Apollo 12 - SCE to AUX (Full Mission 01)
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2016
- Apollo 12 Full Mission 01 (SCE to AUX)
The Apollo 12 full mission begins with the countdown and eventual launch on November 14th 1969 on the second lunar landing mission. Onboard are astronauts Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon and Alan Bean.
This video covers the last 3 hours _ of the countdown through to launch and orbit. The launch is infamous as the one that was struck by lightning, which caused electrical issues in the spacecraft but not to the Saturn V.
Audio used is the PAO countdown and at about the 1 min 30 seconds point the audio used is the PAO and the Flight Directors loop in separate channels. That loop includes John Aaron's call of "SCE to AUX".
Photos from the pre mission training and video are used to depict events as they happened approximately synched to the actual events. Orbiter Space Simulator AMSO is used for the simulated sequences where original footage is not available.
My thanks to Project Apollo on Facebook for support and providing photos for this series.
All photos, video and audio is courtesy NASA. 
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You have no Idea what good you have done for our posterity. Kids 50 years from now will learn the truth from people like you who have taken the time and effort to put together work like this. Thank You.
I completely agree
I doubt it. We will have already killed ourselves or the robots and AI will have taken over.
This is one kid here who has been obsessed with this stuff since my grandpa told me stories of flying bombers in ww2
@@sevenravensthis aged well... I mean this is aging well
@@sevenravens"will have already killed"? Future past participle tense?
The "Steely eyed missile man" mission. Props to John Aaron for being launch MVP.
Bro saved this.
SCE to AUX incident starts around 1h 16m
Not sure any of these missions would have been successful without John Aaron. Genius.
Definite will be a failure without John Aaron quick thinking suggestion, also Alan Bean knows the switch location onboard too.
"SCE to AUX what the hell is that?!" -Pete Conrad 1969
1:17:10
This phenomenal channel continues to bat a thousand ➝ _Apollo 12 (Full Mission)_ is a grand slam! The footage, the simulations, the audio, the timing are fantastic and melded together wonderfully. The viewer is placed in a time machine to experience the mission as if in real-time. Thanks a lot.
Thanks jeff - really appreciate your comments - regards LM5
One of the most underrated Apollo missions but still really good.
This crew enjoyed what they were doing
@@brianbee2869three good friends going to the moon together, hard to get better then that
@@SaltyCanadian probably one of my favourite missions for that reason, just a few guys goofin on the moon
20ish seconds and John Aron saves the day and then some. Just unreal how calm they were. professionals through and through.
John aron GOAT
Love hearing these flight loops. I especially appreciate the professionalism of the spokesmen of NASA's Public Affairs Office. This is so missing from today's YT channels that present SpaceX launches. On most of those channels, you get what in effect are teenagers in their parents basement attitude instead of true professionalism. I'm not demeaning their knowledge, only their presentation. I like hearing calm, non-emotional presentations like you have with the old NASA PAO.
Thanks so much for posting.
Conrad noted that they were reading 24 volts, which was low. The SCE AUX setting allowed the readouts to show at that low voltage.
1:21:00 "Best tell 'em the IU's doing okay, might make 'em feel better."
An amazing bit there that I never heard before. There's so much going through their minds: make sure that not only the spacecraft are done, but make sure the astronauts are mentally prepared to operate it. Whenever I forget it, something comes up to remind me.
Thank you for putting this up!
1:16:27 is when the results of the lightning strike are reported.
1:16:50 is when John Aaron speaks up and declares shortly after, "Try SCE to AUX"
Btw I'm lucky my phone has stereo speakers, so I heard everything clearly even with two separate channels of audio. If anyone is having any problems, plug in your headphones to hear this.
Fantastic video, thank you for putting this together!
Welcome! Thanks for the comment - LM5
Here we go again. 11 done and loved every minute. 12 a much less-known one to me. Can’t wait to listen n learn. Bring it on!
Enjoy 12! Its brilliant
2 lightning strikes, everything goes to crap, then a calm voice enters the chat and says: SCE to AUX. @1:16:50
And another steely eyed missile man showed his metal.
48 years ago this past morning. Love hearing Jack King as Apollo/Saturn launch control. This is a boyhood memory. I was 11 at the time and didn't understand how severe the problem might have been. I always remember the last 20 seconds of every countdown and King's 'lift off we have a lift off." The 'launch vehicle' always makes me smile too. It's a big rocket. I remember the HBO shows 'From the Earth to the Moon' and Al Bean saying 'I know where that is." It just shows how cool under pressure these guys were. Just wish we could have had the full moon walk on tv.
well....if you have been keeping updated with this series....although I cant produce tv pictures of the events after the tv camera failed - I am about to release the next best thing...reagrds LM5
Same here, Tom. Say, how do you like the chick announcers now, eh ?
From the earth to the moon obviously contains some dramatic license yet it arguably contains more accuracy on Apollo 12 than Apollo 12 itself lol
They did such a good job with that episode
RIP Commander Gordon.
Patrick Immel he cracked me up evrey time.
Yet another superb production. Great hearing the MCC-H discussions in real time with the air-to-ground, really gives you an idea of the speed of events and how they were unsure how to handle the IMU prior to orbit. Keep 'em coming.
hey there Robin...good to bear from you. I had put the audio on other videos on RUclips. .but think this one is the clearest I have managed to get it. It takes a while to get the audio from both tracks synchronised. The result is quite good! regards LM5
Spectacular work putting together this!
hey Joachim - thanks for the kind words. This one was a mammoth task putting all the sequences together...but worth it in the end - regards LM5
@butchtropic thanks butch
fearless men. and i love these audio tracks and how comical they can be sometimes of course this was at a time that 99% of the crew at Houston was chain smoking cause smoking was good for you back then.
Ah yes, Apollo 12. Arguably the tightest crew to fly, these guys were also very close friends. I miss Pete Conrad very much as he was intelligent and well spoken along with being one of the funniest guys around!
I'm looking forward as always to another long run of episodes as you cover the second manned landing on the Moon!
Hey Bog - good to hear from you as always. The 2nd lunar landing but my first attempt at one.....into the unknown past 9 miles if you know what I mean...regards LM5
I can think of NO ONE else I'd rather have doing this then you, my friend. It is in good hands!
Will try my best mate - thanks for those kind words - appreciated - LM5
Here NASA (or rather Dick Slayton) did the same thing with Apollo 8: Borman and Lovell had become friends in the Gemini 7 and put them together in Apollo 8 Conrad and Gordon took wonders in the Gemini 11 and they put together in this Apollo 12. I also have read that left elect the commander who wanted wingman.
@@ricardohectorgrumberg9807 Same with Stafford & Cernan
1:16:04 is where I think it was struck by lightening. It's much easier to tell in the air to ground as you hear momentary static
This, again, and I mean it from my heart.... is THE GREATEST CHANNEL EVER ON RUclips 🌍🌎🌏🌐🛰🚀🚀🚀🌚🪐☀🌒🔭📡➕➕➕✴✴✴✴🌝
This is fantastic!!! A real FIX for a space junkie!
Thanks John...there are 4 parts available at present...hope you get to watch them too regards LM5
I would have loved to been alive for these Apollo launches. Seeing that Saturn V's awesome power would have been a sight to behold.
Thanks for the vid LM5
Hey there Saxie - you are most welcome - most of us would have loved to have been there too - rain or no rain - regards LM5
I was there and sitting behind and to the right of Nixon. Let me tell you, it was wet. Soaked right through my raincoat. The sound was amazing, and clearing the pad was great, but right into the clouds. Saw the lightning hit the pad, and that was it! Also saw Apollo 15 from slightly closer-perfectly clear day. Felt the air hit my skin from the sound of the S-IC's 5 engines, and saw the stack way into the flight.
Go to the SLS launch, if you live long enough. I went to 2 shuttle launches, both postponed for a month.
This is one of Apollo’s finest moments imo, really making crucial decisions on the spot.
ETA They were struck twice by lightning, at 36.5 seconds and 53 seconds after launch, is that correct?!
yes
If you put up similarly full ones of 14-17 (including the intraflight stuff) I will watch them and thumbs up them all. These are great!
Thanks Juliana - hope you caught 11 last year
@@lunarmodule5 excellent work! I cant imagine the time you spend on this. Thank you
This flight was exciting because we were all awaiting the lightning had not damaged anything, and also because it was the first time the man was going to find again with another device (Surveyor 3) sent to another celestial body by the man himself. Thanks LM5!!!
Hope you're going to like this one Ricardo....regards my friend LM5
+lunarmodule5 hello LM5 great video ! Keep up the good work ! Also since your channel is called lunarmodule5 as you know LM-5 was flown on Apollo 11. I recommend you do Apollo 11 full mission series after you finish Apollo 12 can't wait for your next video !
lol let me get this one done first...this one will take a good year to complete regards LM5
Thank you so much for posting these! I really enjoy this history.
You are more than welcome David
Oh bloody hell LM5, you're destroying all my free time and my wife will go loopy! A whole new mission to watch from now until Christmas. Love this stuff, as you well know
apologies to your wife hard...I shall immediately stop doing any more videos!!!
Came back to watch part 1 yet again. LM5 you did an OUTSTANDING job putting together the pre-launch section of the video.
Very very good!! Thanks again... sure do appreciate your hard work my friend!!
hi there Keno...great to hear from you. ..glad you are rerunning the series...this launch hasnt been watched by as many as othe full missions...I wonder why...regards LM5
@@lunarmodule5 I hope to see a barrage of views coming your way for the remaining anniversaries.
Brings it all back. Thank you, for me and for generations to come, for posting this and all of your other superb vids on the Apollo missions. I've hoped I'd live long enough to see manned spaceflight to the moon or farther resume. I don't think I'm going to make it.
"I'm not sure we didn't get struck by lightning" Pete Conrad. Amazing...
Enjoy all your videos. Thank you for putting these together.
hi Brian...thanks for the comment...glad u r liking the channel...Regards LM5
@@lunarmodule5 5 years later, I still come back to you videos.
Many thanks indeed Lunarmodule5!!
I've been waiting for this:)
Welcome Matt!
I help my aging father so he can watch all the sports stuff he likes on the Internet and the other day he called me up and said his usual thing wasn't working.
I said "Have you tried to switching SCE to Auxiliary?" and he said "What the hell is that?"
I doubt my Dad even knows who Pete Conrad is but it sure did make me laugh.
Thank you!!! Oh man this is gonna be a good one. Thank you so much for all your hard work.
Hey there studio - more than welcome - hope you enjoy the rest of the flight - regards LM5
Off to a great start LM5. Impressive launch graphics. With Pete, Dick and Al on board, we know it'll be a fun flight. Thanks, as always.
Hey there Gort...thanks - glad you liked it...gonna be another adventure! regards LM5
John Aaron is a legend
Matt Hew
If he's ever had to pay for a beer since that day it is a huge injustice to my way of thinking.
Great video! "....A little more all-weather testing." Still cracks me up when I hear that.
yeah...pete conrads humour...it is missed
Mine was. "That's one of the better sims."
Jusy look wbat he said after landing on the moon. Iam in love him.
And iam boy that wqs born 7 years after he died
gilad Peled “Whoopee!! That May have been a small step for Neil, but it was a long one for me!”
I think Pete Conrad and his crew are my favorite of the Apollo astronauts. Love that guy!
Watching this again. Although I watched the whole event live, aged 11, I don't recall hearing any of the panic around the time of the lighting strike. Phew!
Thanks LM5 for taking us on another amazing journey!!!
Hey there CT.....yes, here we go on another adventure...great to have you along...regards LM5
This is sooooo cool!!! Thank you soooo much for this. Just started watching. Can't wait to see the rest of the mission.
Hey there MM- glad to see you're onboard this one - gonna be an interesting series - regards LM5
Hate to spoil the tension, they land and get back safely. The Titanic sank.
These clips are amazing!
Wow wow wow! I was just wondering the other day what your next project would be! Looking forward to yet another brilliant series! :D
Hi Ferrari - yeah I debated between this and Gemini 4.....but I have wanted to do a full lunar landing for a while now and Apollo 8 FMS whetted my appetite....so here we go! Gonna take about a year to do this one!!!! regards LM5
No matter LM5, will continue for a full year lol
I was fortunate enough to have lunch in 2017 with Lead Flight Director for Apollo 12, Gerry Griffin. Another Flight Director at our table, Milt Heflin, asked Gerry, "You know, I never asked you just how close you came to calling an abort on Apollo 12. How close did you come?"
Gerry held up his right hand and separated his thumb from his forefinger by a fraction of an inch. "That close," he answered.
Lunarmodule5 you've outdone yourself once again! And I commend you for all your hard good work you've done, not just Apollo 12 but all your full mission videos, outstanding work! You've actually opened the door for the kids of today who are Interested in all those amazing missions when I was a kid. And so many adults like myself enjoy reliving it all and, well, you just couldn't have done a better.job and mix of CGI animations, combined with real footages, MC transmissions, and of course Jack King's legendary commentary. Awesome. By request I just sent this link to my cousins in Colorado. They have kids who are into it all too and I'm sure it'll go over big! 😊
Thanks Bruce
@@lunarmodule5 no problem! 😊
Excellent job! Still waiting for episode 18 and more to finish the mission. Awesome!
Part 18...Imminent!!!!
Now, this is what we are talking about when we say we would love to complete accurate coverage of the manned space missions. Especially the Apollo flights. Absolute excellent work, unmatched by anyone else. Keep it up. There are a lot of us who appreciate your efforts. Hopefully, you can at least finish all of the Apollo missions with the detail you have begun with previous flights.
Thanks Melvin really appreciate those comments. I am hoping you are aware that part 18 of this series will be released sometime over the next 4 days...I am hoping that everyone will like it and appreciate how far the production of these series has come, since this Apollo 12 series was paused 3 years ago and since the original series some 7 years ago. Regards LM5
And again, thank you for all your work. Many thanks from Germany. :)
Hi De be - thanks for your kind words - regards LM5
Great stuff LM5. Waiting for next episode!
hi Ebbot...the next one is available now...Regards LM5
Still cranking out these excellent documentaries!
yeah....I need a hobby and this is it lol
YESSS! Apollo 12 as a Full Mission, great news! Apollo 12 is one of my favorite missions. Not only because of the SCE to AUX thing, but also since the astronauts were much more talkative than any of the other crews. For me, it was somewhat a disappointment. I had been in the holdidays with my parents during the Apollo 11 mission and we were in a valley in Austria shielded off by mountains from any TV reception. In fact, I learned of the landing from some hikers. So Apollo 12 was my personal first lunar landing and EVA to watch live on TV. It was in fact on a public holiday - no school for me. Imagine my disappointment when the TV camera was jammed. Btw German TV had no plan B in case the TV from the moon would fail, they simply shut down the whole TV program for several hours.
These video series are wonderful!
Glad you like them!
The air to ground audio is awesome for this flight :) SCE to AUX meant nothing to anyone but one guy. :)
The Saturn V was a heck of a machine.Struck twice by lightening during this launch and the vehicle didn't miss a beat.
Yep. The Saturn V stack had its own entirely separate and independent computer, not tied in to the spacecraft systems. Another brilliant piece of engineering - it just worked. Every time.
After all these years I've come to realize I knew next to nothing about Apollo XII. All I knew it as was "the one that got struck by lightning during liftoff." I've done this mission a huge disservice.
Super work!
Thanks Doug....glad u liked it...Regards LM5
These videos are amazing. Thank you for making them. I wouldn't be surprised if NASA was interested in them too.
thanks for the comment Steve. I think if nasa were interested they would have been in touch by now! regards LM5
I think he means the old NASA. Are they still around? 😉🚀🛰️📡
1:19:31 “that’s one of the better sims, believe me…” 😂
Very Awesome work!!!!
As I write, 47 years ago since amen and thank you
I’ve not heard room chatter with the engineers before from recordings that’s really amazing. Hard to believe they wouldn’t have been able to review the video to confirm being hit by lighting until the video film could be developed hours if not a day later!
Most of the cameras at the pad used standard film - no video in those days - so they had to wait for it to be processed
Yes! I was hoping you would do this one LM 5 this is my favourite mission!
Hey there Matthew - glad it's your favourite - hope its a keeper for you. regards LM5
I just love lessening to this with headphones.
How amazing how cool and professional these people were
This is an amazing channel
Thanks Balaji
well done LM5 it will be interesting to see what you do during the EV A's since there was no television Transmissions
well, as I hope you know...this is about to be remedied!! ;-)
Awesome work. Best regards from Argentina
Hey there Nicolas - thanks for watching - regards LM5
Good job -mate-
LM5 - you delivered again! Fantastic video, I cannot even imagine how much time and effort it took to pull it all together (as in all of your videos). Found just one tiny glitch - PAO/Flight channels at the end are in reverse order - PAO in the left channel, Flight in the right. Not that it could detract from the experience. Thanks a lot, LM5, now off to watch TLI part!
oooops! perfunction is my muddle name!
You are as close to perfection as humanly possible, keep those videos coming, LM5! ;-)
Yes sir!
Thank you!!!
U r welcome Gunther
And a legendery steel eye man was born that day.
My favorite Apollo lunar mission.
whohoo!!! You da man!!! I was wondering when you would get to Apollo 12. SCE TO AUX BABY!!!
Hey there cbavid - yeah, I thought it was about time - have had a lot of practice on 8, 10 and 13 so thought it was about time to initiate a PDI - lol - regards LM5
I hope you have the on board audio for re-entry like you did on Apollo 8. That was Awesome.
Great video!
Thanks!
Movin' the minus sign on the Solari digital clock @ 1:05:55, JSYK!! LOL!! :) :)
I never noticed that...lmao
They were hit by lightening while riding atop a large bomb and they shrug it off and laugh about it. 😎 I love these guys.
Love to listen to "Shorty" Powers, the voice of the first space travelers. RIP Colonel.
Excellent compiling and sync8ng with archived pics and video..esspecially the gantry tower load up.
Thanks Markus... appreciate the comments regards LM5
Great Video SCE to AUX, I had heard that many times only found out last night what it meant.
FCE?
Interesting how launch control had many more desks than mission control, even though they were only involved with a very small portion of the mission.
Stay calm
Set SCE to AUX
I have the T-shirt.
And I have trouble with auto maintenance….ha. When I feel like I need a shot of confidence and engineering know how, I listen to these tapes.
Godspeed Alan Bean
Bravo LM5!
Thanks Phillip - regards LM5
Awesome!!!!
Hey there Keno - welcome aboard "12" - regards LM5
Great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! photos at the start !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I recall after the successful return of the mission word got out that NASA had been concerned about what the lightening strikes may have done to the pyrotechnics in the recovery system. Someone logically concluded that if they were going to fail they may as well go ahead and proceed to the Moon as the end result would be the same as an abort from Earth orbit. They also elected to not inform the crew as it was also pointless. Ah, gotta love those engineers. Thank you for sharing this.
I wonder how the crew felt about that once they did find out.
Rumor has it that either Deke Slayton or Alan Shepard had Pete Conrad hypnotized to keep him from using profanity on the moon due to his habit of dropping f-bombs.
wow I've never heard NASA talk about the PSDS (remote self-destruct system). He insinuated NASA would only use it if the astronauts were out of the spacecraft. I'm glad we never had to prove that he was lying.
On Apollo , triggering the asds would automatically trigger the les tower
I really miss seeing your full mission videos. It's been 19 months since your last upload. Will you be continuing this series in the future or has real life gotten in the way forcing you to abandon all this?
Hi mm...i am unsure.thats all i can say..lm5
As a computer technician, I love telling this tale when someone asks me if I’m done after only 5 minutes of troubleshooting their idiocy. There was a nuclear power plant that regularly performed safety drills and the policy manual was to be treated as though it was the Bible because it dictated how to respond to emergencies. But there was an employee that never showed up for work yet made more money than anyone else except the top administrators, which angered many technicians that were on-site daily. One day all hell breaks loose, alarms go off, the reactor runs away out of control, and none of the steps in the manual help. When they get to the last page it says “When all else fails, call this number.” So they call it, and it’s the well-paid guy that never comes to work. He shows up, ignores their dubious looks while inspecting all of the alarms going off, and presses 1 button. Immediately the alarms shut off, temperatures and pressures return to normal, and everything is operating in the green. He begins walking out when someone blurts out “they pay you all that money just to press one stupid button???” He stops and says to the guy “They pay me to know which button to press.” Only one guy thought to press the ACE TO AUX button on this mission, and only one guy knew where that button even was.
Oh he had eyes like steel..
I really miss part 19 & 20, covering day 6 with EVA 2, launch and rendezvous. Would it be possible to add those?
I have been working on Apollo 12 EVA 2 for over 4 years - Brains slides are now coming in again after Corvid stopped the flow - so yes it will be available sometime this year
yes. A "Lunarmod" series with an EVA.
Yes Sir!!! about time huh? regards LM5
Pete Conrad was a character, he had a great sense of humor. 😆
Pete Conrad had an annoying habit of using language that is not family-friendly in which includes numerous f-bombs.
20:05 Does anyone know where Gunter Wendt? :3
Awsome
If the Apollo 12 crew had to be removed from the spacecraft due to lightning, it would have resulted in a launch scrub due to weather. The scrub would have resulted in the crew waiting another month due to the fact that they were going to land as close as possible to Surveyor 3.
Pete Conrad is so dang corny, I'm surprised he didn't grow up on a farm.