Thats interesting, do you mind telling me what he worked on if you know?

@@Surrenitie Well after college he worked in Huntsville I believe at the Redstone facility and like Scott mentioned they kind of all got scooped into NASA. As he moved up he began training astronauts at Cape Kennedy specifically in celestial navigation, then the day Apollo 17 splashed down my family moved to Houston where he was head of the simulator department until he had a difference of opinion to say it mildly with the culture that was being created at NASA in the mid 80's when he decided to leave. Most of the Apollo guys were gone by Challenger.

@@cster That is so fascinating to me, Apollo was always the golden days of NASA imo

@@Surrenitie It was always fascinating to me too in fact I was the grandchild that took to it the most so I got all of his engineering papers from Apollo through the Shuttle when my grandmother passed away. NASA even gifted him a model LM they used for training when he retired that I have sitting next to my desk in a case.

Redstone?

My grandmother met Yuri Gargarin when he came to the UK. She described him as charming and charismatic, as did everyone: Hero of the Soviet Union! He toured much of the world and was greeted with pageantry, but not the US where he was banned by Kennedy. It was a shameful period in history, the Cold War.

...... That we know of....

@@DARisse-ji1yw what do you mean?

@@matyasnovak9539 implying that there may have been a soviet manned spaceflight before Gargarin

@@drewbeans uh... just... why 🤦🏻‍♂️

Wooow. That’s amazing. Sir can you tell us more about your stories of the Space Age. Like Apollo 11/13, Skylab, STS-1/51L/107/135 etc. I’m sure people would love to hear then

My mother was an amateur satellite observer of sorts, and she would work out the orbits for each based on her observations. She could also tell the difference between satellites based on their signature change in reflectivity as they spun.

@@ashokiimc Thanks for your comments. I was always fortunate to be able to watch, on television, every space launch up to STS-51L, the Challenger disaster. At that time, 1986, I was in the Air Force and missed it. I remember Alan Shepard looking up at his Redstone rocket with his Mercury capsule waiting. John Glenn's flight and the worry about the heat shield coming loose on his capsule. Gemini days were great days, 2 men in space, walking in space, rendezvous and pin point landings. The Apollo 1 fire, I can still see the breaking news on TV. Apollo 8 going to the moon. People thought they could see Apollo 8 in space but it was actually Venus. And Apollo 11, the world stopped for that week, everything, everyone, was the moon landing. I was glad it happened in summer so there was no school. There's more of course but now it's SpaceX. Soon we will all go into space and look down on earth and out into space. Keep dreaming!

I remember doing the same thing. The times were posted in the paper and we were given the direction it would fly over. Echo 2 was bigger and brighter.

@@chrischeshire6528 do you remember the Columbia disaster?

Yes please! :D

I'm ready for it!

It's probably got something to do with losing a hammer...

"That's a very long story" says Scott. "OK, I'm listening" I think.

0:42

To the tune of PPAP: "I have a monomethylhydrazine, I have a dinitrogen tetroxide... Ugh!" **slams them together** **explosion**

I have always wondered why it's called unsymmetrical instead of asymmetrical

He was really saying the stage was hyperbolic fueled.

@@myfavoritemartian1 ...yes? UDMH stands for Unsymmetrical DiMethylHydrazine, which is a hyperbolic fuel, used primarily with dinitrogen tetroxide or red fuming nitric acid, which are both hyperbolic oxidizers.

@@DJ_Level_3 Hypergolic :D But hyperbolic reactants sound fun too!

Same

Simple life, best life.

thats not simple, siple is just watching it asap

On your left

"We launched first!" "We got there first!" "America!" "USSR!"

@@AsbestosMuffins I've never heard of a race where it's the first one to start who is considered the winner.

enviable career!

Airfoil design and testing, including ducts, were one of the major functions of NACA. For instance, the PA-28 series uses the NACA 65 (2)-415 airfoil.

NACA defined all the first airfoil designs, subsequently used on many planes starting 1920s

Also wheel pants and cowlings.

Heron head engines were also a NACA outgrowth.

I pronounce NACA as Knacker.

@@TheGreatSteve In the industry, I've only ever heard it said "KNACK-uh".

@@TheGreatSteve as a north east lad I take great pleasure in saying it as Knacker too 😂👍

I doubt that to be true, and I'm way older than NASA.

Yeah back then no1 said "Nah Kah". They said each letter. "En Eh Sea Eh". Natrualy they said "En Eh Es Eh" first but was too long so we all know it now as Nasa.

Wasn't Redstone von Braun's old V2 rocket renamed to sound American?

Did he know Major Nelson?

SLS has been worked on since before the shuttle even launched, and its still not finished yet goes to show how shitty things have gotten

@@kargaroc386 What do you mean. SLS is reused shuttle scrap.

No “Space Race” with the Russians (Or anyone) to speed things up. Or a deadline from a president. Even some private companies like Blue Origin are dragging their heels. Elon Musk’s SpaceX & on a smaller scale Peter Beck’s Rocket Lab are leading the way on delivering quickly designed, produced and tested products. I’m really impressed with Rocket Lab and their 3D printed engines and as for SpaceX, where do you begin? SLS had an estimated development cost of $18 Billion in 2011. That figure is way off. Boeing will get the job done and done right. Just a little bit longer.

Yeah, this was the one disappointment from this video :-(

IIRC that dummy would later become the seed of one of the "forgotten cosmonaut" stories

Yes. That was their last successful test they needed before their attempt at a manned circumlunar mission. But NASA, afraid another Russian surprise might jeopardize Apollo funding, rushed the Saturn V and Apollo into readiness for Apollo 8. Leonov later said he was heartbroken when Borman, Lovell, and Anders became famous and not him and his copilot. NASA was probably right, because the Soviets undoubtedly would have crowed that they were the "first to the moon" without dealing with the little detail that they never landed. I am SO GLAD history recorded NASA having the balls to take a chance and go to the moon on the second manned Apollo. It really boosted the morale and public support after the doldrums in the aftermath of the fire.

Reminds me of 2020/2021. :(

Ah yes! The good old days!

@Worst Nightmare Yeah, it would've taken couple-three days.

@@dvv18 Not necessarily. If bombers had to deliver each warhead, most of them could have been intercepted. Also it depends on many more people making a decision to bomb. Each flight crew must execute a bombing. This increases the chance of them refusing to do it.

@@vorazechul Them war planners weren't as stupid as you're suggesting they were, methinks. Seriously, Curtis LeMay was crazy, but he wasn't an idiot.

I didn't see the poll but was screaming "Pioneer 1" when I saw the shape.

The answer is always "C".

Curious Droid would like to know your location

@@OnionChoppingNinja Tim Dodd normally would, also, but he's too busy.

Yes they are

I thought it was and still is?

First manned spaceflight maybe, but the Nazis won the unmanned, suborbital race in 1944.

@@zacklewis342 No, X-15 only broke the Karman line after Gagarin.

Right, 80 km or 50 miles. That was the altitude the DoD initially used to determine what military personnel got astronaut badges. International authorities such as the FAI disagreed, setting the altitude at 100 km or 62 miles. So the earliest American astronauts were not (and I think still aren't) considered astronauts by the FAI and other international bodies.

And y does the Saturn have the needle nose?

I pinned the mic to my shirt pocket which is further from my face than normal, I heard a lot more background noise.

It’s just about my favorite thing ever

Curious Droid sent it to him. Just too normal for his tastes.

If the nuclear deterrent rockets had ever actually needed to be launched, I think we'd have a lot bigger problems to worry about than whether our own rockets actually worked. Ideally everybody's rockets on both sides would have all failed and everyone would have breathed a sigh of relief and tried to work out how to stop that situation from ever happening again!

Nah, you only need the first or the first and the second stage. Those were relatively reliable, according to this video. I think we're beyond this particular uncertainty these days. If we have to launch, launch they will.

First I ever heard of NACA was in reference to ducts on a muscle car back in the early 70s... Didn't know what a "naca" was, other than a type of weird duct. Anyway, at that point it was pronounced as a word and not the single letters and that was over 40 years ago. Maybe it was originally said as separate letters, but this changed with the advent of NASA...

Quick, we gotta dig a tunnel!

Quick! Then move the tunnel a sidereal day!

This en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulirsch%E2%80%93Stoer_algorithm?wprov=sfti1

@@scottmanley Thanks. I think I read about the program that lets your predicts when Friday falls on the 13th and then the book ended up in a box for about 15 years.