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  • The Saturn V rocket, the most powerful ever built at the time, was developed to meet the challenge of the lunar mission, pushing science and engineering to its absolute limits. Our story goes back to WWII-era Nazi Germany, where the V2 rocket, the world's first ballistic missile, laid the groundwork for future space exploration. Now, we follow the making and launching of this historic rocket.
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  • @wesmahon123
    @wesmahon123 2 месяца назад +17

    It’s amazing to think that most of the engineers that were used in the space program developed the systems and the rockets only with the aid of slide rules

    • @BenTrem42
      @BenTrem42 6 дней назад

      ... _pencil and paper!_ ;-)

    • @maksphoto78
      @maksphoto78 4 дня назад +1

      @@BenTrem42 Feather and ink ;-)

  • @KieranOCarroll
    @KieranOCarroll 3 месяца назад +31

    Half a century later ... and the "children of Apollo" continue to be astonished at the engineering and operational prowess. Dare I say, this vid should be mandatory viewing for all Engineering 101 courses.

  • @MoesDavis
    @MoesDavis 2 месяца назад +6

    I've watched many documentaries on this magnificent machine. This one really gives the Saturn V and the people who made it fly the attention and respect they deserve. Well done!

  • @laurentiubucur9586
    @laurentiubucur9586 3 месяца назад +9

    Brilliance at its best of the best engineering😳

  • @DarkNightDreamer
    @DarkNightDreamer 2 месяца назад +11

    Saturn V was a beast. I never thought we would see a rocket that big again but now in 2024 we have Starship that is not only larger but over twice as powerful with 16.7 million pounds of thrust compared to the Saturn V's 7.75 million. Absolutely mind bending.

    • @TheQuietStorm6000
      @TheQuietStorm6000 2 месяца назад +3

      Yes. But it uses 33 engines to achieve that tasks. What makes it impressive is the plan to manufacture one Starship a day.

    • @michaelmera2846
      @michaelmera2846 2 месяца назад +2

      @@TheQuietStorm6000 Curious Droid explains in his video "Why Does SpaceX Use 33 Engines While NASA Used Just 5?" Different requirements, different goals, different capabilities. Never one thing although it seems ridiculous will be unthought or baseless.

    • @TheQuietStorm6000
      @TheQuietStorm6000 2 месяца назад

      @@michaelmera2846 Correct. I do not remember who explained it (it might have been curious droid) but the F1 engines are too powerful to be a reusable rocket configuration. Starship engines are right sized as far as engineering. In the end 1 engine out of 33 failing versus 1 out of 5? I take the 1 to 2 out of 33 engines.

    • @OttoHauswald
      @OttoHauswald 2 месяца назад +4

      more than half a century development between Saturn V and Starship. Only 20 years between V2 and Saturn V

    • @jameshowland7393
      @jameshowland7393 2 месяца назад +6

      The Rocketdyne F-1 used in the Saturn V first stage is still, to this day, THE most powerful single chamber rocket motor ever built. There are more powerful rockets today, but the F-1 has never been equaled.

  • @zachhan5038
    @zachhan5038 3 месяца назад +4

    What a pleasure to watch this great documentary. I was born just at the right time, back in 1959. and thus was able to witness all Gemini and Apollo missions. What a great time iz was, the most memorable part od my childhood!

  • @robert-zj7ef
    @robert-zj7ef 3 месяца назад +12

    I lived in Huntsville from 1959 till 1968. All my friends dads worked for NASA. MY father built homes for the majority of the people in my neighborhood. Everything then was NASA this or NASA that. When they tested the rockets, I could sit on the grass off the patio and see the black smoke as the sound rumbled far from the test site.

    • @agentpr24
      @agentpr24 2 месяца назад

      Despite he did not work for NASA, your Father was part of something big and special. It's funny because you are a child of Apollo.

    • @waltchase3297
      @waltchase3297 2 месяца назад +1

      ALL of us from Huntsville are from a “special” place. My happy place. I was lucky enough to make a career in the USAF and the airlines. But, Grissom, Bailey Cove and Green Mountain Rd are still my love. Will be forever. Rock on!

  • @Creator-Of-Chaos
    @Creator-Of-Chaos Месяц назад +2

    One can only imagine the sheer size of the Saturn 5.
    I was visiting at Orlando, Fla 30 sum yrs ago, and saw the saturn 5 on display while touring the state. One has to visibly SEE the vehicle to understand how huge it is.
    I enjoyed this presentation immensely.

  • @bkhigh1294
    @bkhigh1294 18 дней назад +1

    The mighty saturn 5 always brings up strong emotions

  • @jamiehancock6296
    @jamiehancock6296 3 месяца назад +8

    Iconic voice of Jack King on the countdown.

  • @frantisekvtelensky820
    @frantisekvtelensky820 2 месяца назад +13

    Not because there are not better vehicles, but because of numerous technological limits those amazing engineers faced back in the days, the Saturn V is still the best, the most amazing and most beautiful machine people ever made to this date. ❤️

    • @fransschepens3
      @fransschepens3 22 дня назад +1

      you mean the operational INCOMPETENCE

    • @NicholasPellow
      @NicholasPellow 19 дней назад

      @@fransschepens3 nobody thinks that. Unless they are stupid AF

    • @NicholasPellow
      @NicholasPellow 18 дней назад

      @@fransschepens3 it takes a very special kind of stupid to think anything these amazing people did was 'incompetence'. Tell us all you are vastly undereducated without telling us all you are vastly undereducated.

    • @BostonsF1nest
      @BostonsF1nest 7 дней назад

      Despite the tragedies, I still think the Space Shuttle is the most impressive engineering feats in US history. The fact that they were able to launch a shuttle into space and fly it back down to earth numerous times still blow my mind. 40-50 years ago no doubt.

  • @billshiff2060
    @billshiff2060 2 месяца назад +2

    I remember in 1957 being told "there are now 2 moons around earth". I looked but didn't see another one. I was mystified. lol

  • @imapaine-diaz4451
    @imapaine-diaz4451 25 дней назад +1

    22:00 I grew up in the san Fernando valley, about 11 miles from this test site. from 1957 until 1970, these Rocketdyne engine tests would shake the whole valley and sent a plume of smoke thousands of feet over the Chatsworth hills.

  • @emmabentley7945
    @emmabentley7945 Месяц назад +2

    and now we have Starship Superheavy. the next worlds most powerful rocket.. not forgetting SLS block 1 and block 1b.

  • @BenTrem42
    @BenTrem42 6 дней назад

    So very many memories _(glad and sad)_ ... from Mercury til that day in 1969 ... *_thanks so much!_*

  • @craigschepers714
    @craigschepers714 4 месяца назад +7

    failure is never an option. the Germans always said failure is a learning curve

  • @Lester-z7t
    @Lester-z7t Месяц назад +1

    I was born in 1965...and this STILL amazes me.

    • @2006gtobob
      @2006gtobob 16 дней назад

      What? Being born in 1965, or the Saturn rocket project?

  • @Boehser_Cabal
    @Boehser_Cabal 3 месяца назад +5

    And the Starship is the next Generation of Rockets.
    Bigger and stronger than SaturnV.
    The future will show what other powerful rockets SpaceX will develop...
    But they will always remain children of Saturn V...

    • @williamgreene4834
      @williamgreene4834 2 месяца назад +2

      More than twice the power of the Saturn V. Takeoff weight of Starship is over 5,000 tons. :)

    • @frantisekvtelensky820
      @frantisekvtelensky820 2 месяца назад +2

      Saturn V was, is, and still will be the most amazing and most beautiful vehicle people have ever made. 😊

  • @frantisekvtelensky820
    @frantisekvtelensky820 2 месяца назад +2

    People complaining about NASA should question the government of the USA and why they always invests more in wars than science. If NASA would have even 1/3 of the US army budget, things would look completely different. Still, NASA and their friends from ESA, continues to achieve some amazing missions like JWST, Perseverance, Artemis, etc. Unfortunately, science is always overlooked.

  • @robert-zj7ef
    @robert-zj7ef 3 месяца назад +3

    As for JFK, I was at recess when we were told to line up and recess was over. On the way back to my classroom, every nun I saw was crying. I soon found out why. School was cancelled for the day. And yes, my mother was crying when she came to get us. I was 6 at the time.

  • @mikecomer9536
    @mikecomer9536 3 дня назад

    It’s so amazing that our cell phones have more processing power than a rocket that got men to the moon 🌕. That program was and still is the greatest human achievement in history.

  • @m3pwrnz
    @m3pwrnz 14 дней назад

    "these were people who weren't going to accept that failure was an option" - no that's not true. I was part of the interview process responsible for employing the team to work on the Saturn V engineering team, and the first thing we would say at the beginning of each interview was a reassurance for them that failing was acceptable - "we're fine with you making design errors and blowing up a rocket and potentially killing astronauts along the way".

  • @Simon-fr4ts
    @Simon-fr4ts 2 месяца назад +2

    160 million horsepower. Crazy.

  • @maksphoto78
    @maksphoto78 4 дня назад

    Great documentary!

  • @CARRETEROPUNTACANA
    @CARRETEROPUNTACANA 15 дней назад

    Still amazing accomplishments with the "low" technologies of that era.

  • @kermitefrog64
    @kermitefrog64 20 дней назад

    To boldly go where no man has gone before. I grew up in the 1960's and this was incredible to see all the progress in the NASA program. Even though I lived in Washington State We saw the moon landing while we were visiting Vancouver Canada and saw the moon landing and walking on the moon.

  • @bdflatlander
    @bdflatlander 3 месяца назад +2

    Rocketdyne, owned by North American Rockwell, built the F-1 engines, not Boeing.
    My dad was an Industrial Engineer at Rocketdyne during the Apollo program.

    • @jonbaker3728
      @jonbaker3728 3 месяца назад +1

      My 10th grade physics teacher worked at Rocketdyne. He gave us an 8 week course in rocket theory, along with actual F1 parts. That was the first time I ever heard about the instability problem. He also taught us how to use a slide rule too, to give us a better idea of what they accomplished.
      That was 1979.

    • @snakevenom4954
      @snakevenom4954 3 месяца назад +1

      A damn good rocket engine too. If you made that engine today it would hold its ground which is saying something. One engine was tested 20 times for a total of 2,256 seconds. Another was tested 34 times for a total of 2,913 seconds. That's 48.5 minutes of run time which is insane

  • @CocoaBeachLiving
    @CocoaBeachLiving 3 месяца назад +1

    Absolutely fantastic presentation 👏👏. I remember when Saturn launched, and when Starship launches, I feel the same excitement 👍👍

  • @rem9547
    @rem9547 4 месяца назад +18

    A remarkable time of system development . ‘…. not because they are easy, but because they are hard.’

    • @bernie-3964
      @bernie-3964 3 месяца назад

      Unlikely source😂😂😂😂nazi germany😂😂😂

  • @patbradley7281
    @patbradley7281 3 месяца назад +1

    Brilliant !! Indeed it is a true testament to the engineering ability and imaginasion of us all. There is no " can do it myself " in this. If we all work together look what is possible ... wonderful stuff . Lets all think how we might make a difference tomorrow just helping someone or saying hello. More powerful than you might think...

  • @citizengkar1811
    @citizengkar1811 2 месяца назад +1

    This is what men do when inspired and challenged.

  • @Cheka__
    @Cheka__ 7 дней назад

    Just wait til the Saturn VI comes out.

  • @kevinmccarthy8746
    @kevinmccarthy8746 Месяц назад

    OK, OK, Fantastic, I love watching the Saturn 5 with the music in the back ground and get this, when I watched the STARSHIP 4 take off I was VERY CRITICAL at first because of the lack of camera angles and perspective shots like the Giant ARMS holding the Saturn down popping open, unlaching its self from the botton of the ship for instence, and setting Saturn free. But they did not get the practice of filming the launch as many times. But from what I saw of the STARSHIP launch it WAS actually replicated to a degree I believe on purpose which, is the best idea for a start. The shot ,of the STARSHIP LOOKING DOWN AS THE SHIP raises up past the camera, probably a drone from that high up, that when launched the ship could be seen raising off the pedistal and coming twards you and up from the starbourd side of the vehicle, was very cool with kimd of a fish eyed lense effect but minimal.

  • @danrashley5001
    @danrashley5001 25 дней назад

    That was incredible......THANK YOU......

  • @gcm1944
    @gcm1944 8 дней назад

    The F-1 and the J-2 engines were built by North American Aviation, Rocketdyne Division not Boeing. I personally witnessed and monitored the 'hot firing' of complete J-2 engines and the gas turbine generator component for F-1 engines. I also worked on the reaction control rocket engines, fuel and oxidizer delivery systems for Gemini and Apollo spacecraft as a 'Rocket Engine Final Assembly Inspector'.

  • @amyjojinkerson-b6o
    @amyjojinkerson-b6o 29 дней назад

    that announcment was made exactly 2 years before I was born

  • @Digmen1
    @Digmen1 4 дня назад

    That was great, I really enjoyed the whole thing.
    What happened to Werner von Braun at the end?

  • @ILSRWY4
    @ILSRWY4 3 месяца назад +11

    Still the most powerful rocket... SLS has strap-on boosters that fall off... but the Saturn V was self-contained using its own rockets in a core... no ad on boosters. IF SLS Core used only its own rockets (4 RS 25) it would NEVER be as powerful as five F1 engines of Saturn V.

    • @dr4d1s
      @dr4d1s 3 месяца назад +2

      Super Heavy+Starship

    • @DarkNightDreamer
      @DarkNightDreamer 2 месяца назад +2

      What you are saying about the SLS is true, but the Saturn V isn't the most powerful rocket anymore. SpaceX's Starship stack makes 16.7 million pounds of thrust compared to the Saturn V's 7.75 million. I remember seeing the Saturn V in person and thinking that was huge and that we will never see another giant liquid fueled rocket like that again, but fast forward to today and Starship is even bigger than the Saturn V! Exciting times.

    • @byugrad1024
      @byugrad1024 2 месяца назад +3

      SpaceX may have a more powerful setup, but until they successfully complete a full mission in its entirety, they still cannot hold a candle to the Saturn V. You can make all the claims in the world about better designs, but until the rubber meets the road, and the rockets return for reuse (as many as 15 to 20 times for a moon mission, and a preposterous 500 round trips to put enough fuel and oxidizer into space for a mars mission) you have nothing but a useless pile of scrap. Enough with the "learning". We did this in a few decades back in the 50s and 60s. That we can't even return to the moon speaks volumes about the skills and knowledge which were lost, and may never be rediscovered. We have the ability to design, model, and simulate with some of the most advanced tech that folks with only slide rules could only dream to have. And we have advanced no more in the direction of the moon, or even mars. The moon was always about politics and always will be, but in my mind there is no reason to go back, and Mars is a death sentence.

    • @frankv7068
      @frankv7068 Месяц назад +1

      You could’ve had a point if you would mention the F-1 the most powerful single rocket engine. SLS and Starship are more powerful as a rocket.

  • @robertporch8895
    @robertporch8895 Месяц назад

    I grew up watching the first rockets all the way to the end of Apollo, the men walking on the Moon, the Apollo 13 suspense, to the Space Shuttle. I remember when the announcement came of Sputnik and the speech of President Kennedy to put a man on the Moon. I watched the first Mercury flight with Alan Shepard to John Glenn's first American orbit of the Earth. And then the Gemini rockets. I had a toy Gemini that would launch the capsule up about 40 or 50 feet. They would let us stay home from school to watch the Mercury and Gemini launches if they were going to be early or we would watch them in the classroom. This was history. This was the pride of the Nation. Then came the Apollo launches. I watched the first ones orbit the moon, then descend part of the way down until finally landing on the surface . The first time the astronauts orbited the moon no one knew if they would come around or just keep going out into space. I watched the moon landing from the living room in our house with my father and my family. The first step onto the moon by Neil Armstrong. The entire thing defined a generation and shaped the way we thought about the United States of America, that we could accomplish anything we set our minds to.

  • @oker59
    @oker59 4 месяца назад +4

    the latest and greatest Apollo program documentary!

    • @ChargersCity
      @ChargersCity 4 месяца назад

      🙏🙏Blessings forever GOD loves y'all too forever tell everyone you know and don't know. Jesus loves y'all too forever. Teach everyone how to see and enjoy their blessings too forever😊.

    • @oker59
      @oker59 4 месяца назад

      @@ChargersCity Let's see you solve making Mankind a space faring species by saying "god/jesus is truth."
      Shoot, let's see you solve Nuclear fusion/Cancer/stop crime/nanotechnology/A.I./Quantum Computers . . . any outstanding unsolved Mathematics problem - the Riemann Hypothesis/the Langlands Conjecture and the Hodge conjecture . . . by saying 'god/jesus is truth."
      Say abracadabra - "God/Jesus is truth" and have all the above problems with the snap of god/jesus's fingers. Since, they are infinitely powerful, they should be able to solve all these things with a snap of their fingers; just by uttering the words "god/jesus is truth.
      Do it now. And when these problems are not solved by saying abracadabra - god/jesus is truth" then that means your god/jesus does not exist.

    • @override7486
      @override7486 3 месяца назад +2

      What are you talking about?? It's old, and on available on RUclips in several different titles.

    • @dr4d1s
      @dr4d1s 3 месяца назад +1

      @@override7486 I thought that I had watched this before. Thank you for confirming my suspicion.

    • @ronjones-6977
      @ronjones-6977 2 месяца назад +2

      If you want a fresh new take on space documentaries, try Homemade Documentaries on RUclips. It's not rebranded crap, but new stuff by a young guy in his twenties. Best docs I've watched in years.

  • @JonathanGFoulds
    @JonathanGFoulds 2 месяца назад +1

    About a quarter of the way through this quite wonderful documentary and I am struck by The comparisons that are being presented to the audience, not directly through comparable reference, maybe more through my own imagination/and the facts from the past and those of the present. What I’m thinking about is SpaceX and the combination of other companies that are working towards a vision that is seemingly so unsurmountable that it feels like science-fiction. The notion of, or the reality of, the majority of the goals and aims that Elon Musk’s company and the people that work tirelessly for it, have placed upon their collective vision - for me really draws a lot of comparisons to this amazing period in (not just in America - note I am not an American) but in overall technical, engineering, aeronautical, computational, life sciences etc. Etc challenges (I am no expert in these things.) minds and actions of people working on it - there are really a lot (in fact SO MANY - just that I know of & have read about) of components that make up the whole that are similar in not only there/their vision as well as audaciousness - just to get through massive levels of experimentation, the feats and the failures.
    I am only up to 1963, the Mercury Period in NASA (and all those other groups and companies) and the assassination of the American president, Kennedy at the time - who set the goal of putting Man on the moon by the end of the decade of 1960. Also to mention at this point that I was born in 1969. - the rolling joke over the years being when Men was on the moon I was in the womb.😊

  • @TigerDominic-uh1dv
    @TigerDominic-uh1dv Месяц назад

    Very Interesting And The Technology And The Smartness Of Those Humans Thanks 😊

  • @yogibarista2818
    @yogibarista2818 4 месяца назад +5

    The original "Moon Machines" series does a better job of this.

  • @2006gtobob
    @2006gtobob 15 дней назад

    I will NEVER understand the lack of thought that went into utilizing a very high oxygen atmosphere within a space capsule. Come on, NASA didn't understand what could happen?

  • @jaycarlson927
    @jaycarlson927 3 месяца назад +1

    Isn't that a clip of Grissom during the Shepherd flight segment?

  • @joseimpact
    @joseimpact 29 дней назад

    pretty sure i seen this documentary before. regardless great doc!!! wish they gave credits to original owner tho

  • @2006gtobob
    @2006gtobob 16 дней назад

    Sadly for the shuttle, the uncompromising commitment to test, test and re-test didn't apply to obvious portions of the program. It would seem that bean counters, PR, politicians, and MBA types were in charge at that time.

  • @jaypaint4855
    @jaypaint4855 2 месяца назад

    It was the most powerful, heaviest, largest flying object ever built for over 50 years, only surpassed today by NASA’s SLS and SpaceX’s Starship.

  • @keithsweat7513
    @keithsweat7513 3 месяца назад +4

    Boeing didnt make the F1, they got that image wrong

  • @philipmcdonagh1094
    @philipmcdonagh1094 4 месяца назад +4

    55 years on and where are we. Well were still here and that's where were going to be for the foreseeable future. The world was full of dreams an hopes after Apollo which have since turned to dust. Did we just dream it happened.

    • @paolobarberis6827
      @paolobarberis6827 3 месяца назад +1

      Right, we should have learned from this simple fact and take care of our only sustainable spaceship: earth.

    • @Emdee5632
      @Emdee5632 2 месяца назад +1

      In fact the Apollo program did exactly what it was designed for: Beat the Soviets to the moon.
      Afterwards the problems were #1 Reaching the moon ended the Space Race. #2 No ambitious follow space program (because of #1) we got Skylab and the space shuttle. #3 The public was thinking in the early 1970s yesterday the moon, tomorrow Mars, next week the stars - forgetting that going to the moon is like putting your big toe in the ocean and for Mars and the rest you really need to learn to swim.#4 More and more funds going into the Vietnam war and getting nothing in return.
      By the way yes, in a couple of years we will return to the moon. IF the nutters in Russia and China don't start aglobal war first.

    • @DarkNightDreamer
      @DarkNightDreamer 2 месяца назад

      I often think about what we could have achieved if NASA got to keep the same budget after the Apollo missions.. Who knows what could have been done between then and now. It's unfortunate that NASA has to operate on a shoe string budget compared to other federal spending. It makes me happy that after all these years the space industry is eating up again, and we have began a new space race of sorts now that all these commercial operators are getting into the game. We're launching so many rockets now that it can be hard to keep up!

  • @johnmoss8230
    @johnmoss8230 2 месяца назад +1

    It really is a shame that President Kennedy couldn't be there to see this amazing machine

  • @btaylor9788
    @btaylor9788 16 дней назад

    People wonder why? We seem to be going backwards and not forward. It is sad that the world world is full of polarization and bureaucracy.

  • @oker59
    @oker59 4 месяца назад +1

    The second stage was a liquid oxygen/hydrogen. The first stage was not. The second stage was also made of a material that got harder when cold than weaker.

  • @hardtop123
    @hardtop123 3 месяца назад +2

    i thought the F1 engines were built by rocketdyne....not boeing????

  • @steveskouson9620
    @steveskouson9620 3 месяца назад +3

    18:09. Why is Boeing building Rocketdyne's engines?
    Why is Rocketdyne building fuel tanks, instead of F-1
    engines?
    steve

    • @dr4d1s
      @dr4d1s 3 месяца назад +1

      They screwed up. You are correct that it was Rocketdyne. Boeing built the first stage, North American Aviation built the second stage, and McDonnell Douglas/IBM built the third. I don't know how they could have got those wrong.

    • @snakevenom4954
      @snakevenom4954 3 месяца назад

      @@dr4d1s Saturn V also isn't the most powerful rocket ever created. Before Starship that goes to the N1 rocket which was nearly 30% more powerful than the Saturn V

    • @dr4d1s
      @dr4d1s 3 месяца назад

      @@snakevenom4954 I think you replied to the wrong person.

    • @snakevenom4954
      @snakevenom4954 3 месяца назад

      @@dr4d1s I'm just adding more information they got wrong is all. Which is funny since a 5 minute Google would correct these mistakes

    • @DarkNightDreamer
      @DarkNightDreamer 2 месяца назад +1

      @@snakevenom4954 I have a feeling that this documentary was actually filmed a long time ago before Starship was a thing and they have just recycled the old footage. I imagine the licensing or rights to older documentaries like this is pretty cheap, so they can buy the rights to post it and put it on RUclips. The uploader is probably betting that the revenue from their channel will bring them a return on what they spent on the footage. The N1 was a bit more powerful than the Saturn V but it never made it far from the launch pad, so while you are technically right they probably didn't include it because it never flew a successful mission.

  • @pedrodiaz5540
    @pedrodiaz5540 24 дня назад

    The USA should have given the space program to Dr. Von Braun earlier.

  • @TurdfurgusonJr
    @TurdfurgusonJr 2 месяца назад

    this makes me want to go back to KSC stat

  • @AcepJunaedi-r3w
    @AcepJunaedi-r3w 28 дней назад

    1960 Rocket Saturn V Silent.

  • @tanthiennguyen9308
    @tanthiennguyen9308 2 месяца назад

    Wow, Mr.Brown

  • @TheSanien
    @TheSanien Месяц назад

    Imagine if NASA hadn't been shackled all these years. But it is great that space is being privatized and NASA isn't very efficient and thus veery costly.

  • @pcz5233
    @pcz5233 3 месяца назад +4

    And look at NASA today 😢.....

    • @sexynelson100
      @sexynelson100 3 месяца назад

      and Boeing 😭

    • @MdRejowan-kf6pm
      @MdRejowan-kf6pm 3 месяца назад +1

      It is because NASA does not have challengers anymore. In 1969, they had the Soviet Union.

    • @TOlds-gy4qn
      @TOlds-gy4qn 3 месяца назад

      @@MdRejowan-kf6pm Xi’s CNSA about to lap NASA Human Exploration starting next year. Next flag will be the CCP’s

    • @xandervk2371
      @xandervk2371 3 месяца назад

      @@TOlds-gy4qn Get back here in early 2025, will you?

    • @DarkNightDreamer
      @DarkNightDreamer 2 месяца назад

      I often think about what we could have achieved if NASA got to keep the same budget after the Apollo missions.. Who knows what could have been done between then and now. It's unfortunate that NASA has to operate on a shoe string budget compared to other federal spending. It makes me happy that after all these years the space industry is eating up again, and we have began a new space race of sorts now that all these commercial operators are getting into the game. We're launching so many rockets now that it can be hard to keep up!

  • @Vector_Ze
    @Vector_Ze Месяц назад

    As a double edged sword, I am old enough to remember the US Space program in its entirety. I'm confident I'll see our return to the Moon. But I've long hoped I'd see humans on Mars. And I'm not so convinced of Mars. Hurry.

  • @Digmen1
    @Digmen1 4 дня назад

    What sort of computers were the Russians using back in the 50s and 60's and why did they not develop their own operating systems etc

  • @superdave19855
    @superdave19855 2 месяца назад +1

    Correction - Starship is now the most powerful rocket ever built.

  • @Eric-qo8vv
    @Eric-qo8vv 4 месяца назад +1

    They never should have put Yuri at risk again

    • @xandervk2371
      @xandervk2371 3 месяца назад

      Perhaps someone didn't want him around.

  • @RobertBrown-jz4qj
    @RobertBrown-jz4qj 2 месяца назад +2

    6,000,000 pounds
    363 feet tall
    50 feet wide at the fins
    7,500,000 pounds of thrust.
    EVERY ONE BUILT WORKED.
    NO FAILURES.
    Take that space x😅😅

  • @meestirbig3083
    @meestirbig3083 2 месяца назад

    Just a little note. Alan Shepherd wasn't the first American in Space. It was really John Glen. Alan and Gus were both sub-orbital. Meaning they only reached the edge of space. Their final altitude was roughly 116 miles. John Glen rose to 162 miles. Still, an amazing feat which spurred on NASA. It's sad to see the decrepit condition of NASA today.

    • @jimholmes2555
      @jimholmes2555 2 месяца назад

      Alan Shepherd was the first American in space however he did not orbit the earth.

    • @Emdee5632
      @Emdee5632 2 месяца назад +3

      Shepard did not reach orbit but he did achieve an altitude of 187 kilometers so yes he was definitely in space, way above either Nasa's definition of it or the official Karman line of 100 km. Both are a bit arbitrary really. By the way a German V-2 rocket reached an altitude of almost 175 km in 1944, going straight up.
      Reaching space isn't that difficult. Staying in it is.

  • @dcpower777
    @dcpower777 Месяц назад

    1960's where full of real men, not what we have today.

  • @tanthiennguyen9308
    @tanthiennguyen9308 2 месяца назад

    Turbo Charge

  • @pobinr
    @pobinr 2 месяца назад

    Leave out the music

  • @robertgoss4842
    @robertgoss4842 Месяц назад

    Werner von Braun's name is pronounced, "von Brawn." Not von Brown. C'mon, scientists. A little more attention to detail, please.

  • @mito88
    @mito88 Месяц назад

    saturn V is the V V.

  • @fransschepens3
    @fransschepens3 22 дня назад +1

    Do you really think they went to the moon with this rocket? Von Braun wrote in his book that to reach the moon a rocket would be needed that would be much larger. About the size of the Empire State Building. His book was quickly withdrawn from circulation.

  • @MichaelSkinner-e9j
    @MichaelSkinner-e9j 3 месяца назад

    We need a return to the Golden Age of Space when it was something that everybody focused on.
    After 50 years, we still don’t have a permanent space colony in space or on a planet .
    We can and should colonize space and the planets, and we have the technology to do so. Our Species is too fragile to spend another 50 years without doing what’s necessary for the survival of mankind.

    • @thecommonsenseconservative5576
      @thecommonsenseconservative5576 2 месяца назад

      Lol won't happen for another two hundred years. I'll come back to check this comment to see if I am right😂

    • @DarkNightDreamer
      @DarkNightDreamer 2 месяца назад +2

      I often think about what we could have achieved if NASA got to keep the same budget after the Apollo missions.. Who knows what could have been done between then and now. It''s unfortunate that NASA has to operate on a shoe string budget compared to other federal spending.

    • @frantisekvtelensky820
      @frantisekvtelensky820 2 месяца назад

      ​@@DarkNightDreamerAgree. Look at the budget of the US army and you will see the problem. Science is unfortunately always overlooked. I think NASA still continues to achieve great things like the Perseverance rover on Mars, James Webb telescope, Artemis missions, etc.

  • @ICANanimations
    @ICANanimations Месяц назад

    "its still the most powerful rocket"
    SpaceX: Hold my beer

  • @cmillerg6306
    @cmillerg6306 2 месяца назад

    "But in 1963, NASA has little idea..." how to build such a rocket".
    Well, THAT'S not true, as its later admitted that the F1 rocket was in development in the 1950s.
    And..
    "Just five months after Kennedy 's pledge..." NASA launched its first multistage Saturn I.
    And, no, this didnt push science to its limit. It did push engineering through

  • @edwardfowler7733
    @edwardfowler7733 12 дней назад

    Alien technology ....

  • @jasonplant5432
    @jasonplant5432 15 дней назад

    I'm amazed at the constant mispronounced name of doctor von Braun.( brawn) brown.??

  • @ณรงค์ดีสมบัติ-ห5พ

    เฬิบคระบอทจานฟหรั่งคราชสิกสีสวยบินสวยครับอากาศดีครับเราเกิดวันปีใหม่1.ตุลาคม.ปีกายปีก่อน.วันปีใหม่.ณรงค์..ดีสมบัติ2520...รุ้น20เฬิบครับอาจานฟหรั่งเย่โชคดีครับเวรีกูตรไอฬิบอยูครับ

  • @kevinmccarthy8746
    @kevinmccarthy8746 Месяц назад

    ENGLAND! My England, my Avalon of old. Dear Progenitor of your might Prodigal son, the USA, we love and esteem you for your invaluable help.

  • @BH195829
    @BH195829 20 дней назад

    Why isn’t Space X & Elon Musk getting this coverage? Documentary update; One man is doing this without hiring 375,000 people and spending Billions of Tax Payer Dollars!🤔

  • @vossti
    @vossti 3 месяца назад +3

    Meanwhile SpaceX has been hoodwinking NASA with little idea of how to go back... Starship my foot

  • @frankwetzel3090
    @frankwetzel3090 Месяц назад

    I think TO MUCH philosophical bla bla of those three guys between the real interesting footage.

  • @tanthiennguyen9308
    @tanthiennguyen9308 2 месяца назад

    Ich gehe Schritt für Schritten um der Schädigenden weniger Aufwands brauchen...............................................

  • @upcycler
    @upcycler Месяц назад

    Born 1960 well aware then watching... not sure of Musk

  • @matthewsutphin7508
    @matthewsutphin7508 3 месяца назад

    Man only wanted to believe in something greater than himself

  • @tanthiennguyen9308
    @tanthiennguyen9308 2 месяца назад

    Ohne Farben bitteschön

  • @52robbo
    @52robbo 22 дня назад

    So sad that President Kennedy wasn’t allowed to live to see his dream come true.

  • @공정환-n1q
    @공정환-n1q 19 дней назад

    Young Helen Jackson Shirley Jackson Thomas

  • @kek6126
    @kek6126 3 месяца назад

    21:09 Baffles didn't balance the fuel flow.

  • @tanthiennguyen9308
    @tanthiennguyen9308 2 месяца назад

    Ist Brave Kind schwierig Lernen oder Studieren..............................,...................?

  • @steveskouson9620
    @steveskouson9620 3 месяца назад

    (Some guys in England.) "It is still the strongest
    single rocket ever built."
    Elon Musk. "Well, we can disagree."
    steve

    • @TOlds-gy4qn
      @TOlds-gy4qn 3 месяца назад

      Thats not what they said.
      1963 F1 to Musk’s 2020 Raptor v2: Hold my 🍺

  • @rickr9936
    @rickr9936 3 месяца назад

    👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @MrStratbat
    @MrStratbat 2 месяца назад

    at the 41 min mark I finally had to leave,,I kept wanting to tell somebody to shut that DAMN MUSIC OFF...

  • @fastmclaren71
    @fastmclaren71 7 дней назад

    Not the most powerful anymore. Star ships are ment to fly.

  • @EleanorPeterson
    @EleanorPeterson 4 месяца назад +1

    Seeing the video title, and reflecting on the importance that some people seem to attach to issues of size (🙄), I'm tempted to remind that bragging windbag 'rocket-man' Ego Muskrat that it's not the size that matters - it's what you DO with it.
    So... Apollo successfully getting men to the Moon = quite interesting.
    Much, much bigger vanity project blowing up, crashing repeatedly and generally failing to meet goals and live up to promises and expectations = 🤔.

    • @randal_gibbons
      @randal_gibbons 4 месяца назад +2

      Musk is looking to send more than just men to Mars, his goal is to build a colony that can sustain human life. That requires a rocket that can lift as much payload into space as possible.
      As for things blowing up, the Starship and Superheavy booster are prototype vehicles being designed and built like no other rocket in history. Will this be successful? NASA certainly hopes so, and so do I.

    • @davidfoster5906
      @davidfoster5906 3 месяца назад

      @@randal_gibbons Why?

    • @davidfoster5906
      @davidfoster5906 3 месяца назад

      @Hanbolo-wv8pg Perhaps we will go to Mars and plant a flag.O.K. But the notion that we can mine recourses from Mars or the Moon is fantasy. Re entry is as much a problem as the fuel requirements to lift one pound into orbit ($25,000 per pound).The notion that we ,as a species can consider Mars as a plan B if we spoil Earth is flawed. People are destined to profit from the promise of being a multi world species but destiny? We went to the Moon under the leadership and cooperation of government. We don't have a functioning government today .Perhaps China will plant there flag.

    • @mikedalgliesh1377
      @mikedalgliesh1377 3 месяца назад

      Yeah except Starship is coming along just as planned and all test flights so far have met expectations. And deriding it just because we don't like Musk discounts the immense achievements of a team of hundreds of engineers that made the new largest rocket ever happen.

    • @TOlds-gy4qn
      @TOlds-gy4qn 3 месяца назад

      Musk’s company vehicles haven’t even left LEO after 12 years for Christ’s sake. Whats so impressive about that ??
      Starship has been in development longer than Saturn V now. Lol

  • @dl2839
    @dl2839 2 месяца назад

    Saturn 5 is the third most powerful rocket ever launched.

  • @kevinmccarthy8746
    @kevinmccarthy8746 Месяц назад

    UNFORTUNATELY THAT IS THE ONLY WAY AMERICA will get off its ass to produce. ALL THE TIME. SPACEX AND THE NEXT President need to get a much closer relationship.

  • @MistressValkress
    @MistressValkress 3 месяца назад +2

    The threat is not the political world... It's US! Our beliefs and our lack of unity are our downfall! We NEED to start looking after each other and start working 'together'! this is what Kennedy wanted! It's what Gandhi wanted ... It's what Churchill wanted... It's what Martin Luther King wanted!!!! It's what everyone who wants our species to 'survive' wants! If you don't want our species to continue... Go take a walk off a cliff because you are insane! Time to start looking after ourselves... to start looking after 'each other'. I hope this message is a start to bring unity to our species! I'm one voice!!! I need others to join me! (Reaches out to the human race) Can you help?

    • @TOlds-gy4qn
      @TOlds-gy4qn 3 месяца назад

      Xi’s CNSA will show how cooperative work under CCP is a more progressive and productive approach to govt programs

  • @marcj3682
    @marcj3682 27 дней назад

    LOL.