I love how the moon is a fractal. You see craters, then you get closer, and you see more craters that appear to be about the same size because of your perspective, and then closer, and more craters.
I was going to say exactly the same thing. The same notion occurred to me during the descent. I wonder if it's a camera resolution thing or it really looks like that.
Great men and a magnificent achievement. The Apollo flights were covered in considerable detail on the BBC , with the normal TV schedules taking second place. As a schoolboy I was enthralled by it.
3:20 "No denying that, we had contact." David Scott's landing was the roughest in the Apollo program, hitting the lunar surface at 6.79 ft/s. In comparison, Neil Armstrong's landing was the softest, at only 1.77 ft/s.
They bent the Nozzle of the descent engine which hit the ground. The back leg was actually on the slope of a crater and this caused the LM to pitch back. If the LM had pitched further back it could have initiated an automatic abort or else it would not be possible for them to launch properly from the moon.
@trevorsmith7753I remember reading about it, and I think that 15’s landing velocity came in around 2.2 meters per second, which would corroborate what the commenter above said.
@trevorsmith7753 No. The landing touchdown design was to kill the engine as soon as they got the contact light when the probe touched the ground. It was particularly important on the J-mission LMs, because they had an extended expansion skirt to improve the ISP, which in turn allowed much more payload. Scott was by far the quickest on the switch, Armstrong only shut it down when he was solidly landed.
@@srinitaaigauraScott hit the rim of a 20-foot-wide crater that he couldn’t see. This placed the spacecraft at an 11 degree tilt. Scott stated in the mission's debrief -- "…at the altitudes looking down as we approached the landing, it was very difficult to pick out depressions… as far as the shallow depressions there and the one in which the rear footpad finally rested, I couldn't see that they were really there. It looked like a relatively smooth surface."
You can never tell how high you really are above the ground or how fast you're going because the craters come in all sizes and it always seems to look the same.
That's why the designers provided as much assistance as they could: radar, LPD angles, and even landing with the sun behind them so that the LM's shadow could be a clue.
Still takes my breath away, thinking how desolate that place was, how crude the computers by today's standards. By the time of Apollo 17 the missions sadly got hardly any attention, landing on the Moon had become so *"routine!"* Amazing....
Once Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa Tenzing climbed Mount Everest ,(1953) it was History and his experiences taught to children in schools even now, after 7 decades. But today even a girl of 13 years from a slum climbs and some one, who was physically challenged also climbed ,apart from hundreds, of others., youth to senior citizens
We still have no operational vehicles to get back to the moon nearly half a century after we last set foot there. It’s pretty sad, really. I remember watching Apollo 11 as a teenager in 1969...
@@JungleYT ... The Problem is... There were non more "Conquests"... I remember that by 1986 the "Orion Project" would've have Astronauts walking on Mars... instead we had over 50 years of flying shuttles less than 250 miles from Earth... What a lost opportunity!!!
For all the folks who weren't born yet when this happened. All I can tell you, if you were there that day, it was a spectacular achievement. Watching a replay never matches the thrill of the real thing! God, I miss that time in history. It was all so fresh and new.
I was 8 years old when Apollo 11 landed. I couldn't name any NFL football player except Roman Gabriel but I could, and still can, tell you the names of every Apollo astronaut and the mission they flew on. What a great time to be a kid. The country was in a lot of turmoil but the Apollo program was a bright spot.
@@AJ-he8ki If the Biden Administration doesn't defund it. They are already sending negative signals but I think Elon Musk may do it all on his own if need be.
@@raymondeaton5692 actually, the administration has supported the artemis program and space force. Explicitly. there's also been a recent letter from 11 democratic senators asking for more funding towards the Human Landing System (HLS) which is the competition for what lander will take us back to the moon. If anything those are very positive signs. The president even has a moon rock in his office.
For those wondering what the "45, 40, 42"etc numbers and were: The computer would have a readout that was a number. The pilot who was landing would look through the window. On the window was etched the same numbers (bascially in degrees). If he says 45 the pilot looks at 45 and looks through it to the Moon surface, the place behind the number was where the computer was wanting to landing. It was called the LDI or Landing Indicator.
I know a flat earther, he said most of them are anodic to the idea, that their point is more that people shouldn't just believe something because they're told it. He gave the example that we've all seen in textbooks of the earth cut away to the core, showing the molten centre, and yet the deepest hole we've ever dug is 11 kilometers deep which is barely a scratch on the surface of the earth so really we don't know for certain whats at the center of the earth. And unless you've been to outer space and looked back at the earth with your own eyes then you're just taking somebody else's word for it.
@@bushpig6837 But we use seismic waves to explore inner earth just like doctors can detect tumors and other anomalies within our body . We don't need to go to the center of the earth to know what's there "its science ! "
Bien que bien petit au moment de ces évènements il m'en a fallut du temps pour apprécier l ' ampleur de ces exploits : Chapeaux bas !!! Although very small at the time of these events, it took me a while to appreciate the extent of these exploits: Hats off !!!
It's synced on sound. The camera speed can vary a bit from the set values (1fps, 6fps, 12fps). So it's best to stretch the video to match sound queues.
Rob Plutonium - I'm glad you mentioned the tear in the eyes........ it's happened at least 60 times in my life to the Blue Angels shows over the US Naval Academy, and every F-22 Raptor flight I've seen at Andrews AFB. The stark evidence of absolute unity between pilot and aircraft seems to be involved :) At least 48 others appear to concur as of February 7, 2021.
@@arknan9624 You wish it was. You want to keep your head in the sand along with obeying your overlords so as to not leave this planet. You want to conform and obey. And there are those of us who see the awesomeness of God and his vast and unending creation. What's going to happen once we start colonizing the moon, have an orbiting space station for tourists, and then colonize Mars? It would be sad and depressing to think that we are doomed to only stay on this rock we call Earth. There is nothing you can say or do that will stop what is happening. hah!!
@@TheMoonchild1969 I was playing orbiter with Apollo AGC and DSKY simulation and messed up my data entry, making my landing location about 10km underground. My radar freaked out and auto aborted. All I heard is alarms and red lights and just thought about how scary that must be in real life, considering I had google and they didn’t lol
Fantastic landing, it looked like the only IMC landing in all the moonshots. Great piloting and crew. They also brought back the Genesis Rock. Thanks for posting and God bless.
I admire how Dave Scott and Jim Irwin were cool operators during the landing, despite the fact they were only the 4th manned landing on a another planet in the history of humanity. No doubt, their performance is due to the years of training as military pilots and astronauts. I can't believe this summer will mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 15 mission.
The Moon is not a planet, it is a satellite. With Copernicus's heliocentric astronomy, published in 1543, the moon ceased to be a typical planet. Uniquely, as Copernicus's critics pointed out, its orbit was centered on the Earth, not the sun. It was now Earth's “satelles” (meaning servant) from which our word satellite derives.
The landings seemed to become almost routine after Apollo 11. It's still incredible what they managed to accomplish considering all the hardware they had to create, test, and of course fly a quarter of a million miles away from home.
The deep steep canyon in the upper left as they get close is hadley rille believed to be a lava flow channel since they landed on big area that was filled with lava after a meteor impact. They did in fact go over and look down in and the walls appeared to be layer after layer of lava flows. Lava can flow in tubes or channels and the roof can collapse leaving a canyon or possibly eroding material concept of a river. they only went once so no way to be sure thats why its fun to guess because nobody can question it.
Hadley Rille... Farouk El Baz was a geologist who trained the crews, and had a very warm friendship with Al Worden. They called him “The King” after the Egyptian King Farouk.
He also influenced NASA with Eygptian / Masonic rituals where they were launching and landing the moon spacecraft based on alignments of say, the belt of Orion (the 3 belt stars represent the 3 main pyramids at Giza) being at 33 degrees above the horizon (Orion representing Osiris in Egyptian mythology) or Sirius being at 19.5 degree below the horizon (Sirius represents Isis)
'They spent 181⁄2 hours on the Moon's surface on extravehicular activity (EVA), and collected 170 pounds (77 kg) of surface material. "They had a good cooling system.
We've been at war already. It's just that everyone is in denial. Ot the left is hoping we won't notice. I used to think that America had the smartest people but now I believe other countries have smarter people. You, my aussie friend, are part of my realization!
@@awuma There is a 5th gen war going on. It is all data and cybersecurity. I believe culture attacks and attacks on the minds of the people are also part of the tactics of 5th gen warfare.
That's not entirely true, the LM (Lunar Module) was 'fly by wire' with the guidance computer in control all the way down with the LM Commander 'Added' to the control loop after pitch over in order to adjust the computers trajectory. The LM computer was fully capable of landing by itself. LM Computer Program: P64 Low Gate (Landing phase). Starting at Low Gate at 150 m (500 feet), this phase allowed the Commander (and not the Lunar Module Pilot) to take control of the LM. LM Computer Program: P65 (automatic) or P66 (manual) landing. It was a true mixture of man and machine.
The way the very fine Moon dust behaves, from the heavy thrust when the vehicle approaches the surface, to the short time the dust settles down, is the absolute prove that this is no fake.
I believe that the callouts before initiating manual control at P66 are from the LPD (Landing Position Designator); “four seven” being 47° for example. The descent rate from pitchover down to below 1,000 feet was still pretty high, much higher than 4 ft/sec.
This never gets old! Thanks for posting. For the youtube conspiracy ass clowns who say this is all CGI, compare any cutting edge special effects for that time period and compare it to Apollo footage.....
I watched it live on TV at a scientific institution, and in our student group was a relative of one of the astronauts. It was a great show, with mountains and a canyon. By that time, the TV feed was of good quality and in color.
@@alancumming1458 Please explain how roughly 250,000 people were all in on the same "conspiracy." How everyone from NASA, the military, the media, those involved in security, public relations, engineers, support staff, and on, and on, were all in on it, everything went off without a hitch, and out of all those people, absolutely none have come forward to "spill the beans," as they say. None of them had anything better to do.......no family issues, personal and/or health problems, let their conscious get the better of them. They managed to get everyone involved to do what they had to without any problems. Less we forget that we were in the middle of a cold war with the Soviet Union, who would have liked nothing more than to catch the U.S. in the middle of a "conspiracy." Oh, and we can't forget the movie crew doing everything perfectly. Everyone knows that shooting a movie is always free from problems. Yeah, that all makes perfect sense. Grow up already.
@@alancumming1458 Awwwwww. Tsk,tsk, tsk. Hey, I get it. You feel powerless. You feel as if you are not heard enough. And all of the recent destabilizing events can really have an impact on people. So, grabbing onto a narrative that helps explain those feelings and encloses them within a safe community of other believers is comforting. Just like a big, warm, secure, hug. It provides a soothing relief. But it still doesn't provide a big enough relief from the anxiety and the need for complete control over your environment, not to mention your need for subjective certainty. It helps to explain your own negative feelings as a result of situations or events beyond your control. Yet with others, it's a result of internal problems such as personality or character flaws. But I digress......going on about some scientific psychological jibberish, when I really should be going on about conspiracy theories and pseudoscience. Screw actual science (what has THAT ever done for anyone???) and reason. Maybe someday I'll realize that conspiracy theories and pseudoscience really are the ways to go.
They switched from calling out the rate of descent in meters per second, to feet per second as they got closer to the surface... I never noticed that before.
People today talk as if space travel is nothing special, but they have no conception of the incredible complexity of even entering low earth orbit let alone what Apollo achieved. With computers of the same order of power of a low spec iPad.
It just hit me that, of all the Apollo LMPs, Irwin was the most efficient during the landing phase. Altitude & LPD callouts at regular intervals transitioning to altitude & H-dot from 500’ agl all the way down, with only an occasional fuel callout. No extraneous chatter, clear n concise. As a pilot, I’d have LOVED to fly with him!!!
after looking at the photos from a distance I have changed my mind on what many of the rilles are. THEY ARE SHRINKAGE MARKS that occur along the edges of the basalt fill ups. If you look at hadley the canyon has exactly matching edges--lava tubes do not flow like that for hundreds of miles and leave perfectly matched edges. Shrinkage cracks like that occur even on earth in lava fields. even in a crater like in Hawaii you see them after things cool off. I also hike in lava fields my whole life and see the exact features all the time. If I can come up with enough examples I will do a short video upload as to my theory.
DIDNT TAKE LONG-- i simply went to google earth and looked at my favorite lava field I explore west of Ludlow California (Pashgut volcano--huge black area about 30 miles west of Ludlow) sure enough there are the same rilles. will do video for sure in a few days. wont be pro video but will get the point across.
They actually wanted somewhat of a hard impact to crush the legs down some. Neil Armstrong had the softest landing which made that last step a doozy. Gotta shut’er down right after the contact light.
@@Ed-hz2um no Armstrong had to hit the button. When aldrin announced the contact light Armstrong hesitated a bit and put it down softly. Then when he went out, before he stepped off the pad he had to check and make sure he could jump back up to last rung on ladder.
@@stewartj3407 ...and he had to do that because of the way the ladder has been designed. they expected a harder landing, which would have "crushed" the shock absorbing parts of the legs a bit, so the ladder would be closer to the ground, as also because they didn't know about the ground conditions, about how deep the moon dust would be. And of course because of his soft landing ;-)
Man what a weird optical illusion. For the first minute I was seeing the canyon at the top as a weird enormous "landing strip" of sorts. I couldn't figure out what that was supposed to be until I interpreted the shadows and light in proper relief. Nuts. We can be grateful that all 6 lunar landings were successful. As we know with space technology, accidents happen and loss of life is not unheard of. It would be quite sorrowful to know there are humans who died and are still on the space rock we see most nights.
I read somewhere... sorry I can't recall where... that NASA statisticians calculated that Apollo 18 or 19 would have resulted in a loss of the crew. The odds were that a significant failure was likely to occur.
@@ScienceChap A significant failure did happen on Apollo 13. Although they made it home alive, the landing was scrubbed in order to preserve the LM for the return flight. Had the explosion in the service module happened after the landing, there would have been no way back.
Amazing footage, when that sand was blown away under the LM, it had probably been laying there for hundreds of millions of years, mind-boggling, as one astronaut said, "nothing ever moves on the moon" , ( Alan bean)
Utterly terrifying even today, even 50 years after we know they got home safely. I was holding my breath for the last few feet. Those men had steel cojones.
So beautifully restored! Do you have plans to do the Apollo 17 16mm landing film as well? Maybe also the footage of the flypast over the landing site with the CSM in the distance? That would be great! Thanks for all your hard work!
I believe it is the same structure that you can see on the take off video: th-cam.com/video/FrjYJ1rioyY/w-d-xo.html I think it is some ancient deposit, maybe from the formation period of the moon. The angle of view and shadows make it look kind of strange.
I mean unless we suddenly desperately need silica dust there is no reason to go back. The only reason the US went in the first place was bragging rights after all.
It costs so much money and there's nothing more can be done on the moon. Mars is the next destination, that will be absolutely fantastic, to visit another planet ,
@@ophello love the idea of man on the moon, just think there’s no chance it happened during Apollo. You’re welcome to your reality, don’t remember your name on the list of astronauts. I do believe that rockets took off and crews splash landed after circling the Earth, just not that they travelled the 230000 miles, landed on Moon, walked about a bit then rejoined the Lunar orbiter and travelled back to Earth.
I was eighteen when Apollo 11 happened; in the Navy at Electronics A School at Treasure Island. One of my classmates filmed it right off the television screen.
Are you referring to the long thin shadow that appears at 2:36 ? It was one of the surface contact probes that extended below three of the Lunar Module landing pads. Each 1.7-metre-long probe had a contact switch at the bottom end that, when it touched the ground, turned on the surface contact light on the astronauts' control panel. They then turned the Descent Engine off and dropped to the surface, crushing the probes. In this classic photo of Buzz Aldrin standing on the Moon, a probe is visible in the dust in front of him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11#/media/File:Aldrin_Apollo_11_original.jpg The reason for turning off the engine before touchdown was to prevent possible damage to the landing gear from the rocket exhaust reflecting off the ground. The pad at the bottom of the arm that had the astronauts access ladder did not have a probe, as the astronauts had asked that it be left off in case it got in the way after landing.
@@MarsFKA I am referring to the huge strip stretched out on the lunar surface, which can be seen immediately above in the video. Is it a lunar surface? but it's very very strange ..
@@romanofranci7835 Okay, I see it now. That is Hadley Rille, an ancient lava channel along the eastern edge of Mare Imbrium. Do a Google for it and look at the images.
In fact there was an enormous amount of dust! This is my first time since seeing it on TV at the time, and you can really see the huge quantity of material being shifted
@@TAttiusMaximvs Enormous???????????????????? Dear two inches! AAAhh They used to expect a little more on that old dead unprotected Planet, guess you have nooooooooooo idea how many tons we receive on closed system Earth. It blends with the soil and water here (not there). Many (many) Apolloists say no dust blown or just up and down nonsense. Watch this visual to get an idea of how much was previously expected = th-cam.com/video/1oer2Ph1IP4/w-d-xo.html
@@marcleblanc3602 The majority of the dust on the lunar surface is from impacts that throw up dust, not just dust that falls from space. On Earth only large objects make it to the surface due to the atmosphere. Linking a video from before the landings, just shows that they were wrong in their estimates. But before Apollo there were unmanned probes that gave a better estimate as the the depth of the dust. It does however vary in different places on the moon due to the amount of impacts in that area. As far as dust blown. No atmosphere means that the dust will fall back to the surface at 1/6th g after the engines are turned off. So, that is not nonsense. Thinking that it would make a long lasting cloud (which some think) is nonsense.
I was confused at first too but if you look at it when they get a bit lower its is actually a canyon. The harsh shadows and b&w footage create a bit of an optical illusion at first glimpse.
@@NobodysSon Ok, thank you! I still have trouble seeing it that way, with the apparent structure at the far right. But that is much more likely than the unrolled metal strip it appears to be! Ah yes, I see it now.
@@mackinnon1488 If you bothered to do some research you’d know they’re talking about the Descent stage. The Ascent stage has its own fuel and oxidiser.
The "5 point" landing, where they used the decent engine bell as a airbag, crushing it slightly, and a extra point of contact. Glad it didn't jam upwards and do damage, the story of 15 might have been different. It looks really rough from the video. Brave Men, and Equipment, one and all!!. I have a idea for a book, the title is "Riding on Tin Foil", or something like that.
@@RetroSpaceHD I really do not believe that. The horizon looks like it is like it's just couple hundreds of meters from the space ship. The moon is 27% of the size of the earth. And the diameter of moon is 3474 km. That horizon is way too close, or they have landed on a "mountain". Which would be unrealistic that they would do that.
@@anunusualnick8340 It’s because the moon does not have an atmosphere. So things that are very far away still look clear and sharp edged. You misinterpret that as being nearby because on earth, things that are far away look washed out and soft edged. It’s called atmospheric perspective.
I found Apollo 15 to be the most exciting of the Apollo missions. Hadley rille and the new car played a role.
Perhaps one with the best visuals. They spent very little footage on themselves, so they filmed a lot on the Moon.
I love how the moon is a fractal. You see craters, then you get closer, and you see more craters that appear to be about the same size because of your perspective, and then closer, and more craters.
you mean a mandlebrot......
self-similarity, yes, and without the haze of an atmosphere or any relatable landmarks it's impossible to judge distance.
@@chloedevereaux1801 a mendelbrot set is a type of fractal.
I was going to say exactly the same thing. The same notion occurred to me during the descent. I wonder if it's a camera resolution thing or it really looks like that.
@Otto_Maddox Atmospheric haze obviously makes it easier to judge distance. You're somehow mixing "makes it easier" with "makes it perfectly reliable".
Great men and a magnificent achievement. The Apollo flights were covered in considerable detail on the BBC , with the normal TV schedules taking second place. As a schoolboy I was enthralled by it.
I couldn't wait to get home to watch. I was 5 yrs old when Apollo 15 landed on the Moon.
Achievement of one of the greatest LIE
3:20 "No denying that, we had contact." David Scott's landing was the roughest in the Apollo program, hitting the lunar surface at 6.79 ft/s. In comparison, Neil Armstrong's landing was the softest, at only 1.77 ft/s.
They bent the Nozzle of the descent engine which hit the ground. The back leg was actually on the slope of a crater and this caused the LM to pitch back. If the LM had pitched further back it could have initiated an automatic abort or else it would not be possible for them to launch properly from the moon.
Where did you get such exact data?
@trevorsmith7753I remember reading about it, and I think that 15’s landing velocity came in around 2.2 meters per second, which would corroborate what the commenter above said.
@trevorsmith7753 No. The landing touchdown design was to kill the engine as soon as they got the contact light when the probe touched the ground. It was particularly important on the J-mission LMs, because they had an extended expansion skirt to improve the ISP, which in turn allowed much more payload. Scott was by far the quickest on the switch, Armstrong only shut it down when he was solidly landed.
@@srinitaaigauraScott hit the rim of a 20-foot-wide crater that he couldn’t see. This placed the spacecraft at an 11 degree tilt. Scott stated in the mission's debrief -- "…at the altitudes looking down as we approached the landing, it was very difficult to pick out depressions… as far as the shallow depressions there and the one in which the rear footpad finally rested, I couldn't see that they were really there. It looked like a relatively smooth surface."
You can never tell how high you really are above the ground or how fast you're going because the craters come in all sizes and it always seems to look the same.
That's why the designers provided as much assistance as they could: radar, LPD angles, and even landing with the sun behind them so that the LM's shadow could be a clue.
Still takes my breath away, thinking how desolate that place was, how crude the computers by today's standards. By the time of Apollo 17 the missions sadly got hardly any attention, landing on the Moon had become so *"routine!"* Amazing....
Once Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa Tenzing climbed Mount Everest ,(1953) it was History and his experiences taught to children in schools even now, after 7 decades. But today even a girl of 13 years from a slum climbs and some one, who was physically challenged also climbed ,apart from hundreds, of others., youth to senior citizens
@@krvnaick2022 Yeah... Once something is conquered no more Big Deal. On to the next conquest...
We still have no operational vehicles to get back to the moon nearly half a century after we last set foot there. It’s pretty sad, really. I remember watching Apollo 11 as a teenager in 1969...
@@m60mgman Yeah, and so many skilled scientists and engineers got laid off. The Vietnam War also didn't help much so far as monies, National focus...
@@JungleYT ... The Problem is... There were non more "Conquests"... I remember that by 1986 the "Orion Project" would've have Astronauts walking on Mars... instead we had over 50 years of flying shuttles less than 250 miles from Earth... What a lost opportunity!!!
16 years old - amazed! .....66 years old, still amazed!
11 and 61 respectively for me, and yes, me too!
Sir, we will see the same in 2024.. i hope !
@@Cicalonion 🤞
Amazed and SCARED. As a 10 year old, when Apollo 16 descended to the moon, Charlie Duke's excited voice scared the heck out of me!
Same here!!
It is outstanding how much they where able to accomplish with the technology they had! I’m amazed. Thanks for posting this video.
Simple is almost always better.
and now in 21st century we only got iq60 flat earthers and bible fanatics saying everything is CGI
Techology was the same as todays... we only have smaller chips!
@@TerryGrancho 😂👌🤦♀️🤣
The technology was cutting edge at the time.
For all the folks who weren't born yet when this happened. All I can tell you, if you were there that day, it was a spectacular achievement. Watching a replay never matches the thrill of the real thing! God, I miss that time in history. It was all so fresh and new.
I was 4 and I still remember sitting in front of the TV watching. We went to the park after. Remember clear as yesterday
I was 8 years old when Apollo 11 landed. I couldn't name any NFL football player except Roman Gabriel but I could, and still can, tell you the names of every Apollo astronaut and the mission they flew on. What a great time to be a kid. The country was in a lot of turmoil but the Apollo program was a bright spot.
It's about to be fresh and new, again. Have you been keeping up with Starship? The race to mars is pretty much starting.
@@AJ-he8ki If the Biden Administration doesn't defund it. They are already sending negative signals but I think Elon Musk may do it all on his own if need be.
@@raymondeaton5692 actually, the administration has supported the artemis program and space force. Explicitly. there's also been a recent letter from 11 democratic senators asking for more funding towards the Human Landing System (HLS) which is the competition for what lander will take us back to the moon. If anything those are very positive signs. The president even has a moon rock in his office.
For those wondering what the "45, 40, 42"etc numbers and were: The computer would have a readout that was a number. The pilot who was landing would look through the window. On the window was etched the same numbers (bascially in degrees).
If he says 45 the pilot looks at 45 and looks through it to the Moon surface, the place behind the number was where the computer was wanting to landing. It was called the LDI or Landing Indicator.
I was just wondering what that number was, thanks for the clarification!
Uhh no. The first call out was forward velocity in fpm, the second was decent rate in fpm once in a while you get an altitude in feet.
The indicator was called the LPD, landing point designator. Some of the calls were for which LPD line to use, some were something else.
It is stuff like this that makes me feel sorry for flat earthers-- we live in such a beautiful universe and they just don't want to believe it exists.
I figure they have to be such a small minority (less than 1% I'm thinking), so nobody cares about what they have to say, nor should we.
Both of them? I have yet to meet one in my seventy years of life. What I have seen is people professing to be flat earthers just to rile an audience!
I know a flat earther, he said most of them are anodic to the idea, that their point is more that people shouldn't just believe something because they're told it. He gave the example that we've all seen in textbooks of the earth cut away to the core, showing the molten centre, and yet the deepest hole we've ever dug is 11 kilometers deep which is barely a scratch on the surface of the earth so really we don't know for certain whats at the center of the earth. And unless you've been to outer space and looked back at the earth with your own eyes then you're just taking somebody else's word for it.
@@bushpig6837 But we use seismic waves to explore inner earth just like doctors can detect tumors and other anomalies within our body . We don't need to go to the center of the earth to know what's there "its science ! "
Bien que bien petit au moment de ces évènements il m'en a fallut du temps pour apprécier l ' ampleur de ces exploits : Chapeaux bas !!! Although very small at the time of these events, it took me a while to appreciate the extent of these exploits: Hats off !!!
Fantastic. Good resolution and syncing. These moments always bring a proud tear to my eyes.
It's synced on sound.
The camera speed can vary a bit from the set values (1fps, 6fps, 12fps). So it's best to stretch the video to match sound queues.
Rofl.. Ahaha good fake
Rob Plutonium - I'm glad you mentioned the tear in the eyes........ it's happened at least 60 times in my life to the Blue Angels shows over the US Naval Academy, and every F-22 Raptor flight I've seen at Andrews AFB. The stark evidence of absolute unity between pilot and aircraft seems to be involved :)
At least 48 others appear to concur as of February 7, 2021.
@@arknan9624 You wish it was. You want to keep your head in the sand along with obeying your overlords so as to not leave this planet. You want to conform and obey.
And there are those of us who see the awesomeness of God and his vast and unending creation. What's going to happen once we start colonizing the moon, have an orbiting space station for tourists, and then colonize Mars? It would be sad and depressing to think that we are doomed to only stay on this rock we call Earth. There is nothing you can say or do that will stop what is happening. hah!!
@@arknan9624 No real !
The men of Apollo - crews and engineers - were one of a kind.
Nice little self-contradictory statement.
Nope, lots of conmen, they’re not unique
The Apollo landings never get old. I remember each of them. This was America at its finest.
You mean Hollywood at it's finest right?
Crazy that there are idiots that think it was staged. So amazing to see that footage. Thanks for posting it.
RIP James Benson Irwin
Still impressive so many years later. Thanks for posting this.
Watching these landings never gets old!
I love all the comments from peeps who seem to know for sure without a doubt that it didn't really happen..
Hilarious. Except that enough of those geniuses voted for the traitor felon ! Ass clowns
Strangest bingo game ever.
That abort bingo was apparently the pucker moment.
😂 "BINGO" and we have a winner APOLLO 15 👏🏽👏🏽
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@@TheMoonchild1969 I was playing orbiter with Apollo AGC and DSKY simulation and messed up my data entry, making my landing location about 10km underground. My radar freaked out and auto aborted. All I heard is alarms and red lights and just thought about how scary that must be in real life, considering I had google and they didn’t lol
Fantastic landing, it looked like the only IMC landing in all the moonshots. Great piloting and crew. They also brought back the Genesis Rock. Thanks for posting and God bless.
This is great. Shows how accurately depicted the landing scene was in "First Man".
Excellent movie and the editing during the aproach is suberb
In apollo 15
On of my all time favorite movies!! Man the editing with the movie was amazing, saw it in Imax to!
I admire how Dave Scott and Jim Irwin were cool operators during the landing, despite the fact they were only the 4th manned landing on a another planet in the history of humanity. No doubt, their performance is due to the years of training as military pilots and astronauts.
I can't believe this summer will mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 15 mission.
The Moon is not a planet, it is a satellite.
With Copernicus's heliocentric astronomy, published in 1543, the moon ceased to be a typical planet. Uniquely, as Copernicus's critics pointed out, its orbit was centered on the Earth, not the sun. It was now Earth's “satelles” (meaning servant) from which our word satellite derives.
@@AtlantaTerry yes, I think so.
You could hear the excitement in his voice as they were approaching to land. It was for all mankind.
What amazes me is that there’s idiots out there that think we never did it 🤯
I suggest reading Col Irwin's book, "To Rule The Night"
Wow....and to think I was exactly 21 days old........this year in July I am 50.
That would be fps not fpm.
I'd just been conceived 😂
I was 27 days old. Where did the time go?!
The landings seemed to become almost routine after Apollo 11. It's still incredible what they managed to accomplish considering all the hardware they had to create, test, and of course fly a quarter of a million miles away from home.
The deep steep canyon in the upper left as they get close is hadley rille believed to be a lava flow channel since they landed on big area that was filled with lava after a meteor impact. They did in fact go over and look down in and the walls appeared to be layer after layer of lava flows. Lava can flow in tubes or channels and the roof can collapse leaving a canyon or possibly eroding material concept of a river. they only went once so no way to be sure thats why its fun to guess because nobody can question it.
This is the only comment I've seen on that canyon..
I like the electric universe explanation..
Hadley Rille... Farouk El Baz was a geologist who trained the crews, and had a very warm friendship with Al Worden. They called him “The King” after the Egyptian King Farouk.
He also influenced NASA with Eygptian / Masonic rituals where they were launching and landing the moon spacecraft based on alignments of say, the belt of Orion (the 3 belt stars represent the 3 main pyramids at Giza) being at 33 degrees above the horizon (Orion representing Osiris in Egyptian mythology) or Sirius being at 19.5 degree below the horizon (Sirius represents Isis)
'They spent 181⁄2 hours on the Moon's surface on extravehicular activity (EVA), and collected 170 pounds (77 kg) of surface material. "They had a good cooling system.
"No denying that, we had contact". Wait till you see your descent engine bell! D
Yep they certainly turned that extended engine bell into a crumple zone.
You Yanks are amassing , Love from an Aussie , we need each other right now more than ever , we are going to war soon
GTKRWN!
pretty sure we are already being affected by the start of that war.
We've been at war already. It's just that everyone is in denial. Ot the left is hoping we won't notice. I used to think that America had the smartest people but now I believe other countries have smarter people. You, my aussie friend, are part of my realization!
Huh? What war? Nobody can challenge the US unless they are suicidal, and I don't think any major player on the world stage is so inclined.
@@awuma There is a 5th gen war going on. It is all data and cybersecurity. I believe culture attacks and attacks on the minds of the people are also part of the tactics of 5th gen warfare.
A beautiful video. Thank you.
This drives home the fact these were manual landings.
"Seat of the pants" as it was once called. Basically they landed in the space equivalent of a Piper Cub. Those were some REAL MEN.
That's not entirely true, the LM (Lunar Module) was 'fly by wire' with the guidance computer in control all the way down with the LM Commander 'Added' to the control loop after pitch over in order to adjust the computers trajectory.
The LM computer was fully capable of landing by itself.
LM Computer Program: P64
Low Gate (Landing phase).
Starting at Low Gate at 150 m (500 feet), this phase allowed the Commander (and not the Lunar Module Pilot) to take control of the LM.
LM Computer Program: P65 (automatic) or P66 (manual) landing.
It was a true mixture of man and machine.
Well that went out the window with Armstrong.
Can't wait for Artemis ....
I knew how this was going to end, but I was still holding my breath!
That's how I felt with Biden's "win" lol
Things like this is what the word awesome should be reserved for.
What a wonderful display of skill.
The way the very fine Moon dust behaves, from the heavy thrust when the vehicle approaches the surface, to the short time the dust settles down, is the absolute prove that this is no fake.
Salut ,
dingue , 3 secondes après le contact l'image est claire !
Étonné !
Flacon: We landed on the Moon!
Houston: Rodger. Rodger.
THANKS for Posting... : )
The call outs you hear are forward velocity and decent rate in feet per minute with an occasional altitude. (4/4 is four fpm forward four fpm down).
I believe that the callouts before initiating manual control at P66 are from the LPD (Landing Position Designator); “four seven” being 47° for example.
The descent rate from pitchover down to below 1,000 feet was still pretty high, much higher than 4 ft/sec.
four feet per minute pretty slow mate
Watching is dizzying, but thankfully the pilot had the benefit of depth perception.
Hit song on the radio that month: "Sweet Hitch-Hiker", Creedence Clearwater Revival
Morrison passed that month
This never gets old! Thanks for posting. For the youtube conspiracy ass clowns who say this is all CGI, compare any cutting edge special effects for that time period and compare it to Apollo footage.....
I watched it live on TV at a scientific institution, and in our student group was a relative of one of the astronauts. It was a great show, with mountains and a canyon. By that time, the TV feed was of good quality and in color.
@@alancumming1458on himself again....
@@alancumming1458 Please explain how roughly 250,000 people were all in on the same "conspiracy." How everyone from NASA, the military, the media, those involved in security, public relations, engineers, support staff, and on, and on, were all in on it, everything went off without a hitch, and out of all those people, absolutely none have come forward to "spill the beans," as they say. None of them had anything better to do.......no family issues, personal and/or health problems, let their conscious get the better of them. They managed to get everyone involved to do what they had to without any problems. Less we forget that we were in the middle of a cold war with the Soviet Union, who would have liked nothing more than to catch the U.S. in the middle of a "conspiracy." Oh, and we can't forget the movie crew doing everything perfectly. Everyone knows that shooting a movie is always free from problems.
Yeah, that all makes perfect sense.
Grow up already.
@@alancumming1458 Awwwwww. Tsk,tsk, tsk. Hey, I get it. You feel powerless. You feel as if you are not heard enough. And all of the recent destabilizing events can really have an impact on people. So, grabbing onto a narrative that helps explain those feelings and encloses them within a safe community of other believers is comforting. Just like a big, warm, secure, hug. It provides a soothing relief. But it still doesn't provide a big enough relief from the anxiety and the need for complete control over your environment, not to mention your need for subjective certainty. It helps to explain your own negative feelings as a result of situations or events beyond your control. Yet with others, it's a result of internal problems such as personality or character flaws. But I digress......going on about some scientific psychological jibberish, when I really should be going on about conspiracy theories and pseudoscience. Screw actual science (what has THAT ever done for anyone???) and reason. Maybe someday I'll realize that conspiracy theories and pseudoscience really are the ways to go.
@General Melchett im sorry. Come back with a real name general and we will take you seriously. Ok booby? Too grown up for ya?
Great channel
Thanks!
What Professionalism! Makes me proud.
Only the people involved in this amazing feat know how Legendary these astronauts really are.
Amazing 👍
How do people feel to know that some think this was all fake? Me? Horribly ignorant and disrespectful of the efforts of so many. Others?
It's a sad commentary on modern society. We once did things that modern people cannot even fathom as possible.
@@JoseyWales44s agree completely!
ну да конечно усилие тех людей без сомнение но вы не указали усилие голевудских кинорежесеров))
Absolutely amazing
They switched from calling out the rate of descent in meters per second, to feet per second as they got closer to the surface... I never noticed that before.
Because America.
the feet was altitude--not feet per second
@@rong1924 no because it's easier to judge smaller distances with imperial system quickly
@@kevinbutton4580 I’m certain it’s because they weren’t going to land Americans on the moon using commie units.
@Rusty the Crown have you heard of centimeters? It's not that hard to say "30 centimeters."
People today talk as if space travel is nothing special, but they have no conception of the incredible complexity of even entering low earth orbit let alone what Apollo achieved. With computers of the same order of power of a low spec iPad.
It just hit me that, of all the Apollo LMPs, Irwin was the most efficient during the landing phase. Altitude & LPD callouts at regular intervals transitioning to altitude & H-dot from 500’ agl all the way down, with only an occasional fuel callout. No extraneous chatter, clear n concise. As a pilot, I’d have LOVED to fly with him!!!
after looking at the photos from a distance I have changed my mind on what many of the rilles are. THEY ARE SHRINKAGE MARKS that occur along the edges of the basalt fill ups. If you look at hadley the canyon has exactly matching edges--lava tubes do not flow like that for hundreds of miles and leave perfectly matched edges. Shrinkage cracks like that occur even on earth in lava fields. even in a crater like in Hawaii you see them after things cool off. I also hike in lava fields my whole life and see the exact features all the time. If I can come up with enough examples I will do a short video upload as to my theory.
DIDNT TAKE LONG-- i simply went to google earth and looked at my favorite lava field I explore west of Ludlow California (Pashgut volcano--huge black area about 30 miles west of Ludlow) sure enough there are the same rilles. will do video for sure in a few days. wont be pro video but will get the point across.
I remember ITV's World of Sport interrupted their programme to show the moon rover being made ready.
I’ve worked for George Mueller who ran Apollo for a while, he was fascinating fellow to chat with.
Incredible... love watching these...
stunning
I learned about perspective thanks to the moon missions.
They actually wanted somewhat of a hard impact to crush the legs down some. Neil Armstrong had the softest landing which made that last step a doozy. Gotta shut’er down right after the contact light.
I believe that engine shutdown occurred automatically when the probe on the leg made contact. At least it does on the Artemis craft.
@@Ed-hz2um What Artemis craft?
@@awuma It's the new lander for the next lunar missions. Bigger, but harder to fly with the increased inertias.
@@Ed-hz2um no Armstrong had to hit the button. When aldrin announced the contact light Armstrong hesitated a bit and put it down softly. Then when he went out, before he stepped off the pad he had to check and make sure he could jump back up to last rung on ladder.
@@stewartj3407 ...and he had to do that because of the way the ladder has been designed. they expected a harder landing, which would have "crushed" the shock absorbing parts of the legs a bit, so the ladder would be closer to the ground, as also because they didn't know about the ground conditions, about how deep the moon dust would be. And of course because of his soft landing ;-)
Gracias por tu video, saludos desde Badajoz.
Man what a weird optical illusion. For the first minute I was seeing the canyon at the top as a weird enormous "landing strip" of sorts. I couldn't figure out what that was supposed to be until I interpreted the shadows and light in proper relief. Nuts.
We can be grateful that all 6 lunar landings were successful. As we know with space technology, accidents happen and loss of life is not unheard of. It would be quite sorrowful to know there are humans who died and are still on the space rock we see most nights.
I read somewhere... sorry I can't recall where... that NASA statisticians calculated that Apollo 18 or 19 would have resulted in a loss of the crew. The odds were that a significant failure was likely to occur.
@@ScienceChap A significant failure did happen on Apollo 13. Although they made it home alive, the landing was scrubbed in order to preserve the LM for the return flight. Had the explosion in the service module happened after the landing, there would have been no way back.
On all Apollo landings sunlight is from the back, so shadows are to the front of the lander. Hope it helps.
@@RetroSpaceHD Hm interesting. Is that to avoid glare from the sun for landing or some other reason?
@@darioinfini That's exactly why. Would have been difficult to see the landing site, with the sun in their eyes.
Dankeschön Wernher von Braun !
Check the latest video with his 1950's reusable rocket concept: th-cam.com/video/7o_hpc42Kg0/w-d-xo.html
Amazing footage, when that sand was blown away under the LM, it had probably been laying there for hundreds of millions of years, mind-boggling, as one astronaut said, "nothing ever moves on the moon" , ( Alan bean)
Still amazes me all these years hence.
Utterly terrifying even today, even 50 years after we know they got home safely. I was holding my breath for the last few feet. Those men had steel cojones.
Thanks for this.
So beautifully restored! Do you have plans to do the Apollo 17 16mm landing film as well? Maybe also the footage of the flypast over the landing site with the CSM in the distance? That would be great! Thanks for all your hard work!
Thanks for the comments! There are plans for all of the landings. They will be done eventually.
Thanks for sharing
They set themselves up with a couple of nice size holes in the ground right outside their front door
🚀 Updated HD version: th-cam.com/video/aaP-XSPBsL8/w-d-xo.html
Who disliked this? Flat-earthers?
Just us who think this is bullshit and not real. What is flat-earther?
And that crater, just outside the window? It could be a billion years old. Amazing!
Roger Roger, whats your vector Victor?
What's the clearance Clarence, Roger, Over, what?... huh?
I'm in an Andover over Dover. Over.
Right...
Beautiful work.
Fantastic, beautiful.
Imagine having such an astronomical persecution complex that you think every professional, educated person on earth is lying to you about its shape 😂
Better cameras 50 years ago than security cameras
Point?
Good cameras on Apollo 15, in fact very good for 50 years ago
@@jamarbrown8924 and... your point???
That was film, not a TV camera.
@@scott_meyer never said it was
Rope memory. Amazing.
The moon landing deniers are surely eating crow after release of the APOLLO 11 film.
They eat crow and spit out more bullshit.
First Man is fictional.
@@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504 He's talking about the documentary movie "Apollo 11" that came out last year.
@@srinitaaigaura wow , looks real .
@Otto_Maddox Especially back in those days.
What is that long strip of material on the lunar surface seen at the top of the frame from the beginning to about 1:30 in the video?
I believe it is the same structure that you can see on the take off video:
th-cam.com/video/FrjYJ1rioyY/w-d-xo.html
I think it is some ancient deposit, maybe from the formation period of the moon.
The angle of view and shadows make it look kind of strange.
50 years ago, and only 12 men ever walked on the moon.
Shame on you, humans! Shame on you!
Don't blame humans, blame the politicians.
Never, ever confuse politicians with humans---that's a major error.
I mean unless we suddenly desperately need silica dust there is no reason to go back. The only reason the US went in the first place was bragging rights after all.
The reason for that is because there is nothing on the moon.
It costs so much money and there's nothing more can be done on the moon. Mars is the next destination, that will be absolutely fantastic, to visit another planet ,
Oh look guys,we have one of those conspiracy nuts here , hahaha some say they are like annoying children, I think they are great fun hahaha
*VERY COOL!*
It's weird how at 3000' you look like you are 100' off the ground. Those craters are very deceiving
Are you kidding it looks fake because it’s not a moon landing
@@paulhayles why can’t you accept reality?
@SinnerD2010 Yeah, because without any atmosphere to distort or haze the view, it's hard to estimate distances.
@@ophello love the idea of man on the moon, just think there’s no chance it happened during Apollo. You’re welcome to your reality, don’t remember your name on the list of astronauts. I do believe that rockets took off and crews splash landed after circling the Earth, just not that they travelled the 230000 miles, landed on Moon, walked about a bit then rejoined the Lunar orbiter and travelled back to Earth.
paul hayles Good thing is, facts don't care what you believe.
Tremendo! El mejor alunizaje
Hm. Eighteen days before I was born.
I was eighteen when Apollo 11 happened; in the Navy at Electronics A School at Treasure Island. One of my classmates filmed it right off the television screen.
@@yt45204 The last generation to have experienced both pre-space flight, and a wold wide web of instant communication!
What is that long structure? and raised to the right vertex? I've never seen anything like it before.
Are you referring to the long thin shadow that appears at 2:36 ? It was one of the surface contact probes that extended below three of the Lunar Module landing pads. Each 1.7-metre-long probe had a contact switch at the bottom end that, when it touched the ground, turned on the surface contact light on the astronauts' control panel. They then turned the Descent Engine off and dropped to the surface, crushing the probes. In this classic photo of Buzz Aldrin standing on the Moon, a probe is visible in the dust in front of him:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11#/media/File:Aldrin_Apollo_11_original.jpg
The reason for turning off the engine before touchdown was to prevent possible damage to the landing gear from the rocket exhaust reflecting off the ground.
The pad at the bottom of the arm that had the astronauts access ladder did not have a probe, as the astronauts had asked that it be left off in case it got in the way after landing.
@@MarsFKA I am referring to the huge strip stretched out on the lunar surface, which can be seen immediately above in the video. Is it a lunar surface? but it's very very strange ..
@@romanofranci7835 Okay, I see it now. That is Hadley Rille, an ancient lava channel along the eastern edge of Mare Imbrium. Do a Google for it and look at the images.
@@MarsFKA thanks
Must have been quite the feeling after successfully landing.
Хороший мультфильм. :-)
That would be something, Many say they didnt rise any dust, looks like the exhaust did create a rainbow of dust screeks. May the buggy rides commence!
The dust simply fell straight back to the ground on a ballistic arc because of gravity. No atmosphere for it to hang around in.
In fact there was an enormous amount of dust! This is my first time since seeing it on TV at the time, and you can really see the huge quantity of material being shifted
@@ScienceChap Ha ha good one :)
@@TAttiusMaximvs Enormous???????????????????? Dear two inches!
AAAhh They used to expect a little more on that old dead unprotected Planet, guess you have nooooooooooo idea how many tons we receive on closed system Earth. It blends with the soil and water here (not there).
Many (many) Apolloists say no dust blown or just up and down nonsense.
Watch this visual to get an idea of how much was previously expected =
th-cam.com/video/1oer2Ph1IP4/w-d-xo.html
@@marcleblanc3602 The majority of the dust on the lunar surface is from impacts that throw up dust, not just dust that falls from space. On Earth only large objects make it to the surface due to the atmosphere.
Linking a video from before the landings, just shows that they were wrong in their estimates. But before Apollo there were unmanned probes that gave a better estimate as the the depth of the dust. It does however vary in different places on the moon due to the amount of impacts in that area.
As far as dust blown. No atmosphere means that the dust will fall back to the surface at 1/6th g after the engines are turned off. So, that is not nonsense. Thinking that it would make a long lasting cloud (which some think) is nonsense.
Can someone explain what the second number is he is calling out? I understood the altitude but at the end it's -17, -6, etc.
I think it's vertical velocity.
Iam just here to check up on the deniers....looks like the reality folks have it under control. ;)
Полная шняга!
And some people think that the moon landings were faked.
But they are.
@@mil-fpv4931,
Hahaha.
You're good. You said that with a straight face!
Looks like they missed the runway... What is that strip?
That's what I want to know....
I was confused at first too but if you look at it when they get a bit lower its is actually a canyon. The harsh shadows and b&w footage create a bit of an optical illusion at first glimpse.
@@NobodysSon Ok, thank you! I still have trouble seeing it that way, with the apparent structure at the far right. But that is much more likely than the unrolled metal strip it appears to be! Ah yes, I see it now.
‘6% fuel’ - balls of those guys.
Does that not refer to the percentage of fuel power, not what percentage is remaining in the tank?
@@mackinnon1488
No.
How did they return from the moon with 6% fuel?
@@mackinnon1488
If you bothered to do some research you’d know they’re talking about the Descent stage. The Ascent stage has its own fuel and oxidiser.
The "5 point" landing, where they used the decent engine bell as a airbag, crushing it slightly, and a extra point of contact. Glad it didn't jam upwards and do damage, the story of 15 might have been different. It looks really rough from the video. Brave Men, and Equipment, one and all!!. I have a idea for a book, the title is "Riding on Tin Foil", or something like that.
I have the incredible honor of meeting two of my heroes, Dave Scott and Al Worden. They were two of the most humble people I have ever met.
Scott wrote a nice book together with Alexei Leonov, "Two Sides of the Moon". Good read, along with Tom Stafford's "We Have Capture".
How come that in every picture and video from the moon looks like the horizon is so close? Like they were behind a big mountain or something.
The Moon is one-fourth the size of Earth, so yes, the horizon IS much closer.
@@RetroSpaceHD I really do not believe that. The horizon looks like it is like it's just couple hundreds of meters from the space ship. The moon is 27% of the size of the earth. And the diameter of moon is 3474 km. That horizon is way too close, or they have landed on a "mountain". Which would be unrealistic that they would do that.
@@anunusualnick8340 Notice that you just get subjective "gee whiz" answers. Never any math to back up their claims.
@@anunusualnick8340
It’s because the moon does not have an atmosphere. So things that are very far away still look clear and sharp edged. You misinterpret that as being nearby because on earth, things that are far away look washed out and soft edged. It’s called atmospheric perspective.