The End Of Apollo: What Happened During The Final Missions To The Moon? | Trajectory 

How didn't they mention Albert B. Explosion, Jr., who applied the last bolt to the Saturn V of Apollo 11! Inadmissible.

Part of the upper foam fell off and hit the wing during take off : this was seen and a program run to predict the effect. The program returned **** , the Fortran language response when a value is off the scale, too small or too large. The ground crew were so complacent they didn't bother to ask the crew to check : they fried.

@@michaeledwards2251 An important consideration at the time was that there was nothing anyone could do about the damage. No changes to the flight plan or crew duties could repair or even assess the damage, so they made no changes. (Pardon my absurdity, but they didn't carry a spare left wing with them.)

@@beenaplumber8379 If they had known, alternatives such as (a) Attempting re-entry with the right wing down, left wing in the cool zone (b) wait for relief : use earlier rockets to provide a way down or even other nations. (c) wait for a partial repair kit before attempting (a) Ignorance is not bliss.

@@michaeledwards2251 Simplistic solutions to complex problems reflect a type of ignorance, which as you say, is not bliss. Waiting isn't an option when you only have enough consumables for a few extra days, maybe a week, whatever. Nobody has spare human-rated (or otherwise) spacecraft sitting around that can be made ready to go with a mission that they throw together in less than a week. Missions take planning, preparation, and equipment. Rescue missions have never been an option. NASA has always been up front about that. What "earlier rockets" did they have available? (None.) If another spacecraft were available, did Columbia have a docking module or other means to transfer to another ship? I believe all they carried were pressure suits for use within the crew cabin. Did they have any EVA suits? What kind of partial repair kit could have helped them? What repairs would they have planned for? (They saw the impact, not the damage it caused.) Can carbon-carbon even be repaired? What about rendezvous? How would that be accomplished when they were at the end of a 2-week mission, and probably didn't have much fuel left for OMS maneuvers? (They would need to preserve their re-entry burn unless somehow the Russians had 3 spare Soyuz capsules ready to meet them, which they didn't, and if they could somehow transport those craft to a more southern facility to launch them on an orbit that would match Columbia's. Launches from Russian facilities were only capable of high-angle orbits, which is why the ISS orbits at a high angle. (Remember, they didn't even know if the damage was that severe.) How do you keep your left wing in the cool zone during hypersonic S-turns? (Isn't that when they broke up?) The leading edge and the nose are the hottest locations during reentry. How do you keep one leading edge cool without transferring the excess heat and dynamic load to another part of the vehicle, and what tells you the vehicle would survive that kind of skidding re-entry, or that it would remain controllable? Was this a maneuver they had studied before? Simple solutions don't always work for complex problems.

Of course it was paranoia. Those Reds were *everywhere* even under the bed!

@@reddwarfer999 How sarcastic. American history revels that , indeed, there were Communist groups that were operating in the US . How do you think technology found its way to other countries such as Russia and China? “ under every bed” no, but they were operating in many places.

Moon buggies went along on 3 missions. (You can count the trails they left in the regolith from photos of the landing sites.) You have to remember the reason we didn't go back. Congress cut funding. It was far too expensive, and there was no meaningful return. The science wasn't worth it, just a public excuse for our adventure. But people no longer cared, so it was no longer "our" adventure, but "their" expensive joyride. And they sang ♫"I was strolling on the moon one day..."♫♪ Strolling, not driving. That was Cernan and Schmitt on Apollo 17. Nothing about our lunar missions was so complicated that a first-year physics student couldn't understand it, except maybe their computers, which were insanely simple yet sophisticated for their day. There is nothing about Apollo that we weren't capable of, and if you'd like to know the truth, it's easy enough to discover the truth for yourself. All you need is a desire to challenge your own beliefs, but most people find that very difficult. It takes a lot of guts. If you're an Apollo-denier, you might as well be a flat-earther. Both rely on a strict avoidance of evidence and new understanding.

"Not a flat earther." You forgot to write the word "yet." You're well on the way. "But let us just say it as the facts are supposedly to be." Huh? But, you clearly don't know the facts. How can you even have a position AT ALL, when you know nothing? "Yanks went to the moon!" 24 of them. "More than once!" Yes, 9 times. Landed 6 of those times. "at least twice they took cars" So, you're not sure? You don't know how many rover missions there were? Just "at least twice"? "Made a track for the cars to drive around the rocks." Huh? "Suprised it didn't fly" Do you ACTUALLY believe yourself to be intelligent? "Then nothing. No bases, no ruskies?? Just ridiculous!!!" The Soviets tried, but, they couldn't get their N1 to work, and gave up because the race had been long lost. As for "no bases," ok, please explain how to do that. Can you? How EXACTLY would you build bases with the Apollo hardware?

Only time in history of the world when technology can go backwards - it was only then possible to go to the moon then but they cant do it in the future 😂 Probably it never happened and it is all big lie - make believe! 😀

We beat Russia to the moon and that was all that mattered.😊 There's no reason to continue going and all of the engineers have passed away.

@laurawysack1066 Merica !!! Buzz Aldrin has admitted they did not go, to a young child. He does not wish to lie anymore I believe

@@KuriVaiM Aye agreed. The firmament is the only thing holding back the waters above.

@@Highlander.7 No. He was asked why nobody had been back in such a long time and he explained why - "money". While doing so he misspoke. An old man was stumbling over his words. This was after spending the previous 15 minutes talking about being on the moon. Why lie?