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Lucky you ! :)

He probably has people that sign stuff for him

@@G274Me Maybe, but I was able to track down his private home address and sent it directly to him before he sold the home a few months ago, and comparing it to authentic signatures online it looks authentic. I think it's real but I'm not an expert. It looks awesome, though.

@@titanictx883 dont listen to that cynic. He still talks as brightly and enthusiastically about how they got through that time as much now as he ever did. He is probably delighted that people still remember him for it and i seriously doubt if he has people signing his signature, he doesnt seem like the type who would allow that

@@paulinegallagher7821 Thank you 🙂

Agreed. I had this exact thought today as I used lines from this movie in a job interview...where I later in the day got the job.

@SFS-AstroCat several, including failure is not an option, I dont care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do, and the 'with all due respect sir, i believe its going yo be our finest hour.

Movie name?

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It is true! I can't believe it! I feel old

he also portrayed John Glenn in The Right Stuff

"Failure is NOT an option"

@@dace938 in his autobiography Krantz summed up the responsibility he bore as Flight Controller...he pointed out that thousands of different people in the NASA program could say you can't safely launch that rocket ..but that he was the ONLY person who could say Yes, you can launch it

Yep, Ed Harris is the man. I'll never forget his eyes in Enemy at the Gates.

A lot of his dialogue is verbatim quotes from Krantz.

I guess I didn't pay attention enough to realize James did the music for this movie but I should have. His score absolutely MADE Star Trek II

I’m 64 years and I started to cry during this clip. Incredible I cry every time I see it.

Yes, pure cinema right here 👏👏👏

@@davidhaynes3126 Same. 56.

recently I found in a community library and read “ failure is not an option “ gene Kranz Not an easy read, but great detail about Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions. Loved rewatching Apollo 13 for like the fifth time.

Those were John Glenn's first words on the radio when he lifted off as well.

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@@dsny7333 🌹🌹🌹

It's my understanding that it was a part of the Saturn V flight plan that letting the ground know that the clock was running as part of the assent instructions. I believe that it came right after the instruction to enter V75 but not hit enter on the DSKY in the flight procedures. However, this isn't to take away from the comment- It gives me chills too.

@@dsny7333 ok;

the part that always gives me chills is the bit where the first stage cuts off and you see it fall away towards the earth while the french horn plays. such a great scene!

He had about nine kids by then and his wife was worried if her husband was coming home alive! Oh, and she was pregnant again! When she cries, so do I!

That's when NASA was NASA!

Being preggo sucks.

Well, she was hormonal AF so I figured her crying was relief that it didn't explode on the launchpad and that her husband (who is still with us as of February 2022, by the way!) finally got to go into space. For him and Swigert (Kevin Bacon) it was their first (and last) time in space. And, of course, she's already missing him.

Best thing Ron Howard ever made and he made some good ones. My closest friend casually said "why make this movie, we know how it ends". Same guy loves this movie and admitted he was wrong.

The closest is First Man They never got the achievement ever again.

I remember when I was a kid, I went to a space museum. In the gift shop, they sold hats with all of the mission patches available. I reached for Apollo 11, but the guy in the museum said "you know, they are making a movie about Apollo 13" - I thought that sounded cool, so I got that instead. I was so excited for this movie to come out and I remember wearing that hat when I saw the movie.

Spot on.... Hollywood would make it Woke and ruin everything

You're being melodramatic, they still make big historical pictures. First Man for instance. I prefer Apollo 13, but it's still a great film. Cinema is in an annoying period where alot of budget is being sucked up by Super-hero films, but that fad will end eventually.

I'm kind of confused at why they decided to make the launch look more dramatic, as if a rocket the size of a skyscraper shooting into the sky at thousands of miles an hour wouldn't be dramatic under any circumstance.

Agreed, probably my favorite shot in the whole movie.

Yeah, it didn’t last longer.

Green

Me too

Gives me goosebumps every single time! I agree 100%; they couldn’t have done that scene any better!

Exactly

I prefer 4:03; summarizes the excitement of the whole thing.

😯

I wish i had a friend that had a work at nasa or even i had a work at nasa

@@neldevlol If you're ever visiting the Washington DC area, the local rocketry club launches model rockets at NASA Goddard Space Flight center in Greenbelt, MD on the first Sunday of every month. Guests can show up and watch NASA engineers and space geeks shooting model rockets. It's awesome.

@@cometasporelcielo the sad thing is i live in south america and i would have to travel to see it, and i dont have money

That's incredible

Thank you to the men who build those, what incredible inventions🤘🏼.

She's an absolute beast. And still the biggest thing ever launched into space.

@@dars5229 The russian Energia was slightly more powerful but has slightly less payload capacity, at least in the configuration that flew (twice).

But here's a note. The original plan to go to the moon involved having the entire spacecraft with all three astronauts landing. NASA eventually decided to use the Lunar Module concept and rendezvous around the moon to reduce weight. The original plan would have required an even more powerful booster than the Saturn V.

@@marcschneider4845 Saturn C8. Or Nova Rocket

You forgot to mention Gary Sinise excellent performance !!

@@mansurik1922 for sure. You can almost feel his frustration not being in the capsule with the guys he trained with. It's all in his eyes. But he wishes them well.

And just wate till NASA will rise again with the launch of the SLS system its like the Sat V all over again :)

Go to Boca Chica TX. SpaceX will be putting on a show soon. Starship is going to be amazing. SLS will just be playing second fiddle.

@@45thnewsbrigade-tacticalop60 It will be hearing like hearing the Shuttle launch all over again.

Starship is bigger, heavier and more powerful than the Saturn V.

I look forward to seeing Starship liftoff from OK Chica Texas

I know- there's always a bit of "Jimmy, you have no idea"

Ouch

@@Sec1 reqlies

Little did they know it just startedjust started

"Looks like we just had our glitch for this mission." Oxygen Tank No. 1: "Hold my beer 02 number 2.

Apollo 6 limped into orbit, but not quite the orbit intended, and then because the third stage was also damaged it couldn't do the TLI & abort test is was supposed to perform.

AS-502 (Apollo 6) was a wiring goof, AS-508 (Apollo 13) was an ongoing fight with a nasty longitudinal resonance called pogo. It oscillated around the 50-60hz range, so it was a toughie to pick up on and resolve. On later missions, they installed helium filled suppression buffers on the fuel lines and de-tuned the engines to operate at different, non-resonating frequencies that reduced, but not completely eliminated the pogo problem.

If memory serves, the problem (determined by pogo oscillations) was severe, actually more than depicted in the movie.

The incident was an example of NASA's design philosophy of redundancy paying off. If I remember; three engines could give you enough thrust but you would have to push them to their absolute limits which would be dangerous, so they added a 4th one to ease the strain. Then they added a 5th just in case one of them stopped working. Like he said "we're all right as long as we don't loose another one."

Pogo is still an issue today if pogo happens the flight computer shuts the engines down and Capcom will say Press to ATO which means the remaining fuel will be diverted to the good engines and the dead engines will be shut down until the fuel tank is empty and that stage is discarded.

Yes so flawless that it took quite some time for the engine to go from totally unreliable to "completely" reliable for the apollo missions. Welllll, except for Apollo 6 (unmanned) where pogo induced so much damage the rocket pieces fell off. Apollo 13 suffered an engine failure mode, technically a decision made by the computer. And combustion stability being the biggest risk factor in an independent NASA fellowship study. It wasn't a perfect an engine you might think it to be. Fact is, we didn't have the computers and analytic capabilities we have today and it was pretty much trial and error back then. The lack of catastrophic failure isn't a testimony to engineering per se, but also a significant amount of luck.

@@patrickd9551 The engine that shut down prematurely on Apollo 13 was a J-2, not an F-1. It is true that because of Saturn V's tragically short service life, it's difficult to accurately calculate the reliability of the F-1. But, particularly given how fraught the F-1's development was--solving the combustion instability associated with such a large combustion chamber took quite a bit of time, effort, and many test articles going boom--it is still rather impressive that it performed so well. How much of that impressive performance was luck, no one can say, but comparing the lineup of exploded test articles to the record of flawless flight performance, I would postulate that engineering prowess and ingenious problem-solving skills were still major factors in the final outcome.

@@patrickd9551 The engine that shut down prematurely on Apollo 13 was a J-2, not an F-1. It is true that because of Saturn V's tragically short service life, it's difficult to accurately calculate the reliability of the F-1. But, particularly given how fraught the F-1's development was--solving the combustion instability associated with such a large combustion chamber took quite a bit of time, effort, and many test articles going boom--it is still rather impressive that it performed so well. How much of that impressive performance was luck, no one can say, but comparing the lineup of exploded test articles to the record of flawless flight performance, I would postulate that engineering prowess and ingenious problem-solving skills were still major factors in the final outcome.

@@Delta-V-Heavy Oh I definitely agree that the engineering departments of old were top notch. And yes, you are correct that it was the J2 engine that failed. But in essence, the F1 and J2 were the same engine, used the same design, fuel, components and was developed by the same company. And both suffered from pogo. It was the F1 that failed on Apollo 6 and J2 on apollo 13, but pogo was known for both engines (as they were the same) and I believe it took them until Apollo 14 of 15 to fully resolve. As such, all manned missions up to that point used engines that were known for being faulty. All in all it was a miracle that nobody died.

@@patrickd9551 Sorry, but the F-1 and J-2 are very much *NOT* the same engine. Not in the slightest. They do *not* use the same fuels; J-2 runs on hydrogen, F-1 kerosene. As such, J-2 is fully cryogenic, F-1 semi-cryo. The engines are different sizes, and I don't think there is any commonality in the components used. They *are* both made by the same company, modern day Aerojet Rocketdyne, who also make the RS-25, AJ-10, and RL-10--which each have about as much in common as the F-1 and J-2, ergo not much. If I'm not mistaken, J-2 and F-1 both use the gas-generator cycle, but that doesn't make them the same engine, any more than being oxygen-rich staged combustion makes Blue Origin's BE-4 and Russia's RD-180 the same engine.

I agree, however the S-II centre engine cut-off happens in all missions. It wasn't a glitch. They also missed the Valsalva device off the suits, but I'm just an Apollo nerd who looks for details. Howard'll never top this. Nobody can.

@@ginskimpivot753 actually the Centre Engine cut off 135 seconds before it was suppose to throwing the Trajectory off a bit.

It gets funnier when you remember what the abort lever does. Move it one way and it activates the tower (which isn't there anymore). Move it the other way and it diverts control of the Saturn V away from the guidance computer to the guy who just moved the abort lever.

@@Banditrcn24 *_"the Centre Engine cut off 135 seconds before it was suppose to..."_* Yes - my oversight. They never completely cured pogo on the 'X' beam, did they?

Jim Lovell loaned his Naval Academy ring to Tom Hanks for the movie. Hanks is wearing the ring that was worn during the actual events of the movie! That warms my fan-girl heart❤️🚀🌕

@@ameliapond1916 Nice 🙂

@@ameliapond1916 He also played the Navy Captain who shook Jim Lovell's/Tom Hanks' hand and saluted him on the recovery ship at the end of the film.

I wonder why Armstrong was concerned about what they brought for lunch.

@@rogermouton2273 Very funny

It was Buzz Aldrin who asked about it actually.

​@@HO-bndk Yes he asked director Ron Howard if they got it from some vault or something and he told Buzz they created it from scratch. So Buzz said 'Wow that's good. Can we use it?' 😅😂

Is the launch footage not filmed? When it happened?

You're welcome... and me too.

Me too!! After all these years, and viewing this movie so many times!!

Totally agree, this particular moment gives me chills.

This film was the best way to show the younger generation of where we came from when regarding Apollo. Now after Artemis 1 launch it was like watching a combination of a Saturn V and a Space Shuttle Launch put together.

i understand why they would ask "is the rocket breaking"

@@jeremycox2983 for real

​@@jeremycox2983новая ракета на 500 тонн легче и может возить 5 человек Вот насколько Сатурн 5 неэкономичен и одновременно аварийный

On par with John Williams in Jurassic Park.

Genius*

True lol

Back in the day, cigarette companies ran ads, with medical doctors smoking, telling people how *healthy* smoking is. For real.

Great on your uncle!

My uncle also worked on the LEM - ascent engine. The Grumman character reminds us of him!

Yes! I love that scene and glad to see I'm not the only one!

A good Actor Kevin Bacon who performed excellently in the movies " X Man " and "Tremor " and also mind blowing performance in " The Hallow man " !!! But why didn't he choose western movies ? No idea !!

So far

@@rockwellrhodes7703 oh please grow up. Seriously believing conspiracy theories despite all the evidence that the event happened is just sad.

@@rockwellrhodes7703 the spending is there. The rocket launches were there. The whole infrastructure was built. Billions of dollars spent. The work of engineers, geologists, pilots, scientists was there. Pretty far fetched to believe that it was all staged by Hollywood.

@@rockwellrhodes7703 ok so where’s the evidence that proves it didn’t happen? So far there’s much more evidence that says otherwise. It’s a much greater leap of faith to ascertain it was all staged than believing it actually happened. Also how could it be that Soviet intelligence didn’t notice that the American space program was a farce? It’s just nonsense. You can’t provide a single verifiable argument that proves your point.

@@rockwellrhodes7703 so I suppose that, according to Rockwell Rhodes narrative, anything that you haver never witnessed firsthand cannot be believed in. That’s a pretty positivist point of view. Only the things available to your knowledge are to be believed, so somehow you must be in complete possession of the evidence that makes you believe that it was all staged for your argument to be supported. Therefore people like Aristotle and Plato were nothing but bigoted religious zealots because they couldn’t empirically prove there was a natural state of things in the universe, it was all mere conjecture and should easily be ruled out as false. Still, you’re saying the space program narrative is suspect but you’re not providing any evidence to support that statement. It is true that the general public is subject to be gullible but that doesn’t automatically rule out the possibility that it was indeed true. You don’t seem to have any interest whatsoever in exploring that possibility. What if we come back to the moon to places like the Sea of Tranquility and find the lunar landing modules left behind by the Apollo missions? Would we still be unable to say that the lunar landings were real because we are not the astronauts seeing it with our own eyes? I try to stay as open minded as possible and as critical and skeptical as I can be towards whatever is presented to us by governments and authorities, as I believe is our inherent moral duty as individuals, but how can you categorically claim that something to which independent evidence has been provided (that doesn’t necessarily make it true) is false? That’s also a leap of faith. And if you can’t see that it is, unless, as I’ve said earlier, you’re in complete possession of the sensory evidence that makes you make that claim, you’re the first one that’s blinded by their zealotry.

imagine what it would be like today watching a Saturn 5 launch on high definition TV with surround sound-next best thing to actually being there at the Cape!

@@dsny7333 we can only imagine

I had a portable reel-to-reel and recorded a ton of Apollo 11. Liftoff (Cronkite), lunar orbit, landing, "one small step", etc, etc. I thought (at the time 14 years old) I have these to look (listen) back on any time I wanted. Little did I know that all I need to do 53 years later was type in Apollo 11 on my laptop....... and there it is !!!

@@dace938 yes but what you have is homemade and still valuable, much like those who collected newspaper clippings of the Kennedy assassination - they are heirlooms today. I actually recorded the launch of Gemini 5 off the radio broadcast on a reel to reel recorder unfortunately its been long lost but I remember it like yesterday.

@@dsny7333 Birds of a feather !. However, my tapes are also loooooonnnngggg gone. (Thanks Mom for cleaning out my "stuff" when I enlisted - USN 73-77)

Hell yeah they do. Some of the flight controllers were Apollo astronauts

@@cyclonefreak2568 Capcom were astronauts

@@janusli8820 yes. Also a couple were geographical moon coordinators during the missions. Charlie duke capcom Apollo 11

"super nerds" lol. They were engineers! Hehe. Also, that go/no-go poll was how it went, so it's accurate.

@@Nghilifa made in the USA !

checkout first man

checkin last woman

@@Storm7289 I'll be entirely honest, the launch in that movie is a mix of not-great CGI and stock footage. I get the budget issue, but it doesn't look as good as this, especially without Horner's music.

Agree

@@borntoclimb7116 Usually, the pattern of most American space rocket launches is this - you see the flaming release of rocket fuel at the bottom of the spacefract at T minus 5 seconds to liftoff, and the rocket goes up exactly T-minus 0 seconds to liftoff. But why was there a delay in the liftoff after the T-minus 0? It actually took about 20 seconds to 25 seconds for the rocket to finally blast-off.

nail ?

You can thank James Horner for that

Need to find the rare gold edition of the orchestral movement of this soundtrack. It’s on RU-vid but I’d love to download it proper

Totally agree...

Actually it was the moon but close though

When the editors are drunk..

Well it’s pretty tall to say the least

@@GreysonGabble not from 3 miles

Hmmmmmm............

@@westnoble1020 hahahaaaaa 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Except the time the Saturn takes to actually to be launched in the flick. This would never happen in real life because all the pressure that was building-up under the vehicle would destroy it due to the massive vibrations of the engines.

The special effects on the launch sequence were so well-done that Buzz Aldrin asked director Ron Howard where they'd found the stock footage of the gantry sequence, because he'd thought he was already familiar with all of the real-world Apollo launch film on file. Aldrin was astonished to find out that those were SFX shots the movie had done themselves. That is how good the effects were in that scene, they literally /fooled a man who had himself been part of the Apollo program/.

@@IronMan-tk8uc My understanding is that the ignition sequence began at T-minus 8 (although it was six in the movie). The rocket had to build up enough power to launch. It takes longer in the movie because they do a slow motion of the clamps holding down the rocket. But it did not launch immediately.

@@IronMan-tk8uc Legit go watch some historic launch footage, even watch space shuttle launch footage. The launch sequence is accurate to real life and is a frame by frame reproduction of 1970 apollo 13 launch. @Marc Schneider the sequence began at 8 seconds where you could hear the sudden whirring of the turbopumps spooling up and the fuel flow at 7-6 followed by ignition at 5 is accurate to real life.

All done with a model!!! Amazing. Google it

that is so cool! Many folks were inspired to take up engineering and science careers by the Apollo Moon landings

This scene bothered me for many years because I wondered why were they decelerating so hard. It turned out this was a very short jolt, so this scene is only partly true

Each of the F-1 engines in the first stage had a *_55,000 HP fuel pump_* powered by a gas turbine comparable to that of a fighter jet engine.

TRue

Indeed, it's almost hard to believe that they could build such a thing well over 50 years ago now. Just the fact that they accelerated something that weighed as much as a naval destroyer to 25,000 mph is fairly astonishing.

From Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and the Space Shuttle, Kranz is A NASA legend.

Understatement of that Century!

And the best part, it's what the astronauts basically thought too at that moment.

or the starship, the 2 are awesome

And dont forget blue origins mission. We should have as many companies and administrations working together rather than competing.

@@AzureDefiance3701 Competition is good. Makes them push harder for progress. It's just a haman nature.

@@dreambim2446 Haman?

couldn't agree more-lets go NASA, Space X, Blue Origins to the Moon, Mars & beyond!

25 anyway , but yes it is great and even 80s movies with real sets look better then most CGI

No amount of CGI can replicate the sheer, awesome power of a Saturn V launch.

I know, right? What the adventure

Who cares about dying when you can do that?! Maybe when your in your 20s....

Corvettes were the car of choice for many of the astronauts , a local Chevy dealer near the cape gave them fantastic deals when they brought from him.

considering how many rockets blew up in the early days, its a wonder they could find anyone to volunteer for the astronaut corps

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@@dsny7333 Those men were experienced test pilots. The Apollo spacecraft was just another potentially dangerous flying machine.

I don't think the movie First Man can compare to this movie!

@@powerfulstrong5673 completely agree. I’ll throw in Al Shepard and John Glenn’s launch in The Right Stuff

True, but the atmosphere of that launch is very different, more desperate, and while the emphasis here is on the awesome majesty of the Saturn V, the emphasis in "First Man" is on how the astronauts were being shaken up like rocks in a blender, as well as on Neil's feelings towards his family(I think). They're both equally awesome, don't let me get you wrong, but featuring the Saturn V is the only thing besides awesomeness that those scenes have in common.

He was! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

As John Glenn, in "The Right Stuff"?

U forgot that when the Saturn v launched. As soon as it went up all the arms went away at once. This one all the arms went away one by one. Also when they reached space when he looked out the window, it should have been blocked out from the tower thing

@@CodenameE9 They drew out the last part of the countdown by a good 20 seconds or so. As I remember from watching Space Shuttle launches, one of the exciting things was how fast everything happened in the last 10 seconds or so. And knowing that every moment had been planned out months in advance, and if anything looked wrong, abort! at least until the solid rocket boosters lit off - then they're going flying, ready or not.

@@CodenameE9 Oh yeah. In the actual launches it was around 13 seconds from liftoff to tower clearance. In the movie it is almost a full minute. They would have been at 10,000 feet already.

@@CodenameE9 Wasn't the launch escape system jettisoned before getting into space?

@@TerryClarkAccordioncrazy Tower Jett is actually a tiny bit early. The LES was jettisoned around 20-30 seconds after S2 ignition. The 'BPC is clear' call is in completely the wrong place as this would only be called after the LES jettison, and then the EDS would be switched to manual for aborts after mode 1C.

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JSC has restored the old Mission Control room to its Apollo 11 configuration, complete with a simulation of part of the mission. One of the more fun details is the dozens of ashtrays strewn about the consoles. IIRC they said it cost in the neighborhood of $5 million to restore - I can believe at least half of that was spent just getting the tar and smoke residue out of everything.

Even the flight surgeon was smoking.

Ah, those were the halcyon days... All of us wanted to be astronauts. Now, we have to deal with idiot twentysomethings who think it never happened. Gotta feel sorry for them, though... They have no clue.

I had the Mattel Major Matt Mason astronaut action figures (they were about six inches tall and made of rubber). There was a lunar station play set and a lot of accessories that could be purchased. I think there was an assumption by many in the US that lunar missions would continue on and that we would eventually build permanent lunar stations. The book and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey made that same assumption.

I did Not know it was CGI.... awesome

small correction. It wasn't CGI. It was a model

Funny enough in the book Forrest does actually become an astronaut.

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