Do Go On - 7 - Apollo 11: Moon Landing

Episode Date: December 9, 2015

One small podcast for man...You've heard of the Moon landing, but do you know the whole story? Do you know how close they came to failure and certain death? Armstrong may have been first to walk on the Moon, but Buzz had a couple of his own firsts too. And how about the third astronaut that stayed behind and many people have forgotten? Hear about him and his flatulence. It's the Moon, the landing and the piss bags. Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] the show and get rewards like bonus episodes:www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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is with me Dave Warnocky. I'm here with Matt Stewart. Hi Dave, how do you do? I do well. That's quite formal of you. Thank you Matthew. How are you? Yeah, good thanks. Hey David loved to introduce you to my co-host. Oh, is it not me? Look, I'm confused by this. It's yes Perkins I almost put a soft Jay there. Yes Perkins hello, hello, hello, Vlad, how are we? We are bloody well great to see you here. Yes, Perkins I don't think I'm Matt's co-host. I think we're all each other's co-host. Well then you are my co-host then aren't you? Good point, yeah.

Good point. All right well played. Many good points shall be made on this show where we pick a topic, one over the three of us. We write a report about it and then report back to the other two, try and teach them some interesting things. This week it is my turn to talk the talk. And Dave you are a little bit anxious

Would you say a few reasons for that firstly? I got a I got a mention the elephant in the room Oh, you come and has an elephant that's weird. I was actually talking about We've got in this space was actually talking about in this space, it's a rehearsal space as well, an anti-donna sketch company troop troop. Rehearsing out the back and I have a pretty loud brand-of-comedy Dave put his foot down he went out there and he said, Rod of the sleeves pulled out the shotgun said, look here, Zach I blame you for the noise, which is one of the three guys there, and they

were bloody lovely about it, so hopefully they're gonna be too late in the background. But at the same time, you know, we're fans and supporters of their art. Big fans. So, you know, we want to support them in any way we can. And if one of those ways is asking them to be quiet for a bit, you know, where will we need to do that? But if our listeners can hear them a little bit in the background, will you welcome because you're getting it inside into genius?

That's right, and if you are thinking them in the background is funnier than what you're hearing on the show, which it undoubtedly is, head over to YouTube and look up at the time of some real comedy start. They're amazing. But you know, it's our time to shine. It is our time to shine. The other thing I think Dave is anxious about is that he's written a super long report and he's confident that there is no humor in it at all. And Matt has somewhere to be so we

need to. The clockhouse. I've written too long of what two documentaries I've spent about 10 hours on one line looking at this thing. It better be good is what I'm saying. You know what I'm sure it will be. I have a lot of faith in you. And if you put in that much effort then it's gonna really show in your report. Yeah. Okay, and Matt and I hear for you and you say you want us to be the comedic relief.

Well, just you, wait and see. Just you wait and see. And if not, there's always hearty talent in the back. Exactly, hopefully if somebody pops it. There it is. So hopefully I'll get an A plus on the factual part of the research and you guys can get an A for some comedy styles. Alright! Now Dave, we normally kick off the show with a question to link us into the topic. What's the

question this week? We're all big trivia lovers, we start with a question. My question is, We start with a question. My question is what do you guys think was the first Television broadcast to be viewed by more than 500 million people half a billion Okay, was it the Beatles when they're on that around the world thing they played No, I like they debuted their song about love Which one All you need is love that's the one great guest and a good tie into an early episode of the show about the Beatles Yeah, I was gonna say like the Olympics the Olympics

Since is it the Olympics? No, it is not the Olympics since then it has been beaten by a few things How many again? It was fun. Over five. I think it's even televised. Was it a live telecast? It's like everyone. Live telecast. So what's the limit?

Was it sport? No, no, no, no. It is. So what's the limit everybody's interested in? It's probably coronation. The most. You're doing another episode about Academy Awards. It is probably that, so arguably the most famous

actually. Oh, wedding? Is it a wedding? Well, it has since been beaten by Princess Charles and Diana's wedding. I guess it's 750 million views. One of the most significant and hyped up events of the 20th century. The moon landing! It's the moon landing! Yes! Oh my god! Oh this is so good! I love this! He loved the moon because we are talking for the next Fifty minutes and one of the documentary so you watch was it the dish? No, I was a big phase of that movie We we studied space in grade four and it was when that movie had come out and we had to make diagrams

And I just made the the satellite dish in parks. I made a model of that I put sheep in it, because there's like a joke that it's in the middle of a sheep paddock. And I put sheep in my diagram. Very good. What mark did you get for this? Like A plus easily,

which is what's coming for you, buddy. We're talking the moon. We are talking the moon landing, Matthew. I was at the dish a couple of months ago. You were? Yeah. And you sheep inside the dish. No sheep inside the dish.

Disappointing. And you made a diagram? Not a diagram. What's the word? I made a model of it. Oh, a diorama. Diorama, thank you. I was gonna, I'm like, yeah, that makes sense.

Yeah, I made a diorama. It was huge. And it was like a big satellite dish. I think my mum made it. I think my mum made it. All we did when I was in grade four, our big project because you would have been the same year Jess that was the year

of the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Oh, yes. And we all got to make a project on one sport. our big project because you would have been the same year Jess that was the year of the Sydney 2000 Olympics. And we all got to make a project on one sport and you got no mark but you got a gold silver or bronze medal. Oh I like that! And mine on a weight lifting which is quite original, no one else did that. My dad did all of the project and we still only got a silver medal. Awwww. Oh well, yeah I like the difference and my mum made the model of the dish and I was like can I help? No no no, she's not a silver medal. Oh. Oh. Oh, I like it. Yeah, I like it.

My mum made the model of the dish. And I was like, can I help? No, no, no. She's going to have a great time. You're ruined it. Yeah. We'll put sheep in it. That'll be funny.

Comedy. Great, great stuff. And Perkins. And Perkins. Great lady. Okay, so, and this is my final and the trilogy of very famous things that you think you know a lot about, but when you actually think about it, you don't actually know anything about it at all. So we started with the Mona Lisa,

we had the Academy Awards, and now we have the Moon Landing, a trip ditch. Ah, trip ditch. Just like my man. Fredrick McCubbin. Fredrick McCubbin, that is a... Disgust. Pioneer trip ditch.

Disgust in the first episode. Oh yes, of course. So, because what I thought about it, I was like the moon landing, like I say, one of the most famous events of the last century. Then I thought about it. I don't know how long it took them to get there. I don't know how long there were there. Three weeks.

How they were doing up there. For a day and a half. I've got no idea that is incorrect. Oh, we're going to keep them. What are you trying? Do you guys feel, I don't know, just maybe you said you're obsessed with it, but I had no real... Because you know when something becomes so famous, you just accept it, there's no point in researching it. You know the detail.

I already know the moon landing happened. Yeah. But then, because I wasn't alive in 1969 when I was on television, I have no idea about it. Yeah, cool. I think I'll know, like, little facts, but I'm sure you're gonna surprise me Matt. How you feeling? Yeah, look. I don't know I don't know much cool, but I know I love I Don't know much, but I know what I like. I've seen a pillow 13 and that's the failed one I think it what was the success one a pillow 11. I know that I know Neil Armstrong was involved buzz Aldrin

I don't know the third guys name. I do We'll get there. Oh God. There's so much to learn and I think that's about all I know and also that it's a hoax Also, I'm gonna preface this by saying I wanted to do a bit about it being a hoax But the actual report went so long that if you think if you are interested in hoax this and I looked it up there's heaps of conspiracy theory podcasts so if you enter that we're just gonna take it on face value that actually happened because it was just too much it was like another separate report it was not in a recording studio somewhere no it was on the moon if

you've ever heard of that the moon the moon okay so much moon the moon the moon if you've ever heard of that. The moon. The moon. OK, so which moon, the moon? The moon. Background. There's a lot of moons. Yeah, but ours is just moon. It's the moon. I think it's Neptune. All the moons of Neptune, named after Shakespeare characters,

was like 30 or 40 of them. That's kind of nice. There you go. OK, background. Background. Moon time. 30 or 40 of them. That's kind of nice. There you go. Okay, background. Background. Moontime. In November 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected as the 35th president of the United States. Rings a bell. Of course, you may have heard of this man. It was an uncertain time of the 60s in American history with being the height of the Cold War. People were pretty unsure as to what

was going to happen with tension growing between the United States and the USSR, those Soviet guys. But in the USSR, now the callback to the US. Now the callback Beatles loved it. So Kennedy had been elected on a campaign that promised American superior of superiority. He practiced his speech. Superiority over the Soviet Union, particularly in fields of space exploration and missile defense. So, that was his big selling point. Now, the Apollo program that we've already talked slightly about had been initially conceived during the previous president Dwight D Eisenhower's time at the top.

You know that guy? Dwight D Eisenhower. The program was named Apollo after the Greek God of Light, Music, and the Sun. And it was named by NASA manager Abe Silverstein, who later said, I was naming the spacecraft like I'd name my baby. Apollo is a terrible name for a child. I looked up Abe in real life

and his children are actually called Joe and David, which are much more boring. Maybe what David is a shit now. David's of terrible. I think Apollo is alright. Apollo Creed, remember him? Is that from... How would you shorten that? That's from Rocky, yeah.

How would you shorten Apollo? Pole. Poleski. Pole, Pol. You're a Pole. Oh my goodness. No. No, probably not.

You said to bring the humor. Yeah, thank you. Let's liken it to a Cambodian leader. Despite being elected on the promise of space exploration over these Soviets, JFK. I'm on first name, times for him. Or I'm on initialism, too. I'm sure, thank you. I remember the word.

JFK did not come to an immediate decision on the Apollo missions and whether they should go ahead. So he was arming our own because it was going to cost a lot of money. And he knew that. I wonder why. But a bit of background here. The Americans were claiming that they were going to be superior in space exploration. But at this time, the US were definitely running second to the Soviets.

So the space race began in 1957, when the Soviets launched the first satellite into space, any ideas what that's called? Ah, probably heard of it. Sputnik. Sputnik, I have a hand. I did know it was there. And the American public was super shocked

that the Soviets had beaten them, then the US launched their own satellite the next year, so they're bit behind. Someone was called patriotic love missile. Oh my goodness, so many of the things are actually called stuff like that, it's great. So they put their thing out the next year, and then they decided they were gonna one up them,

and they were like getting a person into space is our next goal. But the Soviet speed them yet again, when Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first pattern. I just said his name. Yuri, that's right. Yuri. He became the first person into outer space and he went into orbits of the earth in 1961. So that was April. The next month the US launched its first astronaut, Alan Shepard, into sub-orbital space as part of Project Mercury. He was aboard the

craft, the Freedom 7. He only went sub-orbital, which means he got into space, but didn't complete like a full orbit like YG. So it's kind of like having a number two hit. Yeah. It's pretty impressive. Number one is so much better. Yeah. So everyone. And then America is such a great country. 20 days after Alan Shepard became the first US person

into space, but still didn't do proper orbital. JFK gets up there and says to Congress, hey guys, I believe that this nation should commit ourselves to achieving the goal before this decade is out, of letting a man on the moon returning him safely to earth. So they're having a speech. It is a famous speech.

I think it was more compelling when he said it, but you did a good job. And they're, I believe that they're our nation there. Oh, this decade is out. It's a pretty good impression of JFK. It's not bad. I can't quite put my finger on the accent that was sneaking into it. It was a little bit Irish, wasn't it? Yeah. It's like a little bit Irish. I got to put a bow on the more. I are a bleep. I are a fuck. Now I'm thinking about Irish. Anyway, so he's gone, hey guys, we can't do this satellite. Hey guys, we can't get an astronaut into space first.

Hey guys, we're going to put a man on the moon. But don't you think, because the Soviets keep beating them. So don't tell them what you're going to do. And they're trying to. They've got better technology clearly. Yeah. And you're sort of saying, oh, before the decades out, this is the early 60s.

So you're like, well, I'm giving you plenty of time. Yeah, exactly. He thinks he's got a long time. They're just gonna beat you. Work quick, dudes. So the cars were on the table. Americans have gone all in despite the fact they are behind. And this is, so 1962, this is, and then John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22nd, 1963.

So we never saw people get to the moon. Sad. So let's keep that in the back of your mind. So landing the man on the moon, it's pretty ambitious and required a huge sudden burst of technological creativity and was the largest commitment of resources ever made by any nation during peace time. So the US invested a whopping $24 billion dollars with the B in the 60s, which is equal in 2014 to $356 billion. That's a lot of cash. That's a lot of cash.

A lot of money. At its peak, the Apollo program employed 400,000 people. What? Required the support of 20,000 industrial firms and universities. So it was a big spend, but it created a lot of jobs. Yeah, I was gonna say, at least it was creating a lot of jobs, but at the end of the day, and while I'm certainly not, you know, saying it's not an impressive feat,

but at the end of the day, all you're doing is like, can we do this? So yeah, there we go, we did it. No, I'm guessing they could, anyway, keep going. I'm so just shitting all over the moon landing. Like, what did you do? All you did is went to the moon, but a lot happened from that. It's not that, I'm so just shitting all over the moon landing like what did you do all you did is went to the moon But I'm impressed but mainly because because I watch these two documentaries and I'm kind of obsessed with

It's like it is a kind of cool thing, but yeah, what is it really done? Yeah, but then I'm thinking hey It's all about beating the Learns like I'm upside down and some right up Yeah, and then the so it just like, use a pencil. Hey, we beat those Soviets. I say, wait, I'm going to hit. What do you mean, wait? Hey.

You watched two documentaries in A or an American? I am an American. Oh my goodness. See, I was so happy that I'm doing this project because last night at my trivia night that I host, I heard a woman say, Neil Armstrong was British right? Oh no probably the most American guy of all time and then she goes oh no sorry I'm thinking of Lance Armstrong also American so did not excuse them please do not go to

trivialize wait no I was thinking of stretch Armstrong also he's a toy and American toy he's a toy oh. Aah! An American toi. He's a toi. Ah, can you get that right? British toi. Oh, I think you have my husband. No Australian. He's Australian. So, the US completed a number of unmanned missions over the next six years, five or six

years. It wasn't until 1967 that they had their first manned mission. This has since been known to history as Apollo 1. And it can't be described as anything other than horrific disaster. Oh man. Oh yeah. So it was supposed to be the first manned test flight of the Apollo command service module, which they call the CSM. That's the bit right at the front of the rocket, where they sit. Oh, yeah. So right at the top.

So they didn't have fuel in the rocket. There was just a test. They were just going to sit there and do a countdown. That's what they were going to do. So the plan was for them, Apollo one, eventually, after this test to be the first people to orbit Earth in the thing and then come back, launched on a big rocket called the Saturn 1b,

massive rocket. So on January 27th 1967, whilst undergoing a procedural launch simulation after five and a half hours of delays, an electrical fire began in the cabin, spread ridiculously quickly in the high pressure 100% oxygen atmosphere around them. The three men in control lost radio contact with the NASA tower after just 17 seconds. So, went up in flames, really quick. Pressure rose high enough from the fire that the cabin burst and the fire erupted onto the pad area, which frustrated attempts to rescue them. The astronauts were asphyxiaated and that burnt before the hatch could be opened. So, really, the hatch actually opened inward and was very complicated to get open in a disaster.

So the three astronauts, Gus Grissom, Edward White, Roger Chafee, had no hope of survival. So it's massive tragedy, big disaster, rocked to the NASA mission, the Apollo mission. But it was like a dress rehearsal, wasn't it? So they were even really taking off. No, no, no. So they were just counting down. It's something went wrong. It's super bad And so and luckily it was a dress rehearsal because there's no fuel otherwise it could have exploded It would have been much worse. It would have been terrifying still not great. Oh terrible. Oh, awful So the United States Congress were like whoa, whoa, whoa, this is not good. They launched

Committee inquiry into the NASA who did their own investigation into this. I mean, so embarrassing. Yeah, right. People were really... Check this out, USSR. We can do it too. We can do it too. Somebody just like, didn't plug something in properly or just sparked it off.

And they had a big investigation. They could not find the cause of the fire. So this day, they... SIGURAT. Yeah, it's always cigarette. And the US public were like, hey, we didn't know if we want to do this. This is not a cool thing. It's three American heroes, as they say,

have just died for nothing. Yeah, we've really nothing. How the hell are you going to get to the moon if you can't have them sit on the pad and count from 10 to 0? So, but eventually after a big investigation and holding the mission, they decided to go ahead with the moon mission, but they had a number of safety procedures that were amended.

So they had new fireproof suits. Ah! It's a good invention. Good start. The removal of flammable material in the cabin. Excellent. Also clever. A hatch that could be quickly opened in an emergency.

There we go. All things that in retrospect seemed pretty common sense. You would have said that. So the deceased astronaut to Widows asked NASA that they name Apollo 1, or their name Apollo 1 be reserved for their flight, the flight that they never made. So it was decided in retrospect that what they were originally called AS204, that that would be recorded as Apollo 1 out of respect for those guys. So at the time they weren't, hey, we're Apollo 1, they thought there was something else. And since 3 unmanned Apollo

missions before them had already taken place, which is AS201, 202, 203, it was decided that the next mission, the first unmanned test of Saturn V, the big rocket, that would be called Apollo 4. Okay. So and everything else from then on is 5, 6, 7, 7. So, there's no such thing... So, there's no such thing as Apollo 2 or Apollo 3? Yeah, cool. So, there you go. They just skip straight to 4.

Out of respect for those guys. So, the missions continued on Apollo 7 was the next manned flight. So, they did 4, 5, and 6. And Apollo 8 was the first man man flight to leave Earth's orbits. It reached the moon, and it made the crew the first humans to ever see the far side of the moon, and the Earth rise over the lunar horizon. Oh, that would have been so sick. What I mean, top notch.

Having no idea what it would have really looked like, I guess. Yes, or did they have satellite footage of that sort of stuff? I probably had been satellites that went to the moon, but yeah. So they just kind of, so that was a manned flight that went to the moon. Went to the moon, did it sort of went around and then came back? It didn't land on it. So there was already satellite, so maybe it wouldn't have been that cool to see. Oh, with your own eyes, I reckon it would be pretty cool.

The Neil Armstrong wasn't even the first person to go to the moon. No, well, because the next one was Apollo 10 in May 1969, that was a dress rehearsal for the moon landing. The crew did everything the Apollo one, part of me, the Apollo 11 mission would do, except they stopped just short of landing on the moon. So they got there, did a lap, got the lunar module, lowered it down to within 15 kilometers of the moon,

and then this one straight back off and then went home. So, a really cool thing to do, but they are like 15k away from being the people we all know. That's so strange. It reminds me of Birkenwils, like almost, how far over there? It was about 15k I think. No, I think it was even less. I thought it was like 5k or something. Maybe it was, yeah, because they could taste the salt water. Yeah, yeah, that was such a short and they're like, you know what? Close enough from back there.

The Birkenwheels of the 20th century. And I think that this podcast could be the Birkenwheels of the 21st century. We could, we'll almost do well. We'll almost be someone. And we'll die of starvation before reaching the ultimate success. Yeah, fabulous. What's the ultimate success. Yeah fabulous. What's the ultimate success to you?

Podcast glory. Podcast glory here. Top of the charts. I'm going to have one thing in a big podcast glory, please. One thing and one thing. OK, so the Apollo 10s made it to the moon. They've gotten real close, but they've come home, that we finally get to the Apollo 11, the famous moon mission.

So the three men chosen for the July 1969 moon landing were Commander Neil Armstrong. The one we all know. He was one month away from turning 40, so he's 39 at this time. He's a former, hey, he's decorated. No, but like, you know what I mean? Like you'd think it's 30 and I at this time. It's old. He's a former. Hey, he's decorated. No, but like, you know what I mean? Like you'd think. I guess you've also got to be like they're all super smart guys, right? What do they need to know? There's some sort of science guys. They're pretty sciencey. Robo body guys. Well, he is. Engineer type people. Now, he's just a, he's just a crazy good pilot. So he's a former officer in the US Navy

He was just a pilot he had served in the Korean War Now after the war he served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for aeronautics They go in a high high speed flight station where you'd log 900 flights as like super quick pilot dude Super quick pilot James the technical term obviously? Yes, thank you Matthew You know why we both just turned on you know Oh no, he said the word engineer. We're like, uh, no actually he's a super high tech pilot He's the light heaps of flying Then he joined uh

National astronaut core in 1962 and before Apollo, he'd flown into space once in 1966, and he was technically the first American civilian to go into space, because he retired from the Navy, he was technically a civilian. Ah! So there you go. That's pretty cool. I didn't know he was a pilot, so that's cool. There you go.

We're learning. Decorated pilot, 900 flights. Then we have Luna Modjold pilot, Edwin Buzz Aldrin, Jr. He was also 39 years old. He's a former US Air Force officer and command pilot. And in 1966, he had been one of the first people to complete a space walk. So he's actually walked outside space before. Neil has not. And sadly the man that not many people remember, he is command module pilot.

Give me a, I reckon I'll know his name. Give me the first letter of his name. Is this going engineer? M. Michael. Michael. So name. Satsworth. C.

Michael. No. No. Come on Jess, you can do this. Michael. Matt, do you want to have a guess, see? He starts with C. Cranberry. That's pretty good.

Derek and we'd often remember it. It's a really common name, that's the other thing that's against. It's like, you're a man, that's a cat. Our strong is awesome. Buzz, cool name. This guy is Michael Column. Column! He's also like an Irish. Was he Irish? He had a movie made out about him I think

Just for doing nothing good. I guess it's a different Michael probably probably different Michael So doing nothing well he at 38 was the youngest of the crew. Oh the baby he'd been The fourth ever person to complete a spacewalk even before buzz. Oh, wow He had also been in the US Air Force and later went on to be director of the National Air and Space Museum. Okay. So multi-faceted Michael Collins. He's a pretty cool guy. They're all pretty qualified guys. But he was on his state in the ship. That's right. He stayed in the module. Why they went down. I don't know if it's such a bad result. Somebody had to. You know, he's still got to be there. He just wouldn't have had all the bullshit afterwards. Yeah, true. What kind of bullshit do you foresee them

like Buzz Aldrin? He can't go down the shops without the kids. The kids because he is like the number one most followed person on Twitter Instagram. People are going crazy. I don't know if he has Twitter. I'm talking about Twitter. I'm talking about equivalent of Twitter in 1969, which was magazines. Playboy. Playboy. Playboy. Playboy.

Playboy. Playboy. Playboy. Playboy. Playboy. Playboy. Playboy. Playboy.

Playboy. Playboy. Playboy. Playboy. Playboy. He would have he would have been so famous Neil Armstrong even worse. I hear what the most famous person align. He has 900,000 followers. That doesn't feel like enough. Well, 900,000 and one now. Just one now. After the show, I pledge allegiance that I will follow Buzz Aldrin.

Do you think I'll get a follow back probably? Probably. Let's tweed in when the show goes out. Yes! It's probably nice for Buzz to be followed now after following Neil that day. He's a famous follower. He's a sheep. And now, yeah, really. That's really what you want.

That's a nice sheep. Come on mate, let's chat our own part. You know, we know what the saddest part here is that if you look at Michael Collins and Twitter, there's probably like 8,000 people with that name. Oh, you know, good column, never find him. Never. Sad. It is sad.

Okay, so we've got the actual mission. The three dudes, they're ready to rock. They're really qualified. They've all been in space. Now, before this mission, the crew of Apollo 10 had named their spacecraft Charlie Brown and Snoopy. Adorable. So NASA was like, hey, this is actually going to the moon.

We want you to name the craft after something a bit more mature this time. So the command module, the bit that Michael Collins gets to hang out in, they call that Columbia, after the Columbia ad, which is the giant cannon shell spacecraft, fired by a giant cannon in a Jules Verne novel from the Earth to the Moon. Okay, two complicated. So a bit of a reference there that no one was getting. I think a peanut's reference, everybody go to the race. Yeah, I thought it was just Christopher Columbus, like an explorer.

Good grief, is all I can say to that. Good grief. The lunar module, the bit that actually goes down the Moon, you've probably seen a weird-looking sort of goldy, looks like it's covered in tin foil. That was called Eagle. You probably heard the famous Eagle. The Eagle is like it. That's what they meant. That's right. Also, Eagles, very American. Sure. There we go. So, the rocket that was to get them off the ground was called the Saturn Five. The Saturn Five. It's the tallest, the heaviest and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status. It was 111 meters tall and the three men sat at the top of it.

And the two meters, that's tall. That's quite tall. And they're at the top three of them sitting facing strapped upwards. So they're looking towards the top. That would be quite a sweet feeling. If you like. If you like. Being launched in a space, that'd be pretty cool, right?

Yeah, I mean, top five. You ever thought about that? Top five feel. I think it would feel like. That's why I think it would feel like. Just being shaken. I feel like you're gargling. And just to prove that every episode references Nazis in some ways.

The Satin V was designed by Werner von Braun. He was a Nazi poached by the USA after World War Two during Operation Paperclip. That sounds like something out of the Avengers. What? Like Operation Paperclip. Or just that they, yeah, and that they snatched a Nazi. Yeah, they snatched thousands of them after.

Maybe we could do an episode about this. They gave like diplomatic immunity to really clever people. Diplomatic immunity. We're working on German rockets. Hey, these are Nazis. I know, I was just creating like a weapon. The only way I can ever hear the words to put my babies up. You think you're the same thing, yeah.

So anyway, so they, they, they operation paperclip. They got heaps of Nazi people that really clever guys to come over and work for the United States. And this guy, Werner von Braun, he is often described as the Godfather of rocket science. So, they go. Godfather of rocket science. Wow. Correct.

Mark Werner funny. Correct. So, there are the top of the astronaut. Before the launch, the three astronauts went into quarantine and whilst they filled some of their time by taking out a sort of life insurance policy on their life. So it looked into life insurance, really dangerous job being an astronaut. It's going to cost them $50,000 a year in 1969 money, so not really worth ensuring your life of that.

So the newer they were doing was very dangerous. They could possibly die, actually pretty likely, I guess I would say. So what they did was they signed hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of autographs on these little envelopes. Amazing. All three of them on the same one. And then what they did was they gave it to their friend, he was an astronaut. And on the day that they were going to launch in 1969, he took them to the post office

and they all got stamps with the date. And then he distributed them their friend to their three families. So if they died, their families could sell something because they'd be one day smaller because they were the three astronauts that died right? Oh my goodness. Spoiler alerts, they did not die. So we never been disappointed that somebody lived. I'll wrap it up there. Still, these envelopes these days can fetch up to $30,000 each. Wow. There you go.

So was it collectors item after all? It probably is a better collectors item because they didn't die, right? Yeah, but after we made it. They signed thousands of autographs because they were heroes. Totally. For free. So there you go. Wow, that's genius though.

That's so clever. So they're sitting at the genius though. That's that's that's so clever So they're sitting at the top of the rocket. They're pretty happy. They're probably gonna die But they're family's gonna make a lot of money. They're okay Surely that wasn't in their minds. We're probably gonna die. Was it I think they must have thought about it I mean they got a man like it's really I can't say this enough. It's really dangerous Here's it though. I mean they did it. It's not just like flying't say this enough, it's really dangerous. He is at the end, I mean, they did it. It's not just like flying to Sydney, like it's... Oh, sorry, yeah, I keep thinking,

it's just like flying to Sydney, but it's not like that. There's a new host, and she gives you a meal, and it's not the best meal, but it's fine. Just to put into context where you're at, they are sitting on top of hundreds of millions of liters of fuel. Yeah. And three years ago, and less than three years earlier,

their mates had died in a fire at the top of that thing. And there was no fuel on board. So I needed the fuel. That's less than one that I've got out of this so far. Fuel is there. Always have fuel. Always have. No, no, if they had fuel, they would have blown up the half of Florida.

Well, look, on the information you've given me, no fuel, big fire, fuel, no fire, I think. Well, no fire and glory. So, basically, when they had no fuel, 100% of the time they got fired. My God. Never thought about that. Yeah. Two-sane Dave, two-sane. Sorry guys.

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Earth- Earth-Earth orbit. Well, they're super specific about everything. Well, there were two minutes late, it was supposed to be 930. Get that on Jetstar, people will bloody fight it. Oh, they're going to crack the shits. It's because people have bought in too much hand luggage. 11 kilos, you really think you're going to get that on board? Get stowed that shit kneel.

So it took off 932 AM, and this is how quick it is. It ended Earth orbit just 12 minutes later. So it's so quick. Are the satin five, the big ones? Five seconds getting to bloody Sydney. It entered Earth orbit just 12 minutes later. So it's so quick. Are the Saturn V the big rocket? Farts are getting to body Sydney. Takes an hour. Copy that, just.

The Saturn V had three stages. This is the big rocket that the Nazi designed. It fell away from the rocket. So eventually each stage gets a little bit smaller and it's got these little rocket engines at the bottom, keep getting smaller and smaller. Until eventually it's just the front of the rockets. How long do you reckon they traveled in space before they hit the moon? I was thinking why said three weeks

on a hot spot? No, it was two weeks. Shorter. Is it shorter day? It's shorter than two weeks, that's correct. It's less than a week. It's three days. I'm again remembering it from the dish. It's three days. It's three days. I'm again remembering it from the dish. Well, it just three days. Are you claiming less than a week is the right answer? Well, you said three weeks and I said less than a week in the answer was three days, so you know, I win. Dave, do go on. Thank you so much. So they got there July 19th.

They passed the moon and fired a service propulsion engine, which made them enter lunar orbits, and now they're going around and around the moon. So that's good. Then the next day on July 20, the lunar module, known as Eagle, we had before, separated from the command module, and Armstrong and Aldrin were in the Eagle, leaving Collins alone, sort of going around and around. Pick us up in half, I'm seeing in a bit. He's like I just I'll pick you up out the front. Yeah there you go. Just takes me when you're done. Yeah I'll just do

laps and let's just see a really good one. Let's just see a really good part then I'll let you know I'll send you my coordinates. GBS this shit. All right so Collins is alone probably I reckon eating all their supplies. I'll be I'll be I'll be hoeing down on twigs Space food twigs. Yeah, you've just been a lot you've been anything with two other dudes for three days And they got some alone time you'd fart the first thing you do is fun. There be so many I learned I Actually, but this thing and I can't tell it was true on us That's why I wasn't gonna put it in but you've bought it up that Michael Collins when he was on the way there took heaps and heaps of Like a modium anti-diarrhea things to sort of back himself up

So he didn't have to shit in space, but it just resulted in him farting over and over and over again Inside the control module. Oh So I was right you were right bonus point for Jess. Thank you. We're doing points now by the way It's suddenly become Matt one mil and I'm winning you're on zero Still catch up. Oh, they wanted to land on a part of the moon called the sea of tranquility Like the perfect spot. Yeah, it was that all the desert of death. So I thought which one Both of them look pretty rocky It's a the sea of tranquility, that sounds nice. Free spa upgrade.

And as the descent towards the moon below began, Armstrong and Aldrin found they were passing landmarks on the surface four seconds too early. This is how specific these two took. Wow. They're like, hang on, that rocks, that's four seconds early. And they reported that they were going to land long and that they that they were going to land long and that they thought they were going to land miles west of the sea tranquility. Desert of death is with them. Oh, no.

So five minutes into the descent, just 1,800 meters, which is not very far above the surface of the moon, the Eagles navigation and guidance computer distracted the crew with the first of several unexpected program alarm So it's just going alarm alarm alarm while they're trying to concentrate on really quite a dangerous thing Back in Houston, Texas they had no idea what was going on They were like, but then this 24-year-old computer program whiz kid Bill Gates

with kid Bill Gates. All the names Jack Garman, he might have, you know, Garman the GPS. Oh. Had nothing to do with it. Oh, I'm just pointing. Spelled a different, but he told the astronauts, hey guys, I've seen it before, I've written down what to do, what you do, is you ignore it and keep going. That was his advice.

He was like, he's like the IT guy, just turn it off and back on again. That was actually what he said, if it doesn't happen again, you're going to be sweet. But then it happened again over and over and over again. And in hindsight, what they've worked at is, because this is happening in seconds, they can't work it out, because they're computers and shit ass at the time. They worked out that what had happened was the computer felt, it was being overworked, it couldn't complete all of its tasks, so it was just saying, I'm just going to reboot. Give me a break. Give me a break. So it was just saying I'm just gonna reboot Give me a break give me a break

So it was just crashed and reboot it was over and over again the alarms were going off and Just a bit of a side note here the lunar module whilst it was state of the art 1969 computing technology 24 billion dollars worth the computer on board only had 65 kilobytes of memory, which is to put into context. The newly released iPhone 6s has 2 gigabytes of memory or RAM, which is equal to 2 million kilobytes. Oh my goodness.

So, the computer, Buzz Aldrin has described it since as having the same memory as a modern digital watch. That's incredible. That is what's our phones are more powerful like otherwise. Yeah, by a lot. Then thousands of times more powerful. But but sometimes my phone just freezes for no reason. I have to turn it off and back on again. And they got to the moon. And imagine it happens in the life or death situation. This is like the time, this is the bit that they haven't done yet, because they've gotten there. This is the bit, Matt.

This is what they've done the dress rehearsal before. And now they're at the bit. And the alarm's going off saying, hey, hang on. And on the ground, they're this close to saying abort. We don't want to risk these guys' life, because the thing is, if they get there and they get stuck No one can rescue them. It's it. That's over. They're gonna just die there So Armstrong looks outside

He saw that the computer's landing target was actually going to be in a boldest-grown area so there's bolders everywhere and East just east of a 300 meter diameter crater and he was like, I don't trust this computer anymore. He realized it was low on fuel. They only had two minutes before that they were going to completely run out of fuel. So Armstrong, super bad ass, took it into semi-automatic control and with Aldrin calling out

altitude and velocity data and quite like shitty spans. It's like, he didn't have the constipation thing. No, he really should have. Because I've actually in a post interview though, He didn't have the constipation thing. No, he really should have. Because I've actually entered a post interview though for it. That's all with all today. He was saying that he didn't want to take over Neil's concentration. But at the same time, he was trying to use body language to imply,

Hey Neil, we kind of got to get this thing on the ground. Because now the guys back in Texas, they've got a stopwatch that says two minutes left to fuel and they've decided to go silent to not control to disrupt Neil's memory. But all they're calling out is minute 30, minute 15 of how much fuel is left. Neil lands at 817 pm with 15 seconds of fuel left. Oh boy. So it's super close. He lands it, takes it down.

And Armstrong says Houston Tranquility Base here, the eagle has landed. And that's actually improvised, calling themselves Tranquility Base. Oh. Did that on the fly, but if Neil Armstrong met him. He's good. He's good, big bad work.

The very, we could learn from Neil Armstrong. the very nervous grand control dude replied Roger twang Tranquility yeah stuff that up we copy you on the ground You got a lot of guys about to turn blue here. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot Mm-hmm, and then everyone starts clapping going yeah, we're on the moon. Imagine being in that room Like you're not only imagine being like the three guys in space, how you would, you, you'd feel like you hadn't breathed for a very long time. But imagine being in the room on, on earth.

Ah. That'd be amazing. They are, you, I would've felt so, but they'd be poppin' champagne at that stage or do they waste. I don't know, well, speaking of champagne, buzz radio to earth. He said, this is the L.M. Well, speaking of champagne, buzz radio to earth, he said this is the L.M. pilot, Lina module pilot. I like to take this opportunity to ask every person

listening in, whoever, and wherever, wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and give thanks in his or her own way. That's very nice. See, Aldrin is a very religious man. It's a Presbyterian. And he wanted to mention God, but at the time, NASA was still fighting a big lawsuit brought by outspoken and world-famous atheist Madeline Murray O'Hare. And she'd sued and objected to Apollo 8, the crew reading from the book of Genesis and an early emissions.

And NASA was like, hey, Buzz, maybe don't mention the G word. Oh God. I quite like how he said it though. So he said that. And he's our own one. So I think that's very good. It's accessible to everyone. That's lovely. Then, Aldrin took a secret communion on board the module which he'd smuggled on. Also known as co-moon yin. No I've get out. Yes I wrote that down pretty good. So what do you do? Sitting in the lunar module, Holgen opened up a little plastic package with wine and bread inside it. He poured the wine into a shellace from his Presbyterian church and later wrote that in the one sixth

the gravity of the moon, the wine slowly curled and gracefully came up at the side of the cup. That'd be rad. That'd be rad. You read himself the scripture, I am the vine. You are the branches,

whose ever abides in me will bring for much fruit. I brought from me, you can do nothing. And then he drank the wine. So the first thing ever drunk on the moon was wine. Yeah. And I reckon nearly sitting next to autumn going yeah I should have bought a beer should I crack to beer not really as religious as you but yeah have a few brusquies on the moon skis on the moon skis oh so moon communion this is not fine communion was much worse so brusquies on the moon skis the schedule for the mission then called

for the astronauts to follow the landing with a five hour sleep period. And it's like bullshit. Have a nap. We just landed it on the moon. There's no way that we're gonna go to bed now. Like they've gotta be, you know when you get to a holiday destination

and even though your jet lag is shit, you still wanna take a bit of a trip around the hotel, see what's out there. It's straight into the pool. I'm in Beijing. I want to see what Beijing's like. Yeah, yeah, I'm not going to have a nap. I can't sleep now.

But it's like that, but you've traveled like half a million miles. Yeah. Which is crazy. To some way further than Beijing. Somewhere at least twice as far as Beijing. Somewhere that nobody else has ever been. Like heaps of people have been to Beijing. Oh yeah.

Nobody's been to the moon. Well, they have, but they haven't landed on it. Yeah. Well they have landed as far as we know. I mean the aliens. There's like been such a long history. Do we know that the dinosaurs never did? Good point. I don't do we know. Just a question. His face is so hard, buddy. His face is so hard, buddy. Right, like, do we? Did you research that, Dave? Fuck. Prove it. Prove that, haven't.

So, I'm strong in altering them, they were like, hey, can we sort of bump up the schedule here? We want to get out there. So, once they were ready to go outside, so a couple hours went past, but NASA was like, all right. We're excited, too. You're excited. Everyone's a little excited. Let's get you out there. Really, they even know the TV networks would have been like, can we hold it off to prime time? That's what I was super worried.

I also thought about that. It's like, hang on, don't they have a million dollar television deals going out? I think so. I do vaguely remember something like that in the dish where they're like, they're going. They're going to do it and everybody's watching in their PJs. Right. Earlier late at night. I probably depends on where you are Well, I've got the time so got the times. Well, we'll get to that. There's a big bit about the dish and the thing coming up

I get excited just so excited. I know you like the dish. Is it a good movie? Should I say? It's a good movie because I like working dog working dog. Yeah, it's got Sam Neil It's got a lot of good lines in it. It's got a putty from Sunfeld It's putty in it. Yeah, I think putty from Saundfeld. It's putty in it. Yeah, I think putty's in it. Does he play an American massacre? Does he like speak real? Yes, slow.

Oh, I didn't know he was in Saundfeld. I forgot that guy's name, but I really like him. He's great in it too. He's very funny. Good on putty. The mechanic. So, they're ready to go outside. Eagle was depressurized. The hatch was opened, and Armstrong made his way down the ladder first. There's been a lot of rumours since that Buzz was supposed to go first, and that Armstrong pulled rank, was like, I'm the captain, I'm going out. But in reality, it's a really tiny, tiny module, and he was closest

to the door. So Buzz couldn't get out. Well, that is the reason that Armstrong went first. Sure. Amazing. At the bottom of the ladder, Armstrong turned and set his left boot on the surface, then spoke, that a moral phrase, some of the most famous words in human history, that's one small step for man one giant leap for mankind Do you think he thought about that a lot? Well, there's also been rumors about that some people claim that he went down the ladder

Because he'd been thinking about it a lot and people had given him all these phrases like say something from Shakespeare say something from the Bible and Some people claim that he improvised it on the way down. I always assumed it was written for him But that's another thing. Then his brother said that he found in a diary. Okay. That was his word so it's one of those things. But what Armstrong has always claimed or did always claim was that he'd said that's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind, but it had cut out the transmission on the A. So it's probably made more sense. It changes a bit, doesn't it?

Yeah, one small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind. So that's what he was trying to say in his words. But he's listened to it back and said, yeah, I can't hear it either, but I swear I said it. Yeah, doesn't it make sense as man and mankind in that sense is the same thing, right? If it's not A man it's still I always I always read it as a man anyway one yeah like I'm just I'm just one man making a little step but you know one big step we've all taken as a civilization good job everybody and then there's a there's a rumor that he said something after that you don't know about

that a lot yeah let's all get fucking wasted. No, I think- Bring out the communion. Boom! Brusky's on the moonskies. It's good. It's good this party started. No one can stop me. I can do whatever I want.

I can do whatever I want. You know my mum buzz? Some of that. Some like that. What did it- what did you tell me? No, I, I, there was something, I don't remember the exact words all the name. It was something like he said, um, he, he, I don't remember at all. No, he made a reference to Mr, what's it? Bane?

Oh, yes, I have come across this, it's made up. It's, yeah, yeah. No, it's disappointing. So it's obviously. Is that what, where the song was about Mr. Vane? Mr. Vane, the song we're seeing earlier today. It is not Mr. What's the myth, what's the myth line?

That he says, he actually said, supposedly said, good luck Mr. Gorsky. Gorsky. The story behind that is that when he was a child who's playing baseball through an open window, he heard Mrs. Gorsky, yellow toough husband, R.L. Sex, you want R.L. Sex when the kid next door walks on the moon. But it's a Smith. So there you go, but it's a cool myth. When the kid next door walks on the moon. It was like pigs fly. Yeah, yeah. And that's not quite as snappiest

pigs fly. Exactly. When the kid next door, that guy there, who will Armstrong. That kid playing baseball is rubbish at that, but he will be a great pilot someday. Yeah, it's two specific. That is it. It's pretty cool. Yeah, right. But two cameras on the module filmed the event, an amazingly broadcast in black and white Armstrong's first steps live around the world. So there's a camera actually mounted on the module. That's how they filmed it. Wow

Because of rantum skips. Probably like an early GoPro, yeah Well, it was tiny and had to run on Seven watts of power which the guy that invented it said is equal to one Christmas light. Oh wow So he had to be and it also had to withstand Temperatures of plus 250 degrees had to withstand temperatures of plus 250 degrees minus 250 degrees. That's quite a range. That's Fahrenheit, but that's still quite a range. Still hot. Still really hot. And cold. And, you know, mild. Smile. We get that on a good day here in Melbourne. Yeah. Yeah. That. Because of rampant skepticism, NASA, even at the time thought people are going to

disbelieve this. So that's why they want it to be live. They want people to watch it live. So the video was transmitted to a tracking station here in Australia. Yeah. Then back up to a satellite, then back to Earth in Houston and then around the world. So it has to go a long way. So from the moon to Australia, back up to satellite to Houston then around the world. And then they have interviews with celebrities in Hollywood and there's that that satellite delay.

What kind of delay were they getting from the moon? Probably. Probably longish. It probably was. All right. You're saying that longish is again the technical term. Signs. You keep banging on about live. I don't think so.

I don't think I don't know. I call bullshit. Well, an estimated 530 million people watch that delayed bullshit. That is incredible. 530, which at the time is 14% of the entire population on Earth. Wow. Despite the fact that the first moonwalk took place in the middle of the night in Europe, so in the UK it was 256 in the morning. France, Germany, Italy, was 356. It was not broadcast at

all in the eastern block, because the USSR were like, whoa, let's not show that, except Romania and Poland got to go. They could sit. Cool. It's the fact there. 20 minutes later, Mr. Buzz Aldrin joined Armstrong in the surface Why do you take so long? Neel's just I'm gonna give a sanction to the bottle of wine No, I reckon the buzz was sitting there going if there's aliens that are gonna eat him They'll probably strike within the first 20 minutes. Good cold. Nah good cold. God buzz is good. Buzz is real good Yeah, but at the same time, you know, I find that those sort of things would have been crazy at the time for a deeply religious guy

who all like Traditionally religion was like, you know God created everything that sort of stuff How do you explain that to yourself the moon and and this huge? Space Huge space Maybe it's which I like to call Well, yeah space sure that that's that'll. Yeah, it just seems like at the time at the time that would have been like would have just would have made me ask a lot of questions

as a religious guy. I think it must be such an overwhelming thing to see the earth looking back. It's got to make you think there's something out there, that right? Yeah, all of a sudden, you're probably thinking less about it than the center of the universe. It's not a word for space. It makes your own issues. It's the same a little silly, hey?

It does. Yeah. Can't drive a manual, I feel like a bit of a goose. I want to learn more out there. Yeah. I don't know why that's why, except so successful. I can't drive a manual. Neither can I should I be questioning my life choices. Is that what you're saying? No, no. What are your questions?

I'm questioning them briefly, but then realize that they're insignificant. Yeah. Because of the moon. Because moon. Yeah. It's one of those things. I reckon you take it two it two ways you eat the go wow I Am so insignificant. I'll do nothing with my life who cares or wow I've been to the moon. Let's just do some stuff with you know, I can do anything. Yeah, anything's but we haven't been to the moon I never will I can safely say I'll never be to never be

Yeah, you're not passing the test. I'll never go. I'll never be to the moon. Yeah, that's part of the first NASA test for intelligence. What's wrong with this sentence? I will never be to the moon and you're going trick question. It's fine. Absolutely fine. I have a gentleman's degree. Do you? Yeah, you've just chapered that somewhat, I think. I'll never be to the moon. What university was it? Deakin, so it doesn't really count. Oh, sorry, Deakin. Sorry, Deakin. That's all right. So Neil Armstrong and Buzz, they headed out to explore the moon.

This is great. They had to remember not to fully close the door on the landing module behind them. Oh my god. The door was close to prevent heat escaping from the cabin, but not completely in case the cabin somehow repressurized, which would make it difficult for them to get back inside. Oh, nice.

And Ultra and Armstrong, even made a joke about leaving the door open. Ultra said, OK, now I want to go back up and partially close the hatch, long pause, making sure not to lock it on my way out. Armstrong laughs, a particularly good thought. Classic comedy. Classic comedy. Classic comedy. On the moon. On the moon. out Armstrong laughs a particularly good thought classic comedy comedy on the moon the moon comedy club they're playing to no one no except some aliens on his way down the ladder Armstrong had uncovered a plaque mounted on the lunar module oh so you're gonna sound the surface of the moon

oh I would have been a big story would have been a bigger story. The flock was already, hey there's a plucket. Probably the Dutch, they always beat everyone, do they think? Yeah. Captain Cook's like, yeah the Dutch got there and they're like, you know what, this is not in, in, a bit of, in, it's a bit of a, I'm also never gonna beam to the moon. That's true.

I also refer to something as the biscuit before. Yeah, so none of us are gonna be to the moon. But we're not gonna be the three. What's the word I was trying to say? Inhabitable. In hospitable. Oh my goodness. Well, thankfully, good old Neil, he left a plaque there to signify all the human kinds. The Western and Eastern Hemisphere is on a map. An inscription from President Nixon, sorry, the signature of President Nixon at the time. So Richard Nixon's president, by the way, and it said, here man from the planet earth first set put, oh my god, B to the moon, B to the moon, here man from the planet earth first set foot upon the moon July 1969, we came in peace for all mankind.

That's so the alien seat and go, oh that's okay, okay cool, because they left the module there so the plaque on the on the ladder is still hanging out cool. Oh, they also right so that that foil thing's still up there Yeah, they left so much shit up there. Wow Didn't clean up their own litter not at all. They left this bags of urine and stuff up there you I don't feel there. I got a piece. I'm where I guess yeah Well, he's effect, Buzz Aldrin, wasn't the first man to step foot on the moon, but first man to piss on the moon. You heard it here first.

Are they also flanted the... Flanted? What could be a thing? I'm finished off the sentence. They also flanted the flag of the United States of America. The flag used on this mission had a metal rod, it horizontal from the pole, so pretty standard, but the rod did not fully extend properly. The flag was tightly folded and packed during the journey, so the flag ended up with a slightly

wavy appearance as if there were a breeze. That's what they tell the conspiracy people that say. Why was it blowing in the moon with no wings? If I was a conspiracy theorist, that would not be enough to make me go, oh yeah, oh, of course. Oh, my dad. You rolled it up in the thing. Yeah. That's cool. That wouldn't be enough. But I don't, I'm not a, in, not on, in this case, conspiracy theorist. So I'm cool with that. But if I was, I'd be like, fuck off. Yeah, totally. All mate, give me some.

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His job was to work out what it was like to move around. Wow. That was his job. But he just looks crazy. Buzz just run around. Because like Neil's hanging out like digging up samples and Buzz is just doing laps. Just doing looks awesome. I prefer that job. Yeah. Just bounce around for a bit. Let's just bounce around. In total, the astronauts walked around one kilometer on the surface, but they never strayed more than 60 meters from the lunar module.

So they're really close the whole time. Yeah. Because there was no wind on the surface of the moon, the footprints they left are the collards. Yes. I guess he wasn't on the surface of the moon, the footprints they left are the collards. Yes! I guess he wasn't on the surface so far. Let's go on. Do go on. The footprints that they left are still there.

Wow. That's pretty cool. Pretty impressive, man. Come on, give them some credit, Matt. You are being a skeptic about it. No, no, I love it. It's all really, really cool. That's pretty cool.

I would like to be on the moon someday. Hey, has, are you going to get to post this thing at all? A little bit, a little bit. A little quick wrap up, I will do. A little bit, because I'm curious to know, I have no idea if anyone's been there since if the Russians have ever made it. I've got the answers for that. Great.

But as well as flags and the module itself, the astronauts left behind what is called the Apollo Good Will Mess messages. So these are... They just left a good real hunting. And one of the Academy Awards. Yeah. Matt Damon have been an athlete. Very good. Or the MTV Award, which is an astronaut's ghost.

Oh! VMA. You look as smug then as you did with communion. Thank you. I don't think Matt Damon won a video musical. Cool. There are statements from the leaders of 73 countries around the world at the time on a little disc. It's about the size of a US 50 cent piece. It was the Australian PM at the time. Did he get again? I've got his message. No. So it's printed on a piece of silicon.

The world leaders' messages were photographed and then reduced to one, two hundredth of their size. Yes. So each message is the size of a pin prick. So the Australian message from the then Prime Minister John Gorton, his message said, Australians are pleased and proud to have played a part in helping to make it possible for the first man from Earth to land on the moon.

And what is their part signing this little thing? Is that... No, our part was parks. Fair enough. parts in helping to make it possible for the first man from Earth to land on the moon. And what is their part, signing this little thing? Is that... No, our part was parks. Fair enough. I suppose we've done the video part, that's fine. This is a dramatic... A pretty big part. A dramatic fulfillment of man's urge to go always a little further to explore and to

know the formerly unknown, to strive, to seek to find and to not yield. Where the high courage and the technical genius which made this achievement possible be so used in the future, that all mankind will live in the universe in which peace, self-expression and the chance of dangerous adventures are available to all. I like that. It's very Aussie, the chance for dangerous adventures. Yeah, I like that. That's nice. So, and John Gordon, Prime Minister of Australia, his speech writer was very good. Yeah, like I love that because he probably had nothing to do with that.

Absolutely nothing. He just signed it. So then it was time to come back to earth after just two and a half hours walking on the moon. They're all right. I'm trying to learn about how long they're They're cooling system would work. They went through if you go on the moon with you get really hot, you close to the sun, all this kind of stuff. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin returned to the eagle, but whilst moving around in their bulky spacesuits, Buzz Aldrin accidentally snapped off a switch of a circuit breaker. They could not take off again without it. A bit panicked, but Aldrin improvised by jamming the end of a felt tip pen into the hole where the switch had been broken. He jammed it in, the astronauts

landing module was able to lift off and they left the moon surface. Felt it pens like a textur. So they left because he jammed a pen into a hole. Really otherwise. They would have been stuck on the moon. Man. I love those tiny little things that have to go right yeah, I just Someone else's egg on Yeah, I'm not gonna use a felt it pan that'd be ridiculous. What else we got? I'm an astronaut So they rejoined Collins bought his bag of urine

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So they left the moon all good it up for you. There you go. So they left the moon a bit. Oh, all good. The three men headed back for Earth and on July 24th, the Columbia Splashdown and the Pacific Ocean, they'd been gone for eight days, three hours, 18 minutes and 35 seconds. So that's how specific NASA is. They'd traveled 953,000 miles or over 1.5 million kilometers when they launched the rocket they'd weighed 100,000 pounds or 45,000 kilos, but what came back was just 10,000 pounds or 4,000 kilos Wow, so most of it was it never came back The Nazi bloke had made it so everything Was sort of disposable. So clever.

I haven't talked about the Nazi involvement in this. No, but Australia takes a big chunk of foot. Yeah, we had a big part to do with it. The dish and we're also not Nazis. So that's two ticks for us. Go Australia. Only one tick for you. Go, Aussie, go.

The three men were picked up. They were put in quarantine suits just in case they'd brought back any pathogens. People were a bit worried that they'd bring back disease from the moon They had to fill out a Customs like for no But declaring that they were bringing samples of moon rock and moon dust into the country I will say that many have speculated that these forms were in fact a joke filled out weeks later Yeah, that does feel like a joke.

But Buzz has tweeted about it and tweeted a photo of it. After they were put into quarantine for 18 days just in case and the crew were released, they were fetted across the United States, love that word, fetted across the US and around the world as a part of the 40-day giant leap tour brought the astronauts to 25 foreign countries and they included visits with prominent leaders including Queen Elizabeth II. 18 days they just sort of had to sit. Hang out.

The President came, there's a famous photo of Richard Nixon talking to them through the glass saying, you've done a great job, but you've got to stay in the box. That's fascinating. But do you think like the hype would settle down and that that's a long time. through the glass saying you've done a great job, but you've got to stay in the box. That's fascinating. But do you think the hype would settle down? That's a long time. Special features and magazines, all over the place, all over the cover of everything, Apollo 11, commemorative stamps and coins all over the place. All three of them? Where?

I think it would depend on the cover, where the Michael Collins got to go. I'm Imagining I don't know if this is bad taste, but when they were finally let out I'm kind of imagining it like when the Beacon's Field Mine has got out and have everybody's just like waiting for like the footage at the Door and they came out they're like yeah, everybody's like whoo Different circumstance. Yes, they probably had a timer unlike the Beacon's Field people probably it was like 18 days So the camera crew knows when to come back good point. Yes, they probably had a timer, unlike the Beacon's Philip people, probably it was like 18 days so the camera crew knows when to come back. Good point. Yeah, yeah. But um, so they were heroes, really famous guys. Now future trips to the moon. In acidity question, Matt, five subsequent Apollo missions landed men on the moon. Right. Apollo 13 was

supposed to have a go, but that was an emergency scene in the film. Yeah. The tanks never quite made it. The last time the last time men went to Moon was the 1972 mission. So only three years later and in total 12 men have walked on the moon. Right. Russian people never got there. But we haven't gone for a really long time. And then they lost interest. We should check back in. Was it because it just became very expensive in the

people weren't there? There were supposed, yeah, there was supposed to be more missions, but it was just getting too expensive. So they just pulled the plug on Apollo in 1972. Though people have since sent satellites up there and collected data. Well, that's, it feels like now we would be on sending humans places. We just send, like, we send robots and shooting shells and whatever. Isn't that that's the way to go now? sending humans places we just send like we send robots and shows and whatever isn't that that's the way to go now yeah they can do like the best robots can probably do more than one of those human can and you can

just have a human controlling him from here. The Neil Armstrong did say that he when he returned that he thought that people will now go to Mars that's the next thing yeah so that's what he thought So just to finish it off here, at the time of recording, Buzz Aldrin is alive, H85, rocking it on Twitter. Yep, cool good. Right on there. And our Michael Collins is alive, H84. Neil Armstrong died in 2012 at H82. 2012. Yeah, it feels like I should remember that. I was about to say, why don't I remember that? Yeah, I remember that. Well, still to see why don't I remember that? I remember that well Still would have made big news at the time Yeah, but I just don't recall it

Still considered an American hero and throughout the United States There are more than a dozen elementary middle and high schools named in his honor. That's nice So there you go. How many of Collins got named after him bloody none. Just Collins straight here in Melbourne Yeah, it's named after him. Wow. So that's the story of the moon landing. Great topic. And you kindly, because it's once again one of those things that I thought I knew a lot about, but then when I realized I knew nothing about it, I thought I had to talk about it.

Yeah. Yeah, and I didn't know most of that. I knew he was the cause of the dish. Hey, if anyone's interested, go rent the dish from your local block. I'm gonna watch that video easy. That's the next movie I'm gonna see. Okay, and text me your thoughts. We'll do. Good. I'll tweet them to you. Yeah, great. Yeah, so good. So that's the moon landing, we'll be back next week with Matt's report on the moon landing Aconspiracy. be back next week with Matt's report on the moon landing a conspiracy. With Matt's review of the dish.

That'll be your report. No, you've got me interested in some other things, but maybe not the moon. But if a couple of things you talked about, I've been thinking. Nazis? Got some ideas. Oh. Pissed backs. How a piss bag works.

Yeah. Pissed bags. How much of your in the history? How a piss bag works. Yeah. Pretty history of piss bags. I love it. I love it. Well I'll be interested. I'll be here.

Jess you'll be here. Oh, I'm always here. Matt, I dare say you'll be here. I'll be. I'll be going on. Aunty Donna might be in the background. Make you noise. Who knows.

Who knows. But thanks for listening in and we'll check in with you. Next time. Bye! Waiters! I know what I want and I want it now. I want you because I'm Mr. Vain. Vain, vain, vain, vain.

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