The Mysterious 30 Year Journey of Apollo 12

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I love the fact that because a computer in the 60's made a mistake, a entire rocket stage is being given free rides around the sun

So touching. The Apollo 12 Third Stage gets homesick about every 30 years, and comes back for a visit. It can take humanity for only a short while before it gets sick of us and feels it has to leave.

I've always found it amazing how the Saturn 5 had a minute amount of computer memory but yet could still go to the moon

Wow, that's incredible. I had no idea orbits like this were even possible.

In June of 1969, I was 8 years old. I was so completely obsessed with the Apollo 11 mission, I watch and learned everything I could about it. My Father was a freelance science editor with a degree in organic chemistry and my mom was a teacher for special needs children. I ended up with a career in physical therapy. Working primarily in stroke rehab. I've worked in convulsant hospitals now for 37 years. Both my parents have passed and I'm nearing retirement. My parents obviously nurtured my interest in science. But it was the Apollo missions that sparked the interest of an 8 year old kid back then, that did a lot to start me on this life path.

Kerbal space program really set me up for this video🗿

The Space Shuttle missions and the ISS were really what got me initially interested in space, but I really love every aspect of space exploration. Right now I’m most interested to see where the Artemis missions will take us. The Ingenuity helicopter also blew my mind with how we could use such a thin atmosphere for flight like that.

Its so incredible, how such a small mistake had such a great impact on the Stages future

My dad took me to Kennedy when I was 7 and I’ve got a photo of me standing underneath a Saturn 5. I remember vividly just how big everything was. The nozzles, the rocket itself, the buildings, every aspect was awe-inspiring.

The thing that got me into spaceflight was that first Falcon Heavy landing. So utterly mindblowing that I had to look for more

I've heard this story a couple times before but this is the first time I've actually seen someone explain how the orbit went from earth to sun, and back to earth on that particular timescale.

So glad to have found your channel! I was 5 when Hale-Bopp came around and going out to see it is one of my oldest memories. I was fascinated and obsessed with space from that moment forward, getting a telescope and star chart and stargazing for the longest time.

What got me into Spaceflight was looking up at the sky as a kid and being able to see things like mars that I had thought were impossible to see. Knowing that we could land a human on there, maybe even in my lifetime, astounds me, and I’ve been following up with space ever since.

My dad is a lead engineer for SiriusXM satellite radio, so I grew up watching XM launches in the early 2000's. My favorite thing was watching satellites in the backyard at night when my dad knew when they were coming overhead wayyyy before apps like nightsky came out. I also went to Christa McAuliffe Middle School in Lake Worth, FL, so the shuttle program has also been a deep fascination. My son is 8 months old and he will most likely attend there as well!

Just three months shy of my fourth birthday, I experienced my first, vivid memory of watching television. I remember it so clearly. The shock, my mother crying, my baby sister playing with her toys a few feet away, blissfully unaware of the tragedy that would grip the world and make an indelible imprint upon myself and a generation of people. As I became transfixed with what may have been my first experience with true despair, I thought about the smiling face of the teacher I’d seen on the news. The space shuttle Challenger had exploded on live television. And, for the first time in my life I knew two things: what a broken heart felt like, and the sensation of knowing that this memory would never, ever fade. RIP Michael, Frances, Ronald, Ellison, Christa, Gregory, and Judith. ❤️

I am old enough to have seen all of the space missions from the early 1960's And I love them to this day. THANKS

The humbling experience every time you start thinking about it. There are too many awesome things about space to love to just pick one. How a star functions, what dark matter is, if there is extraterrestrial life, or the fact that we are unable to wrap our heads around how incredibly vast it is. Space is filled with interesting stuff. It makes me realize how incredibly insignificant we are, and whatever worries me that day suddenly seems much less of an issue. Also this is one of my favorite space quotes - "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe, or we are not, Both are equally terrifying." -By Arthur C Clarke

I was born in 1987 in Florida, just south of Cape Canaveral. My love for space flight came from watching shuttle launches from our backyard, feeling and hearing the rumble from even that far away. What SpaceX has done since has not only renewed my love of it, but has enhanced it. I even got my mom into it before she passed away a couple of years ago. And seeing all of the companies getting involved makes every launch less "routine" and nearly equally exciting.

What got me interested in spaceflight? I was an 8-year-old boy and received a pamphlet/poster from NASA about the lunar landing mission. I remember staying up late at night listening to the Voice of America radio station broadcast of the launch of the rocket. I got to see the first walk on the moon in our local movie house as we didn't have a TV. Thank you for this video... it has brought back such good memories for me 😊