How To Land On The Moon

https://youtu.be/-XNDM4eAn1U

Geoffrey Pitman

I love your humble style of interviewing, and the footage and historical context you provide here is really thought provoking. As a software engineer, it really makes me think about where I'm building on knowledge that I don't truly understand. Also, Space Walk by Lemon Jelly has been coming up on Spotify for me lately - it always makes me think of your videos. Can't wait for more!

I’ve been out to f the SED loop for too long! I have some serious binge watching to do in my immediate future!

Keith Waggoner

I love diving into these topics with you. Especially when it comes to space stuff. Keep up the good work

Alexander Scheeben

One of the best SED videos ever. I *love* listening to the old guard, I believe they *were* a different breed of people (not better or worse, mind, just different).

Victor

The LLTV is one of my favorite things about the Apollo missions. Thanks for the great video with the cool interview!

Austin Burnham

Wow, Lompoc! My second home as a child was Vandenburg AFB near Lompoc. I remember seeing a missile go up past our window, 1963 (probably a Titan I or II). I was three years old, and it's my earliest memory. Thanks for the video; very informative and fun, as usual.

Bruce Grembowski

Dear Destin, I think it is highly unlikely they will create a physical vehicle again to practice landing on the moon. I think this would be a very interesting investigation of the three companies designing the new "LEM". It seems that current pilots flying vehicles like the F-35 aren't really controlling the vehicle as much as making preferences where to go. There was a recent landing crash with a F-35 that the vehicle wouldn't "fly" appropriately near the ground mostly because the pilot didn't have it in the right mode and it didn't respond to his control inputs correctly and the pilot ejected. While both the shuttle pilots and LEM pilots flew physical models, it seems with simulators today and the largely automated systems, there doesn't seem to be much flying in vehicles like the crew dragon capsule docking with the space station compared to the Gemini and Apollo days. I do think the pilot will have "control" regarding landing sight choices and some "control" when the dust impairs the landing vehicle's sensors, I wonder if they will evere in control of the top heavy vehicles, especially if a company like SpaceX gets the lander contract. I wonder if they would now be satisfied with some type of simulator training over some physical vehicle, since the "pilot" isn't actually flying any wire control cables or the like today. At any rate -- I think the training plan for landing on the moon in the 20's or 30's would be worthy of comparison relative to the physical vehicle Mr. Armstrong and others trained on. That would really help us "get smarter every day."

Darrel Crane

Nicely done!

Eric Hall

Yes. Happens for me also.

Michael T

Lame Algorithm! The content is 100% compelling, especially the rare voice from Neil Armstrong. He seems like such a geek for this stuff! didn't realize that it will take amazing pilots to get people back on the moon. Thanks for sharing this, Destin!

Dre

Great video!

This video and the one where showed Linus the computer on the Saturn V are my favorite videos. As an engineering student, I really love the hear these old engineers (real pros) talking about the challenges their experienced 50+ years ago and how they used the technology of their time to solve the problems in ways I could've never imagined. Thanks Destin :) If you talk again to Wayne Ottinger or Luke Talley please let them know they're admirable people and as a future engineer I look up to them.

Paco Ramos

Landing on the moon is not the issue - the issue is landing PEOPLE on the moon and returning them safely. And so far, the U.S.A. is the only entity to have done that.

What a fantastic episode! Thank you so much. So sad the algorithm gods decided it wasn’t fit.

Did you contact the folks from SpaceIL? They are the last one to land a space craft on the moon (April 2019) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceIL . They are nice guys, I will be happy to introduce between you.

Lior Singer

A cartoon from the snakes perspective is long overdue. Thoroughly enjoyable and interesting video. Looking forward to more great stuff.

I don’t have the understanding to know how simple or complex it is to do, but that visualization of the vectors with the helicopter and the lander was so thoroughly impressive to me and helped my mind grasp the issue with one sixth gravity.

Clay

Destin, this is amazing (as usual). Thanks a ton for putting these together. I'm really glad to see interviews with the engineers that were actually involved, as their numbers are shrinking all too quickly.

Another great video, looking forward to the rest of the series. I highly recommend the “13 minutes to the moon” podcast if you liked this video. It tells the 13 minute journey of the LEM undocking from the command module until it touches down on the surface of the moon.

Olie Bosley

Oddly, I always receive the Patreon early-access notification email after the YouTube video has been posted live and I've received their notification. That's not the reason I contribute to this Patreon account, but figured I'd mention it and wondering if this happens to others as well.

Joe DeSimone

It seems a shame I can't support you by going via audible here in the UK. I think it's to do with them having 'versions' of their website for .com and .co.uk Maybe that's one to investigate!

This video was great, looking forward to the series. Started listening to the book suggestion yesterday!

william bumgardner

Why did this appear on YouTube before Patreon?

Randy Coffee

You should put subtitles inside the video when the old man is talking. With English being my second language it was very hard to understand some bits of it. Anyway, amazing video. Looking forward to the series...

I love the book when I read it years ago. As amazing as Neil & Buzz accomplishments were, but what Mike Collins experienced was just as grand if not more so.

Hi Destin, I don't want to add to the annoying-ness that is YouTube, but when I looked through my subscriptions earlier your video wasn't there, despite being released and I could find it by searching for your channel. I have gone through again a few minutes ago and it's appeared, but before other videos that I have already watched. Just in case you are getting weird watch results for it, there is something odd going on for me, any way

Stu D

Thanks, I have heard of half of this stuff...but not the gantry thing...although you see it when they research plane crashes. But what you did was put it all together.

Mike in Texas

That was amazing speaking the OG engineer. So there was nothing wrong with the simulator, nothing wrong with the pilot, nothing wrong with the jet, nothing wrong with the gimble. But simply ran out of maneuvering thruster fuel.

Colin Richardson

Very interesting video! I am an engineer, and I am always amazed at the accomplishments of the past. I agree that computers will be doing most/all of the flying in the future, but that X14 plane looked like a death trap (turns out it wasn't - 25 pilots, no serious accidents or injuries), and the LLRV looked like something from a movie "Mad Max goes to the Moon"! and ejecting at 50 feet altitude, with what looks like about 40 degrees roll?!?!?!?! Oh, yeah, and it looked like he had a pretty good chance of landing on the flaming wreckage. no biggy. Test pilots and astronauts are really a different breed.

But thanks for being there, man!!

Ed Williams

The algorithm doesn't like it because your stuff is way, way too smart for YouTube. :-)

Ed Williams

This one is really cool! I'm sorry it's not "performing" better, but this is worth the effort.

V.E. Griffith

Videos like this are why I’m a patron! Looking forward to the rest of the series!

More please! That was fascinating and I was pinned the entire episode.

As always, a FANTASTIC video and I can't wait to see the rest of the series, but I have to wonder, as amazing as that technology was back in the 60s, and necessary for what they were doing, I've always assumed that next time, the astronauts may just basically be "pointing at" where they're going to land, and the computer will handle all the physics and angles of tilt? I am a private pilot, so I'm in touch with the feeling that as a failsafe, you always want the pilot to be able to take over, but it seems that in a world where spacex is landing their rockets upright on pitching ships, the technology is safe and mature enough that sadly the astronauts will virtually be passengers. Whether on the moon or earth is simply just an adjustment of a constant in the calculations used to control..

Steve Jones

Wow, Destin! Even better than the United Launch Alliance!

Pete Hall in Wi

Loved this video! As a fan of both Smarter Everyday and No Dumb Questions, the google photos commercial featuring Nickleback’s song Photograph was an awesome little Easter egg. 😂

J and K

Followed/subscribed for years, but seeing you geek out talking to Wayne just reminded me how much I appreciate your videos, so I decided to join your Patreon. I'm seriously looking forward to all the forthcoming videos in this series!

Justin, you should put https://apolloinrealtime.org/ in the description. :)

Mark Young

In my opinion, whatever the content is, the entertainment value always is best when the creator is enthusiastic about what they're doing. Keep doing your thing, Destin!

Great problems, great solutions. So fascinating.

Donovan Meyers

Very cool 🇺🇸

Mrgunsngear

When I was a young boy I remember watching Apollo and how exciting it was. Those were the days when the best minds were used, not the most politically correct minds.

David Goodridge

Fantastic video!! Love everything going on with space these days. Can believe we are going back to the moon and Mars in my life time totally insane!

I really loved the video! Great work!

Shawn Johnson

"I take some responsibility for it, because I didn't guess he would be so dumb" 🤣🤣 That one got me bad, laughed so hard!

Brian Pedersen

Great video. Can't wait to see the rest of the series. It is a very exciting time for space exploration. Thanks for making great content I can enjoy with my kids!

Great video. Why do you avoid talking about SpaceX and what they are doing with regard to getting back to the moon? Just curious.

KC

Looking forward to watching this with my kids tonight!

Loved the video! Excited for more moon videos! :🚀🌒

RedKB

I loved the video and look forward to more videos like it! Glad to support you so you don't have to worry about the whims of the algorithm so much. God bless!

Francis Whiting

Honestly, I'm skeptical. If our patronage helps you make videos of whatever you want, then where are the poop videos?

Could be the all caps title that made YouTube not like this video as much. Your other videos usually have normal casing with the occasional caps word, but rarely the whole title.

TheEdgeOfRage

What a great video! Thanks a lot, especially for the apolloinrealtime.org hint. Now, I can't get away from the screen anymore... 🙈

Alain Keusen

I love this content, keep putting out quality like this and you can always count on my support

Paul Potter

For what it’s worth: it popped up as the top recommended video for me, so algorithmically it was promoted for me at least. This video discussed an aspect of landing on the moon I had NEVER considered and I’m grateful you made such an educational video about it. Thank you!

Chris S.

It was a really good video. Space is always cool

It was really good. I'm looking forward to seeing the upcoming moon-focussed series.

Ryan Lett

The Apollo program is one of my favorite subjects. Anything you post about it, I will watch.

Nathan Taylor