Every time I see Amy riding the Saturn V I think of Slim Pickens riding the bomb down, it just doesn't get old.

my daughter loves your videos. we watch them alk the time. She's 9 and wants to be a physicist. Her great grandfather was an engineer and worked on the Saturn 5.

My uncle was a contractor who made some parts for the Saturn V in his garage/workshop. I seem to remember that they were some sort of valves made from aluminium but I couldn't be sure. I was always proud of him for that!

Hey, vintage space! You were such an inspiration to me. You made me love rockets and really appreciate the hard work that goes into making them and to honor the brave people who flew in them. If it weren't for you I might not be nearly as interested in space. In fact, I actually want to become an aerospace engineer!

You know a lot about rockets... I'm new to your channel and I love it! Cool hairdo btw ;)

I'll never forget the trip to the Space Centre and actually seeing the Saturn V rocket that's on display there. Truly an impressive piece of Engineering

Question answered. Amy's T-shirt reveals the inspiration for her newest hairstyle. I hope she's equally enthusiastic about the wardrobe, too. Thanks for putting the pieces of this rocket puzzle together for us.

That was very well done and informative. It's also a very interesting story as to how places like Huntsville, Houston and Cape Canaveral became such key places in the space program.

"I mean, who wouldn't love this beautiful marvel of engineering?" Pete ^_^

When I discovered this channel, I almost all of the back catalogue within like two days. It's to the point where 80% of my suggested videos are these. I have no regrets, and I hope my AdSense helped a little.

I grew up about 30-35 miles as the crow flies from Stennis. I loved the sound of those stages being tested. It meant another moon landing was on the way.

I love your videos. I was born at a time when I followed the entire space program from Gemini on. We watched launches in school and I became hooked. I never grew out of it and now with Private Space companies I have that 1960's feel all over..... "Go Fever!"

Really great channel, fantastic research and engaging presentation. You answer all the questions I never knew I wanted to ask about those amazing early years of space exploration. Keep ‘em coming.

That was fascinating! The ingenuity of figuring out logistical problems like this is simply amazing! Also, it is one of the aspects of the space program that I suspect many, including myself, would not consider. I find it inspiring.

Saturn V was awesome! I built a model one when I was about 10 years old. It was around 1m tall with a lander and everything :-)

Congrats! You've reached 100k subs, Vintage Space! Greetings from Germany. Love your content :)

Old enough to remember seeing the barge that was loaded at Seal Beach, I thank you for getting these things right. The Pregnant Guppy aircraft is another of the amazing ideas that the moon program inspired, sometimes on spec that it might be needed.

Awesome Vids, Awesome Channel, Awesome person. Thank you Tom for finding awesome channels for me.

Thanks for putting together Vintage Space, it is a fascinating channel. I will be a regular subscriber starting today. I grew up during the Space Race and still have an interest in the American space program, even if is has been rolled back so much. I was really looking forward to the Orion and Constellation programs.

Fantastic. Great to see the younger generation excited about Apollo and space travel. Go girl!

I grew up next to the Seal Beach Facility, it's still there but its fenced in now and its supposed to be torn down soon. I do remember seeing the super guppy flying as well, incredible logistics. Cool video.

This channel is chock full of info I've never heard about before. I love it!

Suggestion for a topic: - why does US assemble spacevehicles and transport them to the launchpad vertically, and Russia horizontally. What are the pro/cons?

I love crazy logistics like this! Thanks Amy. I had no idea about the Panama Canal transit.

It's amazing that all these NASA contractors worked together and shared information like that too get the Saturn 5 built. All the different pieces had to fit together and work together perfectly. Amazing

It was great to see mention of Stennis, the old photos show a different time. Growing up near the "Test Site", as we call it, I still remember the walls shaking and windows rattling. Come and take the free tour...watch out for deer.

That's amazing, I had never considered how far the stages had to travel in order to make it to Florida. Love the videos Amy, there's something very special about the Gemini and Apollo era!

Great vid! Very informative.

Love your knowledge and your bangs!

Congrats on breaking the 100K subscribers mark....keep up the good work....

Hi Amy.... another cool video. I like the t-shirt. Hoping your Thanksgiving was a good one.

Amy, you are absolutely awesome..... my daughter and I love your videos and you are the prettiest host ever.

Hi vintage space I’m a big fan from east London keep up the good work

this is wonderful information. thank you for sharing!

Just a hobbyist here....but i have had this hobby a long time...You make the best most informative videos on the subject ive seen. Despite your pretty face :)

congratulations to 100.000 subscribers :* and as always a nice and informative Video :) Greetings from germany, keep it up!

i keep expecting the old intro, and then i have little moment of suprise every time :)

that phallic reference at the 5 second mark made me have to watch the video twice so i wasn't laughing and could actually listen. nice one, Amy. hilarious.

Thank you for this! I learned something new! You have a new subscriber!

yay! go PTY! I live in Panama and I would've loved to live back then to see one of the stages passing through the canal.

The Guppy was used regularly to carry DC-10 fuselage sections from Convair in San Diego up to Douglas in Long Beach. I used to watch it fly out about every week.

Great topic. I never thought about how the various pieces of the spacecraft got to the cape. It's amazing to think of a Saturn rocket going through the Panama Canal.

I was a child when the Saturn 5's were being built. I lived in Woodland Hills and there were various contractors spread out around the valley. My father worked for North American Rockwell at Rocketdyne in Canoga Park. He was a leadman of a crew that built F-1 engines. The first stage engines that put out 31 million horsepower, or 1.5 million pounds of force each. There were five on the rocket. When there was a launch I was in rapt attention to the news broadcasts. Usually after the launch they would give us a Richter reading from New York City. The engines my dad built actually rattled, very minor, the whole east coast. You could not feel it, but the instruments would pick up a Richter reading of a 1 or so. At 10 years old, in 1967, I was at the factory and got to touch an F-1. All three stage engines, F-1, J-2 and H-1 were built in the same part of Canoga Park. My dad told me once that they built 65 engines that were never used and were in some storehouse. There were 13 more flights planned when we just stopped. In 1968 he got laid off and we moved to Florida. I was personally at the launch of Apollo 17, the last Moon mission. I was 11.

100k + subs! Rad! Good for you Amy.

I went to the Museum of Flight in Seattle. Thanks for showing it on your video.

One of the fun facts about the boosters moving from Mississippi to Florida was the issue of getting past Interstate 10. Part of the roadway was made of steel grid. They were removed by crane to allow the barge and booster to pass. The roadway was made solid not too many years ago since no more rocket barges are passing.

this is an amazing video. thank you!!

Hey Amy I just watched The Right Stuff (AMAZING movie btw) and they showed a montage of all the redstone and mercury crashes. Could you go into more details on crashes and failures and then ultimate learnings from failures? Also after watching you and Scott play KSP...I just kinda want to see more rocket explosions. For science.

When I lived in Lakewood Ca as a kid I can remember seeing the Guppies at Long Beach Airport and seeing them flying overhead, it was quite a site!

I remember the Super Guppy. One of the awesome things about growing up in San Diego in the '60s was the variety of unusual aircraft in the air. How many times did we look up and seem another plane we'd never seen before? Keep up the good work Amy!

I used to drive by the Super Guppy on a regular basis, in the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, AZ. It sure is ungainly, but is perhaps my favorite aircraft.

Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers!

LOVED THE VIDEO A LOT

Shuttles ships were recovered from landing point by attaching them on the back (top side) of a modified 747, solid boosters were recovered in the Atlantic Ocean by two tugs and towed to Cape Canaveral, and liquid tank was built from scratch and sent to Cape Canaveral by barge, the "grandsons" of the Guppy are still used today by Boeing to transport plane sections to building facilities ;-D

Came via Tom Scott. Thanks for many super interesting videos!

Amy - I love your enthusiasm about space. Could you do a piece on your favorite space museums in the USA. I loved the Stafford museum in Weatherford OK. Also the Cosmospere in Hutchinson KS. There I was able to stick my head into the Apollo 13 capsule after it first arrived before they put it behind plexiglass. A huge ego trip for me. Sometime I want to travel from museum to museum and see them all.

That explains something... in one of the other NASA documentaries, they talk about getting help from "surfer dudes" to learn how to get some sort of coating on the skin of the rockets. They used the same material for their surfboards. The guy being interviewed said they worked out great, unless the surf was up, and the dudes didn't show for work!

very informative as always

I wish that you would do a video on the Vehicle Assembly Building and perhaps a separate video on crawler-transporters. Thanks for all you do.

You reached 100.000 subscribers! yay!

I was once late for school due to an open bridge because a boeing 747 was sailing by. It was being transported to a museum, and although the museum was at an airfield, the landing strip wasn't big enough for a 747, so they disassembled it, moved it by barge, and reassembled at the museum. Unfortunately I was too young to remember anything from it.

Just got back from the KSC yesterday. Took the fam for the first time. Got to see the magnificent Saturn V and all of the new additions. I got to see the Shuttle Atlantis when they towed it over to the Visitor's Center prior to permanently mounting it in its new home. Great day, but the Saturn V was my main reason for going. ;)

Wow that is amazing! I never thought of how the rocket stages were moved around & from where in the USA they had to come from. Being in another country & at the time I was very young, it was assumed it was all assembled within some nearby rocket factory. Very interesting. keep the cool facts coming Amy :)

The Saturn 5= the most beautiful rocket ever! So awesome that it ev n made a cameo appearance on Star Trek!Congrats on 100k Amy! 👍

If I hadn't seen it on another video I wouldn't have recognized them for what they are, but in the photo at 1:37 the silver structures on the barge carrying the S-1C are the ends of the rocket nozzles mounted on frames. They would bolt onto the larger structure of the rocket nozzles themselves. I saw an engine on display in a video and it had one of these nearby. I had no ide what it was until the narrator of the video pointed it out. I love this channel.

Those things are just massive!

I am a 10 year old boy who uses my moms acount and my grandpa was a engneer on the lunar module and I love your videos

love your videos. You're really smart.

Hi, A wonderful video. I think it would be interesting to denote the evolution of the V2 to the Redstone to the the 1st stage of the Saturn 1B. As I recall, the Redstone was basically a refined V2 that used Kerosene rather than Alcohol as the fuel. And as I recall, the 1st stage of the Saturn 1B basically ganged together 8 Redstone engines with an elongated fuel tank. Very very cool! I like! Bret

I took a tour of the VAB in the 70's and they said that it was so big that it actually had it own weather. It would occasionally rain in the building. They had to make some design changes to solve this issue.

The Super Guppy was stored at the NASA training facility here in El Paso, TX for many years. I remember seeing it all the time as a kid and laughing at how funny it looked. Never knew it was part of the Apollo Program.

Amy, I'm interested to learn a bit about the fueling process for the Apollo Lunar Module. Specifically when and how the hypergolic fuels were loaded for the descent and ascent stages, and for the RCS. Were these able to be fueled and unloaded on the pad, were they fueled prior to stacking, and what contingencies were in place if a fueled rocket had to be returned to the VAB? It might make an interesting subject for a future video. Thanks.

Congrats on getting 100K subscribers!

Congrats in advance for 100K!!!! And I know space shuttle stuff isn't strictly vintage, but it's still interesting. Any plans to go over any of that?

I believe I've now seen all of the extant Saturn 5's on public display; at Kennedy in Florida, at Huntville, and in Houston. Rumor has it there's another S-1C outside somewhere in Louisiana, maybe? It's just sitting in a field or something, but rumor has it you can see it from the highway. I'm tempted to fly down sometime and fly over it and see if you can see it from the air. Anyway, such details might be interesting to your subscribers sometime. Keep up the good work!

One afternoon, ca 1972, I stepped out the front door of my high school to see a Super Guppy flying, south to north, probably headed for McDonnell Douglas at Lambert St. Louis Airport.

An I was there when the 1st first stage was unloaded for testing in Mississippi.

You should do a video on satellites because there's not much out there on them. How big are they? What type of orbits do they normally use (polar/equatorial etc) what types of rockets do they normally fly up on? What happens to old outdated sattelites? There's so much stuff to talk about lol! Keep the great vids coming!

Nice Adam Young Scores posters in the back!!

I read where one of the prototype Guppies suffered a forward bulkhead failure that was almost catastrophic. The only thing that saved it was the back door blowing off, which allowed the wind to blow through the fuselage. Otherwise, it would have shaken itself apart.

If you notice the photos there is a key difference between the Pregnant Guppy and the Super Guppy. In the PG the entire tail was *removed* to allow loading. It worked, but was very complex to remove and reconnect. The SG instead has the hinged nose - still a pain (all of the control cables need to be disconnected first, for example), but still simpler and easier. There is one Super Guppy still flying - and NASA operates it.

Amy! That t-shirt! My my! ;)

I have seen a Guppy at the Pima Air Museum in Tucson. Very cool place.

I had the opportunity to see the Super Guppy at the Andrews Airforce base 2015 air show, it's certainly a beautiful aircraft :)

I remember seeing the "Guppy" aircraft flying by while growing up in Southern California. They were obviously easy to identify since nothing else looked like them.

Love the hair. My wife Gypsy had me color hers blue with purple streaks.

Interesting. I have actually been to the Stensin Space center, they have a Saturn 5 lower stage booster on display, and needless to say, it was massive in size. I knew that the spacecraft were large, but you don't really grasp the full size of it until you see it in person.

Hey Amy, Love VS How about an episode regarding the cameras used on the moon ? The film as well as the TV cameras, What was the effective resolution and what were the usage and design challenges that had to be over come. Thanks keep up the good work.

love your videos

Love the Purple!! :D

awesome topic and video!!!!! made me think of two questions. 1. what does the inside of each stage contain or look like? maybe show a cross section and explanation in another video? 2. how did the saturn v, or any rocket or space shuttle, stand? did the 'arms' of the tower hold it up or did it actually stand somehow?

You, are one rocking historian!

One other thing about the Apollo program - pretty much every state contributed something to the project. For instance the seals on the spacecraft were engineered in Providence, RI.

A crazy pair of planes only a mother could love-- but hard workers! NICE Nyoka -- or is that Sheena?-- Jungle Queen T-shirt!

I haven't watched the video, but *Super Guppy*.

This was intreresting stuff i have never heard of.

Hi amy I love your showsI don't think that I have every messed on. but I do have a question. when testing any part of the satern rocket that could only be testing once cleaned and but back together and had to keep there fingers crossed because the engine was never able to be test unless you tested again becauses that the engine had volatilize fuels

Always loved the Super-Guppy

The S-IV and S-VIB weren't test fired in Alabama. The S-IVB was driven to Long Beach Airport or Los Alamitos Naval Air Station from Huntington Beach and flown out on the Guppies. I saw them flying in and out of Long Beach when I was growing up in the 1960s. They were flown up to the Douglas facility near Sacramento where the entire unit was test fired. After refurbishing the engines, the S-IVBs were flown to Florida.

Interesting and informative.