Apollo 13: The Most Incredible Rescue Mission in History

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2 ай бұрын

Experience the heart-pounding drama of Apollo 13, NASA's most harrowing mission. Follow the heroic astronauts as they battle against the odds in space, showcasing human ingenuity and resilience. Don't miss this thrilling tale of survival!

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@TheAndroidNextDoor 2 ай бұрын

I would argue this was an even more impressive achievement than the original moon landing. Things went (mostly) according to plan with Apollo 11. Apollo 13 was the mission where everything went wrong and NASA still managed to pull victory from the jaws of defeat. NASA's finest hour indeed.

@Nonya_Concern 2 ай бұрын

100% NASA's finest hour

@Dr_PCR_Ph.D. 2 ай бұрын

Arguably one of THE most heroic missions in all of NASA's history. Every single person at NASA and the 3 astronauts are, to this day, heroes!

@joelb8653 2 ай бұрын

Gordon Cooper brought his orbiter home after a power loss by scratching his best guess for horizon etc. on the window. His re-entry was nearly perfect. That was pretty badass too.

@Dr_PCR_Ph.D. 2 ай бұрын

Every single astronaut, every single person at NASA, even down to whomever supplied the coffee and every person at all of the contractors are ALL heroes in my book. The whole space program was & is incredible.

@d.l.gentsch5304 2 ай бұрын

Ask yourselves this question: if something goes wrong like Apollo 13, would you prefer NASA engineers to figure our how to save the astronauts or Elon Musk and Space X?

@erichloehr5992 2 ай бұрын

My dad was on the simulator team, of which I am incredibly proud of him for

@oldguy1528 2 ай бұрын

@@d.l.gentsch5304 I`ll take both working together, thank you !!!

@nomadiccyndi 2 ай бұрын

Jim Lovell was such an understated badass. Look up the videos of the press conference the astronauts did after they returned to earth. Lovell is so low key cool, I cannot even comprehend it.

@templarw20 2 ай бұрын

He was probably THE best pilot NASA had. The bit in the movie "if they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it' was not an exaggeration.

@Nonya_Concern 2 ай бұрын

Hes one of my favorite astronauts and the one I'd most like to meet by far. Captain Lovell is a legend

@april4025 2 ай бұрын

Fun fact! Judith Love Cohen, mother of Jack Black, was a NASA aerospace engineer and worked to design the abort guidance system which was one of many components used in the rescue of the Apollo 13 mission.

@PlasticBuddha88 2 ай бұрын

THANK YOU!! I was wondering why she wasn’t mentioned in the video AT ALL.

@Berengier817 2 ай бұрын

These men did arguably one of the most badass things ever done by humanity. I cannot think of anything more scary and utter badass than what these people managed to do.

@d.l.gentsch5304 2 ай бұрын

Ask yourselves this question: if something goes wrong like Apollo 13, would you prefer NASA engineers to figure our how to save the astronauts or Elon Musk and Space X?

@cshepard09 2 ай бұрын

@@d.l.gentsch5304 considering the fact that space X has done things nasa never dreamed of... ill take elon

@Berengier817 2 ай бұрын

@@cshepard09 lol Elon would let you die. Ask his car drivers

@Jayjay-qe6um 2 ай бұрын

"Failure is not an option", uttered by Ed Harris as Kranz in the 1995 film; the phrase became so closely associated with Kranz that he used it for the title of his 2000 autobiography.

@Nonya_Concern 2 ай бұрын

Such an amazing book too. I recommend it to everyone. It's an amazing read. Some of it is very technical however still a great read

@thegamingpigeon3216 2 ай бұрын

What's crazy is the timing of the accident. Only by it happening before they reached the moon did they survive. Had they reached lunar orbit and stirred the tanks, the accident still would've happened but they would've lost the momentum and power to be able to return to earth. Had it happened while Lovell and Haise were on the lunar surface, Swigert would've perished in orbit and they wouldn't have any way to get home. Had it happened on their return when they'd jettisoned Aquarius, they wouldn't have had Aquarius to use as a lifeboat and would've died in that scenario too. The timing of when it happened ironically saved them.

@adz693 2 ай бұрын

It's like NASA sent them on a ticking time bomb and said: "We are going to tell you to press a switch. You can press it now or you can press it later... But you have to press it at some point and it's going to blow half your spaceship apart...When would you like to press the switch?"

@johnfleet235 2 ай бұрын

If you Google Apollo, you get Apollo 8, 11, and 13. Jim Lovell was on two out of three of those missions. Hats off to all the astronauts!

@catz8449 2 ай бұрын

Not to mention that he was also on the backup crew for 11

@oldsledpurgatory3595 2 ай бұрын

Mission Control: "We're bored to tears down here." Apollo 13: "Hold my freeze-dried space beer..."

@RevinSOR13 2 ай бұрын

I will now use "Hold my freeze-dried space beer." Every chance I get.

@oldsledpurgatory3595 Ай бұрын

@@RevinSOR13 That's cool, I approve. However, I am claiming Intellectual Property on "Hold my freeze-dried space beer...". You may use it as often as you wish, but if you start making any money we're gonna have to talk...

@cleverusername9369 2 ай бұрын

My dog is named after Fred Haise and his birthday is April 17th, same day Apollo 13 returned safely to earth

@hj60dot5 2 ай бұрын

Apollo 13. Still the only movie to ever make me cry. Not well up with tears. Actually cry. When Houston receives the first words after re-entry silence... I'm getting choked up now.

@brianarbenz1329 2 ай бұрын

The blackout lasted 4 minutes, instead of the usual 3, causing everyone to prepare for the worst. You could hear Walter Cronkite swallowing hard as he explained that to viewers. But it turned out the Command Module was traveling a little slower than normal as it reached Earth’s atmosphere, precisely because engineers hadn’t figured the extra mass of the Lunar Module in, as the LM never before had returned toward Earth still docked. It turned out that slightly slower reentry speed was a blessing, as no one knew how the CM heat shield had fared during the explosion. Even a scratch on the shield could have caused them to burn up on reentry.

@roywhitworth 2 ай бұрын

Odyssey also landed closest to the recovery ship than any other Apollo mission 3.5 nmi close to the ship. That’s pretty impressive after a 50000mi trip

@dylan2300 2 ай бұрын

Just rewatched the movie, and realized that the release of the movie was closer to the actual event than it is to today.. tripped me out a little

@augiegirl1 2 ай бұрын

Besides how INCREDIBLE the movie was, there’s one main reason I love it so much: Hardees had the merchandising deal for the movie, & I was working there at the time; I was 16. Regarding your “realization”, the time that I've now been married & living in my current city is now longer than the time from my birth to graduating from high school, living in my hometown.

@brianarbenz1329 2 ай бұрын

I was in the 6th Grade in Indiana, and all of us were space buffs. Our teacher Mr. Goldstein had sparked our enthusiasm for the moon landings, and the morning when news of the explosion broke, he explained to us exactly what would need to go right for Lovell, Swigert and Haise to return alive. He said there was every chance they’d make it, but a lot had to go right. Thank you, Mr. Goldstein, for all you did for us. RIP.

@CartoonHero1986 2 ай бұрын

And as Tom Hanks in Apollo 13 "Yeah they fixed the door" The part where they tell the youngest Lovell child about the accident and him replying "Was it the door?" Was both hilarious and super sad at the same time since that was how the child had associated death from the earlier conversation about about Apollo 1, the fire, and what went wrong.

@kevinrusch3627 Ай бұрын

That kid works for Boeing now. (just kidding)

@CartoonHero1986 Ай бұрын

@@kevinrusch3627 LMFAO ones of those bs topics anyone would believe though

@string_fellow_hawk 2 ай бұрын

It isnt the most accurate but still a good movie. Apollo 13 ❤❤

@templarw20 2 ай бұрын

It's got Lovell himself on a commentary track, so... yeah.

@TreantmonksTemple 2 ай бұрын

More accurate than most historical movies, and every innacuracy serves a narrative purpose.

@frisk151 Ай бұрын

It truly was one of our people's finest hours! Can you imagine the level of pressure they were ALL working under? Amazing...

@Beryllahawk 2 ай бұрын

I wasn't even born yet when this happened... but it still FEELS like something I watched, lived through in a way, bc the 1995 film was so good, and I've read about it so much. Well done, Simon and team

@padawanmage71 2 ай бұрын

The Most Successful Failure, indeed. And didn't realize that the accident prompted the ending of the Apollo program. Makes one wonder how things would've been had we kept going...

@templarw20 2 ай бұрын

Given that Skylab was built using leftover Apollo parts, I wonder if the cancellation led to greater innovation, and if it hadn't been cancelled, then the human presence in space might have stagnated...

@KieranOCarroll 2 ай бұрын

Excellent rendition Simon. Clearly, the ability of the astros and mission control to communicate over hundreds of thousands of KM was key to NASA's finest hour. The voice and data communications system used was called the Unified S-Band, yes, USB, long before USB meant something entirely different! In any event, it would be great if you and your script writers did a vid on the astonishing USB comm system that served Apollo and humanity so well. I have some of the original NASA USB tech publications and would be happy to provide them for reference, if you decided to do the vid. Slainte!

@newshodgepodge6329 2 ай бұрын

I can't speak for anyone else but I would find that as intriguing as a video I once saw about the camera system designed for those missions. But now I can't remember what it was called. 😕

@Leyrann 2 ай бұрын

Could you please do more videos on planetary and stellar objects, like the series that originated on Geographics or about interesting stars like Eta Carinae? I do enjoy the videos about spacefaring projects too, but I'd like those even more.

@JosiahGould 2 ай бұрын

If you want to see the actual Command Module from Apollo 13, it's in Hutchinson, Kansas.

@RidiculousRocketry 2 ай бұрын

I took my grandson there in 2013. A little out of the way but worth the effort to go and see the exhibits.

@victoriaeads6126 2 ай бұрын

There's a story that, at the test viewing of Apollo 13 (the movie), one person rated the movie poorly. When asked, they said it was unrealistic and something like that could never happen 🤔😜😂

@templarw20 2 ай бұрын

on the other hand, the sets were so good that one of the NASA guys who was a consultant was looking for the elevator out. And the SFX launch scenes were so good that Buzz Aldrin asked Ron Howard where he found the footage.

@12qw23op 2 ай бұрын

Wow... Great video!

@BrewmasterAdaryn 2 ай бұрын

Just starting to watch this, always very interested in Apollo 13, can't wait! edit - not disappointed, great video.

@garrystubbs4891 2 ай бұрын

Whilst taking nothing away from the monumental achievement of NASA in bringing the Apollo 13 crew back safely to Earth, it should be noted (but it hardly ever is) that NASA had a pre-planned contingency ‘LEM as a lifeboat’ plan to fall back on in the event of a Service Module failure.

@TreantmonksTemple 2 ай бұрын

After Apollo 1 they planned for almost every contingency

@paulperano9236 2 ай бұрын

.. and it made a good movie too

@MrBmnmtfk 2 ай бұрын

Is there any limit to the amount of channels this man can host 😵‍💫

@colormedubious4747 2 ай бұрын

We'll probably never know. 🤣

@templarw20 2 ай бұрын

I would recommend anyone who is interested in the history to pick up the Apollo 13 film, and watch the commentary track with Jim and Marilyn Lovell themselves talking about the events, including the changes in the film, and what actually took place (Lovell admits that most changes were for storytelling purposes, like the tension with Swiggert). As a former history teacher, that first hand account, acknowledging and building on the dramatization, is wonderful.

@brian_phipps 2 ай бұрын

Hell yeah, this story makes me proud to be American 🇺🇸

@CleoPinto4317 2 ай бұрын

proud to be human tbh

@raze3297 2 ай бұрын

Brian: Well, my work is done here. Normal People: But you didn't do anything. Brian: Didn't I?

@antiisocial 2 ай бұрын

Wow

@abxorb 2 ай бұрын

Very interesting and well put-together video ! 👍 I have one point of criticism though: those low-frequency distortion sound effects in the scene transitions are REALLY grating on the ears, especially when wearing headphones. 😖

@TeW33zy 2 ай бұрын

Not to mention Apollo 1 tragedy NASA changed the pressurized system from 100% oxygen to 60% oxygen and 40 nitrogen as well as a fast safety magnetism to open the door within 13 seconds.

@drekastelpa 2 ай бұрын

I thought I had found all of his channels, today I found out that I had not 😂

@adamfrank5183 16 күн бұрын

It's confusing to be talking about the LEM but showing photos of the CM to illustrate 'lifeboat mode'

@magus104 2 ай бұрын

So based off another video where you talked about For All Mankind i decided to check out the show.. Ironically more to find out which awful actor you were walking about lol but the show is really good. A cool "What if" of the Apollo program

@newshodgepodge6329 2 ай бұрын

I have been told that it used to be common knowledge that duct tape brought the astronauts home.

@tulpamedia Ай бұрын

How many youtube channels does this guy have????

@abswa 2 ай бұрын

Not really sure if playing scientific instruments over a 33 hrs period was their mission objective (03:15)… I could be wrong…. But I bet it would’ve been newsworthy.

@TheDarkSnaffle 2 ай бұрын

Great story and reasonable presentation. But those between-scenes effects and the flicking between cut-ins so quickly is just irritating, and ruins an otherwise good presentation. And can you speak a bit slower, and with a little less dramatic effect, please?

@TKMRacer28 Ай бұрын

There's a film about the Apollo 13 mission. Can't remember what it's called though.

@davereichert 2 ай бұрын

Maybe I'm wrong here, but I don't think "Main Bus B" had anything to do with data signaling, it was just a bus for power delivery to devices in the CM.

@templarw20 2 ай бұрын

That was my thought, too. I likened it to a Star Trek engineer saying "auxiliary power" was wonky.

@d.l.gentsch5304 2 ай бұрын

Ask yourselves this question: if something goes wrong like Apollo 13, would you prefer NASA engineers to figure our how to save the astronauts or Elon Musk and Space X?

@stephenbrewins3689 2 ай бұрын

If this would of ended in absolute catastrophe,I’m sure i would of set space exploration back a few decades.certainly manned ones anyway.

@JamesonCycz 2 ай бұрын

Farewell Aquarius, and we thank you.

@FlyWithFitz81 2 ай бұрын

"Bus" and "Voltage", the Astrographics crowd is a smart bunch.

@tinaroberts5858 2 ай бұрын

Sounds like alot of people made a lot of money to me

@80sbeginner 2 ай бұрын

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@allentoyokawa9068 19 күн бұрын

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@80sbeginner 19 күн бұрын

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