when we had the the accident at Wallops the mishap where we lost entire is and
then recently SpaceX lost dragon there were kids at those launches who had
experiments on those spacecraft who had the disappointment of losing them and
welcome to the real world of rocket science I guess but also had the
excitement of knowing that they were a part of something that's really really
hard and I heard a kid heard a story of a kid who was interviewed by a reporter
who said yeah it's really a bummer to lose that experiment but I'm kind of
5050 I got to see a rocket exploding that was really exciting and then we're
gonna fly it again we're gonna build it again and we're gonna fly it again and
they did and and there'll be more and more of that and it teaches I think kids
a lesson that it's worth doing it's worth doing twice or three times
whatever it takes to achieve your goal and I think that it makes them realize
that that the really hard things are the ones that really matter and that I think
it also gives them a sense that they can in fact participate in spaceflight and
like for myself when I was 13 and decided I wanted to be an astronaut it
helped to have some teachers who said you can do this this way and that way
and this is where you need to go and my parents who were supportive these kids
are getting the same thing from an even broader community that you know maybe I
could be an astronaut if not I can be a scientist or an engineer and I've run
into people even people in Congress who said I'm doing what I do now
because of the Apollo program
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welcome aboard NASA tours my name is George Herman
we'd like to bet you a warm welcome to the John F Kennedy Space Center during
our tour today we'll have recorded commentary and at times I'll stop the
tape to answer any questions you might have for those of you with the camera
anything you see you may photographs now smoking is not permitted on our bus so
let's just settle back and relax and we'll begin our trip with the Western
world's first spaceport Cape Kennedy formerly called Cape Canaveral was
selected as the site for testing ballistic missiles and later is our
nation's first spaceport as our space program grew the site was extended to
include Merritt Island one of the reasons this was an ideal site is that
the first stage of a rocket doesn't go high enough to go into orbit and when it
falls back to earth we'd rather it fall back in the ocean than over inhabited
areas another reason is from this point we can take advantage of the Earth's
rotation and achieving orbit and also the islands stretching southeastward
from the Cape were already made chain of stations for our tracking network here
at Merritt Island there are more than 88,000 acres of land and what's wreaths
Isles and acres or orange groves and 39,000 acres have been left as wildlife
preserves
they're wild boar armadillos alligators thirteen ball Eagles nests and more than
200 separate species of birds and even one reporting of a panther
the long white building on the right is a manned spacecraft operations building
here is where we receive and check out the Apollo spacecraft and lunar modules
and if you ladies think you keep your house clean well you should see the
inside of this building the walls the ceiling then even the floor is painted
white and they never stopped vacuum sweeping
if you're just entering the room you can wear regular clothes but before you can
go near one of the spacecraft you have to put on white gloves and a special
lint-free gown like a surgeon would wear in an operating room
they even wash the air that goes inside the spacecraft okay good
in other buildings as symbol a scientific communication and weather
satellites and the surveyor spacecraft for you folks who don't know what a
surveyor is? that's an unmanned vehicle and we've
already soft landed five on the moon you've seen the pictures they send back
the last do even had claws which dug at the surface scooped up the soil and then
sent a message back to earth to tell what kind of soil it was
one reason for all of this is to make sure when our astronauts get to the moon
they've got a pretty good idea of what to expect while all of this is going on
the astronauts are practicing every detail of the flight to help them do
this they have a trainer that it's just like a real spacecraft where they can
simulate everything from the actual blast-off complete with sound effects to
a docking in space
roger
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alright liftof
well commence
roger
role complete
roger
checkin
let it go
right change
roger, right changing and we are venting
presure decreasing
one minute
again Roger switching
how far do you think that billing is anyone like to take a guess one mile
anybody else closer to two miles, and mile and a halve, that's the Vehicle Assembly Building and
from here it's five miles away
now we're going inside and have a brief rundown on what takes place inside the
building the size of this structure folks is again deceptive because we
don't have much on our flat terrain to which we can compare it the best way I
know to get the full impression of its height is once you get off of this bus
get your feet firmly planted on the ground just lean your head back and look
straight up every once in a while we'll have someone from New York to remind us
that the Empire State Building is just a little bit taller than this this we have
no quarrel with the Empire State Building about two times as high however
if we cut the Empire State Building up we could get nearly four and a half
Empire State buildings and the walls of this one how much did it cost one
hundred and sixty million dollars ma'am Saturn five rocket you see in this
building are not manufactured here they're made many different parts of the
country California Louisiana Alabama and brought
here by barge and some of the biggest cargo airplanes in the world
now that you've seen the size of some of our rockets you can understand why we
must have a big building to put them together for rockets each 36 storeys
tall can be assembled here at one time when this building was under
construction clouds actually formed under the roof and it rained inside the
giant fans have been installed but keep the air moving so this can't happen
once all the individual stages are checked out they're moved into place
with an overhead crane
if Paulo Saturn rocket consists of five sections each stacked on top of the
other the main booster the intermediate stages
and finally the payload that contains a spacecraft that will orbit the moon and
a lunar module it would take two men down to the surface and then bring them
back again
the rocket is a symbol and all the system checked out again they opened the
doors at the side of the building the doors are made up of sliding panels each
panel weighing 30 tons and it takes 45 minutes to get them open
enlarged crawler-transporter which is like a giant tractor it's driven into
the building and lifts the rocket platform and all to take it out to the
launch pad and they usually start early in the morning because it takes all day
to get there
it's over a half a million miles to the moon and back first three miles of that
trip is made right here on the road out to the launch pad
rode out to the pad isn't a divided highway but two road beds filled with
loose rock to help cushion the weight
when the crawler-transporter is carrying the mobile platform with the Saturn
rocket there is a total of 18 million pounds moving along at a top speed of
one mile an hour when the crawler is empty it can really scratch off it can
double its speed and go two miles
we had two gentleman from Texas out here the other day and one of them looked at
those crawler-transporter and said hey tall we get back to the Big D for you
folks who don't know what the big D is? that's Dallas remind me to buy one of
those things and the other said what in the world would you do one of those and
he said I'd put a blade on it and Molem along
our Saturn 5 rocket when is completely assembled stands 364 feet tall weighs
6.2 million pounds and most of that weight is fueled when this rocket leaves
here will liftoff the thrust of more than seven and a half million pounds
this is about 180 million horsepower that's more horsepower and a string of
cars lined bumper-to-bumper from here to Seattle Washington
now from here you can get a good view of the roadway going up the top of the
launch pad remember that crawler-transporter must
traverse this grade with the Saturn 5 rocket there are automatic leveling
devices to keep the rocket leveled so it doesn't become top-heavy and fall over
we're test launching these rockets right now in preparation for a launch to the
moon but it's more than a moon rocket folks it would do that job and whatever
else this country needs to do in space for a long time to come
ok uh are they any changes to the schedule our new line item 7 which is
shown for all day all of first shift you see the tank pressurization test will
not start until 1300 when do you want to run leak check first ship TST
you're gonna extend that timeout for 5 hours by cutting it off in the front end
of that lh2 storage tank pressurization negative the hazardous poison of that
should last only about 4 hours
all see four
see us to verify FeLV da and he position a request next cute MP 43 plck at
would you start tape recorders, it course started, ok all personal count al monitors and executers
go ahead TVTS
can you verify if you are ready to pick up the count at t-minus 6 hours and 13 minutes, ok standby i get that information for you, all tc, channel 121
we're now beginning to pressurize the tanks within the Saturn 5 vehicle we
will pressurize all of the tanks in all three stages with gaseous helium as the
pressurization builds up its being monitored during the control center now
at 1 minute and 40 seconds and counting our status board still indicating
all is well established board shows instrument units, spacecraft and all the launch support operations well at this time at 90 seconds and counting
Houston flight now confirms that they are that they are go for the flight as
are all other aspects of the mission t-minus 1 minute 16 seconds and counting
the pressurization continuing within the vehicle at this time we also have a
hydraulic commit that will permit the hydraulics to drive the engines in the
first stage liquid hydrogen tank in the second stage now pressurizing t-minus 60
seconds and counting our status board still shows we're go at
this time t-minus 50 seconds and Counting we have transferred to internal
power the transfer is satisfactory a 6.2 million pound saturn v launch vehicle
now on its own power at 38 seconds and counting
the repeat of the ignition sequence will stat at 8.9 seconds, we will be looking for lift off at zero
2 minus 30 seconds and counting
2 minus 25
stages reporting ready for launch
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egnition sequence start
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we have egnition
all engines are normal
we have lift off
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Sunday 4 March 2018
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