Listening again - at 1:40 McCandless asks Buzz about his laser sighting on AOS after lunar ascent. Armstrong also saw it. I ran a simulation to show what the orientation of the Earth was when that was mentioned. The McDonald Observatory was very close to the limb, so that was not the source of the light. South America was very prominently placed in about the area Buzz mentions. It was about a "half Earth" and the only place where light could be seen emerging from land consistent with Buzz's report was western S. America, in the area around Colombia and Peru. Almost certainly this light was the Sun reflecting from a lake seen from very far away.. Relection from the ocean is always diffuse appearing because the ocean is always covered by waves - but you can watch video from ISS and reflection rom lakes is easily seen as a sudden brightening and then dimming. The lake in this case was almost certainly Lake Titicaca in s. Peru/w. Bolivia.

welcome back STS-1

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Hail Columbia I miss you

Wow when the rocket itself began to roar to life I would be more excited to feel all the shaking and all the people watching in excitement as a brand new rocket flies for the first time ever I miss all the rocket launch fun in Florida

Apollo was a very robust vehicle.

What an incredible series of videos! You've really done a great service here to preserve this mission in such an enjoyable manner.

The Saturn V was an engineering marvel, and awesome launch vehicle. Thanks for posting!!

Almost every time they make a call from the capcom terminal they forget to set a switch back (or something) after that, so the the capcom loop is totally missing sometimes for a long time. I remember way back someone told them to turn up/on the monitor feed or something after a call, but recently noone noticing it and noone reminds them.

Can you imagine being Alan Shepard, and the guy who they put in this thing before you was a monkey?

The fourth American astronaut went into space on May 24, 1962. Malcolm Scott Carpenter was his name.

Good, 🌷 thank,nasa,🎉

Coming up on 55 years China and Russia. You still haven't put a human being on the moon.

My mother was working for the NYS tax department at the time, and someone ran in to the office and said "Did you hear about the Space shuttle?" They were like: Oh, Did they finally go up?" The person said: "No! It exploded! All of the astronauts were killed!" My mom said you could hear a feather drop from the silence in the room.

I’m in need of your prayers and healing vibes. Please keep me in your thoughts as I work towards better health.

This is the STS 1 mission launch, not the STS 2 Launch, because The only launch with a white external tank was STS-1. ALL subsequent launches had a red/orange external tank

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Remarkable the team work to save the 3 Astronauts of Apollo 13. The thousands of people in Florida & Houston and the hundreds on the aircraft carrier and helicopters.

Well done

Why is the developer of the software for the moon landing capsule not mentioned? Because she is a woman? That was an essential part of the mission.

You can tell MC was worried about the foam hit because the flight director seems very fidgety and nervous even before anything happened. Normally they are very calm, cool, and collected, which is part of the job description.

I was on a plane getting ready to land in Miami, when the Capt. came on to tell us the Columbia was lost.

Jim Lovell's voice... steel. Gonads of neutronium, all folks involved.

It's too bad that he wasn't there on the morning of 23 November 1973, on site at Zuma Beach, when the return of Colonel George Taylor's capsule unexpectedly returned to earth after having launched at 00:00:01 EST from Cape Kennedy on 15 January 1972, after having been thought to have disintegrated in orbit about 678 days before. Troops from the Marine Corps AIR STATION at El Palomar, California, mustered to retrieve the capsule, were astonished to find not only that there were three living astronauts inside it, but that -- when they removed the helmets from their EVA spacesuits -- they were not the same men who had been seen entering the craft nearly two years before, but, rather, were three abnormally tall chimpanzees: two males and one female. James Burke was one of many reporters during the Space Age who had sought an interview with the Science Advisor to the President -- Dr. Otto Hasslein -- in the wake of that event, but only Bill Bonds, from EYEWITNESS NEWS in Los Angeles, was able to score an interview with him before his untimely passing at the McKinley & Sons Naval Shipyard, less than two weeks later . . .

sad to see the last lunch of a saturn 5 rocket

You can hear Walter Cronkite in the background

A death trap from the outset and a miracle only two crews were lost.

Idiots on tiktok are trying to say this is what was passed off as actual footage proving it was fake.

What a blast from the past. I loved his broadcasts and explanations as a 60s kid. Thanks for the reboot.

8:36 Neil says: "The Agena was very stable and at the present time we're having no noticeable oscillations at all." Well, for the present time.

It is now known that the below freezing temperatures caused shrinkage of the o rings between sections of the booster rockets. The shrinkage allowed fuel to escape and ignite. That caused the explosion.

neat 9:00 in we can see rhe the approach for the transposition and docking of the Command module and the Lunar Module

"Pilot reports a small amount of vibration." I always assumed that it would really shake during the launch, like experiencing really bad turbulence during a commercial flight.

They must have shared a room with CBS. You can hear Walter Cronkite excited comments in the background.

2:33 I wonder who had this idea and who the pilot was. Imagine having a billion dollar cargo.

Little story here. This was a great movie and going to the moon or any spaceflight is never routine but Ron Howard took many liberties with making this film. My Uncle worked in Huntsville for NASA from the Gemini through the early space shuttle days. He spent lots of time in Houston and Florida as well as Redstone. he said they left no stone unturned but you just didn't know how the vacumn of space, deviations in temperature, radiation and pressure would affect the hardware and materials. No mission was ever flawless. However, in this film they state that using the LEM as a "lifeboat" had never been simulated was not true. This had been practiced and there were procedures in place for this very occurrence. He also said the greatest fear was not having enough power to get home because they turned all power off but the biggest fear was the astronauts freezing to death due to shutting down the power for so long. Also, when the words Houston we have a problem that Lovell said came out that is actually Jack Swigert and he said Houston, we've had a problem. The fear of damage to the heat shield was authentic though. In the movie the 2 minutes passed and went another few minutes with radio blackout. That didn't happen. The crew came out of radio blackout pretty much when they were supposed to and NASA was monitoring the re-entry so close they saw no indication from the data that there would be any problem with chute deployment. NASA was also monitoring the crews vital signs and other than raised blood pressure saw no indication that the crew was anything but fine. Once the drobes were deployed they knew the main chutes would be fine because if the drobes were destroyed the main chutes would be also. The carbon dioxide filter problem had also been simulated before Apollo 8 so there were procedures in place for that already as well. All in all a great movie but not totally accurate.

1:18:14 Roger, understand. We're number one on the runway

I love it when Deke phones his Accountant to get an extension on his tax return!!

Have you ever thought of doing videos about the Cassini spacecraft?

Wow, I thought I'd seen every single LM5 posted video. Then, I find this one that was posted five years ago! I've enjoyed the work of James Burke for many years.

It was Reagan's idea to put a teacher into space. And Reagan was wanting the launch to occur that day so that he could mention it in his speech that night.

The parachute was a paramedic parachuting from an airplane.

The below freezing temperature that morning caused the rubber o rings to shrink and fuel to escape, causing the disaster. The engineers warned NASA not to launch in the below freezing temperature, but NASA ignored them.

Such a nice video as a person that does podcasts with space people and astronauts! I bet going back to the moon is gonna be great! Also do you still have the discord server? I saw it on the Sts’s videos descriptions!

How do you decide on the final cut for a video like this?