Correction: the 5-segment boosters used by SLS do not have a longer burn time than the Shuttle boosters, but burn more powerfully. Additionally, Starlab has now shifted from an inflatable habitat to a rigid one.
Brilliant... I think the ISS should be raised orbitally.. so the 450 tons of materials are available for future generations. One thing is the background Muzak making hard for me to concentrate on what you are saying.. Use music to enhance not almost continuous. Imagine a lecture at uni with background Muzak!
Yeah SRB’s burn from inside out instead of bottom up. You could have a longer burning SRB, but it’d have to be either a wider diameter casing, or have a different shaped hollow core to it to render a different burn profile. You know, I didn’t even catch that error until seeing this comment. I suppose I really should be paying more attention to what people are telling me…🤔🤣
ISS having something like 5x the pressurized volume of Skylab, Skylab WAS still the largest pressurized volume craft/structure ever put into space in a single launch. Was, that is, all the way up to present day with Spacex’s launch of Starship which has a bit more than the pressurized volume of ISS, which took more than 30 launches to transport and assemble its disparate components. We most definitely stagnated there for a while, which is no surprise considering the government had been holding the reins, but now with the free market and with players like SpaceX taking over, we are now most certainly making up for all that lost time! One of my biggest hopes for all this, aside from me personally one day going to space, moon, mars, etc. is that this new awakening of space exploration tech will also awaken that excitement from the general public for space exploration, and that they insist that the powers that be in congress open up more funding for science and space exploration. We should have fleets of probes at or on the way to every planet and every moon in our solar system! We could answer the question of whether or not extraterrestrial life exists in less than a decade by simply sending probes to at least the Jovian moons equipped with specific instruments to collect and examine salt water sprays that’re being emitted into space in some cases, and in others land on and drill. Long story short, there’s so much potential right here in our celestial neighborhood, and it seems insane that everyone is not excited as hell and demanding that we investigate immediately! With the tech we have in the works and the relative inexpensive cost of said tech, it’s inevitable that this all happens….soon… Ugh. Sorry about rambling…🙄🤣
@@revmsj Ramble on man. Of you were in Portland I'd buy ya a coffee or beer to have a convo about the ramblings of what could and can be in space. It's the most amazing thing right now how things are picking up again. Have you seen that pulse engine that is like a circular aerospike but the pulse (which used to be catastrophic and avoided in all costs in other engines) just continuously travels around the circular jet? Its still experimental but produces tons of extra force
@@danielescobar7618 the rotating pulse detonation engines are awesome! I just recently heard that their biggest problem, timing the propellant injection was overcome using 3D printing Tesla valves into the engine body. Of course still under development but making huge strides. I can’t wait to vacation on Mars or even the moon!
If I had nickel for everytime Pete Conrad got struck by lightning, I'd have three nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened three times.
I remember when the Skylab fell back to earth. I was about 7 or 8 years old, and my family would go out into the backyard and watch it fly over. When we heard about pieces that landed in Australia, we went into our backyard where we had collected two junked top loading washing machines and a dryer. Took them all apart piled the parts into one of the frames of the washing machines put the tub it on a 12 foot mass with one of those 3 day candles, and claimed that it was a part of Skylab as a neighborhood joke.
Neat o let me tell you a story about a man named Chris Cringle or what people liked to call him holy old Saint Nick he lived at the North Pole with elves and reindeer and every Christmas Eve he's fly through the sky on a alright with the reindeer and gives toys to all the good little boys and girls he keeps a list of the naughty and nice ones the naughty ones get lumps of coal and the nice ones get toys that the elves who work on Santas sweat shop all year made he breaks in to your home by coming down the chimney . Never believe everything that your told
It is great to learn so much about SkyLab. I watch lots of space-related content and barely even heard of SkyLab until finding this video. thanks for putting this together so well.
That was hilarious! Props to those guys for pranking their coworkers! These days they’d get fired then sued for harassment, bullying, and causing life long PTSD and possibly them henceforth questioning their pronouns or some such shit…😒🤷🏾♂️
Thanks for the work on these Kenny! I don't think I've heard anyone speak at length at just how much wear and tear Skylab accrued, only how much of a shame it was that the Space Shuttle wasn't in time to save it.
That’s fucking rad! I’ve always wanted to get set up so that I can track and observe ISS, or any LEO satellite for that matter. But idk exactly what it would take, and I’m sure it would be an issue living here in Charleston SC with all the night light we are forced to endure…🙄🤷🏾♂️
I watched Skylab launched from my classroom in elementary school (Yes they rolled out the TV cart for us) and have been a space nerd my whole life, thank you for this great "Brief" history of Skylab. This is the best history of this I have ever seen, bravo!
Such a delightful history. Space flight histories can drag, no matter how interesting the subject. Thank you! I have learned more with your story-like retelling than with any bucket of information.
Drag?! Idk, perhaps I’m just a dorky ass, super-nerd, cuz I never get tired of watching/listening to space science/history material.🤷🏾♂️ Hell, I’ve just now watched this twice, back to back…
I think you raised the bar once again, now surpassing TV documentary quality. Structure, pace, narration, all right on spot. Love the construction pictures and video material you unburied!
That Owen Garriott mannequin at Johnson Space Center is super creepy, he looks like he's been hotboxing the food prep area, and is getting into some serious snackage. John Young complaining about farting up a storm on 16 always makes me laugh. Nice to see the Skylab 4 crew vindicated by the evidence, not speculation and accusations of "mutiny". Also I'd love to see an MOL video, but the what-if of a Skylab boost mission is an even cooler prospect.
I’d never heard of the Lunar Farting incident before. I quite enjoyed learning of it’s existence, and it gives me a bit of inspiration into a potential future EVA personal propulsion system that I may need to discuss with NASA🤔
And yes, it’s good to see a doc like this that expels those disparaging rumors of mutiny and underperformance of our astronauts when in reality they were pioneers that should be celebrated for risking their lives to advance the human race into the space age…✊🏾
Hey! It’s me calling from the future to let you know that Starliner did finally launch, yet was still plagued with problems. As you may have guessed, these problems mainly centered on more of its helium leaks that it’s become so notorious for, as well as it’s other common point of failure, it’s engines. Several of which of course failed to operate. They got to the ISS…but barely. Here’s hoping they’re now able to get back safely…🙄
This is a fantastic documentary! More informative and better quality than most documentaries on mainstream platforms. First video of yours I've seen and I'm hooked already! I hope you keep the content coming!
If you know a thing or two about space flight etc, then tell me this… How does one orbit a flat plane when space isn’t real?? Go ahead, smart guy! How’s it done…?🙄 I’m just joshing ya! Fuck flat earth!🤣
But seriously, Skylab was a neat little foray into LEO camping, allowing us to gain so much valuable experience and knowledge to ultimately be used for ISS. Much better to learn through fuck ups on an 85 ton LEO RV than one over 500 tons! Seriously cool shit tho!
That’s exactly how I fix pretty much everything. Step 1: Give defective item a cursory review in an attempt to identify any obvious issues that would explain the problem in question. Step 2: a) If issue found and can be repaired, then do so. b) If no obvious issue found, commence to beating the shit out of defective item with a hammer or heavy, hammer-like implement. Step 3: Turn on item and resume usage… Basically what I’m saying is I could totally be an astronaut…🤔
Woooo happy to see this released! Hope you are doing well, can’t wait to watch !! Edited to say I just started and it’s awesome to see my home city Huntsville get a shoutout. Most people don’t realize how much research and technology is here and it’s not just limited to NASA and the Marshall Space Flight Center! It’s unique (highest concentration of engineers per capita and in the top phds per capita list, 4th largest research park in the WORLD) and very different from the rest of Alabama. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction 😃 and I pray that space force does end up here but Tuberville (he’s an embarrassment) may have blown it 😢. Def better than Colorado Springs in the long term as per the government site survey
Oh also…lol…being fully aware about Huntsville and it’s history with the space industry and it’s population of PhD’s, engineers, and other smarty-pants types, I still am struck by the dichotomy-or even perhaps only the perceived dichotomy-of Huntsville w/ all of its smart, white taped, black rimmed glasses, and pocket protector equipped engineers, and the state of Alabama and its reputation of hick, racism, and inbreeding et al… No offense intended of course, it’s just an outline of stereotypical attributes, and not necessarily representative of the majority of its population… But still…🤔🤣
Narrator's voice reminds me of the guy from the "Hyperspace pirate" channel here on youtube :-) Now to watch the rest of this very interesting (and enjoyable!) documentary!
Great doco...enjoyed it! I was a primary school kid when this was in orbit and I was a high schooler when the thing came back to earth. I'll check out your content for sure - subscribed!
A bit over an hour to document a decade long process of design and a 6-ish year long mission in space with all of its trials, tribunals, as well as lessons learned and science gleaned. Also the human angle. The psychology, the physiology understandings we made to prepare ourselves for longer duration missions like ISS and upcoming Artemus, and beyond hopefully one day to mars! And then a little bit of earth based trivia in the form of an Australian boy’s chores being interrupted by falling space debris but getting paid 10K by a newspaper for his troubles!!! I’d say yes… yes this was absolutely brief and our faithful narrator could absolutely do an extended version! Oh ah please note I’m in no way affiliated with this channel and can and am in no way obligating him into said extended version….😳
Damn this is some of the best content I’ve ever seen, only made more impressive that it’s from a smaller channel. Excellent job on the research and story-telling. Would hope one day that we get a video in the same style, covering the MIR station and it’s history. You’ve gained a viewer
One issue about the crews. On the way back from the Moon on Apollo 12, Pete Conrad told Alan Bean and Richard Gordon he planned to muscle in on Skylab. The commander for the first mission was Walt Cunningham, but Conrad had lots of clout and easily displaced him. Bean already had been on AAP, so he took Conrad's advice. Gordon opted for commander of Apollo 18 with LMP Harrison Schmitt and CMP Vance Brand.
I mean, their multi year doctoral degree is as good as 10 weeks of skylab training when it comes to operating skylab. Performing an experiment and interpreting the results of that experiment require two very different levels of expertise. The intern at your local observatory or the maintenance staff at CERN are probably capable of actually using the machine. The astronomers' and physicists' talents are used when asking what to measure and what what those measurements mean. Unless your microgravity crystallization experiment requires PhD mathematics level seat of the pants intervention to be successful then pretty much any knucklehead with a corned beef sandwich could do it sufficiently.
It's funny listening to this video Featuring Owen Garriot and then my next in queue is a Majuular video about his son, Richard Garriot, and the making of an entry in the Ultima series hehe
The good old days, when problems with meeting goals were blamed on the upper management being inefficient for not integrating scheduling with multiple teams. Weve fallen so far
The "milkstool" was engineered to allow the Saturn IB's to launch from the same Main Launch Platforms (MLP's) as the Saturn V... essentially they raised the shorter Saturn IB vehicle up so that the height of the S-IVB second stage on the Saturn IB was at the same height as the S-IVB third stage on the Saturn V, so the same connections could be used to fuel and provide umbilical connections and service the stage prior to liftoff. Since the Saturn IB used the same Lunar Module Adapter section (LM "slot panels" to mate the Apollo Command Service Module (CSM) to the S-IVB stage, that put the connections for the CSM, including the white room that the astronauts used to board the Apollo, at the same height as well on the Saturn IB atop the milk stool as it did a CSM atop a Saturn V. Saturn IB had been designed and launched prior to the design and construction of the launch pads at 39A and B, with the Saturn IB launches all occurring over on Space Launch Complex 34 and 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, just to the immediate south of Pads 39A and B at Kennedy Space Center, constructed for the Saturn V missions. The Saturn IB had been designed to be hauled out to the pads on trucks as individual stages which would then be lifted vertical by cranes and installed on the launch gantry, and then the second stages and spacecraft placed atop each other, with work platforms arranged to allow workers to access the vehicle for these mating and checkout operations. The pads at 34 and 37 had last been used, only once, for the inaugural launch of the Apollo spacecraft on Apollo 7, with Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walt Cunningham. The only other previous manned mission planned to use those Saturn IB pads was the ill-fated Apollo 1 launch of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee, who had perished in the plugs out test capsule fire in early 1967. Once the single test flight of Apollo 7, the shakedown cruise of the Apollo in low Earth orbit had been achieved, those pads had been mothballed. It was decided that it would be far more practical to reuse the existing Apollo launch hardware and systems at Kennedy Space Center's Pads 39A/B rather than go to the trouble to reactivate the mothballed pads at 34/37 for Saturn IB... BUT this required an "adapter" to allow the Saturn IB to be mated to the much larger and taller Main Launch Platform designed for Saturn V. This adapter came to be known as the milkstool... It sat atop an Apollo MLP and consisted of a tower structure tall enough to hold the Saturn IB at the correct height to mate with the existing pad tower umbilicals used for the S-IVB on Saturn V, and the CSM white room above it that the astronauts used to board the spacecraft. It had to be capable of supporting the weight of the fully fueled Saturn IB, and to provide the necessary umbilical and propellant connections to the Saturn IB's first stage, and interfacing with the S-IC propellant connections designed to supply kerosene fuel and liquid oxygen to the first stage of Saturn V. Thus it acted as an adapter to allow the smaller S-IB first stage to mate with the connections for the much larger S-IC first stage of Saturn V. The same propellant connections and umbilicals used on Saturn V's third stage provided liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant fill/drain to the S-IVB second stage as it did on Saturn V, and the necessary work access platforms and other umbilical connections to the stage prior to liftoff. It was an ingenious solution to a problem that had not been envisioned when the Saturn V complex at SLC-39 had been designed and constructed for Saturn V alone... but Skylab would use only one Saturn V launch and all 3 crew launches would be on Saturn IB, as well as the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) launch in 1975 after Skylab had been placed in mothballs in orbit... Once that flight was completed, the entire Apollo Launch Umbilical Towers (LUTs) were totally reworked for the Space Shuttle program, the towers removed from the MLP's and relocated permanently to the pads to one side, to account for the much heavier weight of the shuttle due to the solid rocket boosters (SRB's) being stacked and moved to the pad fully fueled with their solid propellant, where Saturn V had been moved "dry" and completely empty of propellants until it was fueled at the pad just before liftoff.
What impresses me with the Apollo program, and that one as well, is how they did so much in such a short time, with so many companies, people, organizations,…. I work in IT at a bank and most projects are shit shows, with vendors and poor management.
You should do a video, or something, about IMIS, it was a Boeing proposal for a post Apollo mars mission, using NERVA engines. IMIS stands for integrated manned interplanetary spacecraft
It was interesting to see the mission patches for Apollos 18, 19 and 20 and the crews of 19 and 20. However I don't know about 18. That was going to be Richard Gordon CDR, Vance Brand CMP and Harrison Schmitt LMP. Of course Schmitt flew on Apollo 17 so had Apollo 18 not been cancelled maybe Joe Engle (who Schmitt replaced on A17) would have flown.
I KNOW THAT EVA HATCH! THAT'S AT MY MUSEUM! I used to work at Evergreen Aviation Museum, we had so little documentation on that thing that I had to do all the research myself so the other volunteers weren't just passing over it. It's right next to the Titan 2 and the Sea King heli
The ISS should be kept as a National Monument. Think of it like the 'Yellowstone' of low Earth orbit. Other stations can be used as Hotels for visitors to the ISS, think Titanic excursions, BUT in SPACE! It would not have to be kept operable, just in a steady orbit. Maybe a couple park Rangers, teehee, and presto this things making tourist cash!
It would have been a game changer if they had been able to save skylab long enough for the shuttles to reach it... then build a space station based off of it.. it was massive and would have madefor an amazing station!
Correction: the 5-segment boosters used by SLS do not have a longer burn time than the Shuttle boosters, but burn more powerfully.
Additionally, Starlab has now shifted from an inflatable habitat to a rigid one.
Brilliant...
I think the ISS should be raised orbitally.. so the 450 tons of materials are available for future generations.
One thing is the background Muzak making hard for me to concentrate on what you are saying..
Use music to enhance not almost continuous.
Imagine a lecture at uni with background Muzak!
Yeah SRB’s burn from inside out instead of bottom up. You could have a longer burning SRB, but it’d have to be either a wider diameter casing, or have a different shaped hollow core to it to render a different burn profile. You know, I didn’t even catch that error until seeing this comment. I suppose I really should be paying more attention to what people are telling me…🤔🤣
@@mySeaPrince_hmmm🤔
I didn’t have any troubles concentrating on the subject for the music. Perhaps adderall may help…?🤷🏾♂️
“Brief” you absolute mad lad.
Between you and Homemade documentaries, we don't deserve this level of quality content on TH-cam... but I am so glad we get it anyway
BRO!!! I thought I was the only one who absolutely loved Homemade Documentaries!! That's awesome!!
Don't forget Parallax Nick
The amount of open pressurized space inside the station is still mindboggling today, especially when compared to later spacecraft.
ISS having something like 5x the pressurized volume of Skylab, Skylab WAS still the largest pressurized volume craft/structure ever put into space in a single launch. Was, that is, all the way up to present day with Spacex’s launch of Starship which has a bit more than the pressurized volume of ISS, which took more than 30 launches to transport and assemble its disparate components. We most definitely stagnated there for a while, which is no surprise considering the government had been holding the reins, but now with the free market and with players like SpaceX taking over, we are now most certainly making up for all that lost time! One of my biggest hopes for all this, aside from me personally one day going to space, moon, mars, etc. is that this new awakening of space exploration tech will also awaken that excitement from the general public for space exploration, and that they insist that the powers that be in congress open up more funding for science and space exploration. We should have fleets of probes at or on the way to every planet and every moon in our solar system! We could answer the question of whether or not extraterrestrial life exists in less than a decade by simply sending probes to at least the Jovian moons equipped with specific instruments to collect and examine salt water sprays that’re being emitted into space in some cases, and in others land on and drill. Long story short, there’s so much potential right here in our celestial neighborhood, and it seems insane that everyone is not excited as hell and demanding that we investigate immediately! With the tech we have in the works and the relative inexpensive cost of said tech, it’s inevitable that this all happens….soon…
Ugh. Sorry about rambling…🙄🤣
@@tremorist we used to be a real country.
@@revmsj Ramble on man. Of you were in Portland I'd buy ya a coffee or beer to have a convo about the ramblings of what could and can be in space. It's the most amazing thing right now how things are picking up again. Have you seen that pulse engine that is like a circular aerospike but the pulse (which used to be catastrophic and avoided in all costs in other engines) just continuously travels around the circular jet? Its still experimental but produces tons of extra force
@@danielescobar7618 the rotating pulse detonation engines are awesome! I just recently heard that their biggest problem, timing the propellant injection was overcome using 3D printing Tesla valves into the engine body. Of course still under development but making huge strides. I can’t wait to vacation on Mars or even the moon!
@@revmsj GTFO actual real world use of a Tesla turbine. Time to go down a rabbit hole
If I had nickel for everytime Pete Conrad got struck by lightning, I'd have three nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened three times.
Thrice is the word you're looking for
Thrice sounds weird even though it’s a word.
Agreed that thrice sounds a bit odd. but I’m happy that two isn’t trice
þrice
Obie Trice
I'm always pleased when a YT doco-maker understands that around an hour is "brief".
I remember when the Skylab fell back to earth. I was about 7 or 8 years old, and my family would go out into the backyard and watch it fly over. When we heard about pieces that landed in Australia, we went into our backyard where we had collected two junked top loading washing machines and a dryer. Took them all apart piled the parts into one of the frames of the washing machines put the tub it on a 12 foot mass with one of those 3 day candles, and claimed that it was a part of Skylab as a neighborhood joke.
Neato. There aren't many documentaries about Skylab around, let alone a great, in-depth one.
Neat o let me tell you a story about a man named Chris Cringle or what people liked to call him holy old Saint Nick he lived at the North Pole with elves and reindeer and every Christmas Eve he's fly through the sky on a alright with the reindeer and gives toys to all the good little boys and girls he keeps a list of the naughty and nice ones the naughty ones get lumps of coal and the nice ones get toys that the elves who work on Santas sweat shop all year made he breaks in to your home by coming down the chimney . Never believe everything that your told
@@JoeyAndHunter-f6lyou’re really not a very smart person are you…?
This channel is criminally under-subscribed. Great work, m8.
Suck up…😒
Jk, you’re good. Carry on…😃👍🏾
It is great to learn so much about SkyLab. I watch lots of space-related content and barely even heard of SkyLab until finding this video. thanks for putting this together so well.
20 minutes in and I already knew this is the best doc on Skylab on YT. Been waiting for something like this for a long time, thank you!
Banger video. Skylab has always fascinated me and this is a great compendium of knowledge
This will be the best dinner and laundry folding wathcing session Ive had in weeks!
I'm sure the third crew had a few choice words for the second crew about that dummy they left in the station lol
That was hilarious! Props to those guys for pranking their coworkers! These days they’d get fired then sued for harassment, bullying, and causing life long PTSD and possibly them henceforth questioning their pronouns or some such shit…😒🤷🏾♂️
@@revmsj congrats, you won today's "man invents fictional scenario and then gets angry about it" prize.
To one of the most creative and visionary people on TH-cam.
Too kind! Thank you so much!
Thanks for the work on these Kenny! I don't think I've heard anyone speak at length at just how much wear and tear Skylab accrued, only how much of a shame it was that the Space Shuttle wasn't in time to save it.
I was an Astronomy buff in High School in the 70's. I remember tracking Skylab with my telescope back then.
I saw Skylab through binoculars. I could clearly see the single large solar panel and the cross of panels on the telescope mount.
That’s fucking rad! I’ve always wanted to get set up so that I can track and observe ISS, or any LEO satellite for that matter. But idk exactly what it would take, and I’m sure it would be an issue living here in Charleston SC with all the night light we are forced to endure…🙄🤷🏾♂️
Oh man I can't wait to sit down for an hour and binge this all in one sitting.
Also hope the sobriety is treating you well DKIS! Keep on keeping on!
It's going great, thank you so much!
I watched Skylab launched from my classroom in elementary school (Yes they rolled out the TV cart for us) and have been a space nerd my whole life, thank you for this great "Brief" history of Skylab. This is the best history of this I have ever seen, bravo!
Such a delightful history. Space flight histories can drag, no matter how interesting the subject.
Thank you! I have learned more with your story-like retelling than with any bucket of information.
Drag?! Idk, perhaps I’m just a dorky ass, super-nerd, cuz I never get tired of watching/listening to space science/history material.🤷🏾♂️
Hell, I’ve just now watched this twice, back to back…
I was a little kid during Sky Lab. It was cool to see a documentary that tied it all together.
It’s nice to know that there’s a chunk of this thing laying around in my city
I think you raised the bar once again, now surpassing TV documentary quality. Structure, pace, narration, all right on spot. Love the construction pictures and video material you unburied!
Well done, DK! You have recreated a period I lived through but did not know what happened!
The work, research and dedication behind this kind of videos is insane. Thanks for spreading knowledge.
I'm a simple man, I see a dead Kennedy space video, i'm gonna click on it.
me too
Güd
You're a simple man, you see a comment section and make a really old unoriginal dull comment.
@@samuelgarrod8327 are you ok honey?
@@samuelgarrod8327 Guess what? Yours isn't exactly better. More the opposite...
That Owen Garriott mannequin at Johnson Space Center is super creepy, he looks like he's been hotboxing the food prep area, and is getting into some serious snackage.
John Young complaining about farting up a storm on 16 always makes me laugh.
Nice to see the Skylab 4 crew vindicated by the evidence, not speculation and accusations of "mutiny".
Also I'd love to see an MOL video, but the what-if of a Skylab boost mission is an even cooler prospect.
I’d never heard of the Lunar Farting incident before. I quite enjoyed learning of it’s existence, and it gives me a bit of inspiration into a potential future EVA personal propulsion system that I may need to discuss with NASA🤔
And yes, it’s good to see a doc like this that expels those disparaging rumors of mutiny and underperformance of our astronauts when in reality they were pioneers that should be celebrated for risking their lives to advance the human race into the space age…✊🏾
I struck Gold by finding this channel some months ago...
Only now finishing the video to wipe my tears from the scrub of the first Starliner crew launch. 😥
Hey! It’s me calling from the future to let you know that Starliner did finally launch, yet was still plagued with problems. As you may have guessed, these problems mainly centered on more of its helium leaks that it’s become so notorious for, as well as it’s other common point of failure, it’s engines. Several of which of course failed to operate. They got to the ISS…but barely. Here’s hoping they’re now able to get back safely…🙄
This is a fantastic documentary! More informative and better quality than most documentaries on mainstream platforms. First video of yours I've seen and I'm hooked already! I hope you keep the content coming!
Thank you!
Just finished the video. Well done. I love all the stuff on the Apollo applications program
Finally a good quality documentary about Skylab thank you 😊
Skylab walked so the International Space Station could r̶u̶n̶ walk a little more briskly.
Everyday astronaut music! Awesome choice man!
I like tragedy by the BeeGees or staying alive don't bring me down is another good one by electric light orchestra
@@JoeyAndHunter-f6lDon’t Bring Me Down would be hilarious for the deorbiting of Skylab!
I like to think I know a thing or two about space flight and our forays into orbit.
I didn't know Jack about Skylab. Until today. Great video!
If you know a thing or two about space flight etc, then tell me this… How does one orbit a flat plane when space isn’t real?? Go ahead, smart guy! How’s it done…?🙄
I’m just joshing ya! Fuck flat earth!🤣
But seriously, Skylab was a neat little foray into LEO camping, allowing us to gain so much valuable experience and knowledge to ultimately be used for ISS. Much better to learn through fuck ups on an 85 ton LEO RV than one over 500 tons!
Seriously cool shit tho!
50:55 “this is how we fix problems in the russian SPACE STATION”
Beats the hell out of the power module
That’s exactly how I fix pretty much everything.
Step 1: Give defective item a cursory review in an attempt to identify any obvious issues that would explain the problem in question.
Step 2: a) If issue found and can be repaired, then do so.
b) If no obvious issue found, commence to beating the shit out of defective item with a hammer or heavy, hammer-like implement.
Step 3: Turn on item and resume usage…
Basically what I’m saying is I could totally be an astronaut…🤔
Great work as always. I wish we got a Skylab revival in the 80s but it may have been for the best, since we got the ISS
Great video man, thanks so much, and good luck with everything, we all support you!
Dad woke me up in 1979 to watch Skylab crashing over our West Australian town, just incredible. Great video btw!
How do you sleep at night
@@JoeyAndHunter-f6lI’d suspect in a bed…🙄
Sleep?? NAAAH NEW DKIS VIDEO DROPPED
Absolutely fascinating,Thank you!
Woooo happy to see this released! Hope you are doing well, can’t wait to watch !! Edited to say I just started and it’s awesome to see my home city Huntsville get a shoutout. Most people don’t realize how much research and technology is here and it’s not just limited to NASA and the Marshall Space Flight Center! It’s unique (highest concentration of engineers per capita and in the top phds per capita list, 4th largest research park in the WORLD) and very different from the rest of Alabama. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction 😃 and I pray that space force does end up here but Tuberville (he’s an embarrassment) may have blown it 😢. Def better than Colorado Springs in the long term as per the government site survey
Oh also…lol…being fully aware about Huntsville and it’s history with the space industry and it’s population of PhD’s, engineers, and other smarty-pants types, I still am struck by the dichotomy-or even perhaps only the perceived dichotomy-of Huntsville w/ all of its smart, white taped, black rimmed glasses, and pocket protector equipped engineers, and the state of Alabama and its reputation of hick, racism, and inbreeding et al…
No offense intended of course, it’s just an outline of stereotypical attributes, and not necessarily representative of the majority of its population…
But still…🤔🤣
Finally got around to watching this and it's incredible as usual!
This was great, amazing work! Definitely should do a video on MIR next!
Really enjoy your deep dives into the history of the space program. It very informative and educational.
Appreciate your work...
15:40 the five segment srb's don't burn longer, they burn harder
Thank you for another great video!
I am a simple man. When I see DKIS upload I DROP EVERYTHING AND WATCH.
Thanks, another great video. Such a shame Skylab was not kept in orbit for space shuttle missions.
Yes! I've been waiting for this! Keep making these videos man, you deserve so many more subscribers and views than you have!
Hell yeah, I'm here for every minute of this bad boy.
Always looking forward to your uploads!
Great work. Thank you for making this
This might be a BRIEF video but it deserves lengthy amounts of praise for is absolutely phenomenal quality.
Narrator's voice reminds me of the guy from the "Hyperspace pirate" channel here on youtube :-)
Now to watch the rest of this very interesting (and enjoyable!) documentary!
Funny, his voice reminds me of MC Toon (*sp), that one “Flat Earth” debunker guy…🤔
Great doco...enjoyed it! I was a primary school kid when this was in orbit and I was a high schooler when the thing came back to earth. I'll check out your content for sure - subscribed!
"Brief" at an 1:19:56
You mean....you can make an extended version?
A bit over an hour to document a decade long process of design and a 6-ish year long mission in space with all of its trials, tribunals, as well as lessons learned and science gleaned. Also the human angle. The psychology, the physiology understandings we made to prepare ourselves for longer duration missions like ISS and upcoming Artemus, and beyond hopefully one day to mars! And then a little bit of earth based trivia in the form of an Australian boy’s chores being interrupted by falling space debris but getting paid 10K by a newspaper for his troubles!!! I’d say yes… yes this was absolutely brief and our faithful narrator could absolutely do an extended version!
Oh ah please note I’m in no way affiliated with this channel and can and am in no way obligating him into said extended version….😳
Damn, I didn’t know we were getting another banger of a video so soon LETS GOOOOO
Fantastic vid. Thanks for your work
Damn this is some of the best content I’ve ever seen, only made more impressive that it’s from a smaller channel. Excellent job on the research and story-telling. Would hope one day that we get a video in the same style, covering the MIR station and it’s history. You’ve gained a viewer
A Brief History of Mir is next, actually.
This was excellent!
Howdy
29:25 I agree so hard with your statement. One of the coolest cucumbers under pressure, but I like science!
Keep up the fantastic work!!!!
I loved this video. You should do one on LC-39A! I know it's a ground... thing... but it's got such a cool history!
Amazing video. Stunning work
I like the direction you've taken the channel. Keep it up, man!
Another great video. Thank you 👍
Been very much looking forward to this video!
15:38 same burn time but more power (diameter = burn time)
great how you told that story!
Great video! Thanks for posting.
One issue about the crews. On the way back from the Moon on Apollo 12, Pete Conrad told Alan Bean and Richard Gordon he planned to muscle in on Skylab. The commander for the first mission was Walt Cunningham, but Conrad had lots of clout and easily displaced him. Bean already had been on AAP, so he took Conrad's advice. Gordon opted for commander of Apollo 18 with LMP Harrison Schmitt and CMP Vance Brand.
I mean, their multi year doctoral degree is as good as 10 weeks of skylab training when it comes to operating skylab. Performing an experiment and interpreting the results of that experiment require two very different levels of expertise. The intern at your local observatory or the maintenance staff at CERN are probably capable of actually using the machine. The astronomers' and physicists' talents are used when asking what to measure and what what those measurements mean. Unless your microgravity crystallization experiment requires PhD mathematics level seat of the pants intervention to be successful then pretty much any knucklehead with a corned beef sandwich could do it sufficiently.
I’ve been following your progress on Twitter and I’m excited to watch! Great work!
It's funny listening to this video Featuring Owen Garriot and then my next in queue is a Majuular video about his son, Richard Garriot, and the making of an entry in the Ultima series hehe
The good old days, when problems with meeting goals were blamed on the upper management being inefficient for not integrating scheduling with multiple teams. Weve fallen so far
Love your videos, keep of the great work man!
Superb video , I thought I knew about skylab, boy was i mistaken - Brilliant
Yooo! New DKIS video dropped!
I’m seated and taking notes
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Thank you and Jason :)
A most excellent presentation, bud!
Imagine what humans could achieve if instead of military budgets we focused solely on space exploration. Maybe one day
Not possible though
The "milkstool" was engineered to allow the Saturn IB's to launch from the same Main Launch Platforms (MLP's) as the Saturn V... essentially they raised the shorter Saturn IB vehicle up so that the height of the S-IVB second stage on the Saturn IB was at the same height as the S-IVB third stage on the Saturn V, so the same connections could be used to fuel and provide umbilical connections and service the stage prior to liftoff. Since the Saturn IB used the same Lunar Module Adapter section (LM "slot panels" to mate the Apollo Command Service Module (CSM) to the S-IVB stage, that put the connections for the CSM, including the white room that the astronauts used to board the Apollo, at the same height as well on the Saturn IB atop the milk stool as it did a CSM atop a Saturn V.
Saturn IB had been designed and launched prior to the design and construction of the launch pads at 39A and B, with the Saturn IB launches all occurring over on Space Launch Complex 34 and 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, just to the immediate south of Pads 39A and B at Kennedy Space Center, constructed for the Saturn V missions. The Saturn IB had been designed to be hauled out to the pads on trucks as individual stages which would then be lifted vertical by cranes and installed on the launch gantry, and then the second stages and spacecraft placed atop each other, with work platforms arranged to allow workers to access the vehicle for these mating and checkout operations. The pads at 34 and 37 had last been used, only once, for the inaugural launch of the Apollo spacecraft on Apollo 7, with Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walt Cunningham. The only other previous manned mission planned to use those Saturn IB pads was the ill-fated Apollo 1 launch of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee, who had perished in the plugs out test capsule fire in early 1967. Once the single test flight of Apollo 7, the shakedown cruise of the Apollo in low Earth orbit had been achieved, those pads had been mothballed. It was decided that it would be far more practical to reuse the existing Apollo launch hardware and systems at Kennedy Space Center's Pads 39A/B rather than go to the trouble to reactivate the mothballed pads at 34/37 for Saturn IB... BUT this required an "adapter" to allow the Saturn IB to be mated to the much larger and taller Main Launch Platform designed for Saturn V. This adapter came to be known as the milkstool...
It sat atop an Apollo MLP and consisted of a tower structure tall enough to hold the Saturn IB at the correct height to mate with the existing pad tower umbilicals used for the S-IVB on Saturn V, and the CSM white room above it that the astronauts used to board the spacecraft. It had to be capable of supporting the weight of the fully fueled Saturn IB, and to provide the necessary umbilical and propellant connections to the Saturn IB's first stage, and interfacing with the S-IC propellant connections designed to supply kerosene fuel and liquid oxygen to the first stage of Saturn V. Thus it acted as an adapter to allow the smaller S-IB first stage to mate with the connections for the much larger S-IC first stage of Saturn V. The same propellant connections and umbilicals used on Saturn V's third stage provided liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant fill/drain to the S-IVB second stage as it did on Saturn V, and the necessary work access platforms and other umbilical connections to the stage prior to liftoff.
It was an ingenious solution to a problem that had not been envisioned when the Saturn V complex at SLC-39 had been designed and constructed for Saturn V alone... but Skylab would use only one Saturn V launch and all 3 crew launches would be on Saturn IB, as well as the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) launch in 1975 after Skylab had been placed in mothballs in orbit... Once that flight was completed, the entire Apollo Launch Umbilical Towers (LUTs) were totally reworked for the Space Shuttle program, the towers removed from the MLP's and relocated permanently to the pads to one side, to account for the much heavier weight of the shuttle due to the solid rocket boosters (SRB's) being stacked and moved to the pad fully fueled with their solid propellant, where Saturn V had been moved "dry" and completely empty of propellants until it was fueled at the pad just before liftoff.
That's the "brief" one? I would love to watch an extended "special edition!"
What impresses me with the Apollo program, and that one as well, is how they did so much in such a short time, with so many companies, people, organizations,…. I work in IT at a bank and most projects are shit shows, with vendors and poor management.
1:12:52 Nah, they definitely only said that so they could get the next crew with another mannequin scare
Excellent documentary!
Very well done, thank you. Subscribed and looking forward to your future content!
I've been waiting for this one, love me some Skylab
I have been looking forward to this!!
You should do a video, or something, about IMIS, it was a Boeing proposal for a post Apollo mars mission, using NERVA engines. IMIS stands for integrated manned interplanetary spacecraft
Nice documentary. Thanks.
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It was interesting to see the mission patches for Apollos 18, 19 and 20 and the crews of 19 and 20. However I don't know about 18. That was going to be Richard Gordon CDR, Vance Brand CMP and Harrison Schmitt LMP. Of course Schmitt flew on Apollo 17 so had Apollo 18 not been cancelled maybe Joe Engle (who Schmitt replaced on A17) would have flown.
Brilliant video, I'm pretty sure the extra SRB segment increases thrust and not burn time
Please see the pinned comment.
My bad, it wasn't showing up for me before
I KNOW THAT EVA HATCH! THAT'S AT MY MUSEUM! I used to work at Evergreen Aviation Museum, we had so little documentation on that thing that I had to do all the research myself so the other volunteers weren't just passing over it. It's right next to the Titan 2 and the Sea King heli
The ISS should be kept as a National Monument. Think of it like the 'Yellowstone' of low Earth orbit. Other stations can be used as Hotels for visitors to the ISS, think Titanic excursions, BUT in SPACE! It would not have to be kept operable, just in a steady orbit. Maybe a couple park Rangers, teehee, and presto this things making tourist cash!
Hell yeah more knowledge!!!!
Super video, loved it!
I am just starting to watch this and I know this is gonna be great!
It would have been a game changer if they had been able to save skylab long enough for the shuttles to reach it... then build a space station based off of it.. it was massive and would have madefor an amazing station!