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How To Land On The Moon (Patreon)

Published:
2021-01-31 17:49:48
Imported:
2026-06

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Thank you so much for supporting on Patreon.  It allows me to make a video about whatever I want.  In this case, I wanted to going into great detail about HOW you actually land on the moon.  It's far more complicated than I originally thought!  Turns out the 1/6th G issue is huge because it makes you rock your spacecraft over FAR MORE than I originally thought.  

Seriously, thank you so much.  The Algorithm doesn't seem to like this video at all, but it's some of my favorite stuff to investigate!  I'm grateful to have your support, and will strive to keep earning it!

Regards,

Destin

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HOW TO LAND ON THE MOON - Smarter Every Day 250

Click here if you're interested in subscribing: http://bit.ly/Subscribe2SED Get 1st Audiobook + full access to the Plus Catalog for free when you try Audible for 30 days https://www.audible.com/smarter or TXT smarter to 500500 ⇊ Click below for more links! ⇊ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION A very special thank you to Wayne Ottinger http://www.aletro.org/ Check out the AMAZING website by Ben Feist that synchronizes all Apollo data: https://www.apolloinrealtime.org/ I had to find a lot of archival footage to make this video. Thanks to Devin for helping me find the original Apollo LLTV footage from Ellington. A special thank you to https://twitter.com/steveslater1987 for providing the footage and audio of the Neil Armstrong Interview after flying the LLTV. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tweet Ideas to me at: http://twitter.com/smartereveryday Smarter Every Day on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SmarterEveryDay Smarter Every Day on Patreon http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Smarter Every Day On Instagram http://www.instagram.com/smartereveryday Smarter Every Day SubReddit http://www.reddit.com/r/smartereveryday Ambiance, audio and musicy things by: Gordon McGladdery https://www.ashellinthepit.com/ http://ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/ If you feel like this video was worth your time and added value to your life, please SHARE THE VIDEO! If you REALLY liked it, feel free to pitch a few dollars Smarter Every Day by becoming a Patron. http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Warm Regards, Destin

Comments

Nathan Taylor

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

Ryan Lett

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

Chris S.

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!

Paul Potter

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

Alain Keusen

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

TheEdgeOfRage

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.

vennic

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

Francis Whiting

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!

RedKB

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

Dave Booth

Looking forward to watching this with my kids tonight!

KC

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

Troy Wilson

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!

Brian Pedersen

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

Shawn Johnson

I really loved the video! Great work!

Michal Thompson

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!

David Goodridge

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.

Donovan Meyers

Great problems, great solutions. So fascinating.

Steven Dettling

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!

Aegrum

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!

J and K

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. 😂

Steve Jones

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..

John Page

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

V.E. Griffith

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

Ed Williams

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

Ed Williams

But thanks for being there, man!!

BinkyNingy2

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.

Colin Richardson

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.

Mike in Texas

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.

Stu D

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

Neil Roberts

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.

Paulo Borges

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...

Randy Coffee

Why did this appear on YouTube before Patreon?

william bumgardner

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

Digital Gorilla

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!

Joe DeSimone

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.

Olie Bosley

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.

Tim Gentry

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.

Clay

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.

Grant Douglas

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

Malika Morisset Bonapace

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

G.Kendrick

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.

Paco Ramos

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.

Lior Singer

As far as I know, only 7 nations made it to the moon. So it is a big challenge. How could it be done in a low cost, one more big question.

Dre

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!

Michael T

Yes. Happens for me also.

Darrel Crane

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."

Bruce Grembowski

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.

Austin Burnham

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

Victor

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).

Alexander Scheeben

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

Keith Waggoner

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

Kevin Kays

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!

vennic

That's prehaircut Destin, far too long since he has discussed fecal matters