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A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. And rats make me crazy.

Was I the only one that thought, because of the thumbnail, that Simon was gonna tell us about a rubber room ON the shuttle just in case of people going insane while in space?

0:35 - Chapter 1 - The "rubber room" escape bunkers 3:00 - Mid roll ads 4:25 - Chapter 2 - Apollo 12 becomes a lightning rod 7:40 - Chapter 3 - Apollo 11 missing tapes 9:45 - Chapter 4 - The apollo program pioneered modern computer engineering 12:00 - Chapter 5 - The snoopy cap hot mic

The last piece of footage you used is pretty awesome too. The vertical pan was controlled manually from the ground. The operator had to send the pan command before the ascent module engine fired, as he had to account for the several second time delay. He also had to guess the rate of the pan as well because it would be double the time before he saw anything and was able to correct it, but by then the shot was basically complete. As we can all see, itvall came together and worked out perfectly!

Apollo 11’s landing spot on the Moon was called “Tranquility Base.” But Apollo 12 commander Pete Conrad was somewhat more prosaic and named where he and Alan Bean landed “Pete’s Parking Lot.” The NASA robotic lunar lander Surveyor 3 (which was sent to the Moon in 1967) was just a few dozen meters away from where Conrad and Bean set down, so the name seemed like a good idea at the time. Maybe not quite as historic as where Armstrong and Aldrin landed, but a name you couldn’t forget.

the hot mic's have got to be one of my favorite parts of the missions, beside the technological marvels themselves. it really humanizes the men that went up there in a way that a speech or textbook just cant. like sure, i know they were people like you and me, but you never really acknowledge that mentally until you hear one of the most badass men ever say "ive got the farts again"

A nice tidbit about Apollo 12 is the prank by the backup crew. They left a couple of playboy pictures and doodles in the primary crew's lunar cuff checklist. They didn't realize it until they were on the moon's surface. Best prank ever.

Fascinating video. My dad worked in the Air Force on the fringe of the astronaut training program at Edwards Air Force Base in SoCal from 1969 to 1973. As a 6-7 year old, I met a couple of the astronauts, Alan Bean being one of them. I love this stuff, thank you!

My job during the Apollo 4 (Saturn V 501) launch was to man the launch computer in the mobile launcher. As such I received escape training which involved sliding down the escape tube to the "rubber room". I only got to do it once but it was a memorable ride. The tube is lined with teflon and it was quite fast, hence the need for the rubber lined landing area. It was only the landing area that was rubber lined, not the whole room. BTW no rats.🙂🙂

I was crazy once They locked me in a room A rubber room A rubber room with rats And the rats made me crazy

Judith Love Cohen was an Engineer that worked on the Abort-Guidance System of Apollo 13 and is credited in helping to save them. She was in labor with Actor Jack Black while working on the the problems and schematics of Apollo 13. She called her boss to let him know that she had fixed the problem and come pick everything up. She then delivered Jack Black.

I'm this old: I watched moon launches on a TV in my elementary school classes.

A rubber room? That's crazy.

"Beautiful view, magnificent desolation." Best quote, hands down

The transcriptions of the banter from Apollo 10 are absolute Mad Lad compared to the serious nature of Apollo 11. Some highly amusing content in there. If you're a space nerd and have no life.

175mph winds?🤔Were they taking off during a Cat 5 hurricane?😳

4:24 had the amazing fortune to have Alan Bean at my house for dinner when I was a little kid. He gave my brother and I freeze dried ice cream, mission patches and signed Apollo screen prints. I was too young to understand how cool it was to shake the hand of a man who had been to the moon.

You forgot that John Young also said that he hadn't that much citrus fruit in years and "in another 12 fucking days I ain't eating no more." NASA ground teams quickly told him he had a hot mic... He asked "How long have we had that?" John Watts Young was probably the greatest unsung hero astronaut from that generation!

I really appreciate the fact you say the units in both archaic medieval Imperial but also in neat modern Metric. Thank you.

I'd love to see similar coverage of the Gemini program, which was extremely important to the success of Apollo, yet is often overlooked when history of manned spaceflight is discussed. Another interesting fact about Apollo 17: Eugene Cernan almost lost his life before the beginning of the Apollo project. He nearly died during his flight on Gemini 9 during an EVA (spacewalk). While outside his capsule, he overexerted himself while trying to find something to hang onto while floating by his tether, and almost couldn't get himself back inside. The situation was dire enough that Mission Control was-at one point-discussing how to get his body back to Earth if he didn't survive his spacewalk . Fortunately, Cernan managed to get back inside the Gemini capsule and close the door. By the time he returned to earth, he dumped standing water (from profuse sweating and condensation inside his suit) from both of his boots, and was found to have lost 20lbs of body weight during the flight. Fitting that he was the last Apollo astronaut on the moon. He definitely earned his spot in the history books.

It's worth pointing out that at the time Apollo 12 was hit by lightning, the actual device that was controlling the vehicle was the Saturn V rocket's instrument unit, about 80 feet below the Apollo CSM. The lightning didn't bother it at all and it was happy as a clam. The CSM was, at this point, practically along for the ride, and while it could have taken control of the rocket if something went wrong, it didn't need to, and in this case, they merely had to "reboot" the whole CSM while the rest of the vehicle was doing its job normally.

John Aaron is my nerd hero. "SCE to Aux" is my go-to phrase when everything is going to hell 😂

Perhaps one day, Simon will make a video on humanity's first moon colony?

I was crazy once, Ryan George just, put me in a room for a while, and then I did a backflip and broke the bad guys neck.

Curious mark has been restoring the communications systems used on the apolo missions ( spares and backups) for a while now good watch but pretty technical

I thought that the Apollo missions were and still are America's greatest achievement. Well done all those involved in it. Remarkable.

IMO thew best snoopy cap moment is Alan Shepard's "Dear God, dont let me f*** this up"

Thanks for this video I knew about the escape systems and everyone was fortunate the never needed to be used.

New game, any time you see Simon's face but don't recognize the channel name, take a shot.

I wanted to extend my gratitude for your inclusion of the Customary system in this video. Being a US resident, Metric units remain a rather academic unit of measure, and as such videos using only Metric measurements tend to be less tangible for me than those featuring their Customary conversions.

The Apollo 12 crew don’t have to figure anything out. Al Bean knew what SCE to AUX meant and flipped the switch. Cmon guys. This is well known.

My father was Air Force Air Police attached to the Defense Atomic Support Agency and worked in the Special Weapons Project and was stationed at multiple top secret bases and once certain information was declassified he told us about all kinds of different under ground facilities.

I need you to watch SmarterEveryDay about that "core rope memory". that was literally copper sewn by hand into functional computer parts.

I always taught a rubber room was use to put mad lads so they could bounce off the walls and not do themselves any harm

Is anyone else concerned how four of the 'verb' commands in the Apollo computer used the word "please"? It's like we were trying not to annoy our future computer overlords :/

When I heard rubber room at the Kennedy center, I imagined something different

Bean's a steely eyed missile man

I need to find or make a 'Try SCE to AUX' T-shirt.

After the noble final message from the moon Cernan's last words before lift-off were cropped out of the released transmission by NASA. mostly because they were "Let's get this mother outta here!"

Space gimp room!? I won't judge 😉🤘

What some don't appreciate, there were several early-design computers on board. The instrument ring of saturn V had it's own launch vehicle computer that controlled a lot of the saturn v and flight path. The LM both had a guidance computer and a separate abort guidance computer to be used in case they had to abort a landing. Think there were more, but they all had read-only programs in the rope-core memory.

No views! 5 seconds, fastest I've ever seen a video appear.

12:56 It’s silliness like that that makes Pete Conrad my favorite astronaut!😂

I remember how James Burke presented this place as part of the Moon landing coverage.

A rubber room? A rubber room with… with rats?

Thanks for the video! Could we get the actual recording for these quotes vs them in a slightly different voice? I think it would add to it.

Those tapes probably are in the same file system my company uses. My favorite file is stuff that smells like oranges. Or the one that's named stuff we did on Tuesday.

I love learning about space.

Yeah Alan Bean, its cool to share a name with the third guy on the moon mission who no one remembers ha

It's difficult to believe that NASA lost any of he moon landing tapes.

This "rubber room" was featured in an episode of 6 Million Dollar Man television series in the 1970's

I would love to know how sea based oil rigs are set up out at sea and how they are moved

Dude what? Your windspeed 5:15 is WAYYY off on the 14 Nov, 1969 launch. How did you not notice that? You said the wind speed was 175 MPH?!? You also added this text to the screen AND provided a conversion to KPH. How did you not realize this obvious error lol? It looks like you read the wind measurement (28010kts) as speed instead of as showing direction. The wind was blowing from 280 DEGREES (from the West) at like 10 knots with gusts of 19 knots. Further, you took the 280 number and assumed it was KPH, but really wind speeds for aviation are measured in knots.

That rubber room is what Simon's basement looks like.

"lost it" lmaoooooo very convenient,eure thing we believe you

Simon is such a genius to know all these things. How did you get so smart, Simon?

One of your best vids.

damn i’m sad you didn’t mention my favourite apollo transcript moment - on apollo 10, a couple of turds (yeah, literal poop) escaped containment and started floating around the cabin. the audio is even on youtube now!

Actually since the Apollo computers we're only programmed to do one thing even though it was difficult they had plenty of computer power. An old flip phone has plenty of computing power for what it was meant to do and that was make phone calls.The only reason we have so much more computer power today besides the quantum leap and computer technology is because our computerized things today are expected to do a whole lot more than one thing.

It's hilarious how Simon says, Taco.

I always thought of Gene Cernan as a bit of a killjoy in his response to the song. Harrison sang, "we were strolling through the park one day, in the merry merry month of...December." Gene stopped him and said, "no, May." Dude, he was joking, you know, because it was December? I know he wasn't the most serious astronaut or anything but that remark was a bit condescending 😆

Did you know there used to be forests on the moon? US ambassador Middendorf gave a piece of petrified wood to prime minister Drees of the Netherlands. That piece of petrified wood was brought back from the moon by Aldrin & co. and is now in the Rijksmuseum.🤓

But my question is, with an explosion that large, would the elevator on the launch pad still work?

Forget Vsauce, now we've got Vranch

I am feeling like I need to be in a rubber room .

People would not be stupid enough to lose those original highest quality tapes of the first lunar walk. They would be smart enough to say they were lost to discourage anyone from trying to steal them!

You'd think they'd have put those tapes in the vault with the rocks...

11:10 my half-asleep brain finished this line with ‘of an unladen African swallow’. 😂

I asked for a pair of Sheath underwear for Christmas then I was told the price and it looks like I'll have to treat myself to a pair of Sheath. LOL

NASA: “eh. The moon landing tapes are here somewhere”

Young also smuggled a corn sandwich during Gemini 3 mission. He was quite a misfit. As an introvert, I totally identify with Aldrin's quote.

Prove you are wearing the sheaths.

SVTSim is really fascinating to me as a computer nerd. I've never worked a computer less than a byte at a time.

But Simon- tHe MoOn LaNdiNg wAs FaKed!🥴

Its insane to think how much effort went into building that room just to be like ......ehhhh it looked better on paper lol. That was probably someones entire job description for 5+ years... All to be filled with water lol

Didn't say nothing about old computers also needed hundreds of feet of wires.

When you get put into a rubber room then somebody turns of the lights and starts whipping you back and forth until you throw up🤪

Seen the name and knew exactly what the first comment was gonna be. Crazy!

I thought you were going to break into another sordid tail pertaining to the refurbished basement of Chris D’elia! Stay golden my friend…

I've heard of the Upper Room

I would love to see someone like Musk or Gates build a new lander and CM using the same "footprint" but with today's tech inside and see what the weight and controls are like.

Ah, the importance of knowing where you put things. Well the BBC doesn’t have to worry about that. It was decided at the time, that nobody in the future would be interested by the moon landing or seeing humans on the nearest celestial object. So while the BBC chose to televise it live, they chose not to record any of it. So if the BBC now even shows snipits of the whole thing. They have to pay a temporary broadcast licence, to broadcast corps that had sense and a degree of, “Oo. That’ll be interesting!”

FYI having a text quote in the final moment of the video when you decide to also put an end card up is terrible editing.

Crazy? I was crazy once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. The rats made me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once…

Simon mentioning VLC made me feel old cause he's too young to really have needed it lol😅

Crazy I was crazy once,they locked me in a room,a rubber room, a rubber room with rats and the rats they make me crazy

You do know that Apollo 11 actually went to the dark side of the moon? Remember sentinel prime?

I was crazy once crazy in a room a rubber room with rats

Things I didn’t know about Apollo program: stanley kubrick

Ok wait dual pouch what ??? You need to make a video explaining this contraption. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

It's interesting that the Apollo astronauts all had British accents. hahaha

Science what simon😂😂😂😂did ye mouth go all schloppy..science schliction😂😂😂😂😂at start 😂😂😂😂

11:31 Margaret Hamilton! I thought she died in the Wizard of Oz? Well, I guess as witches go, maybe she was able to return to work for N.A.S.A..

Crazy? I Was Crazy Once. They Locked Me In A Room. A Rubber Room. A Rubber Room With Rats. And Rats Make Me Crazy.

Just to clear up the sce to aux Alan bean knew what it was he was the one who hit the switches Pete Conrad didn’t know what it was but bean knew exactly what to do

Crazy? I was crazy once.

So the rubber room cant cope with temperatures above melting point of steel? Hmmmm..... when the first Saturn V thundered off the launch pad its was producing as much energy as the entire US electric power grid was at that exact moment in time. Call me timid, but I think I might have wanted a bit more protection. 😬

Cool 😎 👍

Odd how rapidly he speaks. I slowed it to .75 to comprehend.