Apollo Program: Tragedy to Triumph - Epic History TV Reaction

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[douggetchess]

My grandfather died in 1971, when I was 5. One story I always heard about him was that he had helped make the springs on the couches in the Command Module. My Dad passed away at 82 last year, and one of the things left to me was a bundle of tools labeled "Pop's tools" . They are oiled and well preserved, among them callipers you may use to gauge springs. I may be connecting dots, but they are wonderful dots.

[hoshinoutaite]

When Michael Collins takes his photograph of the Earth and the Moon during Armstong and Aldrin's landing, he is the only human being, living or dead, not in it.

[shylermcelhannon]

This combines my love of science and history, I am extremely excited about this series!

[michaelblagrave]

Chris, this is comes from a baby boomer who so much remembers this time. The shock of Appollo 1 was unbelievable. If you didn't live thru it you can never truly understand. Or how after several successful lunar missions it was seen as ho hum by so many, just taken for granted. The courage of these early astronauts was unbelievable. Great reaction

[JV-the-Tossh]

I wrote a school paper on the start of the space race with Sputnik, von Braun and Korolev and how different the two visionaries' path to space were.

Korolev was truly an amazing man. A man so brilliant that his medals were secret, his death was secret, and his achievements were secret, all for a LONG time.

And yet he was buried in the walls of the Kremlin as a hero of the Soviet Union.
That man was a true visionary genius.

[keithbird]

The courage, committment and resilience of these men (and women) is truly "The RIght Stuff". Bow your heads, we are in the presence of greatness.

[BuffaloSentry]

You are the only channel on Youtube I am a member of and it could not be more worth it

[zardeth]

It's funny how he talks about having clear goals being motivating to do stuff and then transitions to Malory on Everest. The thing about reaching high peaks like Everest and the reason people die doing it, is because it takes so much to get to the top, AND TO GET BACK DOWN. Too often people think they achieved their goals when getting to the top and let themselves go on the way down. And that's when deaths happen.

[matthewwarlin]

From the Earth to the Moon, one of my all time favorite shows.

[mathieutheberge]

As an engineer working in the space industry it’s absolutely stunning what was accomplished through the Apollo program, the devotion and ingenuity of the people who worked to make this happen is still admired heavily

[gunzakimbo]

Usually don't recommend stuff but since I know you like Napoleonic stuff I thought I'd recommend checking out PMF Productions from Epic History TV's link in one of their more recent videos! They only have 4 videos at the moment, very much like EHTV and HistoryMarche but the first set of videos they have up is from Napoleon's campaign in Italy. Tend to go over a bunch of stuff I never knew. Pretty short videos but small channel only about 8k subscribers and I believe that's probably the only history channel I've seen that you (probably) didn't know about, lol. Love the videos, keep up the amazing work man!

[wikiuser]

Space has been a major interest of mine ever since a moving planetarium visited my elementary school as a child. Exploring the solar system with space probes and manned flights is my favorite subject regarding space, with the Apollo program being one of my biggest interests from that field. I've even assembled a long YouTube playlist dedicated to this space program.

[roberthess]

My whole life has spanned our nation's time in space (from Explorer 1 to the present). I remember never missing a launch as a youngster in school -- watching on black and white (and later color) TVs in our classrooms. I sadly remember my Dad telling me at breakfast one morning that three astronauts had died in a fire on the launchpad during a test (Apollo 1). My favorite memory was sitting up at 2 am with the entire family watching Neil Armstrong stepping onto the surface of the moon -- and seeing my then 69 year old Nana (who was born three years before the Wright Brothers flew) watching humans walking on the lunar surface! I could go on, but won't. Thanks, Chris, for another super video review. 😀Best,

[fishfly]

The story of the Soviet Venera missions is fascinating if you haven't looked into it. They returned the only images we have from the surface of Venus and the spacecraft they sent were practically tanks and could still only withstand a few minutes on the surface.

[CardsMan]

In the 60;s, I worked for a CBS affiliate. Cronkite was there for every mission. During Gemin 6 X 7, the first docking mission. Cronkite, not knowing he was still live, got angry about something and threw a fit. The picture was there, but the sound was not. His thin hair shook as he trembled. Then I heard a voice say "Walter". He straightened up, smoothed his hair, and started back in.

[heatseekerx]

The tale of the Apollo missions are the stuff of legends.

[nrrork]

2:30 Reminds me of my high school principal telling us how his grandmother moved out west in a wagon when she was a little girl, and as an old woman she took a plane to fly back east.

[marsta]

My dad worked as a NASA contractor from 1964 to 1984, so the space program was a daily part of our lives. My strongest memory of childhood is Apollo 8's Christmas Eve broadcast from Lunar orbit. My dad had been working 60+ hour weeks for several months, but was at home watching it on TV with us that night. I was only 10 years old at the time, but I could see how proud he was as we listened to Borman, Lovell, and Anders read the first chapter of Genesis.

A distant memory from that time was the morning of October 31, 1964. We were going to the Ellington Air Force Base and saw in a field a fire off in the distance. A jet had crashed as it was preparing to land. We later learned Astronaut Ted Freeman had crashed as a goose had been sucked into his air intake. He ejected but his parachute didn't open and he died on impact.

Three other Gemini/Apollo astronauts died in aircraft accidents:

Elliot See and Charlie Bassett on February 28, 1966
Clifton "CC" Williams, Jr. on October 5, 1967

[markdroka]

Another home run. I would love to see them make a movie of the intellectual rivalry between Werner Von Braun and Sergey Korolev. The latter's death marked the point when the Soviet space program foundered.

[paulcochran]

"Moon Machines" is a great engineering series that covers the Saturn V, Command Module. Lunar Module, Guidance system, Lunar Space suit, and Lunar rover. Great interviews with the engineers.