@moonlitlove NASA is the reason that you know about it you fool, whilst James Van Allen himself was responsible for the calculations behind the Apollo trajectories. Incidentally - they are belts, since there are two, with a third that is transitory. What about them?
@@yassassin6425 == ""James Van Allen himself was responsible for the calculations behind the Apollo trajectories. " == Never heard that, is there any documentation on it?
@@JamesOberg James Van Allen calculated that it was possible to fly ballistic trajectories through the weaker zones of radiation, the sparsest outermost region of the inner belt and the less hazardous outer belt to reach cislunar/outer space. The measurements and data derived from his academic papers/ publications, groundbreaking work and pioneering contribution to the SSB the Iowa Group, and numerous advisory boards, enabled NASA to chart safe passage through the VABs. "the outbound and inbound trajectories of the Apollo spacecraft cut through the outer portions of the inner belt and because of their high speed spent only about 15 minutes in traversing the region and less than 2 hours in traversing the much less penetrating radiation in the outer radiation belt. The resulting radiation exposure for the round trip was less than 1% of a fatal dosage - a very minor risk among the far greater other risks of such flights. I made such estimates in the early 1960s and so informed NASA engineers who were planning the Apollo flights. These estimates are still reliable." James Van Allen (2004)
@@yassassin6425 == Thank you! The way I remember it, van Allen verified that the ballistic trajectories independently designed by NASA were reasonably un-hazardous. I don't think his report claimed that he actually designed the flight path based on minimizing radiation. But the results were the same and his work was genuine. Again, thanks for documenting this!
@moonlitlove NASA is the reason that you know about it you fool, whilst James Van Allen himself was responsible for the calculations behind the Apollo trajectories. Incidentally - they are belts, since there are two, with a third that is transitory. What about them?
That JFK line when he says "....and this award, brought from the ground up!" gets me every time. The candid "off cuff" slick smooth polished verbage that many leaders today lack.
Amazing documentary, which I never knew about until now, although I've watched countless other productions about the space program. So much new stuff that wasn't reported anywhere else.
@moonlitlove NASA is the reason that you know about it you fool, whilst James Van Allen himself was responsible for the calculations behind the Apollo trajectories. Incidentally - they are belts, since there are two, with a third that is transitory. What about them?
Thank you for the video. I was a teenager when all this took place. I remember like it was yesterday. I was glued to the TV. What a time to be alive. Thanks again.
The video of the service module and command module separating from the last stage is awesome! U see the small thrusters keeping it aligned , then the main hypergol rocket ignite is just amazing to me ....
As an 8 year old I was glued to the black and white TV and from then on I was interested in technology. It was another 15 years before the first personal computers appeared and another 10 years before I became a programmer. I always wondered what that 1201 and 1202 alarm actually meant. The Apollo Guidence Computer was located in the command module and in the LEM. In the LEM, it was responsible for landing and returning to the CM. During the landing, a radar required for an escape procedure to return to the CM was accidentally left on. The AGC was busy with the landing, but the radar also sent data, so that too many tasks were performed at the same time. This gave an overload alarm 1201 and 1202. If you want to know more about this go to the channel of CuriousMarc. There they restore an original AGC and more explanation about those alarms.
24:15 Notably, Valentina Tereshkova is the only one to go into space, before 1965, who is stili alive after all these years. Also the only woman to go into space alone, and probably always will be.
The only woman space traveler to have demanded I be kicked out of a NASA press event in Houston for asking too many probing questions [grin]! NASA acquiesced.
@@JamesOberg Well, it's a small world, assuming you're the real Oberg. Well, fact is, I have no opinion at all on any astronaut or cosmonaut as a person. In other words, no dog in this fight, if there's even a fight. And that's fine with me, as por dios I certainly have some strong opinions on hundreds of other public figures. Well, anyway, what Tereshkova may not even have been reflective of her as a person. Maybe her gov't had her hands tied. Or not. Again, I have no dog in that fight.
@@ronaldgarrison8478 == I asked her what had become of her backup women-cosmonauts, Once she flew, the stunt was over, they weren't of any future use, and were expelled from the program. She didn't want to admit that.
@@ronaldgarrison8478 == I was more surprised than annoyed, not at the Russian, but at the spineless NASA bureaucrats who ignored my press credentials. .
Thank you. I've never seen the Ray Bradbury interview before.And, Mr. Aldrin, you did get to look around while you were there. Also, nice punch. I mean it. This vid recalled the thrill of the whole day of the landing, remembering all the moments that afternoon, dinner, then the Main Event.
wow!!!! july 1969 i was 7 yrs old mom & dad watched the launch on a 3 channeled b/w tv in alumn rock road birmingham uk im sure i watched it along with my parents as well ! i was privileged too witness human history at the end off a fantastic decade the 1960s !!!!!! i was 1yr old when jfk was assinated , 2yrs old when the mods vs the rockers seaside clashes & the beatles hit america 3 yrs old when us troops went into vietnam 4 yrs old when england won the jules rimet cup at wembley 5yrs old when the hippies appeared 1967 flower power !!! 7yrs old when the skinheads appeared & the appollo launch!!! so you see i grew up in every year since i was born in 1962 !!! thats why the 1960s were so important too me and my family !! oh i started school in uk in 1967 i was 6yrs old when west brom won the facup at wembley 1960-1969 the sixties there ll never be another decade again in human history & and man or i should say neil armstrong walked on the moon & said those famous words THAT;S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND!!!!!!
I'd love to know what the song is from 22:54 - 23:26. It's always stuck in my head ever since I saw the documentary as a young boy in 1994. If anybody knows I'd love to find and listen to a full version of that song.
1:09:00 Maybe not the right attitude anyway. There would be moments when you could have a little fun with this stuff. So why not take advantage of those moments, and let the public in on it as well? Maybe not always possible, but sometimes it would be.
So typical of African Americans, begging for more handouts during the most magnificent achievement of man! They have the worst attitude, Asian minorities have shown us that even with discrimination you can become more wealthy than white americans if you educate yourself and work hard.
Here's anther he also said some thing along the line of " if we can't communicate between sheds how the hell are we going to communicate from the moon . "
I made this as a VHS at the time. Thanks for the excellent production. A superb BBC documentary
@moonlitlove
NASA is the reason that you know about it you fool, whilst James Van Allen himself was responsible for the calculations behind the Apollo trajectories.
Incidentally - they are belts, since there are two, with a third that is transitory.
What about them?
@@yassassin6425 == ""James Van Allen himself was responsible for the calculations behind the Apollo trajectories. " == Never heard that, is there any documentation on it?
@@JamesOberg
James Van Allen calculated that it was possible to fly ballistic trajectories through the weaker zones of radiation, the sparsest outermost region of the inner belt and the less hazardous outer belt to reach cislunar/outer space. The measurements and data derived from his academic papers/ publications, groundbreaking work and pioneering contribution to the SSB the Iowa Group, and numerous advisory boards, enabled NASA to chart safe passage through the VABs.
"the outbound and inbound trajectories of the Apollo spacecraft cut through the outer portions of the inner belt and because of their high speed spent only about 15 minutes in traversing the region and less than 2 hours in traversing the much less penetrating radiation in the outer radiation belt. The resulting radiation exposure for the round trip was less than 1% of a fatal dosage - a very minor risk among the far greater other risks of such flights. I made such estimates in the early 1960s and so informed NASA engineers who were planning the Apollo flights. These estimates are still reliable." James Van Allen (2004)
@@yassassin6425 == Thank you! The way I remember it, van Allen verified that the ballistic trajectories independently designed by NASA were reasonably un-hazardous. I don't think his report claimed that he actually designed the flight path based on minimizing radiation. But the results were the same and his work was genuine. Again, thanks for documenting this!
Good old days when documentaries used to be awesome, thank you for posting
@moonlitlove
NASA is the reason that you know about it you fool, whilst James Van Allen himself was responsible for the calculations behind the Apollo trajectories.
Incidentally - they are belts, since there are two, with a third that is transitory.
What about them?
Happy 55th Anniversary to the first Moon landing... and Happy 30th Anniversary to this documentary!!
Best doc ever on the moon landing
That JFK line when he says "....and this award, brought from the ground up!" gets me every time. The candid "off cuff" slick smooth polished verbage that many leaders today lack.
Amazing documentary, which I never knew about until now, although I've watched countless other productions about the space program. So much new stuff that wasn't reported anywhere else.
@moonlitlove
NASA is the reason that you know about it you fool, whilst James Van Allen himself was responsible for the calculations behind the Apollo trajectories.
Incidentally - they are belts, since there are two, with a third that is transitory.
What about them?
Thank you for the video. I was a teenager when all this took place. I remember like it was yesterday. I was glued to the TV. What a time to be alive. Thanks again.
The video of the service module and command module separating from the last stage is awesome! U see the small thrusters keeping it aligned , then the main hypergol rocket ignite is just amazing to me ....
As an 8 year old I was glued to the black and white TV and from then on I was interested in technology. It was another 15 years before the first personal computers appeared and another 10 years before I became a programmer. I always wondered what that 1201 and 1202 alarm actually meant. The Apollo Guidence Computer was located in the command module and in the LEM. In the LEM, it was responsible for landing and returning to the CM. During the landing, a radar required for an escape procedure to return to the CM was accidentally left on. The AGC was busy with the landing, but the radar also sent data, so that too many tasks were performed at the same time. This gave an overload alarm 1201 and 1202. If you want to know more about this go to the channel of CuriousMarc. There they restore an original AGC and more explanation about those alarms.
Thought I had seen everything, but no! Amazing documentary. Stadium of crowd cheering first time I have heard this so thank you for uploading.
24:15 Notably, Valentina Tereshkova is the only one to go into space, before 1965, who is stili alive after all these years. Also the only woman to go into space alone, and probably always will be.
The only woman space traveler to have demanded I be kicked out of a NASA press event in Houston for asking too many probing questions [grin]! NASA acquiesced.
@@JamesOberg Well, it's a small world, assuming you're the real Oberg. Well, fact is, I have no opinion at all on any astronaut or cosmonaut as a person. In other words, no dog in this fight, if there's even a fight. And that's fine with me, as por dios I certainly have some strong opinions on hundreds of other public figures.
Well, anyway, what Tereshkova may not even have been reflective of her as a person. Maybe her gov't had her hands tied. Or not. Again, I have no dog in that fight.
@@ronaldgarrison8478 == I asked her what had become of her backup women-cosmonauts, Once she flew, the stunt was over, they weren't of any future use, and were expelled from the program. She didn't want to admit that.
@@JamesOberg Well, that sucks, but TTTT pretty mild compared to what happened to some others. Like Gagarin and Komarov, for example.
@@ronaldgarrison8478 == I was more surprised than annoyed, not at the Russian, but at the spineless NASA bureaucrats who ignored my press credentials. .
I never seen this documentary!!!! Thank you for the upload!!!!!
You have never seen your birth certificate, coward.
1:22:21 the real boss of the show
Thank you. I've never seen the Ray Bradbury interview before.And, Mr. Aldrin, you did get to look around while you were there. Also, nice punch. I mean it. This vid recalled the thrill of the whole day of the landing, remembering all the moments that afternoon, dinner, then the Main Event.
Yes, the Ray Bradbury interview is quite special.
"We caught the moon, we peed on it and we left." Now that's the quote of the century !!
wow!!!! july 1969 i was 7 yrs old mom & dad watched the launch on a 3 channeled b/w tv in alumn rock road birmingham uk im sure i watched it along with my parents as well ! i was privileged too witness human history at the end off a fantastic decade the 1960s !!!!!! i was 1yr old when jfk was assinated , 2yrs old when the mods vs the rockers seaside clashes & the beatles hit america 3 yrs old when us troops went into vietnam 4 yrs old when england won the jules rimet cup at wembley 5yrs old when the hippies appeared 1967 flower power !!! 7yrs old when the skinheads appeared & the appollo launch!!! so you see i grew up in every year since i was born in 1962 !!! thats why the 1960s were so important too me and my family !! oh i started school in uk in 1967 i was 6yrs old when west brom won the facup at wembley 1960-1969 the sixties there ll never be another decade again in human history & and man or i should say neil armstrong walked on the moon & said those famous words THAT;S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND!!!!!!
As someone born in the 90s I love learning about the 60s almost as much as the 40s
The guy that said Twanquility must have been so excited. I bet he'd would like that moment back.
I'd love to know what the song is from 22:54 - 23:26. It's always stuck in my head ever since I saw the documentary as a young boy in 1994. If anybody knows I'd love to find and listen to a full version of that song.
Alan shepard had a hell of alot of guts to ride on top of that rocket 🚀 for the first time .......
One small step for mankind... one giant leap for man.
Great documentary on a key event in human progress. To God be the Glory! Too bad the image has been distorted to fit the 16x9 screen.
lol
We would've been SCREWED if von braun and his team werent involved in this space race.
1:09:00 Maybe not the right attitude anyway. There would be moments when you could have a little fun with this stuff. So why not take advantage of those moments, and let the public in on it as well? Maybe not always possible, but sometimes it would be.
I resented the good music they put to it at the time
Makes me wanna get a omega watch...
He don't look hungry.
So typical of African Americans, begging for more handouts during the most magnificent achievement of man! They have the worst attitude, Asian minorities have shown us that even with discrimination you can become more wealthy than white americans if you educate yourself and work hard.
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Please repost in original aspect ratio, thx
Please just appreciate what has been uploaded, if you can.
The entitlement! Some people have zero awareness.
That nun is the first "Elon Musk" of her time. Winner.
Remember when he hung a lemon on a coat hanger on the capsule . Poor Grissom and his crew .
He hung a lemon on the TRAINER, not on the flight vehicle.
@@JamesOberg oh Jesus you guys are desperate yea right he was sending the message the " TRAINER " was a lemon 🤦🏽
@@JamesOberg yea right he wanted to tell the world the simulator was a lemon 🤦🏽
Here's anther he also said some thing along the line of " if we can't communicate between sheds how the hell are we going to communicate from the moon . "
@@odinallfarther6038 == Yes, They didn;t get into the flight vehicle until they got to the Cape. Standard procedure.
The notes say BBC One, but the opening screen clearly says BBC Four. There are possible explanations, but if so you should explain.
It was first broadcast on BBC One, then re-broadcast some time later on BBC Four.
Shut up Ronald
Where did Bud keep his Lights.
Nun's and rockets.....WTF.....Well, alright!
In space, no one can hear you fart....
Point well taken 😮
Unless you have a mouse living in your spacesuit! 🤣💨🤦⚠️
Unless your a moth that snuck on and the only way you knew he farted was he would fly STAIGHT😅