Steve Jurvetson’s Space Collection - Part 2: Apollo Fuel Cells, LM legs, MOCR Console and more!

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This is part 2 of our visit to Steve Jurvetson's amazing space collection. We explore more items from the Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts as well as modern day space exploration.
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@MarcelHuguenin 3 жыл бұрын

I have watched the whole episode with my jaw on the floor 🤪The Apollo era is a gift that keeps giving. Thanks Steve & Marc.

@EvertvanIngen 3 жыл бұрын

The ending of the video made me emotional... It's so pure; Human engineering at its ultimate finest.

@TechGorilla1987 3 жыл бұрын

BEN!! You're a lucky guy, Marc!

@sheep1ewe 3 жыл бұрын

Second time he show up here as well, i bet he will come back with a functional rocket if he decide to take those on...

@Ranger_Kevin 3 жыл бұрын

A couple of years later: Marc and his Friends have restored a complete Apollo Rocket and are flying to the moon :-) Can't wait for the videos on the new module.

@CuriousMarc 3 жыл бұрын

We are inflating the Saturn V in my garden as we speak! The seller on eBay said he took it from a functional setup, but did not have the equipment to test it.

@yatessmyrna 3 жыл бұрын

I want to see an onboard computer size comparison between the Apollo Mission and the latest ones. Can an IPhone really give you all the 0's and 's that you need to get to the moon?

@yatessmyrna 3 жыл бұрын

@@CuriousMarc Most of it is over my head, but I love your channel!

@Ranger_Kevin 3 жыл бұрын

@@yatessmyrna Since in the AGC restoration series they pretty much emulated a whole comand module on a macbook for testing that should be possible. But it is not only about the computational power, the architecture is also very different to a "normal" PC. Very Purpose-built for the individual functions, not for general computing like most modern devices. So it is not really fair to compair them.

@blahfasel2000 3 жыл бұрын

@@Ranger_Kevin The general architecture of the AGC actually isn't all that far away from modern microcontrollers from a programmer's perspective. It was also generic enough that it was reused for the fly-by-wire system of the F-8 and for controlling the Mystic-class deep-submergence rescue vehicle (submarine rescue vehicle).

@tomservo5007 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Steve Jurvetson and Marc for this glimpse into a collection I never knew existed

@JosiahGould 3 жыл бұрын

"It belongs in a museum! And it should be functional!" (Thanks so much Steve for sharing your collection.)

@gerbil. 3 жыл бұрын

when 2 of the best youtubers are in the same video, its gonna be good!

@Wombbatts 3 жыл бұрын

I have muscle memory for those wire harness ties, same as used for avionics in USAF. Using waxed lacing cord, actually a little ribbon...Make a loop in the tie, pass the loop behind the bundle, loop to the left, tails to the right. Poke your left index finger through the left loop, grabbing a loop of one of the tails on the right, hook the other tail and pull completely through the new second loop, cinch the tails and finish with a square knot. With practice, it takes less than a second not including the square knot.

@chutipascal 3 жыл бұрын

You should make a video so that knowledge will not be lost.

@Wombbatts 3 жыл бұрын

@@chutipascal in the meantime, MIL-T-43435A Size 2 Waxed Lacing Tape is the stuff. Video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qppoq5qC18qZYJc.html shows the technique with a half hitch finish, and how to do it off the spool which I omitted due to descriptive complexity. Instead of index and thumb in the loops it can be done with just an index finger.

@chutipascal 3 жыл бұрын

Jotted down in my notebook. Thank you @Wombbatts.

@BlackEpyon 3 жыл бұрын

This is nerd's paradise right here. I love the guy's excitement when you showed him that HIS twist-lights came out!

@TechGorilla1987 3 жыл бұрын

@15:02 - The 4:20 on the clock. Either it's a great sense of humor or perfect timing. Either way - approved.

@jurvetson 3 жыл бұрын

both. Everyday is halloween. :)

@jakelangevin301 3 жыл бұрын

15:08 is a good ole 420 clock. I love this man from his collection to his sandal vibe

@rpavlik1 3 жыл бұрын

Nice flex on the Twist Lite. Even citing the catalog number scheme 😁 Crazy that all this is in the hands of a private collector. "If you strike me down, I shall become far heavier than you can possibly imagine." That's all I could think when you described the weight of the computers vs the landing struts

@the_jcbone 3 жыл бұрын

10:44 Mike's scanner activates. Microfiche search for the documentation engages in his mind. The best kind of super nerd.

@the_jcbone 3 жыл бұрын

…and a second later, he pulls himself out of it again. :-D

@TroyRubert 3 жыл бұрын

Hanging out with legends and legendary equipment so jealous

@brettsalter3300 10 ай бұрын

Amazing episode. That fuel cell issue was incredible to hear. Thank you for posting.

@liquidsonly 3 жыл бұрын

I do my looms like that with waxed string. They can be found at the tank museum Bovington and at Duxford. No one will ever see them but it made me happy to make then in the original style.

@PeterScream 5 ай бұрын

this collection is insane - incredible

@MrHichammohsen1 3 жыл бұрын

This channel is the holly grail for space nerds!

@justcallmeavi3255 3 жыл бұрын

Just think, all that technology, made by hand, made by men and women who thought about it during café breaks, who wrote it down on napkins and then went to their departments and said "I came up with this during lunch", people who thought outside the box, "we don't have anything like that!" / "then we'll be the first!", also, definitely want to see more of the Globus Navigation units, Vostok version was almost entirely clockwork, OKB-1 built a version that was mounted to the wall and then compressed it down to a suitcase, incredible both NASA and USSR worked similar methods when developing new technology!

@filmclipuk 3 жыл бұрын

14:00 "Rapid, unscheduled disassembly on landing!" Great understatement ... I'll use that one and pass it off as my own 😉

@kaitlyn__L Жыл бұрын

Don’t worry, it’s not Marc’s either :) RUD is an ooold aerospace joke!

@no-one3795 3 жыл бұрын

I really like the globe. I wanna see that working as a gps

@CuriousMarc 3 жыл бұрын

That is one of my all time favorite items. It is an orbit and landing calculator. Works with gears!

@nikreichel2232 3 жыл бұрын

@@CuriousMarc I remember Dave from EEVblog making a video about a mechanic calculator from an aeroplane. It was full of gears and specially shaped metal rails for the - probably analog - encoders. It was maybe a similar item but larger and without display. And just found it :D kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nuB3lLJlsMreYo0.html

@sheep1ewe 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know if it is tecnically possible without doing to much intrusion to the construction, but it had been awsome to see some pictures of the mecanism.

@rkan2 3 жыл бұрын

A bit too coarse of a resolution to be fun as a gps... Make it show ISS trajectory instead? That's basically what it would've shown at some point if it is actual flying hardware.

@CuriousMarc 3 жыл бұрын

@Nik Reichel yes I saw that episode, incredible hardware. The astrotracker was an immensely more complicated beast though, and he is missing other main parts, like the optical star tracker itself and the inertial platform. It was an inertial platform navigation system augmented by a automated star/sun/moon sightings for eliminating position and orientation drifts. He has the amazing analog computer with motors and gears for that system.

@fasteddie4145 Жыл бұрын

I was a Titan Missile electronics tech from 1979-1983....I replaced a few MGCs and IMUs while I was there.....we tested them and replaced them but never looked inside one....

@timcurran7841 3 жыл бұрын

Curious Marc, the gift that keeps on giving! Thanks guys for keeping the spirit of Apollo alive and giving us an appreciation of the hardware. I especially like it when in the comments section someone writes I, or my father/mother or grandparents worked for that company or on that piece of hardware. Bringing these to life is truly a gift. Thanks again!

@PeterCCamilleri 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing! Astounding! Alleluia chorus was perfectly correct!

@campbellmorrison8540 3 жыл бұрын

rapid and unscheduled disassembly on landing! love it

@Tjousk 3 жыл бұрын

Even that console can't console me. Can't wait for the rest. And, Applied Science! Good to see Ben, I assume he's been busy.

@anderswahlgren9308 3 жыл бұрын

After a 15h workday i turned on my laptop hoping for something new from you Sir and here it is. Thank you.

@benbaselet2026 3 жыл бұрын

This really makes it clearer what marvelous things neede to be built for space missions. It's way more than a flamey chamber, fuel tank and a coke can on top.

@agenericaccount3935 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely wild. What a catch.

@hopelessnerd6677 Жыл бұрын

This is full frontal nerdity. Beautiful equipment.

@TechGorilla1987 3 жыл бұрын

@12:12 - "I was ignorant about that." What a wonderfully appropriate word choice. One is only ignorant until they learn. It's what drives me day to day.

@MLX1401 3 жыл бұрын

How cute is that the COMM seat headrest levers have knobs turned out of wood ':D Thanks for this completely crazy mini tour in the mega museum I really hope we'll get to see a fuel cell collab video with Ben!

@moki123g 3 жыл бұрын

I just love all of this content! It is so interesting seeing all of this cool old hardware, and even more fun when you bring it back to life all these years later. Thanks, keep up the great work!

@twotone3070 3 жыл бұрын

I've never been that interested in space or rockets and the like, but I enjoy your explanations, the enthusiasm and the teams knowledge. ........ and the desire to fix things.

@ifitsrusteditsmine Жыл бұрын

Certainly the best and most enjoyable nerd-galore channel in the interwebs. Marc, encore!!

@billd01rfc 3 жыл бұрын

I've seen pretty much all of this channel . . . this is simply brilliant . . . I worked with equipment that had those panels . . . the pull-twist switches blew my mind . . . completely forgot about them, but was constantly replacing bulbs . . . wow. Thnx Marc!

@stevehagen8694 2 жыл бұрын

simply amazing. thx

@ReneSchickbauer 3 жыл бұрын

I sense the future holds more FPGA magic from Mike, and Marc strapping some unique-one-of-a-kind historic space hardware to his CNC machine for some emergency diode surgery :-)

@montesumma4737 2 жыл бұрын

amazing space collection

@vibrolax 3 жыл бұрын

Can't wait to see your DIY LH & LOX plants to run the fuel cells.

@nixietubes 3 жыл бұрын

Nooo it ended too soon! Im so excited

@argoneum 3 жыл бұрын

Breathtaking

@iPatroni 3 жыл бұрын

What an incredible collection. I can't wait to see these historically important pieces working again.

@gregorymccoy6797 3 жыл бұрын

History.. toys.. tech.. toys.. and...toys! Love to spend a few hours there.

@beck3k 3 жыл бұрын

I am already drooling for the next episode!

@Wtfinc 3 жыл бұрын

So beautiful! We must transmit something using those microwave amps!

@macartm 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, you're so lucky to get to see that. What a collection :D

@waldsteiger 3 жыл бұрын

you get youselves a big motorhome install all the goodness and navigate to las vegas and back. ground station, telemetry, astronaut food, all the fun!

@trcostan 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to see that TWT transmitter work again!!!! It would be amazing to see the USB system using a modern spectrum analyzer or SDR!

@Thisandthat8908 Жыл бұрын

Skylab was in the funny position that once they had settled on the dry workshop and Saturn V solution, weight wasn't at a premium at all. They had a quite massive early video tape solution, an oven and other luxury. The price for that was a launch on the Ssturn V not a IB. Suddenly they had a huge margin, since a basically empty third stage only had to go to earth orbit. Impossible for a SIB, piece of cake for an SV. And that it worked, as the wet workshop idea was in hindsight completely insane. Possibly the only space mission that ever had that luxury of (relatively) unlimited weight budget. . The Skylab 1 rescue is also a criminally undertold story*, a challenge equal if not bigger than Apollo 13. A massive challenge in an extemely limited amount of time. Only no lives were in danger. *cool book Homesteading Sapce, The Skylab story. By some of the actual Skylab Crew.

@alanbranch851 3 жыл бұрын

Loved the episode Marc, can’t wait for the future ones 🙌

@davidwagner6116 3 жыл бұрын

I'm excited! Those are great treasures.

@CorentinHarbelot 3 жыл бұрын

Passionnant, merci de ce partage! Vivement la suite!!

@andymouse 3 жыл бұрын

Can't wait !....cheers.

@pglick123 3 жыл бұрын

No bye! You can't just go away like that! More, more, more!

@dirty364 Жыл бұрын

The content from this channel is amazing!! I love seeing how these old computers and equipment worked!! Really is mind blowing how they came up with this technology in the 60s and 70s and how it was able to communicate from space to earth. Mind blowing the talent from that era.

@alessandrabernardis8158 3 жыл бұрын

Omg! That's crazy! All of this is crazy! And now I can't wait for the next episode!!! 😱

@MichaelEhling 3 жыл бұрын

Such fun. Thank you for sharing this adventure.

@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365 3 жыл бұрын

Marc, we were just kidding when we said you could recreate an entire Apollo stack. But now you're making us eat our words!!!! :XD This is truly amazing stuff

@mitchellbarnow1709 3 жыл бұрын

What an incredible episode to watch! Thank you so much for sharing your great fortune with us.

@RufftaMan 3 жыл бұрын

What an amazing collection!

@jimsn9624 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice👍 I’m very excited for this!!

@avrahamhollander9296 3 жыл бұрын

15:36 My dude is running KDE Plasma!

@bluesillybeard 3 жыл бұрын

Linux FTW

@NinerFourWhiskey 3 жыл бұрын

Outstanding collection and episode. I really can't wait to see the inside of the transmitter and you guys fire up the fuel cells!

@TheBas1984 3 жыл бұрын

wow....just wow... to see apollo stuff is life changing, to handle it... incredible! Yeey for more resto's!

@mariodistefano2973 3 жыл бұрын

A fantastic way to learn electronics! Thanks Marc!

@Brian-L 3 жыл бұрын

That collection is so out of this world! Thanks for sharing these tidbits. 👍

@feicodeboer 3 жыл бұрын

That's quite some collection... good gracious.

@RobertFantinatto 3 жыл бұрын

Incredible...thank you for sharing!

@Joemama555 3 жыл бұрын

16:40 steve jurvetson flip floppers status report... nice!

@mymessylab 3 жыл бұрын

Wow… this is the third time that I’ve watched the video trying to remember all the amazing collection. Impatience to watch the future series. Love you guys

@lorandnagy3277 3 жыл бұрын

I'm really eager for part 3. Marvelous pieces of engineering.

@wirdy1 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, just wow.

@aaronr.9644 3 жыл бұрын

that's an amazing collection!

@user-hj5nr3wy5w 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant post, what an incredible technological era. I love the tease at the end, I am in perpetual suspense.

@markgreco1962 3 жыл бұрын

One word, WOW!

@greendryerlint 3 жыл бұрын

Just amazing. Would be great to see a virtual tour assembled where you can view all these artifacts from various angles, zoom in, etc. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

@w.p.958 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome chance to see rare space artifacts! Thank you!!!

@Miniatua 3 жыл бұрын

as far as I know, the consoles in Apollo 13 were custom made props for the movie, and subsequently reused for the tv show "From the earth to the moon". That console might have been used as a reference maybe, but I am positive you don't see real consoles in the film, at least not in the control room (they are not 100% accurate in the movie, even have a added desk light to them which is not original) I have done lots of research for my apollo console era miniature repro, I would be curious to know more if that console was indeed in the movie.

@nigozeroichi2501 Жыл бұрын

"Rapid unscheduled disassembly" have to remember that one😄

@csvscs 2 жыл бұрын

Love the content!

@michaelbeattie6953 3 жыл бұрын

Holy moly

@mikecarlson6416 3 жыл бұрын

I see tons of work done there, amazing how human did this

@acolisys 3 жыл бұрын

Curious Marc + Ben Krasnow ??? "...Huston, problems are gone !..." ^_^

@luthmhor 2 жыл бұрын

How many geniuses can you get in a room at one time 😆

@UOttawaScotty 2 жыл бұрын

This KZfaq channel is a gold mine !

@NewtonInDaHouseYo 3 жыл бұрын

just wow … very inspirational

@nicolek4076 3 жыл бұрын

Exciting music, too, at the end, but it was cut off too soon, just before the blood-chilling repetition of the previous phrase, but fortissimo.

@CuriousMarc 3 жыл бұрын

Good ear! Glad you enjoyed the Haendel masterpiece, my first draft had a copyright strike for using a better rendition which had never been flagged before. Indeed ran out of footage and took advantage of the pianissimo to exit early...

@jtveg 3 жыл бұрын

2:37 Wow! I've never seen this *_firing room_* at Cape Canaveral (Cape Kennedy). 🚀 Thanks so much for sharing. 😎👌🏼

@TeslaTales59 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent video! Yes, get the guy from Applied and make a fuel cell!

@MikeBramm 3 жыл бұрын

VERY cool stuff! Can you imagine what some of NASA's parts invoices looked like? I'll bet the GAO didn't even bat an eye at $100+ switches.

@rkan2 3 жыл бұрын

$100 switches in 60s... Close enough to a 1000$ today.

@andysim232 2 жыл бұрын

I want that exercise bike!

@edgeeffect Жыл бұрын

"As you can obviously tell from this simplified schematic..." always makes me laugh.

@StupidLilAdv 3 жыл бұрын

I'm going to need some more videos on the console you took the switch out of. please and thank you!

@kevinreardon2558 3 жыл бұрын

That looks like an office off of Sand Hill Road. Wow.

@indianajones91 3 жыл бұрын

7:40 Regarding the question about the THC, if you rotate it clockwise the control system switches from the primary guidance system to the backup, the Stabilization and Control System (SCS). So if the AGC isn't behaving during a burn or so you can quickly switch to the backup without having to flip switches. This was tested before each major burn.

@CuriousMarc 3 жыл бұрын

oh I didn’t know. Did the backup use the BMAGs then?

@indianajones91 3 жыл бұрын

@@CuriousMarc Yep, those are part of the SCS.

@benjaminhanke79 3 жыл бұрын

What's a BMAG? I remember it's mentioned in Apollo 13.

@CuriousMarc 3 жыл бұрын

@@benjaminhanke79 Body Mounted Attitude Gyro. These are rate gyros I believe. Part of the backup system for attitude control, if the AGC or main inertial platform were to fail. Or, as in Apollo 13, if you powered them down... Used in the abort system on the LM too.