I am a Space Nut. I remember watching Alan Shepard's first orbital flight take off on a black and white television. I followed every flight from Mercury through Apollo as they happened. It was an amazing time to be alive. For me the day Apollo 11 landed on the moon was like my birthday, Christmas morning and the 4th of July all rolled into one times 10. It was mind bendingly wonderful. That night the whole world stopped and witnessed something that brought us all together as it happened when Neil Armstrong stepped down on the moon. I remember going out on the front lawn of our house that night and looking up at the moon and marveled at the reality that there were people on it. I was in Space Nut heaven. We didn't have VCRs back then so I set up a 35mm camera and shot pictures off my family's TV of the broadcast of the first moon walk. On a later flight I had an 8mm movie camera setup in front of the TV and filmed the first time they broadcast the LEM liftoff from the moon. My father was one of the many thousands of people that worked on the Apollo program. He helped to design one of the uplink transmitters that maintained contact with the mission. I share and appreciate your enthusiasm for that golden era of space flight. Your videos are a wonderful trip down memory lane for me. Thanks!
I believe this is the first time I have read comments about background music that are positive. I would accuse you all of being partial to cute redheads (as am I) but I hold an abiding animosity toward French Canadians. As I cancel myself out, I leave it to you people to decide the issue.
Amy, your enthusiasm never diminishes even when I met you at SpaceFest#8 in AZ to have you sign your book after a long day and watching you doing a live streaming. Hope to see again soon to get my next autographed book!
Got your site name from Quirks and Quarks on the CBC!!!! I'm 63, born 2 months before Sputnik was launched and have followed Space Exploration since I can remember!!!! Keep up the Great Work!!!
Don’t know if you ever watched them, but in 1959-60 a TV Series produced by ZIV called Men into Space ran. There were 38 episodes, and the show starred William Lundigan as COL MacCauley. It tried to portray operations in space as much like routine flight activity by the Air Force. Someone resurrected the episodes around fifteen years ago, and some are barely viewable due to age of the original media. The show was produced with massive help and advice of both the USAF and NASA, though it was mostly supported by the Air Force. Well worth watching because it does give you insight to what the Air Force was thinking space operations would look like.
Thanks for getting back to space, as in growing up 60's we had weekly reader to update on space and the future. I remember X-15 & how excited about speed of sound. Thanks Ami
Exactly the same memory I have. Forget what was on the front page, always turned to the back to read what Armstrong, Scott Crossfield, Dana and White were doing out at Edwards in the X-15 flights. We've lived lives in a most fascinating era.
'A Fall of Moondust' by arthur C Clarke was a light novel based on that premise. I think it was written just before Surveyor landed on the moon to check put the 'fwomp' potential.
Amy! I saw you were on a TV show promo as I was watching "How It's Made" with some friends. I'm like, "Look! It's Amy doing stuff for that Strange Evidence show!" And they're all... who? And I'm like, y'all gotta watch the show. I know her. You know her? Okay, not really, but I've been watching her for years on the RUclipss with her boy Pete. Congratulations! That was very cool to see you on TV.
I loved that graphic of you riding on top of the Saturn 5 rocket. Every time I saw your intro it made me smile, and everyone should smile at least once a day. You should continue to use it as your intro. Great videos. They bring back such vivid memories. I was a youngster during those days sitting in front of my black and white television. Astronauts of those day were brave and courageous, climbing aboard rockets that were manufactured using slide rules, the computer of the day. The current generations can`t imagine how dangerous space travel was in those days. Back then children had real heros. Keep the vids coming.
Great video! I grew up during the Mercury-Gemini-Apollo era (even remember Dyna-Soar) but I do not recall anything about Lunex. It is always nice to learn new things. And of course you look stunning, as usual! (Note: being smart and able to communicate with great intelligence adds immensely to your attractiveness.)
Welcome back Amy, you look energized and rejuvenated. I can't wait to read your book(s). I finally have some surplus coin and can get Hardcopies! (because trade paperbacks end up dying undeserving deaths in a house with kids) Great episode, keep up the great work!
Also so fun fact that lunar landing engine u mentioned ended uo being the RL-10, RL-10 was designed with Lunex in mind and that is awesome just check Wikipedia if you think it’s too crazy too be true. Part of Lunex still flies today
And the engine system that actually landed men on the moon was designed for the Corona program in the mid 1950’s (and also used in the Agena target vehicle used for Gemini).
Just found your channel… I already enjoy watching content on space and “out of the box” ideas but you just made me love it even more. Thanks for sharing your intelligence!
My doctor wanted to prescribe Lunex for my lunar exploration deficiency syndrome, but he said it would have unhealthy side effects if used in tandem with the Apollo capsules that I was already taking.
@ That "Moon Dust" is a scourge on our society, especially among its youngest members. "Look to the stars" they say. But by the time they realize what they've gotten themselves into, billions in taxpayers' money has disappeared...
There was a TV show that ran from 1959-1960 called Men Into Space that's basically the USAF-led space program you're describing. It's a weird mix of The Right Stuff in space and Ozzy & Harriet on the ground, but you have to give them credit for trying to be accurate to what was known at the time. And the way the story is set up, each stage that the program is trying to pull off is towards the goal of a manned Mars mission.
Mitchell Kaufman I remember watching the show as a youngster. Portions of the show were right on the mark, seemingly just one step ahead of the real space program. I seem to remember the episode of Christmas on the moon, sharing the holiday with the Soviets in our respective moon bases. I’m glad someone else remembers the series.
"FWOMP". A superbly descriptive technical term that immediately brings to mind an image of a lander belly-flopping into a dust-filled, bottomless crater :D Great stuff, very enjoyable.
Scott Manley recently mentioned he really liked a tv series called "For all Mankind" I quickly downloaded the entire series and I loved it. It is a drama about an alternate reality of the race to space and about women. 10 long episodes. Apple TV
I don't hear it often but your ability to switch dialect between french and English is amazing. My wife is half Japanese and can do that with Japanese and English too.
@@JohnnyWednesday We have fam in Denmark. They have three languages but their English dialect and accent are still heavy with the Danish tongue. I see it more as the ability to know the tongue positions and all the vocal components.
@@jesseturner9865- oh absolutely! it's not easy at all - the kind of French we're taught here in British schools? needs a bit of work before a French person doesn't laugh at you ;)
Jesse Turner even though Amy is an English speaker, she did have full French immersion schooling. She made a video about her grade school report on Venus (that got her hooked on space) and it was written in French.
Thanks, Amy, enjoyed the video. Don't worry about revisiting old videos to give their subjects a fresh look (LUMEX 2.0? 😉) since we know you'll improve the presentation and content as you go. Take care, stay safe!
I know this is an "older" video of yours but I will say again just how WONDERFUL it is to see such a young person as you get SO excited about all this now "ancient" space history from the childhood of us old "BOOMERS" and our parents who made it happen. Thank you for being so respectful of it and the world WE were born into back in the 1940's, 50's and 60's! You're a true gem More valuable than any "MOON ROCK" or now "MARS ROCK" ever collected. Thanks for the memories young lady!
Hey Amy, Sorry I didn't discover you years ago! You're an author after my own heart. Well, as they say, better late than never. I'm looking forward to following your videos from now on.
Fascinating stuff as always from Amy. I've always thought that one of the primary reasons Neil Armstrong was chosen to be "first man" was the fact he was one of the only astronauts of his day who was a civilian. He was off the "right stuff" to be sure, but the intra-service rivalries and the view from the old USSR might have been more militaristic if every report had been about Admrial Armstrong or Colonel Armstrong instead of just "Armstrong".
Armstrong wouldn’t have even been on the list except for the death of the Gemini 9 prime crew… (Neither would Aldrin). Neil Armstrong was originally an X-20 test pilot until that program was canceled.
This prompted me to remember two books from my youth. A full novel, 'The pilgrim project' and another one, a pocket book, 'first on the moon'. Both affected me deeply at the time. I gotta go dig those out of the basement now!
You should give a tour of your home. Not any of the private areas like the bedroom, but you have some interesting pictures that appear to be autographed behind you and I’ve noticed in other videos that you have a pretty extensive book collection.
Please never stop doing this, I'm an indie filmmaker and honestly we look at these videos for research and it is honestly I think I speck for my team when we say thank so much!!! We're in the process of making a show set in an apollo era it will be fiction cuz they end up in the 22nd century from the 70s so if you have any pointers Itd be appreciated,,!! Even tho it's set in that era it's also very difficult and personally I do love to add a certain level of normality but personalised at the exact same time was keeping it semi original, I really believes the world needs a show by younger people in an 1970s shit stuck along way from earth and just bringing a positive message for people not in your face but real making shit that by the end it makes you think
Hey Amy, I just wanted to let you know, since you mentioned it in this video, that I asked for and was given a copy of Breaking the Chains of Gravity for Christmas two years ago and loved every page of it, super informative and engaging
It’s really interesting that eisenhower, a military general, decided to create a civilian organization to develop spacecraft. It seems he didn’t want to give more to the military industrial complex, and thought the military branches would squabble about who gets to run the space program.
Great presentation and lots of information. Always love your videos, especially the ones about the Apollo missions. I was 8 years old for first landing and read everything I could
Great episode, Amy! All this talk of winged spacecraft makes me all the more excited to see Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser fly. When it does, we’ll see a spacecraft quite like that which was envisioned for DynaSoar and Lunex...lifting body space planes! Having read your first book, when it does fly, much like Shuttle it’ll do so bearing Walter Dornberger’s fingerprints. To think, that’s what he had in his mind almost 80 years ago (albeit for not so nice reasons); it’s taken THAT long for technology and reality to catch up with that kind of vision. A concept for a vehicle that will reflect testing of the HL-10 and the M2F2 over 50 years ago! Incredible!
Hi Amy, I am a longimte German SciFi- and Spaceflight Journalist with close connections to the ESA. My personal motto is bringing SciFi and Real Spaceflight together, which I do a lot at my presentations at German SciFi-conventions, because in this matter Germany is sort of a "Developing Country". A few days ago I discovered your channel and am fascinated of what you are doing. Seeing this presentation the 60s Movie COUNTDOWN with James Caan in the leading role came to my mind, in which I discovered some elements, although it looked strange to see that they used the lower stage of the Apollo Lunar Landing and on top a Gemini Capsule as a landing craft. Do you know of much of real American Spaceflight concepts at that time were used for that film? Thank you very much in advance and my deepest respect for your work. Ad Astra! from Robert Vogel (The Old Rocketman)
I provisionally prefer the Lunex alternative, but the concern at the time was Fractal Orbital Bombardment. Going the civilian route was an attempt to minimize that threat. The great missed opportunity was reaching for orbital habitats, especially an experimental rotating habitat.
Very good research. I would like to see her expound on the Kosmos 954 crash on 24 January 1978, in Canada incident; as apparently it was connected to an Air Force initiated space exploration program.
As always, your videos are very informative and "neat-O"! I don't know how you find all the details on this stuff, but this is one of the best channels I subscribe to. Keep it up!
Very, very good video Ms. Amy, my compliments. In hindsight the Lunex mission was wishful thinking. The culprit would have been the lack of the necessary computing power, and the complexities of the software. Imagine the entire Apollo and Shuttle programs fused into one, without decent computers. And, skipping the orbital "parking" would have added excessive precision requirements on all engine burns; a slightly altered thrust vector or timing of the burns, could have had the mission fail. Again, excellent video, thanks. Regards,
I suspect the USAF would have had more computer resources than we know about. A rocket is just a big guided missile, after all. Compare, for example, the more modern technology in the LVDC (surface mount tech) than in the AGC (wire wrap)
@MattOGormanSmith, there was a reason why ICBM'S of the day needed very large payload capacities. Guidance systems were primitive with very large error bars in all axes, which necessitated very large nukes to ensure target destruction.
I love space and vintage 50s/60s style! Just a small suggestion being a professional sound person, you may want to try using a lav mic or a good shotgun mic to up your audio quality. Keep up the channel, I love pretty much all things to do with space!
Gee, if it had been 1967 instead of 1969, we would landed on the moon during the Summer of Love, instead of during Woodstock. Either way two contrasting images that show the nation’s multiple personalities. ... BTW, absolutely excellent video, Amy. And I like the softer, right to the story approach of The Vintage Space, but still, I’ll miss you flying by on the Saturn V!
I have been reading through “NASA SPACE SHUTTLE - Owner’s Workshop Manual” by David Baker. Coupled with your videos it has been a great learning experience. Thank you for the effort!
Yes we're gonna have a wingding A summer smoker underground It's just a dugout that my dad built In case the reds decide to push the button down We've got provisions and lots of beer The key word is survival on the new frontier
LUNEX has been pretty extensively modeled in the Orbiter Space Flight Simulator. It'd be interesting to look at the USAF's changing role and attitude towards space flight over the years. In the days of LUNEX, the heart of the USAF was strategic bombing and nuclear deterrence, with Curtis LeMay being the dominant figure. Who in the AF thought that an elaborate moon base scheme was going to be feasible? Obviously someone did, and the X-20 was taken seriously, along with the MOL reconnaissance system. But at some point in the late 60s or early 70s the USAF started to lose interest in space flight. The X-20 was canceled around 63 by Sec Def McNamara, and MOL was rendered unnecessary by unmanned satellite tech. The USAF at least initially thought the Space Shuttle would be useful and supported it early on, but by the time the 80s came they considered STS to be a sideshow. Read Mike Mullane's book to show how little the Air Force cared about its astronauts compared to the Navy. Large service organizations like the USAF or the US Navy have factions or "mafias", such as the "bomber mafia" or the "fighter mafia" that dominate doctrine and budgeting. Clearly the "space mafia" never had much of a chance to sit at the adult table. That's one of the reason the Space Force exists, so that they can stop playing second fiddle, or so it has been said.
I believe you are correct. However, I don't think there's anything stopping you from bringing a ship back to earth at a higher velocity and then slowing it down before striking the atmosphere.
@@charlesseitz1591 25,000 mph is the speed you get by free falling from the moon-Earth equal gravity point. Why accelerate faster than you need to and then have to slow down? Not to mention hauling all that extra fuel to the moon and back.
About Apollo vs Lunex, to go along with the derisive attitude of some test pilots towards Astronauts as Spam in a Can, Air Force Leaders saw anything without wings (or something to that effect) as nothing but a stunt.
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I am a Space Nut. I remember watching Alan Shepard's first orbital flight take off on a black and white television. I followed every flight from Mercury through Apollo as they happened. It was an amazing time to be alive. For me the day Apollo 11 landed on the moon was like my birthday, Christmas morning and the 4th of July all rolled into one times 10. It was mind bendingly wonderful. That night the whole world stopped and witnessed something that brought us all together as it happened when Neil Armstrong stepped down on the moon. I remember going out on the front lawn of our house that night and looking up at the moon and marveled at the reality that there were people on it. I was in Space Nut heaven. We didn't have VCRs back then so I set up a 35mm camera and shot pictures off my family's TV of the broadcast of the first moon walk. On a later flight I had an 8mm movie camera setup in front of the TV and filmed the first time they broadcast the LEM liftoff from the moon. My father was one of the many thousands of people that worked on the Apollo program. He helped to design one of the uplink transmitters that maintained contact with the mission. I share and appreciate your enthusiasm for that golden era of space flight. Your videos are a wonderful trip down memory lane for me. Thanks!
I admire an old warrior like Eisenhower determined to promote peace.
Great video Amy! We miss your new The Vintage Space content but love looking at these classics. Please come back!
The KSP VAB music is so soothing
kevin macleod is an unsung hero of royalty free music, you'll hear his stuff pop up so often
Honestly one of my favorite parts of Amy's videos from a composition perspective.
Came here to write this comment
Until you can’t find that one part you need, or you’ve just reverted to VAB for the 15th time.
I believe this is the first time I have read comments about background music that are positive. I would accuse you all of being partial to cute redheads (as am I) but I hold an abiding animosity toward French Canadians. As I cancel myself out, I leave it to you people to decide the issue.
Amy, your enthusiasm never diminishes even when I met you at SpaceFest#8 in AZ to have you sign your book after a long day and watching you doing a live streaming. Hope to see again soon to get my next autographed book!
Got your site name from Quirks and Quarks on the CBC!!!! I'm 63, born 2 months before Sputnik was launched and have followed Space Exploration since I can remember!!!! Keep up the Great Work!!!
Don’t know if you ever watched them, but in 1959-60 a TV Series produced by ZIV called Men into Space ran. There were 38 episodes, and the show starred William Lundigan as COL MacCauley. It tried to portray operations in space as much like routine flight activity by the Air Force. Someone resurrected the episodes around fifteen years ago, and some are barely viewable due to age of the original media. The show was produced with massive help and advice of both the USAF and NASA, though it was mostly supported by the Air Force. Well worth watching because it does give you insight to what the Air Force was thinking space operations would look like.
Thanks for getting back to space, as in growing up 60's we had weekly reader to update on space and the future. I remember X-15 & how excited about speed of sound. Thanks Ami
Weekly reader ha ha I remember that.. couldn't wait to get to the mail box.
Exactly the same memory I have. Forget what was on the front page, always turned to the back to read what Armstrong, Scott Crossfield, Dana and White were doing out at Edwards in the X-15 flights. We've lived lives in a most fascinating era.
Same here Jimbackus backus
I love that "fwomp!" is the noise that happens when you land on the dusty moon!!
'A Fall of Moondust' by arthur C Clarke was a light novel based on that premise. I think it was written just before Surveyor landed on the moon to check put the 'fwomp' potential.
Amy! I saw you were on a TV show promo as I was watching "How It's Made" with some friends. I'm like, "Look! It's Amy doing stuff for that Strange Evidence show!" And they're all... who?
And I'm like, y'all gotta watch the show. I know her.
You know her?
Okay, not really, but I've been watching her for years on the RUclipss with her boy Pete.
Congratulations! That was very cool to see you on TV.
@@davidpeters6536 I'm sure he was just trying to express the moment by being colloquial, like.
I loved that graphic of you riding on top of the Saturn 5 rocket. Every time I saw your intro it made me smile, and everyone should smile at least once a day. You should continue to use it as your intro. Great videos. They bring back such vivid memories. I was a youngster during those days sitting in front of my black and white television. Astronauts of those day were brave and courageous, climbing aboard rockets that were manufactured using slide rules, the computer of the day. The current generations can`t imagine how dangerous space travel was in those days. Back then children had real heros. Keep the vids coming.
The LUNEX program has always fascinated me. The Lander/Glider Return Vehicle looked SO cool. :)
Amy, so glad to see a vintage space video; it's been too long.
Great video! I grew up during the Mercury-Gemini-Apollo era (even remember Dyna-Soar) but I do not recall anything about Lunex. It is always nice to learn new things. And of course you look stunning, as usual! (Note: being smart and able to communicate with great intelligence adds immensely to your attractiveness.)
The early Airforce plans gave us the F-1 engine development, without which the Saturn V and Apollo programs could never have made it's timeline.
Just paused the video at 0:34
headed to the comment section, simply to say what an absolutely lovely and adorable person Amy is!
Welcome back Amy, you look energized and rejuvenated. I can't wait to read your book(s). I finally have some surplus coin and can get Hardcopies! (because trade paperbacks end up dying undeserving deaths in a house with kids)
Great episode, keep up the great work!
So good to see you back! Pleeez more new stuff. You can even rehash previous material. You are the coolest!
Yeah. Nothing wrong with going over the old materials . So much inspiration here for engineers and engineering students
So glad to be alive in this era what with all the exciting things that have happened recently....Go SpaceX....Go Bob and Doug !!!
Also so fun fact that lunar landing engine u mentioned ended uo being the RL-10, RL-10 was designed with Lunex in mind and that is awesome just check Wikipedia if you think it’s too crazy too be true. Part of Lunex still flies today
And the engine system that actually landed men on the moon was designed for the Corona program in the mid 1950’s (and also used in the Agena target vehicle used for Gemini).
Just found your channel… I already enjoy watching content on space and “out of the box” ideas but you just made me love it even more. Thanks for sharing your intelligence!
"Ask your doctor if Lunex is right for you..."
My doctor wanted to prescribe Lunex for my lunar exploration deficiency syndrome, but he said it would have unhealthy side effects if used in tandem with the Apollo capsules that I was already taking.
@@InventorZahran L.E.G.E.N.D.
@ That "Moon Dust" is a scourge on our society, especially among its youngest members. "Look to the stars" they say. But by the time they realize what they've gotten themselves into, billions in taxpayers' money has disappeared...
Probably can't take it while she's pregnant.
This is one of the most epic comment threads on RUclips ever!
Always Love your enthusiasm Amy. It’s nice to see someone who enjoys what they do. Beautiful as always. Go Canada 🇨🇦
I read Breaking the Chains of Gravity. Very well done and an excellent read. It was just what I needed after completing my thesis.
There was a TV show that ran from 1959-1960 called Men Into Space that's basically the USAF-led space program you're describing. It's a weird mix of The Right Stuff in space and Ozzy & Harriet on the ground, but you have to give them credit for trying to be accurate to what was known at the time. And the way the story is set up, each stage that the program is trying to pull off is towards the goal of a manned Mars mission.
That's where my interest started, as a 4 year old with a Major McCauley helmet.
Mitchell Kaufman
I remember watching the show as a youngster. Portions of the show were right on the mark, seemingly just one step ahead of the real space program. I seem to remember the episode of Christmas on the moon, sharing the holiday with the Soviets in our respective moon bases. I’m glad someone else remembers the series.
Another illuminating video Amy, thanks! And nice dress. 🖖🏿
Still listening to breaking chains, always nice to learn new things from lesser known era of history.
Unlike what the others said:
Came for space stuff, stayed for space stuff
Another great vintage space video by Amy. She should be teaching a course in manned space flight history.
"FWOMP". A superbly descriptive technical term that immediately brings to mind an image of a lander belly-flopping into a dust-filled, bottomless crater :D
Great stuff, very enjoyable.
YAY!!! you're back. I miss your terrific videos.
Scott Manley recently mentioned he really liked a tv series called "For all Mankind" I quickly downloaded the entire series and I loved it. It is a drama about an alternate reality of the race to space and about women. 10 long episodes. Apple TV
I love you Amy. I bought your book breaking the chains. Can you go over some Viking missions?
Yes!! The Viking missions these days are are considered ancient (or vintage) for today's audience. Please do it Amy.
One again, a very well presented video by this very articulate and intelligent young woman. A very capable and easy to understand teacher.
I don't hear it often but your ability to switch dialect between french and English is amazing. My wife is half Japanese and can do that with Japanese and English too.
Europe would blow your mind - we all speak two or more languages ;)
@@JohnnyWednesday We have fam in Denmark. They have three languages but their English dialect and accent are still heavy with the Danish tongue. I see it more as the ability to know the tongue positions and all the vocal components.
@@jesseturner9865- oh absolutely! it's not easy at all - the kind of French we're taught here in British schools? needs a bit of work before a French person doesn't laugh at you ;)
@@JohnnyWednesday same here
Jesse Turner even though Amy is an English speaker, she did have full French immersion schooling. She made a video about her grade school report on Venus (that got her hooked on space) and it was written in French.
Awesome book! We relied on it heavily when my son did a report on Werner Von Braun last year. ❤️
You should probably take your son to the US space and rocket centre in Huntsville Alabama. I’ve been there twice there’s a whole section on Von Braun.
Thanks, Amy, enjoyed the video. Don't worry about revisiting old videos to give their subjects a fresh look (LUMEX 2.0? 😉) since we know you'll improve the presentation and content as you go.
Take care, stay safe!
I know this is an "older" video of yours but I will say again just how WONDERFUL it is to see such a young person as you get SO excited about all this now "ancient" space history from the childhood of us old "BOOMERS" and our parents who made it happen. Thank you for being so respectful of it and the world WE were born into back in the 1940's, 50's and 60's! You're a true gem More valuable than any "MOON ROCK" or now "MARS ROCK" ever collected. Thanks for the memories young lady!
So glad Everyday Astronaut linked this channel. Wanted more of his videos, and these are just like them!
Hey Amy, Sorry I didn't discover you years ago! You're an author after my own heart. Well, as they say, better late than never. I'm looking forward to following your videos from now on.
Fascinating stuff as always from Amy. I've always thought that one of the primary reasons Neil Armstrong was chosen to be "first man" was the fact he was one of the only astronauts of his day who was a civilian. He was off the "right stuff" to be sure, but the intra-service rivalries and the view from the old USSR might have been more militaristic if every report had been about Admrial Armstrong or Colonel Armstrong instead of just "Armstrong".
Armstrong wouldn’t have even been on the list except for the death of the Gemini 9 prime crew… (Neither would Aldrin).
Neil Armstrong was originally an X-20 test pilot until that program was canceled.
Good, interesting content, professionally presented. Well done Amy.
Ca me fait toujours un petit quelque chose lorsqu' Amy parle francais
Breaking the Chains... is very good. I have started reading it for the 3rd time now. Very interesting history of early rocketry and space flight.
This prompted me to remember two books from my youth. A full novel, 'The pilgrim project' and another one, a pocket book, 'first on the moon'. Both affected me deeply at the time. I gotta go dig those out of the basement now!
Hello from the US. Nice to see new content. Stay safe up there.
You should give a tour of your home. Not any of the private areas like the bedroom, but you have some interesting pictures that appear to be autographed behind you and I’ve noticed in other videos that you have a pretty extensive book collection.
Please never stop doing this, I'm an indie filmmaker and honestly we look at these videos for research and it is honestly I think I speck for my team when we say thank so much!!!
We're in the process of making a show set in an apollo era it will be fiction cuz they end up in the 22nd century from the 70s so if you have any pointers Itd be appreciated,,!! Even tho it's set in that era it's also very difficult and personally I do love to add a certain level of normality but personalised at the exact same time was keeping it semi original, I really believes the world needs a show by younger people in an 1970s shit stuck along way from earth and just bringing a positive message for people not in your face but real making shit that by the end it makes you think
Good to see you back with a top-quality presentation.
You make the best videos. I didn't know pretty much everything you covered. Good info, and good presentation.
Awesome telling of history, and What If's... :) Thanks for another really cool video!!!
Hello. Nice to have you back. I haven't been getting notifications for your new videos.
Thanks for another great video! I was alive for the first lunar landing and I always learn something new from your videos.
Very nice and welcome back. Lunex-- 1965. Sounded like a good idea at the time.
Might've been a nice future.
Great to see you again! Looking forward to more of your videos.
Hey Amy, I just wanted to let you know, since you mentioned it in this video, that I asked for and was given a copy of Breaking the Chains of Gravity for Christmas two years ago and loved every page of it, super informative and engaging
It’s really interesting that eisenhower, a military general, decided to create a civilian organization to develop spacecraft. It seems he didn’t want to give more to the military industrial complex, and thought the military branches would squabble about who gets to run the space program.
Omg, it’s so nice to see u again .. 🤟🏻👍🏻
All you need are Raybans and a hat with a big pitcher of lemonade and you could be part of an Apollo picnic picture recreation!
Great presentation and lots of information. Always love your videos, especially the ones about the Apollo missions. I was 8 years old for first landing and read everything I could
Good to see you're back! Interesting topic and like you wall with the pictures on space topic. Planning to make one myself some day :)
I love these videos of forgotten programs. Thank you!
Great episode, Amy! All this talk of winged spacecraft makes me all the more excited to see Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser fly. When it does, we’ll see a spacecraft quite like that which was envisioned for DynaSoar and Lunex...lifting body space planes! Having read your first book, when it does fly, much like Shuttle it’ll do so bearing Walter Dornberger’s fingerprints. To think, that’s what he had in his mind almost 80 years ago (albeit for not so nice reasons); it’s taken THAT long for technology and reality to catch up with that kind of vision. A concept for a vehicle that will reflect testing of the HL-10 and the M2F2 over 50 years ago! Incredible!
2020.... this guy makes Space Force. Great presentation!
Thanks again Amy. I always enjoy your videos, and I promise to buy your books!
Hi Amy, I am a longimte German SciFi- and Spaceflight Journalist with close connections to the ESA. My personal motto is bringing SciFi and Real Spaceflight together, which I do a lot at my presentations at German SciFi-conventions, because in this matter Germany is sort of a "Developing Country". A few days ago I discovered your channel and am fascinated of what you are doing. Seeing this presentation the 60s Movie COUNTDOWN with James Caan in the leading role came to my mind, in which I discovered some elements, although it looked strange to see that they used the lower stage of the Apollo Lunar Landing and on top a Gemini Capsule as a landing craft. Do you know of much of real American Spaceflight concepts at that time were used for that film? Thank you very much in advance and my deepest respect for your work. Ad Astra! from Robert Vogel (The Old Rocketman)
Danke für das tolle Video! I learned something new about „Die Frau im Mond“!
I provisionally prefer the Lunex alternative, but the concern at the time was Fractal Orbital Bombardment. Going the civilian route was an attempt to minimize that threat. The great missed opportunity was reaching for orbital habitats, especially an experimental rotating habitat.
This is so much info all in one video! 🙆♀️
Very good research. I would like to see her expound on the Kosmos 954 crash on 24 January 1978, in Canada incident; as apparently it was connected to an Air Force initiated space exploration program.
Didn’t that have to do with a Soviet payload powered by a nuclear reactor ?
Outstanding! PS- love your tangerine MCM couch and pole lamp- and your astronaut's wife dress. Cocoa Beach or Bust... :)
As always, your videos are very informative and "neat-O"! I don't know how you find all the details on this stuff, but this is one of the best channels I subscribe to. Keep it up!
Very, very good video Ms. Amy, my compliments.
In hindsight the Lunex mission was wishful thinking. The culprit would have been the lack of the necessary computing power, and the complexities of the software. Imagine the entire Apollo and Shuttle programs fused into one, without decent computers.
And, skipping the orbital "parking" would have added excessive precision requirements on all engine burns; a slightly altered thrust vector or timing of the burns, could have had the mission fail.
Again, excellent video, thanks.
Regards,
I suspect the USAF would have had more computer resources than we know about. A rocket is just a big guided missile, after all.
Compare, for example, the more modern technology in the LVDC (surface mount tech) than in the AGC (wire wrap)
@MattOGormanSmith, there was a reason why ICBM'S of the day needed very large payload capacities. Guidance systems were primitive with very large error bars in all axes, which necessitated very large nukes to ensure target destruction.
Yes - lack of lightweight and powerful microprocessors in the 60's was a major drawback.
I love space and vintage 50s/60s style! Just a small suggestion being a professional sound person, you may want to try using a lav mic or a good shotgun mic to up your audio quality. Keep up the channel, I love pretty much all things to do with space!
Nice to see you again! :)
Eisenhower shaped this country, for the better, more than most Americans know.
Like the Interstate Highway System for one.
This is an absolute excellent video well researched . Cheers .
Good to see you, Amy.
Loved the book Breaking Chains of Gravity. Can't wait to read your new book.
Did anybody else originally click on the videos because Amy was pretty but stayed because she was intelligent, well spoken and extremely interesting?
You have been in quarantine too long. I suspect your next post will be asking if anyone has ever noticed just how hot Jane Jetson is.
@@Laceykat66 Not as hot as Wilma. I mean I'd go with Jane... but I'd be thinking of Wilma
@@lordchickenhawk I had to use Jane because we were talking space travel and using Judy seemed a little creepy. ;-)
In my case, it's because of KSP, filling in what Scott Manley and Everyday Astronaut missed
Affirmative on that last about Amy, Houston
Ami...The Wiki of Space Travel. Long continue to post such information. Most, i think, is unknown to the general public. Thank yu.
I always loved this idea, thanks for reminding me about it
The 60fps is a good look for your video blog
That did it for me today, see you next time, Amy.
1:48 Amy is unsure of the quality of this take, and needs to check the camera.
She's such a sweetie that it's a real challenge to concentrate on the matter at hand.
3:22 Redstone was a short range ballistic missile, not intermediate range.
Well done, Amy! Embarrassed to say I'd never heard of Lunex until now.
Gee, if it had been 1967 instead of 1969, we would landed on the moon during the Summer of Love, instead of during Woodstock. Either way two contrasting images that show the nation’s multiple personalities. ... BTW, absolutely excellent video, Amy. And I like the softer, right to the story approach of The Vintage Space, but still, I’ll miss you flying by on the Saturn V!
How do you have the light that's on the right, and NOT have it painted so as to look like a series of moon phases?
I have been reading through “NASA SPACE SHUTTLE - Owner’s Workshop Manual” by David Baker. Coupled with your videos it has been a great learning experience. Thank you for the effort!
Another great video, can't wait too see what's next!
Great video. Thanks for posting it.
"What a wonderful world this will be,
What a glorious time to be free!"
Yes we're gonna have a wingding
A summer smoker underground
It's just a dugout that my dad built
In case the reds decide to push the button down
We've got provisions and lots of beer
The key word is survival on the new frontier
I was alive at the time, and it's fun to learn now about things I had no idea about at the time.
You still alive?
LUNEX has been pretty extensively modeled in the Orbiter Space Flight Simulator. It'd be interesting to look at the USAF's changing role and attitude towards space flight over the years. In the days of LUNEX, the heart of the USAF was strategic bombing and nuclear deterrence, with Curtis LeMay being the dominant figure. Who in the AF thought that an elaborate moon base scheme was going to be feasible? Obviously someone did, and the X-20 was taken seriously, along with the MOL reconnaissance system. But at some point in the late 60s or early 70s the USAF started to lose interest in space flight. The X-20 was canceled around 63 by Sec Def McNamara, and MOL was rendered unnecessary by unmanned satellite tech. The USAF at least initially thought the Space Shuttle would be useful and supported it early on, but by the time the 80s came they considered STS to be a sideshow. Read Mike Mullane's book to show how little the Air Force cared about its astronauts compared to the Navy. Large service organizations like the USAF or the US Navy have factions or "mafias", such as the "bomber mafia" or the "fighter mafia" that dominate doctrine and budgeting. Clearly the "space mafia" never had much of a chance to sit at the adult table. That's one of the reason the Space Force exists, so that they can stop playing second fiddle, or so it has been said.
Hey, Amy, don't forget to give Pete some cuddles! 🐱🐈
Great coverage of a fascinating story. Thanks.
10:09 Reentry at 17,000 fps? That is only 11,600 mph. Reentry from the moon is around 25,000 mph.
I believe you are correct. However, I don't think there's anything stopping you from bringing a ship back to earth at a higher velocity and then slowing it down before striking the atmosphere.
@@charlesseitz1591 25,000 mph is the speed you get by free falling from the moon-Earth equal gravity point. Why accelerate faster than you need to and then have to slow down? Not to mention hauling all that extra fuel to the moon and back.
About Apollo vs Lunex, to go along with the derisive attitude of some test pilots towards Astronauts as Spam in a Can, Air Force Leaders saw anything without wings (or something to that effect) as nothing but a stunt.