Why was the Saturn V Black and White?
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
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As a video engineer for PBS, I'm going to take an educated guess that the paint scheme was intended to aid the hundreds of tracking cameras in maintaining focus and tracking during the flight. Having attempted to manually maintain focus and tracking on the Columbia and Challenger shuttle launches of 1981-1983, I can tell you firsthand that once those electric fly machines get up a good head of steam, its damned hard to keep them in the viewfinder, much less keep them in focus.
Without going into a lot of dreadful technical detail, the analog video system in use then (NTSC) did useful things when it was pointed at objects containing bold, high contrast patterns such as the paint schemes shown here. Video signals of black and white patterns contain a lot of high frequency information. The sharper the transition between the black and white areas in the image, the stronger the high frequency signals in the video will be. This means that electronic systems can monitor the high frequencies and automatically adjust camera focus and tracking to maximize the high frequency video components. We call it auto focus,
The h-bombs in Dr. Strangelove had a small black+white checkerboard pattern too.
It's not for the camera, it's for the mind of the viewers.
+John Jingleheimer-Schmidt The H bombs in Dr. Strangelove were movie props. Any similarity between them and reality is purely coincidental.
Frank Roberts
Movie props are designed to appear realistic on-screen, so its absurd to dismiss actual similarities as 'coincidence'.
+John Jingleheimer-Schmidt Well, as a matter of fact, I have personally ridden atop an H bomb dropped from a B-52 whilst wearing a cowboy hat, and I can tell you it looked NOTHING like in the movie.
Godfrey Poon
I think the checkerboard pattern is more symbolic of the object being a part of their 'great work'.
Werner von Braun has said publicly that the B&W paint scheme used on the V2, and all subsequent rockets was inspired by the rocket ship in the film "Woman in the Moon", released by German director Fritz Lang in 1929.
This movie is thought by many to be the first use of a countdown prior to launching a rocket.
@@61Ldf Russian Moon Rocket: Zero-Lift off- , Then either, Get the fire extinguisher, or run for it !!!
@@61Ldf You say this, but the RS-25's/SSME's started at -6.6 seconds and the F1's of the Saturn were ignited at almost -9 seconds. The RS-68's of the DeltaV stagger their ignites around -3 seconds. Where did you even get the impression that US = 0 = igniton?
@@Bellabong You are right. It’s the other way around. Russian Zero means ignition. The western zero means lift-off.
Wrong! The pattern WAS used for video recording and to see if the rocket was rolling. It's NOT from some old mold y movie!
You are amazing. As a little kid I got to watch Armstrong step onto the moon. So I love the early NASA missions!
man, I envy you.
I consider it as one of the greatest endeavour of the Human kind
Kevin Harrington - so why is it today so much questioned as a hoax?
J Roger Trudel we are the lost generation... its too bad our generation can't comprehend the possibility of leaving earth...
@@jrogertrudel6356
Only by ignorant fools and crazy conspiracy theorists, whose every single claim of hoaxes has long since been debunked big time 😎
unfortunately you were.fooled like millions
I saw these rockets and the aesthetics, though not intentional, were simply awesome. The Saturn-Apollo spacecraft was just off the charts beautiful.
One of my favorite road trips was down to the US Space and Rocket Center and taking a tour of Redstone Arsenal. Walking under the Saturn V and seeing the F1 engines, the lander, etc. But it was a bit depressing as well to see the facilities and how they seemed so dead and dated. For a while it really made me think that I screwed up by not perusing a career in aerospace engineering. Love the videos, wish I had found them sooner!
My grandfather was one of the 104 engineers/scientists of Operation Paperclip. He worked on the V2. Many years ago he told my father, also an engineer, that the black and white paintings were to help with expansion/contraction problems while the rocket sat on the pad in the sun. The answers you find online today about the paintings all refer to making the rocket more easily seen during flight, but I do not believe that was true for the V2, at least during their early test flights.
My grandfathers were nobodies. So am I and I won't lose a second of sleep over it, because I am a bona fide insomniac under achiever.
I live in Mississippi and I get to see the booster rocket almost everyday when i pass the Stennis Space Center
You might say the Apollo rockets had a checkered past, ahem.
Robert Clary Yuma wang
A PUNY PUN !!!
They were designed by an evil Nazi. "Checkered," past indeed. But the final result was spectacular!
Go to your room
Do you have any info on why parts of the service module are white and other parts are silver?
If I'm correct the original space shuttle had the huge fuel tank painted white but it was later left orange to save weight.
Yup. The paint was needless mass to lift off the ground!
Thank you.
ORANGE =33 33 DEGREE, FREEMASON. Dstar 1958
So why weren't the orbiter and the SRBs also left unpainted?
How does reusability make paint necessary?
love the saturns and yes, i love this entire series. great job amy!
Honestly I'm just astonished at the stuff I have recently come to learn having just found your page in the last few weeks. Thank you for all your in sight and keep up the good work!
Thanks so much! I'm just glad I get to share my nerdy passions with like-minded people!
I lived near Stennis Space Center in Mississippi when my dad was an electronics technician for Douglas Aircraft on the 2nd stage of every Saturn V that went up. He taught me all about the program and I still remember going to Stennis with my mom to pick him up from work and how unbelievably loud the engines were when they were on the test stands.
I wish I was alive to see Saturn V launch
Guitarfollower22 It was quite a time. Everyone would gather around the TV to watch. You got the updates from space and it seemed that time slowed as they went around the backside of the moon. Then the moon landings, wow. But by the time 15 to 17 came around, it was all old hat. It's a shame we can't do this anymore. Kennedy made the promise and although he was killed, the Country cared enough about him and science to make it happen.
I saw Apollo 13 for the first time just a week ago. In the movie the national news didn't want to cover even the Moon landings because sitcoms were more appealing, such a shame.
And ya unfortunately NASA has turned to SpaceX, and other companies, for space flight. I never got to see even a manned shuttle take off from Cape Canaveral :(
I hope that this country keeps investing the Federal Budget in NASA because within the next two centuries humans may have to colonize another planet such as Keplar-22b
Mate, just wait for SpaceX's ITS to launch in 2020s. It will be even more epic than Saturn V launch was.
Go to the Air and Space Museum in Huntsville, Alabama... you can see the first stage out back lying on its side.. frigging huge. Also there's a V2 out there.
PC5032 i love that place its well worth a full days exploration
Saturn V is my favorite rocket. My uncle was a welder on the project. I love going through Huntsville and seeing the Space & Rocket Center.
You know, I googled this very question a few months ago. It was your web content that answered the question for me (confirmed what I had thought), which is what prompted me to subscribe to your youtube channel. So seeing it as the topic today just brought it full circle. Awesome!
If I didn’t know any better I’d say you’re an Air Traffic Controller. Clear voice, great articulation, speed of a rockets upper stage. Thanks for not wasting any time! :-)
I recall asking Deke Slayton the purpose of those black markings on the Saturn rockets ---- he said it was for tracking. Amy's explanation is more thorough and I agree with her on how fantastic the Saturn V looks. Great channel, Amy ---- I'm glad to be a subscriber!
I'm always drawn to the Saturn 4. The S-IC (first stage) was already painted when they noted the heating problem, so they painted white paint over the troublesome black areas. You can see the black showing through the white, which amuses me every time.
I also like that the pattern on the S-II (second), S-IVB (third) interstage is in binary (white-white, white-black, black-white, black-black).
Totally off topic, and I apologize but my God shes so beautiful.
Absolutely, gorgeous, 363ft tall, fitted with 5 of the most powerful engines ever built.
@N75911 I know this reply is a year old but it’s so funny
I had the joy and privilege of being at the cape during the last launch of the Saturn 5. It took our 1st space station into orbit. What surprised and amazed me was how loud the engines were. The entire earth shook for what seemed like at least 5 minutes. Oh how I treasure that memory.
I loved the Apollo and the shuttle missions. I was 13 when Skylab launched inside the last Saturn V. I never did get to see an actual launch, not even the Space Shuttle missions. Hopefully I'll get to see/experience a future launch.
Your channel is amazing! Lots of interesting info on paint and I did know why it was there, but not all the changes. Yes, the Saturn 5 was truly a rocketer's rocket, the size and majesty will mostly never be duplicated.
BTW, the Space Shuttle's orange vs white main fuel tank is also interesting. I understand the first few were painted white, but engineers decided it wasn't needed for cooling and to cut down on weight, it was no longer painted so it stayed the natural insulation orange color.
Ok, I want to build my own spaceship so this is giving me some knowledge. Thank you human
We await the arrival of our new overlords with great anticipation.
Do you have an estimated time of arrival? Just curious, no pressure.
Have a rough ETA for us? Possible landing sites? No pressure or anything, just want to make sure I'm there to great you.
The first Saturn V model I ever bought had the 500-F paint scheme--it was as late as 1969. So, as a kid, I was really confused by the images of Apollo 11 rocket with the newer scheme. I was then happy to get a newer version of the model with the updated paint patterns soon after--made me feel grown up!
In addition to seeing if the rocket would "spin" in flight you will notice that all stages and stage adapters had a different pattern. That was so if the rocket broke apart in flight, and the pieces were recovered, the parts of the rocket would be quickly identified, by the pattern, as to what stage was what part of the rocket... Furthermore the command and service modules were not a tiny speck of sliver. They were intended to be in space and be exposed to heat and radiation.. that silver you see on the service module is chrome mylar. Under the white removable shroud the command module was also chrome mylar. Since the service module was lost in space, only the command came back and the Chrome Mylar burned off in reentry. Ref. U.S. Space and Rocket Center.
You are by far one of the most interpretive youtubers when it comes to everyday questions we peons love to learn about. Thank you so much for being "down to earth", figuratively speaking. Myself and my six year old, that's dead set on being an astronaut when he grows up, are extremely enjoying all of your phenomenal videos. Just a fan that can't say thank you enough for bringing an awesome mixture of information and enjoyment to the two guys in this family from Nashville TN. Keep up the good fight ma'am!
02:25 is that a cat wandering into the shot? bottom right (her left) just about where her elbow is.
That is Pete. He's her CAPCOM.
Alex Tocqueville or catcom
Bahahaha!!!! I'm surprised one of those little curious bastards didn't wind up on the rocket!!! 🐈
I've watched the Saturn launches many times and it never occurred to me this would be the reason why that paint scheme was used. Thanks
We got to the moon before the Soviets mainly because our Germans were better than their Germans.
Иван Кузнецов
Some of these people had a German background
Hey Hank.....if Trump has his way, there will be only 1 candidate in 2020. He’s Putin’s puppet and N Korea’s court jester. But sorry, this is about Apollo rockets. True that Von Braun was instrumental in the early first 15 years but then American engineers took it from there
Oh Hank. Comon.....you’re talking to a guy who’s Dad entire career was at NASA right before Mercury and he retired right before Challenger. Later, I worked there too. We went to the moon. Deal with it. 100,000 peo0le cannot keep a lie secret for 50 years! And then there’s the chemistry of the moon rocks that don’t match Earth rocks....hmmmm.....please
The Moon Nazis got there first. ;)
we cant leave low earth orbit ask any modern NASA astronaut, gone to the moon 😂
that little side smile at 2:43 tho....made me smile :)
Thanks Amy, I now know from your channel that it is a Saturn 1 because of the fins!
I just wanted to point out something about the Saturn V. In this video you mentioned that it was the largest Saturn rocket ever made. Not only that, but the Saturn V has the distinction of being the most powerful machine ever built by mankind. That is an awesome quality.
Here's a tidbit of local info on the Saturn V...I grew up in Cocoa Beach and then later Titusville in the space race years (My Dad was a Radar Guidance Engineer for GE out at the Cape)...anyway, in downtown Titusville on U.S. 1 right on the Indian River pretty much due west of the Saturn V launch pads 39A and 39B we had a Burger King and being the late 60's the attached screened in outside eating area had recently become air conditioned so the screens were replaced with big sliding glass doors...the first time they lit the Saturn V it shattered the glass and also shattered the showroom window glass at the Ford Dealer next door...I don't know what the distance was from the launch pad to the Burger King, but I would swag it at about 12 to 15 miles. BTW, thereafter whenever a Saturn V was on the launch pad both the BK and the Ford dealer would have tape on their windows, which fixed the problem. EDIT: my swag was pretty damn accurate, I just googled it and the drive from 39B to U.S. 1 in Titusville (which would be only feet from the BK) is 12.1 miles.
+steve Fowler hahaha. Great story man. I have a similar one. My dad was an engineer for NASA here at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. They were working on the F1 engines, for the 1st stage of the Saturn 5. The tests, where it was just ONE engine were breaking windows several miles away in downtown Huntsville & the stores were starting to get a bit pissed about it. They didnt want to lose the peoples support , so they did something to control the sound. I cant remember exactly what it was though. I got to see one of the tests when I was a kid & man, it was loudest thing I've heard even to this day. And thats from a guitar player that has spent years in front of Marshall stacks (Amps) on stage. But the thing I really remember was a test where my dad told my mom & me to go outside at the exact time one day that they were going to test one of the engines & see if we could hear it. We were at a Minimum of 30 miles, but at that exact time , we heard what sounded like thunder on the horizon. Was so cool that I will Never forget it.
STEVE SIMMS
Cool story dude...btw I was born in Hunstville...my Dad was stationed at Red Stone arsenal when he was drafted in the 50's...I was born there in '57, then we moved to Cocoa Beach and later Titusville...those were great days.
steve Fowler
Yes indeed! Was really a special time. Thats what gets me pissed about the conspiracy nuts. But, I was born near Huntsville in '58. And btw Redstone is still there & going about as good as ever. Still know people that work there.
My dad was at Redstone before I was born, so its very possible, him & your dad crossed paths at some point.
STEVE SIMMS
It's a small world...my dad told me about going to the Friday night audiences that Von Braun would hold for technical discussions so yeah I bet they did cross paths...thanks for your stories...and yes the conspiracy peeps are batshit crazy. Btw I'm retiring from Lockheed Martin here in Orlando on Feb 1st with 30 years...software engineer. Take care dude.
steve Fowler
Hell, that is Very Cool! 30 years. I've been married 32 yrs in Jan. I worked in engineering for a while after college. Math major engineering minor 4 yr degree. But I always wanted to get back into music & we opened a music store & I quit my job & the store took off & did well. Mainly a guitar store. But I got in a band that started going places & we made it to opening act status but never headliner. We were opener for Joan Jett, that was our most fun job, & Edgar Winter, Foghat, Atlanta Rhythm Section & several others. Some of the live stuff of my band Witcher is on my YT cha. But go to all videos to get to my actual cha. But yep, I bet the dads did cross paths at one time, just about certain. I remember my dad had a friend named Sloan that lived in Huntsville, we were about 30 mi out in nowhere, but on Fri nights he did go unto Huntsville with that friend.Thats probably where they were going! We had a German neighbor that was one of Von Brauns team that came over with him after WW2 & he rode to work with my dad. He used to come to our house 2 or 3 nights a week to help my dad with the calculus & physics for a last test he had to pass to get qualified for Von brauns personnel team. I Loved the German accent! haha. But they were working 100 hr weeks & my dad dropped dead of a heart attack & fell within a foot of where I was playing in the floor. It was the week before JFK was shot. I was a kid but I'll never forget it. I still have some of the rocket models he used to bring home to me. But these days, I'm still playing just part time, & now I have a shop at my house & I do guitar repair, setup , customizing, etc. Have several Grammy winners as customers being here in Muscle Shoals. Load of hits recorded here & I know all the Swamper guys Lynyrd Skynyrd mentions in Sweet Home Alabama. haha. But I stay busy most of the time & it's something I enjoy, but hell man, keep in touch. My email is marshallsteve1234@yahoo.com
Best paint scheme ever. And thanks to you even more interesting.
I think i'm in love
Fritz Lang's silent science fiction German film "Flau im Mond" showed audience in 1929 about the white and black rocket. It gave Wernher Von Braun and German rocketeers an idea to paint white and black experimental V-2 rockets in Germany and then America. Soviet Union wanted to paint green on the ballistic missiles and experimental rockets. Wernher von Braun and NASA had painted white and black rockets since 1958. They added the red letter marks "United States" or "USA" and the American flags. Black and white paint on the rockets became famous and popular. They are still used in years or decades.
you love rockets! so dreamy♡♡♡
Love that young people are continuing the history of our Space program. I have a 5 foot Saturn 5 in my living room. I'm 62. LOL Keep up the great work.
The Saturn V is such a beautiful piece of engineering. Space nerd porn...
I love these vintage space videos! Thank you so much for sharing these delightful tidbits!
A girl talking rocket science, feel right to me
Shew, Thank God. You have no idea how long we've been waiting for your approval.
Quick, someone call the OP with permission to go ahead. This guy said it's OK.
lol
condescending much ?
@DDG, I don't think you mean it as such, but that was an extremely unhelpful and unproductive way to communicate and promote your values to strangers.
The guy made a comment about how good it is to see a girl discussing rocket science, and you mock that as a statement of his "approval". That is sexist, divisive bullshit. You are deliberately twisting his words ostensibly on the basis of his gender, but certainly not on anything he actually said.
What you did was bad for equality, and bad for all involved. I hope you understand this isn't me saying you're a bad person, just that I believe what your approach here is contrary to even your own interests, and I suggest you reconsider it.
Whilst the reaction to the comment was somewhat over the top, it remains that the fact of the presenter being female shouldn't be worthy of note.
just finished watching the doco on the Apollo space program and in amazement once again at the launch and stage separation of Apollo 10 and 11 to watch them rockets powering up through our atmosphere is just all inspiring
Very interesting trivia bits. Love it! :-)
I have always wondered about this! Since building a model when I was a kid... I remember painting over that middle ring, even though the directions said to have the black ring there. Lol. Now all these years later, I know why! Thanks again.
the greatest rocket EVER MADE!
For now.
Falcon 9 FT is pretty awesome because it auto lands, but yes, the Saturn V is an amazing contraption in its careful yet haphazard design!
Cole Smith : why do you say, "haphazard" design?
Energia was the best. It only flew a few times, but the way it was made and was conducive to different uses was a big part.
I dont know that lOKI might be my fav... Jk jk lol
Amy I was 9 when they stepped on the moon. Like millions perhaps billions I saw it live with our entire family around the console color TV in my grandmothers front room. You cannot be more than 20 if that. It is so cool to see a person 3 generations past me still interested in what was the most important science and technology marvel of that day. I subscribed, oh and I didn't know why the rockets were painted that way, so you learn something new every day. Peace and get your butt through school.
When I see the Saturn Rocket, I get really pissed that they never got to the next step which was the "Nova Rocket".
Been neat to see one. When the Nova concept came out Orbital Rendezvous was not considered possible. Figured that they'd need a giant spaceship to land on the moon then launch itself back to Earth. Someone got orbital rendezvous to work, you could have a separate lunar lander. This slashed weight required to be lifted into orbit.
The Nova wasn't really necessary. I agree - would have been cool for them to at least build one.
I'd suspect that the next moon mission will use conventional rockets, to lift various parts and pieces into orbit. They'll arrange to string them all together. Send them on their way.
I just happened upon your channel (recommended), but so glad that I did! I grew up loving all this stuff, so thank you, sincerely, for all effort and great job!
Need Hello Kitty on those rocket
Why do the paintings and CGI of the SLS have the same black and white paint scheme as the Saturn V? Is it some practical reason, or just to evoke the old Apollo era?
I am not actually sure about that, but I'm going to look it up now! I assume it's a similar heat-related issue. But then again since it's still CGI concept art it might be more aesthetic for the moment. I think we'll have to see what the flight article comes out looking like.
I really hope they keep it, it's so iconic. The first two shuttle flights had white external tanks which meant the entire stack was either black or white as well. This changed later due to weight savings from by not painting them.
Amy Shira Teitel The flight article will have an orange tank like the shuttle. NASA has already confirmed.
Blake Helms definitely agree - with the Apollo missions drifting further and further away from us as years go by I think the reverence of that paint scheme is all the more appropriate.
James Mcenanly It`s probably so that they can tell whether the rocket is rotating or not.
I remember running home from school to see the Apollo missions and the Saturn v was awesome!
Then the 70's.
She's sooooooo...smart
Nissim Levy you wouldn't say that if she was male would you
I've just discovered this channel and need to say what a relief it is to find a fact-filled channel where the host is the actual smarty-pants behind the writing. RUclips has too many channels where a team of researchers turn their script over to a hot-looking face-for-hire who has no idea what it all means - but reads script really well.
You, on the other hand, are your very own hot-looking and brilliant writer/presenter. How convenient and reassuring is THAT?
No - thank YOU!
Let's build a 110m high dummy rocket for fun guys :D
The Saturn V is the most beautiful rocket ever designed, IMO. Many years ago I built the Estes kit model and launched it with two stages. I separated the model into two parachute-recovery sections. It flew perfectly four times, all with the two-stage mod I made for it.
It's a beautiful machine and to me is a man made wonder of the world along with the Shuttle program, Hubble and ISS. How could none of these make the 7 modern man made wonders of the world list? Hubble alone has made more discoveries than any other telescope in mans history. profound discoveries too ;) Come get some Catspit~!
Unfortunately they just barely got edged out by perforated toilet paper.
Its too bad we pretty much screwed our space program with the shuttle program...
The 500D also has the black ring. It was used for vibration tests at the Marshall Space Flight Center. It's now displayed here in my home state of Alabama at the US Space and Rocket Center. We love our Saturn V!
Damn, she speaks fast XDD I can follow her listening at 0,75x speed XDD
Did she said something? 🤤
As an electronic engineer, I would guess in addition to the roll of the rocket, checked and striped lines are good indicators for the orientation of the craft but also in failure analysis. any deformation prior to catastrophic failure would be identified and the origin of the problem can easily be pinpointed. However it can also be used to measure the oscillation frequency of the modules to determine changes is resonance during flight. Right after the launch, all video material is sent to the engineering department and all data that can be abstracted are analyzed from that material. They can indicate resonance, orientation, deformation, separation and catastrophic failure.
One thing I learned over the years, one thing more important than the success of the mission is the data you can gather from that mission. Regardless if that mission is a success or not, to ensure future missions are safer and better planned with less risk and uncertainties is critical. For that we need data and tons of it.
Too bad she wasn't around to see one fly live :)
Sharp. Clear. Professional. Additionally, this is an unexpected, unique and surprisingly educational commentary. Bravissima!
Because the V2 was black & white.
Fun fact: Of all the rockets prior to the Shuttle that NASA used to put men into space, only one lacked the black-and-white roll bars. The Atlas, the orbital launch vehicle for the Mercury program, was the only one that didn't get roll bars painted on it. Even the (not German-designed) Titan used for Gemini had the roll bars, though most of the fuselage was left as bare metal. The bars and paint scheme didn't just help keep track of the vehicle's roll rate, it also made them more visible when contrasted against the blue sky.
The Shuttle also had some of that heritage. Take a look at it in launch configuration - one SRB has a black band around the base of the nose, the other does not. I imagine that was to help NASA keep track of the boosters after separation. And the Orbiter itself is patterned with a black underside and a white upper, when it really should have been all-white to reflect as much heat as possible. Why? Once again, to help NASA keep track of how the spacecraft is oriented.
I now feel much smarter...
Thanks amy,never thought much about why black and white patterns were there,just think the looked cool.
Now I know.
Would it be because most of the cameras were black and white at the time?
They used colored film then
timeline way off.
I just think the Saturn V rocket is an awesome rocket. Even with both paint schemes thanks for the video.
thank you trump. very cool.
THE SATURN WAS BLACK AND WHITE CAUSE IT WAS A FORMAL OCCASION AND THEY FORGOT THE PINK PAINT
LOL!!!
I am so happy now. I'm not the only one who realized that the Saturn rockets had different paint than the one model kits have you paint.
How sexy it is, to see a girl talking about rockets and saying she loves them... :) Respectfully
Don't really get why some guys like it when girls like masculine stuff...
@@zoidburg2975 You mean you don't like it when a girl likes your 'masculine stuff.'
She know how to get the blood boiling.
One key bit of information left out of the video: the aft skirt (the sloped reduction fairing about halfway up) had a different black-and-white pattern on each the four quadrants around the circumference. This way, controllers could always know which side they were looking at.
Slow down. It's hard to follow you as you rapid-fire information. But, also, thanks for the information.
LOL fucking Americans, tiny attention span.
***** that may be true, but I don't think I'm proof of that. I was born in Iran.
I like how people think Americans are xenophobic but it's always people like SMGJohn proving stereotypes opposite
Non native speaker here. Most people are talking too slowly. She's just doing it right. Why bother wasting time?
no1DdC if most people speak too slow, by definition, slow is the normal rate of speech. Even if it were not, if the presenter wants most people to understand what he is saying, he has to slow down.
I've always wondered about this, especially when I was building Saturn V models as a kid in the 1960s. Thanks!
I love your posts and I love all Apollo stuff, but i am afraid that I can just follow 40% of your talk. My processor is not fast enough.
I love the Saturn stack more than any other technological development during my life. As a kid, watching on TV, I imagined it to be sure sci-fi stuff, all smooth and seamless. I was shocked to visit Houston and see the stack display there. Not at all as I had envisioned. Basically ten stories of riveted steel and aluminum, a couple million individual parts all forming a huge cylinder of highly explosive fuel. Topped with a tiny capsule where three guys would be strapped in, give the thumbs up and wait for the candle to light. Courage way beyond belief. WOW!
Smart and pretty-killer combination ;)
Yep que cards are pretty
+stuffanthings She has a Master's degree in Arts and a minor degree in Science and Technology Studies, which I imagine far outranks whatever "expertise" you think you possess. God, I love that in 2018, women still can't be taken seriously at face-value when discussing STEM subjects and are written off as "pretty faces reading *CUE* cards", as opposed to their male counterparts becoming infallible national celebrities.
Well stated, mac.
I always get goose bumps watching one of the pod camera angles & seeing USA scroll by.
wow
She is really cute
Adorable pushing fake NASA!
bigsid54 You are fake
Jarid Gaming please don’t start this shit
Jarid Gaming creep
As well as lovely, attractive, fetching and comely.
Greetings from Germany.
I bought a Saturn V last month ( see Pic on.the left ). It is 1:72 or 150cm. I love this rocket !
Crikey woman! Breath!!!!
+Lee Curran e
+Lee Curran It does seem that everybody on RUclips wants me to have a headache when I leave their video. Non-stop.
+Jack Lavender I think when you are driven to hyperventilate, missing an e, is no big deal.
+Lee Curran
Wow you can smell her breath from there with your dog nose ?
Or were you really saying she should breathe ?
I find her flawless and breathless delivery highly impressive. I presume, based on the production values, she's reading off a Teleprompter.
My grandfather worked at NASA beginning in the 50s with von Braun and talked about having to take the weight of the paint into account in the design of the vehicle
I am in love for you Amy Shira S2
Great and informative video. I thought it was black/white because it was so darn aesthetically pleasing. Little did I know.
Why this woman talk so fast? This like the end of commercial for medications.
"This woman" gets excited when she's passionate about sharing something cool!
Yes, but hardly any creaky voice. Big plus there!
Because she is a professional.
especially phallic objects like rockets that penetrated to space.
BarbikaPahor
You said "penetrated". You must be smart or something................................
I miss the exciting days of space exploration. I loved collecting the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo mission patch stickers that came in cereal boxes.
Just a few more years, were about to hit a new high
To believe we went to the moon 50 years ago but can't go now, isn't just gullable and irresponsible, it's vintage stupid!
It took time to build the rockets and the spacecraft they carried, as well as build the infrastructure on the ground for "mission control", and get trained people in place to run it. With several years lead time, we could do it again. But right now, we can't. And why would we do all that again?
We CAN go - but it costs money which nobody wants to spend.
Who says we "can't go now"? Where do you guys get this? Has anyone been paying any attention at all to NASA's Space Launch System/Artemis 1 and 2?
@@SteverRob Its not that we couldn't or can't go now..but so far we don't have a ready to launch and go system at present...
I am fortunate enough to see every NASA space launch beginning with the Mercury program. Back then it was spectacular.
to fast speaking......slow a little....bit :)
+Silvio S
Click settings,click speed and slow her down yourself ! LOL !
She's still slower than I am on MY RUclips channel....
When I was a little kid, in the early seventies, I used to draw rockets a lot, all with a black-and-white pattern and the letters USA.
I must have seen a lot of launches on TV.
Some of the test V-2s were actually yellow with black quadrants as depicted in the current Estes model kit. Sometimes the German rocket scientists affixed a picture of a bathing beauty pin-up to the base of the rocket, as was their tradition.
Very cool site. Big geek fan of the Saturn V. When I was a kid, I met VonBraun.
One of the unmanned test flights flew with a service module painted white, 4 or 6. Two shots from that mission (can't remember which one it was) get used all the time, one from the tower that showed the ascent; and the SM is obviously painted white as it isn't reflecting the tower. The other is the first stage and interstage falling away. These shots are often used to depict Apollo 11, but neither were taken during that mission.
I saw Saturn 5 hanging in a very large hangar on Kennedy Space Center tour. Best tour ever
Saturn 5 is so big I had to go 75 yards away to get ALL the exhaust nozzles in a frame on my Canon Photura 135 zoom camera. Massive rocket. Greatest attraction in Florida. Better than anything in Orlando
The Saturn V was a totally awesome machine. Even watching a launch on TV was quite a show. To this day when I see a recorded launch I get a lump in my throat & my eyes mist. Watching it slowly clear the tower then race to escape velocity is something I will never get over. I wonder if the first one that was not intended to fly is the one on display at the Houston NASA complex?
Each Saturn V that was built is documented on this Wiki page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V
Glad to learn somthing new everyday.. Love that massive machine.. Have always been in AWE at its power.
I remember sometime in the early 1970's going to Cape Canaveral and taking a tour bus ride around of the launch facility, at the time there was a Saturn V rocket on one of the pads that was due to be launched. At time time I saw it, the rocket was not fueled since the launch had been scrubbed and was waiting to be rescheduled, so they just left it out on the pad instead of taking it back to the VAB. The tour bus rode around the pad and we all got a good look. I remember the tour bus driver say something like, "Where else in the world are you going to be able to get this close to a live bird on the pad ready to go?" Those were the days! I remember the tour bus driver, his voice sounded just like Lee Marvin's, does anyone else remember him?
+firstname lastname The tour bus guy, sounded just like Lee Marvin, he drove and narrated at the same time.
Atlas (a Convar bird) was in the all metallic look.
Titan II (Martin-Marietta) had a short section of black and white paint.
The ICBM version was all aluminum with only "U S Air Force" on the side.
You and I would have been fast friends young lady about 20 years ago...lol
Retired Mechanical Engineer. Got lucky enough to work on several NASA projects with contractors.
Great presentation. :)
Wow, first time viewing your VLOG and despite a life time following NASA, I learned so much from just this short 3 min. video. Great job!.
My little brother and I wanted to be astronauts but we BOTH cried on the spider carnival ride and our dreams went to shizz!!! Still I love all of this stuff! Thank you for your videos and passion!