10 Crazy Facts About The Apollo Program

10 Crazy Facts About The Apollo Program | Answers With Joe

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The race to the moon was always more about dueling superpowers than the spirit of exploration. And because of that, enormous risks and creative leaps were made to reach their goal. For that and many other reasons, the Apollo program was one of the most insane ventures ever undertaken, and here are 10 reasons why.
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@StarkRG 2 жыл бұрын

"Hey, Buzz?" "Yeah, Neil?" "You 'wake?" "Yeah, Neil." "I'm too amped to sleep." "I know what you mean, Neil." "It's just, so cool." "It really is." "I mean, I was on the NEWS!" "Yeah, me-- Wait, what?"

@shrimppasta5544 2 жыл бұрын

O O F

@joescott 2 жыл бұрын

I mean... Being on the news is really cool.

@kostarak3160 2 жыл бұрын

@@joescott Not if you committed a crime.

@yaboi7914 2 жыл бұрын

@@kostarak3160 Not with *that* attitude.

@mmmk6322 2 жыл бұрын

hijacking first comment. I can hear niel say for "a" man. It is sutble for sure but he says foraman not foreman. the r is followed with an a not an r that ends the word followed by man as in the word foreman.

@GoCoyote 2 жыл бұрын

As a young man in the 1980's, I worked with an engineer who worked on the Apollo program. He told us that when they would send a technician into one of the modules with a piece of equipment to be installed, they weighed all of the equipment, hardware, instructions, and tools needed for the installation, AND THE TECHNICIAN. After the technician returned, they were weighed again, along with all of the tools and instructions. This was to ensure that nothing was left or removed from the module without being accounted for, as every gram counted when it came to the fuel burn calculations. They also conducted a vibration test at the end of assembly, and he said that there was always a handful of loose hardware found at the bottom of the modules afterwards.

@mattkl4292 Жыл бұрын

Fun non fact, it's actually because George had sticky fingers and kept taking the nice 1/2" snap-on wrench. We couldn't accuse him (he had been there the longest) so we started weighing him on the way out. But as you know, once you weigh George you gotta weigh everyone, and here we are.

@burntpieceoftoast4148 Жыл бұрын

@@mattkl4292 ^lmao, thanks for that. And OP, that's pretty cool!

@andrewdillon7837 Жыл бұрын

How funny , they found a spanner inside the wall of the next module,(they stripped it because of the fire) , amongst other things,,

@zyeborm Жыл бұрын

@@mattkl4292 That's why they started finding perfectly calibrated poops in strange places?

@carloscable 2 жыл бұрын

I always understood its meaning as "one small step for "A" man, one giant leap for mankind", even though I didn't hear the "A" I got what he was saying. Great line

@luke-alex 2 жыл бұрын

Same. I really don't hear an "A" and don't think it was there, but I've always pretty much got the meaning. It's the contrast with "mankind", and context, that implies "man" wasn't being used in the larger sense but to mean a literal man.

@beaker_guy 2 жыл бұрын

I've always liked the idea that Armstrong (great man though he was) DID flub his line (who could blame him?); thus combining in one moment both mankind's crowning achievement and a subtle reminder that we humans aren't made to be perfect. (I mean, exhibitions of HUBRIS while touching the Heavens seldom end well from what I hear, so better to stay a LITTLE humble. ;) )

@Kevin-jb2pv 2 жыл бұрын

I always heard it as "One small step 'furrah' man" like in that kinda southern/ cowboyish accent.

@adamlytle2615 2 жыл бұрын

Yah... I kind of thought the 'man' meant the "men" of here and now and the "mankind" was humanity through all the rest of time.

@mike04574 2 жыл бұрын

@@luke-alex I thought man meant mankind, no mistake?

@adamlytle2615 2 жыл бұрын

One little bit of trivia I love: the landing legs of the lunar lander were built in Montreal. So the first "feet" on the moon were Canadian.

@micheldesmarais7967 Жыл бұрын

I essentially just posted this before reading the comments first. I’m late to the show!

@danielphillips3229 Жыл бұрын

Wow amazing

@godlessqueertheywarnedyouabout 2 жыл бұрын

Joe: It's a solid joke. Me: No, it's a gaseous joke and you know it.

@BrianSantero 2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was lit.

@tjsbbi 2 жыл бұрын

@@BrianSantero If it was it would make a characteristic "pop".

@TheAllMightyGodofCod 2 жыл бұрын

I beg to differ, it was a liquid joke

@gunnarkaestle 2 жыл бұрын

What happens to farts in a space suit?

@mellie4174 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe it was a plazma joke?? ;)

@PrinceAlhorian 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: Buzz's first words "Beautiful View" His second was "Magnificent Desolation"

@groofay 2 жыл бұрын

That is one incredibly smart baby.

@morganrobinson8042 2 жыл бұрын

Jesus Buzz, Save some Aesthetic for the rest of us.

@tatendam4956 2 жыл бұрын

@@groofay wow I came here just to say those exact words

@adamnixon2886 2 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing you meant, his first works on the moon? There is no way those were the first words of a baby Magnificent desolation

@drewlop 2 жыл бұрын

@@adamnixon2886 Please stop underestimating Buzz, it hurts my feelings

@ImVeryOriginal Жыл бұрын

From what I read, Armstrong really did bungle the line, you can even hear him making a weird pause after that, as if in embarassment. NASA later tried covering it by saying the signal cut out for a split second. And you know what? I actually like that and think it's a beautiful representation of humanity: an ape achieving such a momentous goal, something seemingly impossible, a legendary feat of ingenuity and determination and yet still so fragile and prone to error. It just adds another layer of meaning to the whole thing and makes the legend that much more relatable.

@icebuildsrobots Жыл бұрын

This is the ultimate example of someone coming up with a great sentence over hours and right when they're about to use it, their brain falls out of their head and fails to function.

@ImVeryOriginal Жыл бұрын

@@icebuildsrobots The ultimate stage fright moment, performing for the entire human race and fucking up lol

@aliensasquatch7485 Жыл бұрын

This makes me like Armstrong even more.

@patricklynch4926 Жыл бұрын

Idk. When I say the line with the a you can’t really hear it

@LMacNeill 2 жыл бұрын

My grandfather was one of those thousands of unknown people who helped made the Apollo missions happen. He was a mechanical engineer who worked for NASA for a good while in the '60s. I want to say 6 or 7 years? I don't remember precisely.

@davemcbeardface8976 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact that absolutely nobody asked for or cares about my wife’s step grandad help develop the steps that Neil walked down

@joshbreaksk8IN 2 жыл бұрын

I'm just here to say I care

@susanfanning9480 2 жыл бұрын

That's extremely cool. I remember that time in the world very well. Everything about that event was ultra fascinating!

@White.Elemant 2 жыл бұрын

Nice! The brother of my dad's friend was a chauffeur for Elvis. Almost related to a celebrity 🤣

@davemcbeardface8976 2 жыл бұрын

@@White.Elemant thats so cool

@yomommaahotoo264 2 жыл бұрын

Too bad it wasn't on the moon.

@666Blaine 2 жыл бұрын

Modern Computer - "I can do anything the AGC can do at a million times the speed." AGC - "I can crash, reboot and pick up where I left off in half a second." Modern Computer - "..... F*ck you."

@SuperVstech 2 жыл бұрын

Amen!

@tma2001 2 жыл бұрын

aye and Joe forgot to mention that NASA had one of the largest mainframe installations outside the IRS at the time.

@TheReaverOfDarkness 2 жыл бұрын

Modern computers can do that too, it's just Windows operating system that can't. Ubuntu does it just fine.

@musaran2 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheReaverOfDarkness Still, fast & lean OS is the exception. The sad norm is to quickly become bloated, slow and unreliable.

@Theineluctable_SOME_CANT 2 жыл бұрын

Programmers ain't what they used to was...

@MrJdcirbo 2 жыл бұрын

When you say that modern technology has vastly more power than the instrumentation used by NASA in the Apollo program, I agree completely... COMPUTER power. But the mechanical tech was really advanced. They had inertial guidance systems and rocket vectoring and all kinds of various chemical/hydraulic/non-computer-electronic technology at their disposal. Honestly, you can do anything you want with just about no computer assistance, but having a powerful CPU makes almost every task fast more efficient. So, from a mechanical engineering point of view, we had highly advanced, sophisticated technology. It was just all manual.

@ryankroeger3264 2 жыл бұрын

to be fair the Apollo program was not a safe venture today we need a 99.5% chance for survive while they were okay with like a 50% (arbitrary number but you get my point) chance which sounds ridiculous to me as a scientist but as an adventurer well board at your own risk?

@shigekax 2 жыл бұрын

@@ryankroeger3264 yes it's crazy how many things could and did go wrong

@johndododoe1411 Жыл бұрын

The Apollo Computer was about as powerful as a modern Arduino Uno that beginners use to learn programming control systems. Except it had way more signal pins and ran at 6V instead of 5V. The MIT design team invented many ways to get the most from a control computer, including running a word code interpreted language like an Android phone, and restarting and continuing after every crash (they had a few during the Moon landings, crash messages 1201 and 1202 reported to tech support in Houston).

@jja1483 Жыл бұрын

Like an automatic watch ⌚😏🌚🚀

@dwightmagnuson4298 Жыл бұрын

Including a ship's sextant which was needed on the Apollo 13 mission....

@michac.8283 2 жыл бұрын

Decades after the landing, it still blows my mind that humans have done something like this. To walk on a celestial body that for thousands of years was just a distant light in the sky... just incredible. I wish I will live to see humans land on Mars, or perhaps some other moons.

@djbeezy 2 жыл бұрын

Mankind do do whatever we put our minds to.

@The_ZeroLine 2 жыл бұрын

The COVID vaccine temporarily teleports you to the moon. That’s why I take them in a spacesuit and do them frequently.

@chookin1 2 жыл бұрын

Mate.....mate.........we didnt go.

@chookin1 2 жыл бұрын

@@djbeezy That sounds like something out of Nimrods mouth.

@michac.8283 2 жыл бұрын

@@chookin1 oh I know, I'm just shilling out to NASA. Please don't tell them I said this, they will take my allowance!😳😳

@ronhudson3730 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joe. I met David Clark when I was a teen. He married my aunt. His company made the Gemini suits and the metal fittings for the Apollo suits. They were also involved with the transparent helmet the astronauts wore on the moon. I’ll never forget watching them step out onto the moon on our grainy black and white tv, on a hot humid afternoon in Montreal.

@thomasbrown8468 2 жыл бұрын

Cool

@ESL-O.G. 2 жыл бұрын

Who knows... who knows random internet person 🤣

@dafien530 2 жыл бұрын

my grandfather worked worked for one of the contractors that helped build the Saturn 5 rockets.

@fluxcapacitorQT 2 жыл бұрын

There are missing key components of proof of that this event even happen. Also those fancy space suits had no directional climate control nor deep space shielded against ionizing radiation hazards.

@dmeemd7787 2 жыл бұрын

that's awesome! 👌

@franksavaglioaus 2 жыл бұрын

I love the Customs Declaration form. But also seek out Buzz Aldrin's Travel Expenses report. Travel was from Houston to Cape Kennedy, Moon, Pacific Ocean (USS Hornet), Hawaii and return to Houston... the claim was for $33.31. As someone who has filled out his fair share of travel expense reports, I love that moon walkers had to share that pain. Great video. Hit the mark pretty well.

@josephcope7637 2 жыл бұрын

Pioneers are never "ready" to meet the unexpected challenges they end up facing ... but their grit and courage enable them to overcome these obstacles and pave an easier path for those of us who follow.

@bradwooldidge6979 Жыл бұрын

I was 10 in 1969. I was a science nerd. I remember Gemini and Apollo like it was yesterday.

@theonetruerobb4852 Жыл бұрын

I was 14, a nascent suburban wannabe hippie. I set my alarm for 3AM, and watched it all live. Despite my comments above, I was thrilled then and remain so today.

@richardpark3054 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, me too (born Jan, '59). And I remember like yesterday: my dad bought us a telescope, which we set up in the back yard. Yes, we could see the moon and Sea of Tranquility clearly, but couldn't see the Apollo 11 lander. Not surprising now, knowing a little bit more about telescopes and such. Nevertheless, a moving experience. Thanks, Dad.

@greasee.monkey7224 Жыл бұрын

I am a bit jealous, I wasn't born until the end of Apollo in 1972. Yet 50 years later as we are preparing new moon missions I find myself captivated by the early moon missions and the feats we overcame to get there.

@bradwooldidge6979 Жыл бұрын

@@greasee.monkey7224 Look at the bright side. Maybe you’re young enough to see a Mars landing!

@greasee.monkey7224 Жыл бұрын

@@bradwooldidge6979 I'm hoping so.

@queenannsrevenge100 2 жыл бұрын

I got a chance to see a mock-up of John Glenn’s Mercury capsule up close once - the fact that they actually trusted their lives to those dinky shells, with technology that looked like it belonged more in a transistor radio than a spacecraft, made me respect those dudes all the more. I really agree we had no business being in space at that time, which makes their feats all the more awe inspiring.

@westzed23 Жыл бұрын

The first astronauts were military test pilots. You have to have nerve and faith to do these jobs.

@zyeborm Жыл бұрын

Do keep in mind that a transistor radio was super high tech compared to the literally wooden aircraft that many of them had been flying not that long ago.

@notmyname327 2 жыл бұрын

I just can't believe your videos are still getting better, I thought you had already reached max entertainment and educational value. PS: 18:59 It wasn't a solid joke, it was a gaseous one.

@russellcarter6451 2 жыл бұрын

Dad joke champion right here fellas 😂😂

@TheDoomWizard 2 жыл бұрын

I think you might like my channel as well then 😉

@Hoopfan83 2 жыл бұрын

@@russellcarter6451 🏆

@Original_Syn Жыл бұрын

Wait so the Apollo 13 command module was named Odyssey? It’s a bit ironic that the mission that had something go wrong during it was partially named after the Greek story about a journey going completely wrong.

@davidhoward4715 Жыл бұрын

Nice catch.

@hopsiepike 7 ай бұрын

Be like baking the Parker Solar Probe Icharus.

@zyxw2000 Ай бұрын

Odysseus got home eventually.

@RamiK101 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine if Buzz had tore his pants on the moon as he bent over.. Headlines: Moon, mooned from the Moon.

@stevelowe2647 2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't he have died?

@RamiK101 2 жыл бұрын

@@stevelowe2647 Of course! Just a silly joke... I knew someone would get technical lol

@eddieanarchy 2 жыл бұрын

haha, i like Moon Moons Moon !

@sarge420 2 жыл бұрын

Wasn’t the temp on the moon 250degF daytime and -250deg at night?

@jimgriffiths9071 2 жыл бұрын

The " All Joe" control room was KZfaq gold! Loved it!

@LocaLGh0sT 2 жыл бұрын

My favourite is one that fainted.

@tbouchard2789 2 жыл бұрын

Mad respect for the extra effort here Joe, you make it easy for me to hook my friends to your channel🥼🧲🥼

@ChrisBrengel 2 жыл бұрын

I have been saying for decades: "we had no business going to the moon in the 1960s" so I was surprised to hear you use those exact words! It was truly amazing that NASA and the US were able to pull it off. This is one of my life lessons: When human beings get their act together they can do incredible things.

@MarylandFarmer. 2 жыл бұрын

It always amazes me that we successfully got to the moon with 1960s technology when I think of the other things we we're building at the same time and how far we come from then. What I find even more amazing is that no one got left stranded on any of the missions. They really did have a great understanding but even more so a determination to make it happen.

@fpost4629 2 жыл бұрын

They did not go

@tma2001 2 жыл бұрын

@@fpost4629 that's good to know - have you told all the world's geochemists who have been wasting the past 50 years working on the 1/3 tonne of lunar samples yet! (btw the Soviets only returned 300g - hmm I wonder why ...).

@fpost4629 2 жыл бұрын

@@tma2001 you just keep on telling yourself what you have bin told.

@tma2001 2 жыл бұрын

@@fpost4629 whatever flat earther - have you come out to your family and work colleagues yet (I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that :)

@fanman421 2 жыл бұрын

I watched the landing, with my father. His QC inspection stamp marks on various parts of the LEM landed with them.

@fanman421 2 жыл бұрын

@Ex Imperio Libertas Actually no.... he didn’t start at North American Rockwell, sub contractor for the shrouds surrounding the LEM and some of the electronics in the LEM till 1968, about a year after the Apollo 1 disaster with the capsule.

@saimonmanalo Жыл бұрын

I am still upset that we always forget about the third crew that had to orbit the moon alone... He was technically became the loneliest man on the world when the vehicle was on the farside of the moon cuz signals can't be reach there... Gotta give him more credits cuz without him the other two wouldn't be able to go to home

@john_michael_white 2 жыл бұрын

I'm from Nottinghamshire in the UK, and we also would absolutely contract to near nothing the "a" in "for a man". And most other things if we can. "I am going for a pint at the pub" becomes "Am guwin furra pint't pub". Given many of the Pilgrim Fathers are from this way I so love the idea, however remote, that perhaps the Ohio way of speaking originated in part from here, and that the most famous sentence uttered by any human ever had a little bit of Robin Hood in it.

@joescott 2 жыл бұрын

Love it!

@shanonshoffstall247 2 жыл бұрын

I'm from Wapakoneta - or Wapak as we say. I agree that we do talk that way. I would say that ancestry wise it would be 60% German, 30% English, and 10% other.

@ikitclaw7146 2 жыл бұрын

from up north here and, we goin fot pint at pub, i think fot fits the sound we make to replace "for a" so we totally for go using an a

@simian_essence 2 жыл бұрын

@@joescott Confirmation bias. Obviously.

@dongately2817 2 жыл бұрын

There's more than one distinctive Ohio accent - north of Akron Ohio accents sound almost like a New Jersey accent - south of Akron you might as well be speaking to someone from Alabama.

@shannonparkhill5557 2 жыл бұрын

"three weeks? Amateurs!!" you got me with that one!!

@JJs_playground 2 жыл бұрын

Lol.. I, actually, didn't understand that reference in Joe's video until i read your comment for some reason. Funny how the brain works.

@texasbuzzard4970 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe we weren’t ready to go to the moon from a computer processing standpoint but damn the preparation nasa put those astronauts through was insane. I really doubt any other humans in history had so much training for one mission.... and the amount of money spent on the training 🤯

@GigaBrand 2 жыл бұрын

And here we are 20B deep in SLS lol

@jb76489 2 жыл бұрын

@@GigaBrand so less than half the Saturn v?

@GigaBrand 2 жыл бұрын

@@jb76489 And If we got even half the value of the Saturn program I'd call that a win.

@nate788561806 2 жыл бұрын

You guys fell for that? We never went to the moon. Lol.

@JamesF0790 2 жыл бұрын

@@nate788561806 Come on man, get some new material. That joke is old.

@trulyinfamous 2 жыл бұрын

The customs from is definitely one of my favorite little bits of memorbilia from the Apollo era.

@odin5255 2 жыл бұрын

I'm always just sitting here, waiting for a new Joe Scott video on Mondays. Thanks, your content is awesome! :)

@garrettwilson7653 2 жыл бұрын

Im right there with you, if i get on youtube and there isnt a new video i get sad and start watching some of his older videos lol

@4077Disc 2 жыл бұрын

Have you tried Nebula?

@patrickquinn8079 2 жыл бұрын

Makes my Monday morning procrastination even better

@fookyu1621 2 жыл бұрын

What a sad and pathetic life you lead... get a job.

@odin5255 2 жыл бұрын

@@fookyu1621 What a pathetic thing to say. I work my ass off every day :) Thank you.

@donaldparlettjr3295 2 жыл бұрын

Another thing that wasn't brought up. During Gemini Buzz was the genius that brought in scuba diving to replicate weightlessness so NASA built that huge pool that they use to this day to practice EVAs. Also Buzz was a mathematician whiz on rendezvous. We've met several times over the years and he is a cool guy.

@QDWhite 2 жыл бұрын

AKA Dr. Rendez-vous

@BrandanTheBroker 2 жыл бұрын

Can't wait until we start reusing some of those names, we're overdue a Snoopy and Casper capsule

@caidyc 2 жыл бұрын

This is my favourite out of many great Ask Joes! The beginning was fantastic! Learning stuff with Joe…

@pamelabrewer2955 2 жыл бұрын

I love your show. I love your sense of humor. This one was special to me. I grew up with a father who was big on the space program. He would wake us up at 3 or 4 in the morning so We watched everything when it happened. Watching this one today brought back so many childhood memory's. Thank you so much.

@StoicThrower Жыл бұрын

Mine too! I even remember them taking us out of class at school to watch in the auditorium.

@davidanderson_surrey_bc 2 жыл бұрын

As I recall, the astronauts got around the lack of computing capability by bringing slide rules along (also known as slip-sticks). I learned to use one in my teens (late 60s, early 70s).

@burntpieceoftoast4148 Жыл бұрын

Cool!

@icebuildsrobots Жыл бұрын

"Whoops forgot my calipers. Guess I'll measure this hole to 0.001mm accuracy with a ruler." Chads.

@johndododoe1411 Жыл бұрын

Regular pilots also used slide rules to calculate their travels. There's a special slide rule that provides the most common pilot calculations with a few finger moves. Scott Manley used one where he took the written pilots test this year, just for fun. Of cause as an Apple employee he has access to way better.

@bboops23 2 жыл бұрын

That speech, despite being fake had me tearing up. It's scary to think that was a possibility. They had to be prepared and I can't imagine having to sit there waiting with both speeches hoping to read one but afraid you'd have to read the other.

@rederager 2 жыл бұрын

I love your stuff. You have the intelligent comedy. It’s not easy. The rhythm is great. I don’t know if you edit your own stuff but if not, kudos to your editor.

@tara5742 2 жыл бұрын

Finally, the Mild Flex! Congrats!!

@Stellar-Cowboy 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah we get it, you’re a member. Just kidding, I’m just jealous

@SinisterAction 2 жыл бұрын

HOW IS YOUR COMMENT 2 DAYS OLD??

@julian.castro18 2 жыл бұрын

@@SinisterAction wow wtf

@Stellar-Cowboy 2 жыл бұрын

@@SinisterAction are you new to youtube?

@johngreener9784 2 жыл бұрын

Actually, I totally agree with your assessment! I am 59 so I was ALL into the space program as a kid! Now that I have 50 years under my belt (and under my grey hair, what's left of it) I have looked back and actually think " HOW THE F**K DID WE DO THAT BACK THEN????"

@dabberd6203 2 жыл бұрын

Great video Joe. The part about the size of the LM was really interesting. It makes you wonder about the crew of Apollo 13 who had to live in the LM for days while returning to Earth .

@johndododoe1411 Жыл бұрын

They all did, Apollo 13 just had to return early.

@sapienspace8814 Жыл бұрын

@ 16:15 That almost happened, the circuit breaker for the ascent stage engine popped off, but Buzz Aldrin had a felt tip pen to push in the ascent stage breaker to allow them to get off (Reference "Magnificent Desolation" by Buzz Aldrin). @ 1:27 Both Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins both stated, in their biographies, that they did not want to go back. It is likely, they stated this in the context of the incredible risk they took, in a long chain of incredible successes, any one of which, if failed, could of resulted in death. In that, it indeed makes sense that "we were not really ready", on the other hand, Neil Armstrong was, and he was able to trust his team (of hundreds of thousands of scientists, engineers, and technicians), that even tested the 1201/1202 alarms in simulation BEFORE they actually occurred in real life because Buzz Aldrin left on both radars (instead of turning one off). I'd give credit for the first two words spoken on the Moon as "contact light" by Buzz Aldrin, as that was the first indication that the Lunar Module did not crash.

@mucia55 Жыл бұрын

☝️🙄 But if any of the successes of the said long chain failed, it would indeed fail successfully.. _🤭_

@amehak1922 Жыл бұрын

Once read in a book that one of the astronauts (idr which one) said that had he known how close to disaster they were, he wouldn't have went. Basically, the rockets were barely holding together.

@yassassin6425 Жыл бұрын

@@amehak1922 I have never heard of any such quote from any of the 21 astronauts that journeyed to the moon as part of the landings. The structure and integrity of the Saturn V, CSM and LM was not in doubt by the launch of Apollo 11.

@jussitikkuri6991 Жыл бұрын

Buzz Aldrin in with a smoke💨 Quiz light did have more contact 💨

@timcarter1164 2 жыл бұрын

Joe, the intro was hilarious. And probably not that far off from reality. And the Mild Flex, beautifully done. I love your channel, quality information, delivered in an entertaining fashion. Nice job as always.

@charlesmurray3255 2 жыл бұрын

Joe is a natural comedian, has me crying laughing at his antics.

@Dinkylicious 2 жыл бұрын

That part!! So true! He never fails to make me laugh or put a smile on my face ☺

@coweatsman 2 жыл бұрын

Too bad Joe said "7 times" to the moon instead of the correct "6 times". Joe needs to check his facts.

@charlesmurray3255 2 жыл бұрын

@@coweatsman sometimes he gets things wrong to make sure people are paying attention. You passed.

@danielphillips3229 Жыл бұрын

Really? The jokes are terrible

@charlesmurray3255 Жыл бұрын

@@danielphillips3229 If you Google a site called KZfaq, you can create your own channel, 'Questions with Dan' go knock yourself out, show Joe how it's done. Good luck.

@mmickle6191 2 жыл бұрын

No matter how you think about it, one of the best features of the Apollo program is just how bonkers it was! 😄

@BrianaCunningham Жыл бұрын

I've just discovered your channel and I am binging. Such great content!!!

@cpuuk 2 жыл бұрын

I never had a problem with Armstrong's quote because I always assumed he said the "a", so it made perfect sense to me, could never understand why it confused others.

@sgtearache5303 2 жыл бұрын

yeah even without the "a" I never had an issue grokking the meaning of the statement...

@joey551 2 жыл бұрын

We knew what he meant, it wasn't an issue.

@tonyhawk123 2 жыл бұрын

Those saying he meant to say it, well, i can hear him attempt to say it. At times it feels like people are listening to different audio versions. It's right there!

@larryscott3982 2 жыл бұрын

Absent the a is marvelously poetic.

@rcknbob1 2 жыл бұрын

Then there's Arthur C. Clarke's quote of an "exasperated" Neil Armstrong: "That was what I meant to say, and that's what I thought I did say."

@justsomenobody889 2 жыл бұрын

Regarding that whole “mankind” quote discussion... it kinda blows me away that THAT many people were willing to put in THAT much effort over something so UNBELIEVABLY trivial

@aaronbono4688 2 жыл бұрын

@@FluxApex why would you want to get it "right"? We understand what he meant and that's what's important.

@ThrottleKitty 2 жыл бұрын

It's one of the most famous quotes in human history, if the quote is actually different that's actually pretty significant. It's like figuring out Shakespeare's first name was actually Wilfred and not William.

@aaronbono4688 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThrottleKitty I disagree. I think it's more important that we understand the meaning of it than every little word. Anyway when I listen to it there is no way there is an "a" in there. Even accounting for accents all you have to do is listen to the rhythm of his speech and you can tell he did not insert another word in there. But again this is semantics and it's really unimportant. You're getting fixated on it because it's some pivotal point in history but the meaning is what's important.

@odysseus5872 2 жыл бұрын

I've heard it a hundred times in every way possible and there is no "a". And it doesn't matter.

@ThrottleKitty 2 жыл бұрын

@@aaronbono4688 wtf are you talking about remembering the meaning of something but forgetting what actually happened? That's revisionism, an objectively terrible thing.

@zacharyash4321 2 жыл бұрын

I have been watching these for about 4 hours now. Never gets old.

@dewiz9596 2 жыл бұрын

Luv that intro! It was the “computer issues” that originally piqued my interest in computers. It took a long roundabout way, but by 1992 I was running my own computer programming and data processing business. Retired in 2010. . . The “a man” issue was written about in Analog Magazine shortly after the landing. . .

@Aramis7 2 жыл бұрын

The Apollo program is my absolute favourite era in human history and I say that as a non-american. The ingenuity, the risk-taking and the solutions they came up with given available technology is probably the highlight of human achievement. I strongly suggest to listen to the BBC's wonderful podcast series "13 minutes to the moon", which has interviews and incredible detail on the Apollo 11 mission, including a detail recount of the -you guessed it- last 13 minutes from separation to power descent to landing.

@sam1812seal 2 жыл бұрын

“Hydrogenated” the second way you pronounced it is correct. It’s also the name of the process by which food companies manufacture trans-fats, by hydrogenating liquid unsaturated fats.

@TheReaverOfDarkness 2 жыл бұрын

I refuse to accept that. Just because it's popular doesn't make it right. The first way he pronounced it is consistent with the word "hydrogen".

@QDWhite 2 жыл бұрын

Hyd-RAH-genated is specifically the chemical reaction of saturating C=C bonds with hydrogen to convert them to C-C bonds. The name for simply dissolving hydrogen in water is up for grabs and could be HYD-row-genated if we want.

@Strongbadathlon Жыл бұрын

One of the more common products using hydrogenated oil is peanut butter.

@finecutpost 2 жыл бұрын

What a fun and very informative script thank you.

@None0fYourBusiness Жыл бұрын

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I was enthralled from start to finish. Good job, dude.

@Dinkylicious 2 жыл бұрын

I can't put in words how happy your videos make me! You are so great!!! Much love! 💓

@kerrybaldino8826 2 жыл бұрын

That was my favorite Joe intro yet! Great video too

@davedavenport8176 2 жыл бұрын

Yet another fun fact: When joe refers to the device in your “pocket” has way more computing power then the systems on the Apollo. Likely it was in your hand or a holder as you were currently watching this informational video. Another is it’s not fair that Joe’s sponsor “Brilliant” is as intriguing as Joe himself is. Likely if you watch many of his videos it’s because you are simply interested in learning. And last is the sparkling ✨ of the gold plaque on the filing cabinet 😁 Love your Chanel Joe can’t wait for the Next

@swerdna77 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video as always.

@derivious2012 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact, the lunar software was hardware, actually knitted too

@flexabigg1 2 жыл бұрын

You rock as always! Thanks for the laughs and informative video. Love your work.

@angiev8836 2 жыл бұрын

THE BEGINNING SKIT IS MY NEW FAVORITE THEY KEEP GETTING BETTER

@DumpsterDivingDragon 2 жыл бұрын

LOVE the MULTI-VERSE of Joes !

@Zach-ku6eu 2 жыл бұрын

By far, this is your best intro ever!

@joesterling4299 2 жыл бұрын

I always heard "small step for *a* man." I'm from the same region of the country as Neil; so I guess that's why I was never confused.

@Noone-of-your-Business Жыл бұрын

Dude, I just _love_ your style of presentation.

@emlix1 2 жыл бұрын

I loved the intro with all the Joes.

@frankf1095 2 жыл бұрын

The opening sequence was spooky but really well done and really funny. Well done Joe!

@SlurpingSoup 2 жыл бұрын

You forgot a couple of my favs. Like the fact that the “quarantine bus” the astronauts rode in after they came back to Earth had holes in it. A fact that Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin & Neil Armstrong new about but didn’t mention it to anyone lol Or the fact that they ignited the lunar ascent module with a pen because something was wrong with the button.

@jdc1957 2 жыл бұрын

Facts.

@icebuildsrobots Жыл бұрын

That last thing is like when someone shoots a door in Star Wars and it opens.

@davidrobertson3930 2 жыл бұрын

Joe, i really enjoy your work. Thanks

@mrock828 2 жыл бұрын

I never knew about the customs forms, that was really cool, thank you!

@brooksplace7983 2 жыл бұрын

he never said the "a", he said that he forgot the a and was very upset.

@daffidavit 2 жыл бұрын

Not only that, it was common slang at the time to use the term "man" as "a man". Just listen to the book by Michael Collins, "Carrying the Fire". He also intertwines the usage as if the two meant the same thing. I believe that is the way we spoke back in the day and still do today. It's like saying "ain't" is incorrect when so many people use the term today.

@jamesshepherd2649 2 жыл бұрын

The excitement of being on the news i am do glad you guys left that in :)

@clarencehopkins7832 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent stuff bro

@petersurdo4984 2 жыл бұрын

You're right. We weren't ready but did it anyway. The astronauts had huge clankers. Solid brass.

@JGott0001 2 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy seeing KZfaqrs cite, shoutout, and collaborate with others. I know it probably helps the channel's own marketing or to appease the algorithm, but it's still cool to see a sense of community and commonality.

@epifunny1 Жыл бұрын

He says remembering that it was really the ‘competition’ of the USA-USSR space race that even brought up the idea of going to the moon in the first place.

@1happypiranha Жыл бұрын

I’m newly subscribed so haven’t seen all your videos but I have a suggestion; the computer on the Apollo spacecrafts was primitive yet brilliantly programmed. If you haven’t done a video on that, and if that’s up your alley, could you do one on that?

@4thfrom7 4 ай бұрын

"Mom, look! I'm on the news!" - Lance Armstrong Excellent video, as usual!

@jamesbond_007 2 жыл бұрын

I'm happy to hear you say that we were not ready! I also think we were not quite ready -- at least not ready to do it really safely. [And I lived thru this time] We're so fortunate that they were able to make it so many times successfully -- just astonishing. Apollo 13 -- another story. I seem to recall that it was hit by lightning on the way up, though you don't hear much about that these days, it was mentioned several times when they were looking for what caused or contributed to the problems they experienced.

@vartikamandan4215 2 жыл бұрын

Really like this channel. It's very informative and live the way he explains all topics in very interesting way.👍👍👍

@thomascraig3533 2 жыл бұрын

Joe the quarantine joke was the best so far. Love your videos keep up the good work

@bidlisiwtv 2 жыл бұрын

I almost choked on my drink with that one.

@DeputyNordburg Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video. But... Please keep in mind the computer in the Apollo spacecraft was not the computer calculating their path to the moon. Apollo calculations were done on the ground in the "real time Flight Center" a building full of massive IBM computers, and next door to Mission Control.

@jeremydecker4547 2 жыл бұрын

No, I don't think that we were "ready" but mostly as prepared as we could be for something so monumental as the moon shot. The fact that we were technologically in our infancy when it came to space, and still put men on our only satellite planet, it is a testament to human resolve to touch the unknown, ready or not. Love your content and your humor! Keep up the great work!

@TheReaverOfDarkness 2 жыл бұрын

3:50 "One of these things is not like the others" My immediate response: sippy cups!

@Raygo. 2 жыл бұрын

Kennedy: ....we choose to go to the moon, and do the other things. History: Well... he did do quite a lot of "the other thing." 😏

@tonyhawk123 2 жыл бұрын

We chose to go to the Moon… because the Russians are ahead in the space race and we need to reassert our world dominance. But i guess not quite so catchy.

@andie_pants 2 жыл бұрын

US history summed up: _... and then the citizens publicly elected a President who grabbed 'em by the pussy._

@thomashiggins9320 2 жыл бұрын

@@andie_pants I'm pretty sure Kennedy never had to behave so crudely to get women, although I'm certain the money helped.

@andie_pants 2 жыл бұрын

@@thomashiggins9320 The means differ, but the ends invariably remain the same.

@BaronVonQuiply 2 жыл бұрын

As famous as that bit is, if you hear a few lines before that, he says what the other things are (climbing Mt Everest, Crossing the Atlantic by plane, and playing competitive sports).

@Dragonspun 2 жыл бұрын

You're great at explaining things and I enjoy your videos, but your segues to the ad time at the end is so effortless. :)

@phoeberose1198 2 жыл бұрын

Omg I LOVE THAT beginning so so so so brilliant, funny, well performed and perfectly timed!! Oh I love you Joe 🤩🎂💋

@vishaljoshi7796 2 жыл бұрын

This might be one of the best episodes. Great work Joe! I am glad I got to see it.

@LordFalconsword 2 жыл бұрын

No matter how much simpler the control systems are on Lunar Starship, when it goes to the moon, they better have an SCE to AUX switch!

@wesc7983 2 жыл бұрын

i enjoy your recent experimentation with your intros. they are fun.

@sassafrassiest 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Joe! I’ve been a fan since 2018. I actually commented on one of your videos saying it was great distraction because I was so nervous about a job interview for my dream job. And you said good luck! I was so surprised that you took the time to reply, and it made my day. Well, I got the job. And I kicked butt at it for two years. And then, back in May, I interviewed for my NEXT dream job. I got that, too! And even though I’m working 70 hours a week right now, I’m so happy. And I still love your videos. Thanks for being an awesome way to nerd out in my spare time.

@benjaminprietop 2 жыл бұрын

I still remember going to the Smithsonian when I was 12 and seeing the Apollo 11 command module for the first time. I couldn't believe it was so small and I actually thought it was fake before an employee told me otherwise.

@MrT------5743 Жыл бұрын

I saw the Apollo 13 CM was in Hutchinson KS for a long time (Not sure if it is still there).

@mikeluque6527 2 жыл бұрын

Oh man. I literally laughed when you brought up the customs form.

@I_dont_want_an_at 2 жыл бұрын

loving this video

@thecool400 2 жыл бұрын

Thanx Joe Great Review

@mirador698 2 жыл бұрын

The German translation of Neils sentence always had the „a“ (translated) in it.

@Horst_der_II 2 жыл бұрын

As a German: I don´t know if it is because of this or just because of my hearing but I allways heard the "a" it´s subtle but it is there.

@marcopohl4875 2 жыл бұрын

and I could have sworn it's "one small step for me" because of the translation

@illusivec 2 жыл бұрын

"They got to the moon with 10000000th of the computational power of an iPhone" thing is, while true, kinda misleading. There were no all-purpose computers in those days. All of the computers they used had the exact amount of computing and memory they required. Not to mention they didn't have OSes bogging them down or HALs to abstract the hardware from the software. It's kinda like saying my car is 100 times faster than a container ship. Yes, it's true. But a container ship isn't designed for speed in the first place so this isn't really a fair comparison.

@clairekholin6935 2 жыл бұрын

the computers were essentially all hardware acceleration, many of the necessary functions could be hardwired in, but there an Iphone plugged into the same I/O as it could probably run it while watching this video

@danielpassigmailcom 2 жыл бұрын

@flanker The very first "all-purpose" computer was working in 1945 I think it was called ENIAC or UNIVAC, one of those two. But they already existed. And the Apollo hardware had the absolute maximum computer specs for a computer that could fit in a spacecraft, and even with those unheard of (for the time) specs they had to resort to layer upon layer of clever engineering and programming, creating programming languages etc. to make the hardware processing speed, memory, etc etc. capable enough to control the craft for a moon mission.

@darkonc2 2 жыл бұрын

Actually, there was an OS -- but it was 'realtime', and had *absolutely zero* fluff.

@fm9572 2 жыл бұрын

Joe, I was born and grew up with the space race. I got my first desktop computer in 1978, one year after the launch of the Voyager probes. It was a TRS-80 'Model-I' with 4 KILOBYTES of RAM, and no internal hard storage. It had a modified connector to an old school tape recorder, it used for program storage. I learned BASIC on it, and "c" on the Apple II-e (a whopping 128 kilobytes of RAM, and a 5 1/4" *Dual* Floppy Drive) at middle school. Those who trash talk Windows have never used early DOS, where everything was done by command prompt. "Good old days" my pimpled right buttcheeck. The early Apollo missions may as well have been using sextants and analog paper calculators for guidance. *CoffApolloElevenCoff*

@johndododoe1411 Жыл бұрын

Apollo spacecraft did use sextants to fine tune the navigation. The sextant was connected to the computer and the Astronaut had to push a button when the two lenses pointed to the two landmarks highlighted on their paper map. Some of those landmarks were stars, some were big things on Earth.

@beautifulblackbeauty8641 2 жыл бұрын

That intro is fabulous!

@VaderBrasil 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Joe, I'm from Brazil and would love to see more of your videos about the Apollo Program, especially about the missions after Apollo XIII, which many of us know very little about. Brazilian greetings.

@dannydetonator 2 жыл бұрын

You'd better be patreoning Joe, to get your idea pushed into production. There is heaps of content on YT and other places internet, if you're bom enough en ingles to search.

@burntpieceoftoast4148 Жыл бұрын

@@dannydetonator sure, but not everyone can afford that, darlin.