If you liked my Apollo 11 series, also take a look at my Apollo 15 and Skylab series. More than 20 animations so far. Hit my astronaut icon on the left, it will take you to my list of every video
Very nice work, thank you. When I was about 16 going on 17 my dad took me to the Cape to see Apolllo 13. We were primarlly there to see the college I was about to attend in the fall. We took a tour of the VAB and I saw the Saturn V standing there at the pad from the VAB in all of its glory. I remember telling my dad I had a bad feeling about the mission. He asked me why and I said: " because of the number thirteen". He said nothing about my bad omen. While I was a student at Florida Tech (FIT) in 1972 we flew my buddy's dad's Cessna 172 at night up the Indian River and circled the small restricted area surrounding the Cape at 2000 ft. We saw what I believed was Apollo 16 standing at the gantry at night all lit up with floodlights. It was a beautiful sight and I remember it to this day. Those were some very interesting years. The days when Star Trek was being played as TV reruns. Thanks for the very nice work.
My Dad started at NASA with Mercury and he retired 6 months before Challenger blew up. He was one of the engineers around the table for Apollo 13 figuring how to make the square filter match the round one! The Man …..former B17 pilot in WWII…..would race me…his slide rule vs me on my TI-80…..you’re smiling right now aren’t you? I’m 63, proud to be half the man he was….can never fill those shoes. It’s ok. Nobel prize? Every single one of the 14,000 people who made President Kennedy’s directive become reality! One small step…..one giant leap!
I saw Apollo 17 launch shortly after midnight back in December 1972, it was a clear night in Port Richey Florida, over 150 miles away from the cape. When it launched, it was like the sun coming up, the midnight sky was BLUE. We watched the first stage seperate, and it flew out over the Atlantic until it was just a white dot. I was 13 years old, but it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life.
Long time ago. I tried Orbiter Apollo 7 mission, I did pre-launch check list in three hours real time. As considerd by the checklist... but i can not perform liftoff because cabin tempreture rise above 70 Celsium degree. I bolled my crew.LOL
Nice job. Love this stuff. Have for 60 years. Nothing, to me is more impressive than what this country did with such limited technology in the 60s. Truly mind boggling.
Amazing! The interior tour of the spacecraft was incredible in it's detail. I felt like I was there on board. Going from the CM to the LM and back again, wow. Well done!
Fantastic Job. Thank you. Only a small remark: the F1 Engines during launch were wrapped in a heat shield. A mistake that Ron Howard in Apollo 13 made as well.
Thanks for your comment. I figured that out when I completed a week or so of modeling the F1s based on pictures and drawings. Then I ran into the Apollo launch video showing the F1s from below the launch pad. It was a disappointing find to realize that I had about a weeks worth of effort for parts the viewer would never see. And a disappointment to realize that I thought I was done with the F1s…but I was not. In the end, I decided to let them run naked. 🙂
@@RideAcrossTheRiver so if you look at my F1 engine Nozzles on the first stage, they are running naked without their insulated covering. This link here has a picture with the covers on: www.apollosaturn.com/Website-II/F1-Engine-Thermal-Protection-System/i-RTsDmgd
This is a masterpiece. I can NOW die happy. After watching parts 2 and 3, of course. Mike Collins was always my hero with John Young a close second. Brilliant piece of animation that I'll watch over and over again. Thank you for this.
I was 12 yrs old when I watched this piece of history live. The extraordinary sights and sounds in this video make me feel like that gobsmacked 12-yr-old, stowing away on board to witness Neil & Buzz step out onto the lunar plains, under a million stars, and plant the flag.
Thanks for watching and for your comments. I also have a part 2 and 3 for Apollo 11 if you have not seen it. I also have an Apollo 15 series on my channel that shows the rover deployment.
Thanks for watching? New Part 2 in a day or two. I may open them all one more time to include some tweaks based on user comments...then starting the panel by panel tour.
Fantastic I was only 5 when this happened, thank you for making these videos ❤a fantastic achievement in themselves. The quality is amazing and it explains so much about what happened and how it was all done, so breathtaking to this day ❤
Thank you very much for putting this informative and entertaining video. It gives us a better understanding of what went on during that historical time.
Thanks for watching and your comment. If you like this I have several more A11 animations as well as A15 animations. Stay tuned for an A15 launch animation that has way more detail than my A11 launch.
Thanks much for your comment. If you liked that one, I have several more in the Apollo 11 series. And my models in my Apollo 15 series are more detailed. Let me know what you think.
That was from 1961 Alan Shepherd in a little Mercury Capsule going 100 miles up and 300 miles down range to 1969, three men going 250, 000 miles to the moon and back!!! in 8 years from can we go to space???... to planting the US Flag on the moon and bringing back moon rocks. Most American homes had Black and White TV, one phone on the wall. Only half the homes were airconditioned and in most car's Air Conditioning was because of a kit put on to a car once it was purchased. My Father's home in 1969 had a phone, but it was a shared party line, we had black and white TV and we didn't have Air Conditioning. A Computer was unknown in the home and Engineering Students carried a slide rule. Most homes had a live in cooking mother, a working WWII veteran father and most families went to Church at least once a week. We had a lot less economically and we were a lot happier. Most people came from something they could look back at their shoulder at called a two parent home!!! I think we have lost something 60 years later.
Good but,...problem was with the engines. NO INSULATION. You couldn't see the inner workings of the engine bells because they were covered in insulation.
Yep…I am aware. That’s what happens when you spend a couple of weeks modeling the F1 engine, based on pictures and drawings…then discover real launch video showing the insulation. At that point I did not have the motivation to cover up my work. If I had known from the start, I could have cut my work by 2/3s for sure.
@@opieswenson 1. This must have taken you months. We are so impressed by and thankful for the effort you put into this, Andrew. Fyi, I go as far back as seeing the A. 11 and 12(?) landings live. 2. I've always been so awed by the beastly power of the F1; by designation and reputation, IT rightly IS the 'Formula 1' of all r-motors! And an honorable mention to the fellow 60s-tech of the -99 in the X-15. 3. What's your favorite plane? Be mindful that the black project RS's that have since replaced the RS-71 (RS is the correct and original designation, as our worst president ever, LBJ, screwed up the letter order in a speech) do exist, we just can't get much in the way of confirmation. 4. Are you a fan of US black projects, such as the Tier 3 "Flying Triangles," the rumored TR-3B Astra being the most famous, and the TR-3A Black Manta? (The -3A is supposedly subsonic, and it or something resembling it was sighted at an RAF base in the early 90s.)
@@brianjob3018 1. Thanks much for your comments. I started do learn Blender last October following Andrew Prices donut tutorials on TH-cam. I started building the models in Jan this year. 2. F1 is an awesome piece of engineering. Currently SpaceX and NASA favor smaller engines and gain the required thrust by having more of them. 3. As a Naval Flight Officer and Naval Test Pilot School graduate, I have flown a lot of military aircraft (Navy, Airforce, Marines). The most fun flying machine…F16. The best “ got war airplane”….F15E (unfortunately can’t get it aboard the boat. Biggest plane I flew….B-1B and P3. My normal plane which I also love is the F14A with is the plane I have the most hours in….but I also have a bunch of time in the F14D, F14B upgrade, and a unique F14 that as only used in flight test (it was a F14A with F14B upgrade avionics…..or I guess you could call it an F14B upgrade with Pratt engines) 4. Can’t really comment on this one.
Yes...lot of time and effort. Last October I became interested in learning Blender having spent the prior year putting several apps in the Apple App Store. You can see my first animation test case on youTube with a scify spaceship. The LUT probably took the most time, and I would definitely build it differently next time. For the most part, I would build ALL of my models differently if I did it again. As you get your hands dirty, you end up learning new and better ways to do things.
Thanks…there are two other videos in the series if you have not seen them. A new one is coming out where you will be able to see the entire interior in detail.
One small step for Man and one giant leap for Mankind the late Neil Armstrong. Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 - August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who in 1969 became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Armstrong was born and raised in Wapakoneta, Ohio. He entered Purdue University, studying aeronautical engineering, with the U.S. Navy paying his tuition under the Holloway Plan. He became a midshipman in 1949 and a naval aviator the following year. He saw action in the Korean War, flying the Grumman F9F Panther from the aircraft carrier USS Essex. After the war, he completed his bachelor's degree at Purdue and became a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base in California. He was the project pilot on Century Series fighters and flew the North American X-15 seven times. He was also a participant in the U.S. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest and X-20 Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs. Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in the second group, which was selected in 1962. He made his first spaceflight as command pilot of Gemini 8 in March 1966, becoming NASA's first civilian astronaut to fly in space. During this mission with pilot David Scott, he performed the first docking of two spacecraft; the mission was aborted after Armstrong used some of his re-entry control fuel to stabilize a dangerous roll caused by a stuck thruster. During training for Armstrong's second and last spaceflight as commander of Apollo 11, he had to eject from the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle moments before a crash. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) pilot Buzz Aldrin became the first people to land on the Moon, and the next day they spent two and a half hours outside the Lunar Module Eagle spacecraft while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Apollo Command Module Columbia. When Armstrong first stepped onto the lunar surface, he famously said: "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." It was broadcast live to an estimated 530 million viewers worldwide. Apollo 11 was a major U.S. victory in the Space Race, by fulfilling a national goal proposed in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy "of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" before the end of the decade. Along with Collins and Aldrin, Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon and received the 1969 Collier Trophy. President Jimmy Carter presented him with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, he was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1979, and with his former crewmates received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009. After he resigned from NASA in 1971, Armstrong taught in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Cincinnati until 1979. He served on the Apollo 13 accident investigation and on the Rogers Commission, which investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In 2012, Armstrong died due to complications resulting from coronary bypass surgery, at the age of 82.
"One small step for A man" I heard the original transmission from Adelaide, relayed by microwave from Tidbinbilla, BEFORE it was sent by satellite to Houston, and was corrupted.
Wow! Superb modelling & rendering - I particularly like the cabin tour - especially the labelling! If there was texture mapping, it would be almost photorealistic, but a lot more work, and possibly a distraction.
Thanks for your comment! As the series progressed, I added more detail to the interior. My translunar coast video is the Apollo 11 video with the most interior detail…and shot with the cycles engine. That detailed interior carried over to my Skylab series. I have Apollo 15 part 1 available with a working waist restraint (and astronauts) in the LM. Part 2 will be deploying the rover.
So if you missed the title screen of the video, it says Drew Swenson Blender Modeling and Animation. It does not say NASA video. I build the models and animate them as a hobby.
Born in 1964, I've been space junkie my whole life. Out of all the Apollo accomplishments my favorite is the Apollo rocket launch release mechanisms. Even a 10th of a second failure could lead to catastrophe. The WWII generation is still the peak of human evolution.
Absolutely stunning work! I would love it if you could publish a model for exploring! Never get tired of new viewpoints for the early space program, especially Apollo!
Thanks for your comment! Was not planning on publishing a model but I am planning making new videos giving a detailed panel by panel tour including explaining what the panels do.
Also take a look at my outdated Part 1 (see link in the description) to see how I changed the treatment of the ullage/separation motors. And the new Part1 added the first stage separation motors. First stage has 8 separation motors…2 per each fin. I think it was Apollo 15 that removed 4 of these motors to save weight…but then put them back on for subsequent missions.
Great work . Keep it up . .Neil Armstrong was THE BOSS . So cool . Astronaut John Young said their was no one better than Neil Armstrong , after Neil saved both their lives during an out of control Gemini capsule event .
Nice 21th century animation, strang how much still Apollo promotion goes on despite Orion Artemis finally on the go. Now no testing needed She has gone directly to MOON :)
I think it is for 2 reasons. For those old enough, it was a huge moment in history where much of the world tuned in....and way before 24 hour news. The second reason is that you can get some great video online on the exterior and interior of Orion. While there is some color TV of the Apollo interior, it was not that great and has faded with time.
About a year's worth. Working on next video right now. It is taking me a while to correct some mistakes on the interior of my model and add details that were not there before. One thing that is surprisingly take me a while to do is to make all the gauges glow (thought it would be easy----oh well).
Thanks much for watching and your comment. I have found that in researching for my models that there were all sorts of configurations on just about everything which sometimes makes it somewhat difficult to get things right. For example, all the manned Apollo missions launched with 8 ullage motors on the S1C except for A15 which launched only with 4. They went back to 8 since A15 stages almost ran into each other. For the SIVB, there were initially 3 ullage motors which can be seen on AS202 (unmanned) here:th-cam.com/video/xMr_AGJprrg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=kHBHpxautNhpDhZr But later flights had only 2 as can be seen in this drawing here: heroicrelics.org/info/s-ivb/s-ivb-v-overview.html
Thanks! If you get a chance, please see part 2 and 3. Next video in work is a detail tour of the docked spacecraft. Detailed enough so that you can read everything inside.
Thanks…it is an animation though. But for the deniers…try to look for a home computer and animation software in 1969. However, youcan see the hand drawn animations in 1969 that newscasters were using….state of the art back then but horrible today.
@@opieswenson Completely agree, though it doesn't stop the arguments. What I had in mind, though, were the immediate responses to the live feed from Artemis-1 in space. The arch-flatearther LEO (level earth observer) was chuckling at them and declaring them 'ridiculous and pathetic'. Still, that's no reason not to love constructs like this. Diolch yn fawr iawn am waith hyfryd. 🏴
I can understand that all these technology could help a vehicle to go any where in the space. No doubt about that. But, I still cannot understand how the hell electromagnetic waves carry the voice/image through the air. I think it is the most important invention of the humanity history.
So, I guess the lunar module was used as living quarters to and from the moon on the other missions than Apollo 13, when it became their sole living quarters for a time.
Sorry…not doing Mercury. I was considering doing Skylab but I can’t find detailed drawings of any of the instrumentation….especially in the telescope mount. After I am done revising my 3 part Apollo 11 series, I was going to give a detailed tour of each of the instrument panels and what they do. Before I started the Apollo 11 series I had modeled an F-14 exterior. I will probably go back to it and finish the interior.
I'm In absolute awe! I gave you a like, and I subscribed. It's really too bad I can't give you more than one like, Cause you would have a million. It's not only a beautiful video to me, but it also helped me out a great deal. I'm doing a huge project, not only in actual size, but in scope as well. I'm 3D printing the Saturn V, and the launch tower. The Saturn V is about 7 feet tall, and the Gantry is about 8 feet tall. I didn't scale it up this big, but I found it on Thingyverse already this large. That"s great for me cause I wanted to animate it quite a bit. I'm not going to have it lift off the pad, cause that's something i couldn't pull off. I am however going to have the swing arms move back, and a few other things. The gantry model as it is, is OK, but it was lacking detail. So I hunted down the "blueprints", and am able to give the gantry quite a bit more detail. Having said that, I was not sure about all the mechanical workings, and was not really looking forward to going through all that grainy TV footage to animate it correctly. Thankfully, you came along sir and did all that for me. I now have all that knowledge in this one SPECTACULAR video! Thank you so very much for all this hard work that you have done! What an awesome accomplishment Sir!!!!!!!!!
Thanks much for your comments. There is a place online that you can register for free to give you access to drawings and pictures. I did not use them. Instead, I used Apollo maniacs apollomaniacs.com/apollo/mobile_launcher_en.htm As a resource. Also I used another model builders photos of his way better LUT model than mine. Where I put in enough detail in the LUT to make it look convincing, this model builder put in everything including the bathrooms. He probably had access to the full drawings. Here is Stuart Howes LUT www.turbosquid.com/Search/3D-Models/Lut Stuart sells his models online for movies. The are expensive. All of my models I built myself. Stuart’s models would be a better reference since he goes down to the bolt and screw level detail of the LUT
I will post pictures throughout the build. The person who came up with the print said it amounts to about 2000 hrs of print time. It will take me a little longer to animate the model. It's going to be quite a journey, but the journey is always the funnest part!
@@opieswenson Serious question: have you ever considered putting out your wonderful films on a DVD? I know alot of people - including myself - would buy it in a heartbeat!
@@lonnien.6600 No, have not considered putting on DVD. But I am so glad to have viewers on TH-cam. My 3 part Skylab series is complete, but over the next week or so, I will be putting up short Skylab clips that highlight specific panels and experiments in Skylab. These are all in my Skylab Series playlist
@@lonnien.6600 I may do it. On my list is to finish up my Skylab videos. And I wanted to go back to add an Apollo Rover deployment. And for fun, maybe doing a scyfy Jupiter 2. My son wants me to finish an F-14 that I have roughed out (I used to fly as a RIO in F14s).
Thanks much for watching and commenting. When you say technology, do you mean in 1969 or now? If 1969, cameras were terrible. If you mean why do I animate it is because it is just a hobby. I try to animate space related events that were difficult to see way back in 1969. One of the reasons I don't animate Space Shuttle or current space is because cameras have captured that kind of activity and animation won't be able to tell the story better than a high def camera.. Please take a look at my Apollo 15 videos. More detailed models and I do include my first animations with people.
Are you saying that you can see the E-8 housing in my animation? I have a lot of cameras housings placed all over the tower based upon pictures. The E-8 camera took video at 500 FPS (th-cam.com/video/DKtVpvzUF1Y/w-d-xo.html). During my hold down clamp release, I am not pointing in the direction of where that view would be located. I checked my model, and I don't have a camera housing there. I searched online for the exact location of E-8, but the only references I could find in a quick search was that the E-8 housing was not actually located in that position....and may have been located inside the launch pad base pointed up at a quartz mirror. Regardless, please let me know what you are looking at----my animation or another video, I am interested. Funny thing though----as I was searching my model, I realized that my first stage fin markings did not render. So I fixed the model, but the current Part 1 does not show the proper fin markings.
I will add that on to my Apollo 15 series. I show a better docking on my Skylab series but without optics. As my videos have progressed, I started with no animated gauges and now showing more and more animated gauges. And of course, nothing really to animate with the optics, but it is a good idea to put it in.
Yes they did. And they built for speed which meant they did not look for the perfect solution to engineering problems, they instead looked for good enough engineering solutions that met their time tables. And thanks for watching and your comment.
If you liked my Apollo 11 series, also take a look at my Apollo 15 and Skylab series. More than 20 animations so far. Hit my astronaut icon on the left, it will take you to my list of every video
Very nice work, thank you. When I was about 16 going on 17 my dad took me to the Cape to see Apolllo 13. We were primarlly there to see the college I was about to attend in the fall. We took a tour of the VAB and I saw the Saturn V standing there at the pad from the VAB in all of its glory. I remember telling my dad I had a bad feeling about the mission. He asked me why and I said: " because of the number thirteen". He said nothing about my bad omen.
While I was a student at Florida Tech (FIT) in 1972 we flew my buddy's dad's Cessna 172 at night up the Indian River and circled the small restricted area surrounding the Cape at 2000 ft. We saw what I believed was Apollo 16 standing at the gantry at night all lit up with floodlights. It was a beautiful sight and I remember it to this day. Those were some very interesting years. The days when Star Trek was being played as TV reruns. Thanks for the very nice work.
@@daffidavit Thanks for watching and for your comment.
Will do.
Wow
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My Dad started at NASA with Mercury and he retired 6 months before Challenger blew up. He was one of the engineers around the table for Apollo 13 figuring how to make the square filter match the round one! The Man …..former B17 pilot in WWII…..would race me…his slide rule vs me on my TI-80…..you’re smiling right now aren’t you? I’m 63, proud to be half the man he was….can never fill those shoes. It’s ok. Nobel prize? Every single one of the 14,000 people who made President Kennedy’s directive become reality! One small step…..one giant leap!
Pretty cool. Here's to your Dad.
I am 71 now and all of my engineering training was with a slide rule. It was amazingly quick and accurate.
Very well put. I salute your dad.
Great addition to this posting. Thank you.
My dad was auto industry and made his mark. Engineers are a different breed! Here's to your pop ! Good stuff.
I saw Apollo 17 launch shortly after midnight back in December 1972, it was a clear night in Port Richey Florida, over 150 miles away from the cape. When it launched, it was like the sun coming up, the midnight sky was BLUE. We watched the first stage seperate, and it flew out over the Atlantic until it was just a white dot. I was 13 years old, but it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life.
Very cool. I was 7 and watched it on TV…not as cool.
Houston this is is Neil Armstrong. Can anyone tell me what all these fucking buttons do?
@Matias D.C you’re joking…right?
Can't imagine how long that must have taken. Then, it probably took 16x as long as you could imagine. Amazing work
Thanks for your comment…and yes, a long time.
Long time ago. I tried Orbiter Apollo 7 mission, I did pre-launch check list in three hours real time. As considerd by the checklist... but i can not perform liftoff because cabin tempreture rise above 70 Celsium degree. I bolled my crew.LOL
I want to know if a big render farm was needed for this.
When i was a kid i was really interested in the space program, Mercury, Gemini then Apollo, this is so cool.
Nice job. Love this stuff. Have for 60 years. Nothing, to me is more impressive than what this country did with such limited technology in the 60s. Truly mind boggling.
Thanks for watching! More content coming. If you have not seen my Skylab and Apollo 15 animations, please take a look.
It never happened, so there goes that 60's idea.
@@TrutherOne-xv8nr7yj3e I'll play. Give me your best proof that it did not happen. Make it count, so make sure it is the best.
Amazing! The interior tour of the spacecraft was incredible in it's detail. I felt like I was there on board. Going from the CM to the LM and back again, wow. Well done!
Thanks for the comment!!
Very realistic scenery. Biggest step forward of mankind in the last century.
They took a decade out of the late 21st century and inserted it into the 1960s.
The Saturn V was a beast.
Fantastic Job. Thank you. Only a small remark: the F1 Engines during launch were wrapped in a heat shield. A mistake that Ron Howard in Apollo 13 made as well.
Thanks for your comment. I figured that out when I completed a week or so of modeling the F1s based on pictures and drawings. Then I ran into the Apollo launch video showing the F1s from below the launch pad. It was a disappointing find to realize that I had about a weeks worth of effort for parts the viewer would never see. And a disappointment to realize that I thought I was done with the F1s…but I was not. In the end, I decided to let them run naked. 🙂
What heat shield?
@@RideAcrossTheRiver so if you look at my F1 engine Nozzles on the first stage, they are running naked without their insulated covering. This link here has a picture with the covers on: www.apollosaturn.com/Website-II/F1-Engine-Thermal-Protection-System/i-RTsDmgd
@@opieswenson Is it present here?
th-cam.com/video/DKtVpvzUF1Y/w-d-xo.html
@@RideAcrossTheRiver yep, the insulation is there. The picture I included in my previous comment is a more clear shot.
It doesnt get much better, very much appreciate the time you spent making this.
Thanks! More coming…stay tuned!
This is a masterpiece. I can NOW die happy. After watching parts 2 and 3, of course. Mike Collins was always my hero with John Young a close second. Brilliant piece of animation that I'll watch over and over again. Thank you for this.
Thanks!
John Young is my favorite astronaut too. The one I would have most liked to talk too (somehow I think I'd have bored him though!).
Superb animation. Looked really representative of the event. Loved seeing the Saturn going through the sound barrier.
Thanks!
What an excellent effort. Brings me back to that day as a kid. Very nice video.
Thanks! I do have a Part 2 and 3….link in the description. Also Part 2 is in rework.
**GIVES ME CHILLS** It's almost like seeing it for the very first time. Magnificent animation.
Thanks for watching and your comment. If you liked that one, try my Skylab and Apollo 15 series.
Thank you so much !!! I was 6 years old when it happened and you made me feel on board as if I was there with them... great feeling👌⭐
Thanks!
I was 12 yrs old when I watched this piece of history live. The extraordinary sights and sounds in this video make me feel like that gobsmacked 12-yr-old, stowing away on board to witness Neil & Buzz step out onto the lunar plains, under a million stars, and plant the flag.
Thanks for watching and for your comments. I also have a part 2 and 3 for Apollo 11 if you have not seen it. I also have an Apollo 15 series on my channel that shows the rover deployment.
Wow! This is a fantastic video. Good effort Andrew. Will look forward to seeing more of your content.
Thanks for watching? New Part 2 in a day or two. I may open them all one more time to include some tweaks based on user comments...then starting the panel by panel tour.
Engineers are the greatest persons on the planet who do ridiculously crazy pieces of work.
Why thank you 😊
Wow amazing! Imagine how nerve racking this real event was to even watch let alone take part in? 😳 Such a great recreation!
Thanks.
Knowing the smallest thing going wrong could kill them all.
Fantastic I was only 5 when this happened, thank you for making these videos ❤a fantastic achievement in themselves. The quality is amazing and it explains so much about what happened and how it was all done, so breathtaking to this day ❤
Thanks! More video coming. Next one has additional interior detail.
Thank you very much for putting this informative and entertaining video. It gives us a better understanding of what went on during that historical time.
Thanks for watching!
The tension is palpable, even watching this animation. Incredible then, incredible now.
Thanks for watching. If you get a chance, let me know what you think of part 2 and 3 as well as my Apollo15 series.
This was incredible work. Congratulations.
Thanks!
Humanity's most underrated achievement of all time
Totally agree!
The liftoff--even this simulation--to this day makes me emotional.
Thanks for watching and your comment. If you like this I have several more A11 animations as well as A15 animations. Stay tuned for an A15 launch animation that has way more detail than my A11 launch.
Amazing detail.
Excellent work!!
Thankyou.
Wow! A labour of love if ever there was one! Brilliantly done too!
Thanks! The releasing an update Part 2 in a day or two.
Beautiful video, lovely work. Obviously, a passion project with stunning results and details. Bravo! 🙂
Thanks much for your comment. If you liked that one, I have several more in the Apollo 11 series. And my models in my Apollo 15 series are more detailed. Let me know what you think.
This is outstanding, well done !
Thanks!
That was from 1961 Alan Shepherd in a little Mercury Capsule going 100 miles up and 300 miles down range to 1969, three men going 250, 000 miles to the moon and back!!! in 8 years from can we go to space???... to planting the US Flag on the moon and bringing back moon rocks. Most American homes had Black and White TV, one phone on the wall. Only half the homes were airconditioned and in most car's Air Conditioning was because of a kit put on to a car once it was purchased. My Father's home in 1969 had a phone, but it was a shared party line, we had black and white TV and we didn't have Air Conditioning. A Computer was unknown in the home and Engineering Students carried a slide rule. Most homes had a live in cooking mother, a working WWII veteran father and most families went to Church at least once a week. We had a lot less economically and we were a lot happier. Most people came from something they could look back at their shoulder at called a two parent home!!! I think we have lost something 60 years later.
we lost something ??....we lost it all !!
This is INCREDIBLE. 😮🏆🏆🏆🏆
Thanks for watching! Please check out my other animations on my channel!
A significant piece of work. Thanks for producing it.
Thanks!
What a beautiful animation. Thanks, makes my heart race.
Thankyou. If you liked that, I have about 20 Apollo animations on my channel. Let me know what you think.
Good but,...problem was with the engines. NO INSULATION. You couldn't see the inner workings of the engine bells because they were covered in insulation.
Yep…I am aware. That’s what happens when you spend a couple of weeks modeling the F1 engine, based on pictures and drawings…then discover real launch video showing the insulation. At that point I did not have the motivation to cover up my work. If I had known from the start, I could have cut my work by 2/3s for sure.
@@opieswenson 1. This must have taken you months. We are so impressed by and thankful for the effort you put into this, Andrew. Fyi, I go as far back as seeing the A. 11 and 12(?) landings live. 2. I've always been so awed by the beastly power of the F1; by designation and reputation, IT rightly IS the 'Formula 1' of all r-motors! And an honorable mention to the fellow 60s-tech of the -99 in the X-15.
3. What's your favorite plane? Be mindful that the black project RS's that have since replaced the RS-71 (RS is the correct and original designation, as our worst president ever, LBJ, screwed up the letter order in a speech) do exist, we just can't get much in the way of confirmation.
4. Are you a fan of US black projects, such as the Tier 3 "Flying Triangles," the rumored TR-3B Astra being the most famous, and the TR-3A Black Manta? (The -3A is supposedly subsonic, and it or something resembling it was sighted at an RAF base in the early 90s.)
@@brianjob3018 1. Thanks much for your comments. I started do learn Blender last October following Andrew Prices donut tutorials on TH-cam. I started building the models in Jan this year.
2. F1 is an awesome piece of engineering. Currently SpaceX and NASA favor smaller engines and gain the required thrust by having more of them.
3. As a Naval Flight Officer and Naval Test Pilot School graduate, I have flown a lot of military aircraft (Navy, Airforce, Marines). The most fun flying machine…F16. The best “ got war airplane”….F15E (unfortunately can’t get it aboard the boat. Biggest plane I flew….B-1B and P3. My normal plane which I also love is the F14A with is the plane I have the most hours in….but I also have a bunch of time in the F14D, F14B upgrade, and a unique F14 that as only used in flight test (it was a F14A with F14B upgrade avionics…..or I guess you could call it an F14B upgrade with Pratt engines)
4. Can’t really comment on this one.
Most good. These are really good. Looks like it has taken a lot of time and effort to put this wonderful video together.
Yes...lot of time and effort. Last October I became interested in learning Blender having spent the prior year putting several apps in the Apple App Store. You can see my first animation test case on youTube with a scify spaceship. The LUT probably took the most time, and I would definitely build it differently next time. For the most part, I would build ALL of my models differently if I did it again. As you get your hands dirty, you end up learning new and better ways to do things.
@@opieswenson this is very true
Great stuff!! Very enjoyable....:) Thank you for sharing........:)
Thanks..please see part 2 and 3….and more content coming
F1 engines. The outer four fired for two and a half minutes. The centre one cut out after two minutes to prevent high acceleration.
Yes…you were not supposed to see that.🙂
Awesome video thanks! Great perspective which you couldn't really get with the live footage.
Thanks…there are two other videos in the series if you have not seen them. A new one is coming out where you will be able to see the entire interior in detail.
This is excellent. Thank you for making it!
Thanks…please see part 2 and 3. Part 2 in rework.
One small step for Man and one giant leap for Mankind the late Neil Armstrong.
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 - August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who in 1969 became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.
Armstrong was born and raised in Wapakoneta, Ohio. He entered Purdue University, studying aeronautical engineering, with the U.S. Navy paying his tuition under the Holloway Plan. He became a midshipman in 1949 and a naval aviator the following year. He saw action in the Korean War, flying the Grumman F9F Panther from the aircraft carrier USS Essex. After the war, he completed his bachelor's degree at Purdue and became a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base in California. He was the project pilot on Century Series fighters and flew the North American X-15 seven times. He was also a participant in the U.S. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest and X-20 Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs.
Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in the second group, which was selected in 1962. He made his first spaceflight as command pilot of Gemini 8 in March 1966, becoming NASA's first civilian astronaut to fly in space. During this mission with pilot David Scott, he performed the first docking of two spacecraft; the mission was aborted after Armstrong used some of his re-entry control fuel to stabilize a dangerous roll caused by a stuck thruster. During training for Armstrong's second and last spaceflight as commander of Apollo 11, he had to eject from the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle moments before a crash.
On July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) pilot Buzz Aldrin became the first people to land on the Moon, and the next day they spent two and a half hours outside the Lunar Module Eagle spacecraft while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Apollo Command Module Columbia. When Armstrong first stepped onto the lunar surface, he famously said: "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." It was broadcast live to an estimated 530 million viewers worldwide. Apollo 11 was a major U.S. victory in the Space Race, by fulfilling a national goal proposed in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy "of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" before the end of the decade. Along with Collins and Aldrin, Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon and received the 1969 Collier Trophy. President Jimmy Carter presented him with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, he was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1979, and with his former crewmates received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.
After he resigned from NASA in 1971, Armstrong taught in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Cincinnati until 1979. He served on the Apollo 13 accident investigation and on the Rogers Commission, which investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In 2012, Armstrong died due to complications resulting from coronary bypass surgery, at the age of 82.
"One small step for A man"
I heard the original transmission from Adelaide, relayed by microwave from Tidbinbilla, BEFORE it was sent by satellite to Houston, and was corrupted.
Been there myselves, it was so great to see
Thanks for watching!
Gracias por el video. Excelente animación de un evento que marcó la historia no sólo de USA sino de toda la humanidad.
Thanks for your comment!
awesome work!
Thanks!
Excellent job simulator very hard work!!
Thanks…but it is just an animation and not a simulator.
Wow! Superb modelling & rendering - I particularly like the cabin tour - especially the labelling!
If there was texture mapping, it would be almost photorealistic, but a lot more work, and possibly a distraction.
Thanks for your comment! As the series progressed, I added more detail to the interior. My translunar coast video is the Apollo 11 video with the most interior detail…and shot with the cycles engine. That detailed interior carried over to my Skylab series. I have Apollo 15 part 1 available with a working waist restraint (and astronauts) in the LM. Part 2 will be deploying the rover.
@@opieswenson Sounds good! Thanks for giving a new perspective to historic events. I'll keep watching... 😉
4:30 *The tiny thrusters at the bottom of the second stage keep the propellants in the bottom of the tanks near the pumps.*
Yep…they sure do. Thanks for watching and your comment.
All the supposed NASA clips are animated!!!
So if you missed the title screen of the video, it says Drew Swenson Blender Modeling and Animation. It does not say NASA video. I build the models and animate them as a hobby.
Outstanding, thanks. Please some more of that.
More coming! See part 2 and 3 if you have not already
@@opieswenson Just found! Sensational stuff !! Really precisely worked out, congratulations.
Amazing animations! Keep doing this!
Will do!
Finally a good video that isn’t from 6 years ago
Thanks…please see part 2 and 3. More videos coming
Born in 1964, I've been space junkie my whole life. Out of all the Apollo accomplishments my favorite is the Apollo rocket launch release mechanisms. Even a 10th of a second failure could lead to catastrophe. The WWII generation is still the peak of human evolution.
Thanks for watching!
That´s why they are called the greatest generation
Amazing job! Really well done and super interesting, Thanks!
Thanks!
Exremely cool! Bordering on gripping!
... well, it gripped me, ya bastages!
Thanks! Please see part 2 and 3. Part 2 is being reworked…will be out soon. Plus more videos coming.
Absolutely stunning work! I would love it if you could publish a model for exploring! Never get tired of new viewpoints for the early space program, especially Apollo!
Thanks for your comment! Was not planning on publishing a model but I am planning making new videos giving a detailed panel by panel tour including explaining what the panels do.
хорошо сделал!!! осталось смоделировать полностью полёт с данными на AGC!!!👍👍👍👍💪
за "blender" отдельный 👍👍👍👍👍
Спасибо! И да, я не анимировал AGC, таймеры или какой-либо из инструментов. Но я оживил FDAI.
this all went down when america was america and the world looked at us with awe, not any more today ...sadly !!
That is why we must "Make America Great Again."
It's amazing how many buttons there are in and Space X looks like a video game
Yes. Lots of single purpose switches in Apollo.
Great memories. Thank you so much.
Thanks for your comment!
Fantastic!! Simply marvelous!
Thanks!
You even simulated the ullage motors! Well done!
Thanks for noticing.!
Also take a look at my outdated Part 1 (see link in the description) to see how I changed the treatment of the ullage/separation motors. And the new Part1 added the first stage separation motors. First stage has 8 separation motors…2 per each fin. I think it was Apollo 15 that removed 4 of these motors to save weight…but then put them back on for subsequent missions.
Excellent work. Amazing.
Thanks! Check out part 2 and 3. A new and improved part 2 is getting close to releasing
I'm very happy to watch this video
Thankyou. Part 2 and 3 also on the channel. Revised Part 2 may be up today
What a ride.....
Thanks for watching!
Great work . Keep it up . .Neil Armstrong was
THE BOSS . So cool .
Astronaut John Young said their was no one better than Neil Armstrong , after Neil saved both their lives during an out of control Gemini capsule event .
Yep…he was the boss. But it was Dave Scott in the Gemini capsule that spun out of control…not John Young
Nice 21th century animation, strang how much still Apollo promotion goes on despite Orion Artemis finally on the go. Now no testing needed She has gone directly to MOON :)
I think it is for 2 reasons. For those old enough, it was a huge moment in history where much of the world tuned in....and way before 24 hour news. The second reason is that you can get some great video online on the exterior and interior of Orion. While there is some color TV of the Apollo interior, it was not that great and has faded with time.
This was excellent!
Thanks for watching!
very good video dude! thumbs up from Malaysia💪💪
Awesome! Thank you!
great job!
Thanks!
I am trying to work out by rule of thumb how long this took you. Even if I multiply answer by 1,000, I'm probably still light! Amazing work Drew!
About a year's worth. Working on next video right now. It is taking me a while to correct some mistakes on the interior of my model and add details that were not there before. One thing that is surprisingly take me a while to do is to make all the gauges glow (thought it would be easy----oh well).
@@opieswenson You are doing a great job. My videos take an evening LOL!!
Thanks! I really like building the models. I animate them so I can share them with others.@@DXCommanderHQ
Just to be a part of that. Wow.
Thanks for your comment.!
5:39. nice work. (There were three ullage engines on the S-IVb stage).
Thanks much for watching and your comment. I have found that in researching for my models that there were all sorts of configurations on just about everything which sometimes makes it somewhat difficult to get things right. For example, all the manned Apollo missions launched with 8 ullage motors on the S1C except for A15 which launched only with 4. They went back to 8 since A15 stages almost ran into each other. For the SIVB, there were initially 3 ullage motors which can be seen on AS202 (unmanned) here:th-cam.com/video/xMr_AGJprrg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=kHBHpxautNhpDhZr
But later flights had only 2 as can be seen in this drawing here: heroicrelics.org/info/s-ivb/s-ivb-v-overview.html
SUPER VIDEO !! Nice work !!!
Thanks! If you get a chance, please see part 2 and 3. Next video in work is a detail tour of the docked spacecraft. Detailed enough so that you can read everything inside.
Sehr gut gemacht. Danke
Thanks for watching and your comment. If you liked that, please see my other Apollo and Skylab animations.
WOW! Superb work.
Thanks!
Amazing we did this back in 1969
Yes it is.
One complaint.
When simulations are this good, it encourages space deniers.
Roll on the next live one.
Thanks…it is an animation though. But for the deniers…try to look for a home computer and animation software in 1969. However, youcan see the hand drawn animations in 1969 that newscasters were using….state of the art back then but horrible today.
@@opieswenson Completely agree, though it doesn't stop the arguments.
What I had in mind, though, were the immediate responses to the live feed from Artemis-1 in space.
The arch-flatearther LEO (level earth observer) was chuckling at them and declaring them 'ridiculous and pathetic'.
Still, that's no reason not to love constructs like this.
Diolch yn fawr iawn am waith hyfryd.
🏴
Blew my mind! Thank you!
Thanks for your comment!
That was AWESOME!!!!!
Thanks for watching!!
@@opieswenson So well done. Thank you for doing it.
I can understand that all these technology could help a vehicle to go any where in the space. No doubt about that. But, I still cannot understand how the hell electromagnetic waves carry the voice/image through the air. I think it is the most important invention of the humanity history.
Try this: th-cam.com/video/Y6G9uHeRD3w/w-d-xo.html
Incredible, Thank you!
Thanks!
So, I guess the lunar module was used as living quarters to and from the moon on the other missions than Apollo 13, when it became their sole living quarters for a time.
Wszyscy"trzymali kciuki"za ich misję! Również Hermaszewski...
It was an amazing time
I’m loving it, you should do the mercury program next
Sorry…not doing Mercury. I was considering doing Skylab but I can’t find detailed drawings of any of the instrumentation….especially in the telescope mount. After I am done revising my 3 part Apollo 11 series, I was going to give a detailed tour of each of the instrument panels and what they do. Before I started the Apollo 11 series I had modeled an F-14 exterior. I will probably go back to it and finish the interior.
@@opieswenson ok
What kind of Programm do you use ?
Great Video
Blender. It is free.
I'm In absolute awe! I gave you a like, and I subscribed. It's really too bad I can't give you more than one like, Cause you would have a million. It's not only a beautiful video to me, but it also helped me out a great deal. I'm doing a huge project, not only in actual size, but in scope as well. I'm 3D printing the Saturn V, and the launch tower. The Saturn V is about 7 feet tall, and the Gantry is about 8 feet tall. I didn't scale it up this big, but I found it on Thingyverse already this large. That"s great for me cause I wanted to animate it quite a bit. I'm not going to have it lift off the pad, cause that's something i couldn't pull off. I am however going to have the swing arms move back, and a few other things. The gantry model as it is, is OK, but it was lacking detail. So I hunted down the "blueprints", and am able to give the gantry quite a bit more detail. Having said that, I was not sure about all the mechanical workings, and was not really looking forward to going through all that grainy TV footage to animate it correctly. Thankfully, you came along sir and did all that for me. I now have all that knowledge in this one SPECTACULAR video! Thank you so very much for all this hard work that you have done! What an awesome accomplishment Sir!!!!!!!!!
Thanks much for your comments. There is a place online that you can register for free to give you access to drawings and pictures. I did not use them. Instead, I used Apollo maniacs
apollomaniacs.com/apollo/mobile_launcher_en.htm
As a resource. Also I used another model builders photos of his way better LUT model than mine. Where I put in enough detail in the LUT to make it look convincing, this model builder put in everything including the bathrooms. He probably had access to the full drawings.
Here is Stuart Howes LUT
www.turbosquid.com/Search/3D-Models/Lut
Stuart sells his models online for movies. The are expensive. All of my models I built myself. Stuart’s models would be a better reference since he goes down to the bolt and screw level detail of the LUT
Thanks for all the info! I I hope to see more videos from you. Keep up the great work!!
@@KeithRCmafia1967 thanks! Please post pictures when you are complete!
I will post pictures throughout the build. The person who came up with the print said it amounts to about 2000 hrs of print time. It will take me a little longer to animate the model. It's going to be quite a journey, but the journey is always the funnest part!
@@KeithRCmafia1967 that would be great…looking forward to it.
Wow beautiful animation !!!!!
Thanks! Please see part 2 and 3 also. More content on my channel and more coming
@@opieswenson Thanks I certainly will !!!!
Just 2 words: LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for watching!
@@opieswenson Serious question: have you ever considered putting out your wonderful films on a DVD? I know alot of people - including myself - would buy it in a heartbeat!
@@lonnien.6600 No, have not considered putting on DVD. But I am so glad to have viewers on TH-cam. My 3 part Skylab series is complete, but over the next week or so, I will be putting up short Skylab clips that highlight specific panels and experiments in Skylab. These are all in my Skylab Series playlist
@@opieswenson Hi, me again. I would love you to do a Mercury Atlas launch, as well as a Gemini launch. Any chance of that??
@@lonnien.6600 I may do it. On my list is to finish up my Skylab videos. And I wanted to go back to add an Apollo Rover deployment. And for fun, maybe doing a scyfy Jupiter 2. My son wants me to finish an F-14 that I have roughed out (I used to fly as a RIO in F14s).
Very cool. Nice work.
Thanks! Please see part 2 and 3. Part 2 in rework---will release in a couple of days
wow nice animation
Thanks!
Fantastic job!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Really cool... great job!
Thanks! More coming
With all the technology and yet everything is still animation.
Thanks much for watching and commenting. When you say technology, do you mean in 1969 or now? If 1969, cameras were terrible. If you mean why do I animate it is because it is just a hobby. I try to animate space related events that were difficult to see way back in 1969. One of the reasons I don't animate Space Shuttle or current space is because cameras have captured that kind of activity and animation won't be able to tell the story better than a high def camera.. Please take a look at my Apollo 15 videos. More detailed models and I do include my first animations with people.
Simplesmente ESPETACULAR!
Thanks!
Así fue que fueron los Estadounidenses a la luna, con un programa de ciencia ficción como el tuyo.🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴
Very cool!
Thankyou
Fun Fact: During the rocket hold down clamp release part you can actually see the camera E-8 housing...
Are you saying that you can see the E-8 housing in my animation? I have a lot of cameras housings placed all over the tower based upon pictures. The E-8 camera took video at 500 FPS (th-cam.com/video/DKtVpvzUF1Y/w-d-xo.html). During my hold down clamp release, I am not pointing in the direction of where that view would be located. I checked my model, and I don't have a camera housing there. I searched online for the exact location of E-8, but the only references I could find in a quick search was that the E-8 housing was not actually located in that position....and may have been located inside the launch pad base pointed up at a quartz mirror. Regardless, please let me know what you are looking at----my animation or another video, I am interested. Funny thing though----as I was searching my model, I realized that my first stage fin markings did not render. So I fixed the model, but the current Part 1 does not show the proper fin markings.
fantastic
many tks
Thanks!
should show the optics doing the final guidance alignment
I will add that on to my Apollo 15 series. I show a better docking on my Skylab series but without optics. As my videos have progressed, I started with no animated gauges and now showing more and more animated gauges. And of course, nothing really to animate with the optics, but it is a good idea to put it in.
Wonderful!
Thanks!
As máquinas antigas cumpriram bem o seu papel
Yes they did. And they built for speed which meant they did not look for the perfect solution to engineering problems, they instead looked for good enough engineering solutions that met their time tables. And thanks for watching and your comment.