Apollo 8 - Splashdown (Full Mission 42)
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- Apollo 8 - Splashdown (Full Mission 42)
This video covers the145 hr to recovery point in the mission, specifically the SM jettison, re-entry , splashdown and final recovery to the Aircraft Carrier Yorktown.
This is the final video in the series. I would like to thank all those who have supported and given guidence through the past year, including Jim Lovell who continues to give encouragement and all the viewers on RUclips.
Audio is presented in two channels at some points. Headphones are advised.
The video is presented in 16:9 to allow use of photos and captions on the right of the screen. Captions are used to show PAO and other events.
NOTE -
Orbiter Space Simulator is used to depict events as they were happening in real time, although I do not claim attitudes/spacecraft orientation are correct.
I sourced the Apollo 8 Flight Journal to assist with photo placement and audio editing. I would recommend the viewer using this as an aid whilst listening as it gives great descriptions of the technical details of the flight as it happened and explains, in laymans terms what is going on.
All video, photos and audio is courtesy of NASA.
My father was aboard YORKTOWN during the Recovery of Apollo 8. V-3 Division from '67-Decom. He's been gone 20 years, but I'll always remember his stories from this Mission. One of the proudest moments of his life.
thank you Uncle Roland
I ate supper with frogman from Apollo 8 Bob coggin night before last and this was on cbs news while me him and chip lowman watched it at chips farm in Darlington SC
and he saw Apollo 8 and that it was good
Love the onboard tape recorder! I love hearing the dialog between pilots. Well done, LM5!
It's been 47 years since these Americans first ventured beyond Earth. After viewing these 42 segments, I am transported back to my youth when then, as now, I realized how truly historic this event was. Thank you lunarmodule5!
+Geoffrey Farthing you are more than welcome Geoffrey...lm5
I Love the onboard audio during splashdown. It would be great to hear that on every splashdown.
i bet borman splashed down with that washer in his pocket determined to find out if it came from nasa or north american
+TestTubeBabySpy Apparently Schirra saved a single thread of beta cloth and gave it as a gift to the lead North American technician. It was the only piece of debris in the Apollo 7 capsule.
Thanks so much for the uploads, this is incredible! I didn't even know there was a (surviving, public) audio recording of the communication among crew members inside the CM during reentry. Hearing Borman (or Lovell?) groaning and counting up the Gees with a strained voice is quite chilling...
+multi io its a great moment isn't it- LM5
Boy! After the chutes open, the dialog comes fast and furious and full of excitement on the part of everyone. More so than at any time in the entire mission. And the mission, which started with the Saturn 5 launched 3 miles from the firing room, ends almost the exact same distance from the carrier!
LM5, you probably knew this long before I noticed it, but when I saw the recovery helicopter I did a double take. 'Wait a minute! Wasn't the helicopter who picked up the Apollo 13 astronauts also number 66? Different ships, same chopper. Way too much of a coincidence I thought. So then, I Google it, and sure enough, it WAS the same Sea King No 66 that was positioned on the prime recovery ship for not only 8 and 13, but 10, 11 and 12.
Does anyone know if there was any reason other than perhaps 'tradition' for using it? Was it specially equipped in any way, however small for the recovery missions? Unfortunately it was lost off San Diego in 1975. Here is a little piece I found on it... www.thespacereview.com/article/895/1
See all the commotion your work has stirred up LM5.... :^) You got me looking up info about an otherwise obscure Navy chopper!...... Simply put, RUclips would be a much poorer place without your efforts. To anyone with an interest in manned spaceflight, 'discovering' Lunarmodule5 is like striking gold!
+Ali Frazier you are too kind Ali...Thanks for your kind words...there has been much discussion on collectspace with ref to the final resting place of helicopter 66...regards LM5
Awesome to hear the crew while they are doing re entry. Thanks for all the hard work!
+Crownbagavenger you are more than welcome Crown - glad you liked the video and audio! regards LM5
Listening to this again 4 years later - I'm surprised I didn't notice at first, but you can hear the thrusters popping in the background - they sound like someone knocking on the side of the cabin! Also it is amazing how quickly the G's build once they pass 0.05 G (needle off the peg of the acceleration meter).
Apollo 8 was my favorite mission.
I have watched and listened to all 42 videos now and I almost feel like I just got back from the moon along with the crew. I think one of the amazing things about Apollo is that even though the events themselves slowly recede into history and we have had to say farewell to so many of its protagonists, in other ways it has become more alive than ever before through the efforts of people such as yourself. Thank you very much, I thoroughly enjoyed it and I really appreciate the tremendous time and energy you have put into this!
Glad you got through the whole series...i often wonder how many do... you nay have heard that 11 will be released in July.. hope u get through that series too...regards LM5
A job very complete!!!, I am still amazed and grateful...
22:19 Funny how Borman and Lovell tells Anders the first glow is just sunrise to reassure him....then wham! That ain't sunrise!
Jim Lovell is just sooo freakin cool. So many firsts for him all throughout Gemini and Apollo programs. Love the audio at 32:27 where Borman tells him, "you got it Jim, give em a call". Seems like Lovell was deferring to Borman as the commander to respond to Houston. Almost as if Borman concedes that since he was sick most of the trip that Lovell was the one that held the mission together and has earned the right to answer Houston's call. Lovell matter of factually says "Ok....Houston, Apollo 8 over?" That conversation was also captured at 8:00 into this video from inside the capsule looking out through the window. ruclips.net/video/OavPbDaLLLQ/видео.html I think Lovell is my all time favorite astro.
That was Anders to Lovell at 32:27, not Borman.
Back in July I was fortunate enough to meet Mr. Bob Coggin face to face. Coggin was one of the U.S. Navy SEAL "Frogmen" who jumped into the water to help recover Apollo 8 after it splashed down. He was together with Navy photographer Milt Putnam, who also took photographs of Apollo 8, along with Apollos 10 and 11. This was at an event hosted by the SC State Museum. They were both gentlemen to speak with, and had all sorts of interesting, historical things to reflect on, regarding the Apollo program, and their days in the Navy.
my grandpa don schwab was the leader of the apollo 8 recovery mission
Awesome how you have the spacecraft dialog and Mission Control dialog synchronized. Now, LM5, you don't have to reveal 'top secret info' mind you, but where in tarnation did you get all this crisp clear audio? Hours and hours and hours of it? :^)
I had no idea there were recordings INSIDE the spacecraft.
+Ali Frazier I have had the onboards for years. all the audio is available on the nasa audio collection archive online
Don't know how I missed the notification of this one. A fitting conclusion to another great mission coverage. I remember watching the recovery live (on Australian TV - in black & white back then) when I was 10. I know it's a labour of love, but a great piece of work all the same. Keep 'em coming LM5 - much appreciated!
+gort58 hey there gort...great to hear from you and a belated happy new year. thanks for the comment and am envious I didnt see this one live..must've been quite a Christmas that year! regards LM5
Thank you my friend. It has been a wonderful journey, reliving this historic & gutsy mission.I very much appreciate all the long hours & hard work you put in to get this done and bring the story of Apollo 8 to many folks here that were not even born to see this as it happened. I was fortunate to have shared in this as it happened when I was nearly 10 years old. I wish that the young kids today had a voyage of this stature to follow and to be inspired by. These men were & continue to be my heroes!
I too want to especially thank "Shaky" for his encouragement and for all the service he has given to all of us during & after his NASA days. He is a treasure & a real gentleman!
I wish you & yours a happy & healthy New Year & look forward to more of these mission video documentaries!
+Bog Wraith thanks for your kind words bog...glad its brought back some good memories...best wishes to you and yours for a great 2016...Regards LM5
I was recording this here in Edmonton,Alberta,Canada with my audio cassette tape recorder.
Maybe I'm wierd,I love it. I can feel that emotions...!
Who's the buttinsky who keeps butting in and talking over transmissions between ground control and the astronauts? And then, sits there breathing all heavy into the mic not saying anything ... _Hello!?_ I just finally turned my balance to the left speaker then he goes away!
It's incredible to think what's happening here. This is a spacecraft carrying three human beings on their way home from a quarter of a million miles away. It's coming in so fast that slamming into the thin upper atmosphere, far too thin to breathe, causes it to decelerate so severely that the astronauts feel 6 G, like a car braking hard. They are going from thousands of miles per hour, to a few miles per hour when they're under chutes and splashing down safely. That's a LOT of kinetic energy to get rid of.
19:46 - Breaking in the rookie during his first re-entry. :P
Splashdown! at 10:51:42 EST, humanity's most daring voyage comes to an end.
I love imagining myself onboard with them for the mission. The clarity of the audio is amazing.
I have to say how much I am enjoying reliving my youth. My mom and dad let me stay home from school whenever there was a launch or recovery from Gemini through Apollo. These guys were my heroes. I struck gold when I found your channel. Thanks so much!
+YUGBAL52 good to hear from you YUGBAL - its always great to read people's memories of these space events. Must have been great to witness it all live. Thanks again - LM5
lunar module good job if u need other information possibly I was one of the three udt swimmers on this recovery ,good job - do u have any pictures from helo on early re-entry of cap. coming.down burning off fuel before it hit water. coggin
+Bob Coggin Hi Bob...great to hear from you. Must have been something to work on this mission. The only photos I have are the ones I included here. I have a question....how difficult was the early part of the recovery due to the low light conditions?
Weather was good big rolling seas but not much wind.Up in helo's around four am 6,000 ft waiting an listening to communications.Looking down on Yorktown and hopeing capsule is on target!Next, everything we were primary group.It was extremely hot especially due to full wetsuits.Saw the capsule with suites on an the part I have never seen on film happened the capsule used their retro rockets to burn off excess fuel so it wouldn't have a chance of burn us on the water
+Bob Coggin back to the recovery about early morning low light .We had practiced for three weeks 90% of our time was at night in conditions that at times very windy up to 45 mph.Plus after the astronauts were on the Yorktown we the frogman had to swim away from the ship ---a very large white oceanic tip shark (12 ' )swim up to us an - the three helo's did come pick us up. Two of the swimmers got lifed up in one of the Billy lift nets. more later Bob
Hay Bob just responded to this video left a message about you me and chip cooking out and seeing news clip during our supper awesome thanks for the photos from your great and historic job recovering the crew and capsuel
@@bobcoggin7249 can you believe this is now 50 years ago this week? Did you ever hook up with Borman, Lovell or Anders after the recovery?
Thank you for making this series, enjoyed reliving it!! Great job making these videos.
+David Goodridge thanks David...am really glad you have enjoyed the series...thanks for your kind words - regards LM5
Holy hell! I never really listened intently to the CM tape during entry before. Slamming into the atmosphere at 25,000 MPH must have been the most intense sensation any human has ever experienced.
It was pretty cool wasn't it!
Thank you for helping me get through our present with our glorious past
I really do appreciate all the time you put into these LM5
+Saxie81 thanks Saxie -lm5
It is so cool that we get to hear the crew loop audio during re-entry on Apollo 8. You get to hear them calling out interface(.05G), the g build up, the actual cabin temperature(it only increased 1 degree inside the command module during re-entry, you can hear Bill Anders state that), and of course them going through the check lists at multiple points. You don't really get to hear the crew communicating during re-entry on any of the other missions that I've heard the audio from, wonder why that is. Either way, this is really cool and it answered a question I've always wondered and that is if crews were able to detect any perceivable change in temperature inside the cabin during the peak of re-entry heating.
During peak re-entry heating, the crew was unable to communicate with the ground because radio waves can't get through the cloud of ionized gas. This is the audio from a tape recorder that they'd use any time they were out of communication (e.g., when they were on the far side of the Moon).
Hi Lm5, Took a little sneak peek towards the end of this series. that re-entry CM audio is truly amazing.
As usual u have out done yourself compiling the audio and editing it together with the video. Apollo 8 is even today such a achievement. And for me my all time favorite crew.
In the next couple weeks i will be looking forward to watching the rest of the series continuing from full mission 6
Thanks as always for making these full mission series. For someone who wasn't around during the time of Apollo, it makes the missions come alive.
+salland12 hi salland, always good to hear from you and thanks for the good words. You will really enjoy the lunar orbits especially I reckon...enjoy! regards LM5
Thank You so much for posting this audio/visual! I am a NASA nerd & remember watching the launches and missions in the 60's and 70's. My dad used to wake me up in the middle of the night to watch the tv coverage.
Welcome Steve...glad you liked the series
Bravo! I finally finished listening to the entire series of Apollo 8 and what an incredible mission. Thank you very much for including the astronaut audio during re-entry. I had never heard that before and really appreciate the insight!
+Ian Slatas Well done for getting throught the mission - I often wonder how many others do that! I know I have so thats two of us at least!....regards LM5
+lunarmodule5 Haha! I've watched several of your series all the way though. I got through Apollo 13 in about 3 weeks or so. I started the Apollo 8 series around Christmas thinking I could get through it during some down time, but I found myself pausing a lot to research something they mentioned or were discussing.
Until I found your channel I thought I had a pretty decent conceptual understanding of the Apollo program. I mean, I have watched just about every Apollo documentary out there, I should know something, right? Nope! Thanks in large part to your efforts, I now know magnitudes more and still feel I know nothing. What an incredible program.
+Ian Slatas I will ditto that!
Thank you Lunar Module 5....thank you verymuch
A HUGE thanks for all of your videos. These full mission videos are fascinating. I'm sure it's a lot of hard work on your part and I wanted you to know that it IS very much appreciated!
+glorystang hi glory -its always gregat to hear from anyone who watches my videos.Thanks for taking the time to comment and i am so glad you are liking the content and effort. This series took exactly one year to complete but its all worth it in the end. Hope there is more to come for you...regards LM5
thank you so very much with your efforts :) A piece of history not forgotten. Thank you so very much, my friend
+Ron Ramsey You are most welcome as always Ron - regards LM5
Fantastic effort! Wish I had a bit more time to watch all of your production, your channel is one of the best out there. Have a great new year and thank you, sir!
+vaitripleseven you are always welcome VTS - regards LM5
Bravo. Well done. Thank you!
Great understanding of a trip to the Moon and all the complexities..THANKS ..LM 5...This very beginning of reentry i was never sure how it started from capsule sep. TY INTRESTING.
+Fred Thompson hi Fred... Glad you enjoyed it...its been fun putting the mission together...regards LM5
When we look back 1968 was one of the toughest years not only in this country's history but the world's also. Apollo 8 was one of the very few good news stories from that year. After they got back there was all of this mail that had been sent to NASA and one letter was from an old lady who wrote to them that they saved 1968. When you stop and think about it it's probably true.
+komradkolonel Amazing observations about 1968 and Apollo 8's role in being a national morale lift. I have always thought the same thing, that 1968 was surely the most difficult year of the 1960s. It was a year that I was convinced our country was coming apart at the seams, and Apollo 8 did indeed save '68. The old lady was wise... Even beyond HER years... :^)
+komradkolonel I never thought of it that way. But you are right. I was 15 then and all the things I remember were bad, Kennedy, King, the Russian invasion of Chek, the halloween fire in France that killed 200 and then ... Apollo8. Yep, it saved the year.
Well we brought it (Vietnam) on ourselves. And we'll never live it down. But we did do this mission.
Any idea whether the intermittent banging sounds almost every second are thruster firings?
Ive had this buried in my "to watch" file for months. Tonights the night after that great Apollo 14 upload 👍
Hope you enjoyed it!
@@lunarmodule5...of course 😊
FYI: The current PBS Nova is "Apollo's Daring Mission". You should still be able to find and upcoming showing. Less than one hour. Good for the average Joe on up to Apollo geeks like us.
interesting tidbit. My uncle was on the USS Yorktown picking up the Apollo 8 capsule. He was an aviation store keeper and told me stories on when they picked up a space capsule. He didn't know which one it was until years after he was out of the Navy.
LM5 did you meet and get to know Jim Lovell fairly well?
Thank you so much for these amazing productions. Took me back to my childhood. i was 11 years old when Apollo 8 splashed down and I had avidly followed as much of the mission as I could. Now 50 years later I am still learning new things about the Apollo adventure. A rousing round of applause for LM5.
You are most welcome Leon. Thanks for your kind words and glad these are bringing back good memories.. regards LM5
That's Paul Haney at Mission Control in Houston.
Okay LM5 I will echo others' sentiments, after seeing the 42nd video, of "A job well done." [on your part]
Come to think of it, the fiery ordeal of reentry seems like Mother Earth charging a price for readmission into the 'club'. You need a great deal of speed and very expensive rocketry to escape Earth. But to get back in you need to put your life in danger once more, and a spacecraft that can protect you from the gauntlet of thousands of degrees.
Paul Haney at Mission Control in Houston.
Thanks again for all of the hard work you put into these vids. Keep up the good work.
+cbavid2003 “You Know Who” thanks! regards LM5
thanks I like the voice of the astronauts on board keep up the good work can you get full missions of the space shuttle. thanks again
+mickey fonseca Hi Mickey - thanks for the good feedback - I already did STS-1 and havent decided if and when I will do another yet - regards LM5
Breathe a little first, and then we will ask the end Apollo 10, those three guys (Stafford, Cernan and Young) have earned...
This is a good way to end 2015, as it was for them, the best way to end the 1968. Thanks LM5 and a VERY GOOD 2016!!!
Esta es una buena forma de terminar el 2015, como lo fue para ellos, la mejor forma de terminar ese 1968. Gracias LM5 y un MUY BUEN 2016!!!
+Ricardo Hector Grumberg Thanks Ricardo....glad you have been along for the whole flight....and have a great 2016 yourself! regards LM5
Hopefully I will win the auction for the Apollo 8 recovery cover with a stamped cachet honoring the US Navy recovery force, postmarked on the USS Sandoval on December 21, 1968, signed in blue ballpoint by James Lovell and in black felt tip by Frank Borman. The reverse also bears a USS Sandoval ink stamp. In fine condition. The USS Sandoval operated some 600 miles west of the Canary Islands as a unit of the Manned Spacecraft Recovery Force for Apollo 8. This item is Pre-Certified! to be authentic.
Wow what a fun and interesting mission this was. I cant imagine all of the time and work you put into this, but it sure is appreciated!!
+CTaylor7013 Thanks for thee comment CT -it took about a year to complete this series.....the next series, a Gemini mission, is underway but is taking a time to get the first one out due to other commitments, but it will be ready within the next few weeks...regards lm5
+lunarmodule5 Awesome.....Cant Wait!!!!
And what is RRT?
Love Paul Haney!
That was SPECTACULAR!
Thanks ultra
Will you be doing other Apollo missions?
+Ron Ramsey Hi Ron - I want to complete Apollo 10 first before deciding wha to do next...! LM5
LM5 I am wond4ring how ma ny hours total made up the entire Apollo 8 mission. That wasn 't indicaTED ON WIKIPEDIA. you said that this last video "covers the145 hr to recovery point in the mission" So how many hrs to the mission AFTER their recovery?
Can we have separate audio from the capsule alone during reentry?
Apollo 8, the first crew to reenter at 25,000 mph !!!!!!! I remember that mission. Going outside at night and looking at the moon............ they were halfway to the moon out there and that was just awesome !!!!
Splashdown posted at the 47th anniversary, congratulations. Hartwig
+astrohardy in the space business....timing is everything! regards LM5
More or less, you're right. Apollo 8 was the first launch I saw on TV, and I still vividly remember the flight to the moon over Christmas. However I faintly remember having watched the Apollo 7 splashdown coverage at my grandparents place, where it took a while until they had really spotted the spacecraft in the water and recovered the astronauts. In 7 and 8 - much different to later Apollo flights - TV couldn't show the actual splashdown but the astronauts exiting the helicopter, making the whole thing a radio-like experience. Phantastic to be able to relive the whole drama once again. By the way I was not able to watch the Apollo 11 EVA as I was in that night with my parents in a remote part of the Austrian alps where high mountains shielded off any TV signals.
22:33. "Goddamn. This is going to be a real ride. Hang on".
Godspeed the crew of Apollo 8!
There is a poetry in the spacecraft landing in the sea .
Truly wonderful, thank you.
Fabulous! Thanks!
G buildup is FAST, huh?
6g is like going 0 to 60 in half a second. :D
10:40 is my favourite! That pan was almost magical
Danke für Deine Videos.
Ich wünsche Dir und Deinen Lieben ein gesundes und glückliches Jahr 2016!
+Habibi46611 you are welcome Habib...and the same for you and your family in 2016 - regards Lm5
Glaube Mut Liebe .
I've been watching for over a week to get to this point and I finally got a commercial.
You are a square eyed steely missile man - well done on getting through the entire flight...regards LM5
@@lunarmodule5 hey, I can't get enough. Got my headphones on most of the time these days. After I get all the missions done, I'm going into RUclips rehab. 😉🚀🇺🇸
Lmao@youtube rehab...as long as you are sufficiently rehabilitated by July....
@@lunarmodule5 it will be a constant battle. Gotta get through Gemini and Mercury before I hit rock bottom. Uh oh. Just saw STS-1.
That RCS dump was certainly noisy
+alijanlondon certainly was....you can also hear the apex cover and chutes
+lunarmodule5 Yes, I think there was the sort of 'tinkling' sound as the lines were dragged out and pulled taught. Also, when they hit E.I. you can here the air outside rushing past
Onboard audio is so good.
1:22:07
Who is the guy that first greets the astronauts?
+67foxcharlie I was also keen to find out who he was. That's John C Stonesifer of the Manned Spacecraft Center's (now JSC) Landing and Recovery Division. This might be of interest: www.navysite.de/cruisebooks/cv10-68/011.htm
Ok, Cool. Thanks. He just looked like my father. My father wasn't in the space program. The man just reminded me of my dad.
gort58
cool article. thanks. Interesting to see the UDT,now called the Navy Seals, were the men in the water.
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You are back :D
+Lextrick I am? lol LM5
+lunarmodule5 Well you haven't postes any videos in 1 month lol. When are you going to uplosd ASTP btw?
+Lextrick Hi - was waiting for today to upload. As for ASTP - when the audio becomes available I will think about foing the flight definitely - but all the audio isnt available yet...regards LM5
+lunarmodule5 Ok cool :)