America's First Moon Landing in 50 Years was a Spectacular Failure. Here's Why.

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5 ай бұрын

Uncover the dramatic tale of the Peregrine lunar lander's tragic mission failure in this Astrographics special! Explore the spacecraft, its ambitious mission, and the challenges faced in this riveting space exploration journey.

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@mikehundeshagen5995 4 ай бұрын

Just found a new Simon Whistler channel…slowly it turns into a trading card game 😂🤷‍♂️

@elitecereal 4 ай бұрын

every single day i discover a new channel of this guy

@BobbyAnstey 4 ай бұрын

I got a Today I Found Out and an old Brain Blaze worth some money

@specteractual1 4 ай бұрын

@@BobbyAnstey I got the business blaze

@CiderMorphine-xv3gf 4 ай бұрын

I'm looking for his retro gaming channel.

@paulputter8383 4 ай бұрын

Big ask, but I'm looking for the paranormal and the Real Aliens cards.

@joelongardner1571 4 ай бұрын

How did I miss Simon's 100th new channel for 3 months??? I blame the algorithm. Subscribed now.

@mackenziemoore5088 4 ай бұрын

Literally my experience just now 😂😭

@Jessepigman69 4 ай бұрын

Just found out today. Feel incredibly bamboozled right now. Not impressed

@Emcron 4 ай бұрын

this just makes the OG moon landing even more epic, considering it was achieved with tech that was that much older.

@dzzope 4 ай бұрын

LTT and Everyday Astronaut did a bit on the Apollo guidance computer a year or so back.. Incredible stuff. Mind blowing problem solving.

@MrEnjoivolcom1 4 ай бұрын

Want it done with computing power equivalent to that of a calculator wristwatch…wristwatch calculator? Lol.

@Oly876 3 ай бұрын

@pentabular 4 ай бұрын

The frequent flame flashes are turning me away

@lonniesmith352 4 ай бұрын

Now the moon landing deniers are just gonna start with the “ see if we can’t do it now with our advanced tech there is no way they did it back then” 🙄

@deshyvin 4 ай бұрын

Yea exactly. And don't forget the censor- misinfo wiki page under the video to make sure we know exactly what the Apollo missions were. The amount of times nasa has been found and proven to use either miniatures, models, or CGI should be concerning to all of us. Regardless of the earlier missions. Doesn't take a theorist to notice.

@GabenHood 4 ай бұрын

"nasa was sending a device to test the effects of radiation on the human body on the lunar surface" i guess they "forgot" that too.

@mikezappulla4092 4 ай бұрын

@@GabenHoodno, they just didn’t study it as well back then because they didn’t have the ability to. And this is for a long term moon base instead of a fews day.

@GabenHood 4 ай бұрын

@@mikezappulla4092 they didn't have the ability to study it? Yet they could make moon landers and a-bombs? Let's just agree to disagree.

@user-on8hn8nv5e 4 ай бұрын

Ha I can't believe you think the moon is real

@pseudotasuki 4 ай бұрын

Title: It was a failure Simon: It wasnt a failure.

@UCNXonline 4 ай бұрын

A failure that isn't actually a failure is pretty spectacular, IMO.

@sydhenderson6753 4 ай бұрын

Big correction: Celestis had some remains on Peregrine, but their main capsule was launched separately from Peregrine and wasn't supposed to go to the Moon but into heliocentric orbit. That was the capsule that had the Presidential DNA and remains of Doohan and Kelley. The Roddenberry's apparently had ashes on both the lander and the heliocentric capsule. So the heliocentric mission was a complete success. Elysium Space lost theirs with Peregrine.

@LordDustinDeWynd 4 ай бұрын

Remember that Mars mission where the software used feet in some cases and meters in others and no conversions to be found? As a programmer at the time, I'd giggle whenever I thought about it.

@Scudboy17 4 ай бұрын

I had a friend that did some consulting work at NASA around that time. Conversion problems were nothing new. Mistaking feet for meters augered a space probe into Antarctica on one project he had worked on. Not his fault, he was on the video uplink/compression team. Turns out contractors in Australia and the US never bothered to clarify the measurement system they were using. About 90% of the teams were using the metric system, but a few guys on the flight control team had been using old NASA data that was in feet and inches and it never occured to them to convert the data. Even absolute geniuses can make very basic mistakes.

@clappednbroke 4 ай бұрын

@@Scudboy17 it's interesting how they have conversation issues now. From what I've read the apollo moon landers computers read distances in metric then converted it back to imperial for the crew (because they were pilots) but nasa used Wernher von Braun and several other nazi scientists back then and Wernher von Braun designed the saturn 5 but all of them would've been more comfortable with the metric system so you wouldn't think they'd have so many issues with conversion.

@Scudboy17 4 ай бұрын

@clappednbroke you'd think they would have learned better, but it still happens. Human error is always an option on the table. It starts when you assume other people know what they are doing, so you accept their contributions without double-checking them.

@mlee6050 4 ай бұрын

The idiot astronauts that landed on the moon, no offense to them but if they knew metric or learnt metric then Apollo could of used more of it's computing power on other stuff than convert metric to imperial for the astronauts

@LordDustinDeWynd 4 ай бұрын

@@mlee6050 You're not very bright, are you. The idiot astronauts knew far more than YOU ever will, it was the COMPUTER PROGRAMMERS for a MARS probe who fncked up.

@4077Disc 4 ай бұрын

Peregrine, Ingenuity (the helicopter on Mars), and SLIM (the Japanese lunar lander) all suffered catastrophes in the last few days. Sad days for our little robot friends :(

@sydhenderson6753 4 ай бұрын

SLIM actually started working again, even though it's upside down. The little rovers worked too.

@pseudotasuki 4 ай бұрын

@@sydhenderson6753Technically SLIM is on its side compared to the intended orientation. It was supposed to flop 90° just before touchdown, but ended up tumbling past that point.

@clappednbroke 4 ай бұрын

I would say the Mars drone was a huge success considering it was only supposed to last like a couple flights but when you send stuff to mars you tend to end up running it until it breaks or crashes.

@CatDad01 4 ай бұрын

Nasa had a ton of failures. Failures happen. It should be calculated into your success.

@NelrondEvan 4 ай бұрын

Failure teaches far more than success

@DougA1954 4 ай бұрын

I found it a bit disconcerting that a picture of the Hubble space telescope was substituted for Griffin and the Russian Soyuz rocket was used for “private space enterprise”

@michaelcolligan6686 4 ай бұрын

Okay so why I'm I only accidentally finding this channel now

@themollerz 4 ай бұрын

We don't do it because it is easy..

@ro4eva 4 ай бұрын

Lessons learned, and experience gained. No question it was very expensive, but such a team will ensure that it has not been a complete and total loss.

@aasishwarsaravana5748 4 ай бұрын

Sad news, but best of luck to the next lander mission!

@jerrmy666 4 ай бұрын

Didn't orient the panels correctly before time warp? At least they didn't mess up the staging or forget to extend the antenna.

@nickmyers3065 4 ай бұрын

Or use the wrong Kerboscript.

@jasoncasey3005 4 ай бұрын

I love that you're serious when doing this channel. But I think it would be cool to have a moment of your opinion at the end

@MrEnjoivolcom1 4 ай бұрын

He said sh!t in the Fermi Bubbles episode. Not always 100% serious.

@Atmatan_Kabbaher 4 ай бұрын

Bruh. For a minute straight he opened the video talking about having romatic relations with a machine. What video did you watch and why was it not this one?

@uuzd4s 4 ай бұрын

The Apollo Guidence Computer & Display/Input Keyboard, (AGC & DSKY) that controlled the Apollo Lunar Module & Command Module had ports for the DSKY, IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit), Hand Controller, Rendezvous Radar (CM), Landing Radar (LM), Telemetry Receiver, Engine Command & Reaction Control System. The AGC & IMU were both developed by MIT's Instrumentation Lab. The AGC weighed 70 lbs and used hand sewn magnetic memmory cores. It was built by Raytheon. The remaining components of the Apollo, Gemini & Mercury Rockets were built using Slide Rules, Engineers & a Lot of R&D.

@onegemini420 4 ай бұрын

So I would not say it was a spectacular failure because there were also successes. We learned that the rockets to get it into space seemed to work fine for their FIRST flight. It is unfortunate that the lander had an issue. But even a failure provides data that can hopefully be used to make sure that the problem does not occur again in the future. - Japan landed its first lander, albeit was a failure as well since the lander ended up upside down. However, they learned valuable lessons that can hopefully allow them to have a successful second attempt if they go forward with one. - If we learn something from this failed attempt that helps us succeed in the next one, then even a failure can be a success.

@TheUnatuber 4 ай бұрын

By dismissing the Navajo's concerns, they cursed the mission.

@LiviaIndica 4 ай бұрын

I was so excited when I found this channel. I watch lots of Simon's videos. And since there's no more SciShow Space anymore I was super thrilled to find this channel. But the videos are unwatchable. If the flares/flashes and other "effects " are here to stay I'll have to keep looking. Guess I'll try PBS Space Time again even though I would prefer my English space dude be Simon.

@m_a_s6069 4 ай бұрын

NASA was just a paying customer in Astrobotic Technology's Peregrine Mission One project. I wouldn't call it "America's" anything.

@GoodThings4GoodPeople 4 ай бұрын

We'll get this space travel thing figured out again soon, just gotta remember how it worked back in the carburetor days!

@smooshiebear80 4 ай бұрын

Guess all the millennials get confused when they can’t just push a button to fix something and have to think outside of the box. 😂 No disrespect… they are probably all way smarter than me!

@Iceflkn 4 ай бұрын

I keep getting distracted by the light reflections on the picture frames behind you! Ahh! Lol

@RudeMcRude 4 ай бұрын

So a mission to the moon only barely cost more than a single F-35 fighter jet. seems like the military budget needs to be reduced and moved.

@mako88sb 4 ай бұрын

Here’s something I found out fairly recently that really puts things in perspective. The bank bailouts back in 2008 cost 5 times more than all the funding NASA had received since its inception back in 1958.

@iveBENgaming 4 ай бұрын

Finally fact boy is back on YT

@mattiemathis9549 4 ай бұрын

Thanks Simon! I’ve been waiting for this!

@bravo_01 4 ай бұрын

They should have at least released the ashes near the Moon. What a waste…

@mittman9977 4 ай бұрын

Some incredibly brave ICs gave their electronic lives in pursuit of a better understanding of humanity's understanding of space and the earth's moon. A moment of silence, to remember their passing, please.

@derekstein6193 4 ай бұрын

They named it "Peregrine"? Is it not ironic that a peregrine falcon is known to be the fastest bird in the world due to the incredible speed it reaches during a dive, and that the lander dove at high speed straight into Earth's atmosphere to burn up? It would be funny if not for all the special cargo lost.

@guywhoknowsaguy 4 ай бұрын

Maybe we shouldn't put irreplaceable payloads on untested crafts.

@ghaznavid 4 ай бұрын

When was this one launched? Would have subbed if i knew about it.

@mikep3226 4 ай бұрын

Another of Simon's videos with great writing and presentation, beset by horrible edits. It starts when the script is taking about "future space missions" but the editor uses shots of shuttle launches. There are several other places where the edits show space vehicles completely unrelated to the discussion, and at points even at odds with it.

@solo1014 4 ай бұрын

Im waiting for the day when simon talks about orbital insertion around uranus

@WildPeanuts 4 ай бұрын

oh boy

@chaosXP3RT 4 ай бұрын

Can you do an episode on the Russian Luna-25 that crashed into the Moon last year?

@geraldstiling3735 4 ай бұрын

Dave Scott👨🏽‍🚀 and Neil Armstrong👨🏼‍🚀 had exact same problem in Gemini... attitude jet got stuck in on 🔛 position...so lucky to make it back

@kennydalglish8072 4 ай бұрын

They should make Uranus special

@TgsMaverick 4 ай бұрын

Astrobotic is based in my city so it was super sad to hear this launch went south 😢

@Turtle_D_Money 4 ай бұрын

I feel bad I know people that actually worked on it

@omstout 4 ай бұрын

So; Why fuel leak? Bad torque specification? Someone put the wrong color teflon tape on a fitting? Why wasn't leak identified on pad or during assembly?

@keithkearns93 4 ай бұрын

You can’t identify a leak that has not yet happened .

@LordDustinDeWynd 4 ай бұрын

Howdy from Temple, Texas, USA!

@Blinkerd00d 4 ай бұрын

Howdy from Orange, TX!

@Nathan-vt1jz 4 ай бұрын

Honestly, other than the Artemis and Indian missions to the moon all the other recent attempts have had significant issues or failed completely (it’s hard to know how things are really going with Chinese space missions as information is not so freely available).

@sydhenderson6753 4 ай бұрын

The current Japanese mission landed upside down and is still working.

@Nathan-vt1jz 4 ай бұрын

@@sydhenderson6753 I would put that in the ‘significant issues’ category. Not a complete failure, but also not a resounding success.

@BarryHWhite 4 ай бұрын

ULA, the old Martian war cry of the tripods from War of the Worlds

@bleack8701 4 ай бұрын

At least Japan's SLIM managed to land on the moon. Even if it tumbled and turned upside down.

@Jayjay-qe6um 4 ай бұрын

Intuitive Machines IM-1, set for launch in February 2024.

@rodziegman 4 ай бұрын

Elon should do a lunar lander. He can put a self-driving Tesla up there to cruise around each time the solar panels fill the battery. 😂

@MarkSparks-xd9yy 4 ай бұрын

Al you mini umm. We have to settle for aluminum in the USA.

@johnkeck 4 ай бұрын

5:29 Fascinating about the Navajo and allies objecting to landing human remains on the Moon. Were they the only ones? Was their objection based on their reverence for the Moon?

@Atmatan_Kabbaher 4 ай бұрын

They weren't the only ones. This mission 'failed' for a reason.

@jakecivis7402 4 ай бұрын

Technically, this was a private company.

@Narangarath 4 ай бұрын

I found myself wondering who this "Nasser" person/entity is several times before realising Simon was talking about NASA. 🤦🏼‍♀️

@deanlute794 4 ай бұрын

Dude How many Channels!?!?!?!

@glennllewellyn7369 4 ай бұрын

More than we can count!

@paulwoolner9047 4 ай бұрын

I find it strange we have devolved when it comes to going to the moon and getting something into Leo?

@gpaull2 4 ай бұрын

Now you’re trying to do it cheap, aren’t willing to take as much risk, and have Felon Musk involved….

@mikezupp739 4 ай бұрын

imagine paying to have your remains sent out in to space and they get burnt up on re-entry to earth 😂 5:22

@drg9812 4 ай бұрын

Technically the remains did **go** to space ;)

@pihi42 4 ай бұрын

Too many eggs in this basket.

@eks3019 4 ай бұрын

I'm sure this is a wonderfully informative video, as usual, from old Fact Boy, but the editing makes it awful to watch! Has your editor just got a job lot of new transitions and wanted to use them all on one video?

@seanshaw8321 4 ай бұрын

Its not that many, it’s just one for each channel he’s got 😆

@eks3019 4 ай бұрын

Oh dear god, future videos are going to be truly impossible to watch if this were the case 😁. It'll be a new transition for each 5 frames of video!

@2hcobda2 4 ай бұрын

11:36 contradicting the title

@firethecoach8800 4 ай бұрын

Lmao Simons going crazy with these channels

@allantaylor420 4 ай бұрын

At least the closest to a human being in the craft as already dead

@K_End 4 ай бұрын

Oh my god three is another channel 💀

@EricDKaufman 4 ай бұрын

This wasnt an American mission. This was a private venture.

@scotthcomyns3426 4 ай бұрын

What do you expect, you can get patio seating on Boeing Max?

@shaunsandow2073 4 ай бұрын

One stuff up is not a big deal

@Wrenchen-with-Darren 4 ай бұрын

They did it first try...50 years, and a ton of technology, we can't do it again?

@Atmatan_Kabbaher 4 ай бұрын

Are you trying to tell us your into bonin' spacecraft, Simon? 🤔

@benrozema8007 4 ай бұрын

Simon, you need help... Until you get it, I'll be here listening to your voice 😂😂😂

@derekstein6193 4 ай бұрын

It seems the Navajo Nation got their wish after all.

@SSJ3Palmer 4 ай бұрын

How about the obvious answer, it had been sabotaged before it ever lifted off

@deanlute794 4 ай бұрын

Thanks ULA?

@deanlute794 4 ай бұрын

But no one follows the Vulcan.

@anonymousrex5207 4 ай бұрын

Just make sure you pack your harpoon, so you can go whaling on the moon!

@tw7384 4 ай бұрын

But there aint no whales, so we tell tall tales. We're whalers on the moon.

@Repopper 4 ай бұрын

Why does the thumbnail make it look like you're happy about the failure?

@physicsbystanprisajny6284 4 ай бұрын

pandoras box to fly in outer space

@JayVolatileOfficial 4 ай бұрын

2nd :)

@richysradioroom 4 ай бұрын

And the Griffin Lander does not look like Hubble LOL.

@cosmoscorner 4 ай бұрын

Sounds like it was the pane the whole time...

@multiyapples 4 ай бұрын

This is definitely tragic.

@Atmatan_Kabbaher 4 ай бұрын

Whats more tragic is exhuming a corpse and flying it millions of miles away from its resting place just to assert personal dominance on a heavenly body for the sheer sake of experimentation. I think we actually came out with a net positive.

@sydhenderson6753 4 ай бұрын

@@Atmatan_Kabbaher Not the entire corpse, just a tiny amount of ashes.

@zaco-km3su 4 ай бұрын

Japan succeeded. It got a small soft landing on the moon and the systems of the probes work.

@christaylor6654 4 ай бұрын

Simon when are you going to start a bread breaking channel

@briandoe5746 4 ай бұрын

A KZfaqr named Destin that runs a channel called smarter everyday. Basically just berated all of NASA when they asked him to come and speak. He was warning them about this exact issue popping up. They really should have listened huh?

@themollerz 4 ай бұрын

Nah.

@johnmcnulty4425 4 ай бұрын

Why not mention that Astrobotics is based in Pittsburgh? A hub of innovation for generations..

@tonydagostino6158 4 ай бұрын

An American company's failure does not make it "America's failure". I find that disingenuous and somewhat insulting

@RmNrIHRoZSBDQ1AK 4 ай бұрын

4:45 - 5:50 or in other words, not much of value was lost

@keithdubose2150 4 ай бұрын

See where adopting the metric system got us ! 😊

@gpaull2 4 ай бұрын

And where not adopting it got you… kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ns-Uaqh70N2ofp8.htmlsi=fxHcgxw5oHO0hV3L

@davidhuffman8352 4 ай бұрын

Sad that happened to all those peoples' remains.

@Atmatan_Kabbaher 4 ай бұрын

Sadder that they were dug up in the first place.

@derekstein6193 4 ай бұрын

What makes it absurd is when you realize they received a double cremation.

@Justwantahover 4 ай бұрын

If the world is flat, NASA just faked another failure! 😅😅😅😅😂😅

@Pepsi_Addicted 4 ай бұрын

first

@channingsmith7859 4 ай бұрын

Is it true that the failure was found to be caused by a British engineer putting the extra i in aluminum and the American counterparts not accounting for it, thereby causing the craft to be off balance? That’s what I heard anyway…

@blueguy12345 4 ай бұрын

I blame the bitcoin. They always fail and then crash.

@RoadRashSpirit 3 ай бұрын

So not only has so called new Trek decimated Roddenburys vision and creation. Peruguin decicrated his remains. What a shit decade.

@Trixter9000 4 ай бұрын

Another channel???!

@GamePlay-xd3hf 4 ай бұрын

Another one 😂

@RangerHouston 4 ай бұрын

5:35 it’s worth being said that the Navajo objected because they claimed spiritual sovereignty over the _entirety_ of the moon. Some shit never changes lol

@mikelaffoon5986 4 ай бұрын

@adzz8012 4 ай бұрын

Govt waste is not the space programs fault. There is plenty of money to fix earth problems.. just an unwillingness to do so. Believe it or not but the space program is not wasted money. The dinosaurs 65 million years ago didnt have a space program and look what happened to them 😂

@stevenfaw8535 4 ай бұрын

You see, there Hass to be a balance between private industry and public sector, and space exploration should always be public sector. Every time we contract something else private industry it gets fucked. I’d rather have the bureaucracy and taxes

@EdKy101 4 ай бұрын

The old Government Contract Companies are the worst. They take non-fixed price contracts and squeeze the government for every penny they can while taking 500% more time than it should.

@Cloud30000 4 ай бұрын

How did that work out for Challenger and Colombia?

@dzzope 4 ай бұрын

This is the result of the private and public sector having balance in the mission. If this were entirely NASA, it may have gone flawlessly, but it would have cost 3x. And how would that be balance? If anything it shows us just how amazing the Apollo programme was. And how lucky they were to not have more close calls or losses during it.

@deadman746 4 ай бұрын

@@dzzopeWell, this mission will at best cost 2x if they do it again, taking 2x the time, and get lucky the next time. So is that 4x? Whatever you decide, that's the number to compare to 3x.

@85priesty 4 ай бұрын

I'd rather have syphilis than Elon...

@atlanciaza 4 ай бұрын

Another channel, Simon? That capitalist heart is not just beating, its pounding it would appear. 😂

@drg9812 4 ай бұрын

After the plane door debacle, you do have to wonder if they had certain hiring quotas...

@Xibyth 4 ай бұрын

Because as it turns out it's not much easier today than it was 50 years ago, only now instead of being headed up by 3-5 department heads, we now have a few hundred. This is exactly why we get nothing done.