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 😊.
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 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
@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...
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.
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!
@@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!
@@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
@@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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 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.
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?
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.
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!
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. : )
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 😮💨
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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”.
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)
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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 :)
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.
@@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 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!
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?
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
They are taking a lot of time doing shakedown, which they didn’t do during the Apollo missions. I think they should do what they did with Apollo 7 for Artemis 1 if they’re that afraid of something going wrong. They could even use Vulcan or Falcon 9 expendable/Falcon Heavy reusable & send 3 astronauts up to check the accommodations & do a 3 week “shakedown”…
You know that Artemis 1 has already flown, right? That was the “shakedown”, and it was translunar. Next up is Artemis 2, and there is zero point to a LEO mission with a spacecraft that has already proven capable of circling the moon.
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.
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.
In those days our country rallied around the flag and united behind an effort. These days, people just care about identity politics and individual expression.
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.
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. 😎
It is so very sad that with all of the challenges that will be encountered on a safe return to the moon that sex (first woman to go to the moon) and race (the first person of color on a lunar mission) have to be a priorities. Can we not, just for a second, set the wokeism aside and concentrate ONLY on getting the brightest and the best to face the challenges at hand. I take nothing away from Christina Koch and Victor Glover. They may BE the brightest and the best for this mission. If they are, they don't need to be singled out as examples of the space industry's potentially fatal dedication to wokeism.
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!
John Glenn was NOT the first human to circle the earth in his Friendship 7 on February 1962 - he was the first American to do so. The first ever with that distinction was Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union on April 12, 1961 aboard his Vostok 1 spacecraft. I’m just giving credit where credit is due.
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.
I am a huge space nerd, but I hate the fact that NASA is involving identity politics in this. We should not divide each other by looking at color or gender, we are humans. Not *insert race and gender* humans.
@@memonk11 Did you read my comment properly? I love everyone, I love humanity. I just hate labelling each other with labels describing our color, race and gender. NASA should say: We are sending 4 *humans* to the moon again. Not: We are sending one woman, one black man, one canadian man and one american man. That's stupid, it divides us in a moment of human unification.
@@memonk11 ..I agree with Harox. And you need to quit being so easily mentally manipulated by the woke insanity and the virtue signaling agenda of the Socialist crowd and stop...WAKE UP....and start doing some critical thinking and not just swallow wholesale anything the Socialists in Washington tell you to swallow.
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
As a cultural phenomenon it would be awesome. But when exploration is your goal, you wouldn't want to to go where people already went before you. The main target for the Artemis landings will be the lunar south pole, where Apollo never could go to. Today it is believed that we can find water ice there, and use it as a resource for future long term space missions. That would not only be epic, it could also prove to be a game changer entirely.
kind of shocks me that with all our better technology and computers they could only dream about back then, that our trip will be slower than the Apollo missions were. frightened or just stretching out their big moment?
Neither frightened nor glory hunting, it is just Physics, Physiology and other concerns that need to be studied and addressed if Humankind is to become multi-planetary.
@@JordonBeal, absolutely, which is why economy and efficiency are a key part of these operations, we can go further on less, just not necessarily faster or as fast as.
“NASA wants to be in space as long as possible to give the Orion vehicle the most through shakedown cruise possible.” They’re doing exhaustive systems testing while they have the opportunity.
What the video also didn’t mention was the huge risks, to both equipment and human life NASA was willing to take in order to get to the moon. They are risks nobody is willing to take now, so that’s why everything progresses at a seemingly slower pace with way more testing, due-diligence etc.
Agreed. Those programs were major wastes, & went on for far too long! Low Earth Orbit is a dead-end, pointless, & nothing destination! The Moon was the goal that should have received NASA's full attention! It is a dynamic & adventure-filled destination, with boundless possibilities. Plus, the Moon is a much more better training & proving ground for our spacemen, in terms of preparing them for the future challenges of interplanetary space faring. It should have been further & more extensively explored, decades ago.
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.
Pounds, miles, feet??? Do you realise that to many of your viewers this is meaningless? I grew up with imperial units, but even I find this confusing - what the hell is a pound of force? Why measure in feet and miles, when literally every other country uses metres and kilometres? Please don't tell me that your space/rocket industry still uses imperial!
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
Any mission to take place obviously just for a political quota to be filled & not on the merit of science and the ability & experience to execute that science is more likely than not to be doomed🤔.
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
I've waited 50 years for this, yes I watched Apollo.
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 😊.
Me too my friend… me too🌎🚀🌖
Was my life from the first I remember Wally Schirra in Sigma7 🚀🌎to Gene-o Cernan onApollo 17🌎🚀🌖
We're going back! I'm so excited.
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.
Yes, that was a real "Space" program (smile...smile).
@@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
@@transitengineer back to the asylum champ
@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...
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.
Same!
Well said.
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!
@@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!
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!
Me too!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
@@therandals Me Three......!!!! I was born 1952.
@@marbleman52 1950 for me.
Beautifully laid out. Clear and concise information in a time of clickbaiters, this is a breath of fresh air.
Except it was Gagarin not Glenn to circle the earth first
@@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
@@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.
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
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 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.
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!
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 👍
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.
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
@@psilver063I thought the free return trajectory thing was well known even before the Apollo 13 thing.
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'm 68, flew in jets on and off of carriers, and I hope I live long enough to see a man step on Mars.
I hope so, take care sir.
Once again, this channel gives us one of the greatest space-related videos I’ve ever seen. Amazing job.
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.
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?
truth - this country needs this kind of inspiration that touches many of us
1:53 - Uh, little mistake there, the 2020's is the third decade of the 21st centuary lol (00s, 10s, then 20s)
he has fallen for the classic blunder!
Why I'm in the comments...to correct him. Not surprised someone already has. 👍
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.
We choose to go to the Moon and to do this and that not because they are easy but because they are hard.
I love this channel! Another very interesting episode 🎉😊👍
Such a great voice to narrate this wonderful documentary could listen to your voice all day 👍
Excellent show...tons of info..The amount of work u put into ur videos really shows...MUCH LUV FROM N.AUGUSTA S.C
So proud to be working with company that helps make this happen
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.
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!
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. : )
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.
It's a real disservice that part never gets played. It really humanizes it.
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.
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.
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.
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His name was Neil, but he never stepped on the moon.
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.
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.
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. 😮💨
Always a good idea to have a Wiseman in command!
Nice intro :) good content as always.
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.
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!🙄😁
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.
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.
I agree, but we lost the first one to give the command, the great Michael Collins.
12 men have walked on the moon, not 10
Go for TLI was done from Earth orbit so it would be 21 not 10!
A fitting Send Off!
I meant there are a total of ten lunar astronauts remaining that received the command "Go for TLI",@@brettpettinger9200
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.
Don't need to bring a lander when you'll have a SpaceX Starship waiting for you in lunar orbit.
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.
@@SomeDudeInBaltimore Yeah, that'll be done in time 😉
@@gregedwards1087No, it will not. The same job would include a lander.
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
You guys are truly good at TH-cam videos. Especially space videos. Keep them coming.
That intro gave me chills, excellent video
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”.
But in a Hollywood studio, recorded with badly special effects, cheap props, and too many spotlights in different positions
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)
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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.
And I got to help design the crew spacecraft controls but that was 20 years ago. Finally it's flying.
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.
yes
In the middle of a housekeeping sentence. Don't get stressed. You didn't miss much.
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
Good one buddy, on spot
Will the Moon launch still be done in imperial units? Good Luck!
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
It’s the third decade of the 21st-century
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.
Maybe this time for real.
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 :)
Try googling it
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.
@@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!
@@johncanalese588 I believe the US is officially on the metric system; we are jjust transitioning very slowly.
@@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!
I was 6 years and 11 months old during the Apollo 8 flight. I remember watching them all, on television.
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?
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
Finally a good informative video on Artemis
Great episode! Would you please consider adding also metric units in future videos?
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.
I wish I could be an astronaut and fly to the moon.
... okay Frank
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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!
Artemis was the fraternal twin sister of Apollo.
glade for the new content which is so clear and with new images ..
They are taking a lot of time doing shakedown, which they didn’t do during the Apollo missions. I think they should do what they did with Apollo 7 for Artemis 1 if they’re that afraid of something going wrong. They could even use Vulcan or Falcon 9 expendable/Falcon Heavy reusable & send 3 astronauts up to check the accommodations & do a 3 week “shakedown”…
Completely agree. If they stay in Earth orbit for the shakedown they could be home in a matter of hours if something goes wrong.
You know that Artemis 1 has already flown, right? That was the “shakedown”, and it was translunar. Next up is Artemis 2, and there is zero point to a LEO mission with a spacecraft that has already proven capable of circling the moon.
Glad they said the distance in miles, And the speed as i am old score.
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.
The conversion factors to metric are well known. Do the math yourself if miles and pounds really confound your understanding so much.
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.
In those days our country rallied around the flag and united behind an effort. These days, people just care about identity politics and individual expression.
.. looks like a pretty good future for you also, my friend...well done...
Hello!
It will be great if you put the numbers also in metric system.
Thanks and keep going
Yup
I love how positive you are. I mean that with no sarcasm
11:12 is it just me or did he say "70 to 80 degrees" ?
Fahrenheit lol he's American
@@skyy_raider8994 oh yeah that makes sense I was genuinely confused thanks
5:33 why are you talking about Orion and the Artemis mission when you're showing video footage of the Space Shuttle?
Just to have something on the screen. The alternative would be to loop the footage you've seen already.
@@Jan_Strzelecki really crappy editing job
I wonder which one will be the first to walk on the Moon in drag🤔?
you win the internet today... lol lol lol
We can walk on the moon, but can we walk on the moon in heels?!
@@pnolan64 Sshh...don't give NASA ideas...they are just woke enough to do it...groan...!!
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.
Could he have been joking with you?
@@TheKingofDirk LOL, nope. He was a WWII vet and very focused on what was important at the moment and believe me, it was the trash. 🤣
I hope this crew has been chosen on merit and not inclusivity/diversity.
Excellent stuff bro 💪
Would love for this to bring us together! We need that so badly😢
Great video as usual!
Correction : the decade number 3 of the 21century 😉
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. 😎
It is so very sad that with all of the challenges that will be encountered on a safe return to the moon that sex (first woman to go to the moon) and race (the first person of color on a lunar mission) have to be a priorities. Can we not, just for a second, set the wokeism aside and concentrate ONLY on getting the brightest and the best to face the challenges at hand. I take nothing away from Christina Koch and Victor Glover. They may BE the brightest and the best for this mission. If they are, they don't need to be singled out as examples of the space industry's potentially fatal dedication to wokeism.
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!
John Glenn was NOT the first human to circle the earth in his Friendship 7 on February 1962 - he was the first American to do so. The first ever with that distinction was Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union on April 12, 1961 aboard his Vostok 1 spacecraft. I’m just giving credit where credit is due.
He said first American..way to pay attention there brainiac
I was thinking the same thing, I remember he said first American.
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.
I am a huge space nerd, but I hate the fact that NASA is involving identity politics in this. We should not divide each other by looking at color or gender, we are humans. Not *insert race and gender* humans.
Oh everyone should be a white male then right?
Translation: you don't like women or African American involvement.
@@memonk11 Did you read my comment properly? I love everyone, I love humanity. I just hate labelling each other with labels describing our color, race and gender. NASA should say: We are sending 4 *humans* to the moon again. Not: We are sending one woman, one black man, one canadian man and one american man. That's stupid, it divides us in a moment of human unification.
@@haroentmimi If you weren't racist and misogynistic you would not have noticed nor felt compelled to comment. Keep deluding yourself otherwise.
@@memonk11 ..I agree with Harox. And you need to quit being so easily mentally manipulated by the woke insanity and the virtue signaling agenda of the Socialist crowd and stop...WAKE UP....and start doing some critical thinking and not just swallow wholesale anything the Socialists in Washington tell you to swallow.
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
Wouldn't the most important and interesting mission be to the Apollo 11 lunar landing site? That would be epic right?
As a cultural phenomenon it would be awesome. But when exploration is your goal, you wouldn't want to to go where people already went before you.
The main target for the Artemis landings will be the lunar south pole, where Apollo never could go to. Today it is believed that we can find water ice there, and use it as a resource for future long term space missions. That would not only be epic, it could also prove to be a game changer entirely.
thank you so much
kind of shocks me that with all our better technology and computers they could only dream about back then, that our trip will be slower than the Apollo missions were. frightened or just stretching out their big moment?
Neither frightened nor glory hunting, it is just Physics, Physiology and other concerns that need to be studied and addressed if Humankind is to become multi-planetary.
They’re also doing it with a far, far smaller budget.
@@JordonBeal, absolutely, which is why economy and efficiency are a key part of these operations, we can go further on less, just not necessarily faster or as fast as.
“NASA wants to be in space as long as possible to give the Orion vehicle the most through shakedown cruise possible.” They’re doing exhaustive systems testing while they have the opportunity.
What the video also didn’t mention was the huge risks, to both equipment and human life NASA was willing to take in order to get to the moon. They are risks nobody is willing to take now, so that’s why everything progresses at a seemingly slower pace with way more testing, due-diligence etc.
This is the third decade of the 21st. century, not second.
We could have been on the moon for 30 years if it wasn't for the Space Shuttle and the total waste of the ISS.
Agreed. Those programs were major wastes, & went on for far too long! Low Earth Orbit is a dead-end, pointless, & nothing destination!
The Moon was the goal that should have received NASA's full attention! It is a dynamic & adventure-filled destination, with boundless possibilities. Plus, the Moon is a much more better training & proving ground for our spacemen, in terms of preparing them for the future challenges of interplanetary space faring. It should have been further & more extensively explored, decades ago.
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!
Just what our Country needs now, a woke Moon mission 🤔!? 🤬
Just close your eyes. You won't have to see women or people of color. Then you might be happy. But I doubt it.
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.
Please use metric system like normal people.
thank you very much
Pounds, miles, feet??? Do you realise that to many of your viewers this is meaningless? I grew up with imperial units, but even I find this confusing - what the hell is a pound of force? Why measure in feet and miles, when literally every other country uses metres and kilometres? Please don't tell me that your space/rocket industry still uses imperial!
i uses both i know every measurement it easy to understand them
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
Any mission to take place obviously just for a political quota to be filled & not on the merit of science and the ability & experience to execute that science is more likely than not to be doomed🤔.
And if that happens I wonder who gets the blame?
@@Downsdddgh Who will get the blame? why...MAGA Americans, of course...!!
@@marbleman52 you got that right
They would say they should have sent a more experienced crew
Could be a fun trip.
Thank you video ineresting
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
I like this channel a lot 😀