My late friend Jim Busby was a technical consultant on this series, and even got to play the engineer tapping the pencil in this scene.
@Maniac5364 жыл бұрын
0:23
@longshot76013 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this. Otherwise I would have just continued to think it was just somebody's imagination instead of an actual moment in history.
@danielboatright88873 жыл бұрын
Was the 'if you value your life, please stop' line true too ?
@jimmy2k4o3 жыл бұрын
Did he go naturally or did he start tapping his pencil again…? Jokes aside, respect. The mission to the moon was the result of thousands of people working together like parts of an engine driving toward a goal that would redefine the human race.
@KimJongFunny2 жыл бұрын
Bullshit
@odysseusrex59085 жыл бұрын
I don't know how historically accurate that is, but it's a terrific scene.
@dragonsword73703 жыл бұрын
it was prophetic for the amount of marriages that suffered divorces over the development years of the program.
@jimmy2k4o3 жыл бұрын
@@dragonsword7370 I’m a romantic but going to the moon takes amazing work, which takes sacrifices……… I guess I’m a romantic but I’m more romantic about space travel.
@mk17173n2 жыл бұрын
women want great men but being a great man comes at a sacrifice.
@Nighthawke702 жыл бұрын
@@dragonsword7370 Like one engineer put it "Some wives were wondering if we had mistresses. We did, and it was this rocket." Meaning, the Saturn V pretty much took over their lives.
@odysseusrex59082 жыл бұрын
@JZ's Best Friend I am reminded of the famous line in *The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,* "This is the West sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
@nox_chan2 жыл бұрын
Girls: he's probably cheating on me The Boys: Engineering history changing technology
@VULTUSPRIME2 жыл бұрын
Look how happy they are of not seeing their wife and kids for years.
@chuckfinley47572 ай бұрын
*wives. You make it sound like they all had the same wife.
@MDE_never_diesАй бұрын
@@chuckfinley4757They all had multiple wives.
@chuckfinley4757Ай бұрын
@@MDE_never_dies Your point? Doesn't change the grammar.
@kittyyuki15372 жыл бұрын
I don't know how he can keep a straight face while building up the tension of the good news, that was brilliant!
@bobbypatton49032 жыл бұрын
Because people who seek out positions of power are usually sociopaths.
@T_Mo2712 жыл бұрын
Imagine the mix of terror and excitement for the engineers - you know you just got a really important contract, and you also don't know whether what you proposed to do is even feasible in the real world of time, funding, and resources.
@jweav1512 ай бұрын
We have a saying in Engineering, "The good news is we got the contract. The bad news is we got the contract."
@TheArklyte2 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, the times when companies and contractors respected each other and themselves enough to call not only the winner, but also those who didn't get the contract and to stop them from hanging in limbo for whole week.
@quillmaurer65632 жыл бұрын
Wonder if they did that for job applicants back then too? "We'll let you know sometime next week" is almost as big a lie as "I have read the terms and conditions."
@MrSirwolf2001 Жыл бұрын
@@quillmaurer6563 For many types of jobs, yes, it was quite common.
@pbdye16072 жыл бұрын
I can't help but think Grumman winning the lunar lander contract helped the F-14 become a reality, even though it got mated to a shitty engine in its earliest incarnations.
@lesnyk2553 жыл бұрын
By far my favorite episode of the series - after 35 years in engineering, I can tell you these are my people!
@melainewhite64093 жыл бұрын
"Silicon Valley"?
@MarcPiery2 жыл бұрын
@@melainewhite6409 You’re kidding, right?
@MrSirwolf2001 Жыл бұрын
@@melainewhite6409 Grumman Aircraft aka "The Ironworks"!
@AJxxxxxxxx3 жыл бұрын
I fuckn love that this crew of engineers were so thrilled to be part of the Apollo program
@bugwar55452 жыл бұрын
Yep, they had job security for a several more years on the government dime.
@jonjohns81452 жыл бұрын
@@bugwar5545 I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you are not an engineer. Because if you were, you would know that that's not what motivated those people and that many of them sacrificed a LOT of themselves into this work. Engineers do what they do because they love it, and getting to do what you love on a project like this is a Dream come true.
@bugwar55452 жыл бұрын
@@jonjohns8145 "Engineers do what they do because they love it, ..." SOME Engineers. Most do what they do for the sweet, sweet paycheck. Which they do love, to be honest. That and a nice air conditioned workplace, as well as snob appeal.
@jonjohns81452 жыл бұрын
@@bugwar5545 Air conditioning is little solace when it's 2:00 AM and you are pulling your hair out trying to figure out why the system you are working on STILL won't work as it should.
@bugwar55452 жыл бұрын
@@jonjohns8145 "Pulling your hair out..." doesn't sound like you're in a job you love. It does smack of loving that big pay check and frustrated at having to work for it.
@kdaltex3 жыл бұрын
My grandfather worked on the fuel system for the module.
@calebgangte12282 жыл бұрын
He's a badass grandpa
@JohnJohansen23 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't like to play poker with that guy.
@ThogusDonatus2 жыл бұрын
@@launch4 You Sir just Lost the internet.
@picklerix61622 жыл бұрын
My friend worked at Rocketdyne in California and worked on the space program. Later, he moved to Texas to work for other NASA contractors. After the first moon landing, he lost interest in engineering and became a custom home builder.
@Primenumber196 жыл бұрын
My grandfather was an engineer without an engineering degree who did a ton of work on the waste system. Even had to go up to MIT and explain what he was doing to the phds because they were so in the dark.
@RebeccaCampbell19696 жыл бұрын
rabidklein Engineering: a man or woman who fixes problems and issues using his/her ingenuity... Your grandfather was an Engineer, of course he was... you might be one as well, the title is a fancy recognition... there is math and science involved with the title, but one can learn that on our own as well... with ingenuity.
@joevignolor4u9496 жыл бұрын
Some of the best and most capable engineers don't have engineering degrees. The problem is that people with degrees often will look down on non-degreed engineers. These days a lot of places won't hire people without a degree irregardless of how smart and capable they are.
@zoso735 жыл бұрын
God bless your grandfather.
@MasterChief-sl9ro5 жыл бұрын
A degree does not equal Efficiency. And I 'm an Electrical Engineer. As a degree shows you can do the work. Know how to solve equations to problems that will come up. I mean would you get on an Airplane designed by high school student. I would want proof they know all the problems associated with Aerodynamics. Have the skills too. As fixing something. That someone else already designed. Is not what an Engineer does. Engineers design, build things given to them with all the constraints of budgets. Time limits and resources given them. As it first starts in the minds of Men. You can make it better. No problem. As you don't have those constraints. You have the advantage of fixing something that already exist. Has detailed schematics to repair it. So not the same as what Engineers deal with...
@1who4me3 жыл бұрын
That’s because intellectuals are idiots
@robertodeleon-gonzalez98442 жыл бұрын
"We've got the contract!" YES! YES! YES! YES!
@chaosawaits3 жыл бұрын
YAYYY!!! I DON'T HAVE TO SEE MY FAMILY!!!
@leftcoaster67 Жыл бұрын
More like we're engineers and we are going to engineer the impossible, and we got a government contract. So we get to keep our jobs, and might hire more people. I doubt they'd be as good at their jobs without support from their families at home.
@majorfrost82062 жыл бұрын
My favorite episode of a brilliant series.
@dnf-dead2 жыл бұрын
Such an underrated series
@jasoncy31 Жыл бұрын
Loved this episode. Probably my favorite from the series, with the "Genesis Rock" one a close second.
@TheFluffyDuck6 жыл бұрын
The first true spacecraft to fly entirely out of a planets atmosphere.
@jmchdjaimerporkpuedolol36815 жыл бұрын
And after this comment was published, NASA discovered that Earth's "atmosphere" extends a bit beyond the Moon XD Science is trully magnificent, when we think we got it all figured out...
@ShadowFalcon4 жыл бұрын
@@jmchdjaimerporkpuedolol3681 Well, calling the Geocorona the "atmosphere" is an example of what we in Denmark call "flueknepperi" or "flyfucking". Sure, it by definition is, but it's so insignificant as to not really matter regarding anything.
@samuelfawell91593 жыл бұрын
If you ignore the Russians doing the first Luna fly by, probe, probe to Venus, first man in space, first animal in space, first woman in space, first Satellite.
@stainlesssteelfox13 жыл бұрын
@@samuelfawell9159 I think what he meant was the Lunar Excursion Module was the first manned spaceship that flew exclusively in space. Other manned spacecraft were designed to land through an atmosphere. This was taken into space as cargo and only launched when in deep space. Before that you'd had only unmanned probes.
@NhatHuyNg3 жыл бұрын
@@samuelfawell9159 I cant ignore your stupidity though.
@luciusvorenus9445 Жыл бұрын
Great series and this is one of my favorite episodes along with the episode about Apollo 12.
@dobiedude74793 жыл бұрын
Great episode. I have to look for the series on DVD.
@Skybolter3 жыл бұрын
1962, 8 years before the F-14 TOMCAT'S FIRST FLIGHT.
@Easy-Eight3 жыл бұрын
Grumman 2021: we make postal trucks.
@ralphmarx75543 жыл бұрын
@@Easy-Eight Thats honest work there son.
@cleekmaker003 жыл бұрын
Boats and canoes, too!
@jmjeffries22 ай бұрын
@@Easy-Eight They made the old ones too
@davidkaplar62022 жыл бұрын
Anyone else notice that the music at the end is from the movie The Great Escape?
@cacasarq35033 жыл бұрын
maaaan, imagine the emotion of a contract to get humankind on the moon. lucky genius bastards!
@PappyGunn2 жыл бұрын
Mankind. Don't be like Trudeau.
@ADogNamedElmo2 жыл бұрын
@@PappyGunn relax
@ackbarfan55562 жыл бұрын
Matt Craven... man, I love seeing that guy in things. Best work was in Nuremberg.
@grizzfan089 ай бұрын
He's a very calm actor. And yes, Nuremberg was a wonderful film/miniseries.
@shaider19822 жыл бұрын
About twenty years earlier, Grumman was designing US Navy planes.
@foxmccloud70552 жыл бұрын
Now they're designing the solid rocket boosters for SLS.
@douglasmcintyre32972 жыл бұрын
I love how they costumed the Grumman engineer,s in full-geek, 1962 garb: short hair,cuts black trousers, white dress shirt with pocket full of writing implements and a skinny black tie. Appaently different colors of pants, shits and ties didn't exist iback n 1962, a least not in dork land.
@RideAcrossTheRiver Жыл бұрын
Dorks are people who get fat watching music videos and hanging out at malls.
@misterwhipple2870 Жыл бұрын
As a former citizen of "Dork-"land, I would give anything to go back.
@tonydean66843 жыл бұрын
An awesome, incredible American achievement.
@bremCZ3 жыл бұрын
Global achievment. Without the Russians, Germans, Brits, Poles, Czechoslovaks... it wouldn't have happened.
@tonydean66843 жыл бұрын
@@bremCZ stop pretending; did the Russians, Germans, etc. go to the moon? We designed it, we built it, we had the engineering and manufacturing and gumption to get it done. Did the British?
@bremCZ3 жыл бұрын
@@tonydean6684 We? If by we you mean the Germans, Poles, and British then yes, we designed it. If by we you only mean Americans, then you are a victim of the US propaganda machine.
@tonydean66843 жыл бұрын
@@bremCZ Nothing makes you leftists happier than denigrating the US. Who designed the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo engines, electronics, computers, guidance, communications? Who tested them, and who paid for them? Did your friends in Russia build, test and pay for them? Did your friends in China walk on the moon? With you leftists, what is theirs is theirs, and what is ours is theirs. Grow up, comrade. But don't worry, you still have the magnificent achievements of North Korea and Cuba to admire.
@MichaelKing-tp6le2 жыл бұрын
@@bremCZ russians ?
@im1who84u3 жыл бұрын
White shirts and ties. That's the way it really was back then. It was expected, it was like an unspoken uniform you had to wear. Not so much today.
@im1who84u3 жыл бұрын
@@VeganAncientDragonKnight I was just making and observation. I think you're reading to much into my comment.
@jshepard1523 жыл бұрын
@@VeganAncientDragonKnight Switch to decaf.
@robynharris71792 жыл бұрын
After 14 years in the industry, the very first company I worked for, where I *didn’t* have to dress business formal, was IBM. One of life’s little ironies.
@PappyGunn2 жыл бұрын
DOn't forget the pocket protectors.
@im1who84u2 жыл бұрын
@@PappyGunn Good point.
@robertodeleon-gonzalez98442 ай бұрын
I just noticed the music at the end... Is that from "The Great Escape?"
@afterlife6972 жыл бұрын
I heard they’re making a sequel from the Moon to Uranus
@grizzfan089 ай бұрын
"We're all just observing a moment of silence for the companies that didn't". If you didn't get that joke, then something's wrong with you because that's funny.
@thomascook98032 жыл бұрын
"we hate our families!" *hizahhh*🎉🥳
@RideAcrossTheRiver Жыл бұрын
Somewhat as a voice in the wilderness ...
@sirmium123 жыл бұрын
Fantastic scene!
@LucidDreamer543212 жыл бұрын
I think NASA should have used a kite and 239,000 miles of string.
@ptbot32942 жыл бұрын
We didnt get the contract. Shows over guys, literally.
@maxmccann53232 жыл бұрын
If the office happened in the 60s
@JohnJohansen23 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't like to play poker with Tom Kelly.
@jimegan68482 жыл бұрын
Alas, no free Corvettes for those guys
@Jonascord2 жыл бұрын
You don't get it. You have NO IDEA! The sheer joy of seeing what you thought up, drew on paper, saw built, and fly, beats little things like wealth and orgasms. Their thumb prints are on the EFFEN' MOON!
@jimegan68482 жыл бұрын
@@Jonascord, jeez, maybe dial it back some. Pardon my little TLI of levity there.
@myrandomlife88812 жыл бұрын
Wow
@willnewton30512 жыл бұрын
Why the great escape theme at the end?😂🤣
@jimbass16642 жыл бұрын
Period accurate and Tom Kelly has a habit of throwing a ball against a wall in the episode. Also a similar "problem - fix it - problem - fix it" feel from the movie.
@MrPhotodoc3 жыл бұрын
My wife and called that she wants sex but I told her we are going to the moon baby!
@aswler2 жыл бұрын
great but I wonder why this company has not become SpaceX or another famous company?
@yommish2 жыл бұрын
Northrop Grumman?
@peter94772 жыл бұрын
@@yommish Yeah, who ever heard of them? LOL
@quantrill55652 жыл бұрын
Imagine been happy about working, whats that feel like.
@beeleo2 жыл бұрын
Great scene but then what about all the mistakes Grumman made when they were building the LEM?
@samsignorelli2 жыл бұрын
it was the first spacecraft ever to be designed exclusively for space flight....you're going to have mistakes. i''l pointout that it was grumman's work that got the apollo 13 crew home.
@T_Mo2712 жыл бұрын
That's what happens when you're building something totally new. The entire Apollo program was like that.
@gareththompson27082 жыл бұрын
Has anyone ever made such a complicated machine without making mistakes? Has anyone ever accomplished any complex task without making mistakes? You can mitigate the severity and number of mistakes with good development practices. But even then there will never be a shortage of mistakes that need to be ironed out through extensive testing. And even then some will inevitably slip through into the final product (ask any writer, and they will tell you that no matter how many drafts you write or how many times your editor goes over it there will always be some typos in the final book). Humans simply aren't capable of accomplishing a complex task without making any mistakes. No one had ever built a LEM before. And frankly I think Grumman did an excellent job.
@jonasthemovie2 жыл бұрын
The LEM? The LM.
@gareththompson27082 жыл бұрын
@@jonasthemovie It was the LEM initially, and it was changed to LM early in development (apparently they figured Lunar Excursion Module sounded too much like the astronauts were taking a vacation). I don't think it's a big deal if people use LEM, even if the finalized name was technically LM.
@theingeniouspebble11922 жыл бұрын
Wait, why did the Great Escape theme start playing at the end?
@jonathanrousseau95522 жыл бұрын
Because they escaped their families.
@timovehkaoja7 ай бұрын
There is no sense how well written this series is. Just no sense.
@johnzabik2703 жыл бұрын
I used to have a friend that tapped his ✏️ on the table all the time. To solve that problem. I broke the ✏️ and ate it in front of him... lmao...he never tapped his ✏️ again.
@maxfan15912 жыл бұрын
What you don't know is that your friend made a bet with someone else that he could make you eat a pencil...
Great Series. This probably is my favorite episode, because it covers all the ups and downs of trying to do what’s never been accomplished, on a limited budget, with absolutely crushing time pressure.
@TwiGuy42 жыл бұрын
eh, screw my wives and kids LETS WORK!!!
@misterwhipple2870 Жыл бұрын
Daaaaaaaaaaaamn right!
@Rick51502 жыл бұрын
True story, they lost the contract when the gov. Official reported back that they didn't seem very interested in the project based off of Kelly's reaction on the phone. We ended up faking everything after that for convenience.
@MrGruffteddybear2 жыл бұрын
A government official didn't call Tom, that was his boss Joseph G. Gavin Jr.
@ErickSpace3693 жыл бұрын
Now the history repeat!!! HLS is coming!
@francoissouchay38872 жыл бұрын
And it's called Starship.
@zsedcftglkjh2 жыл бұрын
NEEEEEERDS!
@johndoe94502 жыл бұрын
Cheers and partiotic music. That's great. Now show the scenes at the companies who didn't get the contract and went bankrupt. Their employees not knowing how to feed their kids next month. Then play the same patriotic music. Oh no that's right... We don't wanna remind ourselves that in competition there is always someone who dosen't win.
@2011dtish212 жыл бұрын
At that time, none of the companies that had a legitimate chance to get the contract were depending on that contract for their future. Not a single one.
@misterwhipple2870 Жыл бұрын
Commie!
@LucidDreamer543212 жыл бұрын
Back in the olden days when husbands provided financial support for their families.
@tex12972 жыл бұрын
Yeah, lets solve problems with owetime. I bet this is the cause of half the failed launches....
@antonios682 жыл бұрын
yyyyyyyyya
@hotatp2 жыл бұрын
Wow that’s a cheesy scene, the pencil tapping, the mourning comment, the pretending they didn’t get the contract, was always interested in watching this series until now.
@luci0torre2 жыл бұрын
If you read the comments, someone claims the pencil tapping thing actually happened and they knew the people involved in it. Life is cheesy, it seems.
@emceeboogieboots16082 жыл бұрын
Wow, you are easily disappointed. Hope nobody spoils the ending for you 😁
@brutishorcbrutus2 жыл бұрын
ikr! THEY LAND ON THE MOON!!! spoiled hahaha . No seriously get a life bro, shit is quality and you obviously cant see quality