These genius's let a rocket launch when their is weather in the upper atmosphere? They should never do that, even if their is only 1% chance of lightning hitting a craft at launch. I mean, why didn't they launch on a clear night with no storms or winds?
Fortunately, the experts in launch control knew just a little bit more than you think you do. The weather wasn't deemed too close to the launch window. You have to look at the big picture. There are excellent books available on the Apollo program. I recommend "A Man on the Moon" (Chaikin).
John Aaron was the man after this. He had seen the same error code before in an early launch. Then he was called again to save Apollo 13 from running out of power. The history of the Saturn V is well known for pogoing as well. one reason the number 5 center engine cut off on 13's launch, to save the rocket from vibrating apart.
Just like for realsies! Only slickly produced, like an ad, so John Q. America can easily read the "emotions" and understand the "drama". Well done again, Hollywood!
Heroes. How many of us, really, can imagine ourselves in there, and dealing with things so calmly...? I once had the luck to DREAM I was on a mission into space...and even in the dream, I realised I was truly scared. These people are heroes. God speed to them, and god damn those coward hoax theorists.
If you watch the show "ER," actor Paul McCrain (playing Pete Conrad here and playing Dr. Robert Romano on ER) has a model of the Saturn V in his character's office. Nice touch, and subtle too. Thanks for posting this - great scene.
@EmpireLS56KW Fortunately, it was only the Command Module that was affected. The five F1 engines continued to operate normally. Must have been serious pucker time for those three astronauts, though!
@sritger That's why I'm still amazed. Its a good thing the engines where on diffident line system or other. I believe they could override the auto flight and control it manually.
Apollo 17 Gene Cernan dared the auto to quit just so he can control the power of 6 1/2 million pounds of thrust.
@crucialconflict02 Great conversation peace, whenever shit hits the fan I'll just blurt out "Try SCE to Aux" No one will have any idea what I'm talking about.
EECOM Officer John Aaron....NASA's Greatest Flight Controller, makes the legendary call... "SCE to Aux" (Signal Condition of Electronics to Auxiliary). Fortunately, Alan Bean knew where to find this obscure switch!!
that is a really good reenactment.. I've often wondered what would have happened if Apollo 12 had had the more advanced electronics that are used today given that they are much more susceptible to massive voltage swings than the electronics used then. It could have been really bad if they didn't shield them...
@mddelanoy It wouldn't necessarily be worse today. Here's what happened: the lightning current flowing down the outside vehicle skin induced a spike on an unterminated line on the umbilical plate that ended up firing the SCRs (silicon controlled rectifiers) used to detect and latch a fuel cell overcurrent condition. This disconnected all three fuel cells from the DC buses, and the batteries couldn't handle the sudden load without a big voltage sag. If I were designing such a system today, (cont)
@mddelanoy I'd try to use a non-conductive optical cable for my umbilical line that would be inherently immune to EMI, glitches and lightning. Even if I had to use an electrical umbilical, I'd use multiplexing to minimize the wire count. I'd use differential signaling with transformer coupling and a screen wire for noise immunity and resistance to glitches and spikes. It wouldn't resist lightning as well as an optical cable but it would have a very good chance.
@ApolloWasReal Another factor in Apollo 12 was the CSM's very high electrical loads during launch. The entry batteries were all on the bus, but silver-zinc batteries have a habit of sagging and recovering under sudden heavy loads. This reset the computer, tripped the SCE primary supply and tumbled the platform. Modern avionics are much less power-hungry and voltage regulation is easier. It wouldn't be too hard to design the system so nothing would glitch when suddenly thrown onto the batteries.
that is a really good reenactment.. I've often wondered what would have happened if Apollo 12 had had the more advanced electronics that are used today given that they are much more susceptible to massive voltage swings than the electronics used then. It could have been really bad if they didn't shield them...
Great clip from a SUPERB miniseries. Really, I liked every episode and LOVED most of them. Some of the best shows ever put on television.
-And I like how they're all about the Moon Missions, but all slightly different too. This one has Bean as the narrator. There's the one with the documentary crew. The one about the wives. And my absolute favorite, Spider, about the Lunar Excursion Module. (Or was that Lunar Module?) : D
Acutally, John Aaron (EECOM, who would also be very instrumental in saving Apollo 13s power usage) who saved the day, as he remember this scenario solution in the simulator.
@columbusmozart John was but an integral part of the JSC team that dove into dealing with 13's issues. John Young was there, helping Mattingly and Aaron out in the simulator, he was a major key operator. The Systems team pitched in with power management and the LEM batts. They knew the LEM descent batts were going to blow due to hydrogen buildup, so they planned for that event. Actual launch footage was used in some of the scenes in the HBO series, Apollo 12 was one of them. Apollo 4 another.
It is footage from the brilliant series "From the Earth to the Moon". I have seen a 20 second clip of the real lighening strike but it is not very clear images - you can hear the radio chat pretty clearly though.
Does anyone know if the launch footage was from the real launch because the quality is soo colorful and good and in the most footages from the launches are not as high and sharp quality... and i have a dvd from the launches at home and they don´t show any lightning strikes as good as here only on a captured photo so iam a bit unsure if all the footage is real, but i surely believe that all the mission are real..
@RCMan89 This footage was all made up for the Apollo 12 episode in the brilliant series "From the Earth to the Moon". The original genuine Apollo 12 lightening footage can be seen on youtube - search for "Apollo 12 A heartstopping Launch"
@RCMan89 The launch footage is documentary footage but treated by this TV series' post production team to augment certain elements and features, including the exhaust pluming during liftoff and the lightning strike itself. This series preferred to use documentary footage for some material that was too expensive to create, unlike movie "Apollo 13" which created everything from scratch.
@RCMan89 I think the footage of the Saturn V igniting and lifting off the pad is from the actual mission; at least it closely resembles the actual Apollo 12 launch films.
Everything else, including the lightning strikes, is synthetic.
@RCMan89 not, the good video sequences are from "the earth to the mmon"it was an HBO series based on the moon mission, by tom hanks. i got it from sams club for $10 but it's EASILY worth $30. look it up.
@simpsonfan13 that's a damn good deal for sure, I've noticed Wal Mart has a shit load of good movies on sale for some reason lately, like good dvd's for 5 bucks
@simpsonfan13 Yeah, I'll back that up. From The Earth To The Moon was a superb series. Get it if you can. It was shown in the UK by CH4 at midday every Saturday, just the Football build up was happening. What astonishly crap scheduling. Most people missed it, and CH4 never repeated it. The idiots..!
by his own admission, al bean didn't have a clue other than know where the switch was. watch SCE TO AUX ..........all the principle people are interviewed. amazing how the movie makers don't follow more closely docs that lay it all out for you.
Launch Control was seriously considering scrubbing the launch because of weather conditions. But NASA brass overruled them, possibly because President Nixon was at the Cape for the launch. Fortunately that was the only problem in a near-perfect mission....other that Al Bean pointing the lunar TV camera at the sun!
There's too much to say. I certainly knew about this event, but had never seen this re-enactment, nor was I aware of the more detailed aspects of the drama. Seeing how Mission Control engineers quickly diagnosed the possible problems and suggested the most obscure, relatively unknown switch setting is what I'd call "real edge-of-your-seat technical drama." I will have to research the Apollo 12 launch more thoroughly to fully appreciate the details of this amazingly dramatic event. Thanks!
We had 3 minutes of a trouble free spliff, then all hell busted loose. Houston, I got 3 smashed astranauts who are brown lineing there underwear. Err... Huston what do ya mean the bus light...what's that, we did'nt train for that. Oh it's ok, I see the bus light....It's a number 12 to shitsville. OB1 KENOBE your my only hope.. This is rouge 1, I'm going in.. Aaaahhhh.
@gtvideos100 In fact, the N1 was 5 metres shorter that the Saturn 5, but with a more powerful first stage - it had 30 first stage engines that developed between 4,600 and 5,000 tons of thrust - it depends of which authority you read. Because all 3 stages of the N1 used kerosene fuel, rather than the LH2 used in the second and third stages of the Saturn 5, its payload to orbit was less than that of the Saturn. Or would have been if it hadn't kept blowing up.
I'm surprised they would say "SCE to Aux", given the possibility of communication error. Wouldn't they say something like "Sam Charlie Edward to Aux"?
It's because you can't expand every acronymn like that. Generally the acronymn is just given as is. I doubt a new procedure needs to be implemented just for that, in my opinion.
@malinwj NASA was a civilian-staff entity primarily, and that community didn't use the phonetic alphabet as much, plus it takes less time to say "SCE".
@columbusmozart If you listen they do say "what?" a few times. They had there own jargon but it would've taken so long to say Sytems Command....I forget the rest! Love how Bean and Aaron saved the day!
Only one person on the ground really knew what to do and only one person onboard the spacecraft knew how to respond to it. The switch was over by Bean's shoulder so it was a good thing he remembered it.
@malinwj Unless there was some other similar-sounding switch with which it could be confused there wasn't much of a risk here. But it might have helped the crew find the switch more quickly.
SCE = Signal Conditioning Electronics. It's the box of circuitry that amplifies and scales the mostly analog telemetry measurements to a common voltage range (probably 0-5V) for the A/D converter in the telemetry encoder. Without it all their telemetry values were garbage.
@malinwj no need too, as apollo 12 carried a new, revolutionary, VHF (low band) FM tranciever for voice traffic. Compared to apollo 11's wide band AM system for voice, it was a major improvement, and voice communications were just that clean and clear.
Good eye. In addition to his appearance here and in Robocop, actor Paul McCrane was in X-Files and also had a recurring role in ER. An interesting coincidence is that McCrane is a Philadelphia native, same as real-life Pete Conrad.
Quite a memorable scene in Robocop, yes? I'm not sure I can recall a more gruesome demise depicted on the screen. McCrane kind of chewed up the scenery in that one.
I met Alan Bean at the Museum of Fine Art Houston, he is a talented painter and a very kind generous person. I was near the end of the line of 500 folks, he singed my book and was gracious. He loves people !
@daveeyes Mr. Aaron was the Legend from that ride on up to 13 when he got in the simulators with John Young (another Legend) and Ken Mattingly, who came up with a powerup procedure from scratch that only took a handful of amps, far less than what it takes to power your computer.
Poor Pete giggled all the way into orbit after that little glitch.
Keep in mind that the IU of the launch vehicle was NOT affected, only the CSM/SM. If the IU was hit, Conrad would have fired the tower.
What I love about this is that it's exactly what happened. I've read some of the transcripts and with a few alterations it is what it is. Tom Hanks is a huge space fan so unlike many directors he KNOWS what he's talking about.
do u know anything about space travel? After being delayed for a while, they decided to launch on this day and they would have only been in the storm for about 3 or 4 minutes. besidesm they have an emergency escape plan if something terrible goes wrong as to somewhat abandon ship
And there wasn't a storm. There were cumulus clouds.. and unfortunately enough electrical potential that when the Saturn V left it's trail, it was enough of a disturbance and conductive path for a strike to go downwards from the craft to the launch tower. NASA learned new stuff that day!
@ElPeruanoUFO That was a year ago. and YES he does know him. No lies, "Bill Clinton" so called. Anyways I was pretty stupid a year ago, again, No Lies, even for posting that lmao
Got this series on region 2 DVD brilliantly re-enactment of the Apollo era. That sure was a freaky moment to get struck by lighting and it could have been certain doom if that had exploded less than a few miles from the launch site.
if you listen to the actual mission telemetry and audio recordings from that day after the platform was reset with SCEE to AUX Astronaut Charles Pete Conrad can be heard laughing giddily all the way into orbit.
And he need not have died! They did not realize that he had internal bleeding and he died unesscarily! His wife sued and won a setlement from the hospital the did'nt treat him properly!
@Dilandau3000 In more depth he died from incompetant care at the emergency room. He had a torn aorta but since he was up and walking around they overloooked the life threatening injury and he was dead within hours. Mrs.Conrad used to and may still campaign for better emergency care. Goodness knows it's needed. But if Pete were going to have to leave us, I think on his Harley was a spirited way to go. He has the only colored memorial tree for Christmas, b/c he lived his life so colorfully!
yes, surprisingly Astronaut Edgar Mitchell was extremely philosophical about his experience and the route of his life that took him to the moon. Truly an amazing gentleman.
I must read about that! Or is there anywhere I can? Anyway, I am pretty sure that a mission to the Moon must do something with a person. The view to things, the Earth and so on.
Edgar Mitchell after his moon landing with Alan Shepard embarked on a journey to the middle east, north africa and parts of turkey in a search for lost ancient knowledge. Additionally, he was instrumental in the foundation of the field of noetic sciences and is deeply interested in such fields as well as in gnosticism.
The dialogue in this scene is VERY accurate (albeit somewhat condensed) to the original flight transcripts (I've only read them, not heard the actual recordings) And yep, Pete and the rest of the crew were still kidding each other about it for the rest of the day. Great scene!
yes, i have listened to the tapes of the Apollo 12 launch and you can hear the crew laughing and especially Charles Pete Conrad laughing giddily all the way into orbit after the glitch was resolved.
is this vid true
PeterExify 3 days ago
These genius's let a rocket launch when their is weather in the upper atmosphere? They should never do that, even if their is only 1% chance of lightning hitting a craft at launch. I mean, why didn't they launch on a clear night with no storms or winds?
twinturbonissan300zx 3 weeks ago
@twinturbonissan300zx Because the moon needs to be in the right place as well as the Earth's rotation.
odin6616 1 week ago
@twinturbonissan300zx,
Fortunately, the experts in launch control knew just a little bit more than you think you do. The weather wasn't deemed too close to the launch window. You have to look at the big picture. There are excellent books available on the Apollo program. I recommend "A Man on the Moon" (Chaikin).
neomuttley 1 week ago
@1:58 I can hear he's jerking off! Wrong time to do that man!
745917203views 1 month ago
SCE to AUX. The quality was so bad that it sounded like FCE to Aux
asvb232 3 months ago
John Aaron was the man after this. He had seen the same error code before in an early launch. Then he was called again to save Apollo 13 from running out of power. The history of the Saturn V is well known for pogoing as well. one reason the number 5 center engine cut off on 13's launch, to save the rocket from vibrating apart.
WizzRacing 3 months ago
i remember listening to the original comunications, after that incident, conrad had get a laugh attack for days^^
yamato8125 3 months ago
This is from the Mini series from the earth to the moon
bigrigdriver99 4 months ago
Your girlfriend tells you she's knocked up -- have her try SCE to Aux.
hibob418 4 months ago 15
@hibob418 I did... She gave birth to a rocket ship :(
tyroneemail 3 months ago
Just like for realsies! Only slickly produced, like an ad, so John Q. America can easily read the "emotions" and understand the "drama". Well done again, Hollywood!
clh37204 4 months ago
Heroes. How many of us, really, can imagine ourselves in there, and dealing with things so calmly...? I once had the luck to DREAM I was on a mission into space...and even in the dream, I realised I was truly scared. These people are heroes. God speed to them, and god damn those coward hoax theorists.
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Cosmicmoron 6 months ago
This was an awesome miniseries. Well worth it to add to any DVD collection.
Klendathue 6 months ago
And then John Aaron was known as a STEELY EYED MISSLE MAN. Just like Chris Kraft, Gene Kranz, and Whernher Von Braun. Epic.
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SkirtWork 7 months ago
Sweet whenever i watch this video makes me be more an astronaut :) is inspiring how this astronauts are so brave :)
nasastronaut 7 months ago
Greatest HBO series ever. Probably my favorite episode of said series. I reccomend "From the Earth to the Moon."
JRsaturn5 7 months ago 2
If you watch the show "ER," actor Paul McCrain (playing Pete Conrad here and playing Dr. Robert Romano on ER) has a model of the Saturn V in his character's office. Nice touch, and subtle too. Thanks for posting this - great scene.
hibob418 8 months ago
These guys had GUTS !...
zorbazig 8 months ago
HOLY SHIT!
1Nekit1 9 months ago 2
Its amazing it didn’t knock out the engine motors otherwise they’d be in serious trouble.
EmpireLS56KW 9 months ago
@EmpireLS56KW Fortunately, it was only the Command Module that was affected. The five F1 engines continued to operate normally. Must have been serious pucker time for those three astronauts, though!
sritger 7 months ago
@sritger That's why I'm still amazed. Its a good thing the engines where on diffident line system or other. I believe they could override the auto flight and control it manually.
Apollo 17 Gene Cernan dared the auto to quit just so he can control the power of 6 1/2 million pounds of thrust.
EmpireLS56KW 7 months ago
he's a hero, they would of aborted, jetesoned, and blow up rocket & @malinwj that would be Siera- Charlie- Echo
spikeri812 10 months ago
Not a mission by the numbers, but somehow it worked.
ScottZee11 11 months ago
SCE to aux..life saver.
crucialconflict02 11 months ago
@crucialconflict02 Great conversation peace, whenever shit hits the fan I'll just blurt out "Try SCE to Aux" No one will have any idea what I'm talking about.
RainbowManification 11 months ago
@RainbowManification ,
They will if they lived during that era. I remember all of those. I was born in 1952.
Seesfar1 9 months ago
EECOM Officer John Aaron....NASA's Greatest Flight Controller, makes the legendary call... "SCE to Aux" (Signal Condition of Electronics to Auxiliary). Fortunately, Alan Bean knew where to find this obscure switch!!
thevmanvj 11 months ago
Damn
11AMERICANO11 1 year ago
that is a really good reenactment.. I've often wondered what would have happened if Apollo 12 had had the more advanced electronics that are used today given that they are much more susceptible to massive voltage swings than the electronics used then. It could have been really bad if they didn't shield them...
mddelanoy 1 year ago
@mddelanoy It wouldn't necessarily be worse today. Here's what happened: the lightning current flowing down the outside vehicle skin induced a spike on an unterminated line on the umbilical plate that ended up firing the SCRs (silicon controlled rectifiers) used to detect and latch a fuel cell overcurrent condition. This disconnected all three fuel cells from the DC buses, and the batteries couldn't handle the sudden load without a big voltage sag. If I were designing such a system today, (cont)
ApolloWasReal 8 months ago
@mddelanoy I'd try to use a non-conductive optical cable for my umbilical line that would be inherently immune to EMI, glitches and lightning. Even if I had to use an electrical umbilical, I'd use multiplexing to minimize the wire count. I'd use differential signaling with transformer coupling and a screen wire for noise immunity and resistance to glitches and spikes. It wouldn't resist lightning as well as an optical cable but it would have a very good chance.
ApolloWasReal 8 months ago
@ApolloWasReal Another factor in Apollo 12 was the CSM's very high electrical loads during launch. The entry batteries were all on the bus, but silver-zinc batteries have a habit of sagging and recovering under sudden heavy loads. This reset the computer, tripped the SCE primary supply and tumbled the platform. Modern avionics are much less power-hungry and voltage regulation is easier. It wouldn't be too hard to design the system so nothing would glitch when suddenly thrown onto the batteries.
ApolloWasReal 8 months ago
that is a really good reenactment.. I've often wondered what would have happened if Apollo 12 had had the more advanced electronics that are used today given that they are much more susceptible to massive voltage swings than the electronics used then. It could have been really bad if they didn't shield them...
mddelanoy 1 year ago
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yvesgomez 1 year ago
Great clip from a SUPERB miniseries. Really, I liked every episode and LOVED most of them. Some of the best shows ever put on television.
-And I like how they're all about the Moon Missions, but all slightly different too. This one has Bean as the narrator. There's the one with the documentary crew. The one about the wives. And my absolute favorite, Spider, about the Lunar Excursion Module. (Or was that Lunar Module?) : D
-If you haven't seen the series, check it out!
TheRadical42 1 year ago
@MrTadbob HBO miniseries: From the earth to the moon.
One of the best I've ever seen.
Tygerfilms 1 year ago
i thought when the 5 engines on the saturn 5 cutoff for sep wouldn't that catapult them up
drummerboynano17 1 year ago
They should choose the Pete Conrad actor to play Neil Armstrong! He REALLY, REALLY looks like him!
iloveairfrance 1 year ago
Did they really go to the moon?
....uh
avpkid345 1 year ago
at 2:23 i thaught that ment the enjen faild lol roflship
DreamOnProductioninc 1 year ago
Acutally, John Aaron (EECOM, who would also be very instrumental in saving Apollo 13s power usage) who saved the day, as he remember this scenario solution in the simulator.
columbusmozart 1 year ago 16
@columbusmozart John was but an integral part of the JSC team that dove into dealing with 13's issues. John Young was there, helping Mattingly and Aaron out in the simulator, he was a major key operator. The Systems team pitched in with power management and the LEM batts. They knew the LEM descent batts were going to blow due to hydrogen buildup, so they planned for that event. Actual launch footage was used in some of the scenes in the HBO series, Apollo 12 was one of them. Apollo 4 another.
Nighthawke70 6 months ago
@columbusmozart Fuel cell one fuel cell 3 cryo pressure AC bus 1 AC bus 2 comand module computer (CMC) and O2 flow hi
Daniel55556 5 months ago
@columbusmozart steely eyed missle man :)
BeLikeWater1000 3 months ago
@columbusmozart There was....and is to this day.... no better Flight Controller at NASA, than John Aaron.
thevmanvj 1 month ago
It wasn't a night flight just a bit rainy but very windy, I personally think it's CGI.
Seamonkey555 1 year ago
The footage of the initial lift-off is real, Once it clears the tower, it goes to CGI.
witness2history 1 year ago
the way grows dim
hungry chaos lurks behind the
bright corona
dream ahead beyond the falling path
a billion S'pht lie yet unborn
our own death fortold
your dark mind cutting through
the deeping sky
another time
another time
CopycatStudios 1 year ago
I remember watching this launch.
nesokretep 1 year ago
It is footage from the brilliant series "From the Earth to the Moon". I have seen a 20 second clip of the real lighening strike but it is not very clear images - you can hear the radio chat pretty clearly though.
paul1952 1 year ago
Does anyone know if the launch footage was from the real launch because the quality is soo colorful and good and in the most footages from the launches are not as high and sharp quality... and i have a dvd from the launches at home and they don´t show any lightning strikes as good as here only on a captured photo so iam a bit unsure if all the footage is real, but i surely believe that all the mission are real..
RCMan89 1 year ago
@RCMan89 The footage is all visual effects.
Dilandau3000 1 year ago
@Dilandau3000 the launch views at the start is real
joachim2464 1 year ago
@Dilandau3000 the launch views at the start is real, the clip where it is struck by lightning is not real:)
joachim2464 1 year ago
@RCMan89 This footage was all made up for the Apollo 12 episode in the brilliant series "From the Earth to the Moon". The original genuine Apollo 12 lightening footage can be seen on youtube - search for "Apollo 12 A heartstopping Launch"
paul1952 1 year ago
@RCMan89 Watht che Apollo 13 movie launch sequence and you will find them very familiar
countvlad 1 year ago
@RCMan89
Of course it's not...
iloveairfrance 1 year ago
@RCMan89 This is from the HBO series "From the Earth to the Moon."
iluvstrawberries08 11 months ago
@RCMan89 The launch footage is documentary footage but treated by this TV series' post production team to augment certain elements and features, including the exhaust pluming during liftoff and the lightning strike itself. This series preferred to use documentary footage for some material that was too expensive to create, unlike movie "Apollo 13" which created everything from scratch.
DaveRSander 10 months ago
@RCMan89 I think the footage of the Saturn V igniting and lifting off the pad is from the actual mission; at least it closely resembles the actual Apollo 12 launch films.
Everything else, including the lightning strikes, is synthetic.
ApolloWasReal 8 months ago
@RCMan89 not, the good video sequences are from "the earth to the mmon"it was an HBO series based on the moon mission, by tom hanks. i got it from sams club for $10 but it's EASILY worth $30. look it up.
simpsonfan13 3 months ago
@simpsonfan13 that's a damn good deal for sure, I've noticed Wal Mart has a shit load of good movies on sale for some reason lately, like good dvd's for 5 bucks
hitcan79 3 months ago
@simpsonfan13 Yeah, I'll back that up. From The Earth To The Moon was a superb series. Get it if you can. It was shown in the UK by CH4 at midday every Saturday, just the Football build up was happening. What astonishly crap scheduling. Most people missed it, and CH4 never repeated it. The idiots..!
StLandrew1958 2 months ago
getting stuck by lightning... thats the time I piss my pants... again....
brandtaylor93 1 year ago
It was John Aaron who suggested "SCE to AUX" which saved the flight from and abort.
GodivaGirl1 1 year ago
by his own admission, al bean didn't have a clue other than know where the switch was. watch SCE TO AUX ..........all the principle people are interviewed. amazing how the movie makers don't follow more closely docs that lay it all out for you.
coreyagraph 1 year ago
that's paranormal
ElPeruanoUFO 1 year ago
this is my favorite episode
Airking4321 1 year ago
Launch Control was seriously considering scrubbing the launch because of weather conditions. But NASA brass overruled them, possibly because President Nixon was at the Cape for the launch. Fortunately that was the only problem in a near-perfect mission....other that Al Bean pointing the lunar TV camera at the sun!
MegaObserver1 1 year ago
WTF DOES THAT MEAN
hellzone100 1 year ago
@hellzone100 Signal Conditioning Electronics to Auxiliary
PassiveSmoking 1 year ago
What's the name of film ?
flatch0 1 year ago
@flatch0 The film is From the Earth to the Moon.
Blue387 1 year ago
There's too much to say. I certainly knew about this event, but had never seen this re-enactment, nor was I aware of the more detailed aspects of the drama. Seeing how Mission Control engineers quickly diagnosed the possible problems and suggested the most obscure, relatively unknown switch setting is what I'd call "real edge-of-your-seat technical drama." I will have to research the Apollo 12 launch more thoroughly to fully appreciate the details of this amazingly dramatic event. Thanks!
tonyny77 1 year ago
@tonyny77 Search Youtube for "SCE to Aux". You will see that this dramatization pretty closely matches the real thing.
bibbler227 1 year ago
AMAZING
jablu007094 1 year ago
We had 3 minutes of a trouble free spliff, then all hell busted loose. Houston, I got 3 smashed astranauts who are brown lineing there underwear. Err... Huston what do ya mean the bus light...what's that, we did'nt train for that. Oh it's ok, I see the bus light....It's a number 12 to shitsville. OB1 KENOBE your my only hope.. This is rouge 1, I'm going in.. Aaaahhhh.
defender5151 1 year ago
The saturn5 was smaller then the soviet n1 lunar rocket Witch was larger and more powerful then the USA rocket
gtvideos100 1 year ago
@gtvideos100 The United States had 6 manned lunar missions...Russia had zero...bigger is not always better.
dechm4af 1 year ago
@gtvideos100 In fact, the N1 was 5 metres shorter that the Saturn 5, but with a more powerful first stage - it had 30 first stage engines that developed between 4,600 and 5,000 tons of thrust - it depends of which authority you read. Because all 3 stages of the N1 used kerosene fuel, rather than the LH2 used in the second and third stages of the Saturn 5, its payload to orbit was less than that of the Saturn. Or would have been if it hadn't kept blowing up.
MarsFKA 1 year ago
A dogey clutch and the wrong gear will always do that.
defender5151 1 year ago
@defender5151 LMAO
dhart1977 1 year ago
I'm surprised they would say "SCE to Aux", given the possibility of communication error. Wouldn't they say something like "Sam Charlie Edward to Aux"?
malinwj 2 years ago
Would've been Sierra Charlie Echo then, using the NATO phonetic alphabet. :-)
But they didn't say that, even if you check the real recordings or transcripts they just said SCE.
Dilandau3000 2 years ago
@Dilandau3000 Sierra Echo Charlie is to long a sentence, Seconds count.
defender5151 1 year ago
@Dilandau3000 The panel is labeled SE2 AUX.
websuspect 5 months ago
It's because you can't expand every acronymn like that. Generally the acronymn is just given as is. I doubt a new procedure needs to be implemented just for that, in my opinion.
youvebeenthunderstru 1 year ago
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@malinwj I wondered the same thing.
firmingitup 1 year ago
@malinwj NASA was a civilian-staff entity primarily, and that community didn't use the phonetic alphabet as much, plus it takes less time to say "SCE".
columbusmozart 1 year ago
@columbusmozart If you listen they do say "what?" a few times. They had there own jargon but it would've taken so long to say Sytems Command....I forget the rest! Love how Bean and Aaron saved the day!
Seamonkey555 1 year ago
@columbusmozart okay it means Signal Conditioning Electronics, had to go back to Failure's not an Option to find it!
Seamonkey555 1 year ago
@malinwj
Only one person on the ground really knew what to do and only one person onboard the spacecraft knew how to respond to it. The switch was over by Bean's shoulder so it was a good thing he remembered it.
ScottZee11 11 months ago
@malinwj Unless there was some other similar-sounding switch with which it could be confused there wasn't much of a risk here. But it might have helped the crew find the switch more quickly.
SCE = Signal Conditioning Electronics. It's the box of circuitry that amplifies and scales the mostly analog telemetry measurements to a common voltage range (probably 0-5V) for the A/D converter in the telemetry encoder. Without it all their telemetry values were garbage.
ApolloWasReal 8 months ago
@malinwj no need too, as apollo 12 carried a new, revolutionary, VHF (low band) FM tranciever for voice traffic. Compared to apollo 11's wide band AM system for voice, it was a major improvement, and voice communications were just that clean and clear.
Polybun 5 months ago
"I Got A Pitch And A Roll Programme And This Baby Is Really Going" Brilliant
ASJO19 2 years ago 2
this is pretty much EXACTLY how it happened.... read the transcripts
jc851 2 years ago 19
i love that NASA put them online in the Apollo Flight Journals:
"000:00:14 Conrad: Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going."
...
"000:01:29 Conrad (onboard): Huh?
000:01:30 Bean (onboard): Twenty-four volts, which is low.
000:01:33 Conrad (onboard): We've got a short on it of some kind. But I can't believe the volt...
000:01:36 Carr: Apollo 12, Houston. Try SCE to auxiliary. Over.
000:01:39 Conrad: Try FCE to Auxiliary. What the hell is that?"
joshatkins94 1 year ago
I got three fuel cell lights, an AC bus light, fuel cell disconnect, AC bus overload one and two, main bus A and B out.
thehoaxbuster 1 year ago
bit . ly / bNsSEa
joshatkins94 1 year ago
Hey look at that - Pete Conrad is Emil from 'Robocop'!
englishguy2005 2 years ago
Good eye. In addition to his appearance here and in Robocop, actor Paul McCrane was in X-Files and also had a recurring role in ER. An interesting coincidence is that McCrane is a Philadelphia native, same as real-life Pete Conrad.
ennui2000 2 years ago
Ah fascinating!! So he's not from Detroit then haha? From melt-faced cop killer to astronaut!! What a change huh?
englishguy2005 2 years ago
Quite a memorable scene in Robocop, yes? I'm not sure I can recall a more gruesome demise depicted on the screen. McCrane kind of chewed up the scenery in that one.
ennui2000 2 years ago
Anyone who wants a defintion of "triboelectrifactipn" just needs to look at Apollo 12 :)
Zoomer30 2 years ago
John Aaron, the steely eyed missile man.
bsam20uk 2 years ago
I met Alan Bean at the Museum of Fine Art Houston, he is a talented painter and a very kind generous person. I was near the end of the line of 500 folks, he singed my book and was gracious. He loves people !
apollowoman 2 years ago 3
you lucky bugger!
alienhunter36 2 years ago
I bet they soiled their space suits.
Bloodgod40 2 years ago
What movie was that?
givemetoast 2 years ago
TV Series "From The Earth To The Moon"
Alvais1985 2 years ago
wrong "master alarm" tone... -.-
KedmenecMartin 2 years ago 3
same alarm, same problem:)
joachim2464 2 years ago
See why John Aaron is every engineer's hero?
daveeyes 2 years ago 9
Yeah, he was mine for the longest of times, sully sullenberger recently passed him though. :-)
SparkPlugRocks 2 years ago
@daveeyes Mr. Aaron was the Legend from that ride on up to 13 when he got in the simulators with John Young (another Legend) and Ken Mattingly, who came up with a powerup procedure from scratch that only took a handful of amps, far less than what it takes to power your computer.
Poor Pete giggled all the way into orbit after that little glitch.
Keep in mind that the IU of the launch vehicle was NOT affected, only the CSM/SM. If the IU was hit, Conrad would have fired the tower.
Nighthawke70 11 months ago
@daveeyes He is definetly my new hero! :)
underfirefly 10 months ago
@daveeyes The guy is surly clued up on the engineering side of that’s for sure.
EmpireLS56KW 9 months ago
Thankfully, Nasa learned their leason with Apollo 12 and now they are more careful with the weather conditions.
MilkyWayArchives 2 years ago
yea, at least nothing worse could of happened.
RoPWU 2 years ago
Actually, The Apollo 12 mission could of ended in disaster. It could of exploded while in the air or while crashing into the ground.
MilkyWayArchives 2 years ago
that could of happened, but it didnt so they learned from it
RoPWU 2 years ago
could HAVE could HAVE. FFS...
GRAHAMAUS 2 years ago
What I love about this is that it's exactly what happened. I've read some of the transcripts and with a few alterations it is what it is. Tom Hanks is a huge space fan so unlike many directors he KNOWS what he's talking about.
youvebeenthunderstru 2 years ago
After this they changed the rules to never launch in a storm which still applies to the space shuttle.
Membrane556 2 years ago
this is my favorite episode of the whole series...
bettescorpio 2 years ago
my dad works with alan bean's grandson, so my dad met alan bean.
Blabist 2 years ago
It's surprising that the Saturn 5 and the three astronauts did blow up. Good god and god was watching over them.
brisco42 2 years ago
who is crazy enough to send a rocket to the moon in a lightning storm?SERIOUSLY!
breyergirlglory 2 years ago
do u know anything about space travel? After being delayed for a while, they decided to launch on this day and they would have only been in the storm for about 3 or 4 minutes. besidesm they have an emergency escape plan if something terrible goes wrong as to somewhat abandon ship
kosmot199 2 years ago
And there wasn't a storm. There were cumulus clouds.. and unfortunately enough electrical potential that when the Saturn V left it's trail, it was enough of a disturbance and conductive path for a strike to go downwards from the craft to the launch tower. NASA learned new stuff that day!
chrlz904 2 years ago
my grandad was friend with John Glenn because they were astonauts :)
kurrentessa 2 years ago
awesome vid 5/5
100mysterious 2 years ago
My dad knows alan bean!
Blabist 2 years ago 14
Lucky You! :)))
So am I: I have met with Charles SIMONYI in April of 2009, at Budapest :)))
BasserPeti 2 years ago 3
@Blabist and I'm Bill CLinton
ElPeruanoUFO 1 year ago
@ElPeruanoUFO That was a year ago. and YES he does know him. No lies, "Bill Clinton" so called. Anyways I was pretty stupid a year ago, again, No Lies, even for posting that lmao
Blabist 1 year ago
@Blabist
Really? :)
iloveairfrance 1 year ago
That ECom guy is a genius.
WithYouSir 2 years ago 2
Great Video , Love itt , Thankzzz .
JuventinO5 2 years ago
After watching this video, I've deduced that Pete Conrad was one of the guys who killed Murphy in Robocop!!!
englishguy2005 2 years ago
And then a helicopter fell on him outside a County ER!
toddsmitts 2 years ago
Poor ole Gerry looks stuffed when he hears that term. S.C.E. to A.U.X.
IntermittentSprocket 3 years ago
Got this series on region 2 DVD brilliantly re-enactment of the Apollo era. That sure was a freaky moment to get struck by lighting and it could have been certain doom if that had exploded less than a few miles from the launch site.
IntermittentSprocket 3 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
the sound effects of this video seriously suck, so does the acting.. bleh
itsumonihon 3 years ago
Couldn't be as bad as your poor criticism of a TV show, likely haven't seen it before haven't ya? Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB gave it great ratings.
EndeavourLaunch 3 years ago
if you listen to the actual mission telemetry and audio recordings from that day after the platform was reset with SCEE to AUX Astronaut Charles Pete Conrad can be heard laughing giddily all the way into orbit.
R.I.P Pete
suntzu1985 3 years ago 6
petes dead ?
titusville4life 3 years ago
He died in 1999 from injuries sustained in a motorcycling accident.
Dilandau3000 3 years ago
And he need not have died! They did not realize that he had internal bleeding and he died unesscarily! His wife sued and won a setlement from the hospital the did'nt treat him properly!
apollo12lmp 2 years ago
@Dilandau3000 phail
ElPeruanoUFO 1 year ago
@Dilandau3000 I did not know he had past away :,(
amusedtodeath1 1 year ago
@Dilandau3000 In more depth he died from incompetant care at the emergency room. He had a torn aorta but since he was up and walking around they overloooked the life threatening injury and he was dead within hours. Mrs.Conrad used to and may still campaign for better emergency care. Goodness knows it's needed. But if Pete were going to have to leave us, I think on his Harley was a spirited way to go. He has the only colored memorial tree for Christmas, b/c he lived his life so colorfully!
Seamonkey555 1 year ago
yes, unfortunately Astronaut Charles Pete Conrad passed away from injuries sustained from a motorcycle accident some years ago.
however, Astronaut Alan Bean and Richard Gordon are still around.
i met Alan Bean quite some time ago but recently saw Astronaut Edgar Mitchell back in September 2008 and Astronaut Story Musgrave about 10 years ago.
suntzu1985 3 years ago 4
That`s really something! It must be an amazing moment to meet a person that have walked on the Moon! I want to also :)
ingareinar007 2 years ago
yes, surprisingly Astronaut Edgar Mitchell was extremely philosophical about his experience and the route of his life that took him to the moon. Truly an amazing gentleman.
suntzu1985 2 years ago
I must read about that! Or is there anywhere I can? Anyway, I am pretty sure that a mission to the Moon must do something with a person. The view to things, the Earth and so on.
ingareinar007 2 years ago
Edgar Mitchell after his moon landing with Alan Shepard embarked on a journey to the middle east, north africa and parts of turkey in a search for lost ancient knowledge. Additionally, he was instrumental in the foundation of the field of noetic sciences and is deeply interested in such fields as well as in gnosticism.
suntzu1985 2 years ago
The dialogue in this scene is VERY accurate (albeit somewhat condensed) to the original flight transcripts (I've only read them, not heard the actual recordings) And yep, Pete and the rest of the crew were still kidding each other about it for the rest of the day. Great scene!
shutterbun 3 years ago 6
yes, i have listened to the tapes of the Apollo 12 launch and you can hear the crew laughing and especially Charles Pete Conrad laughing giddily all the way into orbit after the glitch was resolved.
suntzu1985 3 years ago
It must have been special effects since the rocket disappeared into the clouds not long after liftoff.
GGE47 3 years ago
Even though this was a TV show, was the footage of the lightning strike(s) real or just special effects?
EliteRanger 3 years ago
the show was all SFX
zice39 3 years ago
Damn, that's too bad...thanks for clarifying, though! :)
EliteRanger 3 years ago
There is no known actual film of the lightning strike. It happened after a pass through a low cloud layer.
da40flyer 3 years ago
Rest in Peace, Pete!
flatsignedbooks 3 years ago 5
pause this at 0:49 on the dot!!!! What the hell happend???
great episode :)
moviedudeinc 3 years ago
That's the lightning striking the rocket.
Dilandau3000 3 years ago