If you liked my Apollo 11 series, also take a look at my Apollo 15 and Skylab series. More than 20 animations so far. Hit my astronaut icon on the left, it will take you to my list of every video
Very nice work, thank you. When I was about 16 going on 17 my dad took me to the Cape to see Apolllo 13. We were primarlly there to see the college I was about to attend in the fall. We took a tour of the VAB and I saw the Saturn V standing there at the pad from the VAB in all of its glory. I remember telling my dad I had a bad feeling about the mission. He asked me why and I said: " because of the number thirteen". He said nothing about my bad omen. While I was a student at Florida Tech (FIT) in 1972 we flew my buddy's dad's Cessna 172 at night up the Indian River and circled the small restricted area surrounding the Cape at 2000 ft. We saw what I believed was Apollo 16 standing at the gantry at night all lit up with floodlights. It was a beautiful sight and I remember it to this day. Those were some very interesting years. The days when Star Trek was being played as TV reruns. Thanks for the very nice work.
My Dad started at NASA with Mercury and he retired 6 months before Challenger blew up. He was one of the engineers around the table for Apollo 13 figuring how to make the square filter match the round one! The Man …..former B17 pilot in WWII…..would race me…his slide rule vs me on my TI-80…..you’re smiling right now aren’t you? I’m 63, proud to be half the man he was….can never fill those shoes. It’s ok. Nobel prize? Every single one of the 14,000 people who made President Kennedy’s directive become reality! One small step…..one giant leap!
NASA couldn't have found a better guy. There was something about his voice and his delivery that added suspense and highlighted the magnitude of these amazing lift-offs. I was a kid during Apollo, and if you were a football fan back then, King was the nfl's John facenda. A voice that couldn't be replaced.
I saw Apollo 17 launch shortly after midnight back in December 1972, it was a clear night in Port Richey Florida, over 150 miles away from the cape. When it launched, it was like the sun coming up, the midnight sky was BLUE. We watched the first stage seperate, and it flew out over the Atlantic until it was just a white dot. I was 13 years old, but it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life.
THIS WAS A TREMENDOUS VIDEO! The crackling of the F-1 engines during launch was superb and closely mimicked the actual sounds. The video also underscored the tremendous engineering, hard work and dedication of all those involved in this amazing achievement by bringing the viewer "along for the ride." The late Jack King's voice as well as the other CapComs brought realism to this video. A job well done!
Thanks much for your comments! All the sounds I grab are for free. Could not find any F1 sound files that were for free, so I used a falcon 9 launch sound file which I may have slightly changed the pitch. One interesting sound that I used was for the interior shots. Having flown a couple thousand hours in fighter aircraft, the sounds of the environmental control system is ever present. Did not have any CM/LM ambient interior noises so I tried to imitate the inside (like a fighter) by using a Dyson vacuum cleaner pitched way down.
Thanks for watching and for your comment. Comments like this motivate me to make more. I do have another Apollo video in work. Major updates on all models so it is taking me some time to put it together.
@@opieswensonI had the same response. I remember watching this event with my family huddled around the TV. My father worked at NASA JSC, and thankfully JSC gave a lot of the workers the day off so they could be with their families. Every house on my block was watching the same broadcast with their doors open and all the kids went from house to house and just hung out with other families throughout the broadcast. It was a day like no other. That experience will never be repeated. Thanks for your efforts. Btw, if I had one request, it would be an Apollo 8 render, or possibly Apollo 13. 8 was my personal favorite mission. 13 was crazy around my house because my dad was recalled right after the accident. He didn’t come home for days. But as far as interesting missions, the J missions, 15, 16 and 17 would be great because of the extended stay on the moon and the rover. Thanks again! Oh, and thanks for Skylab. Skylab and Gemini don’t get the love that Apollo and STS get, yet they were fascinating missions.
Excellent rendition. I,m not going to crib about anything this time. Every detail looks great. The astronauts on apollo and Gemini missions and all the ground crews and nasa people were true hero's. I never get tired of learning more about them. Keep going.
I remember reading as much stuff as I could about Apollo as a kid. It absolutely fascinated me. It's what inspired me to become an engineer (electrical) and work in aviation. Currently an engineer in the Royal Australian Airforce. Love the video BTW.
Thanks for watching and your comment. I also have more Apollo 11 animations as well as Apollo 15 and Skylab animations. New animations in work that have much more detail.
Nice job. Love this stuff. Have for 60 years. Nothing, to me is more impressive than what this country did with such limited technology in the 60s. Truly mind boggling.
This is a masterpiece. I can NOW die happy. After watching parts 2 and 3, of course. Mike Collins was always my hero with John Young a close second. Brilliant piece of animation that I'll watch over and over again. Thank you for this.
Amazing! The interior tour of the spacecraft was incredible in it's detail. I felt like I was there on board. Going from the CM to the LM and back again, wow. Well done!
Long time ago. I tried Orbiter Apollo 7 mission, I did pre-launch check list in three hours real time. As considerd by the checklist... but i can not perform liftoff because cabin tempreture rise above 70 Celsium degree. I bolled my crew.LOL
Fantastic Job. Thank you. Only a small remark: the F1 Engines during launch were wrapped in a heat shield. A mistake that Ron Howard in Apollo 13 made as well.
Thanks for your comment. I figured that out when I completed a week or so of modeling the F1s based on pictures and drawings. Then I ran into the Apollo launch video showing the F1s from below the launch pad. It was a disappointing find to realize that I had about a weeks worth of effort for parts the viewer would never see. And a disappointment to realize that I thought I was done with the F1s…but I was not. In the end, I decided to let them run naked. 🙂
@@RideAcrossTheRiver so if you look at my F1 engine Nozzles on the first stage, they are running naked without their insulated covering. This link here has a picture with the covers on: www.apollosaturn.com/Website-II/F1-Engine-Thermal-Protection-System/i-RTsDmgd
Great work excellent detail I was there that day watching the launch with my Parents and siblings I was only 11 but will never forget the rumble of that amazing machine. Thanks for the flashback
Thanks. Must have been an awesome sight and feeling from the rumble. Any chance you could spot yourself in the Apollo 11 movie that included a lot of imax type shots of the crowds?
@@opieswenson I've watched the videos several times but never spotted us we were watching by the river in Titusville There were so many people that day it was incredible
So superbly implemented! I recall watching this at school, aged 10. I also followed every aspect in the Sunday papers where basic technical descriptions and diagrams were published. Amazing it was all achieved with so much less computing power than a modern pocket calculator!
I was 12 yrs old when I watched this piece of history live. The extraordinary sights and sounds in this video make me feel like that gobsmacked 12-yr-old, stowing away on board to witness Neil & Buzz step out onto the lunar plains, under a million stars, and plant the flag.
Thanks for watching and for your comments. I also have a part 2 and 3 for Apollo 11 if you have not seen it. I also have an Apollo 15 series on my channel that shows the rover deployment.
This was amazing engineering at the time all using slide rules and the computer that was on the lunar lander guidance had the same processing power as a modern day calculator truly amazing.
Thanks for watching? New Part 2 in a day or two. I may open them all one more time to include some tweaks based on user comments...then starting the panel by panel tour.
Thank you very much for putting this informative and entertaining video. It gives us a better understanding of what went on during that historical time.
Fantastic I was only 5 when this happened, thank you for making these videos ❤a fantastic achievement in themselves. The quality is amazing and it explains so much about what happened and how it was all done, so breathtaking to this day ❤
I've used Blender quite a bit and can appreciate the incredible amount of work this took! Your animation is amazing! Very cool to see the details of the launch that in real life could not have been seen. Great job! BTW, i never watch the countdown clock on my microwave without calling out all of the same checkpoints in the launch sequence! :)
Fellow Blender user---thanks much! Don't think I have ever had a Blender user comment before. The A11 series was my first real animation. My A15 videos have much more realism with working DSKY and working digital clocks, fuel, etc. Currently working on a new Saturn V launch (A15) where I correct many of my Apollo LUT (tower) errors, add in a ton of detail, while at the same time replacing a lot of mesh where I could have used curves or instancing instead.
@@hchattaway You can do a search for Drew Swenson Blender on RUclips or go directly to my channel with this link here: www.youtube.com/@opieswenson/videos. Let me know what you think.
@@opieswenson These were awesome videos... I just watched the hatch video for Skylab... The camera work was super smooth, nice easing. Looked like it was just floating through Skylab! This is my first attempt at animation in Blender... It's a kit bashing model ruclips.net/video/nBkBG7ynwvU/видео.html For doing solid modeling, I've been learning Plasticity. It's much more specific to modeling than Blender and has amazing features. Then I'm incorporating my models inside of UnReal Engine. UnReal is just that... Incredibly powerful tool and free! I've seen that's the way to go for making movies. What I would love to see you do is an animation of the F1 engines starting up from the inside. Start from the outside, than fly into the engine showing the ignition sequence.. The igniters going off, the turbo pumps spinning up, valves working and then the injector head spraying the fuel into the combustion chamber. maybe fly down the fuel lines from the tank to show the journey from there. :) I read so many books on the Saturn 5 and love hardware.. so that's my personal taste. :) Great work you're doing!
Amazing illustration and simulation… impressive all these achievements done in 1969 meaning all engr done early 60 till 65 and from then testing and debugging so this is let 50s technology proven in late 60s … just amazing achievement !!!
Thanks much for your comment. If you liked that one, I have several more in the Apollo 11 series. And my models in my Apollo 15 series are more detailed. Let me know what you think.
If you like that one, wait until my next one. The next one is a more detailed tour inside the docked spacecraft---detailed enough so that you can read every panel if you choose. But to do that, I had to step up my game in the model. A lot more detail has been added such as brackets, placards, exposed wires, additional boxes, etc.
I was like 6 or 7 years old , The marathon gas stations use to have special drinking glasses that you got with a fill up. What a time to watch history in the making .
Thanks…there are two other videos in the series if you have not seen them. A new one is coming out where you will be able to see the entire interior in detail.
Love the inclusion of the solid motors in the 1st stage outboard engine fairings firing UP at stage sep to help keep Stage 1 from colliding with Stage 2....a detail many are unaware of.
And I love it when people notice those details. As an aside, my most detailed internal Apollo model is in the “Translunar Coast” video. It is my least popular in my Apollo series…and I knew it would be when I made it. It was specifically made for those people who were very interested in the up close details inside the spacecraft. Thanks again for watching!
Thanks for watching and your comment. If you like this I have several more A11 animations as well as A15 animations. Stay tuned for an A15 launch animation that has way more detail than my A11 launch.
Thanks! If you get a chance, please see part 2 and 3. Next video in work is a detail tour of the docked spacecraft. Detailed enough so that you can read everything inside.
Captivating, fascinating & superb job on animation and coupling with audio. makes me wish all over again that I was inside there just as when I watched it live on our crappy black & white Magnavox tv (when I was 7 or somethin). a nice comprehensive representation of sequence with no extra fluff added. I would've maybe pissed pants knowing decades later how phenomenally Dangerous being in space is. even in low-low orbit right above. no room for any tiny fudge at all. 🥶
@@opieswenson Thank you kindly Mr. Swenson I'll definitely see to it. Your panning angular perspective/s chosen in anim. is beautiful in augmenting the realism quality. You have my full salute; what a splendid sequence. 👌🏻👍🏻
Yes...lot of time and effort. Last October I became interested in learning Blender having spent the prior year putting several apps in the Apple App Store. You can see my first animation test case on youTube with a scify spaceship. The LUT probably took the most time, and I would definitely build it differently next time. For the most part, I would build ALL of my models differently if I did it again. As you get your hands dirty, you end up learning new and better ways to do things.
Thanks for your comment. It took a lot of research trying to figure out what they all said. I used NASA pictures, the Smithsonian 3D site on Apollo 11 and various other sources. I think there is at least one and maybe 2 decals that I did not include because I could not quite read what it said. One of those decals goes under locker R1 on the curvy part of the wall.
On your comment on the title…NASA PAO Jack King flubbed his comment and said “all engine running”. I corrected his quote for the title. Fun fact….Jack King’s son was one of my flight instructors flying the F-14 (I was a RIO in VF-84 and VX-30)
Born in 1964, I've been space junkie my whole life. Out of all the Apollo accomplishments my favorite is the Apollo rocket launch release mechanisms. Even a 10th of a second failure could lead to catastrophe. The WWII generation is still the peak of human evolution.
That was from 1961 Alan Shepherd in a little Mercury Capsule going 100 miles up and 300 miles down range to 1969, three men going 250, 000 miles to the moon and back!!! in 8 years from can we go to space???... to planting the US Flag on the moon and bringing back moon rocks. Most American homes had Black and White TV, one phone on the wall. Only half the homes were airconditioned and in most car's Air Conditioning was because of a kit put on to a car once it was purchased. My Father's home in 1969 had a phone, but it was a shared party line, we had black and white TV and we didn't have Air Conditioning. A Computer was unknown in the home and Engineering Students carried a slide rule. Most homes had a live in cooking mother, a working WWII veteran father and most families went to Church at least once a week. We had a lot less economically and we were a lot happier. Most people came from something they could look back at their shoulder at called a two parent home!!! I think we have lost something 60 years later.
11:30 What is size of this console? Distance of the doors? Can this be folded? I saw Buzz Aldrin on knees in doors as if console wasn't there, is there enough room to get out?
Take a look at my 2 of my Apollo 15 videos. My first animations with people. That will give you relative size. And yes, they had to get on their knees and pretty much belly crawl out. But with that said, their suite lunar weight was 30 to 50 lbs. ruclips.net/video/kYHl42M2I2w/видео.htmlsi=duCaQcOBEUmd8H28 ruclips.net/video/VlJspdHEYAs/видео.htmlsi=LuV3JYdmIb0VaWsR
@@opieswenson Thanks for links but there is nothing that might help to find answer. You have all models, so can you make such scene, dont say animation, just bend knee of human, in front of opened doors and remake scenes / photos of Buzz getting out?
@@KabelkowyJoe The spacecraft is so oddly shaped, it is difficult to get a good measurement. But in general, the main front panel is about 3.5 wide. Wider towards the bottom. The hatch is about 2.58 to 3 ft wide and sits underneath the main panel. There are 2 tray tables that fold up and the armrests fold out of the way. I used drawings like this (heroicrelics.org/info/lm/lm-ctrl-panel.html) to relatively size the instrument panels. And there are lots of places on line to get good sizing information on the ascent stage. Once the ascent stage was built, it was relatively easy to scale the instrument panels to fit the ascent stage. Wo when building this model, I never had actual sizing information of the instrument panel.
@@opieswenson Serious question: have you ever considered putting out your wonderful films on a DVD? I know alot of people - including myself - would buy it in a heartbeat!
@@lonnien.6600 No, have not considered putting on DVD. But I am so glad to have viewers on RUclips. My 3 part Skylab series is complete, but over the next week or so, I will be putting up short Skylab clips that highlight specific panels and experiments in Skylab. These are all in my Skylab Series playlist
@@lonnien.6600 I may do it. On my list is to finish up my Skylab videos. And I wanted to go back to add an Apollo Rover deployment. And for fun, maybe doing a scyfy Jupiter 2. My son wants me to finish an F-14 that I have roughed out (I used to fly as a RIO in F14s).
If you liked my Apollo 11 series, also take a look at my Apollo 15 and Skylab series. More than 20 animations so far. Hit my astronaut icon on the left, it will take you to my list of every video
Very nice work, thank you. When I was about 16 going on 17 my dad took me to the Cape to see Apolllo 13. We were primarlly there to see the college I was about to attend in the fall. We took a tour of the VAB and I saw the Saturn V standing there at the pad from the VAB in all of its glory. I remember telling my dad I had a bad feeling about the mission. He asked me why and I said: " because of the number thirteen". He said nothing about my bad omen.
While I was a student at Florida Tech (FIT) in 1972 we flew my buddy's dad's Cessna 172 at night up the Indian River and circled the small restricted area surrounding the Cape at 2000 ft. We saw what I believed was Apollo 16 standing at the gantry at night all lit up with floodlights. It was a beautiful sight and I remember it to this day. Those were some very interesting years. The days when Star Trek was being played as TV reruns. Thanks for the very nice work.
@@daffidavit Thanks for watching and for your comment.
Will do.
Wow
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My Dad started at NASA with Mercury and he retired 6 months before Challenger blew up. He was one of the engineers around the table for Apollo 13 figuring how to make the square filter match the round one! The Man …..former B17 pilot in WWII…..would race me…his slide rule vs me on my TI-80…..you’re smiling right now aren’t you? I’m 63, proud to be half the man he was….can never fill those shoes. It’s ok. Nobel prize? Every single one of the 14,000 people who made President Kennedy’s directive become reality! One small step…..one giant leap!
Pretty cool. Here's to your Dad.
I am 71 now and all of my engineering training was with a slide rule. It was amazingly quick and accurate.
Very well put. I salute your dad.
Great addition to this posting. Thank you.
My dad was auto industry and made his mark. Engineers are a different breed! Here's to your pop ! Good stuff.
Nobody called a liftoff better than Jack King. His descriptions of all the operational sequencing was second to none!
Plus he had a nice voice to listen to.
NASA couldn't have found a better guy. There was something about his voice and his delivery that added suspense and highlighted the magnitude of these amazing lift-offs. I was a kid during Apollo, and if you were a football fan back then, King was the nfl's John facenda. A voice that couldn't be replaced.
You're absolutely right- though I love his break ("all engine[sic] running") - such was the emotion at that moment.
I saw Apollo 17 launch shortly after midnight back in December 1972, it was a clear night in Port Richey Florida, over 150 miles away from the cape. When it launched, it was like the sun coming up, the midnight sky was BLUE. We watched the first stage seperate, and it flew out over the Atlantic until it was just a white dot. I was 13 years old, but it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life.
Very cool. I was 7 and watched it on TV…not as cool.
Houston this is is Neil Armstrong. Can anyone tell me what all these fucking buttons do?
@Matias D.C you’re joking…right?
THIS WAS A TREMENDOUS VIDEO! The crackling of the F-1 engines during launch was superb and closely mimicked the actual sounds. The video also underscored the tremendous engineering, hard work and dedication of all those involved in this amazing achievement by bringing the viewer "along for the ride." The late Jack King's voice as well as the other CapComs brought realism to this video. A job well done!
Thanks much for your comments! All the sounds I grab are for free. Could not find any F1 sound files that were for free, so I used a falcon 9 launch sound file which I may have slightly changed the pitch. One interesting sound that I used was for the interior shots. Having flown a couple thousand hours in fighter aircraft, the sounds of the environmental control system is ever present. Did not have any CM/LM ambient interior noises so I tried to imitate the inside (like a fighter) by using a Dyson vacuum cleaner pitched way down.
I had the same emotional response watching this that I had watching the original launch as a child, you have brought me great joy, thank you
Thanks for watching and for your comment. Comments like this motivate me to make more. I do have another Apollo video in work. Major updates on all models so it is taking me some time to put it together.
I remember watching this on our B&W TV with rabbit ears. Heady days, indeed!
@@opieswensonI had the same response. I remember watching this event with my family huddled around the TV. My father worked at NASA JSC, and thankfully JSC gave a lot of the workers the day off so they could be with their families. Every house on my block was watching the same broadcast with their doors open and all the kids went from house to house and just hung out with other families throughout the broadcast. It was a day like no other. That experience will never be repeated. Thanks for your efforts. Btw, if I had one request, it would be an Apollo 8 render, or possibly Apollo 13. 8 was my personal favorite mission. 13 was crazy around my house because my dad was recalled right after the accident. He didn’t come home for days. But as far as interesting missions, the J missions, 15, 16 and 17 would be great because of the extended stay on the moon and the rover. Thanks again! Oh, and thanks for Skylab. Skylab and Gemini don’t get the love that Apollo and STS get, yet they were fascinating missions.
Excellent rendition. I,m not going to crib about anything this time. Every detail looks great. The astronauts on apollo and Gemini missions and all the ground crews and nasa people were true hero's. I never get tired of learning more about them.
Keep going.
Thanks! I do listen to comments and take action. I didn't fix everything...but I fixed a lot.
I remember reading as much stuff as I could about Apollo as a kid. It absolutely fascinated me. It's what inspired me to become an engineer (electrical) and work in aviation. Currently an engineer in the Royal Australian Airforce. Love the video BTW.
Thanks for watching and your comment. I also have more Apollo 11 animations as well as Apollo 15 and Skylab animations. New animations in work that have much more detail.
Nice job. Love this stuff. Have for 60 years. Nothing, to me is more impressive than what this country did with such limited technology in the 60s. Truly mind boggling.
Thanks for watching! More content coming. If you have not seen my Skylab and Apollo 15 animations, please take a look.
It never happened, so there goes that 60's idea.
@@TrutherOne-xv8nr7yj3e I'll play. Give me your best proof that it did not happen. Make it count, so make sure it is the best.
I was 9 years old. Watched every second of the mission I could.
Thanks for watching. If you liked that one, take a look at my other Apollo content.
When i was a kid i was really interested in the space program, Mercury, Gemini then Apollo, this is so cool.
This is a masterpiece. I can NOW die happy. After watching parts 2 and 3, of course. Mike Collins was always my hero with John Young a close second. Brilliant piece of animation that I'll watch over and over again. Thank you for this.
Thanks!
John Young is my favorite astronaut too. The one I would have most liked to talk too (somehow I think I'd have bored him though!).
Hey! There's a guy with a black cat doing something to the second stage!
Star Trek reference?
@@opieswenson yes
Assignment: Earth...
P.S.--my guess is the vehicle used in those pad shots was Apollo 4...the timing is about right.🇺🇸
it’s ok, Teri Garr is on it 😉
Gary Seven 🧐
Amazing! The interior tour of the spacecraft was incredible in it's detail. I felt like I was there on board. Going from the CM to the LM and back again, wow. Well done!
Thanks for the comment!!
The amount of engineering and construction of the Apollo program is just mind boggling, even to this day.
I agree. Please see part 2 and 3….more content coming…subscribe…trying to get to the magic 1000 subscribers.
🙏👋👍
@@jokokristiyono3762 Thanks!
This was at a time when students actually had a education. Today, they do not, at all.
the way you personalize content makes it so relatable!
And thanks for watching and commenting!
Can't imagine how long that must have taken. Then, it probably took 16x as long as you could imagine. Amazing work
Thanks for your comment…and yes, a long time.
Long time ago. I tried Orbiter Apollo 7 mission, I did pre-launch check list in three hours real time. As considerd by the checklist... but i can not perform liftoff because cabin tempreture rise above 70 Celsium degree. I bolled my crew.LOL
I want to know if a big render farm was needed for this.
It doesnt get much better, very much appreciate the time you spent making this.
Thanks! More coming…stay tuned!
Very realistic scenery. Biggest step forward of mankind in the last century.
They took a decade out of the late 21st century and inserted it into the 1960s.
What an excellent effort. Brings me back to that day as a kid. Very nice video.
Thanks! I do have a Part 2 and 3….link in the description. Also Part 2 is in rework.
Phenominal piece of work Andrew
Thankyou. Please see Part 2 and 3. Part 2 is under revision. More videos coming going in depth on what the instrument panel does.
Fantastic Job. Thank you. Only a small remark: the F1 Engines during launch were wrapped in a heat shield. A mistake that Ron Howard in Apollo 13 made as well.
Thanks for your comment. I figured that out when I completed a week or so of modeling the F1s based on pictures and drawings. Then I ran into the Apollo launch video showing the F1s from below the launch pad. It was a disappointing find to realize that I had about a weeks worth of effort for parts the viewer would never see. And a disappointment to realize that I thought I was done with the F1s…but I was not. In the end, I decided to let them run naked. 🙂
What heat shield?
@@RideAcrossTheRiver so if you look at my F1 engine Nozzles on the first stage, they are running naked without their insulated covering. This link here has a picture with the covers on: www.apollosaturn.com/Website-II/F1-Engine-Thermal-Protection-System/i-RTsDmgd
@@opieswenson Is it present here?
ruclips.net/video/DKtVpvzUF1Y/видео.html
@@RideAcrossTheRiver yep, the insulation is there. The picture I included in my previous comment is a more clear shot.
**GIVES ME CHILLS** It's almost like seeing it for the very first time. Magnificent animation.
Thanks for watching and your comment. If you liked that one, try my Skylab and Apollo 15 series.
Great work excellent detail I was there that day watching the launch with my Parents and siblings I was only 11 but will never forget the rumble of that amazing machine. Thanks for the flashback
Thanks. Must have been an awesome sight and feeling from the rumble. Any chance you could spot yourself in the Apollo 11 movie that included a lot of imax type shots of the crowds?
@@opieswenson I've watched the videos several times but never spotted us we were watching by the river in Titusville There were so many people that day it was incredible
Superb animation. Looked really representative of the event. Loved seeing the Saturn going through the sound barrier.
Thanks!
So superbly implemented! I recall watching this at school, aged 10. I also followed every aspect in the Sunday papers where basic technical descriptions and diagrams were published. Amazing it was all achieved with so much less computing power than a modern pocket calculator!
Thanks! Please see part 2 and 3….updated Part 2 should be out by end of today.
Will never get old. What a team!!!
The Saturn V was a beast.
I was 12 yrs old when I watched this piece of history live. The extraordinary sights and sounds in this video make me feel like that gobsmacked 12-yr-old, stowing away on board to witness Neil & Buzz step out onto the lunar plains, under a million stars, and plant the flag.
Thanks for watching and for your comments. I also have a part 2 and 3 for Apollo 11 if you have not seen it. I also have an Apollo 15 series on my channel that shows the rover deployment.
Engineers are the greatest persons on the planet who do ridiculously crazy pieces of work.
Why thank you 😊
This is INCREDIBLE. 😮🏆🏆🏆🏆
Thanks for watching! Please check out my other animations on my channel!
Thank you so much !!! I was 6 years old when it happened and you made me feel on board as if I was there with them... great feeling👌⭐
Thanks!
This was amazing engineering at the time all using slide rules and the computer that was on the lunar lander guidance had the same processing power as a modern day calculator truly amazing.
Yes, hard to believe.....repeat, hard to believe.
Wow! This is a fantastic video. Good effort Andrew. Will look forward to seeing more of your content.
Thanks for watching? New Part 2 in a day or two. I may open them all one more time to include some tweaks based on user comments...then starting the panel by panel tour.
Wow amazing! Imagine how nerve racking this real event was to even watch let alone take part in? 😳 Such a great recreation!
Thanks.
Knowing the smallest thing going wrong could kill them all.
Thank you very much for putting this informative and entertaining video. It gives us a better understanding of what went on during that historical time.
Thanks for watching!
A significant piece of work. Thanks for producing it.
Thanks!
Wow! A labour of love if ever there was one! Brilliantly done too!
Thanks! The releasing an update Part 2 in a day or two.
The detail inside the command module..wow, that’s impressive 👍
Thanks!
Fantastic I was only 5 when this happened, thank you for making these videos ❤a fantastic achievement in themselves. The quality is amazing and it explains so much about what happened and how it was all done, so breathtaking to this day ❤
Thanks! More video coming. Next one has additional interior detail.
I've used Blender quite a bit and can appreciate the incredible amount of work this took! Your animation is amazing! Very cool to see the details of the launch that in real life could not have been seen.
Great job!
BTW, i never watch the countdown clock on my microwave without calling out all of the same checkpoints in the launch sequence! :)
Fellow Blender user---thanks much! Don't think I have ever had a Blender user comment before. The A11 series was my first real animation. My A15 videos have much more realism with working DSKY and working digital clocks, fuel, etc. Currently working on a new Saturn V launch (A15) where I correct many of my Apollo LUT (tower) errors, add in a ton of detail, while at the same time replacing a lot of mesh where I could have used curves or instancing instead.
@@opieswenson If this was your "first real animation" I'd love to see future ones! They should be amazing!
@@hchattaway You can do a search for Drew Swenson Blender on RUclips or go directly to my channel with this link here: www.youtube.com/@opieswenson/videos. Let me know what you think.
@@opieswenson These were awesome videos... I just watched the hatch video for Skylab... The camera work was super smooth, nice easing. Looked like it was just floating through Skylab!
This is my first attempt at animation in Blender... It's a kit bashing model
ruclips.net/video/nBkBG7ynwvU/видео.html
For doing solid modeling, I've been learning Plasticity. It's much more specific to modeling than Blender and has amazing features.
Then I'm incorporating my models inside of UnReal Engine. UnReal is just that... Incredibly powerful tool and free! I've seen that's the way to go for making movies.
What I would love to see you do is an animation of the F1 engines starting up from the inside. Start from the outside, than fly into the engine showing the ignition sequence.. The igniters going off, the turbo pumps spinning up, valves working and then the injector head spraying the fuel into the combustion chamber. maybe fly down the fuel lines from the tank to show the journey from there. :) I read so many books on the Saturn 5 and love hardware.. so that's my personal taste. :) Great work you're doing!
This is outstanding, well done !
Thanks!
Humanity's most underrated achievement of all time
Totally agree!
Finally a good video that isn’t from 6 years ago
Thanks…please see part 2 and 3. More videos coming
Thrilling…saw the real take off. Never forget it
Don’t forget to watch part 2 and 3. Thanks for your comment
Amazing illustration and simulation… impressive all these achievements done in 1969 meaning all engr done early 60 till 65 and from then testing and debugging so this is let 50s technology proven in late 60s … just amazing achievement !!!
Thanks!
The tension is palpable, even watching this animation. Incredible then, incredible now.
Thanks for watching. If you get a chance, let me know what you think of part 2 and 3 as well as my Apollo15 series.
This was incredible work. Congratulations.
Thanks!
What a beautiful animation. Thanks, makes my heart race.
Thankyou. If you liked that, I have about 20 Apollo animations on my channel. Let me know what you think.
Beautiful video, lovely work. Obviously, a passion project with stunning results and details. Bravo! 🙂
Thanks much for your comment. If you liked that one, I have several more in the Apollo 11 series. And my models in my Apollo 15 series are more detailed. Let me know what you think.
Amazing detail.
Excellent work!!
Thankyou.
Breathtaking - well done!
If you like that one, wait until my next one. The next one is a more detailed tour inside the docked spacecraft---detailed enough so that you can read every panel if you choose. But to do that, I had to step up my game in the model. A lot more detail has been added such as brackets, placards, exposed wires, additional boxes, etc.
Great. Please continue making these.
Thanks!
Great stuff!! Very enjoyable....:) Thank you for sharing........:)
Thanks..please see part 2 and 3….and more content coming
Excellent job simulator very hard work!!
Thanks…but it is just an animation and not a simulator.
awesome work!
Thanks!
Great memories. Thank you so much.
Thanks for your comment!
I was like 6 or 7 years old , The marathon gas stations use to have special drinking glasses that you got with a fill up. What a time to watch history in the making .
Thanks for watching and commenting. When you have a chance , let me know what you think of my other Apollo and Skylab videos.
This is AMAZING! I've seen footage of what is shown here and I gotta say WOW!
Thanks!
Awesome video thanks! Great perspective which you couldn't really get with the live footage.
Thanks…there are two other videos in the series if you have not seen them. A new one is coming out where you will be able to see the entire interior in detail.
Love the inclusion of the solid motors in the 1st stage outboard engine fairings firing UP at stage sep to help keep Stage 1 from colliding with Stage 2....a detail many are unaware of.
And I love it when people notice those details. As an aside, my most detailed internal Apollo model is in the “Translunar Coast” video. It is my least popular in my Apollo series…and I knew it would be when I made it. It was specifically made for those people who were very interested in the up close details inside the spacecraft. Thanks again for watching!
Wow, this is really good! Nice work!
Thanks for watching! Let me know what you think about my other videos!
@@opieswenson I will.
increíble y minuciosa reconstrucción y blender! Felicitaciones!!
Thanks!
The liftoff--even this simulation--to this day makes me emotional.
Thanks for watching and your comment. If you like this I have several more A11 animations as well as A15 animations. Stay tuned for an A15 launch animation that has way more detail than my A11 launch.
This is excellent. Thank you for making it!
Thanks…please see part 2 and 3. Part 2 in rework.
SUPER VIDEO !! Nice work !!!
Thanks! If you get a chance, please see part 2 and 3. Next video in work is a detail tour of the docked spacecraft. Detailed enough so that you can read everything inside.
Captivating, fascinating & superb job on animation and coupling with audio. makes me wish all over again that I was inside there just as when I watched it live on our crappy black & white Magnavox tv (when I was 7 or somethin). a nice comprehensive representation of sequence with no extra fluff added. I would've maybe pissed pants knowing decades later how phenomenally Dangerous being in space is. even in low-low orbit right above. no room for any tiny fudge at all. 🥶
Thanks! And back then, we did not really know how crappy TVs really were. Did you get a chance to see all 3 parts?
@@opieswenson No sir but I'll look for it
@@harry2928 The link is in the description of the video that you watched or just click on my handle @opieswenson where it shows up in blue
@@opieswenson Thank you kindly Mr. Swenson I'll definitely see to it. Your panning angular perspective/s chosen in anim. is beautiful in augmenting the realism quality. You have my full salute; what a splendid sequence. 👌🏻👍🏻
@@harry2928Thanks!
Great job! I really enjoyed watching 👍👍
Thanks for watching! Updated part 2 coming out shortly.
Amazing animations! Keep doing this!
Will do!
That was AWESOME!!!!!
Thanks for watching!!
@@opieswenson So well done. Thank you for doing it.
Fantastic!! Simply marvelous!
Thanks!
This was excellent!
Thanks for watching!
WOW! Superb work.
Thanks!
this all went down when america was america and the world looked at us with awe, not any more today ...sadly !!
That is why we must "Make America Great Again."
Most good. These are really good. Looks like it has taken a lot of time and effort to put this wonderful video together.
Yes...lot of time and effort. Last October I became interested in learning Blender having spent the prior year putting several apps in the Apple App Store. You can see my first animation test case on youTube with a scify spaceship. The LUT probably took the most time, and I would definitely build it differently next time. For the most part, I would build ALL of my models differently if I did it again. As you get your hands dirty, you end up learning new and better ways to do things.
@@opieswenson this is very true
I liked reading all the little labels inside the ship
Thanks for your comment. It took a lot of research trying to figure out what they all said. I used NASA pictures, the Smithsonian 3D site on Apollo 11 and various other sources. I think there is at least one and maybe 2 decals that I did not include because I could not quite read what it said. One of those decals goes under locker R1 on the curvy part of the wall.
On your comment on the title…NASA PAO Jack King flubbed his comment and said “all engine running”. I corrected his quote for the title. Fun fact….Jack King’s son was one of my flight instructors flying the F-14 (I was a RIO in VF-84 and VX-30)
Outstanding, thanks. Please some more of that.
More coming! See part 2 and 3 if you have not already
@@opieswenson Just found! Sensational stuff !! Really precisely worked out, congratulations.
Very cool. Nice work.
Thanks! Please see part 2 and 3. Part 2 in rework---will release in a couple of days
4:30 *The tiny thrusters at the bottom of the second stage keep the propellants in the bottom of the tanks near the pumps.*
Yep…they sure do. Thanks for watching and your comment.
This is BRILLIANT work!
Thanks!
Excellent work. Amazing.
Thanks! Check out part 2 and 3. A new and improved part 2 is getting close to releasing
Wow beautiful animation !!!!!
Thanks! Please see part 2 and 3 also. More content on my channel and more coming
@@opieswenson Thanks I certainly will !!!!
Amazing job! Really well done and super interesting, Thanks!
Thanks!
I'm very happy to watch this video
Thankyou. Part 2 and 3 also on the channel. Revised Part 2 may be up today
Good burn!
Excellent! Congrats!
Thank you so much 😀
Gracias por el video. Excelente animación de un evento que marcó la historia no sólo de USA sino de toda la humanidad.
Thanks for your comment!
Been there myselves, it was so great to see
Thanks for watching!
Blew my mind! Thank you!
Thanks for your comment!
Born in 1964, I've been space junkie my whole life. Out of all the Apollo accomplishments my favorite is the Apollo rocket launch release mechanisms. Even a 10th of a second failure could lead to catastrophe. The WWII generation is still the peak of human evolution.
Thanks for watching!
That´s why they are called the greatest generation
хорошо сделал!!! осталось смоделировать полностью полёт с данными на AGC!!!👍👍👍👍💪
за "blender" отдельный 👍👍👍👍👍
Спасибо! И да, я не анимировал AGC, таймеры или какой-либо из инструментов. Но я оживил FDAI.
🎵🎶those were the days mein friend ,we thought they'd never end 🎶🎵we sing and dance the whole night through 🎵🎶
Thanks for watching
Amazing video!
Thanks for watching!
Exremely cool! Bordering on gripping!
... well, it gripped me, ya bastages!
Thanks! Please see part 2 and 3. Part 2 is being reworked…will be out soon. Plus more videos coming.
Wow - just awesome !
thanks! If you get a chance please see part 2 and 3.
Sehr gut gemacht. Danke
Thanks for watching and your comment. If you liked that, please see my other Apollo and Skylab animations.
That was from 1961 Alan Shepherd in a little Mercury Capsule going 100 miles up and 300 miles down range to 1969, three men going 250, 000 miles to the moon and back!!! in 8 years from can we go to space???... to planting the US Flag on the moon and bringing back moon rocks. Most American homes had Black and White TV, one phone on the wall. Only half the homes were airconditioned and in most car's Air Conditioning was because of a kit put on to a car once it was purchased. My Father's home in 1969 had a phone, but it was a shared party line, we had black and white TV and we didn't have Air Conditioning. A Computer was unknown in the home and Engineering Students carried a slide rule. Most homes had a live in cooking mother, a working WWII veteran father and most families went to Church at least once a week. We had a lot less economically and we were a lot happier. Most people came from something they could look back at their shoulder at called a two parent home!!! I think we have lost something 60 years later.
we lost something ??....we lost it all !!
11:30 What is size of this console? Distance of the doors? Can this be folded?
I saw Buzz Aldrin on knees in doors as if console wasn't there, is there enough room to get out?
Take a look at my 2 of my Apollo 15 videos. My first animations with people. That will give you relative size. And yes, they had to get on their knees and pretty much belly crawl out. But with that said, their suite lunar weight was 30 to 50 lbs.
ruclips.net/video/kYHl42M2I2w/видео.htmlsi=duCaQcOBEUmd8H28
ruclips.net/video/VlJspdHEYAs/видео.htmlsi=LuV3JYdmIb0VaWsR
@@opieswenson Thanks for links but there is nothing that might help to find answer. You have all models, so can you make such scene, dont say animation, just bend knee of human, in front of opened doors and remake scenes / photos of Buzz getting out?
@@KabelkowyJoe The spacecraft is so oddly shaped, it is difficult to get a good measurement. But in general, the main front panel is about 3.5 wide. Wider towards the bottom. The hatch is about 2.58 to 3 ft wide and sits underneath the main panel. There are 2 tray tables that fold up and the armrests fold out of the way. I used drawings like this (heroicrelics.org/info/lm/lm-ctrl-panel.html) to relatively size the instrument panels. And there are lots of places on line to get good sizing information on the ascent stage. Once the ascent stage was built, it was relatively easy to scale the instrument panels to fit the ascent stage. Wo when building this model, I never had actual sizing information of the instrument panel.
F1 engines. The outer four fired for two and a half minutes. The centre one cut out after two minutes to prevent high acceleration.
Yes…you were not supposed to see that.🙂
Just 2 words: LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for watching!
@@opieswenson Serious question: have you ever considered putting out your wonderful films on a DVD? I know alot of people - including myself - would buy it in a heartbeat!
@@lonnien.6600 No, have not considered putting on DVD. But I am so glad to have viewers on RUclips. My 3 part Skylab series is complete, but over the next week or so, I will be putting up short Skylab clips that highlight specific panels and experiments in Skylab. These are all in my Skylab Series playlist
@@opieswenson Hi, me again. I would love you to do a Mercury Atlas launch, as well as a Gemini launch. Any chance of that??
@@lonnien.6600 I may do it. On my list is to finish up my Skylab videos. And I wanted to go back to add an Apollo Rover deployment. And for fun, maybe doing a scyfy Jupiter 2. My son wants me to finish an F-14 that I have roughed out (I used to fly as a RIO in F14s).