Apollo 11 Part1: All Engines Running
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NASA Apollo countdown, launch, staging, translunar injection (TLI), lunar module extraction, and interior tour of the docked Command and Lunar Module. All modeling was done in Blender. Smoke simulation with KHAOS. Scenes 1 through 15 done with the Cycles render Engine. The rest were done in EEVEE.
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Summary of revisions at the end.
Major scenes include:
1. Tour launch complex 39, launch pad, launch umbilical tower (LUT), and Saturn V stack.
2. Walk across swing arm number 9 to the White Room
3. Retract Saturn V Damping, Retract, and Reconnect System (DRRS) and rotate the Colby Crane out of the way.
4. Retract all LUT swing arm extensions and retract swing arm 9.
5. Retract swing arm 2 and 3 at T-19 seconds.
6. Retract swing arm 1 at T-10 seconds (F-1 ignition at T-8 seconds)
7. Tail Service Mast retraction at T-0 followed by closing of the hold down arm blast hoods.
8. Retract swing arm 5 and 6 close up at T-0.
9. Retract swing arm 7 and 8 close up at T-0
10. Look Down shot of swing arms 4 through 8 retracting at T-0
11. Close up of 5 Saturn V F-1 engines.
12. First Stage S-1C separation. Second Stage (S-II) ullage burn and and 5 J-2 engines light. Includes interstage separation. The interstage held the 4 solid ullage motors used to settle the second stage fuel.
13. Closeup of second stage J-2 engines.
14. Launch Escape Tower (LET) jettison removing the command module boost cover. Note that the jettison mode uses a solid rocket motor towards the top of the LET. Using the LET for an abort would use the much larger motor towards the bottom of the LET (with the 4 nozzles at the base)
15. Second Stage (S-II) separation with retro burn. Third Stage (S-IVB) ullage burn and ignition.
16. Third Stage TLI ignition
16. Command Module transposition, docking, and extraction.
18. Tour inside the docked Command and Lunar Module.
This revision in response to very positive feedback in the comments and other things I wanted to fix. The list of changes includes:
1. Added intro screen...hope you like it.
2. After clearing the tower added a new scene which removed the black smoke. Also added vapors coming off the rocket. And I now show the 18 degree roll to proper heading. It is hard to see because it is only 18 degrees. At launch, the spacecraft hatch faces directly east.(090) but the spacecraft needs to turn to head northeast (072). Rolling 18 degrees (90-72) while vertical, makes the horizontal maneuver into a pitch only maneuver.
3. First Stage staging is all new and this time includes the retros on the first stage. And also removed all the smoke effects.
4. Second Stage staging is all new with smoke effects removed
5. Added new scenes depicting Trans Lunar Injection...at least the ignition phase.
6. Transposition and Docking redone. In actuality it is a very slow maneuver. I have greatly speeded it up. I now slow the SLA doors blasting free. I did add some reaction control system (RCS) burns more for illustration. In reality you would rarely see the RCS burns. And they would be more bang bang in nature as opposed to the longer burns that I show. Also added the COAS in the CM forward left window (window 2) for this maneuver. But I did not put the collimated target on the COAS glass. I also removed the music.
7. Reshot the tour through the CM/LM. The biggest change is that I removed the fish eye and instead use a more standard 50mm lens. In the CM model, I recolored the locker edges to make them not look as washed out as they were. The path through the CM is the same as the original, but the camera path through the LM is different and I think shows off the inside a little better.
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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
(#8^10Dilipkumaryadav😂
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 was 9 years old. Watched every second of the mission I could.
Thanks for watching. If you liked that one, take a look at my other Apollo content.
I had the same emotional response watching this that I had watching the original launch as a child, you have brought me great joy, thank you
Thanks for watching and for your comment. Comments like this motivate me to make more. I do have another Apollo video in work. Major updates on all models so it is taking me some time to put it together.
I remember watching this on our B&W TV with rabbit ears. Heady days, indeed!
@@opieswensonI had the same response. I remember watching this event with my family huddled around the TV. My father worked at NASA JSC, and thankfully JSC gave a lot of the workers the day off so they could be with their families. Every house on my block was watching the same broadcast with their doors open and all the kids went from house to house and just hung out with other families throughout the broadcast. It was a day like no other. That experience will never be repeated. Thanks for your efforts. Btw, if I had one request, it would be an Apollo 8 render, or possibly Apollo 13. 8 was my personal favorite mission. 13 was crazy around my house because my dad was recalled right after the accident. He didn’t come home for days. But as far as interesting missions, the J missions, 15, 16 and 17 would be great because of the extended stay on the moon and the rover. Thanks again! Oh, and thanks for Skylab. Skylab and Gemini don’t get the love that Apollo and STS get, yet they were fascinating missions.
THIS WAS A TREMENDOUS VIDEO! The crackling of the F-1 engines during launch was superb and closely mimicked the actual sounds. The video also underscored the tremendous engineering, hard work and dedication of all those involved in this amazing achievement by bringing the viewer "along for the ride." The late Jack King's voice as well as the other CapComs brought realism to this video. A job well done!
Thanks much for your comments! All the sounds I grab are for free. Could not find any F1 sound files that were for free, so I used a falcon 9 launch sound file which I may have slightly changed the pitch. One interesting sound that I used was for the interior shots. Having flown a couple thousand hours in fighter aircraft, the sounds of the environmental control system is ever present. Did not have any CM/LM ambient interior noises so I tried to imitate the inside (like a fighter) by using a Dyson vacuum cleaner pitched way down.
I remember reading as much stuff as I could about Apollo as a kid. It absolutely fascinated me. It's what inspired me to become an engineer (electrical) and work in aviation. Currently an engineer in the Royal Australian Airforce. Love the video BTW.
Thanks for watching and your comment. I also have more Apollo 11 animations as well as Apollo 15 and Skylab animations. New animations in work that have much more detail.
Nobody called a liftoff better than Jack King. His descriptions of all the operational sequencing was second to none!
Plus he had a nice voice to listen to.
NASA couldn't have found a better guy. There was something about his voice and his delivery that added suspense and highlighted the magnitude of these amazing lift-offs. I was a kid during Apollo, and if you were a football fan back then, King was the nfl's John facenda. A voice that couldn't be replaced.
You're absolutely right- though I love his break ("all engine[sic] running") - such was the emotion at that moment.
When i was a kid i was really interested in the space program, Mercury, Gemini then Apollo, this is so cool.
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?
The amount of engineering and construction of the Apollo program is just mind boggling, even to this day.
I agree. Please see part 2 and 3….more content coming…subscribe…trying to get to the magic 1000 subscribers.
🙏👋👍
@@jokokristiyono3762 Thanks!
This was at a time when students actually had a education. Today, they do not, at all.
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.
Excellent rendition. I,m not going to crib about anything this time. Every detail looks great. The astronauts on apollo and Gemini missions and all the ground crews and nasa people were true hero's. I never get tired of learning more about them.
Keep going.
Thanks! I do listen to comments and take action. I didn't fix everything...but I fixed a lot.
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.
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.
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!!
Hey! There's a guy with a black cat doing something to the second stage!
Star Trek reference?
@@opieswenson yes
Assignment: Earth...
P.S.--my guess is the vehicle used in those pad shots was Apollo 4...the timing is about right.🇺🇸
it’s ok, Teri Garr is on it 😉
Gary Seven 🧐
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!).
The Saturn V was a beast.
This was amazing engineering at the time all using slide rules and the computer that was on the lunar lander guidance had the same processing power as a modern day calculator truly amazing.
Yes, hard to believe.....repeat, hard to believe.
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.
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.
Superb animation. Looked really representative of the event. Loved seeing the Saturn going through the sound barrier.
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.
Engineers are the greatest persons on the planet who do ridiculously crazy pieces of work.
Why thank you 😊
the way you personalize content makes it so relatable!
And thanks for watching and commenting!
**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.
Phenominal piece of work Andrew
Thankyou. Please see Part 2 and 3. Part 2 is under revision. More videos coming going in depth on what the instrument panel does.
So superbly implemented! I recall watching this at school, aged 10. I also followed every aspect in the Sunday papers where basic technical descriptions and diagrams were published. Amazing it was all achieved with so much less computing power than a modern pocket calculator!
Thanks! Please see part 2 and 3….updated Part 2 should be out by end of today.
Will never get old. What a team!!!
I was like 6 or 7 years old , The marathon gas stations use to have special drinking glasses that you got with a fill up. What a time to watch history in the making .
Thanks for watching and commenting. When you have a chance , let me know what you think of my other Apollo and Skylab videos.
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!
Great animations! Thank you for that. I watched the “original” live on television when I was 13 years old. If there were a Nobel Prize for technical excellence, the Apollo Mission would 1000% deserve it! If there were technical wonders of the world, the Apollo Mission would be by far in first place. What the Americans have done is simply incredibly good. As if 1,000 Swiss clockworks had meshed together. Even the Space Shuttle, the ISS and SpaceX can't even begin to keep up!!! Kind regards from Switzerland.
Thanks for watching and your comment. I have an Apollo 15 series and a Skylab series too if you have not seen it. Currently working on a new Apollo animation.
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.
The detail inside the command module..wow, that’s impressive 👍
Thanks!
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.
Humanity's most underrated achievement of all time
Totally agree!
Great work excellent detail I was there that day watching the launch with my Parents and siblings I was only 11 but will never forget the rumble of that amazing machine. Thanks for the flashback
Thanks. Must have been an awesome sight and feeling from the rumble. Any chance you could spot yourself in the Apollo 11 movie that included a lot of imax type shots of the crowds?
@@opieswenson I've watched the videos several times but never spotted us we were watching by the river in Titusville There were so many people that day it was incredible
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.
Thrilling…saw the real take off. Never forget it
Don’t forget to watch part 2 and 3. Thanks for your comment
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.
With luck on November 16th once again a rocket will lift off from Kennedy space center and head towards the moon.
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!
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 was incredible work. Congratulations.
Thanks!
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.
This is INCREDIBLE. 😮🏆🏆🏆🏆
Thanks for watching! Please check out my other animations on my channel!
Amazing illustration and simulation… impressive all these achievements done in 1969 meaning all engr done early 60 till 65 and from then testing and debugging so this is let 50s technology proven in late 60s … just amazing achievement !!!
Thanks!
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.
🎵🎶those were the days mein friend ,we thought they'd never end 🎶🎵we sing and dance the whole night through 🎵🎶
Thanks for watching
Love the inclusion of the solid motors in the 1st stage outboard engine fairings firing UP at stage sep to help keep Stage 1 from colliding with Stage 2....a detail many are unaware of.
And I love it when people notice those details. As an aside, my most detailed internal Apollo model is in the “Translunar Coast” video. It is my least popular in my Apollo series…and I knew it would be when I made it. It was specifically made for those people who were very interested in the up close details inside the spacecraft. Thanks again for watching!
Amazing detail.
Excellent work!!
Thankyou.
This is outstanding, well done !
Thanks!
I've used Blender quite a bit and can appreciate the incredible amount of work this took! Your animation is amazing! Very cool to see the details of the launch that in real life could not have been seen.
Great job!
BTW, i never watch the countdown clock on my microwave without calling out all of the same checkpoints in the launch sequence! :)
Fellow Blender user---thanks much! Don't think I have ever had a Blender user comment before. The A11 series was my first real animation. My A15 videos have much more realism with working DSKY and working digital clocks, fuel, etc. Currently working on a new Saturn V launch (A15) where I correct many of my Apollo LUT (tower) errors, add in a ton of detail, while at the same time replacing a lot of mesh where I could have used curves or instancing instead.
@@opieswenson If this was your "first real animation" I'd love to see future ones! They should be amazing!
@@hchattaway You can do a search for Drew Swenson Blender on TH-cam or go directly to my channel with this link here: www.youtube.com/@opieswenson/videos. Let me know what you think.
@@opieswenson These were awesome videos... I just watched the hatch video for Skylab... The camera work was super smooth, nice easing. Looked like it was just floating through Skylab!
This is my first attempt at animation in Blender... It's a kit bashing model
th-cam.com/video/nBkBG7ynwvU/w-d-xo.html
For doing solid modeling, I've been learning Plasticity. It's much more specific to modeling than Blender and has amazing features.
Then I'm incorporating my models inside of UnReal Engine. UnReal is just that... Incredibly powerful tool and free! I've seen that's the way to go for making movies.
What I would love to see you do is an animation of the F1 engines starting up from the inside. Start from the outside, than fly into the engine showing the ignition sequence.. The igniters going off, the turbo pumps spinning up, valves working and then the injector head spraying the fuel into the combustion chamber. maybe fly down the fuel lines from the tank to show the journey from there. :) I read so many books on the Saturn 5 and love hardware.. so that's my personal taste. :) Great work you're doing!
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 AMAZING! I've seen footage of what is shown here and I gotta say WOW!
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.
Great job! I really enjoyed watching 👍👍
Thanks for watching! Updated part 2 coming out shortly.
awesome work!
Thanks!
A significant piece of work. Thanks for producing it.
Thanks!
I liked reading all the little labels inside the ship
Thanks for your comment. It took a lot of research trying to figure out what they all said. I used NASA pictures, the Smithsonian 3D site on Apollo 11 and various other sources. I think there is at least one and maybe 2 decals that I did not include because I could not quite read what it said. One of those decals goes under locker R1 on the curvy part of the wall.
On your comment on the title…NASA PAO Jack King flubbed his comment and said “all engine running”. I corrected his quote for the title. Fun fact….Jack King’s son was one of my flight instructors flying the F-14 (I was a RIO in VF-84 and VX-30)
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.🙂
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.
Great stuff!! Very enjoyable....:) Thank you for sharing........:)
Thanks..please see part 2 and 3….and more content coming
Good burn!
This is excellent. Thank you for making it!
Thanks…please see part 2 and 3. Part 2 in rework.
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.
Great. Please continue making these.
Thanks!
Captivating, fascinating & superb job on animation and coupling with audio. makes me wish all over again that I was inside there just as when I watched it live on our crappy black & white Magnavox tv (when I was 7 or somethin). a nice comprehensive representation of sequence with no extra fluff added. I would've maybe pissed pants knowing decades later how phenomenally Dangerous being in space is. even in low-low orbit right above. no room for any tiny fudge at all. 🥶
Thanks! And back then, we did not really know how crappy TVs really were. Did you get a chance to see all 3 parts?
@@opieswenson No sir but I'll look for it
@@harry2928 The link is in the description of the video that you watched or just click on my handle @opieswenson where it shows up in blue
@@opieswenson Thank you kindly Mr. Swenson I'll definitely see to it. Your panning angular perspective/s chosen in anim. is beautiful in augmenting the realism quality. You have my full salute; what a splendid sequence. 👌🏻👍🏻
@@harry2928Thanks!
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.
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.
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That´s why they are called the greatest generation
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
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!
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."
Great memories. Thank you so much.
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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.
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... 😉
Wow, this is really good! Nice work!
Thanks for watching! Let me know what you think about my other videos!
@@opieswenson I will.
increíble y minuciosa reconstrucción y blender! Felicitaciones!!
Thanks!
Finally a good video that isn’t from 6 years ago
Thanks…please see part 2 and 3. More videos coming
Been there myselves, it was so great to see
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Excellent .I was There.
Thanks for watching! At the Cape for the launch?
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.
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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.
Amazing animations! Keep doing this!
Will do!
I'm very happy to watch this video
Thankyou. Part 2 and 3 also on the channel. Revised Part 2 may be up today
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.
This was excellent!
Thanks for watching!
Breathtaking - well done!
If you like that one, wait until my next one. The next one is a more detailed tour inside the docked spacecraft---detailed enough so that you can read every panel if you choose. But to do that, I had to step up my game in the model. A lot more detail has been added such as brackets, placards, exposed wires, additional boxes, etc.
Fantastic!! Simply marvelous!
Thanks!
I wish they had a space sim that looked this good!
Thanks for watching. If you liked that please take a look at my Apollo 15 series.
I will forevers hear "All engine running" - right up there in the nerves stakes with "Roger Twank..."
great job!
Thanks!
Excellent job simulator very hard work!!
Thanks…but it is just an animation and not a simulator.
Amazing job! Really well done and super interesting, Thanks!
Thanks!
You really did a hell of an amazing job. Thank You
Thanks! There are 2 other parts to this video if you did not see them. New one in work.
That was AWESOME!!!!!
Thanks for watching!!
@@opieswenson So well done. Thank you for doing it.
This is BRILLIANT work!
Thanks!
Excellent work. Amazing.
Thanks! Check out part 2 and 3. A new and improved part 2 is getting close to releasing