This channel is CRIMINALLY overlooked and undersubscribed. Mr Homemade, thank you for your hard work. This content is amazing in both research and production.
I could not agree more,...Im telling anyone who will listen. Another cracking video,.......but I continue to be flabbergasted at the number of views/likes. It walks over most of the dross on RUclips.
Completely agree. You could play a Homemade Documentary for a 17 year old high school kid who hates science, and they'd watch it completely fascinated. These are the most brilliantly produced space exploration documentaries I've ever seen. The way they educate you while taking you to another place in such an immersive way is just awesome. 21.6k subscribers? Not for long. Content this incredible won't stay secret forever.
I don‘t know how I got here but I am stuck at your channel for 3 days now and I am watching everything. Seeing the LEM and CM maneuvering here was one of my highlights, along with the tracking shot of the Saturn V launch of Apollo 8. I have never seen this material before (even though I consider myself a space geek) and your usage of it to tell the story and context of all these missions is breathtaking and makes these events feel fresh and as awe inspiring as they must have been 50 years ago. I am glad I have some of your videos left to watch. I am also glad I discovered your Patreon page in the description of your newer videos - you should update the description of you older ones to include that. I guess I will not be the only one who feels the urge to give something back for the excitment, enlightenment and evening filling entertainment you did provide. Keep up the amazing work!
You do some of the best Apollo documentaries I've ever seen. I don't know how I didn't discover your channel sooner, but I just wanted to say, this is wonderful and outstanding work. Especially for the missions (like Apollo 9) that are largely forgotten in the public consciousness, and shouldn't be.
All of these docos have production values better than 99% of anything made for tv. Research, source material, editing, score, voice over.....the works. Kudos man, simply unreal 👏
I have build hundreds of engines, each time I fire one up I have a little pit in my stomach, and I'm good at my job, These guys had balls of steel when they fired their engines...
That was excellent. Apollo 9 gets lost in the glare of Apollos 8 and 11. You did a great job of telling their story. I'm looking forward to your Apollo 10 video next, another groundbreaking mission that is too often overlooked.
They get better with time! I am glad how this one turned out. I wish I was a bit more detailed myself on the Apollo 10 vid. I kept it simple on purpose for 11, and I really deep dive into specifics for 12 through 15.
Love these home -made docs!!! The research is unbelieveable. I'm 58, and at that time was an 8 year old kid not really grasping the enormity of it all. What a generation! Thanks for the detailed look back.
Thank you Sir for this excellent series. Your Apollo documentaries are fantastic. I grew up during the Apollo program and watched as much as I could on TV. Even at school we always had a TV in the classroom during the Apollo missions. My family lived in Houston so we visited the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center and mission control several times. I actually saw Michael Collins there during one of our visits; I was about 9 years old but remember it very clearly. I actually met James Irwin at our church shortly after he walked on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission. Your documentaries cover so much more than I have ever seen and bring back some of the most awesome memories of my childhood.
editing error at the end: patch appears, disappears, then fades back in. For the last 3-4 episodes, I've made 1 minor editing mistake in every vid. I'm starting to believe it's good luck! CORRECTIONS: 1968 saw only TWO launches of the Saturn V. Apollo 6, and Apollo 8. Apollo 4 launched in November of '67.
4:28 I absolutely LOVE the historic retro images used throughout to illustrate the various parts of the Apollo mission; Bravo! -so glad you didn’t use modern CGI illustrations! /Lonewolf Liberties
I have used modern CGI in other videos, but I feel it’s important to give each film a distinct flavor and I felt it was appropriate in this case to stick to the visuals only available at the time.
Fantastic to hear the soundtracks from just about every great sci-fi movie ever produced. The perfect complimentary background to this superb production. On the verge of tears numerous times. Well done!
Hi, I am starting to watch your series with Apollo 9. Your narration is great, very well written and told, also the music fits perfectly. I enjoyed it a lot. The only suggestion I would have is that you add more details about the time span when Spider was separated from Gumdrop - on the one side that was just the scariest part of the mission in my opinion, on the other side the most important, I believe.
Homemade Documentaries should be NASA'S official archivist. I never get over how genuinely exciting these documentaries are to watch. It feels exactly like watching an epic action/adventure movie.
The sad thing is if you were a kid at the time you thought it was normal. There'd be a space flight every other month and, later, 3 times a year and you looked forward to it. Then they just stopped. For 6-7 years there was nothing but promises about how wonderful the space shuttle would be, and when the shuttle finally arrived it couldn't do anything that they weren't already doing in the days of Gemini except that occasionally it killed a bunch of astronauts.
Interesting story APOLLO 9!! It is a flight most people never heard about! APOLLO 8 to the moon and back and APOLLO 11 that finaly landed; yes! BUT APOLLO 9 is a story worth to bee told! Great work on this docu!!! :-)
Growing up during the 60's, I was a "Space Fan". I lived space in my imagination and absorbed everything that I could. Later in my life I was fortunate enough to be hired by a contractor at NASA Dryden at Edwards A.F.Base, CA. It was fun.
Same here. Started with them and then went and watched everything on the channel. Then my dad (who has had a beeper and then a flip phone till about three years ago) I told him about this channel and he’s now in the space shuttle missions
I had the good fortune to attend the 50th anniversary celebration in San Diego, where all 3 crew members were there on stage to talk about the mission. Gene Kranz was also there, as were a few other astronauts, including some guy named Aldrin. Anyway, it was amazing to hear these guys in person. Even the Command Module was there in person!
Apollo 9 was another mission I enjoy I recreated this mission over and over on my free time and I do it all in real time in KSP. This is important to me since where I live, we built the LM, we tested it on the ground and this was a HUGE milestone in the development of Apollo Although they could of used a Saturn IB. It’s an overkill to use a Saturn V for an earth orbital mission.
Rewatching and knitting.I enjoy the Playlists. let's me just zip through things. The blouse I'm working on fit almost perfectly. The cuffs were too short and so require lengthening, and one cuff was far too tight, meaning i had to rip it out and redo it. i'm a half inch into the redo of the too tight cuff and happily rewatching the apollo series. up next, apollo 10! thank you JT!
You’ve got a scary knowledge base of space history by this point! I wouldn’t be surprised if you knew more than I did. When it comes to just normal, day-to-day life, I’m quite a poor conversationalist on this topic since my brain is totally programmed to the work cycle of making these films. So much knowledge is loaded and then flushed out, and I’m trying to forget the last project and focus on the next one all the time. You’ve listened to my films so much I wouldn’t be surprised if you knew more about them than I did. You’d be a formidable presence in a space history trivia match!
These are probabl the best space doco's I've ever watched. Always find myself coming back to them. Good job Homemade! P.s. We need more. haha. I'd love to see something based off the unmanned, earlier Apollo missions (2 to 7) :)
Gorgeous documentary, you made a phenomenal work! I'm watching all the documentaries you made about the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo missions, and I'm trying to watch them in proper chronological order, so I started with your 2+ hours Mercury documentary, and, oh boy, it was grandiose! You have a talent, thank you for sharing it with the world!
@@JacksonTyler That would be fabulous! I find the Gemini project quite fascinating and hope very much to watch a new documentary by you, I can see that you have refined your ability a lot! Also, are you considering a Patreon? Or at least a "donate" possibility? I see that there are people that would likely express their appreciation to you in this form!
I am going to open a Patreon at or just after 10K subscribers! I can’t offer much in terms of exclusive content apart from raw footage, but I am going to publish expense reports and keep it entirely transparent - and only use the proceeds from the patreon to acquire more and better footage. None will be used for personal gain.
@@JacksonTyler I think that many of us will be just happy to donate to express our appreciation of your work and to help a little in covering expenses that for sure you have to face in producing your documentaries.
19:48 😂 do you know which Capcom mistakenly called them Apollo 7? My guess is either Roosa or Worden (as Schweickart called them new guys, probably Group 5). Or maybe Evans since he'd been on Apollo 7's support crew as well and might've still had that number in his head. Also, 20:07 is somewhat inaccurate. Apollo 7 actually outlasted Apollo 9 by one day longer in space from October 11-22.
C’mon, guys. We all know the whole Apollo thing was faked and filmed on a soundstage, right? And the rocket on the stand and taking off is all 1960s quality CGI….😁😜 Excellent documentary, sir. I’m gonna binge watch all your videos. I may be approaching 50 but I’m still a kid at heart when it comes to rocketry & space travel.
I'm _slowly_ working my way through your videos, enjoying them as I go. Your work is very impressive, it's disappointing that you don't have more subs. Please don't be discouraged.
Looking back on some of these old ones can be quite painful. I have absolutely improved by leaps and bounds since the early days. I have nonetheless continued to enjoy making them as I learn.
Except when you do, because this is NASA and the rigidity of military tradition need not apply. The astronauts did so themselves many an occasion, mostly in a tongue-and-cheek way. Who are you again? lol
It is interesting that Apollo 14 got Al Shepard as CDR when it should have been Donn Eisele or Gordon Cooper, but somehow both "performed badly" as backups for Apollo 10. I would wager that was enforced as the story by Al Shepard. Its the only time astronauts performed "badly" as backups on any Apollo flight, just coinciding with Al Shepard getting command 3 missions in the future. Its too much of a coincidence that 2 failed as backups, especially as Eisele had performed well as a CMP on Apollo 7!!! Al pissed off alot of the astronauts with what happened! Maybe a separate video on just this drama?
From what I remember Chris Kraft said "NONE of the 3 guys from Apollo 7 will fly in space again", and they never did. The reason was that Wally Shirra was too insubordinate to mission control during the whole Apollo 7 mission, his crew mates Eisele and Cunningham really had no choice but to go along with Wally. It's a shame because Apollo 7 was basically a perfect mission, all the guys did great but somebody had to show who's boss so all 3 of them lost. As for Gordo Cooper, he did get lazy and showed early signs of instability so he really couldn't fly anymore..later in life he was really disturbed, believed in aliens. I think the 2 bad things to come out of Al Shepard getting the Apollo 14 CDR slot was that he didn't show any interest in lunar geology(their term, not mine) so that's a science loss and he pushed back other crews to later missions..several astronauts didn't go to the moon because of this.
Gordo was asking for it. He was out racing cars and doing dangerous things, and getting into public spats with NASA management. There were more astros than there were seats in Apollo. You didn't do things like that if you wanted to stay on the roster and fly missions.
Actually the first time a complete Lm flew was on Apollo 9. On Apollo 5 which was launched by a Saturn Ib on January 22 1968 the Lm did not have its four landing legs. The other launches before Apollo 9 were models.of the Lm, keep up the Great work. looking forward to seeing the rest of your documentaries.
The only time we get to see the LM in orbit around the earth, and Dave Scott, the last astronaut to do solo orbits around the earth. It's too bad Apollo 9 has been so overlooked. I can understand why, because they did so little TV, just two short broadcasts, and we don't see much film either. No visuals, no documentaries, except for this one. But 'm old enough to remember Apollo 9 and it was a big deal at the time even though it's forgotten now. Too bad McDivitt didn't get Apollo 14. Shepard is a great American hero, but McDivitt was the best man they had in the astronaut corps and it was a waste of talent that he never flew after this and didn't get a moon landing mission.
I retract my previous statement. I went back over that segment of this narrative and the entire film of his EVA that show the Rusty did in fact briefly step out of his "golden slippers" on the LM's porch for a couple minutes, before coming in. It would have been interesting though to see him actually doing the transfer as planned.
Cheers..great post. Apollo should have continued into the AAP ( Apollo Applications Program ) . Nixon really wasn't interested in NASA, only his own narrow minded Political shenanigans....
Great doc. Just a thought is it possible to correct the frame rate of some of the archives they are too sped up sometimes? A more natural movement would be preferable.
It's cool they allowed a fuel cushion for hovering in case the landing site was not geologically possible to land and had to be manually changed because that is exactly what happened for the first landing by Niel.
I really love ur channel! U do such an amazing work and great honor to all of the NASA programs. In honor of all the NASA astronauts who lost their lives
Not to Split hairs, your videos are well made and very entertaining, as well as educational, but there was only 2 Saturn 5 Launches in 1968. The first Saturn 5 launch, Apollo 4 was launched in Nov. 1967. Apollo 6 in April 1968 and of course Apollo 8 Dec. 1968. Just saying. 🙀Love your videos!!!!!
You are absolutely right! I will add it to the list of corrections. Thank you. I am much, much better about mistakes these days, but it certainly happens. I will tell you my heart sinks to my stomach every time I find a new one.
This channel is CRIMINALLY overlooked and undersubscribed. Mr Homemade, thank you for your hard work. This content is amazing in both research and production.
I could not agree more,...Im telling anyone who will listen. Another cracking video,.......but I continue to be flabbergasted at the number of views/likes. It walks over most of the dross on RUclips.
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Completely agree. You could play a Homemade Documentary for a 17 year old high school kid who hates science, and they'd watch it completely fascinated. These are the most brilliantly produced space exploration documentaries I've ever seen. The way they educate you while taking you to another place in such an immersive way is just awesome. 21.6k subscribers? Not for long. Content this incredible won't stay secret forever.
Amazing content, shows passion and respect for these great feats.
Absolutely!!
I don‘t know how I got here but I am stuck at your channel for 3 days now and I am watching everything. Seeing the LEM and CM maneuvering here was one of my highlights, along with the tracking shot of the Saturn V launch of Apollo 8. I have never seen this material before (even though I consider myself a space geek) and your usage of it to tell the story and context of all these missions is breathtaking and makes these events feel fresh and as awe inspiring as they must have been 50 years ago. I am glad I have some of your videos left to watch. I am also glad I discovered your Patreon page in the description of your newer videos - you should update the description of you older ones to include that. I guess I will not be the only one who feels the urge to give something back for the excitment, enlightenment and evening filling entertainment you did provide. Keep up the amazing work!
I second the suggestion to add a Patreon link to the descriptions of your older videos!
Exactly the same for me.
You do some of the best Apollo documentaries I've ever seen. I don't know how I didn't discover your channel sooner, but I just wanted to say, this is wonderful and outstanding work. Especially for the missions (like Apollo 9) that are largely forgotten in the public consciousness, and shouldn't be.
Thank you!
All of these docos have production values better than 99% of anything made for tv. Research, source material, editing, score, voice over.....the works. Kudos man, simply unreal 👏
Who is Marx?
Apollo 9 is criminally underrepresented. Excellent documentary on Spider & Gumdrop!
I have build hundreds of engines, each time I fire one up I have a little pit in my stomach, and I'm good at my job,
These guys had balls of steel when they fired their engines...
That was excellent. Apollo 9 gets lost in the glare of Apollos 8 and 11. You did a great job of telling their story. I'm looking forward to your Apollo 10 video next, another groundbreaking mission that is too often overlooked.
They get better with time! I am glad how this one turned out. I wish I was a bit more detailed myself on the Apollo 10 vid. I kept it simple on purpose for 11, and I really deep dive into specifics for 12 through 15.
Apollo 13 is an edge of the seat incident
There is something about the Saturn 5 that the space shuttle just doesn't have. What a beautiful vehicle.
Power. Raw, fucking power.
5 F1 engines made that thing an absolute beast.
The Space Shuttle was a Black Cat firecracker,while the Saturn V was an M-100.
Love these home -made docs!!! The research is unbelieveable. I'm 58, and at that time was an 8 year old kid not really grasping the enormity of it all. What a generation! Thanks for the detailed look back.
Thank you Sir for this excellent series. Your Apollo documentaries are fantastic. I grew up during the Apollo program and watched as much as I could on TV. Even at school we always had a TV in the classroom during the Apollo missions. My family lived in Houston so we visited the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center and mission control several times. I actually saw Michael Collins there during one of our visits; I was about 9 years old but remember it very clearly. I actually met James Irwin at our church shortly after he walked on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission. Your documentaries cover so much more than I have ever seen and bring back some of the most awesome memories of my childhood.
editing error at the end: patch appears, disappears, then fades back in.
For the last 3-4 episodes, I've made 1 minor editing mistake in every vid.
I'm starting to believe it's good luck!
CORRECTIONS:
1968 saw only TWO launches of the Saturn V. Apollo 6, and Apollo 8.
Apollo 4 launched in November of '67.
Have you seen The Dream Is Alive?
Yep!
Rusty Schweickart and Jack Swigert were actually two different people with similar sounding last names.
Your documentaries are absolutely bloody fantastic!! I’ve now watched all of them. Please please make more 🇬🇧👍
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What a terrific documentary. Thank you for making them. So enjoyable to watch!
4:28 I absolutely LOVE the historic retro images used throughout to illustrate the various parts of the Apollo mission; Bravo! -so glad you didn’t use modern CGI illustrations!
/Lonewolf Liberties
I have used modern CGI in other videos, but I feel it’s important to give each film a distinct flavor and I felt it was appropriate in this case to stick to the visuals only available at the time.
Fantastic to hear the soundtracks from just about every great sci-fi movie ever produced. The perfect complimentary background to this superb production. On the verge of tears numerous times. Well done!
Outstanding documentary. It was the best I have seen of a single mission. Great job!
That means a lot, thank you
21 dislikes??? I'm guessing they were deaf and blind people, or discovery channel employees 😂👍🏻🇬🇧
Most likely they are space hoaxtards.
Apparently Jim was devastated at the loss of Ed. White...they were very close...Jim died in October 2022...
Hi, I am starting to watch your series with Apollo 9. Your narration is great, very well written and told, also the music fits perfectly. I enjoyed it a lot. The only suggestion I would have is that you add more details about the time span when Spider was separated from Gumdrop - on the one side that was just the scariest part of the mission in my opinion, on the other side the most important, I believe.
Such a well-made programme! I had sort of forgotten about Apollo 9. So glad that I found your documentary. Thank you very much!
Homemade Documentaries should be NASA'S official archivist. I never get over how genuinely exciting these documentaries are to watch. It feels exactly like watching an epic action/adventure movie.
Don't forget CuriousMarc
Another remarkable Apollo mission, with some remarkable footage. I love the shots of the CSM and the LM orbiting in formation.
The speed at which they rolled out missions in 1969 as astonishing...and that was 50 years ago!
Then again 1968 also had 4 missions. Those 2 years were amazing!
Absolutely
Motivation: They had to have time for second and third chances in 1969 if Apollo 11 hadn't made the landing.
The sad thing is if you were a kid at the time you thought it was normal. There'd be a space flight every other month and, later, 3 times a year and you looked forward to it. Then they just stopped. For 6-7 years there was nothing but promises about how wonderful the space shuttle would be, and when the shuttle finally arrived it couldn't do anything that they weren't already doing in the days of Gemini except that occasionally it killed a bunch of astronauts.
And I can still remember the splashdown of Apollo 9....
You put together great videos, I sincerely hope this channel explodes with subscribers soon. You deserve a million.
I am learning so much from your excellent documentaries, it's great to hear how each mission paved the way for the moon landing. Awesome work! :)
Interesting story APOLLO 9!! It is a flight most people never heard about! APOLLO 8 to the moon and back and APOLLO 11 that finaly landed; yes! BUT APOLLO 9 is a story worth to bee told! Great work on this docu!!! :-)
Thank you hans!
Growing up during the 60's, I was a "Space Fan". I lived space in my imagination and absorbed everything that I could. Later in my life I was fortunate enough to be hired by a contractor at NASA Dryden at Edwards A.F.Base, CA. It was fun.
This channel will be huge one day mark my words thank you for these man
Sir, I'm quite impressed with your documentaries. I started with the Mercury and Gemini videos. Please keep at it.
Same here. Started with them and then went and watched everything on the channel. Then my dad (who has had a beeper and then a flip phone till about three years ago) I told him about this channel and he’s now in the space shuttle missions
I had the good fortune to attend the 50th anniversary celebration in San Diego, where all 3 crew members were there on stage to talk about the mission. Gene Kranz was also there, as were a few other astronauts, including some guy named Aldrin. Anyway, it was amazing to hear these guys in person. Even the Command Module was there in person!
That’s great to hear.
Apollo 9 was another mission I enjoy
I recreated this mission over and over on my free time and I do it all in real time in KSP. This is important to me since where I live, we built the LM, we tested it on the ground and this was a HUGE milestone in the development of Apollo
Although they could of used a Saturn IB. It’s an overkill to use a Saturn V for an earth orbital mission.
i love home made space vids , i have a ton of them at my channels
THE SCALE, THE SCALE OF THE SATURN V. The 'small' helicopter flying by the rocket! Oh Me Oh My!
28:44 Watch the next 12 seconds of footage and then tell me we live on a FLAT EARTH .....NOT !!!!
Rewatching and knitting.I enjoy the Playlists. let's me just zip through things.
The blouse I'm working on fit almost perfectly. The cuffs were too short and so require lengthening, and one cuff was far too tight, meaning i had to rip it out and redo it. i'm a half inch into the redo of the too tight cuff and happily rewatching the apollo series.
up next, apollo 10!
thank you JT!
You’ve got a scary knowledge base of space history by this point! I wouldn’t be surprised if you knew more than I did. When it comes to just normal, day-to-day life, I’m quite a poor conversationalist on this topic since my brain is totally programmed to the work cycle of making these films. So much knowledge is loaded and then flushed out, and I’m trying to forget the last project and focus on the next one all the time. You’ve listened to my films so much I wouldn’t be surprised if you knew more about them than I did. You’d be a formidable presence in a space history trivia match!
@@JacksonTyler LOL Spac3 History Trivia. Could be cool. :)
Great video. Jim McDivitt doesn't get the recognition that the Apollo moon landers get but he perhaps was the best of the 2nd astronaut group.
Thanks for this docu. As an Apollo kid, i enjoyed a moment back in my best memories. Goed music you picked.
R I P Commander Jim McDivitt
the old intro clip about the LM at the start, the music reminds me a lot of the score in Alien.
Anybody see the dude with sunglasses in mission control @ 17:20 or so? Probably had a bad night...
These are probabl the best space doco's I've ever watched. Always find myself coming back to them.
Good job Homemade!
P.s. We need more. haha.
I'd love to see something based off the unmanned, earlier Apollo missions (2 to 7) :)
my grandpa was on the misson for the apollo 9. Thank you for this I never knew much about him so this helped show me more
What was your grandpa’s name?
@@JacksonTyler Donald A Lunt. Dad to Danielle Haldeman and husband to donna haldeman
@@JacksonTyler www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/donald-lunt-obituary?pid=124567579
That’s awesome! I’m glad this helped connect you with the wonderful history he was a part of.
@@mood.5407 may God rest his soul. I thank him for serving our country 🙏🏿
Gorgeous documentary, you made a phenomenal work!
I'm watching all the documentaries you made about the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo missions, and I'm trying to watch them in proper chronological order, so I started with your 2+ hours Mercury documentary, and, oh boy, it was grandiose!
You have a talent, thank you for sharing it with the world!
The only ones I still have yet to do are Gemini but that’s planned for this season.
@@JacksonTyler That would be fabulous! I find the Gemini project quite fascinating and hope very much to watch a new documentary by you, I can see that you have refined your ability a lot!
Also, are you considering a Patreon? Or at least a "donate" possibility?
I see that there are people that would likely express their appreciation to you in this form!
I am going to open a Patreon at or just after 10K subscribers! I can’t offer much in terms of exclusive content apart from raw footage, but I am going to publish expense reports and keep it entirely transparent - and only use the proceeds from the patreon to acquire more and better footage. None will be used for personal gain.
@@JacksonTyler I think that many of us will be just happy to donate to express our appreciation of your work and to help a little in covering expenses that for sure you have to face in producing your documentaries.
19:48 😂 do you know which Capcom mistakenly called them Apollo 7? My guess is either Roosa or Worden (as Schweickart called them new guys, probably Group 5). Or maybe Evans since he'd been on Apollo 7's support crew as well and might've still had that number in his head.
Also, 20:07 is somewhat inaccurate. Apollo 7 actually outlasted Apollo 9 by one day longer in space from October 11-22.
It sounds like Evans’ voice to me!
C’mon, guys. We all know the whole Apollo thing was faked and filmed on a soundstage, right? And the rocket on the stand and taking off is all 1960s quality CGI….😁😜
Excellent documentary, sir. I’m gonna binge watch all your videos. I may be approaching 50 but I’m still a kid at heart when it comes to rocketry & space travel.
Nice satire lol 👍
Fokin' LOVE THIS, mate! Thanks for posting🌏🌎🌍
I'm _slowly_ working my way through your videos, enjoying them as I go. Your work is very impressive, it's disappointing that you don't have more subs. Please don't be discouraged.
Looking back on some of these old ones can be quite painful. I have absolutely improved by leaps and bounds since the early days. I have nonetheless continued to enjoy making them as I learn.
Homemade Documentaries please continue to do so - these are truly the best resources for myself and my fellow space enthusiasts.
Great production. Except 1968 saw only 2 launches of the Saturn 5, not 3. The first was Apollo 4 on Nov. 9, 1967. 🙏
An easy mistake to make, as Apollo 7 was also launched in 1968, but on a Saturn IB.
i hope you are still narrating! You have a gift my friend!
One of the best channels on RUclips and network tv BRAVO
CDR is short for Commander. You don’t pronounce it C D R
Except when you do, because this is NASA and the rigidity of military tradition need not apply. The astronauts did so themselves many an occasion, mostly in a tongue-and-cheek way. Who are you again? lol
I remember growing up with this, still amazing.
Well done.
Great video! People should know how important were missions before Apollo11
Great video, and so well done!
Great video. THANK YOU
Well. Go ahead and add one more to the days long binge list.
I absolutely love your work. These documentaries are better than much of the commercially produced stuff out there. Thanks for putting these together!
Thank you for watching l!
Amazing videos. I grew with Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. Thank you so much for your hard work
Another amazing documentary, this whole series so far has been incredible.
How isn't this the leading space channel? Fantastic content!
Outstanding work, again. And a well-deserved in depth look at a great mission. Thank you.
I have watched almost the entire Apollo, Mercury, and Gemini series. Thankyou! You videos are second to none and brilliantly made.
Damn I'am glad to be a American.
Another brilliant piece of work! These videos of the spacecrafts with the earth as a backdrop are some of my favorites from the Apollo program.
Without doubt the most detailed review of project Apollo. This is the standard to which other RUclips documentary makers should aspire.
You are amazing especially the Mercury program video
What a Mission! Also, great YT Channel - well done everybody.
Whoever made this thank u... im trying to learn about all the apollo missions and this is very informative...
Thanks for your kind words! I made it. If you have any questions or need sources, I’d be happy to provide anything
It is interesting that Apollo 14 got Al Shepard as CDR when it should have been Donn Eisele or Gordon Cooper, but somehow both "performed badly" as backups for Apollo 10. I would wager that was enforced as the story by Al Shepard. Its the only time astronauts performed "badly" as backups on any Apollo flight, just coinciding with Al Shepard getting command 3 missions in the future. Its too much of a coincidence that 2 failed as backups, especially as Eisele had performed well as a CMP on Apollo 7!!!
Al pissed off alot of the astronauts with what happened!
Maybe a separate video on just this drama?
From what I remember Chris Kraft said "NONE of the 3 guys from Apollo 7 will fly in space again", and they never did. The reason was that Wally Shirra was too insubordinate to mission control during the whole Apollo 7 mission, his crew mates Eisele and Cunningham really had no choice but to go along with Wally. It's a shame because Apollo 7 was basically a perfect mission, all the guys did great but somebody had to show who's boss so all 3 of them lost.
As for Gordo Cooper, he did get lazy and showed early signs of instability so he really couldn't fly anymore..later in life he was really disturbed, believed in aliens.
I think the 2 bad things to come out of Al Shepard getting the Apollo 14 CDR slot was that he didn't show any interest in lunar geology(their term, not mine) so that's a science loss and he pushed back other crews to later missions..several astronauts didn't go to the moon because of this.
Gordo was asking for it. He was out racing cars and doing dangerous things, and getting into public spats with NASA management. There were more astros than there were seats in Apollo. You didn't do things like that if you wanted to stay on the roster and fly missions.
Amazing documentary on an amazing channel, very much appreciated !
Still the best guy on RUclips. My Mum is moving interstate. I said this is the channel we will watch, at her new home. Best.
Having only stumbled onto your channel this morning, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
Actually the first time a complete Lm flew was on Apollo 9. On Apollo 5 which was launched by a Saturn Ib on January 22 1968 the Lm did not have its four landing legs. The other launches before Apollo 9 were models.of the Lm, keep up the Great work. looking forward to seeing the rest of your documentaries.
The legs were why I didn’t consider LM-1 “complete”, but Apollo 5 was indeed an incredibly important test. Thank you!!
I have become addicted to this channel. This is some amazing content. The SLS Videos are Amazing
Absolutely superb work! Loved every minute. Thanks, subscribed!
RIP James McDivitt
The only time we get to see the LM in orbit around the earth, and Dave Scott, the last astronaut to do solo orbits around the earth. It's too bad Apollo 9 has been so overlooked. I can understand why, because they did so little TV, just two short broadcasts, and we don't see much film either. No visuals, no documentaries, except for this one. But 'm old enough to remember Apollo 9 and it was a big deal at the time even though it's forgotten now. Too bad McDivitt didn't get Apollo 14. Shepard is a great American hero, but McDivitt was the best man they had in the astronaut corps and it was a waste of talent that he never flew after this and didn't get a moon landing mission.
I watched these missions as a young man 50odd years ago but I have never got tired of watching a Saturn 5 launch.
As awesome as this documentary is, as a fan of Blade Runner, the music choice was a bit heavy lol 😆
your documentaries are so beautifully made, thanks
I retract my previous statement. I went back over that segment of this narrative and the entire film of his EVA that show the Rusty did in fact briefly step out of his "golden slippers" on the LM's porch for a couple minutes, before coming in. It would have been interesting though to see him actually doing the transfer as planned.
Cheers..great post. Apollo should have continued into the AAP ( Apollo Applications Program ) . Nixon really wasn't interested in NASA, only his own narrow minded Political shenanigans....
Gumdrop remained in Earth orbit for 12 years... I wonder if they communicated with Gumdrop at anytime during it's long orbit decay?
Great doc. Just a thought is it possible to correct the frame rate of some of the archives they are too sped up sometimes? A more natural movement would be preferable.
I've watching this document second time and I've enjoyed very much. Thanks for your good work 📡🇫🇮
After Apollo 8, these guys were never going to get any recognition. Apollo 10 with John Young & Gene Cernan …Apollo’s 16 & 17 respectively
Excellent music throughout
When NASA actually accomplished something.
It's cool they allowed a fuel cushion for hovering in case the landing site was not geologically possible to land and had to be manually changed because that is exactly what happened for the first landing by Niel.
I really love ur channel! U do such an amazing work and great honor to all of the NASA programs. In honor of all the NASA astronauts who lost their lives
I love your work
Thanks for this, I enjoyed it. Your channel is first rate in my book.
Love the content!
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Welcome aboard! Glad to have you
Very nice channel. And good to see a thorough documentation not only dealing with Apollo 1, 11 and 13. BR Anders
Simply great work making this along with all your other documentaries.
What was the difference of the life supporting system of Rusty's as comp to Ed Whites of Gemini? Rusty's was the first, they say here
Magnificent document. Nice work 📡🇫🇮
I'm sorry to have to pass on the news that Jim has just passed away. RIP Mr Peck. You will be missed.
Not to Split hairs, your videos are well made and very entertaining, as well as educational, but there was only 2 Saturn 5 Launches in 1968. The first Saturn 5 launch, Apollo 4 was launched in Nov. 1967. Apollo 6 in April 1968 and of course Apollo 8 Dec. 1968. Just saying. 🙀Love your videos!!!!!
You are absolutely right! I will add it to the list of corrections. Thank you. I am much, much better about mistakes these days, but it certainly happens. I will tell you my heart sinks to my stomach every time I find a new one.
Well done!