NASA Apollo Space Program: Communications (Computers; Telemetry, Skylab) 1973

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NASA Apollo Space Program: Communications (Computers; Telemetry, Skylab) 1973

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Computer History Archives Project ("CHAP")

3 жыл бұрын

NASA Apollo Space Program 1973. Vintage film by Philco-Ford, designers of the Mission Control Rooms at Houston's Johnson Space Center, control center of manned space flight missions for NASA. Includes Apollo 17 liftoff, interviews with Philco engineers, and behind the scenes video of Mission Control, and rescue of the damaged SKYLAB ONE space craft, making it useful again. Excellent quality images. Color, 22 minutes. Original Unedited film, titled "A Giant Step in Communication." (Historical, Educational) Philco-Ford was NASA's prime contractor on designing and implementing the Mission Control Center operational display, tracking and communications systems. Philco produced transistors, satellites, communication systems, computers, radar, radio, television and many other products.
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@chidon7465 3 жыл бұрын

Too bad this video wasn't 16 hours long, I would watch it all :)

@AaronGilliland 3 жыл бұрын

this this this

@George_uh_Glass 11 ай бұрын

Same

@brianarbenz7206 3 жыл бұрын

In 1973, I was one of 0.000001 percent of the population who loved this. I'm glad space is popular again. But where was everybody back when space geeks like myself were so solitary?

@rsprockets7846 3 жыл бұрын

Waiting for bucks to fund the explorations. With private sector money now space is a go go medium today

@Bialy_1 3 жыл бұрын

Waiting for computers to be over million times faster and be able to do all the necessary calculations in real time... and for Chinese Lunar Exploration Program as that was the spark that reignited American need to be on the Moon first...

@Bialy_1 3 жыл бұрын

@@rsprockets7846 He is not talking about sending artificial satelites into space as humans was sending on avg. 2 satelites into space every week for a very loooooong time... and manned space program in the same time was simply pathetic(and paid by tax payers not by private sector->and it is like that to this day->only few billionaires were able to play astronauts and if i remember it corectly most of them did that via state owned Russian space agency...).

@robertborchert932 2 жыл бұрын

Me too. I watched it all as a lad. I watched it from the phosphor screen when it happened. My father retired a few years ago. He stood with my brothers and me, watching the launches from Vandenberg.

@bodgertime 2 жыл бұрын

With the other space cadets drinking Tang

@DrTWG 3 ай бұрын

This is a really great archive and fantastic channel . It's difficult to comprehend the incredible intellectual magnitude behind Apollo/Skylab/ASTP and the brilliant hardware that was produced . Had to chuckle at Ed Gibson - not exactly a natural in front of the camera !

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject 3 ай бұрын

Hi @DrTWG, thank you for the great feedback! Glad you found our channel. Hope you will explore some of the other technical history videos as well. Thanks! ~ Victor, CHAP

@markarca6360 2 жыл бұрын

5:40 - The monitoring system for the astronauts' vital signs was developed by a company called Spacelabs.

@basfinnis 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff. Thanks 😗

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject 2 жыл бұрын

Basil, thank you for the kind words. ~ Victor

@ronaldbose9645 8 ай бұрын

I never got blase' about the space program. From Mercury to Apollo.

@am74343 5 ай бұрын

You know it's gonna be a good film when there's ominous flute music, kettledrums, and the narrator pronounces the word "new" as: "nYEWww". Lol!

@johnathanstevens8436 10 ай бұрын

I was wondering whatever happened to skylab. It surprised me to learn that we had a station predating the ISS. You hear a lot about shuttles but they never talk about this.

@RetroJack 3 ай бұрын

After three crewed missions lasting a total of 24 weeks, Skylab was abandoned in 1974. Due to delays in the Space Shuttle program, Skylab's orbit deteriorated faster than expected. In 1979, engineers attempted to control its re-entry with limited success, resulting in debris scattering across the Indian Ocean and parts of Western Australia. Thankfully, there were no injuries.

@bodgertime 2 жыл бұрын

8:30 Bob telemetry, meerschaum ( German for sea foam ) pipe 10:52

@jatigre1 3 жыл бұрын

When you think about it, all that is what we've got today, so things only got more complicated, yet nobody is the least bit scared or overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information. Maybe we got used to it, maybe digital is less scary than analog, fiber optics make more sense than EMF, who knows? Makes you wonder why Philco didn't become an Apple

@theotherwalt 2 жыл бұрын

That background music!

@PeterBacon Жыл бұрын

As well as this one

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject Жыл бұрын

Peter, ok. Thanks!

@stringercorrales6627 3 жыл бұрын

They coined the terms “stream” and “torrent” back then?

@rsprockets7846 3 жыл бұрын

Needs more buttons switches and blinky things to dustract

@Bruce-vq7ni 3 жыл бұрын

Whats "Dustract"?

@rsprockets7846 3 жыл бұрын

@@Bruce-vq7ni distract

@adilsondonato9716 3 жыл бұрын

Adilson 🙏🙏

@rsprockets7846 3 жыл бұрын

Mullet hairdos on guys

@retrobilly1986 Жыл бұрын

Must have told all the women engineers to stay home the day they filmed this.

@kurtfrancis4621 9 ай бұрын

There has NEVER been many women engineers. Got my degree in the late 80s, and we had Iess than 5% of the class left at the end of 5 years that were women. They were just as capable as the guys, but the long term interest isn't there for most women.

@am74343 5 ай бұрын

Back in those days, women were supposed to stay home, wear aprons and pearls, and make the children peanut butter 'n' jelly sandwiches for lunch. Not many women were thought of as "smart enough" to be engineers. Back then, we were also told that: "By the year 2000, the average citizen will be able to take vacations on the moon, and enjoy sightseeing tours of the solar system..." And we know how THAT has turned out...

@mmaranta785 3 жыл бұрын

What was filming at 6:47?

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject 3 жыл бұрын

That looks like an animated film segment showing what the Lunar landing module might look like during its moon landing. ~

@mmaranta785 3 жыл бұрын

@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject uh huh…

@dwightsteven-boniecki9600 2 жыл бұрын

@@mmaranta785 to answer your question, a 16mm stop motion camera was filming. This material is part of the pre/post-flight newspool reference films produced specifically to depict scenes that could not be achieved otherwise. Nowhere did NASA ever claim these films were mission films.

@msain427 2 жыл бұрын

What a joke... Hey how did you heat and cool the moon lander😂😂

@dwightsteven-boniecki9600 2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't a better question would be how they insulated it?

@ChatGPT1111 2 жыл бұрын

Did you bother to research it? The Apollo program is the single most documented program in history, with hundreds of millions of pages of research, contributions from universities all over North America and billions invested to create this type of new technologies. Each of the 10 NASA centers is larger than most military bases and contains scores of facilities with billions in lab equipment and thousands of engineers and scientists to overcome such challenges. Don't expect to master it between a few months of microwavable hot pockets.

@uploadJ 2 жыл бұрын

re: "Hey how did you heat and cool the moon lander" BETTER QUESTION: How does the earth cool? Answer one, you have the other ...

@drstrangelove09 2 жыл бұрын

Did you go out of your way to find a woman to put in the thumbnail?

@stringercorrales6627 3 жыл бұрын

Is it true NASA’s excuse for not returning to the moon is that they lost the knowledge of the ancients?

@brianarbenz7206 3 жыл бұрын

No, they lost the funding of the moderns.

@Bialy_1 3 жыл бұрын

Hard to tell as the excuses are constantly changing... ;)

@dwightsteven-boniecki9600 2 жыл бұрын

@@Bialy_1 they are? Funding was always the prime reason.

@ChatGPT1111 2 жыл бұрын

If America lost interest after Apollo 12 (2nd landing), why would they support returning to the moon? It took the cycling of the generations, new competition from the Chinese, and innovators like Elon Musk to rekindle the spark.