Chemistry of Lunar Lift-Off - Periodic Table of Videos

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We re-create the chemical reaction that allowed astronauts to blast free from the Moon's gravity... and show why it has a surprising connection with The Periodic Table of Videos. More at http://www.periodicvideos.com/

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  • FINALLY I had a chance to hear the mysterious Neil's voice.

  • @NASAvsPETE "Fake" said the guy working on his GED. Good luck with that Sparky, you're doing a hecka' of job.

    God bless the handicap, they deserve to live just like the regular people. Give em' a break guys.

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  • Neil is the only person that can make wearing those goggles look cool.

  • If it does, then the result is carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide, both of which are colourless. Any elemental carbon would have been wasted energy, which, as every gram to the moon was so expensive, would not have been allowed.

    So, careful, complete combustion of all reactants, so clear exhaust only.

  • He speaks once in the halloween pumpkin vid too!!

  • the more you know *

    :P

  • now I did.. the propellant was Aerozine 50 (which is 50% N2H4 and 50% C2H8N2) as fuel, and N2O4 as oxidizer. So not much carbon involved after all ;)

    N2H4.. "Hydrazine"

    C2H8N2.. "UDMH"

    N2O4.."nitrogen tetroxide"

  • thrusters in space aren't much to look at.

    iirc the lander used rather exotic fuel. you can probably look it up.

  • seems contagious now a days, at least you didn't catch the Illuminati strain ;) The thing i find the saddest about the nasa conspiracy guys is everything that is testable has proven the conspiracy without any grounds, however they still grasp to pseudoscience impossibilities and non-testable 'proof'. Did you know there are still people who think the world is flat?

  • please also explain why there is no visible flame coming out of the Lunar Ascent Stage.. I'm not a chemist, but I suspect some carbon gets oxidized..

  • i never liked that comparison. don't get me wrong, all the science is AWESOME.

    but aerodynamic lift is very different from rocketry. and saying "we went from chinese paper rockets to the moon in 2 thousand years" doesn't have the same ring :P

  • a single axis swivel is too complicated? lol

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