To be fair, that toothbrush cost more than $2 due to the shipping costs.
@earthlingjohn
3 жыл бұрын
😂
@natesmartkid6493
3 жыл бұрын
soyuz cost per kilogram is $5357, so if you include the other materials used to make it EVA version toothbrush the cost to get it to the station would be about $446-$669
@planetastic8522
3 жыл бұрын
20,000$ to be exact in U.S terms. Because why would they be cheap? It’s unnecessary.
@planetastic8522
3 жыл бұрын
There are the humorous people, and then there are the people who insult you over a joke.
@markojovcevski5852
3 жыл бұрын
Not if you buy it with cash oin the local market
@slick4401
3 жыл бұрын
Moral: Never run out of duct tape.
@12201185234
3 жыл бұрын
Moral, not morale.
@slick4401
3 жыл бұрын
@@12201185234 Thanks. Corrected.
@LoremIpsum1970
3 жыл бұрын
Never run out of: duct tape, plastic sheeting and a shovel...
@PanduPoluan
3 жыл бұрын
"Duct tape, Well, it’s like the Force. It’s got a light side and a dark side and it binds the whole universe together." ~ Adam Savage
@scott2100
3 жыл бұрын
the first aid kit in my car is duct tape and a towel
@kangirigungi
3 жыл бұрын
"Either damaging the panels or the astronaut would be a very bad outcome." Another of Scott Manely's famous understatements.
@LoneWolf-wp9dn
2 жыл бұрын
sub optimal outcome :)
@paulmichaelfreedman8334
2 жыл бұрын
Gotta love his low-key cynicism.
@Aengus42
3 жыл бұрын
This is just one of many reasons why we need human spaceflight. It's the ingenuity & "out of the box" thinking of human brains attached to human hands out there on the spot that can save the mission.
@DevinDTV
3 жыл бұрын
For those of you wondering how dropping a hammer to a hip-height fender in 1/12th a G could somehow manage to damage it (obviously impossible), the answer is that that's not what happened. He had the hammer in a pocket and it caught the edge of the fender and popped it off.
@TlalocTemporal
3 жыл бұрын
Small correction: 1/6th of a G, or 16.6%.
@jamesharding3459
2 жыл бұрын
That sounds a lot more plausible.
@1555yodude
3 жыл бұрын
i feel like a requirement for astronauts should be to go drive a crappy car on a road trip with no phone
@PatrickKQ4HBD
3 жыл бұрын
Mark Watney did exactly that.
@sentientmop317
3 жыл бұрын
@@PatrickKQ4HBD I was about to say how he had probably the most expensive car ever made but then thought about all the shit he did to it by the end of the book.
@PatrickKQ4HBD
3 жыл бұрын
@@sentientmop317 haha, yeah. I was actually referring to the epilogue (prologue?) in the book. Foreshadowing. Before they went to Mars, Mark took a road trip in his crappy car, which broke down on him in the middle of nowhere. His cellphone was also dead and he'd forgotten his charger, so of course he tore apart his stereo to make one and call a tow truck.
@PatrickKQ4HBD
3 жыл бұрын
Scott: Jabbing metal objects into electrical panels isn't good. Me, an electrician: Ummmm, that's pretty much my job description?
The handyman's secret weapon - duct tape. -Red Green
@andrewmcphee8965
3 жыл бұрын
And cable ties...
@paullangford8179
3 жыл бұрын
Not secret. Why do you think hardware stores ALL sell it?
@ildart8738
2 ай бұрын
Keep rolling. We're all in this together.
@ylandrinschweitzer
3 жыл бұрын
That is an ode to standardization and reusing if there is any... Also, having a standard toolbox in any space situation.
@jerrymiller276
3 жыл бұрын
Non-standard problem sometimes require non-standard tools.
@ylandrinschweitzer
3 жыл бұрын
@@jerrymiller276 Yes, but if the components you have at your disposal to craft such tools are more likely to work together, the non-standard solutions are more achievable. If everything is a hex socket with the same bore, there is less work to solve the square peg in the triangle hole problem.
@PatrickKQ4HBD
3 жыл бұрын
But the sockets have to be SAE.
@ylandrinschweitzer
3 жыл бұрын
@@PatrickKQ4HBD That's how you lose an orbiter.
@EnderMalcolm
3 жыл бұрын
It always amused me that they never thought about making the air scrubbers compatible between service and lunar modules to begin with. In this case, the redundancy of having two separate systems was a bit too redundant.
@torstenmautz195
3 жыл бұрын
A redundancy has to be compatible... that problem was just due to 2 different teams at 2 different companys developing things really fast and not coordinate with each other that had very specific use cases.
@joevignolor4u949
3 жыл бұрын
@@torstenmautz195 You also have to remember that the round cartridges used in the lunar module's life support system were the same type that fit into the PLSS backpacks. There may have been some technical reason why the backpacks needed to use the round cartridges and so to make things easier they used the same round cartridges in the LM's life support system.
@fred_derf
3 жыл бұрын
Worrying about things like making the scrubbers being designed by two independent teams inter-compatible makes the design process takes longer and raises prices.
@Invisifly2
3 жыл бұрын
Fred Derf and reduces the risk of putting your astronauts into a life threatening emergency situation.
@tangydiesel1886
3 жыл бұрын
The "hack" in a way, was the redundancy. The plan to "put a square peg, in a round hole" was planned out in advance, unlike how the movie shows it as a last minute fix.
@samulijomppanen
3 жыл бұрын
And this could be counted as one of the reasons why we need manned spaceflight.
@HermanIdzerda
3 жыл бұрын
Improvisement is an ability I guess no machine will ever replicate.
@gabrielhacecosas
3 жыл бұрын
This reminds me that once away from home my bike chain broke, a link was broken and with two stones and broken pieces of the chain I managed to join it again.
@freesk8
3 жыл бұрын
The McGuyver mode is one of the modes of operation that make humans great. There is the loving mode, the artistic mode, and all sorts of other skills and qualities and capabilities we should be proud of and for which we owe our existence. But among these must always be valued, the McGuyver mode. :)
@LEDewey_MD
3 жыл бұрын
OMG. Fantastic stories....many of which I had never heard before!! Great video!!!
@cost-pluscontent2371
3 жыл бұрын
Space is hard, until $2 toothbrushes are saving the ISS.
@torstenmautz195
3 жыл бұрын
That 2$ toothbrush costs 1-2000$ to be sent... ;-)
@jv-lk7bc
3 жыл бұрын
then its harder
@sentientmop317
3 жыл бұрын
Getting to space is hard. Making stuff in space is hard. Fixing stuff in space is also hard but only because you have to learn to act for a Macgyver episode
@7e21
Жыл бұрын
@@torstenmautz195 It'd be more like 50-100$ with launch prices now which isn't terrible.
@torstenmautz195
Жыл бұрын
@@7e21 F9 still costs 50.000.000 for 18t (max) to 200km orbit. That's 2.777,77$/kg. No dragon. No iss. No 400km orbit. No procedures for docking etc.
@agranero6
3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! I knew the more famous ones but this collection of hacks is incredible. Suggestion: you could talk about that time the Canadian robotic arm failed and astronauts had to do an EVA to take a satellite they were fetching back BY HAND. A good time to understand the difference between weight (force) and mass (inertial mass) as the satellite had several tons.
@MicrowavedAlastair5390
5 күн бұрын
The Square Peg In The Round Hole is legendary. The whole mission is amazing, but the atmospheric scrubbers are one of the best moments.
@caonabo2
3 жыл бұрын
Dear Scott: the following is a list of other important hacks in space: 1- Using slings to close the doors of the Hubble Space Telescope after repairs. 2- Neil Armstrong thetered the Agena module to his Gemini space ship after having trouble with the docking maneuver. 3- Leting Sheppard "go" in his spacesuit🤣🤣🤣🤣. 4- Neil Armtrong using his slide rule to calculate the LM position after he noticed they were off the expected landing zone 5- The 1202 and 1201 alarm "Service call" in the Apollo 11 landing on the moon😅😅😅 6 - Mark Watney's Iron man maneuver🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. 7 - Alexey Leonov deflating his spacesuit after the first ever EVA to fit through the hatch of hi's Voskod space ship. And finnaly.... 8 - Leaving the retro rocket pack attached to John Glenn's Friendship 7 Space ship to ensure its heat shield did not saparated from the spaceship while returning to Earth, avoiding "Plasma Baking" John Glenn.👍 There are some other "space hacks" but I don't remember them all. Have a pleasant evening.
@paulcoffey1837
3 жыл бұрын
If you had told me before that a toothbrush would save the -Normandy- ISS I would have been very skeptical.
@lucidmoses
3 жыл бұрын
That $2 Toothbrush must have been before shipping charges.
@DarkBlue81
3 жыл бұрын
I have been waiting for you to make a video about it. I think the way the leak could be found is ingenious. Thanks for your thoughts and the video!
@metachuko
3 жыл бұрын
It's a shame there was no mention of the Inanimate Carbon Rod
@ashokiimc
3 жыл бұрын
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@MlTGLIED
3 жыл бұрын
So cmon tell the story 🙄
@DecidedlyNinja
3 жыл бұрын
@@MlTGLIED It's from a Simpsons episode. Homer goes to space and has to use the rod to hold the door shut.
@MlTGLIED
3 жыл бұрын
@@DecidedlyNinja I am a fool. Of course I saw that episode with Homer in space. Thx mate 😆
@machinegun20
3 жыл бұрын
Scott, I have to say as a Dutch citizen. You are one of the greatest speakers on KZitem, vocabulary Titan!🙏
@hazonku
3 жыл бұрын
Knowing the history and the 18-20 minute comms delay, these are the things I am constantly thinking about in regard to putting people on Mars. They'd better be some damn good problem solvers and we might want to back them up with some good AI that can help them solve weird problems with the tools on hand.
@sweetpeaz61
3 жыл бұрын
Love it! most of my life seems to be doing this..mending repairing stuff with whats on hand..I call it the 'Desert Island thinking' ..you can only fix it with what is around you and your life depends on it..its amazing what you can achieve with seemingly useless objects and stuff.
@garyteano3026
3 жыл бұрын
This was an awesome video! Thanks for these informative videos.
@TubbyJ420
3 жыл бұрын
NASA: duct tape, pen caps, maps, etc. Homer Simpson: inanimate carbon rod.
@antoniomaglione4101
3 жыл бұрын
Hello Mr. Manley, Thank you for telling all these peculiar stories in one video! Greatly appreciated.
@RobertSzasz
3 жыл бұрын
Laser line generator and an ultrasonic mister are my favorite airflow vis tools.
@ThalassTKynn
3 жыл бұрын
This is exactly why there will always need to be crewed missions. Even if they're in the habitat on mars driving a rover remotely, they can still go fix things in a pinch.
@sgtrock5273
3 жыл бұрын
A wise man once told me that "necessity is the mother of invention"
@Misterfloflomovievideo
3 жыл бұрын
I clicked on the video without even reading the title. I wasnt deceived
@JoTheVeteran
3 жыл бұрын
Hey, I do this for a living... but when they do it, it's pretty inspiring I've gotta say
@conall9415
3 жыл бұрын
This is NASA at its best. Being in a situation that seems near hopless, where any sane person whould have given up, and assembling teams of engineers and scientists to work on the problem, take inventory, study the situation, come up with possible solutions, then simulating and simulating until they have perfected an answer. It's the thing that turns space from a scary, lonley and hostile abyss into a problem to be solved.
@acars9999
3 жыл бұрын
I wish I could give this 10 thumbs up! My favorite video of yours - and I've liked all of them.
@mekaerwin7187
3 жыл бұрын
Welcome to rural Alaska, minus the experts on the ground.
@earthlingjohn
3 жыл бұрын
👍
@charleslambert3368
3 жыл бұрын
Broke: Canadarm Woke: A bloke with a long pole
@theguyinthechair
3 жыл бұрын
When he mentioned The Martian I knew it was going to be a good video.
@luketorpedo
3 жыл бұрын
With the Space Shuttle to my understanding medical equipment has been used before to repair the TPS blanket panels. Found on article stating Medical staples had been used to repair a tear, and at a conference heard a suture kit had been used in another occasion, though I wasn't able to find an article on the latter event. Still find it amazing that a fair number of tiles on this hypersonic vehicle are just fabric squares... that moreso amazing can just be stapled or sewn back together with medical kit in the worst cases.
@stridermt2k
3 жыл бұрын
I love this channel so much
@GuntherRommel
2 жыл бұрын
Re: MacGuyver and the space program. I'm glad that the people they send to space are the kind of people who can figure these things out. That's why we pay them the big bucks!
@Wiilderthanthou
3 жыл бұрын
Pete Conrad was the freaking man
@albinekb
3 жыл бұрын
Love the disco music in The Martian, great movie, too!
@daft9816
3 жыл бұрын
109 likes and 0 dislike, keep it that way
@pseudishmeds6010
3 жыл бұрын
I WANT more these kind of stories!
@wongshuis5085
3 жыл бұрын
'Fly safe' seemed to mean so much more after that video!
@oliverlane9716
3 жыл бұрын
I'd like to know what bits of kit are carried on each mission designed to be improvised and bodged, or if its always just repurposing items with other functions
@johndododoe1411
3 жыл бұрын
Grey tape is one.
@gassnake2004
3 жыл бұрын
It really drives home how incredibly brave these men and women are. The first thing goes wrong on a spaceflight, I'm going out the airlock without my helmet.
@johndododoe1411
3 жыл бұрын
*in
@rogerfreeman6787
3 жыл бұрын
For years I worked at gold mines in the Alaskan wilderness. There was a lot of improvisation of tools and machines in that isolated place.
@HeathenGrip
3 жыл бұрын
Hey Scott, love your videos! Odd question but do you remember where you got that gantry for the Saturn V? I’ll be getting the lego set for xmas and was really hoping to find a nice model launch tower. Keep up the great work and thanks for all the educational videos!!
@scottb721
3 жыл бұрын
Not the Scott you wanted but Google Lego Saturn V LUT. You buy the parts from other Lego parts sellers.
@HeathenGrip
3 жыл бұрын
@@scottb721 Thanks man I'll definitely try that out.
@illogicmath
3 жыл бұрын
Mission control: Last check before launch, do you have the duct tape? Crew: yes Mission control: OK, all set then, go ahead.
@boyraceruk
3 жыл бұрын
That sounds like the leak detection system at my work, a rubber duck where the water usually comes in. If the duck isn't there there's been a leak.
@i-love-space390
3 жыл бұрын
One of these days, I hope someone pays for you to go into orbit. You are such a gifted "explainer". And at the rate you make videos, we would all get a zillion videos to enjoy! Thanks for another great video. :)
@MervynPartin
3 жыл бұрын
I was once on a ship where the main engine governor failed. The official engine manufacturer's (B&W) emergency but extremely risky solution was for a engineer to dangle his legs through a removed deck plate at the side of the engine and hang on to a large spring loaded lever continuously through every watch, and hopefully keep the speed within limits, without collapsing through exhaustion. Our solution was to insert a 15cm long steel bar into the pneumatic linkages and we were then able to keep control from the engine control room and give limited bridge control. Simples!
@Waterlord2.0
3 жыл бұрын
dear god, everything can be fixed with duct tape, old space flight was the duct tape mythbusters
@imagineaworld
3 жыл бұрын
Longer videos man! I miss the vids when youd get nerdy for 20 30 mins then grab a beer and stream kerbal!
@schwiftyasfuck8575
3 жыл бұрын
13:12 is such a nice number tho
@imagineaworld
3 жыл бұрын
@@schwiftyasfuck8575 it really is!
@TheAgamemnon911
3 жыл бұрын
'zero gravity bodging' also sounds like a cool sport.
@the_bw_trekkie
3 жыл бұрын
I heard a story from one of the last astronauts to service the hubble telescope, that the maintenance doors to the electronics (or the lenses, I can't remember the specifics) wouldn't close. so they literally took a ratchet strap like what you'd use to tie down stuff in a truck bed and ratcheted it closed
@lordofelectrons4513
3 жыл бұрын
Sounds like working on a film stage lots of gaffers tape and modifying stuff on the fly to get the job done. Except a stage has two big advantages Air & gravity.
@offdagrid877
3 жыл бұрын
That’s what you call thinking on your feet. Back to the good old days when you could fix most things your self. Unfortunately the younger generation on the whole don’t have these skills anymore.
@BlueJazzBoyNZ
3 жыл бұрын
Great post Scott. Many Thanks.
@marlboro9tibike
3 жыл бұрын
Moral : Keep McGyver in the pocket.
@falcothegreat5470
2 жыл бұрын
The crazy thing about engineering or really solving any problem for that matter is what it means to ask the right question. If a problem says “two kids want the same orange” how do you solve that? You could just cut the orange in two and give either one a half. But if you analyze the problem and look further than the question you may see that “Oh the one kid wants to eat the orange and the other just wants to play with the peel of it.” Then you can solve your problem instead by peeling the orange for the one kid and giving the other the edible part instead, solving both problems with twice the efficiency. Edit: this relates to so many things in my life and I use this philosophy on anything I do and it’s one of the biggest reasons I am successful with my life.
@grambo1980
3 жыл бұрын
How the Apollo missions even succeed is mind blowing
@aronseptianto8142
3 жыл бұрын
proving once again that duct tape can solve almost any problem with enough creativity
@michamichalski8633
3 жыл бұрын
Almost like in mass effect 3 when Sheppard saves the Normandy from his clone using a high tech toothbrush :)
@davidharrison7014
3 жыл бұрын
He left out the Intelsat rescue mission in May of 1992, and the first Hubble servicing mission in December of 1993.
@Astrofrank
3 жыл бұрын
The latter included included installation of COSTAR which has a design partially inspired by a shower in a German hotel. :-)
@JustPeaceLoveAndKindness
3 жыл бұрын
It’s like when my RV electrical system broke down in the middle of nowhere!! Luckily, I had plenty of oxygen, and a faint cell signal. ;-)
@fsj197811
3 жыл бұрын
I liked that one, very cool. Thank you!
@ShotgunTurtle816
6 күн бұрын
I'm still to this day convinced that the Apollo subsatellite dispenser was made out of a mailbox. I mean look at it.
@Galactis1
3 жыл бұрын
This is great. Isn't Zvesda now 22 years old?
@robertestes5887
3 жыл бұрын
I spent 22 years in the military and there's a lot of macgyvering going on there too
@peeftribos
3 жыл бұрын
cant wait for the benu video scott!!!!
@timmurphy5541
3 жыл бұрын
You still need "things" to improvise - if you don't include tape or bags or cardboard or just generally useful stuff. It also suggests that you should be using common components everywhere even it it's not optimal. What is the most useful thing to have in your own backpack when you get stuck far away from help? I personally have decided that it's either string or a paperclip and I'm not sure which. What do you think?
@zooblestyx
3 жыл бұрын
I often wish I had a team of experts checking my plans.
@thokit5407
3 жыл бұрын
Nothing like KSP and Scott Manley in the background.
@MichaelStrautz
3 жыл бұрын
I kind of wanted him to say "I'm Scott Manley, fly safe ... and Be creative." At the end there 😜
@TheFelmaster
3 жыл бұрын
0:50 "Disco... God damn it Lewis."
@Voron_Aggrav
3 жыл бұрын
Necessity the mother of all inventions
@y__h
3 жыл бұрын
12:20 Small and Large ACME Bolt Tool
@Zoomer30_
2 жыл бұрын
"...... and that's why everything is made out of the same tape that they used on Apollo 17"
@nikolatasev4948
3 жыл бұрын
I think a large part of the adhesive force of duct tape (and not only) on Earth comes from atmospheric pressure. There is no air between the duct tape and the surface, there is air pressure on top of the duct tape and that force pushes them so hard that friction can not overcome it. Dust keeps bubbles of air, and wrinkles the surface so air can come in from the edge, but also uses up the adhesive substance and in general stops the whole thing from working. In space and on the Moon there is no atmospheric pressure, and I suppose the force is much, much smaller, so clamps were also needed, dust or not
@HappyBeezerStudios
3 жыл бұрын
The most impressive space hack will always be the Apollo 13 air filter solution.
@grahamrankin4725
3 жыл бұрын
Good thing the astronauts are primarily trained engineers who are used to diagnostics and formulating solutions.
@Moorgoth67
3 жыл бұрын
I remember a sock being involved for Appolo 13s scrubber, unless they added that for the movie.
@DaveTheSpider
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Scott, great video. Just wondering if you're planning anything on OsirisRex?
@Malloc42
3 жыл бұрын
Of course the recent air leak fix was with tape. I wonder how many rolls of duct tape they carry on each mission? Matt Damon sure seemed to go through a lot of duct tape during his Mars movie. It had me wondering just how many rolls they carry on a usual mission as it can fix so many things.
@grant.bloomquist
3 жыл бұрын
Things like toothbrushes should be formed in the shape of useful bits
@Zpajro
3 жыл бұрын
I would call this "Gobblin engineering"
@LouseGrouse
3 жыл бұрын
Just noticed the lovely little outer wilds poster
@reinderknoops1682
Жыл бұрын
These are the most important missions before going to Mars. Because at some point there will be an unplanned rendez-vous between human waste and the ventilation system
@hobbesscott1014
3 жыл бұрын
Why am I not surprised that the toothbrush is not mentioned until 11:45 ?
@thebeardedboomer
3 жыл бұрын
Hey I didn't know you did the Close the Rings Challenge! Should swing by IL for shirts!
@5Andysalive
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for not naming the video "crazy space hacks top ten". Even if it may cost 1 or 2 million views.... Skylab was a massive but different hack. They had all the ressources and support to find them in a >Apollo 13 Effort. But only 10 days to finish. It's a fascinating and almost forgotten story. And contrary to popular stories they could not just buy telephon line cutter equipment (Try put a 3m pole in a Apollo CM) . They flew the boss of that company and his lead engineer to Huntsville overnight in a Nasa jet where they helped modify one. Some engineers "borrowed" the Marshall directors jet overniight to fly in parts they needed. Many stories like that. It was probably the most improvised, fastest and non-bureaucratic period in Nasa history. And the big water tank in huntsville that was authorized by Von Braun (years earlier) , bypassing Nasa bureaucracy and without their knowledge. Some employees had smaller versions, using leftover budgets. But for the big one they needed the support and they got it. It very likely saved Skylab by allowing testing these hacks and training. And as stories go by convincing Mueller in a live session that the Dry workshop concept was not practical..
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