I've waited 50 years for this, yes I watched Apollo.

@rickeybarnes6471

Жыл бұрын

I watched it also, I was 9 years old!😊 Yes 50 plus years is a long time to wait. I also have the recording ( narrated by Walter Cronkite) on a plastic record that you put on the record machine with the tiny needle 😊.

@anthonyhunt701

Жыл бұрын

Me too my friend… me too🌎🚀🌖

@anthonyhunt701

Жыл бұрын

Was my life from the first I remember Wally Schirra in Sigma7 🚀🌎to Gene-o Cernan onApollo 17🌎🚀🌖

@tonyportcullis488

Жыл бұрын

We're going back! I'm so excited.

@martinmclean5985

Жыл бұрын

They let us watch a lot of the space flights on TV at school.

For those of us who lived through the Apollo program - I had just turned 10 when Armstrong took his small step and our giant leap and my childhood passion and enthusiasm for the project has shaped my life to this day - it is indeed hard to come to terms with the fact that it has been over 5 decades since then. The other thing about the Apollo dates however that never fails to amaze me every time I am reminded of it, as I was in this video, is the pace of the program. The fact that Apollo 8 launched on 21st December 1968 and 7 months later NASA had completed the Apollo 9 and Apollo 10 missions with Apollo 11 launched and on the Moon (but not yet home) is simply amazing.

@transitengineer

11 ай бұрын

Yes, that was a real "Space" program (smile...smile).

@ronschlorff7089

11 ай бұрын

@@transitengineer it was a race at the time, and not a stroll through a park like today. But we have oodles of time now to get it right and well done, but we still have to be first again, cuz second sucks, in anything! ;D

@ignatiusnoirant8174

11 ай бұрын

@@transitengineer back to the asylum champ

@shadowpoet4398

10 ай бұрын

@transitengineer - Oof... Looks like the road iced before the bridge that time. If it wasn't real, they wouldn't have had the entire world, including every member of the military, every civilian who worked there, all their families claiming eyewitness accounts. Not to mention the later proven observations about the dark side of the moon which a later orbiting lunar mapper confirmed, along with the lander quadpod and a sunbleached aluminum rectangle that was once a flag... With an aluminum rod along the tip edge of the flag holding it level. Every detail uncovered debases their claims, and all they can do is quintuple down while stamping their feet and screaming something incoherent...

@Knards

9 ай бұрын

I was 19 when Armstrong stood on the moon. I will never forget that, and all the rocketry that came before it

One thing I take from Artemis I was that I was mesmerized by seeing the earth from the perspective of the moon and knowing that everything that we know, all our history, and our faiths is all on our blue sphere and that someone can cover up our planet with their thumb, showing that we are minute compared to the cosmos and we need to take care of our planet for future generations.

@Berlynic

11 ай бұрын

Same!

@gerardverzaal4666

11 ай бұрын

Well said.

@reginaldwright247

11 ай бұрын

I remember seeing EARTHRISE during the Apollo 8 flight. I thought I would NEVER see it again during my lifetime. Seeing the earth from the point of artemis is STUNNING!

@ronschlorff7089

11 ай бұрын

@@reginaldwright247 good scenes on that great moment in the series, in 1998, of HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon" episode entitled "1968". Very well-done docu-drama on the Apollo program!

@johnscreekmark

11 ай бұрын

You can thank the American social justice warriors for our killing of the moon programs.

I was born in the 50s and grew up in the space race. Especially Gemini and Apollo. All I can say is Fly Baby Fly!

@therandals

11 ай бұрын

Me too!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@marbleman52

11 ай бұрын

@@therandals Me Three......!!!! I was born 1952.

@PapaEli-pz8ff

11 ай бұрын

@@marbleman52 1950 for me.

1:53 - Uh, little mistake there, the 2020's is the third decade of the 21st centuary lol (00s, 10s, then 20s)

@delfinenteddyson9865

Жыл бұрын

he has fallen for the classic blunder!

@aeromoe

11 ай бұрын

Why I'm in the comments...to correct him. Not surprised someone already has. 👍

@jus10lewissr

Ай бұрын

He's gotten his facts all messed up in past videos in regards to very important things so if the decade blunder is the only thing he gets wrong, I'm good.

Beautifully laid out. Clear and concise information in a time of clickbaiters, this is a breath of fresh air.

@Redgolf2

11 ай бұрын

Except it was Gagarin not Glenn to circle the earth first

@ronschlorff7089

11 ай бұрын

@@Redgolf2 Very true, and I never got why the Russians just "gave up" after the Apollo successes. The moon is a big place, with room for everyone who has the brass and know how to get there and back alive!! Of course, they did not have anything "operational" like NASA's unbelievably fantastic Saturn V booster either! :D

@anthonypelchat

9 ай бұрын

​@@ronschlorff7089The attempts at getting to the moon were extremely expensive. And the Soviet failures were costing them even more. They simply didn't have the budget to continue trying to go to the moon and support their military. They had also lost their greatest rocket engineer. Still plenty of brilliant people, but it was overall too much. And since the US had already gotten there, there was no longer any reason to keep trying.

@ronschlorff7089

9 ай бұрын

Yup, and second will always be second, but I see they are giving it another go for the moon robotically, good to see them try again. And of course, as you said but forgot to mention the N-1 issues did not help them very much, just as the Saturn V kept going and going, like an "Eveready bunny" back in the day!! LOL ;D@@anthonypelchat

@furerorban9324

8 ай бұрын

we have been there already even with american cars. move back is like living in the past. i rather go to the Sun this time. do you agree?

I'm 68, flew in jets on and off of carriers, and I hope I live long enough to see a man step on Mars.

@sinabarzyar5766

2 ай бұрын

I hope so, take care sir.

A free-return loop around the moon is not at all comparable to what Apollo 8 did 55 years ago. Apollo 8 performed a burn to enter lunar orbit, followed by 10 full orbits of the moon, and finally performed another burn to get out of lunar orbit back toward earth. Both burns had to happen while they were on the far side, out of radio contact with Earth. The last was the most critical, since if it had not gone perfectly, the crew would never have made it back.

@psilver063

8 ай бұрын

He didn’t say 8 did it, he said 13 did it due to their craft needing to get back and that’s how it was discovered

@peterknutsen3070

8 ай бұрын

@@psilver063I thought the free return trajectory thing was well known even before the Apollo 13 thing.

@gordoncaruanadingli

8 ай бұрын

The first TLI was 55 years ago, December 1968 and Apollo 8 orbited the Moon. This Artemis thing with all the latest technology will flyby the Moon at a very high altitude and head back. Where is the progress? Oh there is a toilet and there are four astronauts.

I loved watching Jules Bergman’s coverage of the Apollo missions - hearing him say “seven and a half million pounds of thrust” when describing the Saturn V was thrilling! 5 days before my 11th birthday on July 25, I watched in awe as Neil Armstrong descended the ladder of the LEM onto the surface of the Moon Later, I got into Information Technology, spending 41 years as as programmer, Unix SysAdmin and DBA - the engineers who got Apollo to the Moon used slide rules and computers with less computing power than my smartphone - incredible!

@brianarbenz1329

8 ай бұрын

We’re nearly identical. I turned 11 in August of ‘69, and was a passionate follower of space missions. And Jules Bergman was my favorite. His use of an acetylene torch live in the studio on splashdown days to simulate the CM heat shield’s ablative layer burning off was the boldest stroke in TV coverage. Frank Reynolds would joke about the torch being used amid “all the No Smoking signs in the studio” but Jules was undaunted.

Great vid , well produced and narrated 👍

Once again, this channel gives us one of the greatest space-related videos I’ve ever seen. Amazing job.

I lived through Apollo. I had an uncle who was retired Air Force and he lived in a neighborhood with Langley NASA engineers. When Kennedy put forth the mission to the Moon, my uncle was not surprised or amazed. His Air Force Magazines, that he let me read, had already detailed the Air Force plans for a lunar base in an estimated 7 years from initiation of the program. NASA pretty much achieved that objective in about the same period of time. We quit going to the moon in 1972 because of budget cuts to NASA and Richard Nixon's political desire to distance his administration from the technology and achievements of the Kennedy/Johnson years. Werner Von Braun was naive enough to believe we could have the Space Shuttle and still continue using the equipment and technology of Apollo to build Space Stations and go to Mars. He was shot down almost immediately. All we got was the Shuttle and a 5 year gap in manned missions. The Saturn V and Apollo hardware were scrapped and put in museums without even flying all of it. Today Artemis 2 will not even do as WELL as Apollo 8 or Artemis 1. It will not enter a captive Lunar Orbit, like Apollo 8. It will go with a Free Return Trajectory to avoid the risk of getting stuck in orbit around the moon. (Not sure where you got the idea they will need to perform a trans-Earth injection burn, unless they intend to hasten the return or something.) I am happy we are going back, but we need to really grow a pair if we are going to improve on the achievements of Apollo. I mean, we are just postponing the risks to later Artemis missions. If we haven't even entered lunar orbit yet with Artemis 2, we will be doing it for the first time with humans when we are trying to land. Apollo had a lot better abort modes and a better step by step testing program than Artemis. If Neil and Buzz had problems with their rendezvous, Michael Collins had a powerhouse engine that would have allowed him to lower his orbit, dock with the Lunar module in a lower orbit, and still have enough delta-V to get them all home. Today's designs don't even have enough delta-V to reach a circular low altitude orbit to initiate descent directly and still get home. The Human Landing System has to use its own engine to get down there and land - no backups to that. The Apollo vehicles also used hypergolic propellants and pressure fed rocket engines for reliability. The only thing they had to do to get them home was open a valve. Today's designs use either HydroLOX engines or MethaLOX engines that require turbo pumps and ignitors. I am not impressed with the thinking of the current generation of engineers. The major improvement we have today, is computing technology. And don't get me started on the stupidity of carrying that huge tank all the way to orbit on the SLS - giving it LESS payload to orbit or the moon than the Saturn V. The 3rd stage of the Saturn could get them all the way to the moon without even having to use the Service Module. With so few abort modes, what will we do if we have an unrecoverable disaster? I am afraid that today's leaders would simply quit.

@owenwilson25

8 ай бұрын

Unfortunately with Russia now helping China to violate Japanese waters after China's violations and illegal military bases in Philippines waters and in the Australian Antarctic Territory; militarization of the Moon, gravity high-ground above all of Earth is liable to be precisely what;s on Beijing and Moscow military & leadership minds. 😮‍💨

A good, hopeful ending to your video. Well done! I always enjoy your videos and your perspective is of equal value. I was a young flight instructor during the first moon landing. It will be quite moving to witness another.

Such a great voice to narrate this wonderful documentary could listen to your voice all day 👍

Thanks for the very good video. I realise that the SLS boosters are using rocket engines from the Space Shuttle programme but still, using archival Space Shuttle footage when talking about the launch phase of the SLS was very strange! Were you not able to get footage of the Artemis 1 launch and legally use it in your video?

I love this channel! Another very interesting episode 🎉😊👍

I'm a huge space-nut and I've been waiting my entire life for these types of missions so I'm BEYOND excited. I was born 13 years after the last astronauts stepped foot on the moon (Apollo 17 in 1972) so, for me, this is almost as special as when Neil Armstrong came down that ladder in 1969 and placed his foot onto the surface! I literally can't even put into words how excited I am for the first the Artemis 3 mission to happen, though! THAT is just as significant, in my opinion, as the first time Neil made that step. Needless to say, I'm way too giddy and excited and it's getting impossible for me to remain patient at this point.

It’s the third decade of the 21st-century

Excellent show...tons of info..The amount of work u put into ur videos really shows...MUCH LUV FROM N.AUGUSTA S.C

I hope we get there before things get much worse. Not a pessimist. Just a realist. The battle that has been raging for over two thousand years has reached a critical stage.

Nice intro :) good content as always.

Excellent stuff bro 💪

I was called in to the house by dad to watch them step off that ladder. No Americans were passive at that moment when Dr. Armstrong first set foot upon the moon. I was in the 9th Grade at Stewart Jr. High School, living at 120 E. 45th, in Tacoma, WA. The landing made me an optimistic person who could accomplish anything to which I set my mind. I’ve lived that way for lo these many years.

@maxwill6408

Жыл бұрын

I think I was in the 10th grade and at work when Neal Armstrong made his first step onto the moon. I remember one of the waitress running in to the kitchen to announce the historic first step. It pisses me off that I and the rest of the world had to wait 50 years for our country and the world to get our shi+ together to finally start explore on solar system. Maybe I'll be around when we land on Mars.

@neilarmstrongsson795

11 ай бұрын

@@maxwill6408 His name was Neil, but he never stepped on the moon.

We choose to go to the Moon and to do this and that not because they are easy but because they are hard.

We were glued to the TV. The Apollo event wasn't just America's, it was the world's. With today's technology, this will be a much better event to view. Back in the 60s, you grew up wanting to be an astronaut

Good episode on the early achievements of NASA and the upcoming missions to the moon and beyond. Yes, I almost sympathize with those who say: "we never went to moon, it was all a hoax", for its truly beyond amazing for times, over half a century ago. But we did, and it was a great accomplishment for humankind, and the USA lead the way in a difficult time for the country as you noted. I was a kid growing up with NASA, and as my friends called me, I was a "space case". I devoured all things connected with it, on TV, books, even with model rockets of the day I flew. And after what seemed like a long decade that even found me drafted into the U.S. Army, in 1967, and coming home just in time to see the moon landing on July 20, 1969, on my parents-in-law's nice console TV, was quite a homecoming for me. For I was the "space case" kid who followed every NASA launch from Mercury, through Gemini and finally Apollo. I suppose there are many "space case" kids growing up today too, all over the world, and we wish them the best. We did fly a few other missions with the Saturn rocket, in the Sky Lab venture, and there were lots of political reasons to abandon the moon missions, but many were planned and are still "on the books" in archives as well as some deep space missions to the planets including a radical nuclear rocket called Orion, yes Orion was its name, ironically. We wish the new breed of astronauts the best of course and those of any other nation going to the moon, it will continue to be a grand adventure for all mankind. Oh, and if you want to see a truly great dramatization of the Apollo missions check out "From the Earth to the Moon" series made in the 90's or early 2000's I think, on HBO. It begins each episode with an excerpt of JFK's great speech in 1962, as seen here. The one episode of the Apollo 8 mission, the first to circle the moon, on the first crewed flight of the Saturn V rocket, is titled simply "1968". Believe me it will give you goose bumps to see it, it's so well done, especially that moment when the 3-man crew of Borman, Lovell, and Anders, first saw the Earth from the orbit of the moon! All in all, each other 8 or so episodes are a very well-done production by Tom Hanks and company. And the acting is superb, and the sets and special effects are great, even by today's standards. : )

Great video as usual!

I chose Apollo coverage over cartoons on Saturday mornings. I drank Tang. I ate Space Food Sticks. I was devastated when Apollo 18 was canceled.

@paulfly3121

9 ай бұрын

I was right there with you on every one of those items. I also built and flew Estes model rockets in my spare time, including a model of the Saturn V rocket!

That intro gave me chills, excellent video

I've heard the Kennedy clip about going to the moon a hundred times, but I'd never once heard "Why does Rice play Texas?" and the appreciative laughter that followed.

glade for the new content which is so clear and with new images ..

Finally a good informative video on Artemis

Currently there are ten men who have received the command "Go for TLI". Wouldn't it be neat if those ten men could be in Mission Control on the day of Artemis II's launch and, in unison, pass the command "Go for TLI". That would specially neat because there would be first ones and a member of the last crew to get that command would be there to pass the torch to the next generation of lunar explorers. I'd love to see that happen.

@TX_BoomSlang

8 ай бұрын

I agree, but we lost the first one to give the command, the great Michael Collins.

@brettpettinger9200

8 ай бұрын

12 men have walked on the moon, not 10

@davidsakal449

8 ай бұрын

Go for TLI was done from Earth orbit so it would be 21 not 10!

@MorganMadej

8 ай бұрын

A fitting Send Off!

@texstad

8 ай бұрын

I meant there are a total of ten lunar astronauts remaining that received the command "Go for TLI",@@brettpettinger9200

Good one buddy, on spot

About 3.30 a.m. on the morning of 21st July 1969 I picked up my 3 year old son from his cot, woke him up, pointed him at the TV screen and said “ for the rest of your life you will be able to tell people you saw the first man walk on the moon”.

@Henry-br1ti

8 ай бұрын

But in a Hollywood studio, recorded with badly special effects, cheap props, and too many spotlights in different positions

I still remember watching the first moon landing on a black and white TV, live, as it happened. I watched the first human put the first foot on the moon. Since then, ten humans have walked on the moon.

Always a good idea to have a Wiseman in command!

I remember as a child watching astronauts on the moon. At last we are finally going back. Btw I'm now 14 yrs old....joking I'm 55!🙄😁

I was 6 years and 11 months old during the Apollo 8 flight. I remember watching them all, on television.

truth - this country needs this kind of inspiration that touches many of us

5:32 maybe you’ve should have used footage of the Artemis 1 launch to describe a lunar mission instead of the space shuttle. While the space shuttle is great to take crew to the ISS, it no longer flies, and isn’t capable of traveling to the moon.

Glad they said the distance in miles, And the speed as i am old score.

Another good one!

This will be exciting to watch, hope they will have live video feed like the ISS. I think we should have a few extra but fully autonomous rescue ships on the ISS to rescue stranded spacecraft like if this mission fails while headed to the moon. With space to hold 4 astronauts and able to keep them alive for 4 weeks. This would then make space feel much safer if there were actual rescue vehicles waiting to save you when needed.

thank you so much

Hello thank you for the good video, I am from Germany, you have a very good pronunciation and I understand your English very well, if it is possible for you I would wish that you also make your lengths in metric in addition to miles, thank you that would be great :)

@susanhafner6906

Жыл бұрын

Try googling it

@unfurling3129

11 ай бұрын

Just change it in ur head. Civilization was built in miles, feet and inches, u must learn the system to be sophisticated. Your grandparents had zero problem with it.

@johncanalese588

11 ай бұрын

@@unfurling3129All of Science uses the metric system, including NASA! This video is produced by a Canadian (Canada is officially metric), and he like NASA converts and communicates to you using your “customary units” because they realise you don’t have the willingness nor education to understand anything else. I just hope the Artemis programme does end in tears as this whole moonshot deal needs SpaceX to actually land on the moon and they fully communicate and report using metric units!

@gerardverzaal4666

11 ай бұрын

@@johncanalese588 I believe the US is officially on the metric system; we are jjust transitioning very slowly.

@johncanalese588

11 ай бұрын

@@gerardverzaal4666 Yes, snails pace some would say. Yes, all branches of the Military for example are officially metric. NASA famously moved to solely using the Metric System after smashing a probe into Mars (losing 100’s of millions of USD), and discovering that it was due to human error because they used both systems at the same time and somebody goofed in the endless conversions required. All those “customary units” in use are all have this physical reference to their standard Metric equivalents e.g one mile is officially 1609.344 metres!

50 years after inventing the airplane we landed on the moon. 50 years after that we are seriously about 30 years behind where we should be. There should be a friggin Dollar General on the moon by now. A moon mission should be a 3 week project tops.

@samwilson2797

9 ай бұрын

NASA has a li.ited budget, and the first moon missions were extremely expensive. They have been working more important long term projects like living in space for a long term. That needed to be accomplished before more human missions could be planned. NASA works slowly and in it for the long term.

I love how positive you are. I mean that with no sarcasm

I was 4 1/2 at the time, I remember being up late night glued to the TV, we had soda and king dons I'll never forget. Cincinnati Ohio USA. The greatest technical and symbolic journey ever ventured.

And I got to help design the crew spacecraft controls but that was 20 years ago. Finally it's flying.

Thank you video ineresting

This is so cool !! During the Saturn 5 Apollo days I was about 13 and watching on a 20" black and white tv with a grainy picture with rabbit ears . But now we are going back in High Definition !!! . I just can't wait . I've built a 5' 5" Saturn 5 and just so excited that Man is doing it again . I may not live to see a Mars Mission , but I can hope . And thank you for this short info clip . Most helpful ....DGR

thank you very much

Very exciting to be going back to the Moon again. Watching this, going forward into the future I think the importance of populating space with RSSs in varying orbits around varying bodies (Earth, Moon, Mars, Venus etc) as soon as possible is going to be the best fail safe for emergencies. The ability to be able to dock at a safe space regardless of where you are in the solar system is going to make travelling in space a magnitude order safer.

The Apollo Trans Lunar Injection (TLI) was done with the J-2 engine with 232,250 lbs of thrust on the S-IVB third stage. I did not realize Artemis will use its Service Module Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) repurposed Shuttle AJ10-190 engine with a measly 6,000 lbs of thrust to do the deed. In that the SLS doesn't have the lunar lander mass to contend with, I suppose it makes it possible. It is still a shocker how less capable the SLS is when compared with the Saturn V.

@SomeDudeInBaltimore

Жыл бұрын

Don't need to bring a lander when you'll have a SpaceX Starship waiting for you in lunar orbit.

@gregedwards1087

Жыл бұрын

Space travel is a balance of Mass, Velocity, Fuel economy, Thrust, Gravity, Time and Trajectory (plus a few other things), the smaller engine may not have the raw power and thrust of the Saturn 3rd stage but it will do the same job more economically over a longer time. Balance.

@ontheruntonowhere

11 ай бұрын

@@SomeDudeInBaltimore Yeah, that'll be done in time 😉

@sonnyburnett8725

10 ай бұрын

@@gregedwards1087No, it will not. The same job would include a lander.

You guys are truly good at KZread videos. Especially space videos. Keep them coming.

Love yuour channel

I can't believe they're going to go again, without a rescue plan. 50 years ago, they were in a rush; it was a race!

That opening was really cool. Really made me feel like we live we live in the Future.

I like your stuff 😊

Can’t wait

I like this channel a lot 😀

Don't mind my tiny observation, but imagine going to the moon and you figure that the most interesting qualities to describe your astronauts are their gender, race, and nationality. I mean , imagine giving a shit about that - rather than their competencies?

@Paul-ou1rx

11 ай бұрын

It really is an insult to the hard work and effort they put in to reach the needed skill and ability to pursue their dream. "You are here today because you checked a box and I'm sure the other factors kinda helped".

@marbleman52

11 ай бұрын

ascendrio...Yep...wokeness and virtue signaling is like a disease that is smothering everything. And even here in this video, the fact that a ...woman...was gonna be a part of the program instead of the most qualified...just showed the hypocrisy of the gender equality mantra where there is supposed to be no difference between a male or a female.

It's crazy to look at Earth as a little blue sphere. It's the cradle of civilization, contains the only known life in the universe, it has all of our history, beliefs and cultures. All of this in one little contained dot within the madness and craziness of the universe.

.. looks like a pretty good future for you also, my friend...well done...

can't wait, I lived though Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo....dad worked on the guidance system that took them to the moon! I hope to see man walk on Mars one day (but you guys gotta hurry, I am 74)

@aryankuhar1171

9 ай бұрын

🫡

I got to help design the Orion Spacecraft controls. Well, more my contribution was the backup manual controls which are the two joysticks on either side of the 3-display computers. I figured that everyone needs a backup when computers fail or power is low.

The video was cut short. The narrator was in the middle of a sentence when the video abruptly ended. Other than that, it was a very interesting narration of what Artemis Two will be, assuming it gets off the ground on schedule and without any glitches.

@SPARSH_ROBOTICS_pvt_ltd

11 ай бұрын

yes

@ontheruntonowhere

11 ай бұрын

In the middle of a housekeeping sentence. Don't get stressed. You didn't miss much.

@javant6993

11 ай бұрын

Unfortunately it seems that the landings of Artemis 3 and 4 might be delayed because of a lack of a lunar lander, 3 years might not be long enough to make a lander

I feel fifty years wasted. I was born in 1956 and I can remember the Apollo program a big part of my early years. I am British and remember collecting the Apollo programme badges. Flight by flight , step by step and on my thirteenth birthday Apollo 11 was launched. Remember looking up at the moon and knowing two men were on it changed my perspective of the moon for ever. I wish SpaceX had the moon as its goal.

I was home for Christmas break from college & went to see 2001 A Space Odyssey . After the movie (which blew me away) , I went home & turned on the T.V. Apollo 8 was in orbit around the moon and the commander (Frank Borman) read a passage from the Bible. This was from the moon live. I just saw 2001 & now was watching a live broadcast from the moon. For a moment it felt like I was in the Twilight Zone. So Apollo 8 & 2001 are (for me ) linked, Cannot see one without thinking of the other. 😎

Artemis was the fraternal twin sister of Apollo.

I was alive and followed every space event of the Space Race in the 60's. I was delivering newspapers when I heard Kennedy's Moon speech on my transistor radio. It was so exciting. Our classes in school had TV's in them when Shepard and Glenn blasted off. They were both scary and exciting. We didn't know if the rockets would blow up or they would be burned up coming back down. Then, when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, it was beyond exciting. I remember looking up at the moon and saying "there are American up there! Talk about something almost beyond belief!

Correction : the decade number 3 of the 21century 😉

Nice animations.

Wonderful to see that we might possibly have the technology to go to the moon several years from now...even though it's been done multiple times over 50 yrs ago.

@bobgillis1137

8 ай бұрын

Maybe this time for real.

This is the third decade of the 21st. century, not second.

Very interesting.

I am beyond disappointed that we've not been back to the moon in 50 years. I mean, in the mid 70s World Book Encyclopedia showed a then proposed manned mission to Mars using the Mars Excursion Vehicle (built in Earth orbit) and its mission profile (the steps involved in reaching, exploring and leaving Mars). Maybe it was indeed too risky and too expensive at the time (I mean we did have the Shuttle, Hubble, and Pioneer/Voyager probes) but surely after FIFTY years we'd have by now figured out how to go to the moon and back without too much expense and/or risk? We certainly have a LOT better computers/communication tech for it for starters!

You are describing a repeat of Apollo 10, minus the lunar module. I anticipate later missions will land, later still establish a base, and there is also word of a lunar orbiting space station to make repeat visits easier.

At 66 years old, i watched the Apollo 11 moon landing on an old Phillips Black and white TV. I certainly can't wait to see the footage from the moon this time!

I'm 66 and remember the moon landing well. My dad wanted me to take the garbage out just as they were about to step out onto the surface of the moon. I told him there was no way I was going to miss this moment, it was a once-in-a-lifetime event. He glared at me but let me finish watching it. I think he went back out to work on the car or his tractor or something. It was a miracle I got my way, but I guess he understood.

@OlizerVanAntoninus

11 ай бұрын

Could he have been joking with you?

@braggarmybrat

11 ай бұрын

@@OlizerVanAntoninus LOL, nope. He was a WWII vet and very focused on what was important at the moment and believe me, it was the trash. 🤣

Will the Moon launch still be done in imperial units? Good Luck!

Beautiful intro...

As a child I watched the Apollo missions I remember my mum waking me up to watch the moon landing on a school night not a lot of us in class payed attention I’m so looking forward to us going back to the moon

They can’t do this again, we don’t have the engineers.

I wish I could be an astronaut and fly to the moon.

@sideshowboob

11 ай бұрын

... okay Frank

@119jle

8 ай бұрын

Requires a GED

Could be a fun trip.

I can still see in my minds eye, John Glenn's rocket going up. we got out of school to watch it because it was so important period and then on my 14th birthday they landed on the moon! It's had me hooked on outer space since I was little period

We've been there a few times bub

Four people in that capsule for up to three weeks? Rough.

Thanks to Apollo 13 crossing their fingers and slingshotting with mastery, Mathematics matters.

When Apollo 8 went to the moon the lander had already been designed and built.

I wonder which one will be the first to walk on the Moon in drag🤔?

@angelito4058

Жыл бұрын

you win the internet today... lol lol lol

@pnolan64

Жыл бұрын

We can walk on the moon, but can we walk on the moon in heels?!

@marbleman52

11 ай бұрын

@@pnolan64 Sshh...don't give NASA ideas...they are just woke enough to do it...groan...!!

great content....I think Alan Shepard flew his sub orbital flight before President Kennedy's Moon speech though.....

I'm a child of Apollo. Those were rocking times. Just about every flight was a first for something and we were going up against the Soviets so we had that added element of competition. But then we stopped. The eggheads prevailed at NASA and the exploration people lost out. Nixon had no use for the space program and threw the manned-flight program a bone with the Shuttle but looking back at it honestly that program never really delivered on its promises. We were assured in the 60s that Mars was next and we would keep on trucking but it costs a lot of money to pull something like that off and between the war on poverty, the war in Vietnam, and the whole stagflation issue there just wasn't enough cash to go around. Once you stop the momentum it's really hard to get that mojo back. I wish the program all the best, I really do, but I just don't see the public clamoring for it. The young people I have spoken with about space don't have the same fire we did. We stopped doing great things, maybe that has fed into the self-loathing kick we've been on for the past few decades. If there isn't public interest there won't be public dollars and as the man said in the movie The Right Stuff "No bucks, no Buck Rogers." Elon Musk has made some pretty pie in the sky promises about a Mars shot but when the rubber meets the road, and he finds out the government won't back his play, I think he'll question the need to spend his personal fortune. It's a shame, but it's who we've become. If we were going to go, we needed to keep moving in the 70s. We didn't. Going to the Moon is fun and all but spending all that cash just to fly around a place we've already been? Outside of checking off the equity boxes like this video pointed out, what's the point? But that's me, and I loved the space program growing up. But as I say, we are not who we were then, not by a long shot. Kids these days would much rather be internet influencers than scientists and space explorer's. Our technology is grown up, but we haven't. Oh well, they promised us jetpacks and they bailed on that. I'm really not trying to be Debbie Downer, but don't expect this to amount to a whole lot. Wanna spend your money more wisely? Robots to mine asteroids. You don't have to feed em and nobody gives a damn what color or gender they are.

Great videos! Love the way yours are produced - makes science and space interesting. However, could you please use metric units in your videos 🙏 🇨🇦 Many thanks.

@markpell8979

8 ай бұрын

The conversion factors to metric are well known. Do the math yourself if miles and pounds really confound your understanding so much.

I remember Mercury, Gemini, Apollo like it was yesterday. I can tell you that when Apollo 11, AKA “Eagle” I was at a State Park in central NY watching the landing on a small TV running on a generator with about 20 or more campers watching it around a campfire!!!😊😊😊😊😊 I was 14 at the time. DE N2JYG

Three weeks! Better start developing close to the speed of light craft!

Great video and info ! The recovering of Lunar Water Ice to refuel on the moon for the return trip will bring down the cost of Cis-Lunar travel. The Apollo 8 capsule is in Chicago at the MSI ! The KEY to the Solar System is the return to the moon to stay and are those who have the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE). Talk to you on the moon soon, tjl T. Lipinski

8:22 -- TLI does not break them free of earth's gravity. They remain in orbit around the Earth (just as the moon is) for the entire mission, just at a much higher altitude than most spacecraft typically go.