Apollo 17 - Lunar Liftoff 50th Anniversary
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- December 14th 1972 - The Lunar Module Challenger lifts off from the moon ending human lunar exploration in the Apollo program.
All film/audio/photos/slides courtesy NASA
Animations and KSP sequences courtesy Steve Taylor
Technical advice Robin Wheeler, Johannes Kemppanen and JT (Homemade Documentaries)
Animation graphics courtesy Paolo Mangili
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I was there for launch. (50th anniversary stream, not the actual launch. I misspoke, I am not that old!) They really did spend a lot of time on the Moon!
I assume you mean the launch of the Saturn V at the KSC, not this launch at Taurus-Littrow. (That would be difficult!)
Seriously, I watched the night launch on TV. It must have been magical to be there for it.
I was at cocoa beach and saw the launch of Apollo 17 as well.
I also remember this launch as well.
Saturn V lifted off into a black sky and so did _Challenger._ Isn't that something?
Your videos deserve all the praise given.
You do fine work.
More importantly, artifacts of history are here to be seen and studied. Thank you LM-5.
Much appreciated thank you!
Apollo 17 was perfect -- a grand success with which to end the moon program. Yet it was sad to realize that this chapter in our history was closing, and it ended due to budget cuts and public opinion polls showing a ho-hum attitude about the space program. People have never appreciated just how much good the moon effort did for this nation's economy, tech innovation and even its health care.
i feel so fortunate to live in a time that footage like this is so widely available. absolutely spectacular process, the end result of such an extraordinary effort.
Ed Fendall did a great job tracking that lift-off from 230,000 mi away!
Nice job, Simon.
No doubt they practiced it
@@MuzixMaker He had practiced on Apollo 15 and 16! (I had a nice discussion with him on this topic many years ago when we worked for the same company. 😊)
@@fepatton very cool, thanks for the info. What do you fly? I’m a Cherokee driver.
Ed had to work around that 2-second delay in his camera commands arriving and the picture returning. He was determined to get it precisely right for this, his last chance. And he did!
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On Apollo 15 there was no tilting of the Camera, for the liftoff. The Cameras gear drive slipping/acting up, and there was a Risk of it breaking and having the lens tip down, so it was decided not move it. So old Eddie only got to try on Apollo 16. It is a Shame that the Idiot Republicans of that Era gutted the Moon Program. The Hardware was already built, and now sits as Lawn Ornaments, across the US
Godspeed Apollo 17!
Great video. I was in high school at the time and remember this quite well. Thanks for an excellent compilation and presentation!
Glad you enjoyed it - thanks for the comment
Awesome!!! These videos RULE and ROAR!!!! Thank you for presenting them to us!!!
Keep 'em coming!!! Keep 'em coming!!! :) :) :) :) :) :)
The best liftoff as captured from the moon. Great video as usual LM5. Ron’s spacewalk next then splashdown just before Xmas. Cheers
Love the Digital Restoration. Yep stayed glued to the TV. Fascinated 13 yo.
Thanks for commenting and glad you liked the content
Outstanding, man, outstanding. Excellent job as usual!
Thanks!
Thank you for making this video. It's so nice to be able to see what this was like using CGI and matching up the checklist, movie film, etc.
Thanks for the comment and glad you enjoyed the content
Amazing that the little ascent engine could lift the AS into lunar orbit.
That's the big plus about low G and no atmosphere! :)
1/6 the gravity of the earth and as already mentioned, no atmosphere.
Burns for 6 minutes. They fly upward at a 60 degree Ascent Angle.
Specific impulse is independent of gravity!
amazing
Even at the time of the Apollo 16 mission interest in the Apollo moon landings had largely waned...there were many more pressing issues in the world to deal with...and the costs were extraordinarily high..I remember a live broadcast of the lunar rover on AP16 being played in a restaurant ..no one was watching...
What did "the world" have to do with Apollo?
@@RideAcrossTheRiver
Because without public interest, there was no motivation to keep funding the program.
@@rockethead7 Was the "world public" interested in SkyLab and Shuttle?
@@rockethead7 I think it was more Nixon and his Congress cronies wanted anything Kennedy gone forever.
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Skylab, not really very much. Shuttle did raise some interest. But, not enough to ever do with it what it was originally designed for.
Great stuff .. 🤠👍
Thanks 👍
Wonder if they wanted to stay longer or were happy to be going home? Lovely video 😘
Probably both.
I think Jack would have liked a week there.
I guess they could keep using that remote control TV camera on the surface till the battery ran out. How long did that last?
It was quite a while......but am unsure how long
MagicAl5F4781. A stationery Camera on an inanimate object? What would be There to see, that motivated the cost?
Great
Grumman Grumman
oh hell yeah
Tweek-burn. Cool.
Wait! Who, how, what?!? I don't understand how they got the cam to pan up. I mean, it's almost perfect. The timing would've been hard to be sure of. Even today, we have a 3 sec delay on landlines on calls from the states to Africa, Iraq, etc.. But, hhmmm, maybe they could have timed it so close due to them timing different cams during the mission.
Ok I'm back to being a full believer..lol
Whew! 😅
39:52 So how did they get the film camera to stay running?
You mean the TV camera.
It was on the rover, with its own power and com connection to earth.
Who was Gordo on the ground? Not Cooper was it?
Gordon Fullerton, Astro Group 7 - flew Shuttles later
@@thomasrednour8857 Ah cool. Thanks
Hello, I really enjoyed the other videos you created on the Apollo program.
Internet sites on the Apollo missions of my country often have contradictory or incomplete data and as I do not know the sites of the USA on the Apollo program, I allow myself to ask you questions:
What happened to the Apollo 9 LM "Spider" (descent and ascent stages)?
Why is Apollo 10's "Snoppy" LM in solar orbit?
What happened to the Apollo 10 LM descent stage? Crashed on the surface of the moon. Or in solar orbit?
Have you found the wreckage of the ascent stages of the Apollo 11 “Eagle” and Apollo 16 “Orion” LMs?
Regarding the Apollo 18, 19 and 20 missions which were cancelled:
What were the different CM and LM callsigns?
What were the different landing sites planned for these three canceled missions?
What were the planned crews (main and reserve)
Thanks very much !
Hi. I will try and answer your questions... Apollo 9 LM ascent and descent stage orbits eventually decayed and it burnt up on re-entry.the descent stage was in a different orbit and it re-entered in 1969. The ascent stage re-entered in 1981
Apollo 10s ascent stage Snoopy was jettisoned by the crew and then the ascent engine was fired in pro-grade to depletion which resulted in it being in a solar orbit. NASA often did this with the third stage of the Saturn V after trans lunar injection until they decided to crash it onto the moon on later missions ( they also decided to deliberately crash the LM ascent stages onto the moon's surface too). On Apollo 10 they wanted to test the ascent engine to see performance and the fact that the LM was then out of the moon's vicinity was NASA thinking at that point in Apollo. It's still out there
Descent stage on Apollo 10 would have eventually crashed on the moon. No record of it was recorded as there was no telemetry equipment on the stage
For the 11 and 16 ascent stages...11 it is unknown if it crashed or is still in orbit. It was in a high lunar orbit when jettisoned and telemetry was lost while it was still in orbit
16...unknown..but it more than likely crashed..no-one can say where though
why the takeoff of the LM is always filmed by the rober showing the rear part of the LM? why not the front part??
Because if they had a front view the LM ascent stage would have flown over the the rover when it pitched over, instead of away from it. They wanted to try and capture the pitch over maneuver so they put the rover in a position which meant it was looking at the rear of the LM
@@lunarmodule5 Hello, thank you for taking the time to answer me, so I understand that a shot from the rover from the back of the LM makes it possible to film it for as long as possible. Whereas when shooting from the front, the LM will fly over the rover and then very quickly be out of sight. Thanks to you, I know even better the Apollo program which fascinates me a lot!
@@lunarmodule5 Excellent, I've always wondered why that was.
Also, they always landed east to west (and lifted off east to west). Therefore, the sun was to their backs. Had they pointed the camera at the front of the lander for liftoff, not only would it quickly go out of view, but, in addition, the camera would be facing into the sun. That's not a very good camera angle, because the sun would drown out the image of the lander.
@@erebus8579 Also, they had the sun behind the Camera from this position.
Is that a PLSS leaning on the starboard leg? Did Cernan take Schmitt's backpack and place it there, maybe, after Jack climbed aboard and hooked up to the LM supplies?
They were thrown out of the hatch after they got back in...it just landed there
@@lunarmodule5 That's a 90-degree toss, though, and clearly it's leaning on its base against the starboard leg. I'm thinking Cernan placed it there after Schmitt chucked it out.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver I would have to look at the transcript
@@lunarmodule5 It's NOT a PLSS, I found out. There's footage of Schmitt throwing his hammer while the white object is leaning there against the starboard leg. What could it be?
@@RideAcrossTheRiver possibly a jettison bag?