 No, I'm trying to live stream but my phone's not connecting Do you want me to take a picture of you guys because this is just fighting? I'm just gonna have to all right. Here we go Yeah, see if that it's it's hard to get all of the All the plain in but I know I oh it is live darn it Thanks, you too. Hey guys. Sorry about that really awkward opening But welcome to vintage space's first ever live stream I was taking a picture of a gentleman and his son in front of the SR 71 which is like the most badass plane ever I have not written about it, but I can at some point. So the point of doing this live stream, which I Apologize is not actually a live stream. I'm at the Udvar hazy museum in Virginia and through some odd circumstances today I've ended up here and some of you may know some of you've been here Some of you have just heard which I'm in the I have just heard category. There's a really awesome space hangar here I'm gonna turn around you can see shuttle discovery is right there So I thought it would be fun to do a bit of a live stream of this now Unfortunately, I'm not actually doing it live Because my video today about the acoustics of rocket launches went live and I didn't want to do two videos in one day And and overload you guys so I'm gonna hold this until now now that you're watching it But we are still gonna do a bit of a live stream feel just so that I can play around with what it's like to talk to my Phone in public, but I thought that I would give you guys a bit of a reveal of going into the the space hangar at the Udvar hazy museum because there's some really amazing space stuff that you Guys would love to see and that I would love to see it I'm super excited to see so I am gonna go ahead and flip my camera around and show you as you walk in and apologies I hope the sound is coming through because the headphones so And apologies, I don't have one of those steady cam things that will actually like give you guys a non-walking I should stop walking my hands are not steady, but welcome. Oh, this place is awesome. Oh Yeah, they have my favorite things here, which is why I really wanted to live stream it for you guys So the shuttle discovery is front and center. We're gonna walk around it. Um, there's so much stuff here Sorry, I'm I'm kind of kind of floored. All right. I don't even know what that is Yeah, this is a Just so you guys know this is 100% a live stream because you can hear me saying that I don't know what things are Let's go over here. Let's start over here because this is this is what I actually came to see So a lot of you guys who have been following me for a while now know that my favorite thing in the world Is the Gemini paraglider and I came here to see let's see if we can get a picture of me with it It's here this this I'm gonna flip the camera around again. This is the Gemini regalo a test-toe vehicle So here's the wing. Here's the regalo. I've never seen one of these things in person. This is so cool Oh, I'm having way too much fun with this This is the the system that NASA developed here's the the information for those of you guys who'd like to speed read This is the system that NASA tried to develop in from 1962 to 1965 to land the Gemini spacecraft On land like an airplane so that they could not have things splashing down because as we know splashdowns I should flip this around Because splashdowns do things like corrode metal and risk astronauts drowning and all those bad things So the the regalo wing The regalo wing was designed to take take that out of the equation and actually make it so that it could land Safely on a runway. So this is why I mean I've been obsessed with this thing for ages And I know it's here the other one of these so this is this is a small vehicle that was actually raised by helicopter And then drops with and then drop down to train how it would actually land you can actually see Over here the North American aviation insignia It was built by North American and it sent three North American pilots to the hospital my interviewed I interviewed here. I should flip this back around. I interviewed one of them Don I interviewed Dominic Cusker's widow a few years ago, and he was one of the pilots that That was sent to the hospital. I think with broken ribs. I've got a blog about it, and I'll put it in the description below He was sent to the hospital I think like four days before Christmas one year and she was really mad because he was supposed to do the Christmas shopping that year The other name of the pilot who went to the hospital Escaped me right now But the third pilot who flew it was Jack Swigert who we all know then joined NASA when he retired from North American as a Test pilot and flew on Apollo 13 So that's that's little tidbits about the regalo wing There's there's obviously like way more to say I will put put links in the description And oh, we also apparently have Gemini. This is Gemini 7 Guys you should all be here you should all come to this museum Gemini 7 I'll flip this around As we know this was two weeks two weeks sitting in this Front seat of a Volkswagen is roughly how it's been described Jim Lovell and Frank Borman just did the endurance test and Said it was pretty boring and also smelled like a latrine pretty quickly Okay, what else what else can I can I show you guys? This is the problem with live is that it's very much live and it's very much me Yeah, oh wow, it's very much me not preparing things, but I thought it'd still be kind of fun Oops, sorry wrong wrong camera wrong camera. Okay freedom seven No way I thought this was I feel like I saw this oh freedom seven two What is that? Oh, this is this is this is what live looks like Huh an unflown mercury that would make sense so freedom seven of course being Al Shepard's mercury spacecraft is I believe I saw it at the What's that that museum the Naval Naval the Naval Academy Museum because Shepard was a Navy man So yeah, and it's of course in the plastic that horrible plastic that Preserves the capsules very nicely, but also makes it so that all you can really see is the reflection of lights So yes, this makes sense at this one I will turn the camera round is not protected But it's kind of nice because you can actually see all of the details on the skin and you can see I don't know if you guys can see in there. There is some some detail of the control panel Wiring and stuff through the window. It's really really tiny every time I see one of these it kind of like shocks me that it's Absolutely this tiny. Okay, let's continue walking and I'll I'll I'll narrate for you guys. It's not it's not very exciting narration Oh, wow, I don't know what that is, but I'm gonna go over there next I just want to show you guys the other half of this little exhibit Has heat shields, which are so super cool. Oh, it's Glen's seat. I wonder if this is Yeah, John Glenn's training couch. Here you go. That's kind of fun. That's the size John Glenn looks sitting down in a space suit So yeah the other half of this Oh, no way. Okay. See fun. Okay. This I wrote about this This this is horrible lighting. I don't know if you guys can see this, but this is the um The articulated motorized dummy that they use to train To test space suits that they wouldn't have to risk astronauts hurting joints and stuff I wrote about this one not too too long ago again link in description Um When uh one of the other ones there's two of these were built and the other one was recently auctioned off And I don't actually know if it was sold. I'm sure it did. I'm not sure for how much I'm sure it was a lot But I did not I knew that the other one was owned by the Smithsonian I didn't know it was here. So I'll try to try to get a better picture Um, I mentioned that it's got it's it's all pneumatically operated with this like Aluminum skin over top of it and then rubber pants and a rubber jacket to make it look humanoid I can't totally get the face. It's too bright with discovery behind it, but it's creepy. I'll take pictures It's creepy. This is awesome. I did not know this is here. This is cool. Okay, so here here is um Gemini heat shield again the plastic means that it's exceptionally hard to actually See the details especially in a video, but I hope this is doing a little bit of something. Um Yeah, it's it's awesome. I don't know. I don't only have much else to say about it and I think I think over here um Cameras just oh wow that lit up. I wonder why the dummy didn't light up another gemini heat shield just for uh for funsies Yeah Oh, and the mobile quarantine facility is here. That's also kind of fun I let's see if I can get a shot. Oh inside it. Yeah, like kind of can okay here. Can you guys see that? I I I ask the non-existent live stream. Um, that's tiny. I always find it really interesting I mean, you know like intellectually that these things are all really small But then to actually see just how tiny they are Is is just like uh wow all of this stuff was very much not as big and glamorous as you would think it is um So that let's see. I don't know. Oh Here's armstrong's visor. Why don't these things light up? I want them to light up so I can show you guys Here's here's neil armstrong's eva visor apparently I just learned that because you know, I've never oh, sorry. That was a finger shot. Um, yeah So there's my little Oh, and I'll show you guys this too. It's got the hornet plus three. So okay. This is a much better view Sorry, I showed you the wrong the wrong angle before but hornet plus three, which is of course, um the hornet uss hornet Oh look recovery team The uss hornet was of course the ship that recovered apollo 11 and I think apollo 12 too I'd have to double check that to be honest off the top of my head But um, yeah, so hornet plus three was hornet plus the three astronauts I'm pretty sure it did apollo 12 as well. Um, and I I can't get a good shot from here But I'll show you anyways. It's the paris of I love this thing. Oh my god. This is the Uh, I don't know which one I'd have to go up to the balcony up there to check but um, this is what neil armstrong and milk thompson started building and ended up making into a little test program at, uh The the high speed flight station, which is then then dried in now armstrong to test control of the regalo wing This was the vehicle that was towed behind a muscle car and then ultimately air towed by a small plane So that pilots can get a sense of what it was like to actually control the vehicle in flight And there's a dummy up there and I can't wait to get a good picture to see just how small it is So yeah Okay, so that's for 10 minutes. Um It's it's very awkward to do a live stream when you're talking to yourself talking to your phone in public So I'm gonna stop now, but um, I thought you guys would kind of enjoy seeing a little bit of this Actually, there's one more thing here. Oops, sorry son that I'm gonna show you before I shut this off Um, the apollo. Oops, sorry fingers. I'm not good at this, but the apollo 11 flotation collar. So Yeah I assume. Yeah, this is a boilerplate command module Um, I have never seen one with the flotation collar and stuff attached Because you don't see that very often because you usually see them under plexiglass to preserve them And there's the balloons up top to keep it up in the the stable one position Um, so yeah, that's also kind of cool. This is this is awesome And let's just do one more one more shot of the test tow vehicle there because it's the greatest. All right Oh, try and turn that around. Okay, there we go. All right. So I'll do this Uh, let me know what you guys think of a live stream like this in the comments Because I've never done this before but I think it could be kind of fun I admittedly don't go to super exciting places like this All the time but when I do it would be really fun to be able to share it with you guys And if I didn't have a video up today, I would have done it live Although the the internet in here is not very good. So I don't know if I'd even be able to do it live Which is why I'm hoping that holding it until today whatever day this is that I decided to post it Actually gives it a better quality So let me know if you guys have questions or comments about anything that I very briefly showed you I will again have links to past blogs and past videos and the description and stuff To give you guys a bit more information, but I'm happy to answer questions And let me know what you think about live streaming and whether I should do more of it And also maybe invest in one of those things that keeps your camera steady So that it doesn't give you guys motion sickness when I walk with the camera All right, as always be sure to follow me on twitter and on instagram afd vintage space for daily content Facebook as well by by name you can find me there and of course new videos going up every week right here on vintage space So be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. All right. Thanks guys