My brother Romo V Cortez the first Filipino born Engineer hired by NASA in 1964 to work for the Apollo Program during the US Spce Race with Russia. He graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo CA with major in Electricsl Engineering and Mathematics. Before NASA, he worked as Instrumentation Engineer for the Polaris Nuclear Submarine at Mare Island, Vallejo CA. At NASA he worked for both Apollo and Saturn Program. He retired as Program Manager for Computing at the NASA Headquarters in Wash. DC.. He passed away in 2009 at age 77.
I was born in June 1957, and grew up with the Gemini and Apollo program. My farther told me a lot about it. As i learned to read, I got the newspapers myself. I cried all day when I read about Grissom,White and Chaffee. What a price to pay. Rest in peace. You really were the right stuff. The first live pictures I saw, was the actual landing. My Dad woke me up, at 7 in the morning, and I got to see Niel taking the giant leap for Mankind. Had I lived in the U.S.A. and not Denmark, it would probably have been, a different story. What a great Era it was. I could go on, and on. “If I see you no more in this World, see you in the next one. And don’t be late”. I think Elon Musk has picked up, where Apollo left off. America is still the place, where everything is possible.🇩🇰🙋🏻♂️🪐👩🏻🚀🇺🇸
I live about 30 miles north of Virgil I “Gus” Grissom hometown and my grandmother was from there as well. Mitchell, Indiana. We have tons of memorials of him around here. She taught us all about him and the space program. I’ve studied my entire life on the space race and everything surrounding it. It’s fascinating to see people such as yourself that has been impacted by a man from such a small place and a program from halfway around the world. I’ve visited a lot of the places that enabled and helped build the mighty Saturn V! It’s difficult to find anyone under 40 that believe we actually went to the moon. It’s appalling to me that we have an entire generation of morons that believe other Morons that put out that information on RUclips that don’t know anything of substance and seem to be putting out dumber people. It’s like witnessing the movie idiocracy playing out in real time!
I worked at Hamilton Standard 1976 to 1980 working on the new spacesuit for the space shuttle system. I was one of 6 picked from 300 designers to got to NASA JSC Houston for 6 months. So many great memories to be a part of history.
3:56 15 tons of paperwork. Amazing to think that all of that information could probably fit on a half ounce flash drive now. You really have to appreciate the effort past generations put in to the accumulation of knowledge that got us to where we are today.
@@wolfitirol8347 Well, 2 of the more well known projects being worked on are the Artemis program which will eventually establish a permanent base on the Moon. Another pending mission is the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which has been delayed several times for troubleshooting. NASA has a website. Most of what they do is public information, so if you’re truly interested, the comment section on RUclips probably isn’t the best place to look. ✌🏻🇺🇸
One man, Mr. Werner Von Braun, did it. No American engineers did much of anything or only did very little. Evidence: None of the American Apollo Program engineers wrote any memoirs for having very little to remember and memorable to talk about, and none of their names worth mentioning for having done little, except one man, Werner Von Braun, a German Apollo Program engineer.
@@一个说话大声的中国人 completely wrong. Von may have had the idea but a whole team of “Americans” worked and developed and solved problems with the whole project. Don’t be ignorant it looks bad.
This is more a general video on the space race; not much information about the impact and contributions von Braun actually made and how much of a mastermind he really was.
Yes! No offense, they presented the material very well; however, the headline was ‘clickbait-ish’ because I was hoping to see more or less a biography of Von Braun, but I guess they really didn’t want to get into his life in Germany? I’ve seen other docs with him being interviewed on TV, etc so I don’t know why this doc didn’t do that….
No contest...hands down the best video on RUclips I have ever watched and I have watched 20,000 +videos covering everything in life good and bad and again can say THE BEST!!!!
Fluid Dynamics, he did calculations, Computational Fluid Dynamic he did not needed, he did all the calculation on his old calculating tool by hand, all scientist did that. Der Schreibt, der Bleibt !
Back in the 1960s, digital computing and integrated electronics were quite primitive and still under development. Handheld scientific calculators were inexistent, as well. Advanced simulation programs were not to be found anywhere. Sophisticated instantaneous communication systems, such as the Internet or cellular telephony, could only be the subject of a dream. The sheer idea of all these scientists and engineers being able to achieve such a momentous feat with the tools available at that time can be quite a sobering thought.
@@burst345 but why is the real question...seems the data would be a treasure for any future endeavors or proof of falsehoods. Bottom line is it was done with intention. It most certainly was not a accident that all the data to include hardware terminated. What say you?
@@godswill2260 HOW COME NOT ONE PROFESSIONAL SPACE FLIGHT EXPERT AGREES WITH YOU ''MOON HOAXTARDS ? Were all 400,000 scientists, engineers and technicians who were involved in the Apollo Moon Program bribed or threatened into silence ? How did that world-wide cover-up work exactly ? Did everyone who earned a degree in aerospace engineering, or became an astronaut get a visit from the Men In Black, warning them not to talk about the Apollo fakery ? And what happened to those who refuse to cooperate ? Were they murdered ? Were they zapped by that little flashy thingy the MIB used to stealthily reprogramme their memories ? And how come NASA was so inept when producing all those photographs ? So clumsy in concealing the ‘fakery’ ? How come only people with no significant aerospace qualifications see all those alleged ‘anomalies’ in all those video recordings, film and photos ? While those who actually worked on the Apollo Moon Program have no doubt whatsoever about the reality of the SIX Moon Landings ? Is it really believable that unskilled amateurs can find real anomalies that the experts in the field have failed to notice ? And isn’t it rather arrogant for Moon Hoax theorists to imply that by watching a few RUclips videos and looking at a few low-quality photos, they can outsmart an astronaut or an aerospace engineer with years of practical experience ? Talk about being self-delusional! Get real ! Paolo Attivissimo author of MOON HOAX: DEBUNKED.
Only one man, Mr. Werner Von Braun, did it. No American engineers did much of anything or only did very little. Evidence: None of the American Apollo Program engineers wrote any memoirs for having very little to remember and memorable to talk about, and none of their names worth mentioning for having done little, except one man, Werner Von Braun, a German Apollo Program engineer. 2019 Israel failed an unmanned moon landing. The only reason I could think of is that the Israeli space program has no Germans. So did India, which failed an unmanned moon landing, has no Germans.
What do they tell you needed, why so political and weird? Hate communists, love the NAZI's .... really good ? You never needed any school, why Apollo fanboy then ?
Shepard didnt go into orbit and the commentator who stated that Gagarin "only" did one orbit clearly does not understand what an achievement that was compared to shepards later flight...
I wasn't born that time but my grandparents where there in that time and they remembered it. I think it is very awesome to remember and know what happened in that time and era for the space program.
Hope you still have it. I have mine by blind luck and gotta say it makes the lego model look a bit less than what the current crowd thinks. But that’s just my opinion. I’m just happy they’re interested in the Apollo program again.
This is like the movie Prestige. A lot of people think the moon landing happened from nowhere just like, like USA decided, today we will go to the moon and bam. That's why some people think it's fake. But in reality a lot of hard work, failures, suffering and sacrifices for more than 12 years were behind such a success.
Let's clear this up once and for all....Von Braun's name and how to pronounce it. When he was in Germany, his name was pronounced (phonetically) 'Verner Fon Brawn.' When he relocated to North Alabama, he became (phonetically) Werner Von Brown.' (his attempt at Americanizing in the American south where the southern dialect could more easily adapt). It's not truly 'Brown' or 'Brahn,' sorta a mixing of the two. Eva Braun (Adolf Hitler's wife) had the same last name and it was never pronounced 'brown.' It's more 'brawn.'
What a great documentary about a time I wish I could have witnessed! Thanks! It's truly amazing what these people who worked on the Appollo program had accomplished.
One man, Mr. Werner Von Braun, did it. No American engineers did much of anything or only did very little. Evidence: None of the American Apollo Program engineers wrote any memoirs for having very little to remember and memorable to talk about, and none of their names worth mentioning for having done little, except one man, Werner Von Braun, a German Apollo Program engineer.
@@distantthunder12ck55 FYI, Israel Jews failed to land on the moon in 2019. Hopefully, Israeli Jews in the next decade can land on the moon. Of course, American Jews are much more Israeli Jews. :)
One of the things that they never tell you is that we are no longer able to make the F-1 rocket engine. We have the designs, the blueprints, the calculations, the materials, everything. But the skills and techniques needed to machine and create the massive parts by hand were not passed on to the next generation. Newer computer aided design and CNC techniques took over the industry and those skills were lost to time. The devil is often in the details. Maybe we can make better, more advanced, engines now but recreating these Iconic bohemoths might forevermore remain out of our grasp.
I was 11 years old watching at midnight ( in Germany) on TV ,Armstrong and Aldrin walking on the moon, breathtaking for me...why didn't NASA go back to the moon and build a station there, to get knowledge before they want to go to Mars ?
The money can be spent better. E.g. educating all the MAGA fans, flat earthers , climate change deniers etc. Hmm. The climate change deniers are so quiet these days. Right, draught in California, China, Europe : this is just the weather.
Long ago, but it seems like last Thursday, I recall seeing the last Saturn V on the pad. I didn't get to witness the launch, but just seeing it in the distance was spellbinding.
Just to put the V-2 in perspective -- it helped us win the war sooner, saving millions. Here's why: “But as fearsome as the V-2 was, it had little strategic impact…” Freeman Dyson and other historians have written persuasively that the net effect of the V-2 program was Germany collapsing six months or more sooner due to the crushing demand for high-tech equipment and rare hi-energy fuels, that if applied to more conventional weapons could have lengthened the war leading to millions more fatalities in Europe and tens of millions in the Pacific -- including inter alia my father and uncles. So be GRATEFUL the von Braun team diverted Hitler from far more effective weapons [Speer in his memoirs confirms this ‘mistake’]. I’ll take any such happy result, inadvertent or not - and we don’t have to forget the V-2’s victims in London and the slave cave factories. The non-existence of the V-2 wouldn’t have saved such losses, it would have multiplied them. Every V-2 built was a dozen fighter jets not built, a hundred anti-aircraft rockets not built, a squad of Tiger tanks not built. The cold-blooded calculus of casualties is morally complex.
What you are writing is correct. The resources that went into the Nazi rocket programs would have caused many more deaths if spent in another fashion. I am German, and i'm a huge fan of NASA and Star Trek and the Final Frontier dream etc. I sure dont mind using the smartest rocket scientists on earth in that decade to advance development. Although it wouldnt hurt if the US was a bit more truthful and transparent about the fact that they used German engineers (i am not using the word Nazi because they were not).
Stage 1 and the F-1 motor is just incredible. Well said, "it is an explosion, just on the edge of precise control." You can't just trial and error a piece of equipment that expensive. The Boys had to use big brains and imagination to make that work.
Von Braun's modest grave marker refers to one of his favorite biblical passages: "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmaments showeth His handiwork."
This was great! Absolutely gorgeous documentary, I was a chid in the early years of the space race. I remember how excited we all were as the Mercury,Gemini, and Apollo programs proceeded. And how happy and proud we were when Neil Armstrong made that first step onto the surface of the moon. It was thrilling to watch him actually taking the first step on another world! I still am awed at the Saturn V and all those flawless launches. And the hard work and dedication of a who worked on the effort to get our astronauts to the moon, everyone working to solve the problems and achieve Kennedy's dream of putting men on the moon by the end the 1960s. i'm nearly 70 now, but I hope to live to see astronauts back on the moon. It truly is time we went back.
I knew a David Swift back in high school. May I ask where you went to HS? Just delete your reply/answer once I've seen it and reply back. > if there's any anonymity concerns. All I'll say for now is that it was/is a west coast state, the city starts with an S, the HS's initials are SA. We both (the DS I knew) participated in CC and maybe T also. My initials are PH, Class of '85. What are the chances, 1 in 300? 600? I looked at your channel, your taste in other channels > I sub to a lot of those to. Science-E stuff, SpaceX, etc - that fits at least.
People forgot without that captured German Scientist there is no Apollo program. The F-1 Saturn V imploded during testing they couldn’t get the fuel instability right. However they used the German Scientist idea on his original rocket to maintain fuel stability and boom Saturn 5 was born.
i was watching the launch from across a little water, 9 miles away and I could hear crankle fire like in my ear. But I was standing there was not as shread of doubt where the man would walk on the moon.
That 'crackle' behind the thunder, and the brilliance of the flame, are surprises to most first-time experiencers of big rocket launches. Thanks for sharing.
@@JamesOberg I lived nearby and heard or saw several launches some from my backyard For this one, I was really surprised by the length of the fire plume out the back. As it went up the rocket is standing on a length of bright orange fire longer than its own length. That is what surprised me
Some have harsh words for this man of renown, But some think our attitude Should be one of gratitude, Like the widows and cripples in old London town Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.
Outstanding doc !!! Fortunately not going into this useless debate about Von Braun's nazi past... (especially as those who addressed this, did not put in the required nuances, and the complete historical context...) It's just insane what skills and leadership he must have had to overlook such a program... 370K+ people working on the same project, that's just beyond imagination !!!!
Beat me to it. If it was up to WVB, NASA would have pushed the direct ascent mode and would have failed. He built great rockets but did not create the vision; he was not the one to ‘win’ the space race. Houboult was the one who convinced WVB and everyone else to use LOR. Quite the unsung hero outside of NASA; folks within know.
It's really an awesome thing that we are on the verge of Starship with its 16,000,000 lbs of lift more than double Saturn 5 but it's been half a century. edit:" thrust " not lift.
Wernher Von Braun is German his the father of modern rocketry invented liquid propelled rocket, and soon developed into a bigger rockets that sent human in space, saturn V. FYI he is not American okay!
No, von Braun did not invent the liquid-fuelled rocket. Hermann Oberth, von Braun's mentor, built liquid-fuelled rockets. Von Braun learned rocketry from him.
The real America of love, peace, progress and the best in the world, how i wish we can go back to those days of engineering for peace and human progress not the mess of casino economy. Then there was the SHUTTLE spacecraft, that was a cherry on top.
NASA made it to the Moon with a year to spare. The last year of the decade was 1970, not 1969. No one person deserves the credit for "winning" the space race. A few hundred thousand people worked on the project, and many thousands of those had key roles.
I'm The grandson of Of General Leslie Groves, the man who built the Pentagon and The head of the Manhattan project and he always told me that He was inraged by I think he was a general Marshall he built the areo space medical facilities in Texas He tried to get a few of the really bad natzi scientists not to be brought over here He was really annoyed with the treatment of these real murderous natzi scientists I'm going to be writing my family book about my grandfather was my hero when I was born he raised me when I was a baby until he died he was practically with me All the time because He retired and when my father was a boy he was doing this stuff but He is a great piece of an American patriot and American hero
Rating of countries by the first launches of artificial Earth satellites: 1. USSR - 1957 2. USA - 1958 3. UK - 1962 4. Canada - 1962 5. Italy - 1964 Rating of countries by the first launches of space satellites with their own launch vehicles: 1. USSR - October 4, 1957 2. USA - February 1, 1958 3. France - November 26, 1965 4. Italy - April 26, 1967 5. Japan - February 11, 1970 Rating of countries by the first flights of astronauts: 1. USSR - April 12, 1961 2. USA - May 5, 1961 3. Czechoslovakia - March 2, 1978 4. Poland - June 27, 1978 5. GDR - 26 August 1978 Ranking of countries by the number of first-of-its-kind spacecraft (remarkable, of historical significance, with achievements that were made for the first time by one of the countries) until 1992: 1. USSR - 21 2. USA - 15 3. EU - 1 Ranking of countries by the number of spacecraft launched to explore the solar system, as well as first-of-its-kind or noteworthy vehicles launched into low Earth orbit before 1992: 1. USSR - 115 2. USA - 84 3. EU - 4 4. Japan - 4 5. Germany - 2 Ranking of countries by the number of successful orbital launches (not including emergency and partially emergency) until 1992: 1. USSR - 2278 2. USA - 903 3. Japan - 42 4. France - 39 5. China - 27 Ranking of countries by the lowest proportion of emergency orbital launches for countries with more than 10 launches before 1992: 1. USSR - 5.54% 2. EU - 7.14% 3. USA - 11.25% 4. Japan - 12.24% 5. France - 14.89% As you can see, in all the above ratings, the USSR took first place. The United States achieved the landing of a man on the moon, so I will dwell on this in more detail. A manned flight to the moon was not practical. In view of the fact that the USA lost to the USSR all the events of the race in space and had hopeless chances of winning when competing with the USSR in those places that had practical expediency, the Americans decided to deliver a man to the moon, due to the fact that the USSR was not going to send a man to the moon ( Of the given hopeless chances of winning in rivalry with the USSR and a great chance to beat the Soviets in the implementation of the first landing of the crew on the moon, Wernher von Braun wrote in a note to Vice President L. Johnson, in which he tried to answer the questions posed by President Kennedy in a memorandum dated April 20, 1961). For a man to fly to the moon, a tenfold jump in carrier power was needed compared to the rockets existing at that time, and for the reason that the USSR did not plan to fly to the moon, the USSR did not have such a rocket, and he did not try to develop it. But due to large financial expenses and due to the lack of practical expediency, the US leadership refused to finance the delivery of a man to the moon. For example, this is what the head of the task force, Donald Horniga, wrote about this in his conclusion when analyzing NASA's plan for the Apollo program: “Emotional arguments and national ambition are put in the rationale for manned programs. This is not a subject that can be discussed from an engineering standpoint.” US President Eisenhower found the requested spending to be beyond reasonable. On December 20, 1960, the issue was considered at a meeting of the US National Security Council. Eisenhower's reaction was indifferent: "I don't care if man of the moon. Someone compared the situation to the one when the Spanish monarchy decided to finance the expensive expedition of Christopher Columbus, who discovered America as a result. Eisenhower, recalling the method used by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, replied that he "is not going to pawn his jewels to send a man to the moon." But with the change of the President of the United States, the situation has changed. On May 25, 1961, American President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech to Congress in which he proclaimed the goal for the United States to carry out space flight with an astronaut landing on the surface of the Moon before the end of the decade. To this, former President Dwight Eisenhower wrote in the widely read Sunday Evening Post that "the race to the moon, the inevitable spending of huge sums and the increase in public debt is the wrong way." But despite this, the Apollo program was adopted in 1961. Kennedy was able to convince Kennedy to accept this program by a consultant from his campaign headquarters, Richard Neustadt, writing in a note that the Apollo program, or rather, its key and most expensive part of it - the projected Saturn rocket, is a project of prestige, and that the United States is lagging behind the USSR and, most likely, will be left behind in rivalry with the USSR, therefore, it is necessary to withdraw from the race and redirect resources to getting a man to the moon. On October 26, 1963, N. S. Khrushchev, answering journalists' questions, said that the Soviet Union did not plan to send a man to the moon. At that time, Korolev had a multi-launch scheme that involved assembling a lunar spacecraft in near-Earth orbit from separately launched modules. But it was not approved at the government level and therefore was not funded. Also, even before the launch of the lunar flight and lunar landing programs in the USSR, technical proposals were developed for the creation of a manned lunar orbital station L4. The main initiator of the idea of manned flight to the Moon and even to Mars was Sergei Pavlovich Korolev. But Korolev's views on the need for manned space exploration were opposed by the view of G. N. Babakin that only the exploration of outer space by robots would give real and quick benefits to mankind. And the decisive word in this rivalry was for V. Chelomey, who, being one of the key creators of the USSR nuclear missile shield and the head of the second of the main organizations for the creation of space technology (including manned), considered Babakin's view as more promising. Chelomey was the direct superior of Sergei Khrushchev, who was his deputy and was the son of N. S. Khrushchev. But after the removal of N. S. Khrushchev from power, Chelomey fell into disgrace, which gave Korolev the opportunity to implement his ideas. Therefore, only a few years later, with a great delay in relation to the United States, on August 3, 1964, the lunar manned program of the USSR was approved by a government decree. Korolev originally planned a flight to Mars as more valuable than a flight to the Moon, but due to the launch of the US lunar program and the complex technical implementation "Martian" version, the project was revised towards the Moon. But even further, Korolev ran into problems due to the fact that many did not share his idea of flying to the moon. The most experienced space propulsion design bureau Glushko refused to make powerful engines for spacecraft necessary for flight to the moon. Glushko was a principled opponent of flights to the Moon and advocated the creation of orbital near-Earth stations for defense purposes. Also, experienced Gosplan economists, with whom Korolev usually consulted, warned that the real figures for the necessary costs through the Ministry of Finance and the State Planning Commission will not be approved. Pashkov, highly knowledgeable in the politics of the State Planning Commission, advised to underestimate real costs, and in the future we will issue more than one decree, hardly anyone dares close the work of such a scale and then the money will be found! Therefore, the calculations that were submitted to the Central Committee and the Council of Ministers were underestimated. And when it came to allocating the necessary funds for it, the leaders of the country demanded that the designers observe the regime savings, and this only led to "raw" design solutions and a sharp decrease reliability of new space technology. On January 14, 1966, Sergei Korolev dies during a medical operation. Further, in view of the fact that there were no more such supporters of the flight to the moon as Korolev, after the appointment of Glushko as the head and chief designer of NPO Energia, he closed the lunar program. As you can see, landing a man on the moon had no practical significance, so the governments of the countries refused to allocate money for this. But when the leadership changed, this problem was resolved. The lack of practical significance led to the fact that the lunar manned program of the USSR was adopted much later than the United States. Even despite the fact that the lunar manned program was approved in the USSR, there were still frictions inside the USSR between Korolev (a supporter of flights to the moon) and those who believed that sending a man to the moon was economically unreasonable and pointless, which hindered this goal . Before the Americans reached the moon, Korolyov died, and later his opponents of a manned flight to the moon closed the lunar manned program of the USSR. The US put a man on the moon. Unlike the USSR, the US had a motive to reach the moon. They were served by the fact that the Americans had previously lost to the USSR all phases of the space race and thus wanted to rehabilitate themselves. But it was much more economically feasible to send interplanetary spacecraft to the Moon, which the USSR did. The USSR was already on the moon 10 years before the US landed a man on it. In general, looking at the above facts, we can say that the space race was won by the USSR, and the USA won the lunar race. The USSR achieved more than the US at a lower cost.
This is junk passing as reasoning. There was no race as you envision it, claiming only being first at anything being a “win”. The USA was conducting research on development of usable, reliable systems and capabilities. The USSR did a lot of stunts of minimal value with marginal further development. USSR does a single orbit. The USA does sub orbits to test systems, then a series of orbital missions of increasing length to study effects on human bodies and test advanced systems. USA builds a worldwide tracking and communication system as well as worldwide recovery capability. Then USA does Gemini two manned capsule tests. USSR does a “Spacewalk” that nearly kills the cosmonaut when his suit balloons in size. The USA does “walk” with suit performing perfectly and egress from and return to capsule are flawless. USSR does not do further development on the matter. USA does multiple open door capsule tests and other “walks”. USSR gets two capsules in space at same time and manages to get them within visual sight of each other. Never progresses further. USA gets two capsules to match orbits and get right up to each other. Then has a capsule match orbit with an Agena rocket upper stage, dock with the Agena and use it’s engine to make orbital shape and distance changes. Gemini tests extended time in space for humans. Gemini is used for extensive testing preparing for the coming Apollo. USA tests three man capsule with large engineering and engine support module attached. Tests maneuvering and docking with lunar lander, ability to remove lander from launcher. USA tests capability to leave earth orbit and navigate to moon, shifting from earth gravity control to moon gravity control. Tests ability to enter desired orbit around moon, and modify orbit. Tests ability to precisely leave orbit and assume course for return to earth. Navigation and control tested and working. Ability to enter precisely the small window for coming under control of earth gravity, ability to withstand the intense heating as slowing by atmosphere. And in order to do that many capabilities had to be researched and developed, such as the Lifting Bodies. Those aerodynamics tests resulted in capsule shapes to allow control on return to atmosphere. USSR lands a device on moon. Lasts a very short time and takes some, not many B&W pictures. USA lands three devices, which last far far longer. Take extensive color pictures, examine moon surface in other ways, including test digging. USA puts satellite with mapping capability in lunar orbit and extensively maps lunar surface. I could go on for a long time about much, much more. The post I’m replying to posits a “race” of value on stunts, not on developed capabilities which build and interface with other capabilities. Posits that everything was about a moon mission when in fact it was advanced research in many directions and aspects as we learned about space, about factors of working in space with humans and machines. How to navigate, communicate, and many more capabilities. And to be absolutely clear, Kennedy proposed the USA develop the capabilities to go to the moon, as part of but not exclusively all that we would be doing. He did not challenge the USSR to a race. That was what we were going to do, and did, regardless of what the USSR chose to do. And FWIW the USSR did try but could never get past the stunt stage. While we built the Saturn V they tried to make a bigger rocket, the N-1 for a direct ascent moon mission, and failed. We developed vast capabilities. USSR was nowhere near. And had Nixon not decided to do a dual nation co-mission the USSR would have taken even longer to develop further. We had to share a lot of technology and teach them skills for them to be able to launch a capsule and control it sufficiently for it to dock with our Apollo. We advanced the USSR by maybe a decade in a short time in order to make that, really a PR stunt as we got nothing from it, work out.
@@hifi6638 I quote Wikipedia: “Space Race” was a competition in the field of space exploration between the USSR and the USA, from 1957 to 1988. Events in the space race include the launch of artificial satellites, animal and human space flights, and landing on the moon. A side effect of the Cold War. The term got its name in the West by analogy with the arms race. The “Space Race” became an important part of the cultural, technological and ideological confrontation between the USSR and the USA during the Cold War. This was due to the fact that space research was not only of great importance for scientific and military developments, but also had a noticeable propaganda effect. The race started on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik 1. During the great space race, the USSR and the USA became the first and main “space powers” capable of launching satellites into orbit with their launch vehicles, and “space superpowers” to begin manned space flights. So there was a space race. Yes, the USA did not challenge the USSR to compete in the lunar race, but the USA decided to land a man on the Moon purely because the USA had previously lost all stages of the space race to the USSR. There was no need to simply send a man to the Moon. When the United States announced its plans to send a man to the moon, the USSR did not plan to send him there. But in the USSR there was Korolev, who dreamed of colonizing Mars. But the leadership of the USSR did not support his plans. But Korolev later managed to convince the leadership of the USSR to support his plans only because the United States decided to fly to the Moon. And a few years later, the USSR also joined the Moon Race. But unlike the USA, the USSR planned to build a lunar base, and in this case, a human flight to the Moon made sense. But as we know, Korolev died and in the USSR there were no longer supporters of the flight to the Moon, so the USSR curtailed the lunar program. The USSR built more competitive launch vehicles than the United States; they had a lower cost of launching 1 ton of cargo into orbit and higher reliability. Therefore, later the United States began to use Russian launch vehicles and Russian missiles, because it is more profitable from a financial point of view. Also, the USSR had priority in the construction and launching of the orbital station. The United States could not, without the help of the USSR, complete the entire complex of work alone: build, launch into orbit and operate the space station. Therefore, in practical terms, the USSR was more successful than the USA. After the flight, Yuri Gagarin became a global superstar. He did almost more to promote the USSR than all Soviet agitprop combined. A number of circumstances contributed to the propaganda success of the Soviet flight: the declared focus of the USSR on building communism as a “bright tomorrow” for all humanity. With such installations, any technological breakthrough acquired a futuristic and planetary scale. technological failures and failures in the 1950s of the United States, the world enemy of the USSR, which tried to launch its astronaut to the stars. After the flight, Gagarin was actually appointed by the Soviet government as a goodwill ambassador. The very name of the foreign tour, “Mission of Peace,” reflected the main diplomatic ideal. Gagarin's main diplomatic tool was his smile and charisma. It evoked strong positive emotions among ordinary people, especially in states with which the Soviet Union was in geopolitical confrontation. In this sense, he contributed to the depoliticization of their perception of the country. The prestige of the USSR soared to unprecedented heights. The Union began to be taken seriously not only as a supplier of military equipment, but also as a high-tech power. The same cannot be said about Neil Armstrong.
You have no knowledge of what Armstrong did in the years after his moon landing. He traveled extensively around the world as a good will Ambassador. The idea that the USSR with its armed borders to keep its citizens from fleeing became a beacon for the world is laughable. The beacon was a searchlight sweeping along the kill zone of the border. The so called “race” was an intellectual construct that helped media make stories. The two nations were on different paths. The USA was exploring rocket planes like the X-15 with its advanced engine that was throttleable - the only rocket in the world with that capability. USSR had nothing like it. Nothing you post refutes the statement that USSR was doing stunts to claim “firsts” that were not followed up. The USA built step by step with advancing technology and capabilities. The USSR tried to copy the reusable lifting body orbital but never made it work. We can credit their value of cheap rockets that have been useful for lifting. Very. But that in no way can be a claim of “winning” and unofficial and undefined “race” where after a few stunts never matched what the USA accomplished. You just ignore any achievement that the USSR did not try for. The USSR eventually collapsed because of its fraudulent structure that was not sustainable without the threat of force over its imprisoned citizens. As soon as that threat weakened, first the captive states of the Warsaw pack fled, followed by the captive Baltic states that USSR “annexed”. After which the USSR fell apart and ceased to exist. Some accomplishment. But in admiring such it is no surprise you absorbed the propaganda and have no real knowledge of what the USA accomplished with space exploration, and even think Armstrong became a nobody.
@@hifi6638 Where did Armstrong travel around the world as a goodwill ambassador? Which countries and when did he visit? Why is this not written anywhere on the Internet then? I have given you seven different ratings. And the USSR won all seven. The USSR achieved its goals before the United States. Therefore, victory in the space race is for the USSR. And the fact that the USSR collapsed does not in any way cancel its victory in the space race. The USSR collapsed due to the power struggle between Yeltsin and Gorbachev, and also because the leadership of the USSR decided to privatize state property. To control assets and cash flows, they began to separate the republics on the initiative of their heads in order to transfer the property of the republics to their own account.
I love these documentaries. I'm still not convinced we went. Too many red flags. This documentary reveals them. I believe we stayed in lower earth orbit. Insane to believe we went 7 times in a four year period from 68-72 then nothing even until this day with the advancement of technology.
which specific points does it reveal? and again, just because we have more advanced tech in many fields doesn't mean we have way better rockets, nor the funding.
Its difficult to explain a scientific project to the general public . Many people were bewildered by its complexity and pushed for affirmative action but the project was the beginning of Americas decline . All the best .
I read somewhere that grissom was becoming something of a concern for nasa. It's no surprise that 'things happen' to people, especially back then, when cover ups were rife.
son you lie! I have over 40 books about the Apollo program. And I've read many more. Nowhere I have encountered an assertion the NASA was concerned with Grissom's demeanor. If there were concerns it would have come through Gus's best friend Deke Slayton. You are a creator of mythology. A lie to create a perception that NASA was a progenitor of plotting and executing members of it's astronaut Corps. It is a shameful contention designed to buttress your absurd assertions of subterfuge. Get over yourself Skippy, you are nothing more than a third rate troll. Your shit is all fucked up!
@@steverodgers8425 Well then all those books you read must have had quite a few pages missing as there was beef between nasa and grissom concerning the opening of a hatch that was dropped into the ocean. On that basis I don't think you know the subject matter very well and I have to question your credibility. I believe you are one of those who specifically infiltrate comment sections using vile terminology such as 'troll' to somehow try to validate yourself and your beliefs. You should be ashamed of yourself as truth is something you should seek, not hide from.
After the crude Sputnik event, and launching a man into orbit, the Soviet rocket program resembled no more than a bunch of cave men playing with a cell phone. Sad how many brave Cosmonauts they killed or left abandoned in space.
Alan Bean, the "Fourth Man on the Moon" is on tape asking Bart Sibrel, who was interviewing him, where are those Van Allen Belt things he has never heard about (so he thought he had never crossed their paths in his life), and when Sibreal explains him where they are located he simple answers "then we went right out through them". He-he-he.
Ruben Oteiza the amount of time spent unprotected in space was not in and of itself enough to be deadly. The space station would be a different matter because you're spending more time up there.
@@rubenoteiza9261 what part of "James Van Allen repeatedly stating that the radiation belts named after him would nor pose a danger" is so hard for you to understand?
I grew up during the Apollo missions, living in Titusville Florida directly across the Indian River from Cape Kennedy. When 11 went up I saw it just a few miles away and the ground literally rumbled as it lifted up. Was truly amazing. In school we watched it land on the Moon. The entire Apollo era was something that I was completely immersed into. The only thing that no one talked about at all back then was the fact that Werner Von Braun was a NAZI. He used that platform to progress his dream of reaching space with his V2 rockets which was used to reign terror down on England. He built them with the use of NAZI slave labor from their concentration camps and many thousands died at the hands of his program’s needs. He never refused the help and never stood up against the treatment of its victims of abuse or the deaths that his V2 program caused in Great Britain. He was only concerned with his obsession of getting into space. He should have been tried at Nuremberg for his war crimes against humanity but was spared that fate by the US with Operation Paper Clip. History goes forward to raise him to the status of a hero while whitewashing his true infamous history of death and destruction.
Well made doc. One of the best I’ve watched on the tube
Same as killing JF Kenney, the NAZI rocket guy.
winning ?
My brother Romo V Cortez the first Filipino born Engineer hired by NASA in 1964 to work for the Apollo Program during the US Spce Race with Russia. He graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo CA with major in Electricsl Engineering and Mathematics. Before NASA, he worked as Instrumentation Engineer for the Polaris Nuclear Submarine at Mare Island, Vallejo CA. At NASA he worked for both Apollo and Saturn Program. He retired as Program Manager for Computing at the NASA Headquarters in Wash. DC.. He passed away in 2009 at age 77.
I was born in June 1957, and grew up with the Gemini and Apollo program. My farther told me a lot about it. As i learned to read, I got the newspapers myself. I cried all day when I read about Grissom,White and Chaffee. What a price to pay. Rest in peace. You really were the right stuff.
The first live pictures I saw, was the actual landing. My Dad woke me up, at 7 in the morning, and I got to see Niel taking the giant leap for Mankind. Had I lived in the U.S.A. and not Denmark, it would probably have been, a different story. What a great Era it was. I could go on, and on. “If I see you no more in this World, see you in the next one. And don’t be late”. I think Elon Musk has picked up, where Apollo left off. America is still the place, where everything is possible.🇩🇰🙋🏻♂️🪐👩🏻🚀🇺🇸
I live about 30 miles north of Virgil I “Gus” Grissom hometown and my grandmother was from there as well. Mitchell, Indiana. We have tons of memorials of him around here. She taught us all about him and the space program. I’ve studied my entire life on the space race and everything surrounding it. It’s fascinating to see people such as yourself that has been impacted by a man from such a small place and a program from halfway around the world. I’ve visited a lot of the places that enabled and helped build the mighty Saturn V! It’s difficult to find anyone under 40 that believe we actually went to the moon. It’s appalling to me that we have an entire generation of morons that believe other Morons that put out that information on RUclips that don’t know anything of substance and seem to be putting out dumber people. It’s like witnessing the movie idiocracy playing out in real time!
@@brianrobinson1259 Well said
America - The land of Dreams
I worked at Hamilton Standard 1976 to 1980 working on the new spacesuit for the space shuttle system. I was one of 6 picked from 300 designers to got to NASA JSC Houston for 6 months. So many great memories to be a part of history.
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you can be so proud ! my deepest respect goes out to you sir :)
Can you tell me how the spacesuit keeps them alive? No comments saying im stupid please.. want to hear it from someone that was there!
3:56 15 tons of paperwork. Amazing to think that all of that information could probably fit on a half ounce flash drive now. You really have to appreciate the effort past generations put in to the accumulation of knowledge that got us to where we are today.
And where is the space programm today?
@@wolfitirol8347 Well, 2 of the more well known projects being worked on are the Artemis program which will eventually establish a permanent base on the Moon. Another pending mission is the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which has been delayed several times for troubleshooting. NASA has a website. Most of what they do is public information, so if you’re truly interested, the comment section on RUclips probably isn’t the best place to look. ✌🏻🇺🇸
@@Pretermit_Sound thanks for the good answer 👍
One man, Mr. Werner Von Braun, did it. No American engineers did much of anything or only did very little. Evidence: None of the American Apollo Program engineers wrote any memoirs for having very little to remember and memorable to talk about, and none of their names worth mentioning for having done little, except one man, Werner Von Braun, a German Apollo Program engineer.
@@一个说话大声的中国人 completely wrong. Von may have had the idea but a whole team of “Americans” worked and developed and solved problems with the whole project. Don’t be ignorant it looks bad.
Geez, some of the best audio files and comments I’ve ever heard. There’s nothing better than knowledgeable people telling it exactly as it is/was.
This is more a general video on the space race; not much information about the impact and contributions von Braun actually made and how much of a mastermind he really was.
Yes! No offense, they presented the material very well; however, the headline was ‘clickbait-ish’ because I was hoping to see more or less a biography of Von Braun, but I guess they really didn’t want to get into his life in Germany? I’ve seen other docs with him being interviewed on TV, etc so I don’t know why this doc didn’t do that….
Bravo! A spectacular tribute to the Saturn V and the Apollo space program.
The heroes
One of the best documentiaries about this marvelous wonder of engineering I have ever seen. Thanks for the upload!
No contest...hands down the best video on RUclips I have ever watched and I have watched 20,000 +videos covering everything in life good and bad and again can say THE BEST!!!!
Love the Nazi, hate the communists ?
why you like this, not a science guy ? Army fanboy ?
The most impressive part was dealing with the combustion issue without CFD. this type of diligence is wild incredibly inspiring
Fluid Dynamics, he did calculations, Computational Fluid Dynamic he did not needed, he did all the calculation on his old calculating tool by hand, all scientist did that. Der Schreibt, der Bleibt !
Back in the 1960s, digital computing and integrated electronics were quite primitive and still under development. Handheld scientific calculators were inexistent, as well. Advanced simulation programs were not to be found anywhere. Sophisticated instantaneous communication systems, such as the Internet or cellular telephony, could only be the subject of a dream.
The sheer idea of all these scientists and engineers being able to achieve such a momentous feat with the tools available at that time can be quite a sobering thought.
and yet they lost and or destroyed all that historical evidence
@@godswill2260 I heard so. And is so sad. Trashing all that enormous amount of knowledge.
@@burst345 but why is the real question...seems the data would be a treasure for any future endeavors or proof of falsehoods. Bottom line is it was done with intention. It most certainly was not a accident that all the data to include hardware terminated. What say you?
@@godswill2260 HOW COME NOT ONE PROFESSIONAL SPACE FLIGHT EXPERT AGREES WITH YOU ''MOON HOAXTARDS ? Were all 400,000 scientists, engineers and technicians who were involved in the Apollo Moon Program bribed or threatened into silence ? How did that world-wide cover-up work exactly ? Did everyone who earned a degree in aerospace engineering, or became an astronaut get a visit from the Men In Black, warning them not to talk about the Apollo fakery ? And what happened to those who refuse to cooperate ? Were they murdered ? Were they zapped by that little flashy thingy the MIB used to stealthily reprogramme their memories ? And how come NASA was so inept when producing all those photographs ? So clumsy in concealing the ‘fakery’ ? How come only people with no significant aerospace qualifications see all those alleged ‘anomalies’ in all those video recordings, film and photos ? While those who actually worked on the Apollo Moon Program have no doubt whatsoever about the reality of the SIX Moon Landings ? Is it really believable that unskilled amateurs can find real anomalies that the experts in the field have failed to notice ? And isn’t it rather arrogant for Moon Hoax theorists to imply that by watching a few RUclips videos and looking at a few low-quality photos, they can outsmart an astronaut or an aerospace engineer with years of practical experience ? Talk about being self-delusional! Get real ! Paolo Attivissimo author of MOON HOAX: DEBUNKED.
Only one man, Mr. Werner Von Braun, did it. No American engineers did much of anything or only did very little. Evidence: None of the American Apollo Program engineers wrote any memoirs for having very little to remember and memorable to talk about, and none of their names worth mentioning for having done little, except one man, Werner Von Braun, a German Apollo Program engineer. 2019 Israel failed an unmanned moon landing. The only reason I could think of is that the Israeli space program has no Germans. So did India, which failed an unmanned moon landing, has no Germans.
Awesome... I saw Buzz Aldrin speak for an hour here in NZ in 2010 about his experience ON the Moon.. Thanks 👍🇳🇿
Big Apollo fan here. This is one the really good docs out there.
What do they tell you needed, why so political and weird? Hate communists, love the NAZI's ....
really good ? You never needed any school, why Apollo fanboy then ?
Thank you, Wernher von Braun!!! 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇩🇪
Amen
Shepard didnt go into orbit and the commentator who stated that Gagarin "only" did one orbit clearly does not understand what an achievement that was compared to shepards later flight...
I wasn't born that time but my grandparents where there in that time and they remembered it. I think it is very awesome to remember and know what happened in that time and era for the space program.
July, 1969. I remember when it happened. And the Revell Saturn V rocket model I had then.
Hope you still have it. I have mine by blind luck and gotta say it makes the lego model look a bit less than what the current crowd thinks. But that’s just my opinion. I’m just happy they’re interested in the Apollo program again.
I had one...loved it...but it's gone 😭
This is like the movie Prestige. A lot of people think the moon landing happened from nowhere just like, like USA decided, today we will go to the moon and bam. That's why some people think it's fake. But in reality a lot of hard work, failures, suffering and sacrifices for more than 12 years were behind such a success.
German engineers and physicists were also taken into the Soviet Union. They created Soviet space tech. Wernher and his team made a very good choice.
Let's clear this up once and for all....Von Braun's name and how to pronounce it. When he was in Germany, his name was pronounced (phonetically) 'Verner Fon Brawn.' When he relocated to North Alabama, he became (phonetically) Werner Von Brown.' (his attempt at Americanizing in the American south where the southern dialect could more easily adapt). It's not truly 'Brown' or 'Brahn,' sorta a mixing of the two. Eva Braun (Adolf Hitler's wife) had the same last name and it was never pronounced 'brown.' It's more 'brawn.'
What a great documentary about a time I wish I could have witnessed! Thanks! It's truly amazing what these people who worked on the Appollo program had accomplished.
One man, Mr. Werner Von Braun, did it. No American engineers did much of anything or only did very little. Evidence: None of the American Apollo Program engineers wrote any memoirs for having very little to remember and memorable to talk about, and none of their names worth mentioning for having done little, except one man, Werner Von Braun, a German Apollo Program engineer.
Hopefully in the next decade you can witness something similar if Space X make it to Mars. :)
@@distantthunder12ck55 FYI, Israel Jews failed to land on the moon in 2019. Hopefully, Israeli Jews in the next decade can land on the moon. Of course, American Jews are much more Israeli Jews. :)
One of the things that they never tell you is that we are no longer able to make the F-1 rocket engine. We have the designs, the blueprints, the calculations, the materials, everything. But the skills and techniques needed to machine and create the massive parts by hand were not passed on to the next generation. Newer computer aided design and CNC techniques took over the industry and those skills were lost to time. The devil is often in the details. Maybe we can make better, more advanced, engines now but recreating these Iconic bohemoths might forevermore remain out of our grasp.
Brilliant video. I remember it like it was yesterday.
I love watching space exploration documentaries. This is one of of the best.
Great documentary. Very well produced, professional in every way.
I was 11 years old watching at midnight ( in Germany) on TV ,Armstrong and Aldrin walking on the moon, breathtaking for
me...why didn't NASA go back to the moon and build a station there, to get knowledge before they want to go to Mars ?
lack of money
The money can be spent better. E.g. educating all the MAGA fans, flat earthers , climate change deniers etc.
Hmm.
The climate change deniers are so quiet these days.
Right, draught in California, China, Europe : this is just the weather.
Earth rise! What a beautiful gift the astronauts gave us on that Christmas.
Long ago, but it seems like last Thursday, I recall seeing the last Saturn V on the pad. I didn't get to witness the launch, but just seeing it in the distance was spellbinding.
I remember seeing it on a black & white TV
Just to put the V-2 in perspective -- it helped us win the war sooner, saving millions. Here's why:
“But as fearsome as the V-2 was, it had little strategic impact…”
Freeman Dyson and other historians have written persuasively that the net effect of the V-2 program was Germany collapsing six months or more sooner due to the crushing demand for high-tech equipment and rare hi-energy fuels, that if applied to more conventional weapons could have lengthened the war leading to millions more fatalities in Europe and tens of millions in the Pacific -- including inter alia my father and uncles. So be GRATEFUL the von Braun team diverted Hitler from far more effective weapons [Speer in his memoirs confirms this ‘mistake’]. I’ll take any such happy result, inadvertent or not - and we don’t have to forget the V-2’s victims in London and the slave cave factories. The non-existence of the V-2 wouldn’t have saved such losses, it would have multiplied them. Every V-2 built was a dozen fighter jets not built, a hundred anti-aircraft rockets not built, a squad of Tiger tanks not built. The cold-blooded calculus of casualties is morally complex.
What you are writing is correct. The resources that went into the Nazi rocket programs would have caused many more deaths if spent in another fashion. I am German, and i'm a huge fan of NASA and Star Trek and the Final Frontier dream etc. I sure dont mind using the smartest rocket scientists on earth in that decade to advance development. Although it wouldnt hurt if the US was a bit more truthful and transparent about the fact that they used German engineers (i am not using the word Nazi because they were not).
@@jenswilke3600 -- Thanks for the reply, I worked at NASA for 20 years, met folks from all over the world.
True.
Great video! Thank you.
Stage 1 and the F-1 motor is just incredible. Well said, "it is an explosion, just on the edge of precise control." You can't just trial and error a piece of equipment that expensive. The Boys had to use big brains and imagination to make that work.
Spectacular and remarkable...why is tears in my eyes though?
always intrigued me what state the launch pad is left in and how much work is involved to repair it for another launch
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Von Braun's modest grave marker refers to one of his favorite biblical passages: "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmaments showeth His handiwork."
This was great! Absolutely gorgeous documentary, I was a chid in the early years of the space race. I remember how excited we all were as the Mercury,Gemini, and Apollo programs proceeded. And how happy and proud we were when Neil Armstrong made that first step onto the surface of the moon. It was thrilling to watch him actually taking the first step on another world!
I still am awed at the Saturn V and all those flawless launches. And the hard work and dedication of a who worked on the effort to get our astronauts to the moon, everyone working to solve the problems and achieve Kennedy's dream of putting men on the moon by the end the 1960s.
i'm nearly 70 now, but I hope to live to see astronauts back on the moon. It truly is time we went back.
What an excellent docu video of the rockets that USA launched in the 1950s and 1960s. A real video history.
I ❤️ Wernher von Braun
Rocket🚀🚀 launch :: reminds me of dragon fire🔥🔥
I'm impressed👍
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29:30 yeah, look into "Dr David Baker" there. See what you find.
I really liked this. Still more stuff to have learned from the Apollo program.
I knew a David Swift back in high school.
May I ask where you went to HS? Just delete your reply/answer once I've seen it and reply back. > if there's any anonymity concerns.
All I'll say for now is that it was/is a west coast state, the city starts with an S, the HS's initials are SA. We both (the DS I knew) participated in CC and maybe T also. My initials are PH, Class of '85.
What are the chances, 1 in 300? 600? I looked at your channel, your taste in other channels > I sub to a lot of those to. Science-E stuff, SpaceX, etc - that fits at least.
Does anyone know what the background music is at 36:00
Great to see thumbs up and thank you.
Those J2 engines/fuel choice on the 2nd and 3rd stages deserve some credit for making it possible to leave low earth orbit with any substantial mass.
great documentary really fun to watch in midnight.
Some day people will muse and say . . .
The Model T Ford was truly a great automobile and an inspiration to all auto makers ! ! !
some day? people have been saying that for nearly a century at this point
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Well it was ! ! !
Unfortunately . . . we cannot all be as (lucky) Henry was ! ! !
Excellent documentary.
The best documentary ever
Von Braun wasn’t the only German rocket designer. He wasn’t even the only rocket designer working on the Saturn V.
People forgot without that captured German Scientist there is no Apollo program. The F-1 Saturn V imploded during testing they couldn’t get the fuel instability right. However they used the German Scientist idea on his original rocket to maintain fuel stability and boom Saturn 5 was born.
✨ The God of Space Exploration ✨
i was watching the launch from across a little water, 9 miles away and I could hear crankle fire like in my ear. But I was standing there was not as shread of doubt where the man would walk on the moon.
That 'crackle' behind the thunder, and the brilliance of the flame, are surprises to most first-time experiencers of big rocket launches. Thanks for sharing.
@@JamesOberg I lived nearby and heard or saw several launches some from my backyard For this one, I was really surprised by the length of the fire plume out the back. As it went up the rocket is standing on a length of bright orange fire longer than its own length. That is what surprised me
31:40 ST124 Platform
Humans were on the moon before we had digital watches.
*Thanks for sharing!!!*
I was in School in 1969 . Great success of mankind. It was declared a holiday and we played a football match
Some have harsh words for this man of renown,
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples in old London town
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.
Or the millions who did NOT die because the V-2 program bankrupted Nazi war industry, ending the war a year or more sooner.
Outstanding doc !!! Fortunately not going into this useless debate about Von Braun's nazi past... (especially as those who addressed this, did not put in the required nuances, and the complete historical context...)
It's just insane what skills and leadership he must have had to overlook such a program... 370K+ people working on the same project, that's just beyond imagination !!!!
Politics has no place in teamwork.
Thousands of V1's and V2's killed thousands in Southern England. Thousands of slaves died building those rockets. What more evidence do you need ?
The Jenias man in this world Mr. BROWN. 🙏
just Imagine how the SLS and the StarShip will look when lunched.
Boeing didnt make the f1 engines Rocketdyne did they were bought by Boeing in 2013.
Werner Von Braun made it possible for American astronauts to get to the moon, but it was John Houbolt that made sure no one got stuck there.
Beat me to it. If it was up to WVB, NASA would have pushed the direct ascent mode and would have failed. He built great rockets but did not create the vision; he was not the one to ‘win’ the space race. Houboult was the one who convinced WVB and everyone else to use LOR. Quite the unsung hero outside of NASA; folks within know.
Can we please put Bezos safely on Pluto?
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Werner von Braun
It's really an awesome thing that we are on the verge of Starship with its 16,000,000 lbs of lift more than double Saturn 5 but it's been half a century. edit:" thrust " not lift.
Wernher Von Braun is German his the father of modern rocketry invented liquid propelled rocket, and soon developed into a bigger rockets that sent human in space, saturn V.
FYI he is not American okay!
No, von Braun did not invent the liquid-fuelled rocket. Hermann Oberth, von Braun's mentor, built liquid-fuelled rockets. Von Braun learned rocketry from him.
Is it werner von braun or verner i always hear peaople pronounce with a V , i thought it was werner?
It's a German who made it possible, without him it would have failed.
That dude was very, very smart!
@@loveydovey4uand responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Europe
I wouldn’t say he was the only one but he was the centre of the project
The real America of love, peace, progress and the best in the world, how i wish we can go back to those days
of engineering for peace and human progress not the mess of casino economy. Then there was the SHUTTLE spacecraft, that was a cherry on top.
peace? this was literally the vietnam era
"of love, peace"
They literally used smuggled Nazi scientists
So glad the WWII element was not glossed over
Great German engineering 🤔🤔
NASA made it to the Moon with a year to spare. The last year of the decade was 1970, not 1969.
No one person deserves the credit for "winning" the space race. A few hundred thousand people worked on the project, and many thousands of those had key roles.
It's Braun..not Brown..js..lol..it's kind of like time team (great show btw) hearing Tony Robinson say GLACIERS
Thank you
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I'm The grandson of Of General Leslie Groves, the man who built the Pentagon and The head of the Manhattan project and he always told me that He was inraged by I think he was a general Marshall he built the areo space medical facilities in Texas He tried to get a few of the really bad natzi scientists not to be brought over here He was really annoyed with the treatment of these real murderous natzi scientists I'm going to be writing my family book about my grandfather was my hero when I was born he raised me when I was a baby until he died he was practically with me All the time because He retired and when my father was a boy he was doing this stuff but He is a great piece of an American patriot and American hero
Rating of countries by the first launches of artificial Earth satellites:
1. USSR - 1957
2. USA - 1958
3. UK - 1962
4. Canada - 1962
5. Italy - 1964
Rating of countries by the first launches of space satellites with their own launch vehicles:
1. USSR - October 4, 1957
2. USA - February 1, 1958
3. France - November 26, 1965
4. Italy - April 26, 1967
5. Japan - February 11, 1970
Rating of countries by the first flights of astronauts:
1. USSR - April 12, 1961
2. USA - May 5, 1961
3. Czechoslovakia - March 2, 1978
4. Poland - June 27, 1978
5. GDR - 26 August 1978
Ranking of countries by the number of first-of-its-kind spacecraft (remarkable, of historical significance, with achievements that were made for the first time by one of the countries) until 1992:
1. USSR - 21
2. USA - 15
3. EU - 1
Ranking of countries by the number of spacecraft launched to explore the solar system, as well as first-of-its-kind or noteworthy vehicles launched into low Earth orbit before 1992:
1. USSR - 115
2. USA - 84
3. EU - 4
4. Japan - 4
5. Germany - 2
Ranking of countries by the number of successful orbital launches (not including emergency and partially emergency) until 1992:
1. USSR - 2278
2. USA - 903
3. Japan - 42
4. France - 39
5. China - 27
Ranking of countries by the lowest proportion of emergency orbital launches for countries with more than 10 launches before 1992:
1. USSR - 5.54%
2. EU - 7.14%
3. USA - 11.25%
4. Japan - 12.24%
5. France - 14.89%
As you can see, in all the above ratings, the USSR took first place. The United States achieved the landing of a man on the moon, so I will dwell on this in more detail.
A manned flight to the moon was not practical. In view of the fact that the USA lost to the USSR all the events of the race in space and had hopeless chances of winning when competing with the USSR in those places that had practical expediency, the Americans decided to deliver a man to the moon, due to the fact that the USSR was not going to send a man to the moon ( Of the given hopeless chances of winning in rivalry with the USSR and a great chance to beat the Soviets in the implementation of the first landing of the crew on the moon, Wernher von Braun wrote in a note to Vice President L. Johnson, in which he tried to answer the questions posed by President Kennedy in a memorandum dated April 20, 1961). For a man to fly to the moon, a tenfold jump in carrier power was needed compared to the rockets existing at that time, and for the reason that the USSR did not plan to fly to the moon, the USSR did not have such a rocket, and he did not try to develop it. But due to large financial expenses and due to the lack of practical expediency, the US leadership refused to finance the delivery of a man to the moon.
For example, this is what the head of the task force, Donald Horniga, wrote about this in his conclusion when analyzing NASA's plan for the Apollo program: “Emotional arguments and national ambition are put in the rationale for manned programs. This is not a subject that can be discussed from an engineering standpoint.”
US President Eisenhower found the requested spending to be beyond reasonable. On December 20, 1960, the issue was considered at a meeting of the US National Security Council. Eisenhower's reaction was indifferent: "I don't care if man of the moon. Someone compared the situation to the one when the Spanish monarchy decided to finance the expensive expedition of Christopher Columbus, who discovered America as a result. Eisenhower, recalling the method used by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, replied that he "is not going to pawn his jewels to send a man to the moon."
But with the change of the President of the United States, the situation has changed. On May 25, 1961, American President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech to Congress in which he proclaimed the goal for the United States to carry out space flight with an astronaut landing on the surface of the Moon before the end of the decade. To this, former President Dwight Eisenhower wrote in the widely read Sunday Evening Post that "the race to the moon, the inevitable spending of huge sums and the increase in public debt is the wrong way."
But despite this, the Apollo program was adopted in 1961. Kennedy was able to convince Kennedy to accept this program by a consultant from his campaign headquarters, Richard Neustadt, writing in a note that the Apollo program, or rather, its key and most expensive part of it - the projected Saturn rocket, is a project of prestige, and that the United States is lagging behind the USSR and, most likely, will be left behind in rivalry with the USSR, therefore, it is necessary to withdraw from the race and redirect resources to getting a man to the moon.
On October 26, 1963, N. S. Khrushchev, answering journalists' questions, said that the Soviet Union did not plan to send a man to the moon. At that time, Korolev had a multi-launch scheme that involved assembling a lunar spacecraft in near-Earth orbit from separately launched modules. But it was not approved at the government level and therefore was not funded. Also, even before the launch of the lunar flight and lunar landing programs in the USSR, technical proposals were developed for the creation of a manned lunar orbital station L4.
The main initiator of the idea of manned flight to the Moon and even to Mars was Sergei Pavlovich Korolev.
But Korolev's views on the need for manned space exploration were opposed by the view of G. N. Babakin that only the exploration of outer space by robots would give real and quick benefits to mankind. And the decisive word in this rivalry was for V. Chelomey, who, being one of the key creators of the USSR nuclear missile shield and the head of the second of the main organizations for the creation of space technology (including manned), considered Babakin's view as more promising. Chelomey was the direct superior of Sergei Khrushchev, who was his deputy and was the son of N. S. Khrushchev. But after the removal of N. S. Khrushchev from power, Chelomey fell into disgrace, which gave Korolev the opportunity to implement his ideas. Therefore, only a few years later, with a great delay in relation to the United States, on August 3, 1964, the lunar manned program of the USSR was approved by a government decree.
Korolev originally planned a flight to Mars as more valuable than a flight to the Moon, but due to the launch of the US lunar program and the complex technical implementation "Martian" version, the project was revised towards the Moon.
But even further, Korolev ran into problems due to the fact that many did not share his idea of flying to the moon. The most experienced space propulsion design bureau Glushko refused to make powerful engines for spacecraft necessary for flight to the moon. Glushko was a principled opponent of flights to the Moon and advocated the creation of orbital near-Earth stations for defense purposes. Also, experienced Gosplan economists, with whom Korolev usually consulted, warned that the real figures for the necessary costs through the Ministry of Finance and the State Planning Commission will not be approved. Pashkov, highly knowledgeable in the politics of the State Planning Commission, advised to underestimate real costs, and in the future we will issue more than one decree, hardly anyone dares close the work of such a scale and then the money will be found! Therefore, the calculations that were submitted to the Central Committee and the Council of Ministers were underestimated. And when it came to allocating the necessary funds for it, the leaders of the country demanded that the designers observe the regime savings, and this only led to "raw" design solutions and a sharp decrease reliability of new space technology.
On January 14, 1966, Sergei Korolev dies during a medical operation. Further, in view of the fact that there were no more such supporters of the flight to the moon as Korolev, after the appointment of Glushko as the head and chief designer of NPO Energia, he closed the lunar program.
As you can see, landing a man on the moon had no practical significance, so the governments of the countries refused to allocate money for this. But when the leadership changed, this problem was resolved. The lack of practical significance led to the fact that the lunar manned program of the USSR was adopted much later than the United States. Even despite the fact that the lunar manned program was approved in the USSR, there were still frictions inside the USSR between Korolev (a supporter of flights to the moon) and those who believed that sending a man to the moon was economically unreasonable and pointless, which hindered this goal . Before the Americans reached the moon, Korolyov died, and later his opponents of a manned flight to the moon closed the lunar manned program of the USSR. The US put a man on the moon. Unlike the USSR, the US had a motive to reach the moon. They were served by the fact that the Americans had previously lost to the USSR all phases of the space race and thus wanted to rehabilitate themselves. But it was much more economically feasible to send interplanetary spacecraft to the Moon, which the USSR did. The USSR was already on the moon 10 years before the US landed a man on it.
In general, looking at the above facts, we can say that the space race was won by the USSR, and the USA won the lunar race. The USSR achieved more than the US at a lower cost.
This is junk passing as reasoning. There was no race as you envision it, claiming only being first at anything being a “win”. The USA was conducting research on development of usable, reliable systems and capabilities. The USSR did a lot of stunts of minimal value with marginal further development.
USSR does a single orbit. The USA does sub orbits to test systems, then a series of orbital missions of increasing length to study effects on human bodies and test advanced systems. USA builds a worldwide tracking and communication system as well as worldwide recovery capability.
Then USA does Gemini two manned capsule tests.
USSR does a “Spacewalk” that nearly kills the cosmonaut when his suit balloons in size. The USA does “walk” with suit performing perfectly and egress from and return to capsule are flawless. USSR does not do further development on the matter. USA does multiple open door capsule tests and other “walks”.
USSR gets two capsules in space at same time and manages to get them within visual sight of each other. Never progresses further.
USA gets two capsules to match orbits and get right up to each other. Then has a capsule match orbit with an Agena rocket upper stage, dock with the Agena and use it’s engine to make orbital shape and distance changes. Gemini tests extended time in space for humans. Gemini is used for extensive testing preparing for the coming Apollo.
USA tests three man capsule with large engineering and engine support module attached. Tests maneuvering and docking with lunar lander, ability to remove lander from launcher.
USA tests capability to leave earth orbit and navigate to moon, shifting from earth gravity control to moon gravity control. Tests ability to enter desired orbit around moon, and modify orbit. Tests ability to precisely leave orbit and assume course for return to earth. Navigation and control tested and working. Ability to enter precisely the small window for coming under control of earth gravity, ability to withstand the intense heating as slowing by atmosphere.
And in order to do that many capabilities had to be researched and developed, such as the Lifting Bodies. Those aerodynamics tests resulted in capsule shapes to allow control on return to atmosphere.
USSR lands a device on moon. Lasts a very short time and takes some, not many B&W pictures. USA lands three devices, which last far far longer. Take extensive color pictures, examine moon surface in other ways, including test digging. USA puts satellite with mapping capability in lunar orbit and extensively maps lunar surface.
I could go on for a long time about much, much more.
The post I’m replying to posits a “race” of value on stunts, not on developed capabilities which build and interface with other capabilities. Posits that everything was about a moon mission when in fact it was advanced research in many directions and aspects as we learned about space, about factors of working in space with humans and machines. How to navigate, communicate, and many more capabilities.
And to be absolutely clear, Kennedy proposed the USA develop the capabilities to go to the moon, as part of but not exclusively all that we would be doing. He did not challenge the USSR to a race. That was what we were going to do, and did, regardless of what the USSR chose to do. And FWIW the USSR did try but could never get past the stunt stage. While we built the Saturn V they tried to make a bigger rocket, the N-1 for a direct ascent moon mission, and failed.
We developed vast capabilities. USSR was nowhere near. And had Nixon not decided to do a dual nation co-mission the USSR would have taken even longer to develop further. We had to share a lot of technology and teach them skills for them to be able to launch a capsule and control it sufficiently for it to dock with our Apollo. We advanced the USSR by maybe a decade in a short time in order to make that, really a PR stunt as we got nothing from it, work out.
@@hifi6638 I quote Wikipedia: “Space Race” was a competition in the field of space exploration between the USSR and the USA, from 1957 to 1988.
Events in the space race include the launch of artificial satellites, animal and human space flights, and landing on the moon. A side effect of the Cold War. The term got its name in the West by analogy with the arms race. The “Space Race” became an important part of the cultural, technological and ideological confrontation between the USSR and the USA during the Cold War. This was due to the fact that space research was not only of great importance for scientific and military developments, but also had a noticeable propaganda effect. The race started on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik 1. During the great space race, the USSR and the USA became the first and main “space powers” capable of launching satellites into orbit with their launch vehicles, and “space superpowers” to begin manned space flights.
So there was a space race. Yes, the USA did not challenge the USSR to compete in the lunar race, but the USA decided to land a man on the Moon purely because the USA had previously lost all stages of the space race to the USSR. There was no need to simply send a man to the Moon. When the United States announced its plans to send a man to the moon, the USSR did not plan to send him there. But in the USSR there was Korolev, who dreamed of colonizing Mars. But the leadership of the USSR did not support his plans. But Korolev later managed to convince the leadership of the USSR to support his plans only because the United States decided to fly to the Moon. And a few years later, the USSR also joined the Moon Race. But unlike the USA, the USSR planned to build a lunar base, and in this case, a human flight to the Moon made sense. But as we know, Korolev died and in the USSR there were no longer supporters of the flight to the Moon, so the USSR curtailed the lunar program.
The USSR built more competitive launch vehicles than the United States; they had a lower cost of launching 1 ton of cargo into orbit and higher reliability. Therefore, later the United States began to use Russian launch vehicles and Russian missiles, because it is more profitable from a financial point of view. Also, the USSR had priority in the construction and launching of the orbital station. The United States could not, without the help of the USSR, complete the entire complex of work alone: build, launch into orbit and operate the space station. Therefore, in practical terms, the USSR was more successful than the USA.
After the flight, Yuri Gagarin became a global superstar. He did almost more to promote the USSR than all Soviet agitprop combined.
A number of circumstances contributed to the propaganda success of the Soviet flight:
the declared focus of the USSR on building communism as a “bright tomorrow” for all humanity. With such installations, any technological breakthrough acquired a futuristic and planetary scale.
technological failures and failures in the 1950s of the United States, the world enemy of the USSR, which tried to launch its astronaut to the stars.
After the flight, Gagarin was actually appointed by the Soviet government as a goodwill ambassador. The very name of the foreign tour, “Mission of Peace,” reflected the main diplomatic ideal.
Gagarin's main diplomatic tool was his smile and charisma. It evoked strong positive emotions among ordinary people, especially in states with which the Soviet Union was in geopolitical confrontation. In this sense, he contributed to the depoliticization of their perception of the country.
The prestige of the USSR soared to unprecedented heights. The Union began to be taken seriously not only as a supplier of military equipment, but also as a high-tech power.
The same cannot be said about Neil Armstrong.
You have no knowledge of what Armstrong did in the years after his moon landing. He traveled extensively around the world as a good will Ambassador. The idea that the USSR with its armed borders to keep its citizens from fleeing became a beacon for the world is laughable. The beacon was a searchlight sweeping along the kill zone of the border.
The so called “race” was an intellectual construct that helped media make stories. The two nations were on different paths. The USA was exploring rocket planes like the X-15 with its advanced engine that was throttleable - the only rocket in the world with that capability. USSR had nothing like it.
Nothing you post refutes the statement that USSR was doing stunts to claim “firsts” that were not followed up. The USA built step by step with advancing technology and capabilities. The USSR tried to copy the reusable lifting body orbital but never made it work. We can credit their value of cheap rockets that have been useful for lifting. Very. But that in no way can be a claim of “winning” and unofficial and undefined “race” where after a few stunts never matched what the USA accomplished. You just ignore any achievement that the USSR did not try for. The USSR eventually collapsed because of its fraudulent structure that was not sustainable without the threat of force over its imprisoned citizens. As soon as that threat weakened, first the captive states of the Warsaw pack fled, followed by the captive Baltic states that USSR “annexed”. After which the USSR fell apart and ceased to exist. Some accomplishment. But in admiring such it is no surprise you absorbed the propaganda and have no real knowledge of what the USA accomplished with space exploration, and even think Armstrong became a nobody.
@@hifi6638 Where did Armstrong travel around the world as a goodwill ambassador? Which countries and when did he visit? Why is this not written anywhere on the Internet then?
I have given you seven different ratings. And the USSR won all seven. The USSR achieved its goals before the United States.
Therefore, victory in the space race is for the USSR. And the fact that the USSR collapsed does not in any way cancel its victory in the space race. The USSR collapsed due to the power struggle between Yeltsin and Gorbachev, and also because the leadership of the USSR decided to privatize state property. To control assets and cash flows, they began to separate the republics on the initiative of their heads in order to transfer the property of the republics to their own account.
I love these documentaries. I'm still not convinced we went. Too many red flags. This documentary reveals them. I believe we stayed in lower earth orbit. Insane to believe we went 7 times in a four year period from 68-72 then nothing even until this day with the advancement of technology.
which specific points does it reveal? and again, just because we have more advanced tech in many fields doesn't mean we have way better rockets, nor the funding.
Heard about radar? The russians had radar, too.
No red flags at all
Its difficult to explain a scientific project to the general public . Many people were bewildered by its complexity and pushed for affirmative action but the project was the beginning of Americas decline . All the best .
On the day Grissom died, he stuck a lemon on the command module cockpit door, implying the mission was a joke and a failure.
Go check out this fact.
Another lie fool. Grissom hung a lemon on the CM simulator and not on the day he died, shit for brains.
Typical 'brain dead' comment by a Troll.
I read somewhere that grissom was becoming something of a concern for nasa.
It's no surprise that 'things happen' to people, especially back then, when cover ups were rife.
son you lie! I have over 40 books about the Apollo program. And I've read many more. Nowhere I have encountered an assertion the NASA was concerned with Grissom's demeanor.
If there were concerns it would have come through Gus's best friend Deke Slayton.
You are a creator of mythology.
A lie to create a perception that
NASA was a progenitor of plotting and executing members of it's astronaut Corps.
It is a shameful contention designed to buttress your absurd assertions
of subterfuge.
Get over yourself Skippy, you are nothing more than a third rate troll.
Your shit is all fucked up!
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Well then all those books you read must have had quite a few pages missing as there was beef between nasa and grissom concerning the opening of a hatch that was dropped into the ocean.
On that basis I don't think you know the subject matter very well and I have to question your credibility.
I believe you are one of those who specifically infiltrate comment sections using vile terminology such as 'troll' to somehow try to validate yourself and your beliefs.
You should be ashamed of yourself as truth is something you should seek, not hide from.
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"How One Man Won The Space Race For America"? The answer is that the man never had to run.
Correction; Verner Von Braun put a man on the moon.
Werner Von Braun - He aimed for the stars, but he kept hitting London.
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After the crude Sputnik event, and launching a man into orbit, the Soviet rocket program resembled no more than a bunch of cave men playing with a cell phone. Sad how many brave Cosmonauts they killed or left abandoned in space.
The designer of the Saturn V was deported.
US logic in a nutshell - it was Matthias Zurbriggen who actually discovered America because he was the first man to climb Aconcagua.
Alan Bean, the "Fourth Man on the Moon" is on tape asking Bart Sibrel, who was interviewing him, where are those Van Allen Belt things he has never heard about (so he thought he had never crossed their paths in his life), and when Sibreal explains him where they are located he simple answers "then we went right out through them". He-he-he.
Ruben Oteiza the amount of time spent unprotected in space was not in and of itself enough to be deadly. The space station would be a different matter because you're spending more time up there.
@@r.a.facklam4851 What part of "Alan Bean, the Fourth Man On The Moon didn't even know where the VA Belts were located" you didn't understand.
@@rubenoteiza9261 what part of "James Van Allen repeatedly stating that the radiation belts named after him would nor pose a danger" is so hard for you to understand?
Starship is now the most powerful rocket ever. Also it’s much larger than the nova lander.
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NASA must stop Pogo. I want that t-shirt.
(to surrect planets is how to live in a universe - mars belongs to life)
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Vietnam, Afghanistan : Really ?
I grew up during the Apollo missions, living in Titusville Florida directly across the Indian River from Cape Kennedy. When 11 went up I saw it just a few miles away and the ground literally rumbled as it lifted up. Was truly amazing. In school we watched it land on the Moon. The entire Apollo era was something that I was completely immersed into.
The only thing that no one talked about at all back then was the fact that Werner Von Braun was a NAZI. He used that platform to progress his dream of reaching space with his V2 rockets which was used to reign terror down on England. He built them with the use of NAZI slave labor from their concentration camps and many thousands died at the hands of his program’s needs. He never refused the help and never stood up against the treatment of its victims of abuse or the deaths that his V2 program caused in Great Britain. He was only concerned with his obsession of getting into space.
He should have been tried at Nuremberg for his war crimes against humanity but was spared that fate by the US with Operation Paper Clip. History goes forward to raise him to the status of a hero while whitewashing his true infamous history of death and destruction.
Artemis to the moon and beyond.