My claim to fame was that I was a part of the airlift recovery team of Apollo 14. I still have my orders and a few pictures. We flew to Pago Pago and picked up the astronauts and came back to the US. We took 2 C-141's. I had just turned 21.
@MichaelKingsfordGray Yes, at the same time, some people take the discussions way too far. Especially if conspiracies are connected to the event. Try having a civil discussion about 9/11, Apollo, Sandy Hook, Boston bombing, ISIS, White supremacists, etc. I 've met people who told me, "I would never engage these people using my real name "".It can go from a normal discussion to accusations and threats in a millisecond"
Thank you for your great work, Larry, I can only imagine losing the astronauts, not in the complexity of a rocket landing on a foreign body 250,000 miles from Earth and returning, but due to incompetent humans on a highly rehearsed water recovery,using multiple aircraft,ships,etc Being a part of the greatest technological wonder in the history of the human race had to make you feel good. Since this will the 50th anniversary in July, you should edit a little RUclips clip together with the photos, papers. Thanks for your service.
at this time of watching this video there's only 4 moonwalkers alive, Buss Aldrin, Dave Scott, Jack Scmitt and Charlie Duke. To me they are all hero's and the reason I became an engineer. To me Apollo was the greatest achievement of humankind thus far, and these damm fools who say it's a hoax are just people who hate this achievement.
Mark Meade People with limited intellect craving attention. Their world is an extremely small one devoid of imagination, curiosity, and critical thinking. Add to that the criminal lack of history education in schools and you end up with people like that.
It's Buzz not Buss. As for the hoaxtards there are a variety of reasons for their behavior. Some are willfully ignorant, some are gullible, others know its real but are just trolls or are trying to profit off the gullible ones. An so on and so forth, there are many different motives. They're all united in ignorance and arrogance though. Their stupidity makes for great entertainment though.
@@dwmzmm Indeed your faith is yours for any belief, but unfortunately your faith in my government's corruption disguised as integrity adversely effects others by encouraging said government.
@@yomommaahotoo264 You said "my government's corruption," enlighten us, which country you from? It'll help in understanding the context of your previous two statements.
As a fan of the space program, I began recording the Apollo missions off the TV with my tape recorder starting with Apollo 14 (I was 12 at the time). (I have always remembered Alan Shepard's dialogue at 23:09 "Pitchover is good" and then the tone that followed. I thought it was so cool that I could hear a computer tone from a quarter of a million miles away on my TV!) Never did I imagine that one day I'd be talking to Edgar Mitchell in his living room about his adventures. But sure enough, I did, back in 2011 (we met through his website where he invited people to ask him questions about space and science. I became such a regular that he told me that he really enjoyed "our web dialogue," so I felt comfortable asking him if I could come and visit sometime. He said sure!). Afterward we went out and had lunch together. Quite a memorable day! (BTW, even though Al and Ed didn't make it to the lip of Cone, they were able to retrieve ejecta from the base of the crater, which proved quite scientifically valuable.
So crazy. We have now lost the technology to go back. And NASA says we have to find a way for humans to go thru the earth magnetic fields. Aka van Allen belts. So crazy. How smart they were back then.
They're building all new equipment and have to test the craft, so it shouldn't be surprising that they want to see how the equipment behaves in the VAB and what kind of shielding it provides the crew. Also, the configuration of the VAB is not static. It moves and morphs over time so it would be foolish to assume that 50 year old data can be trusted today. By the way, the Earth's magnetic field, or any magnetic field, is not at all harmful to humans and is different from the VAB which is composed of charged particles.
@@spikenomoonwe didn't "lose" the technology. Idk where people come up with this stuff. We just don't have a Saturn V laying around to use. Plus with all it's outdated tech it would be really dumb to spend money making another one when we can put that time and effort into designing a new and improved one. And we can get through the belts, we just want a safer way that astronauts can pass through it multiple times without being exposed every single mission. Each Apollo used new astronauts so that wasn't a problem. But if we want to build a base like is planned with Artemis then it needs to be better shielded than Apollo was. Please do more research before parroting conspiracies by people who are clueless.
+xt7b Well, they aren't getting younger any of them, so it's bound to happen. That's life, I guess. Still feels sad. I'm going out to look the moon tonight. I'll bring a glass of single malt and toast to the moon...and Ed.
@Bengt Handlebars Well, I actually met him once. That's why I bothered to open that bottle of GlenLivett. He was very nice and polite and shook everybody's hand. Maybe because he was in a friendly environment. Now, those videos you may be referring to - I have seen some of them too, and he isn't always at his nicest in some of them. I can agree to that. But that might have something to do with the interviewers approach, and let's face it - we all have our bad moments facing the world. And of course - he had some odd opinions. He might have been a bit tired of people wanting to challenge him all the time, and I understand he was. But I don't care. Ed Mitchell risked his life in service, he walked on the moon, he bothered to shake my hand. Being a space nerd like myself, that IS something. He is still a great hero to me. :)
45 years ago today... Ed Mitchell's obituary brought me here to this video. There's alot I didn't know about Apollo 14, other than Al Shepard golf game of course! For instance, I wasn't aware about the LM docking problems they had.
Now there are only 7 moonwalkers left alive. Lunar Module pilot Edgar Mitchell landed "Antares" on the Moon and was one of the two moon walking astronauts of Apollo XIV. His partner on the lunar surface was Alan B. Shepard while Stuart A. Roosa orbited the Moon onboard "Kitty Hawk." #Respect #Legend #NASA #Apollo
+William Johnston If I recall the landing radar didn't work because it was in the OFF position while the crew was dealing with the abort switch failure and wasn't returned to the ON position during the landing procedure. When they were asked to recycle the switch they noticed the mistake. A similar incident occurred in the Apollo 10 lunar flyby that almost crashed the LEM on the lunar surface - Young flipped a switch to one side and Cernan flipped it back not knowing that Young already flipped it. Later investigation concluded that if the switch position was not corrected within 2-3 seconds they would have crashed.
Ah. Things do tend to work better when turned on. A good pro tip for us all. A further complication for that old equipment was that many of the toggles would physically "reset" if certain commands conflicted with them. So it is possible that a toggle that had been "on" would turn "off" on its own under certain circumstances. In either case, physically re-cycling the system would cure the problem.
Thank god Armstrong was at the controls of the first landing,a crash likely would of ended the program and a lesser pilot would of lost the craft.NASA learned a lot from Apollo 11,enough to make 5 more successful landing's.
@ @MichaelKingsfordGray LOL People Who Constantly Point Out Grammar Mistakes Are Pretty Much Jerks, Scientists Find But you probably already knew that.LOL www.sciencealert.com/people-who-pick-up-grammar-mistakes-jerks-scientists-find
This crew were the second assigned Apollo 13 crew then were moved to 14 as Alan Shepard had been out of the loop too long and Lovell's original 14 crew were moved to 13. The original Apollo 13 crew Gordon Cooper/Don Eisele/Edgar Mitchell were perfectly competent to fly that mission. Cooper was a Mercury/Gemini veteran, Eisele knew the spacecraft from his Apollo 7 shakedown mission and Mitchell was known in NASA as 'the brain.' Unfortunately when Shepard got his flight status back he pulled rank and his mate Deke Slayton assigned him to 13, Shepard even taking Mitchell with him as LMP. I think Slayton realised that if Shepard pulled it off it would give him ammunition to ask for a future mission if he ever regained his own flight status. Slayton was apparantly worried about Cooper's performance as backup Apollo 10 Commander and Eisele's marriage problems (although this had never been a problem with guys in the past) and that if Shepard wasn't qualified to fly then no one was. But I think this was probably all to justify his favour to Shepard. In the event Gordo and Eisele were shafted but hand it to 'Big Al', he did pull off Apollo 14.
It's a rock. All the Apollo landings took place at sites that were currently experiencing lunar morning. The sun was low in the sky and the LEM came in with the sun behind them. This was so that shadows would be cast by the rocks and crater rims, enabling the astronauts to see and avoid them.
Mercury's 7 astronauts: 1) Shepard = Apollo 14 Commander (walked on the moon) 2) Grissom = Apollo 1 Commander (died in the fire) 3) Glenn = Did not participate in Apollo 4) Carpenter = Did not participate in Apollo 5) Schirra = Apollo 7 Commander (Earth orbit only) 6) Cooper = Fully trained backup commander of Apollo 10, but never actually flew on Apollo. 7) Slayton = Apollo/Soyuz Docking Module Pilot (Earth orbit only)
Well, remember, when Apollo was originally being planned, there was no end to the program. It was theoretically just going to keep going and going. And, yeah, they had intended for the first 6 landings to just be experienced military test pilots in both the CDR role and the LMP role. As time went on, they established an end to Apollo, and then kept clipping that end back and back and back. Apollo 24, then Apollo 21, then Apollo 20, then Apollo 17 (if I remember the sequence exactly, which, maybe I don't... I'm getting old). So, until the final cut back to Apollo 17, the first geologist flight was supposed to be Apollo 18. But, they changed that, and put Jack Schmitt onto Apollo 17 instead (he was slated for 18). But, the point is, they had always planned to put more geologists up there, but the cutbacks changed that plan, and eventually it got cut back to the point that only one geologist ever went.
This is from NASA. When the Sun flares, it produces x-rays, gamma-rays, and energetic particles. The energetic particles are the worst, but they are delayed compared to the X-rays and gamma-rays, so you have some warning that they are coming. This gives you time to get into a 'storm shelter', a well-shielded area that you can live in for a few days until the particles die down. A good place for a storm shelter would be in the center of the ship, surrounded by the water tanks.
Many stations on Earth tracked Apollo missions using the Doppler effect to determine distance and location from Earth...I don't recall ever hearing the 10 percenters explaining how this could be faked..as the Doppler effect is a very efficient way of measuring distance and location...
I can think of 2 reasons why. A.) They simply don't know about it. B.) They do know about it, but they decide to ignore it because they can't think of a plausible explanation for it to be fake. Edit: C.) Another one I just now thought of: They'll say that the people who tracked the space craft with that method were paid off by the government/free masons/illuminati/whatever secret organization that does a terrible job keeping itself as such and that all the data was made up. I know you said it was a very efficiant way to track things but that doesn't stop conspiracy theorists, they'll always find some way to "disprove" any evidence that contradicts their claims.
pridakfan253 Most likely a combination of B and C. Conspiracy loons don't look at evidence the way normal people do. The loons look at something and say "Does it support the idea of a conspiracy?" If it does, then it's accepted as fact--if not, it's dismissed. That's the end of the thought process. If you really push them, either a) you're a "sheep", because you don't blindly accept the conspiracy (thus proving they're also irony impaired), or b) everyone's part of "The Conspiracy". I once had a discussion with one of these nutters where, by the end, he was claiming that everyone who worked on the Apollo program was part of the conspiracy. Along with the Soviets. And the Japanese, who have photographed the landing sites. And the University of Arizona, who ran the LRO spacecraft that also photographed the sites. And the British, who tracked the missions from Jodrell Bank. And every scientist and engineer who has looked at the data in the past 45 years. All told, something like a million people would have had to be in on it, and the US government has kept an airtight seal on the thing for 45 years. This is the same US government that couldn't keep Watergate quiet for a month when a dozen people were "inside". But the way they look at things, if a conspiracy of a million people need to keep silent for nearly half a century in order for the conspiracy to be true, then that's what must have happened.
Timmswindowfashions Timm You do know that in the very early days of television, _everything_ was live, right? Since live feeds predate "real to real" (sic) technology, your first question is meaningless. And the fact that you're unaware of that you can use the Doppler effect to determine those things just shows how ignorant of science you are. And "I don't understand it, so it must be fake" (which is what you've actually said) is not a valid argument.
Timmswindowfashions Timm "The first society that they tested TV was actually Nazi Germany from 35-45" Wow--what a surprise. You got your facts wrong. Again. The BBC began testing TV transmissions in 1926 using the Baird system. Test transmissions began in the US in 1927.
They landed on quite a slope. Apollo 14 was sloped worse than any other landing. It actually affected their ability to sleep, because they were slanted so badly.
I was just about to comment this when I noticed that landing right on the edge of a little crater that looks about 4 ft deep… wow maybe that could’ve killed them or stranded them if a landing leg went into that hole?
AIRBOYD My private pilot logbook shows that I departed KMLB (Melbourne Fl. Airport) on Jan 25, 1971 to Cape Kennedy. I have no other logbook records of any flights to Cape Kennedy other than this trip. However, my memory recalls I flew up the Indian River one night with three other buddies from Melbourne airport and we saw a Saturn V sitting on the launch pad with floodlights shining upon it. My logbook indicates a daytime flight for the above entry, but I recall floodlights so I may have made another trip at night in a different type of airplane. I may have flown past the Cape during another mission and didn't record it, however that would have been unlikely. But if my logbook is correct and I saw a Saturn V standing on that launch pad, would it have been correct to assume that Apollo 14 would have been erect on the pad on January 25, 1971, six days before it lifted off? Did they actually let the Saturn Vs sit there for six days before departure? If not, then I may not have adequately recorded my flight and observation. But that is unlikely that I recorded the wrong dates. I was always accurate about those things as a young pilot. I recall we took a C172 sometime during the two years I was a student at FIT (Florida Inst. of Tech.) from 1970-1972. I'm trying to figure out which Saturn V I flew outside the restriced area during that time. If the Saturn V was indeed allowed to stand at the launch pad for six days, then this was the ship (Apollo 14) I recorded in my log book. It makes some sense because I recall visiting the Cape and taking a tour of the VAB with my Dad while Apollo 13 was standing upright on the launch pad. This was before the school year began for the fall trimester of 1970. I remember saying: "I have a bad feeling about this one dad". He said "why son"? I said: " I don't like the number 13 and I'm superstitious about it". He chucked at me and thought I was just being a superstitious young teenager. I hope you can help me try and get my logbook, and thus my old memories correct. Thanks in advance.
QUOTE: "(Original Caption) Kennedy Space Center, Florida: Rollout of the Apollo 14 launch vehicle began at 6:30 A. Am EST, November 9." www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/kennedy-space-center-florida-rollout-of-the-apollo-14-news-photo/517428498 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_14_rollout_from_VAB.jpg
Yup. That's one of the consequences of having very small windows, and no way to see directly below you, let alone slightly behind. Both Apollo 14 and 15 landed on slanted ground, that was very close to the design limits for the acceptable liftoff angle. Still within the limits, but, barely.
The russian's actually tracked Apollo 11 with a satellite/probe that was orbiting the moon. There have been more than 50 unmanned missions many of which have sited the Apollo landing site, including missions from 5 other countries.
@@Iam_Dunn YOU SAID: "Scientists have been bouncing LASER’s off the moon since May, 1962." == You could be correct. But, there's a massive difference between the bounce-back you get from rocks and dust, vs. the bounce-back you get from the reflectors left by Apollo.
@@Iam_Dunn Saying "9 photons" means absolutely nothing. 9 photons different in what amount of time? 9 photons as opposed to how many? Back when I operated one of those laser ranging facilities that bounced lasers off of the moon back in the late 1970s, if I recall correctly, the bounce-back ratio was something like 20 to 1. If you aim the laser at dust and rock, you get [whatever, can't remember] bounce-back, and if you aim it at one of the Apollo reflectors, the bounce-back (quantity of photons) was around 20x greater. I truly don't remember the exact numbers, it's been too many decades, but saying "9 photons" is completely useless without any context for time and proportion.
Three rookies , that crew had 15 minutes space flight experience , Jim Lovell alone had almost 600 hours of flight experience when Apollo 13 had their famous call Houston we have a problem , now according to the rooster Apollo 13 commander should have been Gordon Copper and Lovell in command of Apollo 14 .
Yes, dummy. For the millionth time that this has been explained to you across countless video comments you've made, they didn't always have the 16mm film recording at real time speed. At regular speed, those canisters only last a couple of minutes. They often recorded at just a few frames per second to conserve film. And, when played back at full speed, yes, it looks "fake." Don't like it? Go look up the frame rate, and slow down your playback accordingly.
It was fucking hard then,it took 400000 people to work together...and now it is even harder because of all the sensitive digital high tech ...get educated and then maybe post a comment....
....Well, not on the Moon; that's for sure. We only were able to get to the Moon thanks to wars (cold and hot) and war machines. (Think of all of the rockets Wernher von Braun designed and developed. The only ones which were not weapons of war were the Saturn series of rockets. Even our first space launchers - the Redstone, the Atlas, and the Titan - were modified ICBMs.)...Most technological advance has been a product of the desire to kill each other.
Hopefully there's an alternate universe out there where space travel is revered on the same level as celebrity gossip and professional sports...because that sure isn't here.
11.50 after they let go of the flag it seems to wave as he walks towards the camera ? i know it would keep moving as theres no air but after the flag stops it seems to move on its own ?
The vibrations created from him moving away caused the flag to move. It eventually stops because of the bending and unbending of the fabric of the flag dissipates the energy.
Yeah, and it's weird that they repeated the exact same audio clip twice. I think he's saying "aboard radar" - like maybe the radar aboard the craft, and not the radar tracking from Earth. But, yeah, I'm not sure. It's not Shepard or Mitchell saying it, so we can't even look it up in the transcripts.
The flag wasn't like the ones we hang here on Earth. Those flags have wire frames to keep them from folding down. There is gravity on the moon but not much.
Who were these GUYS sitting around the table with the LURAIN (a portmantou word for "Lunar Terrain"!) as table cloth? See 16:58/29:00 to 17:03/29:00 to 17:06/29:00? What were they doing?
Dude the Russians knew about the Manhattan Project almost from day one, and movie producer Daryl Zanuck (one of the "Hollywood Colonels") got in trouble for blabbing about it at a Hollywood party a year before they dropped the bomb.
Bro, you're legally the most obvious troll I've ever seen on RUclips. It's so obvious you're trying to piss people off that it's not even funny. If you were subtle about it, it might be funny, but you've posted like 20 comments. It isn't funny. Just lame...
***** oh, thanks for that...have you seen the bill cooper 1/6 gravity on youtube..check it out if not, ..lot of interesting stuff in that ..thanks again
pay attention at 17:14 to 17:25 look at the glares of light that you see, there is unmistakably in this photo, two of them, but there is only 1 sun so how is there 2 different glares from two different light sources???
From 4:22/29:00 to 4:25/29:00 WHO? is that bare-backed "co-op" student -apprentice in the middle row between the 3rd and 4th computer-terminal panel? He's a Child of the 60's Revolution!
In the 1969 educational documentary: "Moonwalk One - Apollo 11 & The First Man on the Moon", at 4:03 there appears what MIGHT be construed as a SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE! (-Or possibly an inside joke?!?)
Авто/Мото
My claim to fame was that I was a part of the airlift recovery team of Apollo 14. I still have my orders and a few pictures. We flew to Pago Pago and picked up the astronauts and came back to the US. We took 2 C-141's. I had just turned 21.
@MichaelKingsfordGray not very nice huh....
Thank God someone picked them up, or I wouldn't have all of those pictures of the apollo program now, thanks for your service.....
@MichaelKingsfordGray Yes, at the same time, some people take the discussions way too far. Especially if conspiracies are connected to the event. Try having a civil discussion about 9/11, Apollo, Sandy Hook, Boston bombing, ISIS, White supremacists, etc. I 've met people who told me, "I would never engage these people using my real name "".It can go from a normal discussion to accusations and threats in a millisecond"
Thank you for your great work, Larry, I can only imagine losing the astronauts, not in the complexity of a rocket landing on a foreign body 250,000 miles from Earth and returning, but due to incompetent humans on a highly rehearsed water recovery,using multiple aircraft,ships,etc Being a part of the greatest technological wonder in the history of the human race had to make you feel good. Since this will the 50th anniversary in July, you should edit a little RUclips clip together with the photos, papers. Thanks for your service.
Tell us - how'd the astronauts enjoy circling around the earth for a week?
at this time of watching this video there's only 4 moonwalkers alive, Buss Aldrin, Dave Scott, Jack Scmitt and Charlie Duke.
To me they are all hero's and the reason I became an engineer.
To me Apollo was the greatest achievement of humankind thus far, and these damm fools who say it's a hoax are just people who hate this achievement.
Mark Meade People with limited intellect craving attention. Their world is an extremely small one devoid of imagination, curiosity, and critical thinking. Add to that the criminal lack of history education in schools and you end up with people like that.
The 4 moon walkers at the time were Neil Armstrong, Buzz aldrin, Charles “Pete” Conrad, and Alan Bean
It's Buzz not Buss. As for the hoaxtards there are a variety of reasons for their behavior. Some are willfully ignorant, some are gullible, others know its real but are just trolls or are trying to profit off the gullible ones. An so on and so forth, there are many different motives. They're all united in ignorance and arrogance though. Their stupidity makes for great entertainment though.
Indeed! Mankind's greatest moment !
@@thatplane3865 reread it "of all the men who walked on the moon only 4 are left"
I never get bored with these videos.
RIP Ed Mitchell; thank you for autographing my book, Andrew Chaikin's "A Man on the Moon." Will always cherish it.
jesus, you asked him to autograph SOMEONE ELSE'S BOOK?
You should put faith and praise like that to Jesus or God, instead of a government hoax that only makes you out to be a fool.
@@yomommaahotoo264 The faith is ours, Mr. (or Miss.) Ahotoo. Thank you.
@@dwmzmm Indeed your faith is yours for any belief, but unfortunately your faith in my government's corruption disguised as integrity adversely effects others by encouraging said government.
@@yomommaahotoo264 You said "my government's corruption," enlighten us, which country you from? It'll help in understanding the context of your previous two statements.
As a fan of the space program, I began recording the Apollo missions off the TV with my tape recorder starting with Apollo 14 (I was 12 at the time). (I have always remembered Alan Shepard's dialogue at 23:09 "Pitchover is good" and then the tone that followed. I thought it was so cool that I could hear a computer tone from a quarter of a million miles away on my TV!) Never did I imagine that one day I'd be talking to Edgar Mitchell in his living room about his adventures. But sure enough, I did, back in 2011 (we met through his website where he invited people to ask him questions about space and science. I became such a regular that he told me that he really enjoyed "our web dialogue," so I felt comfortable asking him if I could come and visit sometime. He said sure!). Afterward we went out and had lunch together. Quite a memorable day!
(BTW, even though Al and Ed didn't make it to the lip of Cone, they were able to retrieve ejecta from the base of the crater, which proved quite scientifically valuable.
So crazy. We have now lost the technology to go back. And NASA says we have to find a way for humans to go thru the earth magnetic fields. Aka van Allen belts. So crazy. How smart they were back then.
Awesome story
They're building all new equipment and have to test the craft, so it shouldn't be surprising that they want to see how the equipment behaves in the VAB and what kind of shielding it provides the crew. Also, the configuration of the VAB is not static. It moves and morphs over time so it would be foolish to assume that 50 year old data can be trusted today. By the way, the Earth's magnetic field, or any magnetic field, is not at all harmful to humans and is different from the VAB which is composed of charged particles.
@@gives_bad_advice Thanks. 🙂
@@spikenomoonwe didn't "lose" the technology. Idk where people come up with this stuff. We just don't have a Saturn V laying around to use. Plus with all it's outdated tech it would be really dumb to spend money making another one when we can put that time and effort into designing a new and improved one.
And we can get through the belts, we just want a safer way that astronauts can pass through it multiple times without being exposed every single mission. Each Apollo used new astronauts so that wasn't a problem. But if we want to build a base like is planned with Artemis then it needs to be better shielded than Apollo was.
Please do more research before parroting conspiracies by people who are clueless.
RIP Shepard, Roosa, and Mitchell.
RIP Chaffee, Grissom, and White.
RIP Edgar Mitchell. Lost one Apollo astronaut again. :(
+xt7b Well, they aren't getting younger any of them, so it's bound to happen. That's life, I guess. Still feels sad. I'm going out to look the moon tonight. I'll bring a glass of single malt and toast to the moon...and Ed.
@Bengt Handlebars Well, I actually met him once. That's why I bothered to open that bottle of GlenLivett.
He was very nice and polite and shook everybody's hand. Maybe because he was in a friendly environment.
Now, those videos you may be referring to - I have seen some of them too, and he isn't always at his nicest in some of them. I can agree to that. But that might have something to do with the interviewers approach, and let's face it - we all have our bad moments facing the world.
And of course - he had some odd opinions. He might have been a bit tired of people wanting to challenge him all the time, and I understand he was.
But I don't care. Ed Mitchell risked his life in service, he walked on the moon, he bothered to shake my hand. Being a space nerd like myself, that IS something.
He is still a great hero to me. :)
Alan Barlett Sheppard...1923-1998...rip
John Rogan died on my birth year
Good luck finding a narrator as good as John Flynn, since his voice is like the finest of music.
45 years ago today...
Ed Mitchell's obituary brought me here to this video. There's alot I didn't know about Apollo 14, other than Al Shepard golf game of course! For instance, I wasn't aware about the LM docking problems they had.
Fantastic saw the film Apollo IiI at the cinema
RIP Edgar Mitchell
Excellent. Just wanna thank you for sharing this!
Now there are only 7 moonwalkers left alive. Lunar Module pilot Edgar Mitchell landed "Antares" on the Moon and was one of the two moon walking astronauts of Apollo XIV. His partner on the lunar surface was Alan B. Shepard while Stuart A. Roosa orbited the Moon onboard "Kitty Hawk." #Respect #Legend #NASA #Apollo
I feel bad for Jim Lovell and Fred Haise (Apollo 13 astronauts). This was supposed to be their mission.
Swigert and Mattingly
Yeah, and you can see Fred Haise in mission control; presumably the capcom. I'd be choking back envy if I was him. :(
wow, I had no idea....... My mind is officially blown.....
Lightning Shy
Still, with Apollo 13 turning out as it did, Jim was in the right place when he was needed.
He is a great man.
Jack Sainthill And let's not forget that thanks to Mattingly, they wouldn't have been able to come up with the re-entry procedure.
Wonderful! Thanks for posting it!
unbelievable
lies are dumb
I dont believe it.
Exactly not at all believable
When the landing radar doesn't send a signal, the answer is to turn it off, and turn it on again. Rebooting seems so obvious to us today...
William Johnston
21st century technology in the 20th century! :)
+William Johnston If I recall the landing radar didn't work because it was in the OFF position while the crew was dealing with the abort switch failure and wasn't returned to the ON position during the landing procedure. When they were asked to recycle the switch they noticed the mistake. A similar incident occurred in the Apollo 10 lunar flyby that almost crashed the LEM on the lunar surface - Young flipped a switch to one side and Cernan flipped it back not knowing that Young already flipped it. Later investigation concluded that if the switch position was not corrected within 2-3 seconds they would have crashed.
Ah. Things do tend to work better when turned on. A good pro tip for us all. A further complication for that old equipment was that many of the toggles would physically "reset" if certain commands conflicted with them. So it is possible that a toggle that had been "on" would turn "off" on its own under certain circumstances. In either case, physically re-cycling the system would cure the problem.
Thank god Armstrong was at the controls of the first landing,a crash likely would of ended the program and a lesser pilot would of lost the craft.NASA learned a lot from Apollo 11,enough to make 5 more successful landing's.
@ @MichaelKingsfordGray LOL People Who Constantly Point Out Grammar Mistakes Are Pretty Much Jerks, Scientists Find
But you probably already knew that.LOL www.sciencealert.com/people-who-pick-up-grammar-mistakes-jerks-scientists-find
Great and amazing thanks for everything
This crew were the second assigned Apollo 13 crew then were moved to 14 as Alan Shepard had been out of the loop too long and Lovell's original 14 crew were moved to 13. The original Apollo 13 crew Gordon Cooper/Don Eisele/Edgar Mitchell were perfectly competent to fly that mission. Cooper was a Mercury/Gemini veteran, Eisele knew the spacecraft from his Apollo 7 shakedown mission and Mitchell was known in NASA as 'the brain.' Unfortunately when Shepard got his flight status back he pulled rank and his mate Deke Slayton assigned him to 13, Shepard even taking Mitchell with him as LMP. I think Slayton realised that if Shepard pulled it off it would give him ammunition to ask for a future mission if he ever regained his own flight status. Slayton was apparantly worried about Cooper's performance as backup Apollo 10 Commander and Eisele's marriage problems (although this had never been a problem with guys in the past) and that if Shepard wasn't qualified to fly then no one was. But I think this was probably all to justify his favour to Shepard. In the event Gordo and Eisele were shafted but hand it to 'Big Al', he did pull off Apollo 14.
Inspiring beyond words.
2:53....first time I've seen a clear picture of what the Saturn V actually sat on when on the pad.
Bravo! Thank you.
Awesome stuff.. thanks from NZ 👍
Loving that Aussie-American accent of old mate.
If you freeze the image at 9:22,down left corner, there's something casting a shadow on the surface..watch it.
It's a rock. All the Apollo landings took place at sites that were currently experiencing lunar morning. The sun was low in the sky and the LEM came in with the sun behind them. This was so that shadows would be cast by the rocks and crater rims, enabling the astronauts to see and avoid them.
Good comment, it looks like a sizeable standing structure like a big stone with a wide base then narrowing towards the top.
Look at these rocks! They are more like light grey than the other darker grey rocks. They can tell us some stuff about rocks. This is so exciting.
You think this is how geology works?
@@3gunslingers Ever heard of this thing called sarcasm?
@@Kalumbatsch
With all these hoaxes here on RUclips, I'm not taking any chances.
Great video
Wow 😮 amazing The great video .
This answered my question about if any other mercury astronauts besides Gus Grissom were in the Apollo program. Glad Sheppard got to go to the moon.
Mercury's 7 astronauts:
1) Shepard = Apollo 14 Commander (walked on the moon)
2) Grissom = Apollo 1 Commander (died in the fire)
3) Glenn = Did not participate in Apollo
4) Carpenter = Did not participate in Apollo
5) Schirra = Apollo 7 Commander (Earth orbit only)
6) Cooper = Fully trained backup commander of Apollo 10, but never actually flew on Apollo.
7) Slayton = Apollo/Soyuz Docking Module Pilot (Earth orbit only)
LOL seems like these guys had a lot of fun
Heróis para sempre.
Love the background music.
Funny to think that NASA didn't send a geologist till the last mission. They relied on the astronauts to describe what they were seeing.
Well, remember, when Apollo was originally being planned, there was no end to the program. It was theoretically just going to keep going and going. And, yeah, they had intended for the first 6 landings to just be experienced military test pilots in both the CDR role and the LMP role. As time went on, they established an end to Apollo, and then kept clipping that end back and back and back. Apollo 24, then Apollo 21, then Apollo 20, then Apollo 17 (if I remember the sequence exactly, which, maybe I don't... I'm getting old). So, until the final cut back to Apollo 17, the first geologist flight was supposed to be Apollo 18. But, they changed that, and put Jack Schmitt onto Apollo 17 instead (he was slated for 18). But, the point is, they had always planned to put more geologists up there, but the cutbacks changed that plan, and eventually it got cut back to the point that only one geologist ever went.
I thought all the Apollo astronauts were trained geologists ? Of course not as learned as a full geologist
Magnificent, isn't it? The epitome of a generation of Human engineering!
Year
More like a human FRAUD.
@@yomommaahotoo264 Yes, you are. Glad you admit it!
@@ilexgarodan Not just apollo 14, ALL of them were FRAUDS Shill.
@@yomommaahotoo264 Let me guess. You also think the world is flat.
This is from NASA. When the Sun flares, it produces x-rays, gamma-rays, and energetic particles. The energetic particles are the worst, but they are delayed compared to the X-rays and gamma-rays, so you have some warning that they are coming. This gives you time to get into a 'storm shelter', a well-shielded area that you can live in for a few days until the particles die down. A good place for a storm shelter would be in the center of the ship, surrounded by the water tanks.
7:15 Space Wars J/K... GREAT VIDEOS!
My great great uncle was an amazing man....
@MITCHELL LANDREY Stuart Roosa
Tim R.
Tim Roosa
I have this on VHS and always thought the music was really trippy.
+xelatonivs Yeah, these old NASA films have some really weird music at times. What can I say, it was the '60s...
Rossa steps onto the carrier in Chuck Taylors lol.
Many stations on Earth tracked Apollo missions using the Doppler effect to determine distance and location from Earth...I don't recall ever hearing the 10 percenters explaining how this could be faked..as the Doppler effect is a very efficient way of measuring distance and location...
I can think of 2 reasons why.
A.) They simply don't know about it.
B.) They do know about it, but they decide to ignore it because they can't think of a plausible explanation for it to be fake.
Edit: C.) Another one I just now thought of: They'll say that the people who tracked the space craft with that method were paid off by the government/free masons/illuminati/whatever secret organization that does a terrible job keeping itself as such and that all the data was made up.
I know you said it was a very efficiant way to track things but that doesn't stop conspiracy theorists, they'll always find some way to "disprove" any evidence that contradicts their claims.
pridakfan253 Most likely a combination of B and C. Conspiracy loons don't look at evidence the way normal people do. The loons look at something and say "Does it support the idea of a conspiracy?" If it does, then it's accepted as fact--if not, it's dismissed. That's the end of the thought process.
If you really push them, either a) you're a "sheep", because you don't blindly accept the conspiracy (thus proving they're also irony impaired), or b) everyone's part of "The Conspiracy". I once had a discussion with one of these nutters where, by the end, he was claiming that everyone who worked on the Apollo program was part of the conspiracy. Along with the Soviets. And the Japanese, who have photographed the landing sites. And the University of Arizona, who ran the LRO spacecraft that also photographed the sites.
And the British, who tracked the missions from Jodrell Bank. And every scientist and engineer who has looked at the data in the past 45 years.
All told, something like a million people would have had to be in on it, and the US government has kept an airtight seal on the thing for 45 years. This is the same US government that couldn't keep Watergate quiet for a month when a dozen people were "inside". But the way they look at things, if a conspiracy of a million people need to keep silent for nearly half a century in order for the conspiracy to be true, then that's what must have happened.
***** Exactly. Other than some military projects, the US government is crap when it comes to keeping things quiet
Timmswindowfashions Timm You do know that in the very early days of television, _everything_ was live, right? Since live feeds predate "real to real" (sic) technology, your first question is meaningless.
And the fact that you're unaware of that you can use the Doppler effect to determine those things just shows how ignorant of science you are. And "I don't understand it, so it must be fake" (which is what you've actually said) is not a valid argument.
Timmswindowfashions Timm "The first society that they tested TV was actually Nazi Germany from 35-45"
Wow--what a surprise. You got your facts wrong. Again. The BBC began testing TV transmissions in 1926 using the Baird system. Test transmissions began in the US in 1927.
Notice how close one of the LM's legs was to settling into a crator at 10:36. That could have really screwed them up!
They landed on quite a slope. Apollo 14 was sloped worse than any other landing. It actually affected their ability to sleep, because they were slanted so badly.
I was just about to comment this when I noticed that landing right on the edge of a little crater that looks about 4 ft deep… wow maybe that could’ve killed them or stranded them if a landing leg went into that hole?
nice! :)
Hard to believe they brought a mortar with them. But if you are already riding rockets I guess it is no more dangerous.
AIRBOYD My private pilot logbook shows that I departed KMLB (Melbourne Fl. Airport) on Jan 25, 1971 to Cape Kennedy. I have no other logbook records of any flights to Cape Kennedy other than this trip. However, my memory recalls I flew up the Indian River one night with three other buddies from Melbourne airport and we saw a Saturn V sitting on the launch pad with floodlights shining upon it. My logbook indicates a daytime flight for the above entry, but I recall floodlights so I may have made another trip at night in a different type of airplane. I may have flown past the Cape during another mission and didn't record it, however that would have been unlikely.
But if my logbook is correct and I saw a Saturn V standing on that launch pad, would it have been correct to assume that Apollo 14 would have been erect on the pad on January 25, 1971, six days before it lifted off? Did they actually let the Saturn Vs sit there for six days before departure?
If not, then I may not have adequately recorded my flight and observation. But that is unlikely that I recorded the wrong dates. I was always accurate about those things as a young pilot.
I recall we took a C172 sometime during the two years I was a student at FIT (Florida Inst. of Tech.) from 1970-1972. I'm trying to figure out which Saturn V I flew outside the restriced area during that time. If the Saturn V was indeed allowed to stand at the launch pad for six days, then this was the ship (Apollo 14) I recorded in my log book.
It makes some sense because I recall visiting the Cape and taking a tour of the VAB with my Dad while Apollo 13 was standing upright on the launch pad. This was before the school year began for the fall trimester of 1970. I remember saying: "I have a bad feeling about this one dad". He said "why son"? I said: " I don't like the number 13 and I'm superstitious about it". He chucked at me and thought I was just being a superstitious young teenager.
I hope you can help me try and get my logbook, and thus my old memories correct. Thanks in advance.
QUOTE: "(Original Caption) Kennedy Space Center, Florida: Rollout of the Apollo 14 launch vehicle began at 6:30 A. Am EST, November 9."
www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/kennedy-space-center-florida-rollout-of-the-apollo-14-news-photo/517428498
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I can’t believe how close that landing leg is to that deep crater at 10:37 surely that’s a potential doom missed by mere inches ?
Yup. That's one of the consequences of having very small windows, and no way to see directly below you, let alone slightly behind. Both Apollo 14 and 15 landed on slanted ground, that was very close to the design limits for the acceptable liftoff angle. Still within the limits, but, barely.
what thay show in studio all kind :) can not ever never mouve a metr far away further than more
It was quite good!
What a great video! Is there someplace I can d/l a high quality version of this?
Edgar Mitchell is a hero.
He is lying pos hope he is rotting in hell
Check out the nozzle,it was designed to crush,after damaging it on a prior landing.
They didn't show the Shepherd's golf swing!
You mean this?
ruclips.net/video/2XhkNj2uyuM/видео.html
@@pascalxavier3367 During which EVA did the golf shots and javelin toss happen?
@@suds5214 They happened in the closeout of second EVA.
Neil Amstrong and Edwin Aldrin,Michel Collins,bawa Apollo 11 th 1969 😋🙏👋
The russian's actually tracked Apollo 11 with a satellite/probe that was orbiting the moon.
There have been more than 50 unmanned missions many of which have sited the Apollo landing site, including missions from 5 other countries.
This is the silliest story ever to,d
STHU "truther"
I love how the flag was flapping in the wind considered there is no wind on the moon
Why do you think that it was flapping in the wind?
it wasnt
@D MAC please tell us when to see this "flapping." DIDN'T HAPPEN.
Repeating as a parrot.
A little research would have told you that it was designed to look like it was flapping with a rod across the top.
I'd love to hear the soundtrack to the movie "Forbidden Planet" with this video.
You made Al !
Also you project a laser to the moon and get a reflection back from the mirrors that where placed by Apollo 11, 12, 14, 16, and 17.
No. They only brought reflectors on Apollos 11, 14, and 15.
Scientists have been bouncing LASER’s off the moon since May, 1962.
@@Iam_Dunn
YOU SAID: "Scientists have been bouncing LASER’s off the moon since May, 1962."
== You could be correct. But, there's a massive difference between the bounce-back you get from rocks and dust, vs. the bounce-back you get from the reflectors left by Apollo.
rockethead7 ...9 photons difference... 9... photons! (But I rack that up to better LASER signals these days.)
@@Iam_Dunn
Saying "9 photons" means absolutely nothing. 9 photons different in what amount of time? 9 photons as opposed to how many? Back when I operated one of those laser ranging facilities that bounced lasers off of the moon back in the late 1970s, if I recall correctly, the bounce-back ratio was something like 20 to 1. If you aim the laser at dust and rock, you get [whatever, can't remember] bounce-back, and if you aim it at one of the Apollo reflectors, the bounce-back (quantity of photons) was around 20x greater. I truly don't remember the exact numbers, it's been too many decades, but saying "9 photons" is completely useless without any context for time and proportion.
Three rookies , that crew had 15 minutes space flight experience , Jim Lovell alone had almost 600 hours of flight experience when Apollo 13 had their famous call Houston we have a problem , now according to the rooster Apollo 13 commander should have been Gordon Copper and Lovell in command of Apollo 14 .
Is the footage of the lm docking with the command module supposed to be actual footage?
Yes, dummy. For the millionth time that this has been explained to you across countless video comments you've made, they didn't always have the 16mm film recording at real time speed. At regular speed, those canisters only last a couple of minutes. They often recorded at just a few frames per second to conserve film. And, when played back at full speed, yes, it looks "fake." Don't like it? Go look up the frame rate, and slow down your playback accordingly.
rockethead7 ...Why is no propellant exhaust ever evident from the RCS thrusters?
That's a pretty jazzy CE3K piece in the middle...
If it happened then it would easy now..
Your comment shows that you know nothing about history of space exploration.
@@bjooo Who what when where why...
@@galactock Go check why they canceled apollo 18 19 and 20.
It was fucking hard then,it took 400000 people to work together...and now it is even harder because of all the sensitive digital high tech ...get educated and then maybe post a comment....
Just Amazing,I can only think where we all would be,without wars,poverty,disease.Trillions of dollars wasted on a war machines.
....Well, not on the Moon; that's for sure.
We only were able to get to the Moon thanks to wars (cold and hot) and war machines. (Think of all of the rockets Wernher von Braun designed and developed. The only ones which were not weapons of war were the Saturn series of rockets. Even our first space launchers - the Redstone, the Atlas, and the Titan - were modified ICBMs.)...Most technological advance has been a product of the desire to kill each other.
The greatest adventure of all mankind and it only has 100,000 views?
Hopefully there's an alternate universe out there where space travel is revered on the same level as celebrity gossip and professional sports...because that sure isn't here.
well said,its so important,the technology ,products,medical breakthroughs,we have much to gain from exploring the heavens.
Now that we know the lunar missions were a complete fraud, there's no need to watch these anymore. It's embarrassing.
Now that we know you are a fucking moron, we can ignore everything you say, you're embarassing
There is always someone who somehow has "facts" that no one else has. Then they try to decide what the rest of us "know".
whats the name of the song at the very end?
11.50 after they let go of the flag it seems to wave as he walks towards the camera ? i know it would keep moving as theres no air but after the flag stops it seems to move on its own ?
The vibrations created from him moving away caused the flag to move. It eventually stops because of the bending and unbending of the fabric of the flag dissipates the energy.
Daniel Clift movie studio air conditioners!
Although not possible, most will buy the explanation that it was caused by the astronauts movement.
I wonder why they didn't show Alan Shepard hitting golf balls on the moon.I guess it wasn't that important,but I remember it.
I have extensive training in mechanical engineering with some emphasis in chemistry and nuclear sciences.
8:02, 8:05 I'm not sure, did the astronaut say "the / a boden radar... boden radar"? Or what did he say?
Yeah, and it's weird that they repeated the exact same audio clip twice. I think he's saying "aboard radar" - like maybe the radar aboard the craft, and not the radar tracking from Earth. But, yeah, I'm not sure. It's not Shepard or Mitchell saying it, so we can't even look it up in the transcripts.
Sheppard gave my aunt Vicky a suborbital birthday present on May 5, 1961.
The flag wasn't like the ones we hang here on Earth. Those flags have wire frames to keep them from folding down. There is gravity on the moon but not much.
That system looks more safe than the the one they are using now. Many accidents and deaths since then.
Who were these GUYS sitting around the table with the LURAIN (a portmantou word for "Lunar Terrain"!) as table cloth? See 16:58/29:00 to 17:03/29:00 to 17:06/29:00? What were they doing?
Dude the Russians knew about the Manhattan Project almost from day one, and movie producer Daryl Zanuck (one of the "Hollywood Colonels") got in trouble for blabbing about it at a Hollywood party a year before they dropped the bomb.
Where was all that equipment stored? Did they bring a uhaul to the desert#ARIZONA
Bro, you're legally the most obvious troll I've ever seen on RUclips. It's so obvious you're trying to piss people off that it's not even funny.
If you were subtle about it, it might be funny, but you've posted like 20 comments. It isn't funny. Just lame...
@18.29 what is that???
+TheJahsoldier1 They had a pull cart called the MET (Modular Equipment Transporter). Those are the tracks it made while they pulled it along.
***** oh, thanks for that...have you seen the bill cooper 1/6 gravity on youtube..check it out if not, ..lot of interesting stuff in that ..thanks again
Love the descent procedure starting @ 8:25
I rest my case!
Is the other narrator Robin Brett?
23:30 absolute laugh
Incredible that people still lap all this up
@@truthfulfreedomfighter9123 how do you mean?
Great historical footage, a lot of smoking.
6th time's a charm
pay attention at 17:14 to 17:25 look at the glares of light that you see, there is unmistakably in this photo, two of them, but there is only 1 sun so how is there 2 different glares from two different light sources???
Glory of the past .
11 years the Views of this video 310K. if real would be in the million's. Hello McFly ❣️
Que bem trouxe isso para nós?
Can't hear it
Who is the Australian geologist
talking/
@RingoFreakingStarr No, its him moving the flag pole around, watch the mythbusters episode about it
It is what gives the impression that Mitchell talks at this moment...but according to the descriptions his speech is garbled.
Bartlett
2020. And we still can't go back.
Wtf ?
We can.
Just need the $$$.
We went back five times in three years. Not good enough for you?
We can. We arent.
Been there, got the tee shirt and tote bag. No justification to further repeat the mission risking a fatal accident for so little gain.
Yeah..Explain exactly what that has to do with blocking and attenuating the radiation in space?
You'd have to go fly up to the Moon in the Fra Mauro highlands and get it.
From 4:22/29:00 to 4:25/29:00 WHO? is that bare-backed "co-op" student -apprentice in the middle row between the 3rd and 4th computer-terminal panel? He's a Child of the 60's Revolution!
He's actually wearing a tan coloured shirt
Fra Nauro??
Yours must surely have been if you think that a telescope could see the footprints of the astronauts on the moon.
All them smart ppl all looking at a data sheet with numbers! (Easy simulation) Cameras are to heavy to put on the tin can
In the 1969 educational documentary: "Moonwalk One - Apollo 11 & The First Man on the Moon", at 4:03 there appears what MIGHT be construed as a SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE! (-Or possibly an inside joke?!?)