00:00hey man yeah so I'm going to the store it's about seven miles away yeah I'm
00:14going to get a device that connects from my phone to my toothbrush yes it is
00:19amazing this device yeah so along this seven mile route it's gonna give me
00:24entertainment options lodging options yeah all within my phone I know who'd
00:28have thought it's amazing hold on one sec I got a text one sec oh my god yes
00:38so let's just say this jar of candies equals the amount of memory in that
00:44cell phone the amount of memory inside the computer for the lunar module that
00:50first landed men on the moon would equal this candy crumb
01:01modern computer technology and digital technology wasn't there in 1969 when
01:11NASA and Grumman sent three astronauts to the moon and safely brought them back
01:16it was good old teamwork a lot of creativity that created that trip to the
01:21moon
01:36there were now over 15 airports and flying fields on Long Island but at the
01:42same time worried eyes were looking at Europe
01:50there's a war on and Grumman is hiring hiring over a thousand Long Islanders
01:56per month yep along with hiring mechanics and builders we're hiring all
01:59sorts of Long Islanders we're hiring butchers bakers housewives cab drivers
02:03ballplayers actors actresses farmers potato farmers policemen clam diggers
02:07let's all give them Nazis a knuckle sandwich
02:20the world could now peacefully grow and explore really from the early 1950s on
02:28there was a lot of public interest in space travel he had so many science
02:32fiction movies coming out throughout the 1950s Destination Moon and all that
02:36interest in flying saucers there was just a huge interest in spaceflight
02:40because after World War two we developed jet aircraft and then we developed
02:44rockets and launching rockets so but just for this whole public fascination
02:48with spaceflight and people actually just started following in in the news
02:52and really led to a lot of public support for developing the space
02:56program by all this interest so tell me about the famous speech that Kennedy had
03:03where he said we choose to go to the moon and to do the other thing what did
03:10he mean well the other things that was in order to get to the moon there's a
03:13lot of steps you had accomplished you had to rendezvous two spacecraft in
03:17orbit and be able to dock them together and you had to develop spacesuits that
03:22you could use on the moon so you had to develop spacewalking EVAs when you
03:26leave the capsule in your space suit and we would have to be able to work out
03:29all those trajectories for rendezvousing two spacecraft in orbit and bring
03:33everybody safely back to earth so there was a number of steps all these other
03:38things had to be accomplished one after another if you were going to get to the
03:41moon safely okay so what was the surface of the moon like when Grumman got the
03:46contract to build the lunar module in 1962 we hadn't been to the moon yet so
03:51Grumman had to actually design and start building the spacecraft without knowing
03:55what the lunar surface was like some people thought it might be 20 feet of
03:58dust and the spacecraft could sink in and disappear when it lands so that's
04:02why Grumman had to design these very big footpads on it in case the moon was
04:06powdery spacecraft wouldn't sink in very far other scientists thought the moon
04:10might be covered with ice and if you land on a hill you might go sliding down
04:14it tip over so that's why they put four legs on the lunar module spaced very far
04:19apart the very wide landing gear and that was to take into account in case the
04:23surface is you landed on an icy hill and it slid down and hit something it
04:26wouldn't tip over but by 1966 we started landing unmanned spacecraft on the moon
04:31surveyors and that verified what Grumman and other people thought that actually
04:35the moon turned out to be a pretty hard place and fortunately they design a
04:39spacecraft over designed to take all these things into account and so when we
04:43did finally land there it worked really well
04:46an example I had reporting to me a group called the Ditmico group the
04:58drive-in theater movie company made a wire checker and they made it for their
05:04outdoor theaters the drive-in movies they had every speaker on every post all
05:11around the whole but tied into this machine they would go in in the morning
05:17after they had the theater the night before push a couple buttons and say
05:22okay post 200 you got to replace the speaker somebody tore it off so they
05:28didn't have to go and diagnose anything it was diagnosed right there
05:41you
06:11you
06:41you
07:11behind me this is the actual lunar module simulator it's basically the top
07:26part of the lunar module the asset stage is where the astronauts were during the
07:30landing during the takeoff it slept in overnight so this is the most complete
07:36interior of any lunar module so what did the astronauts eat some of it was
07:44freeze-dried food the astronauts did not eat the freeze-dried ice cream sandwiches
07:49commonly available in Space Center gift shops we had non astronauts try
07:54freeze-dried ice cream sandwiches just to get an idea of moon dining so what
08:02would you like me to do with this well I'd like to give a taste test it feels
08:13like a hunk of plastic and it looks like a hunk of clay it looks like a like a
08:17prop I couldn't imagine eating this for however long astronauts have to eat this
08:22could you imagine eating this for eight days this would not be satisfying it's
08:25like air it's like so late very dry not like a steak dinner I taste strawberry
08:42strawberry flavor at least I could if I was getting to be in outer space for
08:57eight days I can't imagine eight days of living on this here on earth it's 1968
09:05and Apollo 8 launches from Cape Kennedy and orbits the moon a major step forward
09:11I was in Maplewood junior high school in Huntington station I remember the
09:18teacher second grade miss tacky making all of us kids get together and walk
09:24into another room and watch it on a big-screen TV of the orbit of orbiting
09:29of the moon and yes it was very exciting at that time when you're only how old
09:34eight seven so very interesting and very fun yeah
09:45however on earth society was shattering
10:05we watched the rockets blast off from Cape Kennedy from our own backyard my
10:24father was involved in the final testing of the lunar module both at Grumman on
10:30Long Island and at Cape Kennedy both facilities had the same testing
10:35equipment
10:45as the projected launch date of the moon landing approach
11:00you
11:31you
11:36yeah that was a moment that everything stopped everywhere on the planet I
11:41suppose to watch this thing happen the astronauts suits were actually designed
11:45by a brassiere manufacturer the suits need to allow the astronauts to move
11:50about freely and withstand temperatures of over 500 degrees and protect the
11:55astronauts from being hit by micrometeors traveling at 90,000 miles an
12:01hour in and around the lunar modules fuel lines ice was forming this could
12:11have set off an explosion luckily that didn't happen and all was safe the world
12:20had to wait hours before the men could set foot on the moon as night fell less
12:27and less people were out
12:33most people were watching their televisions waiting to celebrate
12:41watching with us is my grandfather who was born in 1887 and you have to think
12:48he was 16 years old when the Wright brothers took that first flight yeah in
12:53Kitty Hawk and now he's watching a man walk on the moon so this man saw history
13:02a normal landing philem would have had one minute's worth of fuel remaining the
13:12actual Armstrong landing had about a little less than 30 seconds remaining
13:17and we're by ourselves watching the moon landing we had just purchased made
13:23a big purchase in the house to get this 21-inch Motorola television and we were
13:30thrilled to know that we'd have this big screen to watch the moon landing on
13:35that to us was so exciting so at the same time in Mineola my sister-in-law
13:41lived a couple blocks away and she was trying to creatively keep herself awake
13:45so she was crocheting and while she was crocheting this Afghan she at the moment
13:53that Neil Armstrong landed on the moon put his foot on the moon she tied the
13:58stitch off that she was crocheting and this is the belt and so I look at and
14:03then she continued crocheting in December game and she gifted us with
