+Joachim Voldseth Wonder if any micro meteors have punched holes in it yet.

Woody615 I’d think so.

@@Woody615 it should look like a colander.

A filthy contaminated piece of junk floating in space. A comforting though for any a weary space traveler

they test landed?

+James Bolton-Higgins How did they not tell you what happened to it!? Well, glad I can help! The corresponding blog post just went live and there's a link at the bottom to a NASA site that lists the impact sites if you want all the details!

+Amy Shira Teitel (Vintage Space) I've always just assumed I couldn't articulate the question clearly enough. I was a very shy kid. Most likely I was too star struck and nervous to get him to hear what I was actually asking. I've entertained the possibility that he was just punting, too. It's possible that there was a wee bit of frustration for the precocious space fan who already knew everything he talked about. Maybe a bit of, tell me something I didn't already know. So who knows? Such a long time ago. I think part of the reason I love Vintage Space is that it lets me feel like I'm a kid again. Thanks so much for everything you do!

+James Bolton-Higgins Cheers! Thanks for such kind words!

+James Bolton-Higgins DURN PARENTS!!! «grin»

Is it possible that in '67 or '68 they still hadn't finalised the plans for the ascent stage? Things were moving pretty quickly at that point.

The cone is called a capsule :D

Well the Saturn V even to this day is the biggest rocket ever

@@TravTrevTV or command module :))

+Deandre Edwards Thanks so much; so glad you enjoyed it!

+Amy Shira Teitel (Vintage Space) I did! You should make a video on why some cryogenic tanks were orange! Thanks again!

+Deandre Edwards Orange is the color of the heat insulator that is used on cryogenic tanks. Heat isolators are required for liquid hydrogen tank attachments to preclude the liquefaction of air on exposed metal, and to reduce heat flow into the liquid hydrogen..

+Damminh Khoi Okay wow. Thx! Ive always wondered that.

Damminh Khoi why orange? I understand the need for the insulation, is it just the natural coloration of the compound used to make it, or is it colored orange for a specific reason? I know that the early sts flights had the et painted white to reduce thermal load on the et itself. the hot Florida sun heats up the cryo fuels making it boil off and gas out more. they determined that white paint in that quantity reduced payload in the orbiter.

Interesting? It's all a Fantastic Lie!

@@hotheadedjoelhaha What meds are you on 🤣

To be fair, the Apollo 10 ascent stage IS still up there circling forever lol

I think they Hollywood imagined something like that in a TV series from the late 70's called SALVAGE -1 starring Andy Griffith

@@chadcastagana9181 Interestg salvage-1 ? never heard of it, how many episodes? My first moon show was Space-1999, & if you have one of the origonal merch. toy shuttles, well.. they're not cheap.

+William Jakespeare Due to lunar mascons, it is extremely difficult to achieve stable low orbit around the moon. Without a way to autonomously maintain their obit, any ascent stage left in low lunar orbit would mostly likely eventually deorbit anyway. At least this way NASA could use the ascent stage to perform a useful experiment with the discarded spacecraft.

+Uejji Yeah I figured it was something like that and the primary mission superseding an idea like "hey why don't we make it more complex for a secondary mission?"

+Uejji Mascons?

CaribSurfKing1 Sorry. Mascon is short for "mass concentration." Because gravity is a function of mass and distance, pockets of higher density matter in a body have more mass and thus higher gravitational pull than other matter around them. This tends to create a "lumpy" gravitational field that can interfere with the orbits of satellites.

+Uejji Oh, I always thought it was because much of the Moon's mass was concentrated on one side, due to the pull of Earth's gravity on the tidally locked "face" side of the Moon.

Hey! I mentioned it, too! :-)

Sweet! Great minds man!

+James A +MrWATM This is a very common question so I'm glad more than one person is happy to have an answer!

+Amy Shira Teitel (Vintage Space) personally, I wanted to know what happened to Snoopy. when I met Gene Cernan in Afghanistan he mentioned it and I have always wondered being the space nerd that I am.

+Bruce Feingold I looked into this a few years ago and at that time, only the Apollo 14 ascent stage impact had been identified by the LRO but it was originally imaged from lunar orbit by one of the last Apollo missions so was easier to follow up on. Here's a quote from a forum about it: "As a follow-up, the locations of imapct sites for the LM ascent stages from Apollos XII, XIV, XV, XVI and XVII are known. They are illustrated in Philip J. Stooke's The International Atlas of Lunar Exploration. To my knowledge only the Apollo XIV LM ascent stage impact site crater has been identified. The Apollo XVII LM ascent stage was intentionally impacted on South Massif, about 10 km from its original landing site. I am certain that all LM ascent stage impact are visible on Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter imagery, it is just that no one has sat down and identified them yet." As mentioned. The book has photos of the locations of the impacts but the actual craters haven't been identified. I actually took the time to download some of the LRO images hoping to try and find the Apollo 12 ascent stage. A bit of a challenging task to say the least. A much smaller impact site then the S-IVB's for one thing. Of course there's also the fact that there's been about 40 years of natural impacts that might obscure anything recognizable.

It Never happened. The entire mission was a Lie.

Yeah something on Margaret Hamilton would be cool.

+Trooper Z Exactly! Excellent choice!

+Trooper Z Wasn't she the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz?

+Garland English Same name but diff person. =]

+Rave Yoda I was just joking.

I am mostly curious about the command module and the service module

+Josh Sandum Her Saturn V model in the background has incorrect markings on it, but most model companies sell model Saturn Vs with these same wrong markings. Not sure why.

Yes they did. They were sensor probes to tell the astronauts when they were close enough to the lunar surface to shut down the descent engine and drop the last few feet onto the ground. When the probes touched the ground a blue light in the cockpit labeled "Lunar Contact" would come on, which meant the foot pads were only about 5 feet off the surface. Originally there was a probe on all four foot pads but there were concerns that the probe on the front leg where the ladder was could puncture the astronaut's spacesuits. As such the probe was removed from the front leg, leaving only the other three.

It is believed to have remained intact. Ships were sent to study the area where it entered the ocean; no increase in radiation or other signs of plutonium leakage were ever found.

+ZemplinTemplar Considering that the science experiments were a bit of an afterthought, it is impressive how they tried to wring out as much scientific information from the program as possible. I only found out a few years ago that Apollo 16 brought a UV telescope with them and set it up in the LM's shadow.

The mobile launcher carried the Saturn V along with the attached launch umbilical tower as a large assembly. Once the whole assembly arrived at the launch pad four large jacks on the corners of the pad would pick up the mobile launcher, the rocket and the tower and lift everything up off the crawler. Then the crawler was driven out from under the mobile launcher to a parking spot about two miles away where it sat during the launch.

No O2...and mostly likely vacuum and STERILE due to FREEZE and HEAT cycles.

Nevertheless, life is hardy. Let us be on our guard against invasion by the poo people!

They never vented the ascent module, there is likely air inside

BarryDennen12 Smells do not travel in space. It would all be flash frozen. Whomever finds it may someday stidy it to find out what kind of diet we had. We do it now with Romans' poo.

Mr Hanky is alive and well and circling the Sun.