Maybe the Soviets were too ambitious but I have to admire their optimism. Landing a probe on Mars _with a rover_ in 1971 is mind blowing indeed. A colossal achievement that I was completely unaware of until now. This is why I'm subscribed to Simon's channels
All the Soviets really proved is that being first doesn't have much to do with being the best or even being successful. Most of the Soviet space program was little more than the equivalent of publicity stunts.
@@autodidact537 soviet missiles today Are the best though and I don't think that would have been the case without the lessons learned in their space program. You don't go through the efforts they did for publicity it is to learn and they did.
You left out one of the scariest aspects of Venus. Atmospheric pressure at the surface is roughly equivalent to the pressure you'd feel 3000 feet below the surface of an ocean on Earth. The atmosphere IS gaseous, not liquid, just at an extremely high pressure.
It's actually a supercritical fluid at that temperature and pressure, which means it has properties of both a gas and a liquid at the same time. The atmosphere of Venus is wild.
Yes, not only were they the first to put a manmade object on the moon (and thereby any celestial object other than Earth) with Luna 2, but they also achieved the first soft landing on the moon with Luna 9.
Since you talked about Saturn briefly in this video, I think you should do a video on Cassini Huygens Space Probe. It explored the Ringed Gas Giant and learned a lot of things about not only Saturn, but also the many moons which orbit Saturn. Plus its final suicide dive into the Saturnian Atmosphere as it sent back final bits of data is a badass way to go.
I love to watch all of your channels, and you do a great job, but you had one small mistake. The Apollo 11 landing occurred on July 20th, 1969, and Neil Armstrong’s first steps occurred late on the 20th or early on the 21st depending on what time zone in the world you were living in. The 24th was the day they returned to Earth.
I love the fact that you always express scientific measures using the metric system instead of the antique imperial system. I wish NASA would do the same. Keep up the good work!
@@victorzvyagintsev1325 Agreed; first to hit Mars was an accomplishment; first to land a spacecraft that survived and functioned as designed was another.
NOW YOU HAVE TO DO VENERA. It may have been a failure in the grand scheme of things, but it was still a mega project deserving of coverage. Edit: sorry for the late edit to this. Okay in retrospect after thinking about it for a while, he's Venera was successful in their primary objective. It's just that it took Soooo long and with so many failures for them to get was was essentially a few minutes of glory before the sulphuric atmosphere melted everything. You know I kinda wanna see a mission back to Venus and back to the spot where Venera landed with a Venus rover to see what half a century of exposure does to the structure.
@@atomicskull6405 yeah I get what you mean. Considering that the Americans took the easy planet and the Soviets took the hardest planet to go to... I kinda wrote that comment in a rush so I didn't have the time to think about my statement. But fact remains. VENERA COMMRADE SIMON
I want to say, that mini rover looks super interesting and I wish current rovers got something like this at their disposal. Soviet engineers got quite fun and outlandish ideas it seems :) This and lunokhod vehicle are really "sci-fi" looking :)
This was actually very cool! I had known about Mars 2 and 3, but not with this level of detail. Very nicely done!! I really do like your videos on space topics
1:50 - Chapter 1 - Mars 3:40 - Chapter 2 - The space race 4:55 - Chapter 3 - Race to the red planet 6:35 - Chapter 4 - Mars missions 7:25 - Chapter 5 - The 3 amigos 8:20 - Chapter 6 - Mars 2 & 3 11:35 - Chapter 7 - The main event 15:05 - Chapter 8 - The future of mars travel
Specially History, The Venus missions blew my mind. I really wanna see more of their accomplishments as well, they deserve some global recognition for their efforts.
That really was interesting, I knew that both the USSR & the USA had got orbiting satellites to Mars, but had no idea that the USSR had managed to land something that then transmitted back to Earth, 50 years ago, that was a pretty mean feat even now, thanks for doing this.
I'm opting out. I Can't negate my own experiences that go against this kind of narrative. Sorry. I do not believe the celestial spheres will welcome human life on them. Humanity reaching for the stars while babies starve on the Earth... yeah. I just don't think that looks good to the creator program that watches everything we do. UFO's are more real to me than missions to mars will ever be.
And I love watching my daily dose of Stargate, so.... It's not that i don't believe in other worlds, or realms. I just don't think humanity will travel there via the ozone soup we call space.
you guys do great work; i enjoy it every time it comes across my feed! simon, you should have compared the soviet mars 2 to a heavy duty pickup; most of us have never ridden a hippo!
tHE REASON YOU NEVER HEARD OFF BECAUSE IT WAS IN THE SOVIET TIME and the US LIED ABOUT THE SOVIET IN SHAME THEY COULD NOT MANNAGE WHAT THE SOVIET COULD AND ALSO STILL LIES ABOUT THE MILITARY WEAPON THAT THE SOVIET RUSSIANS AND EVEN TODAYS IS BETTER.... THAT IS WHY THE WHOLE WORLD IS BELIEVE THE SOVIET AND THE RUSSIANS WHICH ALL COUTRIES KNEW BUT THE US BAN IT'S CITIZENS FOR TO FIND OUT ABOUT
I admit I never thought the Soviets be the first to smash and land on Mars! Why do they have an obsession of keeping really awesome projects a secret that could benefit everyone else. They are bringing more respect to their daring achievements and doesn't matter they don't last long they just showed humanity can do it.
YES! As soon as you mentioned the PROTON K I immediately thought of Voyager and Capt. Proton, I LOVE that you also did and called it out. Lol'd so hard. Love you Simon.
Shielding for space radiation so that humans can survive a trip to Mars with more than 60% of their brain intact would indeed be a Megaproject. Living on Mars will require just as much shielding, so structures on Mars will be megaprojects too.
Mars mission windows are fun because you only get several weeks-months every 2.2 years because of the separate orbits so when the windows open you often see a big group go up at once when interest is high. For example, 6 craft were sent by two countries in Jul-Aug 2020 including Chinese and American landers (Zhurong and Perseverance)
i think in 1971 is was working in a computer center, essentialy calculating and printing out invoices for building supplies and laundry requisits, it was owned by sunlight laundries, so...but although it got lost years ago, i did have a print-out of a naked girl leaning on a bar stool, printed using letters and numbers. so i was going to complain that if you're going to take photos of mars maybe a decent reproductive system would have been useful, but, considering the tech of the time maybe a fuzzy blob is all you could expect. the computer we used, a UNIVAC 9300 had a 64k memory which was revealed from behind the panel with all the flashing lights on, a criss cross of wires and tiny ring magnets.
There’s a scene in the BBC documentary series The Planets tff he at features two of the scientists who’d worked on Mars 3. One of them explained about how the “image” was being received and then the signal stopped, the other guy just looked at the ground the whole time saying very little. His sense of disappointment at how close they’d come to success was so evident. Space missions operate on very fine margins, when Beagle 2 was located on Mars and it was evident that it had reached the surface only to fail to properly deploy I immediately thought back to Mars 3.
Apparently Beagle successfully entered the orbit of Mars at something like 17 kms per second, successfully aerobraked as it entered the atmosphere, deployed it shutes then inflated the dodecahedron of air Bags built into its fuselage just before cutting the chutes and landing!. Upon landing, it bounced once… twice, rolled a little… and promptly dropped into a bottomless pit. So in summation, was Beagle a success! Not really! But technically I feel that it’s also the greatest Hole in One ever played!
10:48 "This is happening in the 1970's this is mind blowing". Oldie here (well born in the same year as Steve Jobs). May I remind you Simon it was my generation that invented the computers, infrastructure and associated gadgets that make your career possible, but it was not us but our parents generation that actually went to the moon. My school physics teacher actually worked for NASA before he had to return to the UK at the end of the Apollo programme.
Didn't we go to Escobars for that? What year did we go to Escobars for Hippos? Or Pablos... or something... Ask the guys that did South Park, they prolly know for sure... Or Tom Cruise, ask him... no, maybe don't ask Tom Cruise how to get to other planets... What about Zod... The general.... You don't know General Zod? WHERE HAVE YOU BEAN? WHERE AM I ?
Your content is disgustingly underrated. You’re the goat 🔥.I don't know who, but someone actually needs to hear this, you've got to stop saving all your money. Venture into investing some, if you really want financial stability.
Beautifully said, I tell my folks these words everyday. It's good to save money but most people don't understand the market moves and tend to be misled in facts like this and always depend on money in the bank.
@Collins Markson Hey, this is a computer age. Peeps who aren't even traders make money from the crypto and forex markets ,how many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts?
Do an episode that would take the budget(1yr)of the us military & use that for another purpose(space expansion)what it could do please absolutley love simon
If you're gonna play another game Simon, play SimpleRockets II.. It's right up your street to launch some stuff and get onto Mar before everyone else, and do something worthy and dump stuff.
Yes, the USA is the master of the stars at the moment. But until the Lunar landing of the Apollo 11, the Soviets beat the USA on almost all fronts. Especially during the start of the space race. The Buran (Russian Space Shuttle) is arguably superior to the Space Shuttle of the USA. Shame the funding stopped, Buran was such an interesting project.
@@Dekkedan yeah, Russian space program (RosKosmos) suffered the most since the fall of the USSR. Economy and military weren't hit that badly as the space program, sadly that's why there were only two flights of the Buran, it came out at the very end of the Soviet Union
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This was a real space race. The technological achievements were principally in the fields of engine and telemetric engineering, rather than pure (i.e.: theoretical) science. We already suspected what we would find there. It is obvious to anyone considering the subject that these missions were spinoff applications of the same technologies (those mentioned above plus ballistics) which were expected to be used to deliver nuclear devices to "enemy" cities.
@ 7:12 corection, the Soviet Union were the first to land a man made object on the moon. Luna 2 1959- 1st Lunar impact, then Luna 9 1966, first Lunar soft landing, they were also the first to land a craft on Venus as Well as Mars.
I feel it's insensitive to call the Soviets "crazy". . . . . More like brave, daring and highly imaginative. You can criticize the Soviets all you like, however I feel the world owes the Soviets a lot more credit than it currently gives.
I think crazy has a positive connotation when it comes to Russian space programs. It's more like "daring" than "insane". Without Russian ideas, Elon Musk would have no Raptor engine, on the other hand, he wouldn't without US-ideas, either. Or German ones, if you wanna go back to the start. If we can learn anything from the space programs is that humanity should unite, while keeping its unique traits. The idea of a big melting pot where we're one homogenous world-state would be a killer for creativity. We must keep our uniqueness but find a way to cooperate on projects that benefit humanity, worldwide. And I don't mean for profit, it's time to start doing things for science again.
Also do the pioneer missions which were the first to send back images of Saturn and Jupiter. The literal precursors to Voyager. Also do Voyager 2 since you did Voyager 1. Voyager 2 was the first and only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune
Wonder what the odds are of a modern rover finding mars 3 and figuring out what went wrong. Extra points if someone from the original mission is still around to appreciate the effort.
What a great video, really informative and enjoyable. One little question: did the Americans manage to land the first manmade object on the moon as stated in the narration? I thought that was the Luna 2 impactor, while Luna 9 was the first to achieve a lunar soft landing? But, I don't pretend to be an expert on this stuff, and am more than willing to be corrected.
At 5:33, there is a historical inaccuracy. NASA didn't attempt 4 missions to Mars during Mariner programme. The first two Mariner missions(Mariner 1 & Mariner 2) were launched to Venus in 1962. Out of this two missions, Mariner 2 made a first successful flyby of Venus in history. By a successful flyby, i mean the first ever to make a measurement of the physical characteristics of the planet venus and successfully report the results obtained during the flyby back to Earth. NASA just attempted two missions(Mariner 3 & Mariner 4 in 1964) to Mars.
Compare Mars 2 and 3 to Viking 1 and 2, also in the '70s (both in 1976). I think the Soviets were primarily motivated by the possibility of regaining the prestige of their earlier successes and didn't take the time to develop sufficiently robust systems.
My parents brought a couple of cosmonauts to the Houston rodeo and you never partied with crazier folks, and they made the American astronauts seem really ummm...straight-edge? God I'm old 😆 well done, sir!
Show me it’s actually applied. The spacecraft crashed on the move on the Mars for 21 seconds was part of the descent suddenly stop transmitting because it crashed on the surface of Mars again the Soviets sale.
3:30 actually venus is closer than mars but mars's environment is more habitable. 7:08 also the soviet mission luna 9 was the first object to soft and on the junar surface. Please do a video on the soviet venera probes and you never did a video on the Buran shuttle, the soviet space shuttle analogue.
Maybe the Soviets were too ambitious but I have to admire their optimism. Landing a probe on Mars _with a rover_ in 1971 is mind blowing indeed. A colossal achievement that I was completely unaware of until now. This is why I'm subscribed to Simon's channels
same as they already did on the moon, since the russians had no a heavy lunar rocket, they spend their time and resources on someting else
@@impaugjuldivmax obviously the rocket that sent 7000kg landers and fuel to reach mars was pretty big, dude.
@@lostpony4885 not enough, only 1/3 of what needed for the Lunar landing mission.
All the Soviets really proved is that being first doesn't have much to do with being the best or even being successful. Most of the Soviet space program was little more than the equivalent of publicity stunts.
@@autodidact537 soviet missiles today Are the best though and I don't think that would have been the case without the lessons learned in their space program. You don't go through the efforts they did for publicity it is to learn and they did.
I'd like to recommend the Russian satellites sent to Venus. The only devices to survive the surface, despite melting an hour later.
Yes please do this mission
Agreed. 👍🏿
Yeah, that's a good one. It really threw me when I found out it was called Venaria. I just immediately thought of STDs.
Yes
I'd like to recommend the probes in Uranus.
Please do the one about USSR Venus probes! That's even more impressive.
Or the probes in Uranus! They went deep.
@Va Sr does Uranus have a crust?
It's crazy how much they spent on something with so little payoff.
@@Shadow__133 What was the mission called? Thats so cool and would love to learn more!
@@LimitlessEntertainment_ it's a troll unfortunately 😭
I thought I knew a lot about space history,
but I didn’t know this!
Thanks Simon!
im the same , never expected that
You left out one of the scariest aspects of Venus. Atmospheric pressure at the surface is roughly equivalent to the pressure you'd feel 3000 feet below the surface of an ocean on Earth. The atmosphere IS gaseous, not liquid, just at an extremely high pressure.
It's actually a supercritical fluid at that temperature and pressure, which means it has properties of both a gas and a liquid at the same time. The atmosphere of Venus is wild.
Venus being 100% covered in sulphuric acid clouds is scarier still.
Respect to all the men and women of the Soviet (Russian) Space program. Just imagine what we could all accomplish together.
7:13 The Americans weren't the first to land a man made object on the moon. The Soviets were. Look up Luna 2.
Yes, not only were they the first to put a manmade object on the moon (and thereby any celestial object other than Earth) with Luna 2, but they also achieved the first soft landing on the moon with Luna 9.
@@michaelkuper6604
Luna 9 also sent the first photos of the moon from the moon.
everything soviet is scary, big, terryfing and.. and... and.. absolut MAGICAL WONDERFUL. As always, thank u Simon!
Ah yes of course!
The Reds going to the Red Planet.
Mars is the red planet
They were trying to claim their real estate.
they were going to the one place untainted by capitalism
SPUACE
Just for the color, Mussolini would have sent an expedition to reclaim the planet in the name of Fascism if he had the means. He was THAT crazy.
Sounds like a Teaser that was at the End of Iron Sky 2, Nazis on the Moon and then Teaser for Soviets on Mars.
Since you talked about Saturn briefly in this video, I think you should do a video on Cassini Huygens Space Probe. It explored the Ringed Gas Giant and learned a lot of things about not only Saturn, but also the many moons which orbit Saturn. Plus its final suicide dive into the Saturnian Atmosphere as it sent back final bits of data is a badass way to go.
Megaprojects: countless attempts to get to Mars
Megaprojects: there were 12
Weird flex that you can count past 11, but okay.
I love to watch all of your channels, and you do a great job, but you had one small mistake. The Apollo 11 landing occurred on July 20th, 1969, and Neil Armstrong’s first steps occurred late on the 20th or early on the 21st depending on what time zone in the world you were living in. The 24th was the day they returned to Earth.
I came here to say this, but in my heart I knew it had already been said
BY THAT TIME THE SOVIET RUSSIANS WERE TOWARDS TO MARSH
I love the fact that you always express scientific measures using the metric system instead of the antique imperial system. I wish NASA would do the same. Keep up the good work!
Same here.
THAT IS WHY THE NASA IS BEHIND THE SOVIET BECAUSE THEY USE THE ASIAN METRIC
"The first ever to crash into the surface of Mars"
LMAO
Thats actually an achievement in terms of the space race. Luna 2 and Ranger 4 were specifically sent to hit the moon.
We meant to do that
@@victorzvyagintsev1325 Agreed; first to hit Mars was an accomplishment; first to land a spacecraft that survived and functioned as designed was another.
@@JohnWilliamNowak it was a controlled flight into terrain
The Soviets just wanted to see if Martian Man-Hunter was gonna retaliate. They got their answer
NOW YOU HAVE TO DO VENERA. It may have been a failure in the grand scheme of things, but it was still a mega project deserving of coverage.
Edit: sorry for the late edit to this. Okay in retrospect after thinking about it for a while, he's Venera was successful in their primary objective. It's just that it took Soooo long and with so many failures for them to get was was essentially a few minutes of glory before the sulphuric atmosphere melted everything.
You know I kinda wanna see a mission back to Venus and back to the spot where Venera landed with a Venus rover to see what half a century of exposure does to the structure.
Venera wasn't a failure though it was massively successful. The soviets did really, really well with Venus for some reason.
@@atomicskull6405 yeah I get what you mean. Considering that the Americans took the easy planet and the Soviets took the hardest planet to go to... I kinda wrote that comment in a rush so I didn't have the time to think about my statement. But fact remains.
VENERA COMMRADE SIMON
First images and sounds of venues were captured in the veneria missions
He did it today check his newest upload
I want to say, that mini rover looks super interesting and I wish current rovers got something like this at their disposal. Soviet engineers got quite fun and outlandish ideas it seems :) This and lunokhod vehicle are really "sci-fi" looking :)
This was actually very cool! I had known about Mars 2 and 3, but not with this level of detail. Very nicely done!! I really do like your videos on space topics
1:50 - Chapter 1 - Mars
3:40 - Chapter 2 - The space race
4:55 - Chapter 3 - Race to the red planet
6:35 - Chapter 4 - Mars missions
7:25 - Chapter 5 - The 3 amigos
8:20 - Chapter 6 - Mars 2 & 3
11:35 - Chapter 7 - The main event
15:05 - Chapter 8 - The future of mars travel
Please more Soviet space projects, they have so many and never have been heard, do it for science!
And history! c:
Specially History, The Venus missions blew my mind. I really wanna see more of their accomplishments as well, they deserve some global recognition for their efforts.
I'd love to see one about Laika's mission. I have a postage stamp they issued for her memory.
America has no idea about these missions lol. I do remeber the viking rover video. Actual footage used in the transformers 1 movie
A group of European short wave listeners say Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first man in space. He is just the first man who got back alive.
That really was interesting, I knew that both the USSR & the USA had got orbiting satellites to Mars, but had no idea that the USSR had managed to land something that then transmitted back to Earth, 50 years ago, that was a pretty mean feat even now, thanks for doing this.
TH-cam: "How many channels do you want to make for content?"
Simon: "Yes."
The most over used comment on almost every video Simon presents...
@@Iamtheliquor ... anyways, there is a team, not only Simon.
@@krollpeter thats why I said what Simon presents instead of Simon’s channels
I'm opting out. I Can't negate my own experiences that go against this kind of narrative. Sorry. I do not believe the celestial spheres will welcome human life on them. Humanity reaching for the stars while babies starve on the Earth... yeah. I just don't think that looks good to the creator program that watches everything we do. UFO's are more real to me than missions to mars will ever be.
And I love watching my daily dose of Stargate, so.... It's not that i don't believe in other worlds, or realms. I just don't think humanity will travel there via the ozone soup we call space.
I think you might have an addiction to building youtube channels.
I'm going to start a group to you know "deal" with our fixation on all things Simon.
Probably true.
you guys do great work; i enjoy it every time it comes across my feed! simon, you should have compared the soviet mars 2 to a heavy duty pickup; most of us have never ridden a hippo!
Captain Proton to the rescue - Tom Paris
Ahhh, Tom Paris Star Trek's take on an edgy rebellious character, and as bland as ever!
Sputnik was the original name for Delta Flyer. Well it might have been, i unno.
this was a truly unique video for me. I had never heard of any Soviet missions to Mars
Mega Project suggestions: Benban Solar Park, Aswan High Dam, Bar Lev Line and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
Please make a video on Venera missions. I'd love see that. Only recently I came to know there was even a balloon mission in it!
I remember this it was an incredible achievement for Russia.
Thanks from Panama city beach FL
Well shit... Today I Learned am I right? I had no idea the USSR managed to land something on Mars back in the 70s
tHE REASON YOU NEVER HEARD OFF BECAUSE IT WAS IN THE SOVIET TIME and the US LIED ABOUT THE SOVIET IN SHAME THEY COULD NOT MANNAGE WHAT THE SOVIET COULD AND ALSO STILL LIES ABOUT THE MILITARY WEAPON THAT THE SOVIET RUSSIANS AND EVEN TODAYS IS BETTER....
THAT IS WHY THE WHOLE WORLD IS BELIEVE THE SOVIET AND THE RUSSIANS WHICH ALL COUTRIES KNEW BUT THE US BAN IT'S CITIZENS FOR TO FIND OUT ABOUT
I admit I never thought the Soviets be the first to smash and land on Mars! Why do they have an obsession of keeping really awesome projects a secret that could benefit everyone else.
They are bringing more respect to their daring achievements and doesn't matter they don't last long they just showed humanity can do it.
Dude, they did not keep them secret. But in the West they prefer not to talk about any Soviet/Russian achievements at all! ))
@@wren2900 Oh dang I guess that make sense!
Simon Whistler: Living proof that not all addictions are bad...
4:11 Simon, I thought you loved us but you're just in it for the views! Breaks the heart 😭💔
YES! As soon as you mentioned the PROTON K I immediately thought of Voyager and Capt. Proton, I LOVE that you also did and called it out. Lol'd so hard. Love you Simon.
The USSR were the first to land a man made object on the Moon - Luna 2, on 13 September 1959.
Omg I have never met anyone else who watched Star Trek voyager my favorite show
Shielding for space radiation so that humans can survive a trip to Mars with more than 60% of their brain intact would indeed be a Megaproject. Living on Mars will require just as much shielding, so structures on Mars will be megaprojects too.
Mars mission windows are fun because you only get several weeks-months every 2.2 years because of the separate orbits so when the windows open you often see a big group go up at once when interest is high. For example, 6 craft were sent by two countries in Jul-Aug 2020 including Chinese and American landers (Zhurong and Perseverance)
dude ur a rabbithole. im in awe
i think in 1971 is was working in a computer center, essentialy calculating and printing out invoices for building supplies and laundry requisits, it was owned by sunlight laundries, so...but although it got lost years ago, i did have a print-out of a naked girl leaning on a bar stool, printed using letters and numbers. so i was going to complain that if you're going to take photos of mars maybe a decent reproductive system would have been useful, but, considering the tech of the time maybe a fuzzy blob is all you could expect.
the computer we used, a UNIVAC 9300 had a 64k memory which was revealed from behind the panel with all the flashing lights on, a criss cross of wires and tiny ring magnets.
Simon: "...Saturn a gas giant..."
Me: "my uncle Frank is a gas giant."
BA DA BUM BUM TSHSHSHHSHSHSHS
There’s a scene in the BBC documentary series The Planets tff he at features two of the scientists who’d worked on Mars 3. One of them explained about how the “image” was being received and then the signal stopped, the other guy just looked at the ground the whole time saying very little. His sense of disappointment at how close they’d come to success was so evident.
Space missions operate on very fine margins, when Beagle 2 was located on Mars and it was evident that it had reached the surface only to fail to properly deploy I immediately thought back to Mars 3.
I think you are awesome Simon. I love your videos.
With the current temperatures outside , COLD WAR sounds eaven more compelling :D
I just found out about this a week ago,it blew my mind too,that Russian was first to Mars.
That has to be the definition of a glorious beard sir. Bravo the bar has been set.
Third ..... my quickest ever on this fantastic channel .. SIMON !!!
Excellent work, comrade
Thank you
New Megaprojects video: Simon Whistlers TH-cam empire
So Beagle 2 wasn't the first probe to go splat on Mars then... :P
Apparently Beagle successfully entered the orbit of Mars at something like 17 kms per second, successfully aerobraked as it entered the atmosphere, deployed it shutes then inflated the dodecahedron of air Bags built into its fuselage just before cutting the chutes and landing!. Upon landing, it bounced once… twice, rolled a little… and promptly dropped into a bottomless pit. So in summation, was Beagle a success! Not really! But technically I feel that it’s also the greatest Hole in One ever played!
Really love this content!!!
What's "impressive" is not that all these happened in the early 1970s, but that we still struggle to achieve similar tasks, 50 years later!
How do you handle this many channels? That's the topic for your next megaprojects!😂😀👍
Makes you appreciate the Viking missions.
10:48 "This is happening in the 1970's this is mind blowing". Oldie here (well born in the same year as Steve Jobs). May I remind you Simon it was my generation that invented the computers, infrastructure and associated gadgets that make your career possible, but it was not us but our parents generation that actually went to the moon. My school physics teacher actually worked for NASA before he had to return to the UK at the end of the Apollo programme.
University Professor “I need you to use the metric system”. Simon “that’s 13 metric hippos”.
my girlfriend weights 2 hippos half of that ass.
Didn't we go to Escobars for that? What year did we go to Escobars for Hippos? Or Pablos... or something... Ask the guys that did South Park, they prolly know for sure... Or Tom Cruise, ask him... no, maybe don't ask Tom Cruise how to get to other planets... What about Zod... The general.... You don't know General Zod?
WHERE HAVE YOU BEAN?
WHERE AM I ?
The Soviets were the first to soft-land on the moon with Luna 9 on 2/3/1966. But I like the video!
I read about Lunokhod in a book about space exploration
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Invest globally in bitcoin, gold, silver, forex market, commodities. Just don't be left out and save yourself
Beautifully said, I tell my folks these words everyday. It's good to save money but most people don't understand the market moves and tend to be misled in facts like this and always depend on money in the bank.
Thanks for the insight I remember friends calling me crazy when I started investing in bitcoin now I shut them up with my 4 figure weekly return
@Collins Markson Hey, this is a computer age. Peeps who aren't even traders make money from the crypto and forex markets ,how many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts?
Very helpful, this is what I needed to hear today.
Didnt know that. Very cool.
Great video!!!
Love for ST:Voyager. Yeah!!
Do an episode that would take the budget(1yr)of the us military & use that for another purpose(space expansion)what it could do please absolutley love simon
Simon will be the richest man in the world of TH-cam soon. Grind on bro!
Heres an idea for an future video. Do the Salyut 7 rescue mission in 1985!
If you're gonna play another game Simon, play SimpleRockets II.. It's right up your street to launch some stuff and get onto Mar before everyone else, and do something worthy and dump stuff.
I need a Mars bar after that ..
Good one, m8.
Wow 71 huh that's pretty cool never realized that we made it that far back then good show mate. By the way I love your Australian accent lol
Weren’t the Soviets first at pretty much everything space related? Minus humans landing on the moon. If only someone would make a video about that.
Yes, the USA is the master of the stars at the moment. But until the Lunar landing of the Apollo 11, the Soviets beat the USA on almost all fronts. Especially during the start of the space race. The Buran (Russian Space Shuttle) is arguably superior to the Space Shuttle of the USA. Shame the funding stopped, Buran was such an interesting project.
@@Dekkedan yeah, Russian space program (RosKosmos) suffered the most since the fall of the USSR. Economy and military weren't hit that badly as the space program, sadly that's why there were only two flights of the Buran, it came out at the very end of the Soviet Union
sure, but americans send mission to Jupiter and beyond
1971. Niiiice.
SUGGESTION: Ilyushin IL-2
- Visionary WWII ground-attack "flying tank" and spiritual predecessor to the A-10 Warthog
- The single most produced military aircraft in aviation history
- Some WWII-era Wehrmacht nicknames for it: "meat grinder", "butcher", "black death", "slaughterer", "concrete bird"
- What Stalin had to say about it: "Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats."
I've watched this dude on 3 other channels in the past hour and a half
This was a real space race. The technological achievements were principally in the fields of engine and telemetric engineering, rather than pure (i.e.: theoretical) science. We already suspected what we would find there. It is obvious to anyone considering the subject that these missions were spinoff applications of the same technologies (those mentioned above plus ballistics) which were expected to be used to deliver nuclear devices to "enemy" cities.
@ 7:12 corection, the Soviet Union were the first to land a man made object on the moon. Luna 2 1959- 1st Lunar impact, then Luna 9 1966, first Lunar soft landing, they were also the first to land a craft on Venus as Well as Mars.
Look into "Alternative 3" - a colony on Mars in the early seventies! 😆
Good video. More please
Congratulations to the Soviets and the Russia. They earned their achievements through hard work and dedication.
The USSR were the first to land a man made object on the Moon - Luna 2, on 13 September 1959.
I feel it's insensitive to call the Soviets "crazy". . . . . More like brave, daring and highly imaginative. You can criticize the Soviets all you like, however I feel the world owes the Soviets a lot more credit than it currently gives.
I fully agree with that... the Soviets were never lacking in vision, just unlucky I guess.
I think crazy has a positive connotation when it comes to Russian space programs. It's more like "daring" than "insane". Without Russian ideas, Elon Musk would have no Raptor engine, on the other hand, he wouldn't without US-ideas, either. Or German ones, if you wanna go back to the start. If we can learn anything from the space programs is that humanity should unite, while keeping its unique traits. The idea of a big melting pot where we're one homogenous world-state would be a killer for creativity. We must keep our uniqueness but find a way to cooperate on projects that benefit humanity, worldwide. And I don't mean for profit, it's time to start doing things for science again.
@@TheLobstersoup While not disagreeing with you, maybe it was that rivalry that spawned the creativity?
That's definitely true TarrMan
Yeah and Simon here's really getting people to appreciate the old accomplishments
I am amazed at the balls it took back in 1971 to do this! Unbelievable
The Apollo 11 moon landing was on July 20, 1969, not July 24 as said in the video. Later! OL J R :)
Also do the pioneer missions which were the first to send back images of Saturn and Jupiter. The literal precursors to Voyager. Also do Voyager 2 since you did Voyager 1. Voyager 2 was the first and only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune
Simon you have so many channels, soon I will will have a entire youtube account that is you!
Captain Proton. Star Trek Voyager. Hell yeah. 🖖🏻👊🏻
I love it that you were technically right. It's the best kind of right.
Wonder what the odds are of a modern rover finding mars 3 and figuring out what went wrong. Extra points if someone from the original mission is still around to appreciate the effort.
Fascinating!
What a great video, really informative and enjoyable. One little question: did the Americans manage to land the first manmade object on the moon as stated in the narration? I thought that was the Luna 2 impactor, while Luna 9 was the first to achieve a lunar soft landing?
But, I don't pretend to be an expert on this stuff, and am more than willing to be corrected.
Me: Another channel?
Simon: Yes.
Me: Why?
Simon: Yes.
"...an old fashioned TV screen when it all goes wrong..." Ah...I remember the days...
Wonder full to see Soviet Venus exploration and Mars probes studied
At 5:33, there is a historical inaccuracy. NASA didn't attempt 4 missions to Mars during Mariner programme. The first two Mariner missions(Mariner 1 & Mariner 2) were launched to Venus in 1962. Out of this two missions, Mariner 2 made a first successful flyby of Venus in history. By a successful flyby, i mean the first ever to make a measurement of the physical characteristics of the planet venus and successfully report the results obtained during the flyby back to Earth. NASA just attempted two missions(Mariner 3 & Mariner 4 in 1964) to Mars.
I’d recommend the creation of the internet/modern computer since it’s a pivotal point in human history
Good video 👍
I thought I was the only one who watched Star Trek voyager I loved that show
Compare Mars 2 and 3 to Viking 1 and 2, also in the '70s (both in 1976). I think the Soviets were primarily motivated by the possibility of regaining the prestige of their earlier successes and didn't take the time to develop sufficiently robust systems.
Another victory for the Mars Planetary Defense Force!
My parents brought a couple of cosmonauts to the Houston rodeo and you never partied with crazier folks, and they made the American astronauts seem really ummm...straight-edge? God I'm old 😆 well done, sir!
Show me it’s actually applied. The spacecraft crashed on the move on the Mars for 21 seconds was part of the descent suddenly stop transmitting because it crashed on the surface of Mars again the Soviets sale.
3:30 actually venus is closer than mars but mars's environment is more habitable.
7:08 also the soviet mission luna 9 was the first object to soft and on the junar surface.
Please do a video on the soviet venera probes and you never did a video on the Buran shuttle, the soviet space shuttle analogue.
Great video 📹 👍
The mask bit made me glad I moved to the southern United States. Haven't seen too many in a couple months cheers!
Now I have an urge to watch "Space Camp"...........