How The Apollo Program Came To An End (Space Documentary) | Spark

[Music] four three two one ignition sequence has started [Music] we have [Music] I don't don't go wrong go tell Congo yet see [Music] we copy it down eagle God created the oven in the earth and God said let there be light and there was light [Applause] [Music] right now corn even MU is really out in his world I believe in this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out [Music] safe no single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind [Music] so difficult are expensive to accomplish [Music] [Applause] of course when I was selected for the program I had very high aspirations of flying a lunar landing but Apollo at that time when Germany was going on although it was in existence and in work for those of us who were very deeply involved in Germany was still quite a step away I used to give a talk known and two different groups throughout the country and talked about someday we're going to walk on a surface and not just go there but walk on the surface of the Moon and I believe that even though I found it hard to believe myself I did believe it because I believed in what I was doing but I turned around one day and I found out gee I was one of those guys who was walking in space and with a little luck and God willing I'll be one of those guys who's gonna walk on the surface of the Moon and even having done summers it's still almost unrealistic to me [Music] inspire the fact that I've had a chance to fly a couple times I've been close to the moon I haven't made that moon landing and believe me it's no easier today and they weren't a past and certainly they're not for crews never made that lunar landing before [Music] [Music] I think just like everybody else people who fly with me and after me will bring very special experience [Music] experience gathered generally prior to becoming an astronaut and then added to while they have been an astronaut my experience just happens to be in the field of geology and in particular and the observation of materials of the earth as they exist in the field that's what basically a field geologist does in the case of exploring the far frontiers of space a geologist has an advantage because that's his livelihood and that's what he's been doing most of his life I don't feel that unusual a lot of people think of it as being unusual but it's really just another special hopefully we open up with this the possibilities of applying other specialists other problems [Music] Paulo 17th is what we call a J mission series or it's a follow-on to Apollo 15 and 16 where we really sort of change the capability of the spacecraft we have more payload on this flight as a result we have quite an extensive and heavier scientific package in our spacecraft which of course means it takes a longer time to to deploy it to set it up to get it working with that in mind and to spend additional time on exploring the geological finds we hope will be in Taurus lettre our landing site we hope to spend a little bit of longer time on the lunar surface we added a lunar rover to the lunar module so that we could go further distances from the lunar module after we landed get in areas in terms of geological exploration and exploration of the moon that we couldn't get to before we've been training for about 12 months maybe slightly longer than that it's hard to remember once you get involved in this thing how long you've been working on it but of course the training for any spaceflight mission begins several years before that and for me I guess the concentrated training for Space Flight began with Apollo 15 in the December of 1969 [Music] this Apollo Saturn launch control or a t-minus one hour 22 minutes and Counting out at the pad this base vehicle is surrounded by searchlights producing some 225 foot candles of life and liftoff approximately 7,500 foot candles will be produced from the flame of the Saturn five engines this is almost equivalent to daylight our countdown continuing to go smoothly now as we approach the one hour mark this is Kennedy launch control some people think that because the Pala 17 is the final Apollo lunar landing that it should be a spectacular some kind so someone decided that it would be a night launch well it is a night launch but it was not planned that way it really came out by accident the fact that you pick a landing site in our landing site is in a relatively remote area of the moon in the northeast corner the launch time of day is really dictated to us nevertheless at night launch is going to be very very exciting as much so for the people who are watching it is the three of us who have the opportunity to fly this launch will be aiming Apollo 17 for the taurus littrow area of the moon named after the Taurus Mountains in southern Turkey and the Austrian astronomer littrow the site is expected to yield some of the oldest and some of the youngest lunar samples returned during the Apollo flight to the moon [Music] we have a chance to complete this first phase on our inspiration and last chapters of another history book that Apollo has the capability of writing we won't know it from 1500 years but some of the things that we were finding that were completely unexpected that we didn't plan to buy will almost certainly be the most important thing the history of science inverts probably in the history of man is about that our launch control first power the flight of Apollo goes into Earth orbit the eye of the world in the space [Music] and the planet and this generation does not intend come founder in the backwash the coming age of space we need to be a part of it we need a leader [Music] the team reporting in to with ergo no goes for launch first days reporting they are go rain safety they are go launch director water Cambrian is go for launch 17 along scheme which is you good luck and Godspeed America bang on 25 seconds and counting we eye skills oh there we go 20 seconds guidance alert the guidance system not going in turn 14:13 ignition sequence pattern 5 is moving off the pad right down the pipe okay that a teen is going prejudiced in your go first stage looks good altitude 1.1 load one problem cracker one Brad Brad Eugene you look great write down the one continues and your times are not all they must be pigment I went into Roger crew will experience maximum g-forces of about four G's at shutdown standby for mode 1 charlie 17 coming up on first stage shut down 17 use in yard go for orbit go for orbit good job a little late but a good job standing right [Music] we've confirmed Apollo 17 as in a near nominal orbit the translunar injection burn is targeted to last five minutes 51 seconds accelerating Apollo 17 to the required speed to get it into an orbit that will intercept the moon [Applause] fifteen you're looking great on a final status check here and you're go for dear life [Music] something you said you're looking good and the thrust is go [Music] booster reports the thrust looks good on the s4 be the velocity increasing now to 26,000 feet per second beginning to climb ever more rapidly burn was initiated at an altitude of about 97 nautical miles above Earth one finished spacecraft will be at about 150 miles above Earth and on its way to the moon some two hundred thirteen thousand nautical miles away [Music] something isn't you have a go for candy okay I go for candy today we and we got a few very bright particles or fragments or something that go drippy by over looks like before the July outruns window now but we've got the booster and his sheep pretty challengers just sitting internist or rudder I guess they attend much Bob from the center seat other than Captain America is very intent on getting challenger at the moment yeah coming in a little slow but good funny time [Applause] Ron Eben's not the controls of America moving in for the docking with lunar module challenger Reggie this is Apollo control America and Challenger are on their own at an altitude of 13,000 nautical miles from Earth 17 to us to the crew is probably best summed up in the meaning of our patch as we designed it and as the ideas that we put into it we felt certainly another Paolo 17 in spite of the fact that it's the last flight in the Apollo program it's really not the end but or rather the beginning it's sort of a culmination of what we consider man's greatest achievements certainly in our lifetime and looking in the future these achievements and the potentials of them have literally no bounds we have the god of Apollo on our patch he represents not just the Apollo program but mankind himself represents knowledge represents wisdom and Apollo is looking out into the future he's not looking behind and he's not simply looking at the moon someplace that mankind has been but he's looking out beyond the moon and into the future we have along with him up in the corner of our Pachi a golden moon so representing a golden air or a spaceflight that we are bringing to a close now the achievements that have happened in this past decade we're not by accident America brought us where we are today in the United States of America is going to lead us into the achievements and the accomplishments of the future [Music] this is Apollo control Cernan and Schmitt have gone board the lunar module Challenger going through the housekeeping transfer of items from the command module into the lunar module and we'll proceed with the checklist of activating the spacecraft communication system Evans had the detail of removing the probe-and-drogue earlier but he's by his lonesome back in the command module Gordy doesn't look like I have a chance to go to church today but under the circumstances I guess it'll be okay next time he's a good father you might have put a good word in for us okay I'll do that hello you said I've gotten the moon boy is it big we're coming in right down on top of it Roger that's about right don't worry you'll miss it I just wanna hear you say it cuz I've been told to do it hello America I read history hello he's been in America you can breathe easier America has arrived on station for the challenge ahead [Music] challenger Houston here we go for undocking and SEP we got it hey let's get on the ground now the landing site of Apollo 17 taurus littrow is and i speaking from the from the guys actually gonna fly the spacecraft to land it very very challenging it's sort of a box canyon surrounded by mountains on three sides in a landslide that comes off one of the mountains that has some rubble that is strewn across some of the craters just in front of where we're going to land so from a pilot point of view it's very very challenging this is spectacular it's absolutely looking at that command aren't you America daughter come across the surface sounds great super targeting god we've got family but we've got the course of a theme we could see the scarf you see the light man oh I've got the great cross leave it or not used in there all there yes better I can even see poppy right where we're gonna cut this baby down very good man corn oh this is absolutely spectacular sure sounds like it [Music] during the next front side pass the moment of truth challenger will descend to the surface of the Moon and touchdown at the stars literal landing site okay all flight controllers go/no-go for powered decent restaurant no I don't know guys go pro go TOCOM go insane oh we can't go surgeon go captain we're go for power decent challenger Justin here go for PDI we are down I've got two good like babe looking good here for over are we coming in baby [Music] still is good here again close 550 feet per second 300 feet 105 for down at 5 feel good understand me Sam vibrant and death hating me [Music] in a little bit 40 feet going out at 3:00 [Music] [Music] that's why you bet it is Gordo or you said shut down I shut down a we dropped in with yes sir but we are here and if we hear her death my friends look great manifolds right on Ron I had to meet fall all the way beautiful Jack are we gonna have some night boulders in it there okay the old cameras off okay challenger Houston I'm gonna hand you over to the good doctor Parker here have a good trip outside Cory thank you you do not any work and we sure do appreciate it babe my pleasure I forget to our favorite part you played click click damn it is locked your visor did locked commander is on the porch oh oh [Music] oh man dad as I step off the surface that taurus-littrow I'd like to dedicate the first steps of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible oh my golly unbelievable unbelievable but is it brightness done how you do it jack fine back you're looking good beautiful guys beautiful explode hey Jen don't locket I'm not a lock we gotta we gotta go back there you lose the key we're trouble [Music] Balotelli geez thing connects generator not accept this is a challenge to see my footsteps might be something a geologist said I favor power I never thought I'd do geology this way [Music] the taurus-littrow site on the north eastern part of the moon at the edge of one of the large lunar basins calls FranNet on us was selected as representing both a new part of the moon which we had not explored yet and having major features that would allow us to complete this first phase and with our exploration and last chapters of will in our history book that Apollo has the capability of writing those features are the edge of the Surat Annisa Basin where we have a very strong possibility of finding some of the oldest if not the oldest rocks at so far been sampled and observed on the moon and it also has the dark mantling deposit that is potentially some of the youngest volcanic rocks that we've seen on the moon and then of course there's this other thing of the unexpected and who knows what that's going to be and that's really what makes it exciting [Music] [Applause] babies around here [Music] don't forget that nor window for now yep that guy yet handle doesn't know where advertise maybe even better 17 we have a picture beautiful baby doll years okay you have to get it down to my level all guys are all alike agile they're twinkle toes [Music] the flag they're deploying is the flag that has been in the Mission Control Center here during past missions as far as I could see even in a breeze and that's when you do that you know figure you guys that's down there every day about that flag it's a beautiful picture it's beautiful it's gotta be one of most proud moments in my life I guess [Music] [Music] first I gotta find an out that fight Schmidt caringly all set about a hundred meters east of the lamb well gene cernan will drive out to the house upside in there over I say that deck that look like a big rock out there beyond earlier we believe you now oh you won't believe it ah there goes a fender oh shoot okay was it the rear fenders you know yeah I caught it with my hammer and it just popped right off it wasn't for that Center I'd be ready to go makes me sort of mad a little piece of the rail is cracked off and I'm just gonna put a couple pieces of good old-fashioned American gray tape on it see whether we can't make sure it stays because I don't want to lose it Chuck the old-fashioned American green tape doesn't stick to motor dust-covered fenders gene cernan taping the fender on I never thought I'd be out here doing this bad I am deck if that fender stays on I'm gonna take a picture of it is I'd like some sort of mending award it's not unique but well let's hope keep your fingers crossed and I'll be more careful around offenders okay copy that site selection in all the missions entails the utilization by NASA of a number of scientific advisory groups and the inputs of many individuals across country scientists primarily from the scientific point of view in terms of the instruments that we're going to place on a surface the landing site was picked because it gives us a tremendous network of scientific instrumentation that is still active from previous Apollo missions spread across the face of the moon we can see activity of earthquakes and meteor impacts and it gives us a pretty good cross-section to pinpoint where this activity is and exactly what's happening beautiful designer phrase at the panoramic beauty in the moon we have a window into the very early history of a planet in the near earth part of the solar system from 3.3 billion years ago back to say 4.6 billion years ago that is a history which is almost totally obscured to us on earth on the moon that's where lunar history starts and that's why it's exciting to earth scientists who have for years been trying to find out what happened to the earth in that very early time and an understanding of the processes that really affected the total distribution of materials on the earth and it's in those materials that lie our resources and a long-term understanding of the earth so that we can exploit those resources and exploit them and obviously now I think a much more like way that they fast but nevertheless we must exploit them in order to preserve the civilization we're used to that's reason number one a little bit involved but it is probably the primary material justification scientific justification component secondly an equally important related to the earth is an understanding of the history of the Sun and within the soils of the Moon and within the rocks of the Moon the very surface layers of them we are starting to see the effects of solar history on those materials and there is no way we could get this information on the earth are in orbit around the earth because what we see there is what's happening now what we see on the moon we can go through the record of the soil and see what has happened 100 million years ago and up to probably at least a billion years ago in some places on the moon and if we don't understand the Sun and how it affects materials and what the history of that Sun has been as it has affected our own environment on earth it's gonna be very difficult to understand how to preserve the environment that we now know because the Sun is still I'm the prime force for change in the environment we had to deal with [Music] - eight foot hose for now [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] okay back thank you Boise on foot the car getting down into your work Bob out there might comment until later oh we got a record we got the deuterons much now we got to eat broke and out of them but I feel pretty good about that that that makes me feel pretty good okay congratulations okay Bob we're about 15 meters from a 20 meter blocky Ram crater it's about three to four meters deep okay I copy that Jack very good he's going slowly though very outstanding the foreground features are somewhat different because they were farther up onto the hill I think that otherwise that's remarkable if you can hook your that's why I'm gonna draw our eyes get it right get it on the right side it'll go this way baby there you go good man he's right there try another one don't lose that one let me get that one for you buddy I guess gun oops okay bag four seven six is the rock sample with a little bit of a file near it Saba's chip chip off the rock be careful down in there and it's the [Music] budget gene if I go down there that takes about 15 feet deep [Applause] did the other chip got it okay oh look at the dark barrels in are those dark black yeah they're maybe overnight you're our fresh cursory giving impression of church okay you want my back Jim you better make it clear to Parker that we got to pull out now that's 29 1/2 minutes from now but remember they left this side a little bit late okay we got me and 17 a reminder to factor do you thinking this is only a 30-minute stop and it's about two zero minutes remaining yes sir but we got example okay did we get fill this up for Christmas happy that yeah that's good get your after look at my after pictures I'm gonna take a I quote the material that the Arctic definitely [Music] [Music] so what I really bring as a specialty is the ability hopefully of being able to integrate what I see which in turn not only tells me what I should sample and what I should say or what it should photograph about what I see but it will lead me to other observations and this is something you gain by experience no matter what field you're in field geology aircraft line test piloting botany poetry law you need what you gain by experience is the rapid synthesis of what you're exposed to and a projection of that exposure into the next step and so I don't feel myself very unusual being a scientist because we've had specialists before and I'm really a geologist going to the moon and we've got other types of scientists going on the Skylab program physicists solar physicists and medical doctor we're just gradually evolving a phase of the exploration of space where we're now trying to apply specialties to the I was [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you know I don't think we need an exerciser man I hate this stuff I gotta make a dispatcher tonight I taped it all we did nothing okay [Music] you got another hello Devon stable you how does it look to you looks good 17 and like you to know you had a seven hour and 12 minutes tremendous top or we might call it selling see that really was the fall of control at 124 hours 23 minutes and or challenger on the lunar surface in the process of getting me a lunar module a reconfigured ready for their asleep period which is my plan that calls for them to be in about three and a half hours from now [Music] [Music] good morning challenger Rudy said look better how does it look to you okay as I step out onto the plains of taurus-littrow Apollo 17 is ready to go to work oh there's not a cloud in the earth okay Jojo Houston with the work that way that sleepin fix for the missing Center John yes bent over working it out in a suit with the backup Rover good babe appreciate it I'm Cal now turn the microphone over to captain count hey you know this is John oh just fine you guys are doing a superb job really beautiful hey we spent some time on this fender problem and worked out a pretty simple mind at the procedure which involves essentially taking four of those lunar surface maps taking them together with great tape so that you end up with a piece of paper about 15 inches by ten and a half inches and clamping the edges of it on top of the fender with the äôt lamp clamps it's a simple and straightforward and the beauty of it is you're only spending about two minutes in the clamping operation and it could save you up to about 12 Dustin I think maybe what do you think hey thank you hold it right there let me get the crews using maps to make that fender the clamps are from the optical alignment telescope lamp as you can see it's only a paper fender but the moon is real it looks exactly what do you did he says you're good as is we're ready for you guys to go [Music] okay we are moving right now okay remark Annette the crew has started for station to the most distant of the station's more than seven kilometers away [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] the taurus-littrow site from Apollo 17 is one where at the mountain front you'll be hearing the name South massive and North massive as we explore that at these fronts or mash seems there is an excellent probability because of the impact of it that form the Serena Tata station we will see rocks form crushed the big emphasis there will be to see these very old rocks that will help push this history book of the mother backed right up to the very earliest possible time and we can examine all the moon potentially is almost four point four or five million years [Music] [Music] in terms of the detail the texture of the pine green regular most of the brightest breeders have a little sexual pit in the bottom which line look at a you know we're really up on top this thing we're driving sixty four minutes montre apart okay beautiful we're right where we wanted to be for station two and looks like a great place they Park station two is right at the base of the South Massif [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Length: 51min 50sec (3110 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 24 2018