RIP Alan Bean and Pete Conrad. Conrad was involved in an accident while riding his motorcycle. He was joking as usual while the ems took him to the hospital. He died later.
FASCINATING FACT: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Pete Conrad and Alan Bean were all born in 1930. So was Apollo 14 LM pilot Ed Mitchell, making five of the first six people to walk on the moon all born in the same year.
It's from the 12-part 1998 HBO mini-series "From the Earth to the Moon". It's probably available if you search for it. I had to pirate it. It's really good, opens with Tom Hanks narrating. Tells the story of the Apollo-era missions from the perspective of the people who lived them.
@@k1productions87 John Glenn directly controlled the Friendship 7's attitude, which is something the first Soviet cosmonauts did not do aboard their their Vostoks. So by some standards, John Glenn was the first person to "fly" in space.
@@brianarbenz1329 All Mercury astronauts had direct control of attitude control, including Alan Shepard. But all that does is point you in a different direction. Not the same as "flying" Gemini would be the first to do that. And even by that point, its still something Russia didn't yet accomplish.
What else would you expect from Pete Conrad? An all round nice guy.
Pete Conrad was a class act.
RIP Alan Bean and Pete Conrad. Conrad was involved in an accident while riding his motorcycle. He was joking as usual while the ems took him to the hospital. He died later.
The motorcycle got him too
@@mk.1175 Bean was 86 when he died of illness.
Nice of Pete to let Alan fly a while.
These guys were the real deal.
Maybe that's why someone wrote a book and made a movie called "THE RIGHT STUFF" about these guys.
@@Steve_Hayden that was about the first astronauts, the 'Mercury 7'.
Unlike you.
A trip like that and sharing it with your two best friends. Beautiful 😎😎😎
The Real Bob kerman and Bill kerman
More like Jeb and Bob :-)
FASCINATING FACT: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Pete Conrad and Alan Bean were all born in 1930. So was Apollo 14 LM pilot Ed Mitchell, making five of the first six people to walk on the moon all born in the same year.
Wrong!!!!!! Alan Bean was born in 1932.
Here 14, 11, 2019 nice.
Wait is that Dave Foley from News Radio?
Yep
Pity they won't be able to get away with anything like that on the Artemis missions, as they won't ever go behind the moon.
At this point, they may never get off the ground.
What movie is this clip from?
Mini series from 1998, From the Earth to the Moon. This was from Episode 7.
@@alanocarlossur9440 Thanks, Alano. 💛🙏🏼
what movie is this from?
It's from the 12-part 1998 HBO mini-series "From the Earth to the Moon". It's probably available if you search for it. I had to pirate it. It's really good, opens with Tom Hanks narrating. Tells the story of the Apollo-era missions from the perspective of the people who lived them.
@@SweetBearCub thank you :)
And it assumes you've seen both The Right Stuff and Apollo 13, so it tackles those stories from different angles.
Why would you need to "fly" anything in an orbit? It's not like physics takes a hike on the far side of the moon.
they didnt fly like you think, they only manuveured it around with the RCS
Attitude control. You don't change orbit path without burns of the engine, but you do need the thrusters to affect which way you are pointing.
@@k1productions87 John Glenn directly controlled the Friendship 7's attitude, which is something the first Soviet cosmonauts did not do aboard their their Vostoks. So by some standards, John Glenn was the first person to "fly" in space.
The uses of "fly" are not always congruent. Notice we will say a passenger "flies" to a place when they travel there on a jet airliner.
@@brianarbenz1329 All Mercury astronauts had direct control of attitude control, including Alan Shepard. But all that does is point you in a different direction. Not the same as "flying"
Gemini would be the first to do that. And even by that point, its still something Russia didn't yet accomplish.