Growing up in the shadows of JSC, this video and it's contents are special to me. It was such a special time in my life and I miss it real bad. America and it's people were so much kinder to each other.
you know what is also amazing? that it took so long to humans to go back to the moon. How many years? Infinite years, cause we will never go back cause... we didn´t go in the first place. Wake the fuck up. (i like your music)
@@Gozne You speak like a typical poorly mislead conspiracy theory follower that you are. No substance.....just blindly regurgitating the same crap you got from other suckers. You poor thing.
I watched 17 launch from my front porch in Tampa, 150 or so miles away. It lit up the whole sky like daytime. Watch the first stage separate, it was one of the most epic things I have ever seen.
And to think to think they would have needed a rocket 1/6th the size of the Saturn 5 to get away from the moon surface. That would have been a large rocket in its own right.
I grew up watching this drama unfold. I was 12 when Armstrong stepped on the Moon. After our first "Space Walk" I wrote (with my Mom's help) to Ed White and he sent me an autographed 8x10 b/w glossy of him on his "tether" outside the Gemini craft. I LIVED through all those heady years. I have worked for the DoD at an Aerospace Facility for over 30 years. Our Product has been on Skylab and EVERY Shuttle Mission. It nauseates me when I talk to kids that don't believe we went to the Moon...
randy95023 It’s a shocking indictment of our educational system that basic scientific principles are so poorly understood by so many youngsters these days.
I know you wrote this comment 6 years ago but I was moved by what it said. I am a year younger than you and remember quite well the happenings of that time. the accomplishments of these people Inspired a generation worldwide, it gave kids like you and me the feeling that there was nothing we could not do if we worked really hard at it and opened our minds to the seemingly impossible .......something that has been lost in the present day.
Well. Those footages have many mistakes! Thats the problem. The "kids" of today can make click and pauses and watch and rewatch everything 1000 times. NASA "Enhanced" over 90% of the Pictures and are discrepances to the originals and posters of the 60s!!!! But Now tell me: how it is possible that the shape of the earth in min. 13:08 (between day and night border) goes in the wrong direction???? ;-) thats why no one believes this crap anymore! JFK assesination with a magic bullet, the road runner and the coyote and santa claus are out of date too!!!
@Nature and Physics You can claim that with meteoerite samples. They come also from out there. USSR space programs were quite far and did not do it. I'm happy those idiots of the 60s did not destroy the planet with all their megalomaniac stupid ideas.
December 1972 - my Uncle Grady Van Wilson’s last Christmas and just before my Mamaw was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. God rest their souls. 😢😢
@@bullshitdetective1 I saw Buzz Aldrin speak for an hour here in NZ in 2010 about his experience ON the Moon.. I look forward to seeing humans go back to the Moon.. cheers from down under 👍🇳🇿🌍
@@SpaceTime773 I would not be normal if I didn't.. everyone tells lies.. with a white lie here and a white there every where a white lie EIEIO! .. Life isn't black and white sometimes you have have to lie because you have no choice When a person lies they need to tell another lie and with Buzz Aldrin speaking about Apollo 11..his story hadn't changed.. amazing achievement 👍
The use of music in this is particularly effective: it adds to the melancholy undertone of the film. Love the rudimentary computer animation of the Shuttle. I remember seeing images like this at the time; the Shuttle seemed so futuristic, and the space program itself poised for all sorts of fabulous things. I think I even believed there'd be a Space Station doing wheelies by 2001. Ah, well, alas, alack. Such a peculiar generation we are, we forty and fifty somethings of the space age.
@@phildavenport4150 strong arguments there.....🙄🙄 In fact, he is correct. The apollo missions are a giant fraud and you would agree if you bothered to scratch the surface
@@earthmancometh7416 Yo EarthMan, I remember when I could count the moonhoax club members on one hand and still have room for more. That was Long before you were born I'm sure. You are a Johnny-come-lately spewing out utter nonsense. No substance to your comment.... just denial of historic reality. Or perhaps just a troll?
Amazing! I honor the veracity and bravery of these brave men,truly a rare breed! God has seen them through! I wondered what was done differently,in these Apollo flights,compared to the Challenger and Discovery space shuttle flights in regards to the troublesome heat shield panels used on the space shuttles,verses the heat protection used on the Apollo missions,and why wasn't that earlier technology used on the later space programs especially since it proved to work so well on the earlier ones?
The previous heat shields were sacrificial. That is, they would burn away in thus shed Heat. You could not use sacrificial heat shielding on the shuttle and still maintain aerodynamic stability. Unlike her proceeding space craft, this bird had to fly her way home.
Apollo used throw away, 1-time use hardware. The shuttles were an early attempt at reusable hardware. Apollo used ablative heat shields, which were covered and protected until needed, while the shuttle used a large exposed, and more fragile ceramic tile design.
Wow, talk about ironic. The command module on Apollo 11 (first lunar landing) was named Columbia and the Lunar Module on Apollo 17 (last Lunar Landing) was named Challenger. Two ships that were later lost during the Shuttle program.
11:27 David Strangway, Chief of the Geophysics Branch of NASA at the time of Apollo 17, went on to be the President of the University of Toronto and later for 12 years President of the University of British Columbia, among many other significant functions and accomplishments.
"That's got to be one of the most proud moments of my life, I guarantee ya," says one of the astronots. That's an incredible statement, really. I can't imagine a normal person saying "one of the most proud moments" when he is supposed to have landed on the moon.
Yes, Tracy was very important to him. He adored his daughter, and would never say a darned thing to make her believe she wasn't #1 in his life. To this date, her initials are the only ones drawn into the lunar surface.
Thanks for the insightful and supportive comment. For anyone alive at the time and/or working in the industry we KNOW that Apollo was successful and Man did walk on the Moon. It's not an 'opinion' or 'matter of faith' but simply knowledge. I DO understand how a person born 25 years ago might not believe we succeeded because it was a truly awe inspiring feat, done decades before our Technology should have allowed a successful Moon Landing. But, we DID do it without a doubt! Thanks
randy95023 so true I was 12 during apollo 17. No cell phones and folks were just beimg able too get color tv, cable if you could afford it expanded uour channel selection from 3 too 17 channels
Continued- When Apollo 17 left it was rather depressing that no more landings were planned. I was in High School and Carl Sagan was that new "Space Guy" who was getting mainstream people interested in the "COSMOS". Talk of a Mar's Mission was a distant dream. The Facility where I work now was very involved with the Skylab Program and when I started working for DoD in late '79 people were still excited about Skylab and talking about the "Space Shuttle". Fun to have lived through this History!
@@pan4909 I don't argue against that statement; useless wars to steal another countries resources and to take over their government s cause the US and other big countries know best and to bring in their One World Government Bush warned us about.
Depends on what you mean. Yes, 1972 was the peak in aviation and space travel technology. SR71. Apollo 16 & 17. Concorde. The F14 and F15 (still today the greatest and fastest fighters ever built). But, after that, the "golden age" of aviation was over, and things started to migrate to cutting costs instead of adding function.
Nice to watch our astronauts duplicate armstrong and colleagues.. we have not forgotten., Truth what they did to the world. It inspired the world. Now anoher batch, this time is mars
Agreed with your enthusiasm. The massive SLS rocket has been in development for years and is due to launch this year, where it will take the Orion space capsule around the moon and back to Earth (for its second test in space). Expect uneducated conspiracy theorists to claim that's a hoax too :-)
Did anyone notice the camera shots someone was controlling them but only two men were on the surface so who was it as it wasn't on auto because it was pan left nd right up down zoom in zoom out sync with the astronots talking I do think they went there but a lot of actions must have been simulated for effects the hills in the background look totally fake its like there just stuck on top of the surface
@@bobbyhay4511 - From Apollo 15 onward, the Apollo TV camera was remotely controlled by Ed Fendell at mission control (Google Search: Ed Fendell Apollo). And none of it is fake, the moon is an alien environment lacking many of the cues that give us an indication of distance here on Earth, such as clouds, increased haze with distance, landmark features of known size, trees, vegetation, buildings, etc.
It just seemed fate for this final Apollo mission...there happened to be many, many issues causing delays with this flight, with the final one being the Countdown Sequencer recognizing a very subtle fact that the S-IVB stage of the Saturn-V being pressurized MANUALLY (i.e. bypassed from the normal source) as opposed to being automatically pressurized, which then caused it to stop the countdown at T-30 seconds. It would take another two-plus hours, a period in which Command Module Pilot Ron Evans fell asleep, before they were ready to launch, by far the longest and most strenuous Apollo launch countdown in program history.
From Alan Shepard to Ron Evans, I listened, read and watched every bit of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, Then Skylab and the Space Shuttle; then all the planetary probes, saying a wistful goodbye to the Voyager twins. For me, the saddest part was the last few minutes of the Cassini-Huygens probe. For 13 years, Cassini faithfully carried out it's task flawlessly, the greatest photographic mission ever. Seeing the end of that lonely servant of science was hard to take.
just look at the LM shadow after the peech over from 7:20 until crosess over the crater in 7:27 were the shadow is consequently biger because of the distance of the edge wich is closer to the LM then the other side of the crater where the shadow is smaller , that shows it is genuine landing
theufwik That never fails to give me goosebumps every time I watch it! Imagine sitting in the LEM looking out that window as it comes in to land! What a buzz!
I was a freshman in high school living in Ct at the time but I sure wish I could of been there in Florida when Apollo 17 went up would loved to see that Saturn 5 rocket lift off
I was a college sophomore at FIT just south of the Cape before the launch. My buddy's father owned a Cessna 172 which was tied down at Melbourne Airport. He and I were private pilots at age 17. One night we took the airplane up the Indian River and circled just outside the restricted area, small in those days because security was not a big problem, and we flew around the Saturn V, just outside the restricted area. It had bright spotlights shining on it. From 2000 ft. we could see the huge rocket as if it were right next to us. I'll never forget that moment in my life.
@@michaelcaron7659 Yes, I guess I was very lucky. Now you've forced me to go back and look at my old pilot logbooks. We general aviation pilots keep them dear to our hearts because of all the memories they hold. I don't think there are many people today who can claim bragging rights they "flew circles" around the Saturn V. My logbook notes that on January 25, 1971, I few a Piper PA 28-140 otherwise known as a small 4 seater Piper Cherokee from MEL (Melbourne, Fl) to "Cape Kennedy". Wikipedia indicates that Apollo 14 blasted off on January 31, 1971. So my either my memory is wrong about flying a Cessna, or I didn't log the flight for a subsequent mission, which would have been highly unlikely. Apollo 14, was the mission where Alan Shepard swung a makeshift golf club and knocked a golf ball almost into lunar orbit. LOL. However, I have a specific recollection of taking a Cessna 172 up the Indian River at night with my buddy and a few passengers to see the Saturn V with spotlights. Either my memory has failed, not surprisingly, or my logbook does not contain the flight I recall in the Cessna. Either way, I recall flying around the Saturn V from 2000 at night. I also recall on the return flight to Melbourne Airport, there was a drive-in movie theater showing movies in black and white that you would never see in any movie theater today. We pointed the airplane into the strong wind and put down the flaps and slowed it down so that we were almost standing still over the ground. We got to watch free movies from 2000 ft at a drive-in movie which I don't even know if they still use today. Yes, I was a lucky dog. Having a pilot's license as a college student back in the seventies was a very cool thing and I'm so glad I learned to fly, even if only single engines airplanes.
That section from 17:30 to 17:50, where the astronaut is bouncing back to the Lunar Rover, is perfect proof they’re on the moon. Or at least proof he’s somewhere with 1/6th Earth’s gravity and in a vacuum! Now, I don’t know about you, but the ONLY place where those two conditions are met, that I know of, is THE MOON.
I believe the only time we didn't go to the moon, was the first time. And as for how to mimic 1/6 of Earth's gravity, it's called helium and another gas to cancel out the voice effect of the helium, together with their Oxygen.
People who are conspiracy theorists will substitute all kinds of things to make their theories make sense. Doesn’t matter what it is when you’re incredulous. Look at the comment above. Apparently they used helium lol. To others it’s CGI in the 1970s. The way belief systems and perception systems work in humans they’ll believe even more wild shit to fill the void of things they don’t believe.
You know what, I often look back at these missions with such sadness. When I was at middle school I remember our teacher saying that we, or our children, will definitely be living on the moon or mars. So we should study hard if we wanted to be selected. The teacher was in her mid 20's...and really believed it. So did we. Where did it all go wrong? I'm now 47 and I will be lucky if we send anyone to the moon again, and even more lucky if I see anyone going to mars.
we matured and realized that the moon is a wasteland just like mars and other planets.. moonlanding was communism's greatest acheivement..lol. mankind will most likey never colonize another planet. we're just too small and insignificant and space is just too vast ..
If you are still with us you know we are going back soon and eventually to Mars if you can hold on until 2035 Based on my best guess factoring in that Elon Musk likes to overpromise with deadlines lol
At 3:40 when the command module is docking with the LEM the white stuff you see floating are not stars, they're ice pieces that remained on the third stage because of the 2-hour delay before launch and fell off when the command module separated from it. That's why Gene Cernan says "Houston, we're in the middle of a snowstorm". Harrison Schmitt also has confirmed that in a lot of his lectures.
all those people seemed so naively hopeful and optimistic about the future.. one narrator even remarked that man would venture in interstellar space before he's dead.. and to think this was 50 years ago.. we haven't even left low earth orbit since lol
My Dad worked for NASA back then. I was about 20 and so excited that a scientist was finally at work in space, though we knew this was the end of America on the Moon for many years to come. Wow, I'd forgotten or maybe missed that there was an EVA between Moon and Earth. Thanks for sharing this.
@@highlypotent do you think the {ww2 germans} would have sent men to space? Like just in general, not related to this lol (If they had existed for longer)
@@forksandpopsticles9183 For sure. Hitler had some crazy shit. Supposedly he had some kind of bell(supposed to be an UFO). you'll probably find it if you google hitler bell or hitler ufo bell or something.
Amazing documentary, the greatest achievement of mankind to this date to leave the Earth and walk on the Moon, so sad that one of the NASA Directors, Dr. Christopher Kraft (Manned Spacecraft Center) says "I hope I'm living when we leave this Solar System on a venture to find another planet Earth". The next few years look very promising though, and humans should be back walking on the Moon again by 2022, just in time for the 50 anniversary of the last time man was there!
Sad, that so many years later, the Apollo mission remains the high point of Space Exploration. We should have established an inhabited moon base by now.
Thankfully I've been here to see this happen in near real time, well as real time as a working man could get, on TV every night at dinnertime! Now nearly everyone has their eyes on a phone screen!
You can blame politicians for that. THEY are the ones, along with the POTUS who decide the financing, and also the ones that gut, or cancel such projects. They do it time and time again.
@Mick Ronson the earth doesn't cast a shadow on the moon you fucking ignorant prick. That's not what causes the moon phases and my 7 year old cousin knows that!!!!
Funfact Nasa was the receiving area for flight 93 September 11 2001. The passengers from flights 11,77,175 and 93 which added the full group of all planes went in and never came out. They never went to a air carrier.
thanks for posting this awesome material! At 06:19 we see the CM being filmed from the LEM which seems to be orbiting behind and *above* the CM (judging from the angle and shadows). This must have happened after the LEM separated from the CM to land. One would think that the LEM during the landing procedures would always be behind and *below* the CM, not above. Does anyone know why the LEM maneuvered into that position or does it only seem to be in that position due to perspective?
@Johan Bollen It doesn't really matter whether it is above or below relative to the CSM since they are virtually in the same orbit. Depending on the orientation when they separated they can drift to different spots relative to the CSM due to how orbital mechanics work. For example a small deltaV change radially inward during separation would get them below the CSM but some time later in the orbit they will be above the CSM.
I was about to post at that exact time now he say that there following the one in front mut there is like 3 or 4 shadows and when the camera pans down did you see the shadow move in and move at same speed
@Nature and Physics Stay delusional my unwoke friend. Hint: Please stay far away from fire and anything that sppears to be dangerous. By the way, no one referring to missing telemetry thinks it refers to video. Try your condescending remarks on someone else.
@Nature and Physics Nearly 60 million dollars per day for the NASA FANBOYS. ENOUGH! Even if NASA landed men on the moon; which they obviously did not, that does not help snyone on our Earth.
I can say Ron Evans appeared to have the most fun out of them all on his final Spacewalk coming back home! His moment to shine and I would say, 170,000 miles from Earth he likely had one of the most magnificent views any Astronaut would have ever seen; the entire Earth in one sweeping panorama vs a spacewalk in low Earth orbit.
I wonder how long that camera was on for after the LM left ? Bunch of ETs all come out of hiding from behind rocks , 'Its safe, the dickheads that murder each other for resources and money are gone !' lol Schmitt: 'We come in peace.....please ignore the explosive charge we left behind'.
that's what should be humanity, a bunch of good willing foes trying to explore and learn about their universe. But we 've became a sad spicie , trashing their planet and running after money year after year.No goal , no future.
+Daclaem Toth... I agree, there always seems to be plenty of money to spend on armaments for war, death and destruction, and only a minuscule amount of spending in comparison for space exploration and the future of mankind, I know what I would prefer to pay my government taxes for!
Hope we can go back up there. These problems will always exist, but as long as the sky is blue and the Earth continues to rotate, there's still a future.
I loved all of the astronauts. But there was a special place in my heart for guys like Cernan, Shepard, Schmidt and the rest of them. The ones who walked on the Moon stood on the shoulders of giants like the Gemini and Mercury astronauts, some of whom, like Alan Shepard an early Mercury astronaut, became the first U.S. person to go into space as well as the first to hit a golf ball on the moon. From what I understand, that ball is still orbiting the moon. Jest intended.
@@oldnic So you're one of those nutjob conspiracy theorists? Yeah, you're the dim one. I'm sure you also believe the Earth is flat and Bigfoot is real.
I suppose what confuses kids the most and what makes them skeptical about our landing on the moon is why we didn't keep going back there on a regular basis and instead "gave up" after only 6 landing missions and 8 fly-bys. It certainly would be nice to have a larger presence than what we have today in space. Lunar missions could really pay for themselves today, so why not go there now!
But there were hid military missions on the Moon after the fateful publicly Unknown APOLLO 24: meeting the frozen MONA LISA on the other side of the Moon...!
Javier Anderson. Well, I've heard thousands of reasons people doubt the moon landings. And, yes, one of those reasons is because nobody went back there after 1972. But, the people who use that reason to doubt Apollo was real... well... they simply have no understanding of the gigantic undertaking that it was. Nothing in human history can compare. No journey in human history was anything like it, in terms of effort and expense. There is no close 2nd place. The kids you're talking about simply cannot understand the numbers involved. But, I like to make this comparison. Climbing Mt. Everest is a massively expensive undertaking, and takes months to accomplish, and is one of the biggest journeys a person can make on Earth. How many years' worth of climbing Mt. Everest could you do before you could pay for a moon landing single seat on Apollo? The answer is that you could climb Mt. Everest every single year for about 233,000 years, before you'd pay for a single seat on an Apollo moon landing. That's longer than the human race has been in existence. THAT is how much Apollo costed. And, yeah, they pulled the funding. And, no nation since then has been willing to fork over that kind of money to put humans on the moon again.
I've never understood why not going back was considered proof of anything, other than how expensive, difficult and ultimately fruitless further missions would be without better propulsion systems. Why did we stop building Gothic cathedral or Egyptian Pyramids?
@@rockethead7 the cost of the war in vietnam that same year ( 1969 ) was the equivalent of the entire apollo program so there is a close second and even a 1rst. Try to imagine that.
@@oldi184 Ah, the old sheep analogy. Say we are sheep, provide no evidence, and believe this is enough to prove your point. Hoaxers have less and less evidence now that everything has been debunked. LMFAO
The astronauts engineers and geologist who took us (the U.S.) into space, and to the moon all for the most part had participated in a great war/Korea. Mortality was real to these men, and they very much lived in the world of reality. Many generations now call these men our Greatest Generation. The progeny of Americans that had lived in freedom and liberty since the inception of this nation, and lived in a land where the leader freely gives up power upon his defeat in our democracy was an example to the world. This deliberate transfer of power to the next ELECTED president was an example to the planet unique in HiStory, and recognized by the King of England at that time as truly an extraordinary event that proved the American leader was greater man than him for doing so. America was the first and set such an example that it is copied by almost everyone, or at least they make the appearance of following that example. I hope our current space exploring generations can find the wisdom of those who have preceded them.
Massacre the natives and rob them of the land to start with. Then during that glorious period ( the 60s ) of freedom and liberty as you say where it was ok to segregate colored people, like in South Africa but then no segregation in the front line of wars ( Vietnam ) You can vote blue or red ( is always the same 2 parties winning anyway ) but it doesn't matter because both have instructions not to touch or modify the system that keeps the really powerful up there .
True...and not only U.S., but Russia, China and India as well. It's just that we were the ones that did it with humans multiple times, and so far no other country has duplicated that feat. That's quite a conspiracy for four countries to keep over 50 years. Or, just maybe, the truth is quite simply that WE (humanity) did go there...but that's not sexy and self-validating enough for some people's egos, i guess.
@@christophermacintyre5890 ::: True, but the historical basis for man on the moon really belongs to the German scientist who developed the V1 and V2 rockets that bombed France and England. The German scientist that came to USA not to Russia are the one ones who help further USA's development of the Rocket. German's were already ahead on Jet engine technology which USA was behind, and Russia further behind USA. Russia developed Rocket technology with help of the German Scientist who were employed with Russia. German and USA were already in the works of building the Atomic Bomb which Germany already had the technical advance over Russia and USA, but due to USA's and Russia's continuing bombing of the Nazi Factory's the German's could not further develop their technology to build the Rockets or the Atomic Bomb. So in reality back to the Man on the Moon achievement, it really belongs to German scientist, but the freedom of USA help further that peaceful achieve from the hardship of WAR. You are welcome to research what I have to say through your own time.
@@andrewtoombs3867 Nobody should ever forget the work done by von Braun and the other German rocket scientists/engineers from WWII 20 years prior. But, make no mistake about it, the USA would have gotten the job done without them. 450,000 people worked on Apollo. A vast majority were NOT WWII Germans. The development of the lander, the development of the command module, the development of the suits, the development of the computers, etc., was all done by American companies. And, it's not like we didn't have good rocket scientists/engineers. The problems with the F1 engines were solved by the American engineers. The weight issues were solved by American engineers. And, yes, they'd have built the Saturn V with or without the Germans. Again, I'm not saying this to dismiss their roles, or to say that I don't appreciate what they contributed. But, sorry, I do not agree that the accomplishment of landing men on the moon "belongs to German scientists."
@@tomcameron96 Riiiiighttt. This video got the year wrong of the Apollo missions. And, no, it's not because it's standard to post the year the documentary was made, but they were sooooo stupid, that they got the year wrong, and YOU are right. Good gods, CZcams is full of morons.
Your ignorance means nothing my friend, where your arguments from incredulity are irrelevant. Hence your comment is no different to the flat Earth believers I'm debating *right now* who say to me "You have to be blind to believe those photos of the Earth from space are authentic! Are you kidding me?" In what way is that evidence? :-)
That's cool and all but in reality is was actually the scientist and engineers who made all of this possible. Without them we'd be stuck to this rock. Credit them please
Growing up in the shadows of JSC, this video and it's contents are special to me. It was such a special time in my life and I miss it real bad. America and it's people were so much kinder to each other.
except for the racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia
We're being systematically divided. The Divided States of America. Sad.
It is amazing. The Wright Brothers' first planes and Apollo 17 were only 70 years apart.
you know what is also amazing? that it took so long to humans to go back to the moon. How many years? Infinite years, cause we will never go back cause... we didn´t go in the first place. Wake the fuck up. (i like your music)
@@Gozne
The evidence says we did go. I remember when the moon hoax club had about three members in total. Before you were born of course.
@@richardmodglin3900 NASA destroyed the evidence and you are drunk.
@@Gozne
You speak like a typical poorly mislead conspiracy theory follower that you are. No substance.....just blindly regurgitating the same crap you got from other suckers. You poor thing.
@@Gozne
What's up Morty? Where'd those unintelligent comments of yours go?
To be standing on the surface of an alien world looking to the horizon and seeing The Earth as another planet, just amazing!
I watched 17 launch from my front porch in Tampa, 150 or so miles away. It lit up the whole sky like daytime. Watch the first stage separate, it was one of the most epic things I have ever seen.
117 miles as the crow flies. I know, I was in Sarasota that night (139 miles). I was thirteen. How about you?
@@tubeyerself2 yes, except that’s not what it was.
@@bradjohnston8193 I was 13 as well.
And to think to think they would have needed a rocket 1/6th the size of the Saturn 5 to get away from the moon surface. That would have been a large rocket in its own right.
@@patricksmith4424 based on what data ?
THANK YOU for posting these!
I grew up watching this drama unfold. I was 12 when Armstrong stepped on the Moon. After our first "Space Walk" I wrote (with my Mom's help) to Ed White and he sent me an autographed 8x10 b/w glossy of him on his "tether" outside the Gemini craft. I LIVED through all those heady years. I have worked for the DoD at an Aerospace Facility for over 30 years. Our Product has been on Skylab and EVERY Shuttle Mission. It nauseates me when I talk to kids that don't believe we went to the Moon...
randy95023 It’s a shocking indictment of our educational system that basic scientific principles are so poorly understood by so many youngsters these days.
I know you wrote this comment 6 years ago but I was moved by what it said. I am a year younger than you and remember quite well the happenings of that time. the accomplishments of these people Inspired a generation worldwide, it gave kids like you and me the feeling that there was nothing we could not do if we worked really hard at it and opened our minds to the seemingly impossible .......something that has been lost in the present day.
Well. Those footages have many mistakes! Thats the problem. The "kids" of today can make click and pauses and watch and rewatch everything 1000 times. NASA "Enhanced" over 90% of the Pictures and are discrepances to the originals and posters of the 60s!!!! But Now tell me: how it is possible that the shape of the earth in min. 13:08 (between day and night border) goes in the wrong direction???? ;-) thats why no one believes this crap anymore! JFK assesination with a magic bullet, the road runner and the coyote and santa claus are out of date too!!!
@@terrypussypower It's shocking ?
Give us an example of some
"basic scientific principles" that are not being taught in schools.....
@Nature and Physics You can claim that with meteoerite samples. They come also from out there. USSR space programs were quite far and did not do it. I'm happy those idiots of the 60s did not destroy the planet with all their megalomaniac stupid ideas.
December 1972 - my Uncle Grady Van Wilson’s last Christmas and just before my Mamaw was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. God rest their souls. 😢😢
The capsule landed 9500 yards from the recovery ship USS Ticonderoga. I know this because I was there.
That's dope
OK .
suuure you were
@@ryanmozert Cant force you to believe. I became a Shellback during the Apollo 16 mission.
@@johnvasquez4442 does Shell back mean you went a to Antarctica or something !?
I like the comment ''not a cloud in the sky'' . I love Apollo.
What an amazing adventure.
Truly fascinating. Sometime I look at the moon from terrace and then remind these type of videos, after that I fall in dilemma over this.
Why are the radiation belts "classified?
Project Apollo was amazing... and we will be going back there👍🇳🇿
we aint been yet
@@bullshitdetective1 I saw Buzz Aldrin speak for an hour here in NZ in 2010 about his experience ON the Moon.. I look forward to seeing humans go back to the Moon.. cheers from down under 👍🇳🇿🌍
@@bullshitdetective1 can you detect your own bullshit too ?
@@SpaceTime773 Maybe bullshitdetector is telling the truth
@@SpaceTime773 I would not be normal if I didn't.. everyone tells lies.. with a white lie here and a white there every where a white lie EIEIO! .. Life isn't black and white sometimes you have have to lie because you have no choice
When a person lies they need to tell another lie and with Buzz Aldrin speaking about Apollo 11..his story hadn't changed.. amazing achievement 👍
BEAUTIFUL.
The use of music in this is particularly effective: it adds to the melancholy undertone of the film.
Love the rudimentary computer animation of the Shuttle. I remember seeing images like this at the time; the Shuttle seemed so futuristic, and the space program itself poised for all sorts of fabulous things. I think I even believed there'd be a Space Station doing wheelies by 2001. Ah, well, alas, alack. Such a peculiar generation we are, we forty and fifty somethings of the space age.
And then you realized it was all a fraud. Peace to all the awakening ones.
So much promise, little more achieved... for now.
@@earthmancometh7416 Oh dear, yet another conspiritard.
@@phildavenport4150 strong arguments there.....🙄🙄
In fact, he is correct. The apollo missions are a giant fraud and you would agree if you bothered to scratch the surface
@@earthmancometh7416
Yo EarthMan, I remember when I could count the moonhoax club members on one hand and still have room for more. That was Long before you were born I'm sure. You are a Johnny-come-lately spewing out utter nonsense. No substance to your comment.... just denial of historic reality. Or perhaps just a troll?
Amazing! I honor the veracity and bravery of these brave men,truly a rare breed! God has seen them through! I wondered what was done differently,in these Apollo flights,compared to the Challenger and Discovery space shuttle flights in regards to the troublesome heat shield panels used on the space shuttles,verses the heat protection used on the Apollo missions,and why wasn't that earlier technology used on the later space programs especially since it proved to work so well on the earlier ones?
Ricky Shaw I think we humans sometimes tend to throw away the still good procedures and methods togeather with the outdated.
The previous heat shields were sacrificial. That is, they would burn away in thus shed Heat. You could not use sacrificial heat shielding on the shuttle and still maintain aerodynamic stability. Unlike her proceeding space craft, this bird had to fly her way home.
Apollo used throw away, 1-time use hardware. The shuttles were an early attempt at reusable hardware. Apollo used ablative heat shields, which were covered and protected until needed, while the shuttle used a large exposed, and more fragile ceramic tile design.
That last photo is Dope.
fascinating video
12:02 one of the funniest recordings of apollo. And at 1202, at that. Like a certain alarm I know...
The last picture is wonderful
Wow, talk about ironic. The command module on Apollo 11 (first lunar landing) was named Columbia and the Lunar Module on Apollo 17 (last Lunar Landing) was named Challenger. Two ships that were later lost during the Shuttle program.
Except it's not irony, that's a misuse of the word in this context.
Gosh! That's almost scary. What are the odds?
"Odds" are that these are names often used in all kinds of exploring situations....
"almost scary".....but not quite......☝🏻😨
Scriptwriting. Too bad they left out the real punchline.
Giant lies
11:27 David Strangway, Chief of the Geophysics Branch of NASA at the time of Apollo 17, went on to be the President of the University of Toronto and later for 12 years President of the University of British Columbia, among many other significant functions and accomplishments.
old computer for flight control moon Lander,, people was amazing
A great series.
"That's got to be one of the most proud moments of my life, I guarantee ya," says one of the astronots. That's an incredible statement, really. I can't imagine a normal person saying "one of the most proud moments" when he is supposed to have landed on the moon.
he had to be careful not to overshadow his wedding day and kids' births so chose his words carefully
Yes, Tracy was very important to him. He adored his daughter, and would never say a darned thing to make her believe she wasn't #1 in his life. To this date, her initials are the only ones drawn into the lunar surface.
Thanks for the insightful and supportive comment. For anyone alive at the time and/or working in the industry we KNOW that Apollo was successful and Man did walk on the Moon. It's not an 'opinion' or 'matter of faith' but simply knowledge. I DO understand how a person born 25 years ago might not believe we succeeded because it was a truly awe inspiring feat, done decades before our Technology should have allowed a successful Moon Landing. But, we DID do it without a doubt! Thanks
randy95023 so true I was 12 during apollo 17. No cell phones and folks were just beimg able too get color tv, cable if you could afford it expanded uour channel selection from 3 too 17 channels
so easy to deceive. dumbed down pseudo-humans.
Continued- When Apollo 17 left it was rather depressing that no more landings were planned. I was in High School and Carl Sagan was that new "Space Guy" who was getting mainstream people interested in the "COSMOS". Talk of a Mar's Mission was a distant dream. The Facility where I work now was very involved with the Skylab Program and when I started working for DoD in late '79 people were still excited about Skylab and talking about the "Space Shuttle". Fun to have lived through this History!
Funny how we went to the moon with old technology and NASA has sent done nothing sense
Then it all just died. WHY? Yet how many tax dollars given to NASA? Could have helped or fed every homless American all year
@@barbibutton9619 how many tax dollars have gone to the military?
@@pan4909 I don't argue against that statement; useless wars to steal another countries resources and to take over their government s cause the US and other big countries know best and to bring in their One World Government Bush warned us about.
@@barbibutton9619 Agreed.
1972. Peak of technology and physics. Who knew.
No, not even close.
Depends on what you mean. Yes, 1972 was the peak in aviation and space travel technology. SR71. Apollo 16 & 17. Concorde. The F14 and F15 (still today the greatest and fastest fighters ever built). But, after that, the "golden age" of aviation was over, and things started to migrate to cutting costs instead of adding function.
Nice to watch our astronauts duplicate armstrong and colleagues.. we have not forgotten., Truth what they did to the world. It inspired the world. Now anoher batch, this time is mars
2020 will be the start of a new era for space exploration and I'm thrilled to be alive to see it happening. Let's hope we get back to the moon ASAP
Agreed with your enthusiasm. The massive SLS rocket has been in development for years and is due to launch this year, where it will take the Orion space capsule around the moon and back to Earth (for its second test in space).
Expect uneducated conspiracy theorists to claim that's a hoax too :-)
Did anyone notice the camera shots someone was controlling them but only two men were on the surface so who was it as it wasn't on auto because it was pan left nd right up down zoom in zoom out sync with the astronots talking
I do think they went there but a lot of actions must have been simulated for effects the hills in the background look totally fake its like there just stuck on top of the surface
@@bobbyhay4511 - From Apollo 15 onward, the Apollo TV camera was remotely controlled by Ed Fendell at mission control (Google Search: Ed Fendell Apollo).
And none of it is fake, the moon is an alien environment lacking many of the cues that give us an indication of distance here on Earth, such as clouds, increased haze with distance, landmark features of known size, trees, vegetation, buildings, etc.
@@yazzamx6380 yea i do believe they were there its the amount of nonsense folkl say that makes me wonder why there's so much disbelief
@@bobbyhay4511 - No problem my friend :-)
It just seemed fate for this final Apollo mission...there happened to be many, many issues causing delays with this flight, with the final one being the Countdown Sequencer recognizing a very subtle fact that the S-IVB stage of the Saturn-V being pressurized MANUALLY (i.e. bypassed from the normal source) as opposed to being automatically pressurized, which then caused it to stop the countdown at T-30 seconds. It would take another two-plus hours, a period in which Command Module Pilot Ron Evans fell asleep, before they were ready to launch, by far the longest and most strenuous Apollo launch countdown in program history.
Fascinating. I'm looking up the 17 Mission Patch. And Artemus...
From Alan Shepard to Ron Evans, I listened, read and watched every bit of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, Then Skylab and the Space Shuttle; then all the planetary probes, saying a wistful goodbye to the Voyager twins.
For me, the saddest part was the last few minutes of the Cassini-Huygens probe. For 13 years, Cassini faithfully carried out it's task flawlessly, the greatest photographic mission ever.
Seeing the end of that lonely servant of science was hard to take.
There were more than a few glum faces in mission control when the signal was declared lost.
just look at the LM shadow after the peech over from 7:20 until crosess over the crater in 7:27 were the shadow is consequently biger because of the distance of the edge wich is closer to the LM then the other side of the crater where the shadow is smaller , that shows it is genuine landing
theufwik That never fails to give me goosebumps every time I watch it! Imagine sitting in the LEM looking out that window as it comes in to land!
What a buzz!
I was a freshman in high school living in Ct at the time but I sure wish I could of been there in Florida when Apollo 17 went up would loved to see that Saturn 5 rocket lift off
I was a college sophomore at FIT just south of the Cape before the launch. My buddy's father owned a Cessna 172 which was tied down at Melbourne Airport. He and I were private pilots at age 17. One night we took the airplane up the Indian River and circled just outside the restricted area, small in those days because security was not a big problem, and we flew around the Saturn V, just outside the restricted area. It had bright spotlights shining on it. From 2000 ft. we could see the huge rocket as if it were right next to us. I'll never forget that moment in my life.
daffidavit OH you lucky dog! Looking at it on TV you can tell that thing was huge 👍
@@michaelcaron7659 Yes, I guess I was very lucky. Now you've forced me to go back and look at my old pilot logbooks. We general aviation pilots keep them dear to our hearts because of all the memories they hold. I don't think there are many people today who can claim bragging rights they "flew circles" around the Saturn V.
My logbook notes that on January 25, 1971, I few a Piper PA 28-140 otherwise known as a small 4 seater Piper Cherokee from MEL (Melbourne, Fl) to "Cape Kennedy". Wikipedia indicates that Apollo 14 blasted off on January 31, 1971. So my either my memory is wrong about flying a Cessna, or I didn't log the flight for a subsequent mission, which would have been highly unlikely.
Apollo 14, was the mission where Alan Shepard swung a makeshift golf club and knocked a golf ball almost into lunar orbit. LOL.
However, I have a specific recollection of taking a Cessna 172 up the Indian River at night with my buddy and a few passengers to see the Saturn V with spotlights. Either my memory has failed, not surprisingly, or my logbook does not contain the flight I recall in the Cessna. Either way, I recall flying around the Saturn V from 2000 at night. I also recall on the return flight to Melbourne Airport, there was a drive-in movie theater showing movies in black and white that you would never see in any movie theater today. We pointed the airplane into the strong wind and put down the flaps and slowed it down so that we were almost standing still over the ground. We got to watch free movies from 2000 ft at a drive-in movie which I don't even know if they still use today.
Yes, I was a lucky dog. Having a pilot's license as a college student back in the seventies was a very cool thing and I'm so glad I learned to fly, even if only single engines airplanes.
That section from 17:30 to 17:50, where the astronaut is bouncing back to the Lunar Rover, is perfect proof they’re on the moon. Or at least proof he’s somewhere with 1/6th Earth’s gravity and in a vacuum! Now, I don’t know about you, but the ONLY place where those two conditions are met, that I know of, is THE MOON.
I believe the only time we didn't go to the moon, was the first time. And as for how to mimic 1/6 of Earth's gravity, it's called helium and another gas to cancel out the voice effect of the helium, together with their Oxygen.
so the regolith is on wires also/ / /? poor deniers, sooooooooo stupid, they don't even realise how stupid they are..just plain sad..
People who are conspiracy theorists will substitute all kinds of things to make their theories make sense. Doesn’t matter what it is when you’re incredulous. Look at the comment above. Apparently they used helium lol. To others it’s CGI in the 1970s. The way belief systems and perception systems work in humans they’ll believe even more wild shit to fill the void of things they don’t believe.
@@sonnypatterson9919 Idiot.
You know what, I often look back at these missions with such sadness. When I was at middle school I remember our teacher saying that we, or our children, will definitely be living on the moon or mars. So we should study hard if we wanted to be selected. The teacher was in her mid 20's...and really believed it. So did we. Where did it all go wrong? I'm now 47 and I will be lucky if we send anyone to the moon again, and even more lucky if I see anyone going to mars.
If we really did all that! Space 99 and thunderbirds springs to mind 😆
we matured and realized that the moon is a wasteland just like mars and other planets.. moonlanding was communism's greatest acheivement..lol. mankind will most likey never colonize another planet. we're just too small and insignificant and space is just too vast ..
If you are still with us you know we are going back soon and eventually to Mars if you can hold on until 2035 Based on my best guess factoring in that Elon Musk likes to overpromise with deadlines lol
@@andrewmossop6547 Bet you are wrong
A very cool crew on that Apollo 17.
At 3:40 when the command module is docking with the LEM the white stuff you see floating are not stars, they're ice pieces that remained on the third stage because of the 2-hour delay before launch and fell off when the command module separated from it. That's why Gene Cernan says "Houston, we're in the middle of a snowstorm". Harrison Schmitt also has confirmed that in a lot of his lectures.
all those people seemed so naively hopeful and optimistic about the future.. one narrator even remarked that man would venture in interstellar space before he's dead.. and to think this was 50 years ago.. we haven't even left low earth orbit since lol
17:47 Space Shuttle
My Dad worked for NASA back then. I was about 20 and so excited that a scientist was finally at work in space, though we knew this was the end of America on the Moon for many years to come. Wow, I'd forgotten or maybe missed that there was an EVA between Moon and Earth. Thanks for sharing this.
1:29 on the shoulders of giants
@@highlypotent do you think the {ww2 germans} would have sent men to space? Like just in general, not related to this lol
(If they had existed for longer)
@@forksandpopsticles9183 For sure. Hitler had some crazy shit. Supposedly he had some kind of bell(supposed to be an UFO). you'll probably find it if you google hitler bell or hitler ufo bell or something.
Various maps, for example fra mauro's map. State there were giants in England. While the rest of the map is completly normal. Makes you wonder hue?
Wish they had a data stream like 'Altitude, velocity, down range, etc' like on the Shuttle flights.
So did they. ..
50 years ago ....
Amazing documentary, the greatest achievement of mankind to this date to leave the Earth and walk on the Moon, so sad that one of the NASA Directors, Dr. Christopher Kraft (Manned Spacecraft Center) says "I hope I'm living when we leave this Solar System on a venture to find another planet Earth". The next few years look very promising though, and humans should be back walking on the Moon again by 2022, just in time for the 50 anniversary of the last time man was there!
Man bring that on. And land next to one of these sites and finally shut up the hoaxers.
Tinfoil shares will crash.
Boy are you gullible! Man has never been to the moon!
@@Powerful1776 Prove it
@@Ami-km8sd czcams.com/video/4O5dPsu66Kw/video.html and czcams.com/video/0vOXj3aRueY/video.html
@@Powerful1776 lol
Good video thanks
Sad, that so many years later, the Apollo mission remains the high point of Space Exploration. We should have established an inhabited moon base by now.
lungotevere - Not much point to it.
We did. I watched the TV documentary Space 1999. It didn’t turn out too well for the moon base. 😂
Quero ver de novo em 2024. Parabéns para a America pelo feito.
American Exceptionalism.
Accept No Substitutes.
Lies make America exceptional?
@@Powerful1776 oh STFU, pathetic schizophrenic conspiracy theorist
Thankfully I've been here to see this happen in near real time, well as real time as a working man could get, on TV every night at dinnertime! Now nearly everyone has their eyes on a phone screen!
wow
If an older Jack Schmitt ever had to be played in a movie, Alfred Molina would be the man. It's amazing how much they look alike.
WE SHOULD ALREADY BE ON MARS!
You can blame politicians for that. THEY are the ones, along with the POTUS who decide the financing, and also the ones that gut, or cancel such projects. They do it time and time again.
Yes. Not only Rovers.
@Mick Ronson you're ill seek help
They can’t
Because 4k quality 😉
Or HD 480 could enough to stop this fake 😂
@Mick Ronson the earth doesn't cast a shadow on the moon you fucking ignorant prick. That's not what causes the moon phases and my 7 year old cousin knows that!!!!
looks like movie set to me
Funfact Nasa was the receiving area for flight 93 September 11 2001. The passengers from flights 11,77,175 and 93 which added the full group of all planes went in and never came out. They never went to a air carrier.
What the heck are you talking about...another conspiracy nut....
I watched this live on TV when I was a child.
2:05 Wow! John Belushi was such a multi-talented guy! I never realized he work with NASA before going on to Comedy in SNL! A real Renascence man!!
*Took the words right out of my mouth. I was thinking, "Cheeboyguh, Cheeboyguh, Cheeboyguh.*
14:39 they were kicking that boulder around which on earth would weigh 500 pounds.
would be more like 100-150
@Mick Ronson cry some more twat
Is a fake rock
You mean its 83 pound boulder then, how reckless of them
I wish someone would have gotten a picture of Young in a pressure suit with that mustache 😅
Legendary comments, 19:25
thanks for posting this awesome material! At 06:19 we see the CM being filmed from the LEM which seems to be orbiting behind and *above* the CM (judging from the angle and shadows). This must have happened after the LEM separated from the CM to land. One would think that the LEM during the landing procedures would always be behind and *below* the CM, not above. Does anyone know why the LEM maneuvered into that position or does it only seem to be in that position due to perspective?
@Johan Bollen
It doesn't really matter whether it is above or below relative to the CSM since they are virtually in the same orbit.
Depending on the orientation when they separated they can drift to different spots relative to the CSM due to how orbital mechanics work. For example a small deltaV change radially inward during separation would get them below the CSM but some time later in the orbit they will be above the CSM.
@@QuietElite that makes a lot of sense. Thanks.
I was about to post at that exact time now he say that there following the one in front mut there is like 3 or 4 shadows and when the camera pans down did you see the shadow move in and move at same speed
If only the chinese released their moon rover video, we could see it on HD.
they did released HD pictures, not sure about the video
It lost it like NASHOLES lost the telemetry data from Apollo.
@Nature and Physics Another NASA excuse.
@Nature and Physics Stay delusional my unwoke friend. Hint: Please stay far away from fire and anything that sppears to be dangerous. By the way, no one referring to missing telemetry thinks it refers to video. Try your condescending remarks on someone else.
@Nature and Physics Nearly 60 million dollars per day for the NASA FANBOYS. ENOUGH! Even if NASA landed men on the moon; which they obviously did not, that does not help snyone on our Earth.
A perfect title: On the Shoulders of Giants !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can say Ron Evans appeared to have the most fun out of them all on his final Spacewalk coming back home! His moment to shine and I would say, 170,000 miles from Earth he likely had one of the most magnificent views any Astronaut would have ever seen; the entire Earth in one sweeping panorama vs a spacewalk in low Earth orbit.
JimWakable yee good panoramic on the nevada desert studio's hooliwod simulation on the moon is not atmosphere wind for that's flag
JimWakable and how much air they haven in tgat bag and where is make sheet and pee in pants
He was the drummer of the band on this mission
That piece of rock he should have threw it at a 45-degree angle to see how far it would have travelled 😆 🤣 😂
I want to know who zoomed the camera into the remaining capsule on the moon?
I wonder how long that camera was on for after the LM left ? Bunch of ETs all come out of hiding from behind rocks , 'Its safe, the dickheads that murder each other for resources and money are gone !' lol Schmitt: 'We come in peace.....please ignore the explosive charge we left behind'.
Something fishy
At about 18:35 I can see the stars.
wonderful
that's what should be humanity, a bunch of good willing foes trying to explore and learn about their universe. But we 've became a sad spicie , trashing their planet and running after money year after year.No goal , no future.
+Daclaem Toth... I agree, there always seems to be plenty of money to spend on armaments for war, death and destruction, and only a minuscule amount of spending in comparison for space exploration and the future of mankind, I know what I would prefer to pay my government taxes for!
Hope we can go back up there. These problems will always exist, but as long as the sky is blue and the Earth continues to rotate, there's still a future.
I hope we got back soon....
Nebraska214 Eugene Cernan and his crew member slept on the moon for three days, and three nights. I wonder what it was like to sleep there.
I love that dated look at 6:47 and how it has that lost creepy 70's moon mission feel..
“We have a cut-off at T-30 seconds”
“What?!...COME ON!” 😂😂😂😂
wish I could go back in time to the Apollo 17 launch
Só de pensar,que eu já acreditei que a exploração espacial era verdade,sindo vergonha de mim mesmo!
Never Actually Sent Astronauts
Again why I'd there no show girls to entertain the astronauts.
Not in the budget..lol ...lol
lol 😂😂😂😂
Actually one of the scenes looks like its from lost in space but i didn't see the robot.. or will robinson....
Why does it seems like things are moving so slow in space or in orbit?
I loved all of the astronauts. But there was a special place in my heart for guys like Cernan, Shepard, Schmidt and the rest of them. The ones who walked on the Moon stood on the shoulders of giants like the Gemini and Mercury astronauts, some of whom, like Alan Shepard an early Mercury astronaut, became the first U.S. person to go into space as well as the first to hit a golf ball on the moon. From what I understand, that ball is still orbiting the moon. Jest intended.
Are you for real?
@@oldnic yes, he is, because he respects people who risked their lives to advance our scientific knowledge. What have you done with your life?
@@ct92404 you are very dim to believe such nonsense...
@@oldnic So you're one of those nutjob conspiracy theorists? Yeah, you're the dim one. I'm sure you also believe the Earth is flat and Bigfoot is real.
..." beautiful " ;)
At 6:19 Do we see there two shadows on the ground , one of the capsule and the other of the round object in the middle of the pic?
💜💜💜☻
It’s easy to convince a population that has limited education. So sad.
Agreed. People who think that Apollo was a big hoax and don't understand the science behind it seem to be more numerous than ever.
It must be real...because it looks so fake...I like the lunar landing part..."very little dust"
What anomaly?
I suppose what confuses kids the most and what makes them skeptical about our landing on the moon is why we didn't keep going back there on a regular basis and instead "gave up" after only 6 landing missions and 8 fly-bys. It certainly would be nice to have a larger presence than what we have today in space. Lunar missions could really pay for themselves today, so why not go there now!
But there were hid military missions on the Moon after the fateful publicly Unknown APOLLO 24: meeting the frozen MONA LISA on the other side of the Moon...!
Albert Kundrat RUBBISH! Where the evidence any such missions occurred?
Javier Anderson. Well, I've heard thousands of reasons people doubt the moon landings. And, yes, one of those reasons is because nobody went back there after 1972. But, the people who use that reason to doubt Apollo was real... well... they simply have no understanding of the gigantic undertaking that it was. Nothing in human history can compare. No journey in human history was anything like it, in terms of effort and expense. There is no close 2nd place. The kids you're talking about simply cannot understand the numbers involved. But, I like to make this comparison. Climbing Mt. Everest is a massively expensive undertaking, and takes months to accomplish, and is one of the biggest journeys a person can make on Earth. How many years' worth of climbing Mt. Everest could you do before you could pay for a moon landing single seat on Apollo? The answer is that you could climb Mt. Everest every single year for about 233,000 years, before you'd pay for a single seat on an Apollo moon landing. That's longer than the human race has been in existence. THAT is how much Apollo costed. And, yeah, they pulled the funding. And, no nation since then has been willing to fork over that kind of money to put humans on the moon again.
I've never understood why not going back was considered proof of anything, other than how expensive, difficult and ultimately fruitless further missions would be without better propulsion systems. Why did we stop building Gothic cathedral or Egyptian Pyramids?
@@rockethead7 the cost of the war in vietnam that same year ( 1969 ) was the equivalent of the entire apollo program so there is a close second and even a 1rst. Try to imagine that.
Anyone buying this?
Not me, but many many millions believe in this lie. They are like sheep.
@@oldi184 Ah, the old sheep analogy. Say we are sheep, provide no evidence, and believe this is enough to prove your point. Hoaxers have less and less evidence now that everything has been debunked. LMFAO
Sorry, but you two are the sheep.
Lost in scientific illiteracy and ignorance of history and politics.
23:09 who the heck tilted up the camera to follow the take off from the moon?
Ed Fendell
The film crew
The camera was operated by Ed Fendell. Take care.
The astronauts engineers and geologist who took us (the U.S.) into space, and to the moon all for the most part had participated in a great war/Korea. Mortality was real to these men, and they very much lived in the world of reality. Many generations now call these men our Greatest Generation. The progeny of Americans that had lived in freedom and liberty since the inception of this nation, and lived in a land where the leader freely gives up power upon his defeat in our democracy was an example to the world. This deliberate transfer of power to the next ELECTED president was an example to the planet unique in HiStory, and recognized by the King of England at that time as truly an extraordinary event that proved the American leader was greater man than him for doing so. America was the first and set such an example that it is copied by almost everyone, or at least they make the appearance of following that example. I hope our current space exploring generations can find the wisdom of those who have preceded them.
Massacre the natives and rob them of the land to start with. Then during that glorious period ( the 60s ) of freedom and liberty as you say where it was ok to segregate colored people, like in South Africa but then no segregation in the front line of wars ( Vietnam ) You can vote blue or red ( is always the same 2 parties winning anyway ) but it doesn't matter because both have instructions not to touch or modify the system that keeps the really powerful up there .
4:58 how is it recorded? it was 72' so i think they werent any special effects these days, or maybe im wrong.
Thats cgi i think
@@forksandpopsticles9183 thank u
@@forksandpopsticles9183 CGI in 1972??
Fake = drama
Go fuck yourself.
Bacot, bumi itu bulat
Are there really people that sit here and watch this Moon footage and say to themselves "yeah that looks really real" and believe this crap !?🤪
maybe because.. it is real? Just because you don't understand everything that went into it doesn't mean it's fake. It's called ignorance.
Are there people that watch the 1/6 gravity effects and think - yep, they could pull that off in 1970 LMFAO
Forty years is too long!
Luna City or Bust!
22:38... that line, man. WTF
What line?
So funny so so funny
How could any idiot think we USA did not go to the moon
True...and not only U.S., but Russia, China and India as well. It's just that we were the ones that did it with humans multiple times, and so far no other country has duplicated that feat. That's quite a conspiracy for four countries to keep over 50 years. Or, just maybe, the truth is quite simply that WE (humanity) did go there...but that's not sexy and self-validating enough for some people's egos, i guess.
@@christophermacintyre5890 ::: True, but the historical basis for man on the moon really belongs to the German scientist who developed the V1 and V2 rockets that bombed France and England. The German scientist that came to USA not to Russia are the one ones who help further USA's development of the Rocket. German's were already ahead on Jet engine technology which USA was behind, and Russia further behind USA. Russia developed Rocket technology with help of the German Scientist who were employed with Russia. German and USA were already in the works of building the Atomic Bomb which Germany already had the technical advance over Russia and USA, but due to USA's and Russia's continuing bombing of the Nazi Factory's the German's could not further develop their technology to build the Rockets or the Atomic Bomb. So in reality back to the Man on the Moon achievement, it really belongs to German scientist, but the freedom of USA help further that peaceful achieve from the hardship of WAR. You are welcome to research what I have to say through your own time.
Yes, I am aware of the German rocket program and Operation Paperclip.
@@christophermacintyre5890 ::: I am not aware of Operation Paperclip, thanks for the info.
@@andrewtoombs3867 Nobody should ever forget the work done by von Braun and the other German rocket scientists/engineers from WWII 20 years prior. But, make no mistake about it, the USA would have gotten the job done without them. 450,000 people worked on Apollo. A vast majority were NOT WWII Germans. The development of the lander, the development of the command module, the development of the suits, the development of the computers, etc., was all done by American companies. And, it's not like we didn't have good rocket scientists/engineers. The problems with the F1 engines were solved by the American engineers. The weight issues were solved by American engineers. And, yes, they'd have built the Saturn V with or without the Germans. Again, I'm not saying this to dismiss their roles, or to say that I don't appreciate what they contributed. But, sorry, I do not agree that the accomplishment of landing men on the moon "belongs to German scientists."
Just wondering, why do you have 1973 in the description? The mission was December 7 - 19 in 1972
This documentary was produced in 1973.
@@rockethead7 Still makes no sense. Any documentary about anything states the year the events occurred, not when the doc was made.
@@tomcameron96
Wrong.
@@rockethead7 Yes you are wrong.
@@tomcameron96
Riiiiighttt. This video got the year wrong of the Apollo missions. And, no, it's not because it's standard to post the year the documentary was made, but they were sooooo stupid, that they got the year wrong, and YOU are right.
Good gods, CZcams is full of morons.
This is just too cool! I truly hope man goes back to the moon
(or goes for the first time.)
You have to be blind to believe the footage from these missions are authentic! Are you kidding me?
Your ignorance means nothing my friend, where your arguments from incredulity are irrelevant.
Hence your comment is no different to the flat Earth believers I'm debating *right now* who say to me "You have to be blind to believe those photos of the Earth from space are authentic! Are you kidding me?"
In what way is that evidence? :-)
*is authentic.
What's the problem with it?
@@ChrisPBacon777 fake nonsense..
@@ivandelabanque1806 nope, sorry. A for effort though.
Your tin foil hat is on too tight. 🙄
"standing on the shoulder of a giant" is GOD himself. He made this all possible for us to see his vast creations😉
He doesn’t exist. Nice fantasy though..
@@stephenpage-murray7226
say that again after your last breath!:)
@@allusa2009
You brainwashed fool
That's cool and all but in reality is was actually the scientist and engineers who made all of this possible. Without them we'd be stuck to this rock. Credit them please
who is the woman at 00.03 ?
Minuto 18:30 se ven las estrellas 😉😁⭐️⭐️⭐️