It's such a shame that most people aren't really excited like this about space these days. The drive and ambition we see in this story is truly astonishing, and inspiring. It's one of those things that you feel you could get behind, politically. As a taxpayer, I wish I could directly put my chips right into a pot like this.
@@drutalero2962 I totally agree with that, he's amazing. I saw that video where he talks about the old astronauts not supporting SpaceX...that was heartbreaking.
@@EricMalette I agree but to be fair, that was filmed around 2010/11, my sadness is that Armstrong and Cernan did not live to see where Space X is now, or at least when the crewed Dragon flew. I suspect they would have been much more positive about Space X.
@@grahambuckerfield4640 the thing is though is that their comments were not forward thinking like an astronaut's 'can do' attitude should be. They were likely bogged down by political ties or otherwise very unimaginative beliefs.
@@EricMalette I guess they had just lobbied for and lost with Constellation, to be fair never properly funded and with the dubious Ares 1 system. Then to them, this kid is touted as part of the future, whose company had yet to launch anything significant. I was not convinced until the Falcon 9 and Dragon had done plenty of launches to ISS, then the first stage recovery, then of course, what Robert Zubrin called 'a shot heard around the world', Falcon Heavy. Just prior to that when Musk was unveiling his initial Starship, he said 'it's 2017, why haven't we got a Moonbase?' Since then he's moved with a speed to rival Apollo, NASA are on board but to my point, Armstrong saw none of this, Cernan missed Crew Dragon by three years and Falcon Heavy by months. They would have seen many proposals, animations but nothing beats seeing the real thing launch. Any Astronaut wants to see that to prove credibility. But they were far from the only ones to not see this coming, none of the wider space business and those covering it did, nor did plenty at NASA.
After watching so much of your Apollo documentaries I still struggle to believe this isn't made by a professional company. Absolute best of the documentaries on Apollo that exist hands down.
Excellent job, as always, by Homemade Documentaries. Apollo 10 is a gem of human accomplishment that is squeezed out of the history books between the dramatic Christmas Eve Apollo 8, and the ultimate achievement of Apollo 11. Tom Stafford was the perfect person to command it. Whereas John Young and Gene Cernan would go on to the moon's surface in Apollos 16 and 17, Stafford was perfectly satisfied and proud to have come so close. Take stock of the fact that Tom Stafford's mother traveled as a child in a covered wagon to her family's Oklahoma homestead and her son traveled in the Lunar Module to within 10 miles of the moon. That underscores the spectacular acceleration of the pace of change in our time. Also profound is that John Young, during portions of his Command Module orbits when he was behind the moon and also out of contact with Stafford and Gene Cernan orbiting on the front side, was the first human being in history to be totally alone -- with no contact of any sort with Earth or any other person. As you noted, so many firsts on this mission.
Thanks for using some Cronkite dubs. He was as much a part of these journeys as were the astronauts themselves. You’ve done such a nice job of returning me to those days in memory. I have so many positive emotions and gratitude for this work. Thank you X10. But, I’d like to add that the NASA news coverage was mostly a +10 back in the day. Today, NASA seems to like young people who do not seem to have pre-requisite knowledge of the vehicles, nor missions. The announcers are ill-informed, NASA allows this today? It’s such a shock to see and hear, when compared to this marvelous history.
Your documentaries are fantastic. Narration is great and highly informative. Thanks so much for putting together these historical documentaries. I lived through this incredible adventure of project Apollo while my dad was working at the Antigua tracking station. He was a technician and talked directly with the astronauts and received their telemetry data while on the moon. Even though I was only age 10, I remember being showed around the tracking station facility and being amazed at what I saw. So much so that it inspired me to become an aerospace engineer myself, and I just retired from Boeing after a long engineering career working on many interesting missile and spacecraft projects over the last 35 years. I thoroughly enjoy watching your space history documentaries.
19:10 spoken like a true naval aviator. Couldn't watch this without tearing up a bit, what an amazing documentary, thank you so much. Got so curious about Apollo 10 after watching For All Mankind, these docs made me fall even more in love with the whole mission.
Apollo 10 is quite often forgotten in the history books due to being a dress rehearsal for Apollo 11. Its greatest achievement was giving NASA engineers the confidence to green-light a landing attempt several months later.
16:09: I find the footage with the earth shaking so fascinating, because it looks much more dramatic and real than seeing static pictures. I find it still mind boggling that some humans had this incredible view of planet earth. The overview effect is a deep emotional reaction reported by astronauts/cosmonauts when seeing the earth as it is. I find also this video footage triggering a similar effect, although for sure not as intense. Still, pictures of earth were used to alleviate mental illnesses. Imagine that we could improve humanity with pictures from our planet earth. Maybe it is a good idea to mandatorily expose every politician regularly to it.
Its great to hear the experiences of these pioneers of space, it was such an exciting time for mankind.I can't help but feel we have lots our way a bit since then. Awesome documentary!
I absolutely love your videos. They are superbly made, beautiful, engaging and really really informative. For me, way above documentaries made for Discovery Science, or most for Nat Geo. Not overly dramatized, not bombarded by loud 'movie' soundtrack. Really excellent. Well done friend! Stay safe!
They said there was only seven months left to land a man on the Moon to meet JFK's goal of putting a man on the Moon before the decade was out. Technically, they had 19 months, because decades, like centuries, start on the 1 year and not on the zero year. The decade was 1961 through 1970.
You've done a great job of re-accessing a wide variety of film sources that have surfaced over decades and then written a fresh, concise narrative from what has to be hundreds of source materials.
I've no idea why you don't have way more subs and views, your content is fantastic - thank you. Thanks to the YT algorithm for randomly bringing me here.
Superb as ever. I think I am very knowledgeable/obsessed with the Apollo Program yet I always learn more from these documentaries. When in London, do visit the Science Museum since Apollo 10's CM is an exhibit.
Last week I visited the Science Museum in London (to see the Electric record breaking NXT plane as I was part of the build team) sitting next to it is the Apollo 10 capsule. Try as I might it was hard to picture everything this capsule had been through. Your wonderful documentary has brought it all to life thank you!
Another great documentary. I have DVDs of The Mighty Saturns 1, 1B & V. Also Apollo 11 mission. But nothing on the other missions. So your videos are brilliant, thank you!😊
Gracias Jackson por estos vídeos de las misiones Apolo, me encantan ¡¡¡¡ Desde niño soñaba con estas misiones y todo lo que rodea a un entrenamiento, montaje, vuelo, alunizaje, regreso, etc. Gracias desde España, ciudad Badajoz.
So amazing. What a pioneering marvel that era was for the US, for the world. Man kind pushing past the very limits of materials, engineering & technology. What a huge astronomical bound it was for humans in history. Absolutely incredible also were the minds that came together to make it happen. I’ve watched so many space history documentaries but they never get old, & I’m always left in awe. Alll the obstacles that needed to be overcome, just phenomenal. I wish we, as a country, were as proud now as we were then to be the USA. What’s really ridiculous is to see all the ignorance that plagues ppl today. The ones that think they have a valid argument the Earth is flat and/or the moon landing was faked…omg, it’s to bad they’re that stupid & will never understand how great history really is.
End-of-mission text has a spelling error that’s actually a holdover from the previous vid...when I made this remaster, I focused on improving quality and totally missed the fact that I had misspelled that in the first place! Correction 1: The LM prograde burn was, in fact, part of the flight plan.
Witnessing Apollo 10's TLI from Brisbane (Australia), I was struck by the delicacy and size of the bell-shaped gossamer exhaust plume from the S-IVB engine. No discernable acceleration, just a stately and commanding progress across the black sky, disappearing into the eastern horizon.
6:22 I like the touch of humour in the editing. The astronauts are pictured casually walking along the gang-planking to the spaceship as the commentary says "We are coming up on the 60 second mark."
Though your docs are good, they’re even better using the “ When We Left Earth” music lol! The detail here & in the other ones you’ve done...superb! My new faves & footage i’ve never seen & i’ve seen a lot!... great work Homemade Documentaries!
0:27 Oh God, I can only imagine what would've happened if the _first_ landing ended up falling on Apollo 13, and what happened to them happened under _those_ circumstances... And someday, somehow, they'll find _Snoopy_ again. And hopefully, bring him home.
The malfunction may of not happened at all. It was a defect with the oxygen tank made by human error at that exact point in time. If Apollo 13 launched at a different time it would be conceivable that different engineers would be working on it. You should watch “For All Mankind” they do a lot of what ifs on the show and do a good job with it.
Again, are you SURE you’re not a professional documentary filmmaker? Because these documentaries are THAT GOOD! I REALLY think these belong in the Smithsonian Institute’s archives. Nice job!
I agree with cernan whilst he wasn't in the first 2 to land he got close enough on 10 and then on 17 got 3 days on the moon and is remembered as the last man on the moon. RIP
What on Earth went flying by the LEM at 22:47? It was filmed from the command module window. Looked like a white cover of some sort, or maybe some sort of ice chunk.
The basic technologies that make spaceflight possible have not changed in the past 50 years. We’ve simply made existing technologies more efficient and more heavily computerized their operation. I find a similar misconception in the term “military grade”. It’s a meaningless marketing tool. Anyone in the know recognizes that military anything is anything BUT a mark of quality.
The only comment I have is that many people tends to believe that the CMP is the third member of the crew and that is not correct, the CMP is the second in command in every Apollo mission, the LMP never actually flew the LM, I believe, and I’m not sure that the only LMP that flew the LM was Alan Bean, commander Conrad allowed Bean to fly when out of the reach of mission control, any way the point is the CMP was the second in command.
Your documentaries are exactly what used to be on history channel and it's amazing. i LOVE your documentaries. Keep up the great work. Do u have a patreon?
at 0.25x speed it doesn't seem dust or any kind of dirt on negative, that's for sure. Some sort of scratch, maybe, something external to the film, imho Edit. I think at #28:36 you'll get the answer
21:21 I've read and heard the crew audio before but never really gotten an explanation as to why this happened until now. And it sounds like a legit event.
I have read in more than one place that NASA deliberately shorted the fuel to make it impossible for them to descend to the tantalizingly close lunar surface. It is nice to hear that the astronauts agreed that the flight should not have been more than a test flight.
It hits me every time to see these pictures of our planet and to think that there are people out there that kill them selfs to proof that the earth is flat. I suppose it is like president Kennedy said. The more we gain knowledge the more ignorant we become. Good work of this docu.
I'm gradually working my way through all of your incredible videos, not in the right order! Can I ask, how many hours footage does this Apollo series contain in total? Seems a phenomenal amount of video here, and so so important as a historical record. I've said it before but everyone on this planet needs to watch these videos, they put so much into perspective and they also render anyone's misguided view that the moon landings were faked to be utterly ridiculous. Absolutely superb work, you deserve a medal for services to humanity! 🙌👏👏👏
"Snoopy is still out there; an icy relic of the Golden Age of Space Flight." I csnt help but wonder if it is possible to reciew old apollo x data, figure out where snoppy was, calculate the thrust, and with that... the orbit it might be on.
As always I am blown away by your video. As the CM and LM dock something passes outside the window. I assume it must be something coming off the LM. Check it out. It runs from 22:46-22:48. Any thoughts?
I am NOT getting a cut, and rely exclusively on the Patreon for income -- I am sorry you are having to sit through commercials, but that's just the nature of YT nowadays. I have no skin in the game if you decide to use adblockers...
I think for reporter's sake, it's good enough. Besides, the speed difference between the Apollo TLI trajectory (which was slightly artificially energized to ensure an LOI of between 73 and 80 hours -- a minimum-energy TLI would result in an LOI of closer to 96-100 hours) was only 128 MPH. Avg. Orbital velocity (145x145km): 17,566 mph/7852 m/s avg. Apollo TLI peak velocity @ cutoff: 24,505 mph/10954 m/s minimum Earth escape: 24,633 mph/11011 m/s Yes, with the Moon's influence, the trajectory was a free-return. But tack on another measly 100 mph, and remove the Moon -- and it'd be an Earth escape. I'd call that close enough!
@@JacksonTyler I did not know Earth escape is that low. If the moon did not exist, how long would the standard TLI orbit take to return/fall back to Earth in total? If you did add that extra 100, would that truly enter a solar orbit?
It was slightly confusing to have the CSM named Charlie Brown and Charlie Duke as CAPCOM. I would have thought NASA would have insisted on coming up with more easily distinguishable names.
It was the crews that christened them. Having also had to endure Gumdrop and Spider in the previous mission, Charlie Brown and Snoopy was the last straw prompting NASA management to overrule the practice.
Likely ice. The CSM fuel cells produced something on the order of 70 gallons of potable water during a two week mission, And some of this water had to be dumped overboard and/or sublimated through the radiators. Ice films tended to form over these radiators, and during times of spacecraft movement such as docking or burns when thrusters were firing and imparting acceleration forces on the spacecraft, this ice could be shaken loose.
Those are called Quindar tones. The beep was a signal from the capcom (in houston) to the transmitter (which could be on the other side of the world) to switch the transmitter on/off.
Too many astronauts, too little flights! I'm sure he wanted to, and there was conjecture that he would have commanded one of the cancelled missions. But I think like Lovell, he saw the writing on the wall. While he didn't declare A10 to be his last flight as Lovell did with 13, he certainly wasn't in active rotation seeking a crew assignment until Apollo was done. He'd fly into space with that old timer Deke Slayton in 1975.
@@JacksonTyler Saved everybody's lives in 1975 on the way home, I just wonder if he wanted to delay to walk on the moon. John Young could have commanded 10 as well, yet he got to walk on 16 as commander, same for Scott and Lovell
Stafford flew as commander of the last Apollo mission, the Apollo Soyuz Test Project in 1975, with Deke Slayton and Vance Brand, which linked up with Russians Alexei Leonov and Valery Kubasov
@@SuperMagnetizer On a road trip in July 2020, I stopped at the Stafford Air and Space Museum in Oklahoma. It is first rate, with a large number of amazing displays related to Apollo, Apollo/Soyuz, and many other things. Everything from exchanged gifts from the Russians, to original bits of the Wright Flyer taken to the moon and back by Armstrong. And some good-sized Apollo/Soyuz hardware autographed by everyone you mentioned. I hadn't been expecting the museum's quality and diversity of displays to be on par with the Smithsonian, but basically, they were.
I should do Apollo 1! 2 and 3 were cancelled, and 4-5-6 are unmanned test flights that probably should all be grouped into a single video. I did cover them under “Early Apollo” but it deserves a new look. My older videos are...rough around the edges. I should also do a remaster of Apollo 7, but there is an older video on that flight at my channel, too.
Another great documentary. I have a dvd of Apollo 11 (Spacecraft Films), but nothing on the other missions. I also got dvd of Saturn V (The Mighty Saturns), so I've got the launches of every Saturn V from Apollo 4 to 17. I will be watching more of the missions. Thanks.
@@JacksonTyler Apollo 2 (aka AS-203) launched on July 5, 1966 and Apollo 3 (aka AS-202) launched on August 25, 1966. Both used the Saturn 1B launch vehicle. Apollo 2 was a test of the CM's heat shield in Earth orbit, and Apollo 3 tested the integrity of the heat shield during re-entry. 🙂
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I can't recommend these documentaries highly enough. They are superb
It's such a shame that most people aren't really excited like this about space these days. The drive and ambition we see in this story is truly astonishing, and inspiring. It's one of those things that you feel you could get behind, politically. As a taxpayer, I wish I could directly put my chips right into a pot like this.
I think elon musk is starting to turn that around. It's pretty awesome to see.
@@drutalero2962 I totally agree with that, he's amazing. I saw that video where he talks about the old astronauts not supporting SpaceX...that was heartbreaking.
@@EricMalette I agree but to be fair, that was filmed around 2010/11, my sadness is that Armstrong and Cernan did not live to see where Space X is now, or at least when the crewed Dragon flew. I suspect they would have been much more positive about Space X.
@@grahambuckerfield4640 the thing is though is that their comments were not forward thinking like an astronaut's 'can do' attitude should be. They were likely bogged down by political ties or otherwise very unimaginative beliefs.
@@EricMalette I guess they had just lobbied for and lost with Constellation, to be fair never properly funded and with the dubious Ares 1 system.
Then to them, this kid is touted as part of the future, whose company had yet to launch anything significant. I was not convinced until the Falcon 9 and Dragon had done plenty of launches to ISS, then the first stage recovery, then of course, what Robert Zubrin called 'a shot heard around the world', Falcon Heavy.
Just prior to that when Musk was unveiling his initial Starship, he said 'it's 2017, why haven't we got a Moonbase?'
Since then he's moved with a speed to rival Apollo, NASA are on board but to my point, Armstrong saw none of this, Cernan missed Crew Dragon by three years and Falcon Heavy by months. They would have seen many proposals, animations but nothing beats seeing the real thing launch. Any Astronaut wants to see that to prove credibility.
But they were far from the only ones to not see this coming, none of the wider space business and those covering it did, nor did plenty at NASA.
As a long time space aficionado, I have to say that these are BY FAR the very best out there. You won’t be disappointed.
After watching so much of your Apollo documentaries I still struggle to believe this isn't made by a professional company. Absolute best of the documentaries on Apollo that exist hands down.
Excellent job, as always, by Homemade Documentaries. Apollo 10 is a gem of human accomplishment that is squeezed out of the history books between the dramatic Christmas Eve Apollo 8, and the ultimate achievement of Apollo 11. Tom Stafford was the perfect person to command it. Whereas John Young and Gene Cernan would go on to the moon's surface in Apollos 16 and 17, Stafford was perfectly satisfied and proud to have come so close.
Take stock of the fact that Tom Stafford's mother traveled as a child in a covered wagon to her family's Oklahoma homestead and her son traveled in the Lunar Module to within 10 miles of the moon. That underscores the spectacular acceleration of the pace of change in our time.
Also profound is that John Young, during portions of his Command Module orbits when he was behind the moon and also out of contact with Stafford and Gene Cernan orbiting on the front side, was the first human being in history to be totally alone -- with no contact of any sort with Earth or any other person.
As you noted, so many firsts on this mission.
I know it takes a lot to make these videos, but pls dont stop, you reignited my love and passion for space exploration and our history with it
The fact that they played "Houston" by Dean Martin is just badass. Absolutely perfect choice of music. I suspect John Young was behind that one.
Your documentaries just started popping up on my CZcams recently. They're outstanding. Informative and entertaining. Thanks!
Thanks for using some Cronkite dubs. He was as much a part of these journeys as were the astronauts themselves. You’ve done such a nice job of returning me to those days in memory. I have so many positive emotions and gratitude for this work. Thank you X10. But, I’d like to add that the NASA news coverage was mostly a +10 back in the day. Today, NASA seems to like young people who do not seem to have pre-requisite knowledge of the vehicles, nor missions. The announcers are ill-informed, NASA allows this today? It’s such a shock to see and hear, when compared to this marvelous history.
Your documentaries are fantastic. Narration is great and highly informative. Thanks so much for putting together these historical documentaries. I lived through this incredible adventure of project Apollo while my dad was working at the Antigua tracking station. He was a technician and talked directly with the astronauts and received their telemetry data while on the moon. Even though I was only age 10, I remember being showed around the tracking station facility and being amazed at what I saw. So much so that it inspired me to become an aerospace engineer myself, and I just retired from Boeing after a long engineering career working on many interesting missile and spacecraft projects over the last 35 years. I thoroughly enjoy watching your space history documentaries.
19:10 spoken like a true naval aviator.
Couldn't watch this without tearing up a bit, what an amazing documentary, thank you so much.
Got so curious about
Apollo 10 after watching For All Mankind, these docs made me fall even more in love with the whole mission.
Apollo 10 is quite often forgotten in the history books due to being a dress rehearsal for Apollo 11. Its greatest achievement was giving NASA engineers the confidence to green-light a landing attempt several months later.
16:09: I find the footage with the earth shaking so fascinating, because it looks much more dramatic and real than seeing static pictures. I find it still mind boggling that some humans had this incredible view of planet earth. The overview effect is a deep emotional reaction reported by astronauts/cosmonauts when seeing the earth as it is. I find also this video footage triggering a similar effect, although for sure not as intense. Still, pictures of earth were used to alleviate mental illnesses. Imagine that we could improve humanity with pictures from our planet earth. Maybe it is a good idea to mandatorily expose every politician regularly to it.
there are many more "nauts" out there, ill name a few, taikonauts, vyomonauts etc
@@santhoshkurian7965 Did you get what he was trying to say? If so, your comment is kind of rude. He didn’t mean to start any political war here.
Its great to hear the experiences of these pioneers of space, it was such an exciting time for mankind.I can't help but feel we have lots our way a bit since then. Awesome documentary!
This should have millions of views what a brilliant documentary!
I absolutely love your videos. They are superbly made, beautiful, engaging and really really informative. For me, way above documentaries made for Discovery Science, or most for Nat Geo. Not overly dramatized, not bombarded by loud 'movie' soundtrack. Really excellent. Well done friend! Stay safe!
I'm really glad you like them. Boy am I cooking up one hell of a video right now. I hope all of you enjoy the Season 6 finale!!
@@JacksonTyler looking forward to it! ✌👍
My second time watching this document and even better then first time. Thanks for your great work 📡🇫🇮
What good fortune to have been born and lived thru this era in real time
It was
i cant get enough of this, i am watching these documentaries up and down, again and again!
They said there was only seven months left to land a man on the Moon to meet JFK's goal of putting a man on the Moon before the decade was out. Technically, they had 19 months, because decades, like centuries, start on the 1 year and not on the zero year. The decade was 1961 through 1970.
I love these documentaries. I grew up in this time with a scientist, astronomer and engineer for an older brother.
Thank you for all this work you've done, hours and hours of moving, informative entertainment 💪🏼💪🏼
You've done a great job of re-accessing a wide variety of film sources that have surfaced over decades and then written a fresh, concise narrative from what has to be hundreds of source materials.
Thank you! Yeah, that pretty much sums up the job.
I've no idea why you don't have way more subs and views, your content is fantastic - thank you. Thanks to the YT algorithm for randomly bringing me here.
I’m so happy that I finally found your channel
12:15 FLYY MEEE TO THE MOON
Terrific- absolutely love your work. 🙏😀👏
Excellent. Thank you for taking the time to make and place on here for the rest of us.
My pleasure
Superb as ever. I think I am very knowledgeable/obsessed with the Apollo Program yet I always learn more from these documentaries.
When in London, do visit the Science Museum since Apollo 10's CM is an exhibit.
They are all such amazing documentaries. Always the craftsman, which is an admirable trait in any human. Be well and stay safe.
These documentaries have really captured the dramatic feelings I get whenever I'm learning about space stuff.
All your documents are great man, thanks
Last week I visited the Science Museum in London (to see the Electric record breaking NXT plane as I was part of the build team) sitting next to it is the Apollo 10 capsule. Try as I might it was hard to picture everything this capsule had been through. Your wonderful documentary has brought it all to life thank you!
Another great documentary. I have DVDs of The Mighty Saturns 1, 1B & V. Also Apollo 11 mission. But nothing on the other missions. So your videos are brilliant, thank you!😊
Another superb documentary. Everything is completely on point from the editing to the music. Thanks.
Gracias Jackson por estos vídeos de las misiones Apolo, me encantan ¡¡¡¡
Desde niño soñaba con estas misiones y todo lo que rodea a un entrenamiento, montaje, vuelo, alunizaje, regreso, etc. Gracias desde España, ciudad Badajoz.
¡Muchas gracias! Me alegra que hayas podido ver y disfrutar de este hermoso metraje que pertenece a toda la gente de la tierra
Another amazing video and loved the inclusion of the beautiful music from Vicky 2
So amazing. What a pioneering marvel that era was for the US, for the world. Man kind pushing past the very limits of materials, engineering & technology. What a huge astronomical bound it was for humans in history. Absolutely incredible also were the minds that came together to make it happen. I’ve watched so many space history documentaries but they never get old, & I’m always left in awe. Alll the obstacles that needed to be overcome, just phenomenal. I wish we, as a country, were as proud now as we were then to be the USA. What’s really ridiculous is to see all the ignorance that plagues ppl today. The ones that think they have a valid argument the Earth is flat and/or the moon landing was faked…omg, it’s to bad they’re that stupid & will never understand how great history really is.
End-of-mission text has a spelling error that’s actually a holdover from the previous vid...when I made this remaster, I focused on improving quality and totally missed the fact that I had misspelled that in the first place!
Correction 1: The LM prograde burn was, in fact, part of the flight plan.
You've got to be getting sick of all the compliments. Deal with it.. You deserve every one of them.
5:42, is that audio from Apollo 7 supposed to be here?
Wow--I never knew that if Apollo 11 had not been successful, Apollos 12 and 13 were waiting to fly as necessary. Cool fact! 🙂
And, if I remember correctly, 11 was about 20 seconds from aborting.
@@jacobcastro1885 Yup, you're exactly right--they had 20 seconds of fuel left in the tank when they landed.
Witnessing Apollo 10's TLI from Brisbane (Australia), I was struck by the delicacy and size of the bell-shaped gossamer exhaust plume from the S-IVB engine. No discernable acceleration, just a stately and commanding progress across the black sky, disappearing into the eastern horizon.
6:22 I like the touch of humour in the editing. The astronauts are pictured casually walking along the gang-planking to the spaceship as the commentary says "We are coming up on the 60 second mark."
I've watched this like 6 times, it is my favorite.
I loved this mission, and such a great crew. I appreciate the time you've given to these lesser remembered flights.
Though your docs are good, they’re even better using the “ When We Left Earth” music lol! The detail here & in the other ones you’ve done...superb! My new faves & footage i’ve never seen & i’ve seen a lot!... great work Homemade Documentaries!
Having lived thru these years as a High Scool student I can say that it was an amazing time, never equaled all these years later.
Godspeed, General Stafford
🚀 🌖
0:27 Oh God, I can only imagine what would've happened if the _first_ landing ended up falling on Apollo 13, and what happened to them happened under _those_ circumstances...
And someday, somehow, they'll find _Snoopy_ again. And hopefully, bring him home.
The malfunction may of not happened at all. It was a defect with the oxygen tank made by human error at that exact point in time. If Apollo 13 launched at a different time it would be conceivable that different engineers would be working on it. You should watch “For All Mankind” they do a lot of what ifs on the show and do a good job with it.
Thank you from Egypt 🎉
Again, are you SURE you’re not a professional documentary filmmaker? Because these documentaries are THAT GOOD! I REALLY think these belong in the Smithsonian Institute’s archives. Nice job!
Really well made documentaries, without all the repetition and unneccessary bullshit that is so common in these usually.
Thank you for a fascinating and well done documentary. Great content!
I have to complement you on the opening music for this documentary, it really adds to the tension of Apollo 10.
10,000 ft per second it's almost 7,000 mph that's crazy
Apollo 10 holds the all time human fight speed record of 24,761 mph, attained upon re-entry to Earth's atmosphere.
I agree with cernan whilst he wasn't in the first 2 to land he got close enough on 10 and then on 17 got 3 days on the moon and is remembered as the last man on the moon. RIP
What on Earth went flying by the LEM at 22:47? It was filmed from the command module window. Looked like a white cover of some sort, or maybe some sort of ice chunk.
"We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth." - Bill Anders
Isn't it odd. We still describe something that's next level modern as being 'space age', but in reality the space age was 50+ years ago.
The basic technologies that make spaceflight possible have not changed in the past 50 years. We’ve simply made existing technologies more efficient and more heavily computerized their operation. I find a similar misconception in the term “military grade”. It’s a meaningless marketing tool. Anyone in the know recognizes that military anything is anything BUT a mark of quality.
You do such a great job. Thank you
Good and unseen scenes, thank you!
The only comment I have is that many people tends to believe that the CMP is the third member of the crew and that is not correct, the CMP is the second in command in every Apollo mission, the LMP never actually flew the LM, I believe, and I’m not sure that the only LMP that flew the LM was Alan Bean, commander Conrad allowed Bean to fly when out of the reach of mission control, any way the point is the CMP was the second in command.
Your documentaries are exactly what used to be on history channel and it's amazing. i LOVE your documentaries. Keep up the great work. Do u have a patreon?
Rest in Peace Thompson Stafford
I remember watching the Launch on TV in 69
Wonderfull job. Great document 📡🇫🇮
10's command module is on display at the London Science Museum.
Did Someone notice the white object flying from the left to the right at 22:48?
at 0.25x speed it doesn't seem dust or any kind of dirt on negative, that's for sure. Some sort of scratch, maybe, something external to the film, imho
Edit. I think at #28:36 you'll get the answer
I'm a fan 👍 of your documentaries
"We is go, and we is down among them, Charlie."
21:21 I've read and heard the crew audio before but never really gotten an explanation as to why this happened until now. And it sounds like a legit event.
Excellence unveiled.
I have read in more than one place that NASA deliberately shorted the fuel to make it impossible for them to descend to the tantalizingly close lunar surface. It is nice to hear that the astronauts agreed that the flight should not have been more than a test flight.
It hits me every time to see these pictures of our planet and to think that there are people out there that kill them selfs to proof that the earth is flat. I suppose it is like president Kennedy said. The more we gain knowledge the more ignorant we become. Good work of this docu.
I'm gradually working my way through all of your incredible videos, not in the right order! Can I ask, how many hours footage does this Apollo series contain in total? Seems a phenomenal amount of video here, and so so important as a historical record. I've said it before but everyone on this planet needs to watch these videos, they put so much into perspective and they also render anyone's misguided view that the moon landings were faked to be utterly ridiculous. Absolutely superb work, you deserve a medal for services to humanity! 🙌👏👏👏
Hopefully, a moon rocket will be taking off from 39B for the first time tomorrow since Apollo 10
Great video! But at 5:43 the audio is from Apollo 7. Very minor. Nice job!
Homevideo is possitive video , thanks a lot
"Snoopy is still out there; an icy relic of the Golden Age of Space Flight."
I csnt help but wonder if it is possible to reciew old apollo x data, figure out where snoppy was, calculate the thrust, and with that... the orbit it might be on.
Snoopy was found in 2018.
Another good one!
14:41 SPOILER: Charlie Duke will get his opportunity to see it for himself.
@22:47 whoaaa what was that?!?!
We get to experience this In 12 months with Artemis 2 in HD/4K. Sure hope the crew can live up to it's predecessors
As always I am blown away by your video. As the CM and LM dock something passes outside the window. I assume it must be something coming off the LM. Check it out. It runs from 22:46-22:48. Any thoughts?
Looks like ice to me
Jackson Tyler, YT is playing commercials during your wonderful documentaries and I hope & pray you are getting a cut. Good work!
I am NOT getting a cut, and rely exclusively on the Patreon for income -- I am sorry you are having to sit through commercials, but that's just the nature of YT nowadays. I have no skin in the game if you decide to use adblockers...
Great video.
Very glad you enjoyed it !
Around 21:24 you can REALLY see the retroreflective properties of the lunar soil.
Rip tom! Fare winds
RIP general Stafford
Even Cronkite incorrectly mentions escaping Earths gravity. All they did was create a very deep elliptical Earth orbit which the moon intersecting it
I think for reporter's sake, it's good enough. Besides, the speed difference between the Apollo TLI trajectory (which was slightly artificially energized to ensure an LOI of between 73 and 80 hours -- a minimum-energy TLI would result in an LOI of closer to 96-100 hours) was only 128 MPH.
Avg. Orbital velocity (145x145km): 17,566 mph/7852 m/s
avg. Apollo TLI peak velocity @ cutoff: 24,505 mph/10954 m/s
minimum Earth escape: 24,633 mph/11011 m/s
Yes, with the Moon's influence, the trajectory was a free-return. But tack on another measly 100 mph, and remove the Moon -- and it'd be an Earth escape.
I'd call that close enough!
@@JacksonTyler I did not know Earth escape is that low. If the moon did not exist, how long would the standard TLI orbit take to return/fall back to Earth in total? If you did add that extra 100, would that truly enter a solar orbit?
Once again, absolutely fantastic.
Ha! Anyone know if there has been any attempt to locate the Apollo 10 LM in its heliocentric orbit? It may be tiny, but it's very reflective ...
What, no mention of the mystery turd?
10's camera was much better than 11's because Tom Stafford really wanted a proper camera
10 and 11 carried very similar camera fits (Hasselblad EL500, basically the best camera money could buy in 1968).
22:46 what was that ?
It was slightly confusing to have the CSM named Charlie Brown and Charlie Duke as CAPCOM. I would have thought NASA would have insisted on coming up with more easily distinguishable names.
It was the crews that christened them. Having also had to endure Gumdrop and Spider in the previous mission, Charlie Brown and Snoopy was the last straw prompting NASA management to overrule the practice.
What's whizzing by @22:47?
What's that debris that flies by the window at 22:47?
Likely ice. The CSM fuel cells produced something on the order of 70 gallons of potable water during a two week mission,
And some of this water had to be dumped overboard and/or sublimated through the radiators. Ice films tended to form over these radiators, and during times of spacecraft movement such as docking or burns when thrusters were firing and imparting acceleration forces on the spacecraft, this ice could be shaken loose.
Moon pigeons I think
What's with the beep noise?? Is it a time check thing??
Those are called Quindar tones. The beep was a signal from the capcom (in houston) to the transmitter (which could be on the other side of the world) to switch the transmitter on/off.
Always wondered why Stafford never wanted to walk on the moon. He flew in space afterwards?
Too many astronauts, too little flights! I'm sure he wanted to, and there was conjecture that he would have commanded one of the cancelled missions. But I think like Lovell, he saw the writing on the wall. While he didn't declare A10 to be his last flight as Lovell did with 13, he certainly wasn't in active rotation seeking a crew assignment until Apollo was done. He'd fly into space with that old timer Deke Slayton in 1975.
@@JacksonTyler Saved everybody's lives in 1975 on the way home, I just wonder if he wanted to delay to walk on the moon. John Young could have commanded 10 as well, yet he got to walk on 16 as commander, same for Scott and Lovell
Stafford flew as commander of the last Apollo mission, the Apollo Soyuz Test Project in 1975, with Deke Slayton and Vance Brand, which linked up with Russians Alexei Leonov and Valery Kubasov
On Apollo/ Soyuz mission. I followed that closely at the time.
@@SuperMagnetizer On a road trip in July 2020, I stopped at the Stafford Air and Space Museum in Oklahoma. It is first rate, with a large number of amazing displays related to Apollo, Apollo/Soyuz, and many other things. Everything from exchanged gifts from the Russians, to original bits of the Wright Flyer taken to the moon and back by Armstrong. And some good-sized Apollo/Soyuz hardware autographed by everyone you mentioned. I hadn't been expecting the museum's quality and diversity of displays to be on par with the Smithsonian, but basically, they were.
Do you have anything on 1-7?
I should do Apollo 1! 2 and 3 were cancelled, and 4-5-6 are unmanned test flights that probably should all be grouped into a single video. I did cover them under “Early Apollo” but it deserves a new look. My older videos are...rough around the edges. I should also do a remaster of Apollo 7, but there is an older video on that flight at my channel, too.
@@JacksonTyler i didnt see early apollo anywhere i better go look again. Thanks bro.
Another great documentary. I have a dvd of Apollo 11 (Spacecraft Films), but nothing on the other missions. I also got dvd of Saturn V (The Mighty Saturns), so I've got the launches of every Saturn V from Apollo 4 to 17. I will be watching more of the missions. Thanks.
@@JacksonTyler Apollo 2 (aka AS-203) launched on July 5, 1966 and Apollo 3 (aka AS-202) launched on August 25, 1966. Both used the Saturn 1B launch vehicle. Apollo 2 was a test of the CM's heat shield in Earth orbit, and Apollo 3 tested the integrity of the heat shield during re-entry. 🙂