Bruce McCandless II described the experience: "I was grossly over-trained. I was just anxious to get out there and fly. I felt very comfortable ... It got so cold my teeth were chattering and I was shivering, but that was a very minor thing. ... I'd been told of the quiet vacuum you experience in space, but with three radio links saying, 'How's your oxygen holding out?', 'Stay away from the engines!' and 'When's my turn?', it wasn't that peaceful ... It was a wonderful feeling, a mix of personal elation and professional pride: it had taken many years to get to that point."
Not quite. During the moon landing, one of the people that went to the moon did not get to descend to the surface so he stayed on the ship and orbited the moon. He was wayyyyyy farther away than this guy was.
@@marcosanchez487 no, you cant hear anything in space, sure you can see, but its him, can only listen to the radio, anything happens, he is fucccccccked. Also he cant move, he just sits there, floating, 100m from his friend, hundreds of kilometres from anyoneelse
There was a guy in the moon landing crew who stayed in the module and orbited over the moons surface. When he passed over the dark side of the moon, he said as soon as the Earth disappeared over the lunar horizon, he lost all radio contact with ground control back on Earth as well as the rest of the crew on the lunar surface for 45 minutes. He is the only person who has been THAT alone.
"huston do you copy? huston there's an entire fuckin alien colony made of gourmet cheese from switzerland and it smells like sheepshit...hustooon - nobody gonna believe me -
@nihilisticnut9916 Just because you aren't smart enough to understand how they managed to pull it off dosen't mean nobody is smart enough to figure out how to pull it off. maybe consider that you might just be stupid.
@@nihilisticnut9916 what a lie do you even know how much NASA gets from 1 tax dollar. While NASA money comes from the military while say the military gets 180 billion dollars NASA only gets 1/8 of that. From one tax dollar that is 1 percent of that dollar NASA gets 1 cent off your tax dollar. Wow that lots of money. By the way CGI didn’t exist when humans went to moon and the first movies with CGI were Animated movies specifically from Japan in the mid to late 70’s. As well you can tell it’s not CGI because they can’t actually make reflections of light particles. One reason you can see light particles hitting the camera which then reflects of the astronaut while there is also a reflection of light particles from sun also reflecting back to camera. CGI can’t do that why because they can’t possibly make 3 dimensional light particles which is what is happening in the photo
@@nihilisticnut9916for something that’s CGI (which by the way wasn’t even a thing during this) how on earth does it look better than some cgi nowadays? Just stop pretending like your some all knowing being who sees through the government or something stupid like that, the government doesn’t care about you and you aren’t smart
For me would be the mumbling that never stops. Like whispering that’s just too far to clearly hear. I wonder if I would be able to hear them clearly if it was absolutely quiet the way space can provide??
@@Ghost-uo2wv You don't use more with scarier. Grammar mistake. It should've been written as, " Sometimes silence is scarier than disturbance." I get what you mean though.
My heart genuinely sank as soon as you said that was a real photo. Just thinking about floating in the endless void with nothing attached to you is horrifying.
If I was in that situation with no way back, I'd be horrified at first but idk...seems like a nice way to go. I came from the universe and now I can admire it up close in my final hours.
He was 47 when it happened, and died 33 years later. Still to this day, it has to be one of, if not the most terrifying thing a human could do. I would rather come face to face with a grizzly bear than to be untethered in space floating freely.
@@thewatcher2305 Why would they think like that? Astronaut/Cosmonaut return rate is VERY high. There is a very small chance you are going to die as an astronaut.
@@thewatcher2305 it's been a long while since astronauts haven't returned though...they've been travelling back and forth the ISS many times now that they don't even display every crew launch on the news because it's not as significant anymore. Survival chances are pretty high compared to what they used to be.
Actually the weight of his massive balls would be irrelevant. Due to there being very little to no gravity up that high. The bigger issue would be center of mass and he might start to rotate uncontrollably.
@@Ender_Onryo "very little to no gravity up that high" not true. He's still affected by like 99% of the same gravity on earth, it's just that he's in a constant freefall which SIMULATES having no gravity.
@@benedikthassel imo space is worst bc atleast in the ocean you have a chance of being found or if you died Ur body being eaten or sum but in space Ur body would just stay there
fun fact, the spacesuit has stuff like fans and pumps to circulate air and coolant, so it isn't silent, there's a constant whirring background noise. If it got quiet, that's when things get scary, because you'd know some of the things keeping you alive just stopped working..
Heres anyone fun fact NASA not a space agency films everything in a Hollywood studio they use green screens and blue screens to fake like they're in space aka imagination Land
@@lolsome31 uhm, you know the suit is there to (amongst other thiings) keep out the vacuum and the air inside, right? You hear everything that's going on Inside the suit.
Michael Collins is alone in moon orbit during the landing of buzz aldrin and neil armstrong. So yeah is he the loneliest person? No, is he the lonliest at the time? Yes
The scariest thing is that he was warned, that jetpack was (obviously) not tested because it is designed for zero gravity environment, which could not be recreated on Earth. So the engineers told him, that there is a giant possibility, that jetpack would malfunction/simply won't start, which will lead to a horrible death, and the man STILL did it.
The cojones on that guy.... Pretty incredible he wasn't tethered with like a 300 m rope. It's not that much weight and they could just tie it off and they can pull himself back in or have another astronaut pull them back in or just put the stupid thing on a winch.
I can’t imagine just floating in a space suit in space all you hear the NASA operators from your radio talking to you and when they stop talking you hear nothing. This probably beats the most silent room in the world.
The scariest part is there is no help if you need help you can’t get help and another thing is you can be floating away from earth forever and be lost in space
@@Childneglecter love that comment with that pfp. Yea whats up, just jetpacking to orbital velocities from minimus cause i ran out of fuel on my lander 👌
@@sarahoberling4436 The best part is that you don't know how apertures work, and it instantly tells us all how ignorant you are. All anyone has to do to experience this effect is take a photo of a streetlight against the night. Also, it would be trivial to paste in a star field if they thought everyone was as dumb as you, but thankfully they don't need to.
Imagine that was you, and you turned around to look out into the void, without the shuttle to remind that you are not alone. And then, when you turn back around...it's gone.
Now we all know what was the inspiration for the movie "Gravity" To all the people saying "Gravity" in the reply section, If you are trying to be sarcastic... Try harder
In absence of any sound coming from outside of his body, he would be able to hear pretty clearly the sounds within his body, the heartbeats, blood running through his veins etc... We are kind of doomed to never hear full silence unless we are deaf
I was literally coming here to say this same thing. Reminds me of "the quietest place on earth" I forgot exactly where it is but they recorded the "quietness" and it was the lowest ever recorded and people could only be there for a maximum of an hour I believe. Then you just go nuts.
I doubt it. He's not some random guy. He knows and trusts the scientists who worked on this mission. He'd have confidence, but yes I agree he may have SOME anxiety.
@@M1tjakaramazov the sun is heating both the astronaut and the shuttle. When he leaves the shuttle, he's no longer feeling the heat of the sun radiating off the body of the shuttle. Him alone, there is nothing to radiate and nothing to absorb heat. Science.
@@cryptoworldpeace2974 Tell me you don't understand science without telling me you don't understand science... The *reflection from the shuttle is negligible compared to the total unshielded radiation from the sun. He is only moving 100 metres away, and the sensation of cold struck him once he separated further. There is indeed nothing to transmit heat in either way, so the proximity of the shuttle can't "warm" him anymore than the distance should "freeze" him. The suit is a closed system
@@demonzblood69 You would die within a day in space. In the ocean, you would have a chance.....all dependent on your ability to stay afloat and your ability to not look like food.
To be honest I much prefer the space situation. At least the chances of me drowning deep and witnessing some sea monster approach and kill me as I am terrified and helpless are zero. You know?
