it

All of these calc's performed on a slide rule.

@HooyahPeacock

2 жыл бұрын

Yes because calculators weren't invented yet. Not a big deal.

@HO-bndk

Жыл бұрын

A slide rule is a calculator!

35:31 "We should have some good dope on your trajectory in about two hours.." I keep forgetting that back then 'dope' meant 'information' and drug culture would morph it into it's current day usage, haha.

I imagine that all the crazy conspiracy people think this is all fake too.

So the burn was a hell of a lot shorter than than the movie showed 😂

Question: I get the impression that most of the NASA personnel felt the service module was dead and even a real source of danger. Why then was all that dead weight carried so far through the mission?

@Nghilifa

6 жыл бұрын

The heatshield. The heatshield wasn't designed to be exposed to a vacuum for that amount of time. That's one of the reasons. There are probably several more.

@retrocny5625

5 жыл бұрын

@@Nghilifa This is the main reason, absolutely. They weren't sure if the heat-shield was damaged in the explosion or not, and even if it was they'd have had no way of repairing it so they just had to take for granted that it was OK or they wouldn't be alive to tell the story anyhow. Also, from what I understand, the heat-shield was not designed to go through the extreme temperature swings that occur in space between sun-light and shadow. So they kept it protected via the service module until they needed it. The service module is usually jettisoned at the last possible minute before re-entry but in this case, they had to jettison it first because they needed the lem to survive, they didn't want to start using the re-entry batteries until absolutely necessary and they wanted to document the damage that occurred in the explosion in the SM. In most other missions, the LEM would be jettisoned while in lunar orbit and made to crash into the surface after the orbit eventually decays. In this case, Aquarius burned up in earth's atmosphere. Apollo 10's lunar module is still out there somewhere, in an orbit that takes it around the sun. At least the ascent stage is, and people are trying to locate it still to this day. Some say it may have found it's way back and burned up in earth's orbit but that hasn't been verified from what I know. So yes, they didn't jettison the service module because they wanted to keep the heat-shield protected for as long as they had to, just as they would've if they had landed on the moon and ditched the LEM after they left the surface.

COULD SOMEONE EXPLAIN ALL THOSE NUMBERS/

@forthector7188

6 жыл бұрын

more like longitude and lattitude of which direction the spacecraft is pointed relative to the stars in the background. Angles, with all zeroes corresponding to a direction perpedicular to the orbit of the earth around the sun.

Damn, it was nothing like in the movie...

Oh, and by the way this was done by slide rule kids.

@ct92404

5 жыл бұрын

Ha, well yeah true to a point. But the Apollo spacecraft DID have a computer onboard. It was simple and very primitive by modern standards, with only crude displays and keypads (called the "DSKY") but it was able to do calculations and automatically operate some of the controls during the flight.

test pilots. This is why they required test pilots.

You showed everything BUT the burn.

@lunarmodule5

9 ай бұрын

the burn is shown...about 11 mins in

the 3 astronauts did put up with a low temperature for most of the trip coz of the low energy available question: how come in other missions they had to start the bbq roll so the capsule doesn"t get too warm on one side only? this is not a tricky question.

@lunarmodule5

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Andre - The two situations you are describing are separate - the low energy available was a consequence of the LM systems, designed for a maximum of 2-3 days use for 2 astronauts having to be conserved for 5 days for 3 astronauts. The low temperature was more to do with the fact that they turned off the heating system in the LM to save battery power. They turn nearly everything off after the burn in this video except the radio and the system for oxygen etc and periodically to try to use the LM thrusters to get into the orientation relative to the sun for a BBQ mode attempt. The BBQ mode was an attempt to evenly heat the entire spacecraft with the sun, not specifically to heat the interior, more to ensure that the various metals the two spacecraft were made of didnt warp or come out of shape if exposed to the sun for too long and conversely didnt get too cold. The BBQ roll was discussed in the hours after the initial accident, within Mission Control and they decided to risk not initiating it until the burn was over and then attempt the BBQ mode using the LM thrusters. There was also the issue of the SM still venting which was causing erratic attitudes. Also, they agreed that the spacecraft being in one attitude (or many because of the venting issues) would not cause a thermal issue. They did eventually get into a fairly stable BBQ mode but it took quite a bit of trying by Lovell and Haise to finally get it right. Over many hours the roll would become pitch and yaw because the centre of gravity offset by using the LM thrusters had not been well practiced in simulators, if really at all. I would recommend listening to the next instalment of my Apollo 13 Flight Director Loop series (part 8 to be released soon which covers the accident and the 3 + hours afterwards) and thereafter subsequent episodes - you will find those conversations being had by the Kranz and Lunney flight control teams and in subsequent episodes you will be hearing the procedures for what they did ref BBQ mode initiation. Hope that helps!

@gives_bad_advice

Жыл бұрын

@@lunarmodule5 awesome. thanks for the details. btw, how do you know so much about the details? were you involved? just a buff?

What would have happened if they used the SPS instead

@ZooNamed123

6 жыл бұрын

CptMikeTango likely, a very big boom. It's hyperbolic meaning the fuel ignites on contact. If there's a leak of any sort or the fuel mixes outside of the ignition chamber and engine bell, it could be disastrous.

@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars

5 жыл бұрын

@Zoonamedgames: I think you meant hypergolic. The engine bell was damaged, although they didn't know that. However, they couldn't take the chance.

A lot less exciting than in the movie.

@TimothyOBrien1958

8 жыл бұрын

***** Oh, I'm sure there was a lot of sweating going on. But those men were professional. None of the nonsense that went on in the movie actually happened.

@ryan49er1

7 жыл бұрын

Plus no James Horner music in the background. It would of made for a sleeper if they went by their actual moods and actions.

@blueb0g

7 жыл бұрын

Worth pointing out that the Apollo crew, especially Lovell, didn't think that the movie was nonsense at all. The fact of the matter is that this was all very dangerous, and the crew were indeed scared and stressed, but a film needs to convey that to the audience - doesn't work so well if we just see a bunch of very professional men with little outward sign of excitement. That doesn't make the film innaccurate, it's just portraying something visually.

@TimothyOBrien1958

7 жыл бұрын

Ben Kolbeck I'm a film maker myself and I know for a fact that there was only one way to show the internal stress. And it's not a documentary. It's a fiction based on true events.

@Emper0rH0rde

6 жыл бұрын

The movie brings out what the astronauts were *thinking.* They didn't have time to be emotional, but they knew if they didn't get it right, they would die.

How disappointing. The movie made this burn seem much more intense and uncontrolled.

@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars

5 жыл бұрын

It's called dramatic licence.