Of all the computers ever made, from the Babbage Engine to the Apple Watch Ultra, the Apollo Guidance Computer and DSKY will always be my hands-down favorite. I think it’s indisputably the single greatest, most majestic and indelible moment in the history of electronic data processing.

@CuriousMarc

Жыл бұрын

Well said @JordanOrlando, well said!

@KeritechElectronics

Жыл бұрын

A joy for ever.

@RevMikeBlack

Жыл бұрын

It's definitely on the top shelf.

I can imagine Marc going into a museum like this with a notepad, writing down which parts/modules they'll need for the next big restoration project ;-)

@T_Mo271

Жыл бұрын

Like an optimistic shopping list.

If I were in charge of any kind of space museum and CuriousMarc or any of his teammates showed up, I would get them a ladder or anything else they wanted, including letting them reach into the CM for unobstructed pictures! They are doing more than anyone has done in years to revive and preserve interest in the Apollo era.

@murda2999

Жыл бұрын

He was too modest, but should have said, "do you know who you're talking to? There are 154,000 people that follow every word that I say!" He could have taught that docent a thing or two.

I was fortunate to work for a sub-contractor that made the LEM trainer. I installed all of the interior electronic components. After everything was installed, a final check was made to make sure all was well. I sat in one of the couches and observed everything in operation. That was over 50 years ago. NEVER forgot it!

“Too large to convert to metric.” Love it.

@honkhonk8009

Жыл бұрын

The hilarious part is, that most companies in the US for technical stuff, would just use metric anyways, and then convert it to USC for the packaging/datasheets.

I had many business trips to Seattle before retiring and always tried to leave one afternoon free to visit the Museum of Flight. Just seeing the SR-71, Concorde, and lunar lander was worth the admission price!

Hat tip for the "Blue Danube" during the re-entry segment. I, too, have a pic of myself in the SR-71 cockpit at the Museum of Flight. It's...cozy. I can't imagine how much "fun" a 12-hour mission in a space suit would have been. I visited the Kennedy Space Center museum last year...they have the full Saturn V Apollo stack, from F1 to capsule, laid out horizontally, so you walk "up" the stack. Those engines don't look any smaller when they're 15 feet above you. That's some impressive technology, and even more impressive, as you mentioned, that it was all developed within 7 years.

@CuriousMarc

Жыл бұрын

The SR-71 cockpit is exactly as you say - so ridiculously small for such a giant aircraft!

I visited the Museum of Flight last year and was amazed--it's second only to the National Air and Space Museum as a collection of air and space artifacts (at least among places I've visited), and in some ways it's better. Unlike the NASM, the main building with elaborate contextual exhibits and the hangar-like facility for displaying really huge objects are right across the street from one another, instead of being many miles apart. The collection of airliners you can tour (including the first prototype 747 and LBJ's Air Force One) is amazing, as is the Space Shuttle trainer from Houston where you can walk through the completely outfitted payload bay. And I really liked this Apollo exhibit too.

Thank you so much Marc for this wonderful tour with your fine comments. I enjoy these tours very much since I won't be able to visit there myself. I wish I could.

@CuriousMarc

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

The Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan also has an F1 engine. Theirs is mounted on a stand, and you can walk underneath the nozzle and look directly up into the combustion chamber, with the injector plate clearly visible. It's an awesome thing. Air Zoo also has an SR-71 in a very dramatic display.

Imagine getting a personal tour by CuriousMac. Complete with ladders and elevator music.

I have built to-scale lego versions of all of the crewed rockets from Mercury-Redsrone to the Saturn V-Apollo, and when I put the Redstone next to the Saturn I couldn't believe I got it right. Had to get calipers out and measure, the difference in size was so staggering. And yeah, that was less than 10 years. Having them all be to-scale really makes you appreciate the amazing achievement of the Apollo program.

Very cool to see the exterior finish of a command module without the scarring of re-entry.

The companies that built these capsules were all so proud that they carried out the refurbishments of most of these vehicles at the factories where they were made after the apollo/gemini/mercury programs to put these capsules on display shortly after the program

I was there in 2019 they had Apollo 11 Capsule on loan from The Smithsonian Museum. I love all of your content on Apollo. I was 10 years old on my birthday when they landed on the moon.

I'm sure I'm not alone in my request for even more detail. This was fantastic!

I was there in '94, but I don't remember much, other than sitting in a F/A-18 fighter jet mock-up and seeing the first 747 sadly rotting outdoors then. It is possible that the Apollo exhibits were not much back then... Gee, will I spend a couple of days there if I ever return! Thanks for the visit!

@MariusStrom

Жыл бұрын

It's gotten much better in the last 10 years. The Prototype 747 (and prototype 737 and 787) as well as a number of other aircraft are now sitting outside but are covered by a tall roof structure that keeps a lot of the "outdoor rot" at bay. The Museum has been actively restoring/maintaining the exteriors on these early aircraft as well, it's really nice to see.

@MattMcIrvin

5 ай бұрын

@@MariusStrom Their airliner collection is almost overwhelming (no doubt the beneficiary of the association with Boeing), and you can walk inside of several of them. When I visited, the one major part of the museum that wasn't accessible was the historic original Boeing shed that it was built around, which was under restoration work. I'd like to go back and see that.

@MariusStrom

5 ай бұрын

@@MattMcIrvin yep, the Red Barn is open for business! We’re at the museum about once a month 😄

In 1977 I lived three months in Washington m.d. Where I spent a wonderful vacation with my family. I used to go to the space science museum every day. I remember there was a video of a person sunbathing and the camera got so close that it penetrated into the cell and then zoomed out into deep space. I was amazed. Then I would visit normal and eat an "egg McMuffing". ..and yes i had the impossible dream to be an astronaut.

@CuriousMarc

Жыл бұрын

Oh I remember that incredible video. Takes you from inside atoms to outside the universe. A grand classic.

@MattMcIrvin

5 ай бұрын

"Powers of Ten", by the classic architects and designers Charles and Ray Eames! I think what they had on display at the Air and Space Museum was the initial black-and-white version; there was a more elaborate color version made later. In 1977, the National Air and Space Museum (in its current building) was very new and was a jewel of Washington, DC's massive Bicentennial tourist enhancements. The Metro had also just opened. It was a great time to be there.

the wife and I drove up to seatlle a few years ago to attend a concert. on the way back I stopped at this museum to burn a few hours and get some photos. We ended up spending almost 6 hours there. It is a very awesome museum with some amazing volunteers. It was soooo much more than I thought. If you are going anywhere near this museum and are a aviation or space enthusiast, It is worth a visit.

Tom Lipton painstakingly recreated that venting valve from the original drawings for Project Egress. And he did it very much the same way that the original one was made.

@CuriousMarc

Жыл бұрын

Yep saw the video!

Next time I get to the west coast I should really try to get to this museum. I live just a few hundred yards into PA from the MD state line and have relatives in Washington DC. Every time I go to DC I make sure I make time to go to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. It is a breath taking display of technology. If you ever get to Washington DC you have to reserve at least one full day for the Air and Space museum. I have been to it over 5 dozen times in my lifetime and hope to visit it at least that many times more. Seeing the Wright Brothers flyer to Apollo 11 command module to the Space Shuttle Discovery to a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird and countless other display objects it's a aeronautical and space flight nuts dream come true. They could set up a cot for me in the back corner of the museum to sleep and I could walk through every day for the rest of my life and never get bored. An astounding 100+ years of technological advancements in one gigantic display.

@antronargaiv3283

Жыл бұрын

...and don't forget the Udvar-Hazy [sp?] Annex! That's where the Blackbird is. Also, when in Ohio, DO NOT MISS the Museum of the USAF at Wright-Patterson AFB. It is a wonder to behold a hangar that makes a B-52 look small. And there are all sorts of interesting things there, including a V-1 Buzz Bomb and the Me-163 (rocket) and Me-262 (jet) fighters.

@MattMcIrvin

5 ай бұрын

And in New York City, there's the USS Intrepid Sea/Air/Space Museum, a collection of military and civilian aircraft and spacecraft (and one submarine) on and around a vintage aircraft carrier, which you can also explore.

Im in New Zealand and I have not been to the US but would love to see these museums that you have. I feel for you, I can imagine the temptation to get into that capsule. Thankyou for filming this from a geek perspective for those like myself that wont get to see it

@KeritechElectronics

Жыл бұрын

Same for me - no stuff like this here in Poland...

@RikkiCattermole

Жыл бұрын

It is a bit strange that we don't have anything, considering Christchurch Airport was rated for space shuttles and we produce some of the fuel.

@KeritechElectronics

Жыл бұрын

@@RikkiCattermole that's quite interesting :)

@campbellmorrison8540

Жыл бұрын

@@RikkiCattermole I didn't realise that but I guess they had to have emergency landing options just in case and CHCH is a base for US Antarctic etc cheers

@owensmith7530

Жыл бұрын

@@KeritechElectronics The Science Museum in London has the Apollo 10 capsule and a LEM mockup, this is closer to Poland and maybe easier for you to visit. There is also an RL-10 engine on display.

As a 10-year-old Boy i was in Ah when I visited Kennedy space center in Texas. got some vintage photos standing next to Saturn 5 rocket. coolest thing ever as a 10-year-old could see. My Late Aunt, and Grandma took me. was the same year a Flew SOLO as a KID from Pitt, (stop over Chic.) then onto Texas. try that now be lucky that kid makes on the plane. Any ways, these museums are Awesome. love the walk thru.

@MattMcIrvin

5 ай бұрын

My kid actually did it multiple times to visit her grandparents in Virginia! It's still possible, there are just a few more forms you have to fill out with the airline in advance. You get a special authorization to go through security with them to the gate, and the same for whoever's picking them up at the other end.

If you manage to reassemble the Apollo coms back together I really hope you will be able to give a proper place in a museum to the whole system and the work you did

I went there right before Covid. Man, i remember going on the simulators they had there. It was really fun.

I would have expected the docent to recognize you and say he's a subscriber

Thanks for your narration and technical observations, Marc! 👍👍

My dad worked on those engines at rocketdyne!!!

There's something to think about when you look at the model of the Saturn 5. ALL 363ft (110m) of that machine left the ground. That's the length of a football field plus end-zones. The only part to come back was that little capsule at the top, the rest was discarded.

thank you for all the work you have in your video .

I think I need to go to Seattle ! Great display

Very informative video. On a side note, it is a bit baffling how despite of all this space technology being preserved and on display, there are still people out there who will claim that the Moon landing was a "hoax".

Love this place. It's so much better than the museum in DC. I haven't been in a few years, looks like there are new things to see. I should take my kids back.

"Take note Elon ... none of this flat-screen buttonless rubbish" - well said

Saw the Artemis launch from about 12 miles distant. It was absolutely spectacular.

Some Serious Engineering went into the Apollo Hardware. And it was done, as mentioned in a Very Short Period of Time. No Astronaut was ever Killed by a Saturn Rocket, which considering the Amount of Energy it held, is Impressive. All that went out the Window when the Shuttle Design was chosen.

Thanks, Marc. A great tour. I've got to get over their across Puget Sound someday to see it. Looking forward to Part Two.

Nicely done Marc. Thanks for all the time spent detailing the control panel. Can’t wait for the next installment.

Excellent, thank you! Looking forward to the next installment.

I've been to Kennedy and Huntsville, I am planning to go to Houston and now I need to add Seattle. Great video.

Thanks for taking us along :)

Absolutely fascinating, thanks for that!

My father worked for Rocketdyne in Canoga Park, CA, on the Space Shuttle main engines. They used to have one of those Saturn V F-1 engines out in front of the facility. Extremely impressive.. For those who know, it looked like a Jack Kirby machine!

Awesome, hope to visit it one day, one more reason to finally go for this US bike roadtrip.

Need to go back...worth several days at least! They had to kick me out, as usual.

@CuriousMarc

Жыл бұрын

Me too...

That was great, many thanks for sharing

Awesome museum!

Thank you. That was great!

Quite awesome to see!

I've heard that the F1 engine was found more than 2,300 fathoms deep in the ocean. That footage of the engine parts on the seafloor is incredible.

@dwarftoad

Жыл бұрын

It looks like the short film it's from can be seen here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/n4ml0pKpoK7eeps.html

@Steve.M

Жыл бұрын

Like alien technology in an equally other-worldly environment.

C’est tellement bien, merci!! 🎉

I visited that museum last month killing time for a flight home. It's an awesome aviation museum with GIANT exhibits indoors and outdoors. Well worth the $25 fee to get in. Easily 2nd best museum behind Air and Space Museum in DC.

Amazing! Thanks so much!!

I would highly recommend you to check out Reentry an orbital simulator. This is an extremely realistic Apollo simulator, where the systems in particular have been extremely accurately reproduced. Really incredibly great, this simulator

Amazing!

Thank you SO much!

Whooooooa, you always keep impressing me. Thanks to Fran and you, I fell down the Apollo rabbit hole recently, going through documentation whenever I have spare time and mental resources to do that. 0:10 6:15 7:00 DSKY time. Is the cyan one from Fran? The ingress/egress door, the F1... things of beauty indeed. 16:08 you nailed it. That's how you do it!

@CuriousMarc

Жыл бұрын

The cyan DSKY is from Ben Krasnow at Applied Science. He has a video on how he made it.

@KeritechElectronics

Жыл бұрын

@@CuriousMarc that's cool, gonna watch that one!

All this I took absolutely for granted as a child. I didn't have any real ideas of the technicalities, but I had seen Fireball XL5 on TV so I was a little disappointed that there was no robot in the Apollo programme. (Great theme tune If you've never heard it or seen the opening which is available on KZread and other modern spoof versions).

great vid!

"If I bring a functioning Apollo S-band communication system to this place, would you let me connect it to the color camera and investigate the lunar rover communication?" :)

@supersonictumbleweed

Жыл бұрын

In fact... Maybe I'll just drive it to my place real quick?

I have a feeling you would like the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL. Just a sneaking suspicion ;) Only a couple miles down the road from MSFC too!

That's so weird. I've been an Apollo fan since watching Apollo 14 and 15 on TV (I missed most of 16 and 17 because I was old enough for school then).... And in all these years, I've never noticed the CM had forward-facing windows.

Marc, if you haven't already been, you must make a visit to the Kansas Cosmosphere. You will not be disappointed

@CuriousMarc

Жыл бұрын

I have not! I must go!

@thesteelrodent1796

Жыл бұрын

@@CuriousMarc maybe a second channel is needed. Museum Tours with Marc :D

Very nice!

The "Colour" TV Camera was just a B&W Camera, with a Colour Pinwheel spinning between the Lens and Imaging Tube. Only a B&W Signal was sent to Earth, the Color was reconstructed, and resulted in about an 11 second Delay between the Live Feed and the Colour Feed, when viewed on the Monitors on earth. Inside the Control Room, I believe only the B&W was present

Awesome museum - I had a few hours to spend at the end of a business trip there before my flight home and I almost missed my flight. Definitely visiting again and allowing a full day. They have a lot of Russian space hardware as well. A must see....

Geniuses and their sense of humor!... _SpuriousMarc!_

You should have brought the really long selfie stick for shooting the interior of the Apollo Command Module (CM) ;) "The Museum's Apollo Command Module, known as CM 007 and CM 007A, is the first production-line capsule delivered to NASA for testing and training. It was originally identical to the Apollo 1 Block 1 spacecraft 012, which experienced the fatal fire. After impact and acoustic testing at the North American plant in Downey, California, CM 007 was delivered to NASA's Manned Spaceflight Center in Houston, Texas on April 18, 1966. It was used for water impact and flotation tests in the Gulf of Mexico. In 1967, CM 007 was sent back to North American for modification to Block II configuration. It was re-designated CM 007A and returned to Houston for qualification tests of the redesigned hatch and other changes mandated by the Apollo 1 accident review board. The module was also used for a 48-hour open water test, crewed by astronauts James A. Lovell, Jr., Stuart A. Roosa, and Charles M. Duke, Jr. in April 1968." Scource: www.museumofflight.org/spacecraft/north-american-aviation-one-apollo-command-module-007A

On your way back, the evergreen museum in McMinnville is a must.. with a lot of russian space program actefacs.., and even a lunokhod… I don’t know how they got this one…

@jnelson4765

Жыл бұрын

That is an amazing one for sure. The SR-71 display is mind-boggling.

I fully expect you'll be posting any day now about the F-1 engines you picked up at an auction to go with the other things you picked up, and scheduling your moon landing using all refurbished hardware...

“NASA isn’t what it used to be” - the understatement of the half century.

Definitely looks worth a look around. The F5 engines, did you know that the centre one only ran for 30 seconds?

I don't know why my brain just decided to remember this. There is, or used to be, a Boeing surplus store near this museum. My dad found it by accident, and it was the coolest store I've ever seen. They had wind tunnel models of 747s, random bins full of electronic components and bits of machined aluminum. When I was older and had a car, I went back to try to find it and never could. This was before Google, I could probably just google such a thing now if I'm ever in the area again.

08:25 I like the concept of these window markings, similar to the LPD in the lunar module. Is this what's used for the "horizon check" that's mentioned in the recordings?

You need to go to the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL. You can see the rockets full size there :)

must be interesting looking into the capsule and realizing that you guys are the most recent people to work on that hardware...

Do the Smithsonian please! I've never been for I live very far away and ur a great tour guide :)

Great video, getting to see this hardware preserved in a museum is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing as I don't know when I will be able to go see in person. I get what you mean about the difference in development time and money between the Saturn V and SLS, those engineers designing and building the Saturn V really did work miracles back then. Keep in mind though that SLS has had to survive multiple presidencies and each administration's effect on the program. Whereas when President Kennedy was assassinated after making the announcement of going to the Moon by the end of the decade, it cemented that it was going to be accomplished no matter the cost. It's also a very well-known fact that Boeing is nowhere near what it used to be when it comes to delivering a product of quality in a timely fashion. That being said I do agree that SLS could have been done with a little more haste.

thank you for giving us a glimpse and taking us with thru the tour - and I really LOVE the metric-imperial jokes =D you got me with the 4.3km is too much for british imperial =D *thumbsup

Someone who has obviously grown up on the metric side making jokes about the engine size being too large to fit when converted to metric - you just got to love it. 🤣

Is that an LCD clock in the command module?

2:35 What's even more crazy is that the US was fighting the Vietnam war at the same time it was developing the space program.

Anyone else thinking of a museum heist plot that involves fixing and using the Rocketdyne F-1 as the getaway vehicle?

@antronargaiv3283

Жыл бұрын

Make sure you bring enough fuel 🙂

Oh yes, physical buttons! Please! Please!

wow

Omg, I wanna climb into a blackbird too!!!

Just a small issue: I'm not sure what is causing it, but when you're panning the zoomed in shots (especially of the lunar lander) the framerate seems to drop considerably. I found it quite distracting and hard on my eyes. Apart from that, this was really awesome. I can only imagine how amazing it would be to see all that stuff in person.

@thesteelrodent1796

Жыл бұрын

think that's probably caused by the stabilization on his camera

@supersonictumbleweed

Жыл бұрын

Most likely an artifact of filming in artificial (flickering) light.

6:46 these were built by the instrumentation lab in Cambridge mass, I know this because my dad helped build them.

@CuriousMarc

Жыл бұрын

They were! Kudos to your dad.

Take me with you next time.

If the equipment you have played with in the past is any indication if you powered the equipment in that capsule would wake right and work.

@thesteelrodent1796

Жыл бұрын

that capsule was only used for splashing around in the ocean to see how long it would float, and whether the crew would survive. It likely does not have all the functioning equipment aboard, if any at all

Please tell us that you met the chief curator and left them your card and planned to help them with a future working display incorporating their slo scan camera with your Jurvetson hardware?…

I love just down I-5 near Portland, why dont I make the quick trip to nerd mecha? I want to spent 2 days alone in the phone interchange hahah

how deep is that in fathoms ?

kool :)

😱

Lol just went there a week ago, 4 hours wasnt enough time

Thanks for sharing. From a Brit who was lucky enough to have a trip round Kennedy recently, saw SLS rolled out, and stuck around to see a nighttime SpaceX launch as a bonus! I'd love to see that recovered hardware too!

NASA is still what it used to be its budget is only like 10 of what it was in the 60s and building moon rockets with a budget of 2 billion a year is very hard.

10:30 "Too large to convert to metric" lmao

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