I met Buzz Aldrin with my Daughter about 14 years ago. He took time to talk to us. He's a very nice guy.

@cmte.brazinazzo2061

4 жыл бұрын

I met him at Safety Standdown course from Bombardier. 2012. Nice fella. No, that was Eugene Cernan ...

@MegaGronis

Жыл бұрын

a very nice man.

THANK YOU! Love the NASA Gemini films.

Another great NASA film from the day. Was a kid then, what a time to be alive!

Great men back then

Please accept my humble thanks to you for providing these videos! I have learned - or relived - so much history just watching your channel .... multiply this by all the other wonderful history-based channels out there and, well ... just thanks!! :)

We need to thank the people at Environmental Research Associates (ERA) for developing this concept in the early 1960's.

@turecomuerde

4 жыл бұрын

We need to thank the dudes that made the stop motion at the beginning of the film too.

@stargo2931

4 жыл бұрын

State of the Art!!!!!

@stargo2931

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂🍀

Fantastic work on this film. Thank You for your efforts!

Thanks for this... Buzz Aldrin came to NZ in 2010 and spoke about his experience in space.👍🇳🇿

@PeriscopeFilm

2 жыл бұрын

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I remember it (and all the others) very well.

Aldrin said he got the nickname “Buzz” as a child when his little sister would call him “buzzer” instead of “brother”. He had his name legally changed from Edwin to Buzz in the early 1980s. Asteroid 6470 Aldrin and Aldrin Crater on the Moon are named in his honor.

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After touchdown, I first heard the term "Paramedic." It was the term used by NASA (and others, I assume) to describe the medics who parachuted in or jumped out of helicopters, to assist the astronauts after their capsule landed. Tagging firefighters as paramedics was funny to me, at the time.

I'm old enough to remember all the early manned missions and followed them closely. Mercury, through junior high school and Gemini during high school. I was working by the time Apollo started. No more faking being sick to stay home and watch space launches! Anyone notice all the cigarette smoking done by the mission controllers? No shame back then! It was taken for granted and almost expected.

I would liked to have watched this when I was reading Aldrin’s book, Magnificent Desolation.

Buzz literally wrote the book on rendezvous procedures. Good thing he did since the G12 computer crashed on them and he had to do the calculations manually.

@dennispickard7743

2 жыл бұрын

Ahahahahahahaha 😂

The young men shall have visions and the old men shall have Dreams........The Word.......think....

Those were heady days for the Gemini project as it passed the torch to the Apollo moon rocket program and preparations for Apollo 1 simulations and launch rehearsal that ended so tragically the lives of Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Ed White only a little over two months later on January 27, 1967. as they trained for a Feb 21, scheduled manned launch of the first Apollo mission.

Mens' faces have changed. These guys are all quite young but look like mature men. Nowadays people look like they've been babies all their lives.

Looks Trully

Buzz Aldrin, Dr Rendezvous.

If I hear this guy say "Jimminy" one more time... PUKE!!!!!

@VideoNOLA

4 жыл бұрын

GEM-in-knee and JIM-in-knee sound virtually indistinguishable. Why so bothered?

@TheProgrammerGuy

4 жыл бұрын

@@VideoNOLA ... Because it's Gemini (do I really have to do this?: Gem-in-EYE)

@VideoNOLA

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheProgrammerGuy Ah, I see where you're coming from. Lots of people do (mis)pronounce it that way, and that's acceptable, but the formal pronunciation is ˈje-mə-(ˌ)nē orˈge-mə-ˌnē

@TheProgrammerGuy

4 жыл бұрын

@@VideoNOLA In all my life I have NEVER heard it pronounced that way. www.bing.com/videos/search?q=how+do+you+pronounce+gemini%3f&view=detail&mid=034F749280B62FDCF2A5034F749280B62FDCF2A5&FORM=VIRE

@johnchildress6717

3 жыл бұрын

I agree.one was a cricket the other a space capsule.

If I'm not mistaken...both these former famed astronauts of this Gemini mission are still around (as of 8-31-2022).

1960s and 70s were the periods where USA was very ambitious with its space exploration program. Unfortunately, they've been wasting too much money waging war.

Interesting how every controller had their own ashtray.

The fifth American astronaut to make an extravehicular activity in space was Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.

The Gemini Twelve splashdown was shown to America by television.

15:50. Aldrin cleans up the work area by simply tossing his tools and work pieces overboard to add to the orbiting junkyard in low earth orbit.

@marcleblanc3602

2 жыл бұрын

These engineers are environmentalists. Its like the good old days in earth.

@lukestrawwalker

2 жыл бұрын

There was no "orbiting junkyard" back then... besides most of the stuff in LEO will end up reentering and burning up anyway-- orbital lifetime depends on many factors, including the orbital altitude of the perigee and apogee, and mass vs. surface area of the object in question... the larger the surface area to mass ratio, the faster its orbit decays. Small objects have much higher surface area for their mass than larger objects for the most part (particularly when it comes to densely packed satellites which put the most mass in the smallest possible package-- manned spacecraft have TONS of empty space inside filled with air, hence are lower mass for their size due to all the empty space, which is why spacecraft like Skylab's orbit decayed faster than anticipated) so their orbit decays faster. Of course the higher it is above Earth, the slower the orbit decays due to less collisions with air particles in the exosphere. Later! OL J R :)

Praises are sung so casually; hardly a hint of how freakin' dangerous it was (is) to ride a liquid-fueled bomb. Into space.

@marcleblanc3602

2 жыл бұрын

come on, not one exploded up there, even long trips to miss moon were A1

@lukestrawwalker

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcleblanc3602 Well Apollo 13 had an oxygen tank explode, but that was mostly due to a series of unfortunate events that took place on the ground. First during the design phase the voltage of the spacecraft systems was increased from 48 volts to 65 volts, but somehow the circuit breakers in the oxygen heaters were never changed to the new standard. Second, the oxygen tank in question was dropped about 2 inches or so during installation into the Service Module during assembly. No damage was noted so it was assumed to be in good shape. Later during a wet test (with liquid oxygen in the tank while on the launch pad) it became evident the the tank WAS damaged internally because the suction line inside the tank, designed to allow the liquid oxygen to be pumped out of the tank at the test's conclusion, wouldn't pump the liquid oxygen out-- it was either cracked or broken, acting like a broken straw when trying to drink soda from a cup. The tanks were SO well insulated that the liquid oxygen would not boil out of the tank on its own, and the tank could not be switched out on the pad, requiring the entire rocket be rolled back to the VAB for a tank switchout, which would have delayed the flight and cost millions. Engineers came up with a "brilliant solution" and decided to use the cryo-stir tank heaters to BOIL the liquid oxygen out of the tank, so they turned the heaters on and monitored the tank pressure as the liquid oxygen was boiled off into gas and vented overboard. The oxygen was boiled off, BUT the tank heater circuit breakers, which were designed for the 48 volts rather than the 65 volts that the spacecraft was switched over to, quickly welded themselves shut due to excess arcing when they opened. The engineers had assumed that the circuit breakers would work correctly and open the heater circuit when the heater got too hot, preventing any problems. With the contacts welded shut, the tank heater temperature SOARED to over 1000 degrees, burning the insulation off the wiring inside the tank. Unfortunately the temperature gauges inside the tank only went up to about 100 degrees IIRC, so as the oxygen boiled away in the tank the gauges were soon "pegged off scale high" and couldn't show the extremely high temperatures. It was something of a minor miracle it didn't blow up on the pad and destroy the spacecraft. As it was, they liquid oxygen was boiled out of the tank, and the heaters turned off without incident, and the engineers were none the wiser that the interior wiring inside the tank had been burned to a crisp. None of the wiring melted or shorted, so there were no outward indications that anything was wrong. The mission proceeded, and the next time the tank was filled with liquid oxygen was shortly before launch. The mission lifted off, and over the course of 55 hours enough liquid oxygen had been used out of the tank to lower the level sufficiently that the burned wiring was exposed. When the cryo-stir of the tank was ordered and the tank fan turned on, the exposed wiring shorted out inside the tank, ignited in the high pressure vapor oxygen also present in the tank, and ignited a fire which quickly blew the tank apart, critically damaging Apollo 13. The rest is history. The chain of unfortunate events wouldn't be discovered until the investigation after their return to Earth. The faulty tank itself reentered and burned up along with the crippled Service Module shortly before Apollo 13 returned, but the documentation allowed the chain of errors to be reconstructed afterwards, and steps taken to ensure it couldn't happen again. Later! OL J R :)

@marcleblanc3602

2 жыл бұрын

@@lukestrawwalker ...sweet apollo... and not wiki? think all rockets have something to explode, even X15. Still better than the Apollo 1 adventure :) Strange with the SUN they had to create heat. So hardly a hint of Airplanes casulty even by ratio as of mechanical failures, or even flaws, even including a Shuttle....

@eddievhfan1984

Жыл бұрын

While the Titan II's fuel and oxidizer were damned toxic to humans, their hypergolic nature meant that in a failure, the fireball wouldn't be as big as liquid hydrogen/oxygen or kerosene/oxygen.

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The Gemini Twelve command pilot was James A. Lovell, Jr.

@SciFlyGal

Жыл бұрын

Why Are You Typing This Way?

Buoyancy

@e.c.listening326

4 жыл бұрын

Oh buoy...

Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. was the fifth American astronaut to make an extravehicular activity in space.

What was a boob tube in 1966 lol.

@jamesbugbee6812

2 жыл бұрын

A television set.

Been a Trekky since the hi-chair.....50yrs old now.... CBS please try to keep the orig "flow"....originality(traditions).....dont drift too farr....I liked "Enterprise" Mr.Bacula.......stay on that course.....Yours, Original Starfleet Kidd......lol good work anyhow....

Man, NASA spent a fortune on models, simulators and everything needed to make these videos. Buzz in orbit all turning his head around and making hand gestures like "ok" in a pressurized suit in a vacuum. People didnt know enough about it then to argue it so it kept going.

@tgstudio85

6 ай бұрын

*Buzz in orbit all turning his head around and making hand gestures like "ok" in a pressurized suit in a vacuum.* What is so strange in that kiddo, between vacuum of space and our atmosphere there is only 1atm difference not a big deal.

@lukestrawwalker

Ай бұрын

IF you bother to educate yourself you'll begin to understand and appreciate how it was done and how things work(ed). For instance, the helmet on the Gemini suits could actually swivel with the astronauts head because they were VERY close fitting, unlike the later Apollo suits which could not, but they were larger so the astronauts could turn their heads INSIDE an Apollo helmet with no problems. I've put on a Gemini helmet and it's tighter than a motorcycle helmet. They simply used a bearing and seals in the neck ring to which the helmet locked to allow it to swivel. It amazes me nowadays, with the sum total of human knowledge literally at our fingertips 24 hours a day via the internet thanks to cell phones and computers, that people are literally more ignorant and technically illiterate than ever before... It's really sad and pathetic. When I was a kid if I wanted to know something I had to go to the LIBRARY and do research, check out books, look it up, and WORK to obtain information... Now it's all instantly at our fingertips and search engines can do the work for us, h3ll with voice to type you don't even have to type it into the search bar anymore, but people are TOO D@MN LAZY to bother to look anything up... BUT they're never too stupid to promote absolutely IGNORANT and ridiculous nonsensical garbage conspiracy theories that fly in the facts and simple common sense. Absolutely pathetic... But then again, as a wise man once said, "To primitive minds, any sufficiently advanced technology will appear to be magic"...

It’s pronounced gemin-eye not gemin-ee

@lukestrawwalker

2 жыл бұрын

Tell that to all the astronauts that flew the missions, the Mission Control teams, the scientists and technicians and engineers working on the program, and the managers overseeing the program... they all called it GEM-I-NEE! SO there! OL J R :)

@operatorjeffdeathstar7759

2 жыл бұрын

@@lukestrawwalker Americans are not the gold standard for education, how do you pronounce the astrological sign? The same way chum...LOL

@lukestrawwalker

2 жыл бұрын

@@operatorjeffdeathstar7759 Who gives a shit about astrology?? Bunch of fake crap. Guess that explains a lot about the quality of your response LOL:) OL J R :)

@lukestrawwalker

Ай бұрын

Unless you were in the GEMINI (gem-i-NEE) program and worked inside NASA. Outsiders called it 'gem-in-EYE'...

@lukestrawwalker

Ай бұрын

@@operatorjeffdeathstar7759 Who gives a sh!t about stupid fake astrology?? Only uneducated fool trolls...

Still funny to see people smoking cigarettes.

Everybody smoke. All dead now.

@lukestrawwalker

2 жыл бұрын

Not all... plenty of those guys still around. OL J R :)

Oddly enough, none of the astronauts who landed on the moon could remember how they felt about their experience. NONE OF THEM. EVER. NOT ONE. ... .. .

@bwanabwana9523

4 жыл бұрын

Lee James the one and only. , idiot

@leejamestheliar2085

4 жыл бұрын

@@bwanabwana9523 With a moniker like yours, surely I might ask, who is the idiot? Are you from the Philippines? Your name reminds me of a type of fish. Get out of your parents house and get a job, and then LEARN SOMETHING. .. .

@erastusturnipseed1097

4 жыл бұрын

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4 жыл бұрын

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@marcleblanc3602

2 жыл бұрын

@@leejamestheliar2085 Men in black or aliens? Who wants to remember body probing?

Anyone still buying this crap ? ..Its old stop motion Notice the swiveling helmet lol

@jamesbugbee6812

2 жыл бұрын

Return to benthic depths and continue to eat marine waste; Y R U so afraid of the reality of the space program? Is a flat earth threatened?

@marcleblanc3602

2 жыл бұрын

It is hard call as genuine, that curve sure is slight, now they got gigantic curves.

@dennispickard7743

2 жыл бұрын

Marc LeBlanc I’m afraid there are those who believe this garbage .

@dansv1

2 жыл бұрын

Gemini helmets had a rotary seal for the helmet connection. The film was shot at a slow frame rate.

@dennispickard7743

2 жыл бұрын

Dan Severns Ahahahahahahaha 😂

Propaganda

@marcleblanc3602

2 жыл бұрын

very good german group

@jamesb.9155

Жыл бұрын

Americans won.