Why the Capsule Was Saved First, not the Astronaut!
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- čas přidán 30. 09. 2021
- There is no doubt that there have been many accidents before space travel became more reliable. But some of of the challenges at first seemed quite trivial, until they led to complications, and needless to to say, they were #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #longs
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Love seeing your videos keep the good work
Wonder if the russians had the same issues.
@@sentientdart2317 congrats man hope u find peace!
NWYT is very pog
Can't believe the frogmen refused the free snacks
They were probably burning thousands of calories in those few hours.
Not that it's anything to those guys-- they are superhuman.
US SEALs can probably swim for days.
I didn't think that airlines gave out snacks on flights of less than 30 minutes.
Imagine a frogman thinking I’m swimming up to an astronaut on a little raft in the middle of the ocean eating chocolate bars
They could get indigestion aka stitch and could drown!
You’re not meant to swim for up to one hour before swimming! I found this out to my pun detriment at a every early age.
@@ryanoneill4691 that’s actually a common myth, there is no connection with indigestion and swimming after eating less than an hour beforehand.
A 3 second delay caused a 500km displacement.. That's like halfway through Germany
The numbers involved in space travel are pretty wild
Wow, a half of Germany is a lot of football fields
Orbital velocity is something like 14,000-18,000mph, if I remember right. Those 3 seconds can affect angle, which can adjust impact and...yeah, it gets compounded quickly!
picture it like this... a 3 degree angle whose legs are a few centimeters long have an arc width of just a few centimeters also.... not increase those legs to a few thousand kilometers and the arc width also grows accordingly
Thanks for a new unit for measuring
Chris hadfield said in his book that astronauts are trained to calmly attend to the problem that's going to kill them first. So since the drowning problem has been taken care of, Carpenter eating his snacks is technically just following training I guess 😅
Drowning? No
Suffocation? No
Bleeding? No
Snacks? Yes
@@BUSA31201 You can’t call someone cringe if you have a anime child as your profile picture
@@BUSA31201 anime profile pic
@@xanderlaskey2753 OHHHHH GET WREEEEECKED!!!! Good one, buddy! :)
@@karlmarx1423 Child profile pic, cringe and not based
I love how carpenter was just their chillin and eating snacks
He prob knew there was snacks in the emergency rations, and just can’t wait for splash down
"okay we will shot you on this Giant rod of bomb send to uper atmosfer and stay there one bit .the view Will be amazing .and drift down and hitting the ocean that probably gonna give you little brain damage .and you wait to get rescue .the ship that Will rescue you Will take about 3 hour or more depend on right or wrong the calculation"
Carpenters:" what i do in that 3 hour just waiting on sea ?"
"Okay.........how about some Snack ? "
Carpenter:"................well thats enough i think"
Like c'mon that man was a real chad
He knew there was a sorta big navy looking for him.
So that's why the Mk1 capsule has a box labeled snacks!
"During the early years of Space Race, a lot of things went sideways."
*Proceeds to show a video of a rocket going sideways*
Yeah that was why he did it
Funnily enough you get to space by going sideways
@@dsdy1205 this rocket was going a little to far sideways
@@SuperGarryGamer or rather going a little early
The first Astra launch a few months ago also went sideways. People have started joking about them being "SpaceY", since the launched along the wrong axis.
The nailed the next flight though! They are doing well.
Somewhat ironic to be launched into space, experience zero gravity, land in the water and then only to end up seasick.
less so seasick, moreso gravity sick,
@@zachjollimore4339
And becoming sharks' food after that.
Grissom was a hero and a scapegoat. The hatch did, in fact, just blow. Subsequent flights by the Mercury 7 demonstrated this quite conclusively.
And the biggest irony of it all was that because of that incident explosive bolts were removed from further hatches and as a result Grissom, White and Chaffee couldn't get out of Apollo 1 when the fire happened.
@@dukecraig2402 the most reason was the hatch opened to the interior side and been over pressured by the fire
@@badbotchdown9845
The hatch was bolted shut, that was the problem and why it was completely redesigned to eliminate the bolts.
It didn't have a release handle to open it as you imagine, the redesigned later ones did.
@@dukecraig2402 it didn't matter that it was bolted shut. It was physically impossible to open from the inside because it opened inward and the fire raised the internal pressure. It almost certainly didn't matter anyway as the fire was so intense they were near death within seconds and dead rapidly.
@@webby2275
That narrative is incorrect, it's a misnomer that the reason they couldn't get the hatch open is because it opened inward and pressure was holding it, because of writer's and video makers who don't bother to read the entire report and understand what happened step by step they believe that because the hatch was redesigned to open outwards then there must have been pressure holding it shut with the original design, but it wasn't, here's what happened.
The hatch opening inward or outwards made no difference with the original design, under normal circumstances it took 90 seconds to unbolt the hatch, they were dead in 30 seconds, then it took them another 3½ minutes to get the hatch open, but that 3½ additional minutes had nothing to do with the hatch being held by pressure, don't forget they were already dead at this point, well before the bolts were undone the equalization valves were open and the inside was no longer pressurized, that's already done in the 90 seconds it takes to unbolt it, the reason it took another 3½ minutes to get it opened after they got it unbolted is because from the heat and the capsule being over pressurized from the fire the hatch and it's frame were bent, aka it was stuck and had to be pried open.
Now when they designed the new hatch they designed it to open outwards because they didn't want an inward opening hatch to lead to the next disaster, because doing away with it being bolted shut and being able to immediately unlatch it meant that inside pressure could indeed hold it shut before the pressure could be equalized with the outside, but with the original design it didn't make any difference because in the 90 seconds it took to unbolt it the pressure would be equalized before the 90 seconds was up.
At no point was pressure holding it shut, by the time it was unbolted the pressure had already been equalized.
this here is the reason im subscribed.. fun facts all over the place, a bit of humor, information about stuff i never knew about, cause its not that i think is it?
Yeah except "Not What You Think" is taking easy to find historical data and "spicing it up" with exaggerated (distorted) reenactments. It's no different than lying for money.
hmm... i woke up the next day and i saw 140 likes.. cool :D
Exactly, I love this channel!
@@nonstopdude1211 Continue telling us how much you like Dark Docs.
@@sightline4004 who XD?
The Grissom one reminds me of the old comedy gag where the water skier "accidentally" runs ashore. As the skier is laying in the sand the medical crew rushes up and puts the skis on the stretcher and runs back to the ambulance, leaving the person behind.
That's typical military, though. The brass was probably yelling, "Is the astronaut alright? He is? Alright, then get that hardware now! Do you know how much it costs?"
@@Maria_Erias yeah, worried about what it cost, knowing that it would never be used again.
@@Maria_Erias Yep, made worse by the fact a trained veteran astronaut costs far more than a dinky burned up capsule.
@@chrisperrien7055 you would think a trained veteran astronaut would be towards the top of priority list to protect, since, you know, there aren’t many of them. You can rebuild a capsule in a few months. You can’t train an astronaut to have that level of experience in that time frame.
SHUT UP AND LOOK 2:02
Being picked up less than 3 hours after dropping on the wrong side of the planet with the correct gear to keep the module afloat shows how much pre-planning went into these things.
Grissom: *Oh there's the Helicopter, wait why are they carrying the Capsule? I'm right here. GET ME OUTTA HERE! WHY ARE THEY DROPPING THE CAPSULE HELP IM GOING TO DROWN*
he would have been so stressed watching it all whilst tryna stay afloat
You can see, he wasn't happy. Someone was fired. Grisham was CAPT? Equiv to a Colonel.
@@angelg2638 I’m not sure what rank he was at the time of this incident, but he did earn the rank of LTC in the Air Force. So, kind of fucked that an O-5 was treated like that (especially one as valuable as him).
It didn't end there. He got blamed for blowing the hatch and sinking the spacecraft. He was almost fired and on the no fly list. That's why it took so long for him to fly again.
@@user-lv7ph7hs7l I always thought that was a garbage reason, he didn't even have the bruises that every who blew the hatch did
Just this past year engineers came to the conclusion that a static electrical discharge from the capsule's antenna traveled down the exterior of the capsule and caused the pyrotechnics associated with the hatch to blow prematurely. Subsequent flights demonstrated the phenomenon, and the theory is also supported by the fact that Grissom had no bruised knuckles normally associated with activating the spring loaded plunger that activated the pyros.
Soviets: "Imagine drowning after you land your spacecraft?"
Americans: "Imagine getting eaten by a bear?"
Fun fact: The crew of Voskhod 2 was almost eaten by wolves when they had to land prematurely because of problems with the spacecraft. They ended up landing in the forest in the middle of winter and the rescue crew had to ski to get to them.
The Cosmonauts had shotguns onboard, just for that possibility.
Funnily enough, the Soviets had their own near-drowning incident. Soyuz 23 unintentionally landed in a lake and sank, and the cosmonauts were trapped in the submerged capsule for 9 hours until it was dragged out.
+1 for using human-readable units alongside Imperial. 👍🏻
This really puts into perspective how amazing it is that we now see entire rockets touching down on offshore landing pads
Yes, Elon Musk truly is incredible
@@goochipoochie did elon write the code? did elon build the rocket? did elon do anything but set a task and throw money at people smarter than him?
@@uwuaparker1813 while I don’t like how people idolize Elon Musk, he is a figurehead for his companies. At least for me, I think that somewhat implies that the other commenter was referring to SpaceX as a whole rather than just Musk.
A more accurate praise would be to the engineers, technicians, accountants, planners, manufacturers, and more of not only SpaceX but all of the groups who’s work SpaceX is building on, such as the world’s various space agencies and scientific bodies.
I think people usually like simple explanations, even for very complex things, and sometimes we lose sight of that complexity, which is definitely annoying, but I don’t believe the other person was maliciously spreading misinformation.
@@uwuaparker1813 If we extend your comments logic, you are saying that all the great entrepreneurs were useless since they didn't do everything by themselves... So are Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Bernard Arnault and Jack Ma useless? No, it's just that the value they bring to the table is not operational in nature. What they have that others don't is a vision and the capacity to materialize it by bringing people together to work on their vision.
It's only natural as an entrepreneur to surround yourself with people that are smarter and more competent in their respective field. That is precisely how we made it so far as a society... not by making everything by ourselves.
@@spookyactionatadistance2422 i mean sure he bankrolled a project for engineers and scientists. thats cool. and? none of those people are useless they just are bankrolling projects that they want to make money on. they're nothing special and they never will be.
Another aeronautics video, really cool!
The bravery of these men is incredible.
and monkeys and pigs
Yea these days we debate gender
Helicopter pilot: _picks up capsule_
Grissom: “bruh tf are you doing”
I remember reading in a magazine about a failure of retro-rockets during a Soviet space mission, re-entering on land. The cosmonauts survived the crash, but most of their teeth got knocked out of the jaws.
Soyuz spacecraft have visual instructions on what to do if one lands in your backyard. Because apparently they don't really trust their precision all that much
*Love this episode! Keep it up. Make it longer!*
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@NotWhatYouThink Your English is better than most people who speak English.
Where did you study? Also, I can't quite put my finger on the accent and I don't want to guess. Where are you from originally?
MOMO
Sounds pretty German to me. But South Africa is a wild guess of mine, I can‘t quite get my head around their accent.
Channel info says he’s from Canada
That’s what she said
They've recovered the mercury 7 capsule from the bottom of the sea floor.
The film inside the capsule was ruined but the majority of the capsule was pretty much intact.
9:17 Notice the massive difference from the beginning. They were SO far off target. If this had happened in the beginning the Astronaut wouldn't have made it.
I was in the 4th grade when Sputnik 1 went up. All the way through the lunar landings, the space race was such a fantastic show. Every flight advanced the state of the art, until there was nothing left to do, that reasonably could be done. Show over, science continues, just without the heroics.
Scientist: Who did you choose for our space test flights?
*“mmmm Monke”*
Instead of "Participation Trophies" we should get "Participation Apples" 🍏, much more rewarding :)
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I think the flotation devices and post-splashdown proccedures deserve their own video ;)
So many video clips. So much information. This channel is light-years better than most other channels that soley specialize in space alone.
Can you please review Kosmonauts program's too? Since I heard they even equipped with guns just in case of land in wildlife area.
That's true, since they'd land in the middle of forest.
@North of the Rio Grande lmfao probably
"hey yall i see like 7 bears 1 mile from splash, get the RPG ready"
@@bashguy8448 lol great ideas
@North of the Rio Grande Not back then, but that might be a consideration now
The hatch blowing on Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 led to a hatch opening inwards led to Grissom dying in the Apollo 1 fire January 27,1967.
Just watched your videos for the first time. You had amazing humor and you actually gave me interesting facts while staying on topic. You just gained a subscriber ‼️Keep up the work
Learning from the past is a predictable gauge to predicting the future… Unfortunately we ALL make mistakes, but MUST LEARN from those to prevent future tragedies. 🙏🏻🇺🇸
Moral of the story: if you don't get something right the first time, don't give up, keep trying
Or, hear me out.. maybe it's not worth it, and we should stop trying to do crazy, impractical things, that will only hender humanity as a whole in the long run, by wasting time, resources, lives, and the well being of each existing territory in our world.. maybe, it's a sign that we should all start working together as a species to achieve a common goal, and stop racing to see who can get the farthest away from our planet the fastest.
But, I dunno, maybe we should keep trying to figure out a way to explore and live in places that we're not physically capable of surviving in, out of sheer curiosity... that seems real important... much more pressing than world hunger, medical advancements, or peace amongst nations. Yeah, the space race is definitely more important.
Bravo, humanity...
I wouldn't mind looking outward, to space, if we had our shit here on Earth figured out, already.. but we don't. We fight eachother constantly, each country is greedy, selfish, and arrogant in its own way. Instead of spending all of our time and scientific research on developing new weapons, and better ways to kill eachother.. maybe we should try and work towards finding a cure to cancers.. do you realize, that if no one researching new weapons, or made any weapons in the first place, there'd be no need to continue doing so in order to stave off the possible threat of a hostile country, by showing who's the most advanced?.. it's a giant waste of fucking time. People don't even fight wars, our leaders do, and the people are the ones to suffer from it. It doesn't benefit us to fight, it only does so when we're being imposed upon in a way that oversteps someone's power, which is what it all rotates around.. power.. control... position over others. Humanity should lay down its arms as a whole, and come together to solve real issues that face all of us as a species. This is all, unfortunately, further out of reach than anyone even realizes.. why? Because no one even looks at it as being a possibility. Our leaders each want the most control and power that they can possibly have, and they'll never sacrifice an inch of that power, even if it means a peaceful resolution that benefits all of humanity. It's frustrating, because we're the ones that put these selfish monkeys in a position where they actually could dictate and control our lives, and well being..
It's no wonder, if aliens exist, that they haven't contacted us. We can't put aside out differences as a species, we're dangerous, I don't blame them for not wanting to get near us.
@@Frosty_tha_Snowman Excellent now forward it to NASA, SPACEX and other space agencies also to the governments of USA, Russia & China and other powerful countries and also to the richest most powerful people in the world, who am i? I'm powerless I can't as of the moment do anything about any of that above, all i can promesse is to try to be a better person and do good stuff
@@mohamedabadila I'm sorry friend, I wasn't trying to direct all that at you. I promise, I wasn't trying to sound hostile towards you in the least, I apologize. I'm just quite passionate about the world we live in and the damage that I can see being done to it, and the time being wasted, that could be used to save it.
@@Frosty_tha_Snowman No worries buddy, my dad is just like you, so i understand, I'm sure there are many heroes out there trying to make a better world as we speak :)
@@mohamedabadila sounds like a good man, and you as well. We should always hope for the best and try to do our part to make it so.
Good luck to you in your life's endeavors 🙂
Perfect video, as always.
This is awesome, funny, and informative, maybe more. Keep up the great work.
Awesome,truly AWESOME,thx for the facts and inspiration
Great sharing 👍
0:22 is the literal manifestation of my Kerbal Space program career
Very interesting recounting of these recoveries.
This channel is awesome. Even from the old side of the Atlantic.
Absoutly a fantastic mini documentary
How happy the monkey survived
I hoped he got a peaceful life with lots of fruits and space to swing inbetween trees
Good presentation! 👍
Love this speaker, good sense of humor!
Excellent sir
TO: NOT WHAT YOU THINK: Excellent video! Like your 1,000,000 subscribers I like the mixture of facts, visuals, good clear narration, some interesting little-known facts (not what you think), and a bit of humor. This video showed me some new things, and got me curious about more of your channel’s videos. (Subscribed). Keep up the good work.
Just amazing history told by the mystery voice! always enjoying every video
Awesome 😎! Formidable 👏👍👏
I wouldnt say Glenn's flight went smoothly. While the recovery was fine, there were some tense moments before because the heat shield on the capsule had worked loose. There was some question whether he would make it down without the capsule burning up
From what I understand the shield didn't actually work loose, instead a faulty switch indicated that it had.
As I'm sure you know because they thought that the shield was loose they opted to keep the retro pack on thinking if the shield was loose then it would help hold it on, I guess when the retro pack burned up during re-entry it was quite the fireworks show for Glenn when he re-entered the atmosphere.
Here's a fun fact for you, after going on his space flight Glenn slipped in the shower in his home and busted his head pretty good, as a result of the doctors worrying about him having brain damage he was taken off of the flight rotation and NASA came up with a cover story because they didn't want the public to get wind of his having slipped in his shower, it came as a shock to me to find out years down the road that there was a cover story about it because for my entire life I knew the truth about what had happened, see before I was born in 1965 my mother was a nurse in the hospital that Glenn was taken to in Ohio when it happened, she just happened to be on an elevator going from one floor to another when Glenn was wheeled into it on a hospital gurney, she rode to the next floor with him and the people attending to him and one of them told her what happened, as a result I grew up hearing the story and how when it happened my mother laughed and said to herself "The man goes into outer space and comes back fine only to slip in the tub and bust his head".
Some years back when I was watching a documentary on the space program they talked about how for years the public didn't know the truth about why he was really taken out of the flight rotation, I had no clue that for all those years there was a cover story and thought the public had always known what really happened like I did, it made me wonder how few people I was one of that for years knew the truth about his head injury.
@@dukecraig2402 wow. That's quite a story. I knew that he had only made the one flight. I guess I never really gave it much thought about why he only did the one. As far as the heat shield everything I heard was that it was loose, but yes a faulty switch or indicator makes sense.and of course Glenn later went back to space on the space shuttle. Interesting stuff.🙂
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Yea, like I said I grew up hearing the story about him busting his head in the tub and always assumed it was common knowledge, when I watched that documentary about all the close calls and near disaster events in the history of the US space program that were kept from the public for the sake of keeping both the Russian's and the American people thinking that it was as easy as they made it look back then I was totally surprised to find out that he was removed from the flight rotation for that reason in the first place and that the JFK cover story was used to keep the truth under wraps.
But it is pretty funny when you think about it, the man goes all the way into space and returns safely just to slip in his tub and bust his head.
@@dukecraig2402 Problems is, this didn't happen on Grissom's suborbital flight, it happened one mission later on John Glenn's orbital flight. Ground controllers received an indication that the capsule's landing bag had deployed, meaning that it was unlikely that the heat shield would remain in place thru re-entry. Glenn was instructed not to jettison the retro package, hoping the straps of the package would hold the shield in place long enough if the bag had indeed deployed.
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Read what I wrote, I clearly said it happened on Glenn's flight.
Very good video, very informative!
Awesome vid, cheers.
That chimp looked so happy when he was rescued
Awesome as always.
I couldn't help but the find some of the situations funny.
The monkeys smile was so genuine, he was probably thinking “let’s do this again.”
talk about next level learning on the job!
My understanding is that "Gemini" was, during the program itself, universally pronounced at NASA as "gem in knee" not "gem in eye". That is ... not what you think.
They were rocket scientists, not English professors. Lol
It's Latin, not English. Gem in eye is an incredibly English pronunciation and not the correct one
@@warwickthekingmaker7281 It was how NASA said it consistently during the Gemini programme, according (at least) to Amy Shira Teitel (a pretty reliable source if you care to look it up).
awesome explanation
Just a bit more clarification about Liberty 7. The helicopter got a chip light in the main rotor gearbox, basically the gear box was eating itself alive. Thank you for making the point that Grissom was not the issue with hatch activating by unknown means.
And we should Honor the skills of that pilot, performing a touchdown in water
"Engine rich exhaust" -- it's not just for rockets anymore!
….and yet despite the overshoot and the interminable buffeting at sea for 3 hours and the risk of sinking, Ham was perfectly at ease…because no one was zapping the soles of his feet.
Interesting. Keep it coming.
Scott Carpenter blew all his propellent in orbit, in a useless attempt to keep the capsule on a fixed path. He was warned many times by Mission Control but he just liked too much to toy with the controls. At time of landing, he had no means to direct the capsule toward the landing point and was stranded in a nowhere.
Needless to say, he never flew after that.
Yes! A channel that tickles my fancy. This is like the addiction one has for How It's Made.
Great research.
lol
Interesting history video,thanks and Jesus Bless
Love these longer ones
This by far the most interesting channel l've come across
Thanks Calvin! 😊
@@NotWhatYouThink you are welcome 👍
I like how there were so many puns that the viewers didn't realize about, like
"Allot of things went sideways"
While showing a rocket going sideways
Really good video!
Great video! :)
Thanks!
The astronaut in the life raft looked pretty chilled like he was just having a nice sit down on a sunny day
good job ham!
Please do more space stuff
At least the mistakes ended up in the ocean. Would really be disastrous if they landed in the middle of the Sahara or Amazon jungle. Imagine one minute you're orbiting the earth as an astronaut, and 30 minutes later hanging off a tree in the middle of the jungle, with little chance of timely recovery, as a jungle survivalist
Soviet cosmonauts landed in the middle of their own country. Which meant having firearms on board in case bears found them before the recovery teams did 🐻
@@doujinflip Maybe. The main launch complex is in Kazakhstan, which was reachable by rail and had a unique walled city independent of surrounding jurisdiction. Baikonur is surrounded by desert steppe. Not sure where they landed, but near there would seem appropriate.
Thats why watching Bear Gryll's videos is a part of the astronaut training program.
If you're ever near Hutchinson, Kansas, check out the Kansas Cosmosphere Space Museum. They have the Apollo 13 Command Module, and a Gemini Capsule (I think Gemini 12) on permanent display, and own the Liberty Bell 7 (Grissom's ship), but it spends a lot of time loaned out to other museums. But it's worth the trip.
Goosebumps at the end of the video.
Astronaut in the ocean
@North of the Rio Grande ikr
very interesting
That monkey's smile was so sweet when they finally opened his capsule.
Really nice video! I like the factual content mixed with small quips and a little editorial comment.
Could you make themed compilation videos of your shorts? Would be great
It's nice when they can learn from their mistakes and adapt.
That chimp was way too chill after all he went through - the blastoff noise & vibration + the splashdown. Would love a video on the training the little ape went through.
procedure: your suit is inflatable and you could easily float on water
grissom: *forget to close the water inlet on his suit and blames pilot for assuming he has his water inlet close*
Still should’ve saved the person first.
i love your vids
Another great video! Where do you find all the footage you use?
Ham had 16 minutes of "orbital" time? It was sub-orbital. To go around the world in 16 minutes, you'd have an orbital radius below the surface of the Earth....
or have one hell of an engine
Carpenter was just chilling eating his snacks, he even offered some to the frog men 😂.
I'm afraid to say it's exactly what I thought. Deepest regards.
Chimp Astronaut Ham: The Hatch just blew!!!!!
most of the content in this guy videos is Exactly what i think :D
that was dope
Exact same thing with rc planes, you can launch one by throwing it. But landing it is a much bigger task
very beautiful
American tourist sits in his floaty and eats some snacks... But it's not what you think 🤔
I guess you could say that!
Great video! Interesting that they’d go from pigs to Ham!
A minor nitpick: 1:16 - Ham’s Redstone flight was sub-orbital.
Godbless
i like your vids
*EVERYONE WAS CONFUSED*
This video was so cool ngl