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I love Tom Hanks' line in Apollo 13: "It's not a miracle, we just decided to go" Also the line in The Martian book: "What would an Apollo astronaut do? He'd drink a couple of whisky sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad, and fly to the moon in a capsule the size of my toilet. Man those guys were cool!!!"
My mother made a set of living room curtains lined with gold coated mylar from scraps of LEM Insulation. There were left over pieces from cutting and fitting gold anodized mylar sheets.
Although delivered at a blazing vocal pace, this long-form video was well worth the time. I was but eight years old when I watched with keen interest the first steps on the moon. It left me yearning to become an airplane pilot. My plans were dashed by 1973. My vision failed me and required corrective lenses. Simon and crew filled in all the missing holes in my recollection of the Apollo missions.
Set the playback speed to 0.75x. That works for me and is less exhausting to listen to the narration. Anyone interested in the subject shouldn't mind the extra time.
I like how people think that the first moon landing is fake yet nobody seems question yuri gagarin went to space despite the Soviets never presenting any evidence to support it
They always fail to take into account that it happened during the Cold War, and the Soviet Union had tracking equipment. IF the Soviets had discovered ANYTHING at all that put any doubt into the American claims, they'd have been all over it! The sheer number of people who were involved and would have had to be kept quiet about a fake just wouldn't be possible, especially for this length of time. I honestly believe that faking it would have been more of a challenge than a genuine manned moon landing.
The Soviets themselves confirmed, using their own radio telescopes, that Apollo 11 reached and landed on the moon. That on its own should remove any doubt.
I read Jim Irwin’s book, To Rule The Night, and he mentions that his best friend asked him to bring his wedding ring with him. Jim said no problem. After they finished the mission on the moon and rendezvoused with the CM, both he and Dave Scott somehow lost track of who was supposed to take care of the LM PPK during the transfer of everything to the CM. It wasn’t until they were on the way back to Earth that they realized they couldn’t find the LM PPK. They eventually realized it must still be on board the LM ascent stage which had been deliberately crashed into the moon for seismic studies. The contents of the PPK were now strewn across the impact site. Among the contents was a bunch of $2 bills and of course, that wedding ring belonging to Jim’s best friend. Imagine having to explain that to him once he got home.
@@michaeljacobs9532 To Rule The Night is the name of the book. Pretty decent book about a crew that’s not as well known. There’s also Al Worden’s book titled Falling To Earth. Another point of view from the Apollo 15 crew. Highly recommended.
@mako88sb very much appreciated! I will definitely look those up. I still work 20 minutes from KSC, so it's really cool to stop in at local antique shops and get old newspapers, and signed memorabilia from lesser know astronauts.
Here come all the people who think it’s fake as well as flat earthers. People who think it’s fake are an insult to humanity, as it’s so far one of our biggest achievements.
It's frustrating how much more common conspiratorial thinking has become, in this past decade. Nothing can ever just happen ever again. Everything has to be a conspiracy. Coincidences no longer exist
You are entitled to your opinion just like I am. The Moon Landing is a sham and I'm not falling for it. Common sense tells me that if they can land on the moon in 1969, why can't they land now? No interest in exploring the Moon anymore? The excuses NASA has given us makes no sense
Those arguments are so lazy it's a joke how easily you can debunk their claims. I saw some comments on a video about a probe on Saturn and I had to explain to "adults" that satellites and electronic sensors exist. They were like no way. So they have sensors on Saturn? Yes genius. How else would they be able to tell what's on Saturn? Magic?
Very Well Done on the detail given here. I have personal knowledge of the Apollo LEM throttleable rocket engines, built by TRW, for Grumman's LEM. A fellow who managed those TRW Rocket Scientists is a close friend of mine. I was going to mention the cause of the 1201 & 1202 alarms experienced by Neil & Buzz during the decent to the Lunar surface in the LEM, but you had correctly named the cause, something I've never heard anyone get correct before. It was Aldrin who turned on too many Radars outside of the checklist and caused those alarms, but he allegedly never admitted to it. Aldrin also put up an argument, on more than one occasion, that he should be the first to exit the LEM and make the first footprints. Armstrong was given the option to not fly w/ Aldrin but chose to do so anyways to avoid scheduling issues w/ other Astronauts on later flights.
Skylab broke up in the atmosphere with debris landing in the indian ocean and Western Australia. The town Esperance in WA fined NASA $400 for littering.
During the 1202 and 1201 alarms about a computer overload situation They did not know that the rendezvous radar was to be the reason at the time... Buzz Aldrin noted at the time that this overload situation came about after the computer had been switched to program P68 when the landing radar was actuated and because of the clever design of the AGC seeing that the rendezvous radar was least important for landing and it's very quick reboot they still had the capacity to land. Buzz said after the mission that he thought that the rendezvous radar should have been on in case they had to abort the landing!
@@Greg-b3bHe never said that. Moon hoaxers and flerfs keep cherry picking parts of that interview and reframe it, the gullable liars they are. What Buzzaldron said in full in the interview with Zoey in 2015: ZOEY: Why has nobody been to the Moon in such a long time? BUZZ: That’s not an eight years old question, but my question. I want to know but I think I know. We didn’t go there (in such a long time) and that’s the way it happened. And if it didn’t happen (in such a long time), it’s nice to know why it didn’t happen (in such a long time). So, in the future, if we want to keep doing something, we need to know why something stopped in the past we want to keep it going. Money (is the answer). The original interview was 17 minutes long. Unscrupulous flat-Earthers deliberately showed us a specific segment without giving it the proper context. In another part of the interview, Buzz clearly said several times that the Moon landings happened. BUZZ: … so, we did send people in it around the Moon, then we sent people -another crew- to go around the Moon and then practice everything but landing. And then, a very fortunate person, many things going right in my life gave Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin the opportunity to make an attempt to make the first landing. All of us wanted to succeed, and we did … This is merely a language problem. It is common that we omit a portion of the question in the answer to the question. In this case, the question was “Why has nobody been to the Moon in such a long time?” Buzz answered like “We did not go there because of money,” omitting the “in such a long time” part of the question. By examining the question, we can determine the context of Buzz’s answer. The modus operandi of these unscrupulous flat Earthers was to omit the entire question and other parts of the interview, hoping that the viewers do not learn the context of the statement.
I went to Space Camp when I was a kid & learned that underneath all of the gray dust there is orange soil on The Moon, but because it lacks an atmosphere nothing can grow on it. This was discovered during the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, which was the last manned mission to The Moon. I also learned that the hardest part about making the moon rover vehicles was assembling the chairs due to their weight. The guys designing the vehicles were on a break sitting in lawn chairs when 1 of them basically said "Let's just slap 2 lawn chairs on the vehicle," & it worked since that's what they used on the vehicles for the next few Moon missions.
No, orange soil is rare on the Moon and is localized to specific regions associated with ancient volcanic activity. Most of the Moon’s surface is covered in grayish regolith made of pulverized rock and dust from billions of years of meteorite impacts. Yes, the Moon appears to be rusting in some regions, particularly at its poles. This phenomenon was first discovered in 2020 through data from the Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter. Rusting occurs when iron reacts with oxygen and water to form iron oxide, commonly known as rust. It’s unusual. Scientists suggest that Earth’s oxygen, transported to the Moon via Earth’s magnetic tail (a region extending from Earth’s magnetic field), may be responsible. During certain times, the Moon passes through this tail, shielding it from solar wind and allowing Earth’s oxygen to interact with lunar minerals. The presence of trace amounts of water on the Moon may also contribute to the process. This discovery is surprising and highlights the Moon’s complex interactions with Earth and space.
I went to the aerospace center in Huntsville Alabama, and there I was told that Neil Armstrong was misunderstood because of his accent and the low quality of the radio signal. Apparently the correct quote from him is: “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” That “a” really makes the sentence more coherent.
I'd read the Ohioans tend to run their vowels together a bit and so what he said was, "That's one small step 'foraman' (very small 'a'), one giant leap for Mankind". He did acknowledge later that it was inaudible. however and was no longer sure what he said. Also, technically, the first words from the Moon's surface were, "Contact light" by Aldrin... ;-)
He was quoted saying "One small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind." It makes more sense as well since he was talking about his step from the lander and how much progress mankind has made.
We have a video on this misconception. There has been a lot of analysis on this point, but it *seems* Armstrong forgot to say the "a", though had intended to. Although there is much debate. What is clear is there is zero audible "a", and Armstrong himself admits from the available audio evidence he may have, in the moment, misspoke. Which is completely understandable given the moment and what he was doing and where: ruclips.net/video/nkcsUQR7EmI/видео.htmlsi=AqO6v9TabunHlHRs -Daven
According to one source that quote was the "released" first words. There were in constant communications and monitored what the press heard by a small delay in broadcasting. His first actual words upon exiting the lander were, "It's covered in a powdery, grey dust."
@@jamespaden8140 Yeah but the famous quote were the first words when stepping down onto the surface. The first words after touchdown were otherwise the more technical "Contact light, engine stop" and the rest of the post landing check list.
The thing that gives me chills about Apollo 11 is the amount of time Collins spent practicing piloting back to Earth alone, as they weren't 100% sure Armstrong and Aldrin would make it back - so Collins had to be able to go back home alone.
38:15 - I’m pretty sure Stafford was Commander for Apollo 10. Later, Cernan was Commander for the final Lunar mission, Apollo 17. However, I gather Cernan had a proverbial “fight on his hands” to get that Apollo 17 position: IIRC, a few months earlier he’d crashed a helicopter, so some were using that as a justification to take him out of consideration. 39:18 - Yes, IIRC the “real” reason why the Apollo 10 LM was short-fueled was not that they didn’t trust the astronauts to follow orders. It was because that particular Lunar Module did not incorporate quite a few weight-savings measures from later designs. They had to short-fuel it to compensate for the extra weight.
I love that they couldn't trust these 'test pilots' of Apollo 10 not to land on the Moon. The human element always makes science and technology a touch more romantic.
The Apollo 10 lunar module didn’t have landing gear. Nor did it have enough fuel to land. It’s not that they didn’t trust them nasa decided that it was better to fully test the lunar module first before the first landing.
On one of our school outings in Japan during the 60s, we actually went to see Walter M. Schirra and his Mercury capsule. Surprisingly, it was a small crowd and we got within 6 feet of Walter.
Good to point out to even slight skeptics: we didn't just land on the moon, we did it 6 times! The language always seems to argue over it as if was AN event. The whole program from conception to last mission. The whole program from planning to last mission was about 15 years. 6 Landings (we tried for 7).
I have photos of my dad watching the moon landing on tv, you can just barely make out something on the tiny little screen with the whole family gathered around it.
The original signal was much clearer - but the frame rate was converted by pointing a broadcast TV camera at the slow scan monitor… So it was a TV picture of a TV picture…
@@allangibson8494 due to (analog) bandwidth issues the original Apollo video camera had only 320 scan lines (compared to NTSC's 480) and a pitiful 10 frames per second refresh rate. So even the clearer signal was pretty dire.
My grandad helped program the life support systems for the Apollo mission(s). He was at Houston when they landed the first time and went to Florida went 13 went awry. He had some cool stories. I have a plaque which is a replica of the one put on the moon during Apollo 11 signed by LB Johnson lol. Good stuff
You forgot "Rocket Ship Galileo", by Robert Heinlen, when describing previous sci-fi concepts of a single stage moon landing rocket. That book was a part of every space obsessed teenager's reading list way back in the day.
IIRC, Grumman also independently selected Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous and had been studying how to accomplish it. That was part of the reason why they got the contract: They had already studied the problem in greater detail, so they provided a far more plausible bid for the contract.
I think it will stand as the greatest ever even after a Mars landing because it was the first, and we hadn't even landed a probe on the surface yet. We know a lot about Mars already, so it's just an engineering issue at this point.
It’s interesting how reality compares to the science fiction and fantasy of that time. Some things like the Saturn V look like a comic book moon rocket. But the decent/acent were way off as Simon explains, it would not work to fly Buck Roger’s space ship to the moon and get him home again.
Neil Armstrong remains the top earning astronaut at $27,000 a year in 1969. Equal to $200,000 today. Buzz was on $19,000 a year and Mike Collins on $17,000 a year. All astronauts that went to the moon had to fill out a customs declaration form on return.
It was impossible to send someone to the moon in the 60s because they didn't have the technical knowledge. That's no excuse, then make sure we get that knowledge. And that's exactly the mentality that 400,000 people had to make this happen which resulted in 6 successful landings on the moon.
Sudbury, the city I’m in right now, was actually used as an astronaut training area by NASA during the Apollo missions because the landscape here used to be so barren and depressing it mimicked the surface of the moon! 😊
Through my retired Col. grandfather, we had passes to be at the new visitor center for the launch on July 16th, 1969. Mom drug her two children out of bed in time to drive up to the cape, but not in time to get passed the millions of other citizens trying to get as close as they could. We ended up to be invited by a stranger to walk through his yard and sit hon his sea wall to watch the launch. Now to ponder that the Starship is larger and more powerful that the proposed NOVA rocket is astonishing.
@@tomasojones1751 listen….. do you realize how many people were involved in the Apollo program????? Tens of thousands… MORE EVEN! You really think the govt was able to keep that many people quiet… and where did the money go???? You can’t fake something that big….
As someone with 1000 hours in Kerbal Space Program, I went through the stages of grief as did von Braun. Trying to send a unitary return vehicle to the Mun is possible, but NOT easy. They're usually heavy enough to blow your landing gear off. Then ya boy is gonna have to walk to get rescued. And mapping rendezvous is a fucking nightmare, but if you miss you can just mulligan for the next orbit (usually).
We have a video on this misconception. There has been a lot of analysis on this point, but it *seems* Armstrong forgot to say the "a", though had intended to. Although there is much debate. What is clear is there is zero audible "a", and Armstrong himself admits from the available audio evidence he may have, in the moment, misspoke. Which is completely understandable given the moment and what he was doing and where: ruclips.net/video/nkcsUQR7EmI/видео.htmlsi=AqO6v9TabunHlHRs -Daven
Simon has done so many videos on the Moon and our landing on it I think he could teach a course on the subject without notes. This is at least the fourth or fifth one on TIFO alone, and there are probably at least two each on his other channels.
People with the insight, foresight and command of language like Houbolt were the driving force of programs like Apollo. A dying breed in the USA, sadly.
John Glenn's quote sums it up nicely: “I guess the question I'm asked the most often is: "When you were sitting in that capsule listening to the count-down, how did you feel?" Well, the answer to that one is easy. I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts -- all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.”
I cannot compliment this episode enough. It is flat out great and of the work That Was Grand. Of the one word I can use to describe spirits turned to living body souls Grand is the best I know. Landing on the Moon was the best thing to happen in a time when war was ongoing. To live during this time has been Grand.
47:10 - Oh wow, I can’t believe I’d never noticed the similarity between the LM descent stage and the telescope base in Skylab! I was aware that Skylab had an egress hatch pulled straight from Gemini, but I hadn’t noticed the telescope base. Cool!
Thanks Simon. I was a little young'un in those days. My parents dragged me to a company BBQ on Apollo 11 landing day. I sat at alone the end of a picnic table listening to the mission on one of the radio stations in Philly. Seems like just yesterday.
I used to work in his Grissom’s home county/town in Indiana. His family still has a lot of pull in the county. It’s also a county that has had 3 astronauts grow up in, with only Grissom born and raised.
James Chamberlin proposing crew transfer by spacewalk in July 1961 - is pretty ballsey since american astronauts never even attempted spacewalks until 1965.
We did use a docking tunnel. But what is interesting is the Soviets in their plan (using the N1 rocket, modified Soyuz orbiter, and LK lander), were going to use a spacewalk to transfer one Cosmonaut into and from the lander (they were going to have a crew of two).
Then it's a shame that you haven't grown wiser as you've aged. Most people are deniers because they haven't educated themselves to understand how the 6 moon landings were accomplished.
When you look up at Luna, it is moving at 3,000 Kilometers per Hour. That alone was enough to surprise you. We may say they were reckless to do so, considering the primitive tech of the 1960's. Very brave men to do so.
The immortal words that are always misquoted. The line was "That's one small step for a man..." That one small letter changes the phrase from nonsensical to iconic.
As @Pugjamin said. Not misquoted. It's a misquote from available audio evidence to say he said the "a". We have a video on this misconception. There has been a lot of analysis on this point, but it *seems* Armstrong forgot to say the "a", though had intended to. Although there is much debate. What is clear is there is zero audible "a", and Armstrong himself admits from the available audio evidence he may have, in the moment, misspoke. Which is completely understandable given the moment and what he was doing and where: ruclips.net/video/nkcsUQR7EmI/видео.htmlsi=AqO6v9TabunHlHRs -Daven
@TodayIFoundOut the irony that I have tried to post my long form answer to your comment 4 times and it has just disappeared with no evidence... is brilliant.
@TodayIFoundOut I figured... The comment was about how I was an RTO in the military and can attest to signals very often loosing a syllable or 7, which would explain the missing a. It also was about how Neal Armstrong was the kind of guy who would say it was his fault rather than blaming his equipment or NASA if pressed.
Anyone else know he actually said “one small step for A man, one giant leap for man kind” his accent makes it disappear and it’s funny to think it’s been misquoted for 50 odd years and even by Simon now lmao
We have a video on this misconception. There has been a lot of analysis on this point, but it *seems* Armstrong forgot to say the "a", though had intended to. Although there is much debate. What is clear is there is zero audible "a", and Armstrong himself admits from the available audio evidence he may have, in the moment, misspoke. Which is completely understandable given the moment and what he was doing and where: ruclips.net/video/nkcsUQR7EmI/видео.htmlsi=AqO6v9TabunHlHRs -Daven
My uncle was one of those engineers who worked in Downey California on the Apollo program. I actually get crazy when they start in saying it was all fake. I politely ask them not to reproduce if they haven't already. I inform them that they will serve no useful purpose in society in the future. They simply function on such a primitive level that they should consider getting help.
Maxime Faget pronounced fah-ZHAY. My parents had 2 of the Apollo 1 astronauts over for dinner. Gus Grissom and Ed White. I was about 6 then,and had NO IDEA this happened, heard this from my older brother. Dad also wrote a "paper" for NASA, about semiconductors. steve
Nobody ever talks about combining earth orbit rendezvous with lunar orbit rendezvous, which would have allowed launching all apollo components with saturn-1 rockets. The saturn-5 and giant F-1 engine was not needed. The lunar module and command/service modules could dock with an oversized upper stage or agena-style but larger kick stage to send them to the moon. Everything else would be the same. Saturn-5 was just a stepping stone to the nova rocket, space stations and colonies but that was just a story told while we beat the Russians to the moon and retired.
Except the astronauts would have died from lack of water and oxygen in Earth orbit while they waited for NASA to assemble, truck out, and launch the Saturn-1 equipment shuttles. The VAB could only handle one vehicle at a time.
@@penultimateh766 I thought the four bays in the VAB would have allowed up to four saturn rockets to be stacked at the same time. Surprising if it was only possible to stack one.
Please...slow...down. I'll gladly accept a longer video that has a much slower pace of dialogue. I love the depth of research. Why the need to cram it into 200 words per minute?
Thank you for this, I’m so tired of the regular thought processes that mostly consist of paid advantages point of view. The counterpoint of that being unconventional maybe the most pertinent of choices due to time and financial constraints. “Smarter people didn’t have enough financial backing and exposure to become competitively fissionable in the idiology of the 60’s”
Not one word about the 3 men lost during Apollo 18? I bet Sin One doesn't even know half the galaxy got nintendo powergloved by Xantham Gum or whatever his purple name is
Nixon HATED Kennedy and cancelled anything having to do Kennedy's Apollo Program in favor of the program Nixon favored and hoped he could associate his name with, the Space Shuttle.
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Simon is well known for his endless mispronunciations. He's not about to start pronouncing things correctly any time soon.......or slow down. I just noticed another: 'Grooman' instead of Grumman. 😆
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???... Height 363 feet NOT 282 feet! - Please get facts at least close....!!!
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Quite a detailed and in depth treatise, thank you.
@@mingfanzhang8927 #KFC
I don't care how advanced technology has come or what we can do currently. Pulling this off back then will never not be fascinating and incredible.
I love Tom Hanks' line in Apollo 13: "It's not a miracle, we just decided to go"
Also the line in The Martian book: "What would an Apollo astronaut do? He'd drink a couple of whisky sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad, and fly to the moon in a capsule the size of my toilet. Man those guys were cool!!!"
🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸
My mother made a set of living room curtains lined with gold coated mylar from scraps of LEM Insulation. There were left over pieces from cutting and fitting gold anodized mylar sheets.
We lived in Cocoa Beach in the 1960's. My father, our friends and neighbors made Apollo happen. An interesting time.
To say the least
400.000 people worked on the moon landing
Although delivered at a blazing vocal pace, this long-form video was well worth the time.
I was but eight years old when I watched with keen interest the first steps on the moon. It left me yearning to become an airplane pilot. My plans were dashed by 1973. My vision failed me and required corrective lenses.
Simon and crew filled in all the missing holes in my recollection of the Apollo missions.
Set the playback speed to 0.75x. That works for me and is less exhausting to listen to the narration. Anyone interested in the subject shouldn't mind the extra time.
"Lunar Podule Milot" 🤣
Was just about to say exactly the same.. Love a good spoonerism
I replayed that about 5 times.... Great stuff... I believe I've performed one or more of those in my time.
Ha, ha, ha..........
"Former administator strating"
@@andrewlee6152 My favourite is Jichael Mackson.
I like how people think that the first moon landing is fake yet nobody seems question yuri gagarin went to space despite the Soviets never presenting any evidence to support it
They always fail to take into account that it happened during the Cold War, and the Soviet Union had tracking equipment. IF the Soviets had discovered ANYTHING at all that put any doubt into the American claims, they'd have been all over it! The sheer number of people who were involved and would have had to be kept quiet about a fake just wouldn't be possible, especially for this length of time. I honestly believe that faking it would have been more of a challenge than a genuine manned moon landing.
The Soviets themselves confirmed, using their own radio telescopes, that Apollo 11 reached and landed on the moon. That on its own should remove any doubt.
It's clearly fake. Like birds and Avril Lavine
Weird that the first claim of a fake moon landing was from the Soviets too. Coincidence?
@@alieffauzanrizky7202 they tracked and confirmed apollo buddy
Tom Hanks' HBO series "From the Earth to the Moon" is a great way to learn, or like those of us who lived through it, review, how it all happened.
Probably watched that series a dozen or more times
My grandpa, Bob Pearson, trained them how to us the lander! Buzz brought my grandpa's ring with him to the moon, as a thank you.
I read Jim Irwin’s book, To Rule The Night, and he mentions that his best friend asked him to bring his wedding ring with him. Jim said no problem. After they finished the mission on the moon and rendezvoused with the CM, both he and Dave Scott somehow lost track of who was supposed to take care of the LM PPK during the transfer of everything to the CM. It wasn’t until they were on the way back to Earth that they realized they couldn’t find the LM PPK. They eventually realized it must still be on board the LM ascent stage which had been deliberately crashed into the moon for seismic studies. The contents of the PPK were now strewn across the impact site. Among the contents was a bunch of $2 bills and of course, that wedding ring belonging to Jim’s best friend. Imagine having to explain that to him once he got home.
@mako88sb That's crazy! Do you know what the book is called? I would love to read it.
@@michaeljacobs9532 To Rule The Night is the name of the book. Pretty decent book about a crew that’s not as well known. There’s also Al Worden’s book titled Falling To Earth. Another point of view from the Apollo 15 crew. Highly recommended.
@mako88sb very much appreciated! I will definitely look those up. I still work 20 minutes from KSC, so it's really cool to stop in at local antique shops and get old newspapers, and signed memorabilia from lesser know astronauts.
So your gramps did not actually go to the moon himself, right? Because THAT woulda been really cool.
Here come all the people who think it’s fake as well as flat earthers. People who think it’s fake are an insult to humanity, as it’s so far one of our biggest achievements.
It's frustrating how much more common conspiratorial thinking has become, in this past decade. Nothing can ever just happen ever again. Everything has to be a conspiracy. Coincidences no longer exist
You are entitled to your opinion just like I am. The Moon Landing is a sham and I'm not falling for it. Common sense tells me that if they can land on the moon in 1969, why can't they land now? No interest in exploring the Moon anymore? The excuses NASA has given us makes no sense
I have a question though, Why can’t we land on the moon again with all this new technology? Genuinely curious
Those arguments are so lazy it's a joke how easily you can debunk their claims. I saw some comments on a video about a probe on Saturn and I had to explain to "adults" that satellites and electronic sensors exist. They were like no way. So they have sensors on Saturn? Yes genius. How else would they be able to tell what's on Saturn? Magic?
@@UceTee We can, it just costs a lot of money and there's little reason to do so. Even so, there's already missions planned to return, named Artemis.
Flat Earthers: “We can’t go to the moon because we can’t leave the dome.”
Also flerfs: “The moon is local, beneath the dome.” 🙃
@@TreeSymphony52Found the flat-brained flerf 🤣🤡💩
@TreeSymphony52 why are you obsessed with people comments you don't agree with? Why are you so angry about people talking about flaterthers?
We should get those 2 groups to debate 😂
Very Well Done on the detail given here. I have personal knowledge of the Apollo LEM throttleable rocket engines, built by TRW, for Grumman's LEM. A fellow who managed those TRW Rocket Scientists is a close friend of mine. I was going to mention the cause of the 1201 & 1202 alarms experienced by Neil & Buzz during the decent to the Lunar surface in the LEM, but you had correctly named the cause, something I've never heard anyone get correct before. It was Aldrin who turned on too many Radars outside of the checklist and caused those alarms, but he allegedly never admitted to it.
Aldrin also put up an argument, on more than one occasion, that he should be the first to exit the LEM and make the first footprints. Armstrong was given the option to not fly w/ Aldrin but chose to do so anyways to avoid scheduling issues w/ other Astronauts on later flights.
Skylab broke up in the atmosphere with debris landing in the indian ocean and Western Australia. The town Esperance in WA fined NASA $400 for littering.
Australia's only accomplishment.
judgmentcallpodcast covers this. How NASA landed on Moon
During the 1202 and 1201 alarms about a computer overload situation They did not know that the rendezvous radar was to be the reason at the time... Buzz Aldrin noted at the time that this overload situation came about after the computer had been switched to program P68 when the landing radar was actuated and because of the clever design of the AGC seeing that the rendezvous radar was least important for landing and it's very quick reboot they still had the capacity to land. Buzz said after the mission that he thought that the rendezvous radar should have been on in case they had to abort the landing!
Buzz aldrin has one thing to say about the aggressive flat earther.. 🤜
Freemason Buzz has admitted he wasn't on the moon
@@Greg-b3bsays the dimwitted 🤡
Yet he is a flat-earther himself when it comes to AGW
@@Greg-b3b saying a thing does not make it true. Big claim you're making, you better have the receipts son
@@Greg-b3bHe never said that. Moon hoaxers and flerfs keep cherry picking parts of that interview and reframe it, the gullable liars they are.
What Buzzaldron said in full in the interview with Zoey in 2015:
ZOEY: Why has nobody been to the Moon in such a long time?
BUZZ: That’s not an eight years old question, but my question. I want to know but I think I know. We didn’t go there (in such a long time) and that’s the way it happened. And if it didn’t happen (in such a long time), it’s nice to know why it didn’t happen (in such a long time). So, in the future, if we want to keep doing something, we need to know why something stopped in the past we want to keep it going. Money (is the answer).
The original interview was 17 minutes long. Unscrupulous flat-Earthers deliberately showed us a specific segment without giving it the proper context. In another part of the interview, Buzz clearly said several times that the Moon landings happened.
BUZZ: … so, we did send people in it around the Moon, then we sent people -another crew- to go around the Moon and then practice everything but landing. And then, a very fortunate person, many things going right in my life gave Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin the opportunity to make an attempt to make the first landing. All of us wanted to succeed, and we did …
This is merely a language problem. It is common that we omit a portion of the question in the answer to the question. In this case, the question was “Why has nobody been to the Moon in such a long time?” Buzz answered like “We did not go there because of money,” omitting the “in such a long time” part of the question.
By examining the question, we can determine the context of Buzz’s answer. The modus operandi of these unscrupulous flat Earthers was to omit the entire question and other parts of the interview, hoping that the viewers do not learn the context of the statement.
I went to Space Camp when I was a kid & learned that underneath all of the gray dust there is orange soil on The Moon, but because it lacks an atmosphere nothing can grow on it. This was discovered during the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, which was the last manned mission to The Moon. I also learned that the hardest part about making the moon rover vehicles was assembling the chairs due to their weight. The guys designing the vehicles were on a break sitting in lawn chairs when 1 of them basically said "Let's just slap 2 lawn chairs on the vehicle," & it worked since that's what they used on the vehicles for the next few Moon missions.
It's orange cause it's rusting? Isn't it made of iron?
@@jc6800it can't be rusting. Rust is caused by oxidation of metal which requires oxygen and moisture.
No, orange soil is rare on the Moon and is localized to specific regions associated with ancient volcanic activity. Most of the Moon’s surface is covered in grayish regolith made of pulverized rock and dust from billions of years of meteorite impacts. Yes, the Moon appears to be rusting in some regions, particularly at its poles. This phenomenon was first discovered in 2020 through data from the Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter. Rusting occurs when iron reacts with oxygen and water to form iron oxide, commonly known as rust. It’s unusual. Scientists suggest that Earth’s oxygen, transported to the Moon via Earth’s magnetic tail (a region extending from Earth’s magnetic field), may be responsible. During certain times, the Moon passes through this tail, shielding it from solar wind and allowing Earth’s oxygen to interact with lunar minerals. The presence of trace amounts of water on the Moon may also contribute to the process. This discovery is surprising and highlights the Moon’s complex interactions with Earth and space.
I went to the aerospace center in Huntsville Alabama, and there I was told that Neil Armstrong was misunderstood because of his accent and the low quality of the radio signal. Apparently the correct quote from him is:
“One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
That “a” really makes the sentence more coherent.
I'd read the Ohioans tend to run their vowels together a bit and so what he said was, "That's one small step 'foraman' (very small 'a'), one giant leap for Mankind".
He did acknowledge later that it was inaudible. however and was no longer sure what he said.
Also, technically, the first words from the Moon's surface were, "Contact light" by Aldrin... ;-)
He was quoted saying "One small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind."
It makes more sense as well since he was talking about his step from the lander and how much progress mankind has made.
My father was the head of the
MIT team that developed the Apollo guidance system. 😊
That was what he was planning on saying, but actually missed the “A” out when speaking.
We have a video on this misconception. There has been a lot of analysis on this point, but it *seems* Armstrong forgot to say the "a", though had intended to. Although there is much debate. What is clear is there is zero audible "a", and Armstrong himself admits from the available audio evidence he may have, in the moment, misspoke. Which is completely understandable given the moment and what he was doing and where: ruclips.net/video/nkcsUQR7EmI/видео.htmlsi=AqO6v9TabunHlHRs -Daven
According to one source that quote was the "released" first words. There were in constant communications and monitored what the press heard by a small delay in broadcasting. His first actual words upon exiting the lander were, "It's covered in a powdery, grey dust."
@@jamespaden8140 Yeah but the famous quote were the first words when stepping down onto the surface. The first words after touchdown were otherwise the more technical "Contact light, engine stop" and the rest of the post landing check list.
The thing that gives me chills about Apollo 11 is the amount of time Collins spent practicing piloting back to Earth alone, as they weren't 100% sure Armstrong and Aldrin would make it back - so Collins had to be able to go back home alone.
He acknowledged that was his biggest fear of the mission.
He also still holds the record for the loneliest man in history!
@@chrislong3938 No he does not. The Command module pilots of later Apollo missions flew solo in the CSM for a much longer time.
To go Home Alone... he should talk with Macaulay Culkin ... or maybe the other way around. 😂
30:47 Lunar Podule Milot? 🤣🤣🤣
I caught that too.
Pilot
glad i wasn't the only one
Thought I was hearing things.
The whole narration seems a bit rushed. Think he must have been in a hurry to get out for a round of polo.
38:15 - I’m pretty sure Stafford was Commander for Apollo 10. Later, Cernan was Commander for the final Lunar mission, Apollo 17. However, I gather Cernan had a proverbial “fight on his hands” to get that Apollo 17 position: IIRC, a few months earlier he’d crashed a helicopter, so some were using that as a justification to take him out of consideration.
39:18 - Yes, IIRC the “real” reason why the Apollo 10 LM was short-fueled was not that they didn’t trust the astronauts to follow orders. It was because that particular Lunar Module did not incorporate quite a few weight-savings measures from later designs. They had to short-fuel it to compensate for the extra weight.
I love that they couldn't trust these 'test pilots' of Apollo 10 not to land on the Moon.
The human element always makes science and technology a touch more romantic.
The Apollo 10 lunar module didn’t have landing gear. Nor did it have enough fuel to land. It’s not that they didn’t trust them nasa decided that it was better to fully test the lunar module first before the first landing.
@@blakekavenyit had landing gear.
On one of our school outings in Japan during the 60s, we actually went to see Walter M. Schirra and his Mercury capsule. Surprisingly, it was a small crowd and we got within 6 feet of Walter.
Good to point out to even slight skeptics: we didn't just land on the moon, we did it 6 times! The language always seems to argue over it as if was AN event. The whole program from conception to last mission. The whole program from planning to last mission was about 15 years. 6 Landings (we tried for 7).
Hoaxers always talk about the moon landing or the van Allen belt, both in the singular. None of them know that the whole story started with Sputnik.
What blows my mind is, from Man's first flight to Man's first flight to the Moon IS ONLY 60 YEARS.
I have photos of my dad watching the moon landing on tv, you can just barely make out something on the tiny little screen with the whole family gathered around it.
My Dad got misty talking about it. ❤
My parents woke me up so I could watch it.
The original signal was much clearer - but the frame rate was converted by pointing a broadcast TV camera at the slow scan monitor… So it was a TV picture of a TV picture…
@@allangibson8494 due to (analog) bandwidth issues the original Apollo video camera had only 320 scan lines (compared to NTSC's 480) and a pitiful 10 frames per second refresh rate. So even the clearer signal was pretty dire.
My grandad helped program the life support systems for the Apollo mission(s). He was at Houston when they landed the first time and went to Florida went 13 went awry. He had some cool stories. I have a plaque which is a replica of the one put on the moon during Apollo 11 signed by LB Johnson lol. Good stuff
45:21 I didn't know Grumman did this. That is such a flex.
You forgot "Rocket Ship Galileo", by Robert Heinlen, when describing previous sci-fi concepts of a single stage moon landing rocket. That book was a part of every space obsessed teenager's reading list way back in the day.
IIRC, Grumman also independently selected Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous and had been studying how to accomplish it. That was part of the reason why they got the contract: They had already studied the problem in greater detail, so they provided a far more plausible bid for the contract.
This in my opinion is the greatest science and engineering feat of all time. Until Mars is landed this won't be outdone.
I think it will stand as the greatest ever even after a Mars landing because it was the first, and we hadn't even landed a probe on the surface yet. We know a lot about Mars already, so it's just an engineering issue at this point.
@@scottplumer3668 Maybe. But we did land Surveyor probes on the moon before Apollo 11.
I was omly 12 years old but i remember the landing like it was yesterday.
I was six and I remember it the same way.
I was 7 years old watching it at my grandparents. I got my engineering degree because of my early love of space and science!
A most memorable part of my life.
Wow, boring life dude.
@@penultimateh766 You had to be there.
@@penultimateh766wow, ironic comment, dude.
The Saturn V Apollo rocket is a design classic. It just looks “right”
It’s interesting how reality compares to the science fiction and fantasy of that time. Some things like the Saturn V look like a comic book moon rocket. But the decent/acent were way off as Simon explains, it would not work to fly Buck Roger’s space ship to the moon and get him home again.
Neil Armstrong remains the top earning astronaut at $27,000 a year in 1969. Equal to $200,000 today. Buzz was on $19,000 a year and Mike Collins on $17,000 a year. All astronauts that went to the moon had to fill out a customs declaration form on return.
Yes, I saw that document somewhere on line. One of the questions was something like returning from... of course they answered the moon.
It was impossible to send someone to the moon in the 60s because they didn't have the technical knowledge. That's no excuse, then make sure we get that knowledge. And that's exactly the mentality that 400,000 people had to make this happen which resulted in 6 successful landings on the moon.
Sudbury, the city I’m in right now, was actually used as an astronaut training area by NASA during the Apollo missions because the landscape here used to be so barren and depressing it mimicked the surface of the moon! 😊
Through my retired Col. grandfather, we had passes to be at the new visitor center for the launch on July 16th, 1969. Mom drug her two children out of bed in time to drive up to the cape, but not in time to get passed the millions of other citizens trying to get as close as they could. We ended up to be invited by a stranger to walk through his yard and sit hon his sea wall to watch the launch.
Now to ponder that the Starship is larger and more powerful that the proposed NOVA rocket is astonishing.
Waits for the flat earthers to enter the comment section... Then finds that I'm not the only one waiting. Muwahahaha.
@@TreeSymphony52 I'm disable, can barely walk, and suffer from severe nerve damage. What's your excuse?
Defending flat Earth shows YOU have no life 😂
@@RobotacularRoBob That at me or the guy who just deleted his comment? Because I find the idea of a flat earth to be ridiculous.
30:42 "...for the Commander and Lunar Podule Milot."
Thank god space exploration took a backseat and we resumed building apocalyptic weapons for the next 50 years.
everyone talks about the first lunar landing in 1969, but no one talks about the last lunar landing in 1972.
You mean manned landings right?
The last lunar landing was Chang'e 4 in 2019.
@@jackvos8047 yes
Why would they? Both landings never happend.
@@tomasojones1751 listen….. do you realize how many people were involved in the Apollo program????? Tens of thousands… MORE EVEN! You really think the govt was able to keep that many people quiet… and where did the money go???? You can’t fake something that big….
@@tomasojones1751 waiting on a livestreamed landing any day now
Avro Arrow call out! Woot! 🍁
30:47 Lunar Podule Miler? Is that Luna Module Pilot or am I not understanding it? Not a piss take, really enjoyed this one and seeking clarification.
Just got to this section of "Apollo" today, thanks for the addition! Helps to watch the comparisons
As someone with 1000 hours in Kerbal Space Program, I went through the stages of grief as did von Braun. Trying to send a unitary return vehicle to the Mun is possible, but NOT easy. They're usually heavy enough to blow your landing gear off. Then ya boy is gonna have to walk to get rescued.
And mapping rendezvous is a fucking nightmare, but if you miss you can just mulligan for the next orbit (usually).
Yep. Orbital mechanics are a bitch. Though, I guess it is literally rocket science.
It’s “that’s one small step for a man…”
No, that was the planned line. He misspoke when saying the line and skipped the A
We have a video on this misconception. There has been a lot of analysis on this point, but it *seems* Armstrong forgot to say the "a", though had intended to. Although there is much debate. What is clear is there is zero audible "a", and Armstrong himself admits from the available audio evidence he may have, in the moment, misspoke. Which is completely understandable given the moment and what he was doing and where: ruclips.net/video/nkcsUQR7EmI/видео.htmlsi=AqO6v9TabunHlHRs -Daven
Absolutely would looove that other video! 😃
Simon has done so many videos on the Moon and our landing on it I think he could teach a course on the subject without notes. This is at least the fourth or fifth one on TIFO alone, and there are probably at least two each on his other channels.
People with the insight, foresight and command of language like Houbolt were the driving force of programs like Apollo. A dying breed in the USA, sadly.
0:26 I would really love to see a video where Simon reads the transcripts of Neil Armstrong from the Moon
John Glenn's quote sums it up nicely:
“I guess the question I'm asked the most often is: "When you were sitting in that capsule listening to the count-down, how did you feel?"
Well, the answer to that one is easy.
I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts -- all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.”
I cannot compliment this episode enough. It is flat out great and of the work That Was Grand. Of the one word I can use to describe spirits turned to living body souls Grand is the best I know. Landing on the Moon was the best thing to happen in a time when war was ongoing. To live during this time has been Grand.
I could’ve sworn I heard Simon say “the former administator strating” at 20:19 😂 I’ve watched it over like 5 times and that’s all I hear lol
47:10 - Oh wow, I can’t believe I’d never noticed the similarity between the LM descent stage and the telescope base in Skylab! I was aware that Skylab had an egress hatch pulled straight from Gemini, but I hadn’t noticed the telescope base. Cool!
I can feel the collective RRRREeEEeEeE from flat Earthers over this topic.
Good job Simon, as usual. However the illustrations seem thrown together, where many do not hang together with the narrative
Thanks Simon. I was a little young'un in those days. My parents dragged me to a company BBQ on Apollo 11 landing day. I sat at alone the end of a picnic table listening to the mission on one of the radio stations in Philly. Seems like just yesterday.
30:47 Luna Podule Milot, you've got to slow down Simon!
I used to work in his Grissom’s home county/town in Indiana.
His family still has a lot of pull in the county.
It’s also a county that has had 3 astronauts grow up in, with only Grissom born and raised.
James Chamberlin proposing crew transfer by spacewalk in July 1961 - is pretty ballsey since american astronauts never even attempted spacewalks until 1965.
We did use a docking tunnel. But what is interesting is the Soviets in their plan (using the N1 rocket, modified Soyuz orbiter, and LK lander), were going to use a spacewalk to transfer one Cosmonaut into and from the lander (they were going to have a crew of two).
Skylab did not totally burn up, it landed in Australia
Indeed, though that is a very loose usage of the word "landed"!
At age 6, I watched the televised footage of the first step on the moon.
Today, at age 61, I have no confidence that it actually happened.
Shame as it is still as true now as it was then.
Then it's a shame that you haven't grown wiser as you've aged. Most people are deniers because they haven't educated themselves to understand how the 6 moon landings were accomplished.
That's because you allowed conspiracy theorists to manipulate you :-|
Great, but why no citations? And why no links to your own videos that you mentioned here? :(
Damn, Houbolt's letter to Seamans reminds me how nobody talks or writes like that anymore.
When you look up at Luna, it is moving at 3,000 Kilometers per Hour. That alone was enough to surprise you. We may say they were reckless to do so, considering the primitive tech of the 1960's. Very brave men to do so.
The immortal words that are always misquoted.
The line was "That's one small step for a man..."
That one small letter changes the phrase from nonsensical to iconic.
Not misquoted, he misspoke. The planned line was to include “A” but when he spoke, the A was missed.
As @Pugjamin said. Not misquoted. It's a misquote from available audio evidence to say he said the "a". We have a video on this misconception. There has been a lot of analysis on this point, but it *seems* Armstrong forgot to say the "a", though had intended to. Although there is much debate. What is clear is there is zero audible "a", and Armstrong himself admits from the available audio evidence he may have, in the moment, misspoke. Which is completely understandable given the moment and what he was doing and where: ruclips.net/video/nkcsUQR7EmI/видео.htmlsi=AqO6v9TabunHlHRs -Daven
@TodayIFoundOut the irony that I have tried to post my long form answer to your comment 4 times and it has just disappeared with no evidence... is brilliant.
We don't delete comments so must be RUclips auto gods auto godding. :-) -Daven
@TodayIFoundOut I figured...
The comment was about how I was an RTO in the military and can attest to signals very often loosing a syllable or 7, which would explain the missing a. It also was about how Neal Armstrong was the kind of guy who would say it was his fault rather than blaming his equipment or NASA if pressed.
Anyone else know he actually said “one small step for A man, one giant leap for man kind” his accent makes it disappear and it’s funny to think it’s been misquoted for 50 odd years and even by Simon now lmao
He wasn’t misquoted, he misspoke, the planned line included A, but in the moment he accidentally skipped over the A.
@@Pugjamin I'm sorry but his quote wasn't planned by anyone but himself and his admitted to saying a and every source says he did
We have a video on this misconception. There has been a lot of analysis on this point, but it *seems* Armstrong forgot to say the "a", though had intended to. Although there is much debate. What is clear is there is zero audible "a", and Armstrong himself admits from the available audio evidence he may have, in the moment, misspoke. Which is completely understandable given the moment and what he was doing and where: ruclips.net/video/nkcsUQR7EmI/видео.htmlsi=AqO6v9TabunHlHRs -Daven
"Anyone else" No, it's only YOU.
@@BluseyGamesYou are objectively wrong. Accept it rather than doubling down, weirdo. 😊
5:14 The Saturn V WAS 363 feet tall, not 282 feet
27:30 ah yes the tried and true and very scientific method of research, “flip it upside down and shake it”
The LEM's "legs" where designed and built by Héroux-Devtech, a landing gear manufacturer near Montréal, Québec.
How many channels does this guy have???
2 million🤡
My uncle was one of those engineers who worked in Downey California on the Apollo program. I actually get crazy when they start in saying it was all fake. I politely ask them not to reproduce if they haven't already. I inform them that they will serve no useful purpose in society in the future. They simply function on such a primitive level that they should consider getting help.
Very comprehensive
Maxime Faget pronounced fah-ZHAY.
My parents had 2 of the Apollo 1 astronauts over for dinner.
Gus Grissom and Ed White. I was about 6 then,and had NO
IDEA this happened, heard this from my older brother.
Dad also wrote a "paper" for NASA, about semiconductors.
steve
Today, I learned the astronauts were like "fk it we ball" if they had to stay on the moon. 🌙 🌔 🌕
Nobody ever talks about combining earth orbit rendezvous with lunar orbit rendezvous, which would have allowed launching all apollo components with saturn-1 rockets. The saturn-5 and giant F-1 engine was not needed. The lunar module and command/service modules could dock with an oversized upper stage or agena-style but larger kick stage to send them to the moon. Everything else would be the same. Saturn-5 was just a stepping stone to the nova rocket, space stations and colonies but that was just a story told while we beat the Russians to the moon and retired.
Yes, I’m sure you’ve come up with a solution none of the greatest scientific minds of the time never even thought of.
Except the astronauts would have died from lack of water and oxygen in Earth orbit while they waited for NASA to assemble, truck out, and launch the Saturn-1 equipment shuttles. The VAB could only handle one vehicle at a time.
@@penultimateh766 I thought the four bays in the VAB would have allowed up to four saturn rockets to be stacked at the same time. Surprising if it was only possible to stack one.
How were the first steps on the moon filmed?
Aliens
Camera on one of the legs of the lander
@xodiaq that's right, I know that, thank you
With a camera
to explain it like Neil would: they went there first, landed, then stepped on it.
They played Kerbal Space Program!! Everyone knows that!! 🤘😎🤘
Smooth very very smooth 😁
Disappointing lack of aluminum millinery in these comments 😞
Please...slow...down. I'll gladly accept a longer video that has a much slower pace of dialogue. I love the depth of research. Why the need to cram it into 200 words per minute?
Time is money lol
5 other channels to feed 😂
Today I Found Out that the VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building) was originally called Vertical Assembly Building!
Thank you for this, I’m so tired of the regular thought processes that mostly consist of paid advantages point of view. The counterpoint of that being unconventional maybe the most pertinent of choices due to time and financial constraints.
“Smarter people didn’t have enough financial backing and exposure to become competitively fissionable in the idiology of the 60’s”
Not one word about the 3 men lost during Apollo 18?
I bet Sin One doesn't even know half the galaxy got nintendo powergloved by Xantham Gum or whatever his purple name is
There is a lunar module in the Space and Rocket museum in Huntsville, Alabama, as well.
Nixon HATED Kennedy and cancelled anything having to do Kennedy's Apollo Program in favor of the program Nixon favored and hoped he could associate his name with, the Space Shuttle.
Thank you so much for this amazing video! I need some advice: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How can I transfer them to Binance?
I guess the next video is going to be explosive.
At 30:48 did you say "lunar podule milot" instead of "lunar module pilot"?🤔😁
Starfishes love this
Thanks!
Thank you! :-)
No one's going to mention "Humanities Miracle" in the title card, instead of the correct "Humanity's Miracle"? All right then.
It's "alright", fucktard. If you're going to criticize someone else, make sure your own shit is in order.
The Eagle has landed.....
Simon?
Walter SchirAA and Don IslEE
Simon is well known for his endless mispronunciations. He's not about to start pronouncing things correctly any time soon.......or slow down. I just noticed another: 'Grooman' instead of Grumman. 😆
Less than 100 years passed between Kitty Hawk and Apollo 11.
Oh god the Moon get the Tin foil hats ready for the comments.