Adam Savage’s One Day Builds: Project Egress Apollo Hatch!

earlier this year I worked with the National Air and Space Museum on a special build to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission we called it project egress and it was a life-sized replica of the Apollo 11 command module hatch or door using 3d scanned data and original technical drawings from the Air and Space museums archives an incredible engineering student named Andrew Barth modeled every single intricate mechanical component of the hatch using fusion 360 that detailed digital model of the hatch was then separated into individual mechanical components which Jen Schachter the project manager of this entire process sent out to more than 40 different makers all over the world each of them replicated the piece in their preferred medium and I assemble it with an incredible group of makers live on the floor of the Air and Space Museum on July 18th here's how the build went hey it is game day I am in the moving beyond Earth gallery at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum they have generously donated the space to us today to do this build and we're ready all of our helpers are in place all 45 boxes from all the contributors including a giant crate from Microsoft are here they've made it through the mails and in about 10 minutes we're gonna start building a command module hatch and hopefully if about eight hours you'll be seeing a piece to camera from me very grateful maybe a little sweaty and satisfied with our results oh great okay hey these two look like the holes line up yeah that's definitely how it works and they made like people made these beautiful pieces and enclosures for them so I think one of the next things we're gonna do is pull the Microsoft base and door frame out of their crate that's the biggest part that's the anchor of this thing but still there's whatsapp etiquette just to look inside oh wow so none of these have this hasn't been assembled each one is just and it's there's some aluminum and there's some 3d printing that's amazing this is from intermediate educational campus at Waynesburg so right now we're unboxing all the parts and labeling each of them with their part ID numbers so that we can locate them in the total assembly bottom middle bellcrank which is that's this one or that one that one this one we're sure certain it's the middle right Baker Ripley Fab Lab which is part number 12 we're good dude oh and there's an NFC tag in here which if you hold your phone up to it points to the project page on the Smithsonian website so it'll permanently be tied to the project sophie was amazing apparently this part was sent to a hundred thousand feet elevation before it was sent to us a level of specificity that is truly magnificent oh my goodness this is like unboxing an Apple product yeah oh my god there's more than one that's beautiful it's got you got with actual balls that's fantastic and then what is this oh they're slides it is in slides of them making this that's amazing oh wow yeah and they're all Oh with all of their images I got to put this bag that is incredible oh that's beautiful this is a one of the hinges made by Jimmy to Resta hardwood and brass I mean the degree to which every single contributor deeply engaged with these parts and then put their own stamp on it is super inspiring and seriously unwrapping these boxes is like the greatest Christmas ever oh this is Ryan nagata's dude classic Ryan the gotcha the stamps are all correct and even there even a little bit crappy like slightly not quite perfect he went to visit the real hatch and took extensive close-up pictures because he knew at some point he would be making a replica is it is it like MDF yeah it's a machined it's a CNC machined MDF bursting and higher layers of film Oh so right now they're unpacking the main hatch frame this is what all the pieces of hardware are going to attach to and it's really exciting to see it in person we've seen pictures and it's absolutely beautiful from the cardboard model we literally assembled one of these out of Amazon boxes to look at that's that Wow I might have actually got ciao I didn't expected you that right no bubbles or anything nope what okay maybe one here's a question how do you align a hole that you can't see with my flashlight point it through there Oh genius yeah beauty oh yeah by all means movement we have our first engineering problem which is too close tolerance we expected this got a part that's maybe 15,000 you guys to come over and watch us build all the time that was lovely I'm bright welcome to oddly satisfying no yeah yeah just a little bit oh just a little bit it seemed easy that's awesome yes here I'm gonna fix that right now I'm assembling the outer handle right now which is multiple pieces that slot together Andrews over there working on the gearbox which is a pretty massive assembly it's gonna take them a little while and Adams over here putting the window on to the inside of the hatch so what when you cast things they can tend to shrink and when Ryan they got to cast this beautiful window shroud it shrunk about 10% which meant that only 10% of the holes to line up so I was able to get about eight screws across the top the rest I had to use very high bond double stick and then I am literally gluing in sliced off the screw heads to complete the look at this point it's whatever works how's it going Jen ah let's go in I think I can I can bolt on the outer window frame I have one stubborn bolt that won't go through on the outer handle that maybe you could work some magic on sure I totally will and the Bell cranks okay all our bags a couple of these parts are built literally so that they could probably go on the actual door and this is one of them this is the most beautiful look at that oh my god a masterpiece I think the women we sort of like to at least two hours three I think technically so where it will be don't watch me at this time when one lines up perfectly I'm like oh thank you right so we're a little nervous about time and because of that we pulled in lots of makers that are here that actually made pieces to help us build this thing on stage so right now Kate and a Stephanie and Sophie and Mel are all helping us to find all the hardware for each piece and then map out where it goes onto the door and we're gonna begin attaching it all as soon as that's ready we've got the window in both sides we are working on all the linkages there's a whole bunch of linkages linkages all the way around the outside perimeter that are very self similar but they're all slightly different so there's a team working on that I've just gotten jimmied orestes hinges mostly mounted I have a little bit more solidifying to do of this one but that'll happen later in the day and this beautiful part is in and fit so it feels like we're going good but I'm not feeling optimistic just yet I'm not allowing that so yeah so they're all and the hardware is all ready to go so we can just hand them to you one by one and you just boop-boop-boop let's start doing it okay awesome so it should be thank you yeah this is our piece yes right Andrew they always face outward because the linkages are around the perimeter right now I'm feeling pretty optimistic we've got 75 80 percent of our outside linkages installed and it's exceeding my expectations it is a calico exquisite corpse of a collaborative construction and it looks like it looks like we're gonna finish on time again folding off my full optimism for a minute you know we're all gonna write our little names inside of one of these or something so many of the builders are here instead all of them yet just really little places all the way around great the alignment awesome awesome yeah so we can start we can start putting them on the actual mechanical function of sing which we'll go over and a little bit it's kind of mind-blowing but really 90% of the parts are on and the screws are all fitting so there we go yeah just forced my way past it and we that's why do we strip the screw enough yeah three six very you were ready send me in coach fabulous we are like two or three linkages away from being done and frankly I think we're all a little surprised how well it's gone despite a bunch of difficulty in alignment which is totally to be expected we can have 45 different makerspaces building parts for a thing to be honest our fit and finish has been way better than it should have been for that kind of dispersed construction and we're close to the end this is a very best part oh you're peeling off oddly satisfying oh yeah like a pro huh all right let's try that I adjusted my eyeball right like that crying it's done please give a huge round of applause to Jen's Schachter who shepherded a hand for all the makers president who contributed to this beautiful object again seriously a hand for the Smithsonian for allowing a bunch of makers to come in and mess up the joint and Andrew Barth took a scan from the Smithsonian of this hatch that was basically like a surface scan and somehow in his brain figured out how all these linkages worked and threw them all in like I don't know two months ahead for Andrew and then also a bunch of our extended tested family came to this so please give a hand to them for helping us out Ryan Zoey mal Hey okay now I'd like all the makers who contributed to come up on stage and sign their work please if you would at Industrial Light & Magic whenever we've built a large spaceship which we stopped doing after episode 1 Star Wars but before that they've built lots of spaceships and whenever you did it was always with like 7 to 20 people and when you were finished with the spaceship everyone signed in some discrete parts so I guarantee you on the 5 foot Millennium Falcon on display there's 20 signatures hidden throughout the thing and on every other star warship and this one's no different it's part of spaceship 45 builders participated we're all gonna sign a little signature here and I'm gonna give it the start here we go Jen there it is 45 contributors 10 helpers 8 hours and one command module hatch that is as we've been saying all along at calico exquisite corpse of a collaboration and I could not be more blown away by how it came out it exceeded all of my expectations including more parts fitting than I thought would fit together I find that I love making stuff in front of people like there's a very different kind of stakes to it and also an audience interaction I've done a lot of stage stuff but this is something wholly other and the way the crowd gets involved with the build and the way the group of us putting the build together gets involved with the crowds in motion it's something really unique as is this beautiful new piece and new member of the Smithsonian's incredible collection in this palace of stories

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Length: 20min 9sec (1209 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 03 2019