02x05 - Florida/Washington, D.C.

[bunniefuu]

[Siren]

♪ Inspector Gadget's
Field Trip ♪

♪ We're going on a visit ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
Field Trip ♪

♪ Come on let's go with him ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
Field Trip ♪

♪ "What's that?", you
ask, "what is it?" ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
Field Trip ♪

♪ Well no one wants
to miss it ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
Field Trip ♪

♪ We're going on a visit ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
Field Trip ♪

♪ Come on let's go with him ♪

♪ New places, new faces ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
Field Trip ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
Field Trip! ♪

T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, ignition
sequence start,

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 and lift off
of the Space Shuttle Endeavor!

GADGET: Hey!
Wait for me!

Oh, hello there.

Inspector Gadget here on my
way to our most far-out

field trip ever!

Outer space!

You can't get farther out
than that.

And we're going on the space
shuttle.

Actually, I'd rather go IN
the Space Shuttle.

But whatever.

Wowsers!

The view is out of this world!

Oh.
We ARE out of this world!

We're on the moon.

How did the first man get to
the moon?

It all began down on earth on
Florida's Space Coast.

So, grab your rocket socks and
hang on to your helmets,

earthlings!

It's time to get spaced out!

If you're a space-case,
Florida's Space Coast

is your cup of liquid oxygen.

It's got everything you
wanted to know about space and

the world's only active
Space Shuttle launching pad.

But why is Space Coast U.S.A.

on the East Coast of Central
Florida?

Aside from the terrific view,
Florida has lots of open

space, uh, no pun intended,
and good year-round

launching weather.

Besides, being near the ocean
is good for collecting

dropped spare parts.

In the early days, this is
where the space capsules

came down.

For hundreds of years before
the Space Coast existed,

mankind dreamed of flying to
and landing on the moon.

Actually, getting to the moon
is the easy part.

This is what we thought it was
going to be like.

Back then it was anyone's
guess.

Now we know that in order to
get all the way into outer

space, you have to go beyond
the earth's atmosphere and

break free from the earth's
gravity.

Wow! I always wondered
how that worked.

In the 1930's, scientists
invented modern rockets that

could fly high into the sky.

Rockets work like balloons.

Noisy balloons.

They are pushed by the force
of the air leaving them.

Rockets helped send the
first living things into space

like "Ham" the chimpanzee
- America's first astropet!

It wasn't until the

rockets enabled humans to fly
all the way to the moon.

The astronauts traveled
at speeds up to


So did their rockets ships.

The mission of the spacecraft
known as Apollo Eleven was

definitely the world's most
historic field trip.

"The Eagle has landed.

That's one small step for
man.

One giant leap for mankind."

One small trip to Florida.

One great Field Trip for
Inspector Gadget.

Astronauts Neil Armstrong and
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin were

the first people to actually
walk on the moon.

If they were the first men to
walk on the moon,

does that make the lunar
surface the first astro-turf?

There were five more Apollo
missions to the moon.

Astronauts explored the
surface of the moon in a buggy

called a Lunar Rover.

The Rover is still on the moon
today!

Over the years, astronauts
brought back about 840 pounds

of moon rock to study.

I wonder if they got charged
for overweight luggage

when they got back.

Meanwhile back at the Space
Coast in the Astronaut Hall of

Fame you can check out such
exihibits as Astronaut,

Jim Lovell's in flight suit
from the Apollo 13 mission.

Jim's not wearing it
anymore.

He thinks it's still at the
cleaners!

At the Astronaut Hall of Fame
is a G-Force Simulator.

In it, you can experience
some of the tremendous force

an astronaut feels when breaking
through the earth's atmosphere.

Wowsers!

Hold on to your lunch!

This multi-axis trainer is
what the astronauts used to

help deal with the
disorientation they felt as

they tumbled through space.

I feel disoriented just
looking at it.

Would you believe this is the
world's youngest astronaut?

Would you believe the
world's shortest astronaut?

How about the only one that
fits in the c*ck?

Actually, this is another
simulator at the Astronaut

Hall of Fame.

What is the Space Shuttle,
you ask?

We'll investigate when we
return.

But first, some inspector Gadget
Field Trip Moon Facts...

Because of that, Astronaut
Alan Shephard hit a one-handed

golf drive a quarter of a
mile!

Welcome back to our field
trip in outer space...

I mean to Florida's
spectacular Space Coast.

It's time to suit up and get
on board for a launch at

Kennedy Space Center
with the crew from the

Space Shuttle Endeavor.

Forget about the launch.

When's lunch?

NASA, which stands for the
National Aeronautics and Space

Administration, got tired of
making new rockets every time

they wanted to go into space.

So, they invented the reusable
Space Shuttle.

Then they can re-use it and
not lose it.

The Space Shuttle must
point upward and face the sky

in order to blast off.

Otherwise it drills itself
right into the earth,

which makes for a short
flight.

This is the greatest show on
earth, but not for long.

It's leaving the earth any
second.

People come from all over
the world to see this

dramatic event.

The Shuttle rides
piggy-back on a super-rocket

which carries it into space.

Two minutes after launch, when
the Shuttle's traveling

almost 3,000 miles per hour,
its two rocket boosters fall

to earth.

Hey!
Watch out below!

When the Shuttle astronauts
finally get into orbit,

they spend every waking moment
eating compressed space food,

exercising under compressed
conditions,

performing incredibly
difficult scientific

experiments in a weightless,
precarious environment.

And loving it.

Extra-vehicular activity is
a fancy name for space walk.

Space walk is a polite
name for flopping around

in zero-gravity.

Astronauts used to be tethered
to their space craft by a

life-supporting umbilical
cord.

Today they roam more freely
through the cosmos with a kind

of life-supporting bionic
backpack.

Hey! It's a
rocket-powered banana!

Rule number one for eating in
space.

Don't talk while you eat.

Unless you want to share with
your Co-Astronauts.

Things are a lot lighter up
in space.

For instance, this mere one
thousand, two hundred pound

satellite can be tossed
around like a volleyball,

though you can only score
points on your own serve.

This is a Space Shuttle
slumber party!

This is not the time or place
for sleepwalking.

Wake up, astronauts!

Everybody out on the street
for volleyball...

er...
re-entry.

Approaching the runway, the
Space Shuttle doesn't use

any power.

The Space Shuttle must land
like a glider.

So the astronauts have only
one chance to get it right.

The Endeavor is rolling
out on runway 33 at the

Kennedy Space Center,
completing its 11th mission in

space, a 161 orbits of the
earth,

travelling 4.1 million
miles...

Touch down!

Whew!

Another successful Shuttle
landing!

Well earthlings, hope you had
a blast in space,

AND on the ground at
Florida's Space Coast.

Stay tuned for more fabulous
fun when we return!

Go go Gadget Field Trip!

Inspector Gadget here,
feeling a little flighty

in the capital of the United
States, Washington DC.

According to my keen detective
sense,

you'd better brace yourself
for a bumpy ride as we

take-off to explore some of
the very first flying machines

and spaceships.

Go-Go-Gadget Far Out Field
Trip!

Washington D.C. is up to
its monumental elbows

in monuments and museums,

including one dedicated to
flying.

Let's zoom in and take look.

This is the National Air
and Space Museum.

This museum has everything
you'd want to know about

flying, and a lot that you
don't have the nerve to ask.

How did all this flying
stuff get started?

I thought you'd never ask.

The Wright Brothers?

That's what most people
think.

But actually, people have
flitted,

fluttered and fallen for
hundreds of years in an

attempt to make like a jet and
take off.

That's either the
world's largest bat or the

Otto Lilienthal's idea of a
good time was standing around

at the top of a hill, waiting
for a good gust of wind.

Then he'd run down the hill
with the bat-like apparatus

strapped to his back until he
gained enough speed for the

wind to lift him into the air.

From 1891 to 1896, he
made over 2,000 flights,

some as far as 300 feet.

Once it was proven that
air really could support man,

the next step was to find a
way to power these planes.

Langley Aerodrome
Number 5 was the first

unmanned
heavier-than-air plane.

It was kind of like a glider
with a steam engine.

Samuel Pierpont Langley launched
the Aerodrome Number 5

off a houseboat
with a catapult...

and landed it in the Potomac
River,

which was lucky because it
didn't have landing gear.

Langley made quite a splash in
the world of aviation.

On December 17, 1903,
Orville and Wilbur Wright

changed the world when Orville
went up in their aircraft

for the first successful
flight ever.

With Orville Wright as
pilot,

the airplane took off from a
launching rail.

It flew for 12 seconds at a
distance of 120 feet.

Their flight was the beginning
of the future.

Not bad for a couple of
guys who started out as

bicycle mechanics.

After this landmark flight
there was no stopping pilots

of any age, size, shape, or
country.

In 1909, the Bleriot Type
Eleven was flown by Frenchman

Louis Bleriot across
the English Channel!

Guess it beats swimming.

And now it's time for a
Field Trip Quiz.

Drum roll please...

The answer is: False.

The Wright Brothers called
their plane "The Flyer."

Kitty Hawk is the name of
the town in North Carolina

where the plane was flown.

Welcome back!

The National Air And Space
Museum's collection of

historic aerospace material
is undoubtedly the largest

of its kind in the world.

It contains trailblazing
American aircraft

and spacecraft.

Let's take a look at more
of these incredible

flying machines.

That's the Spirit of St.
Louis.

In 1919, a wealthy businessman
offered a $25,000 prize

for the first person to
successfully complete a

non-stop flight between New
York and Paris.

Finally, on May 20, 1927,

flew this very plane across
the Atlantic Ocean.

The flight was 3,610 miles
long and took 33 1/2 hours

to complete.

And he did it the hard way -
all alone,

no sleep, no movies, no little
meals on plastic trays.

Collecting the prize was a lot
easier.

The Polar Star was the
first plane to successfully

fly over the entire continent
of Antarctica in 1935.

Guess if you only made it over
part of Antarctica,

you should have packed a dog
sled in the cargo hold.

This cheery yellow aircraft,
the Grumman Goose

built in 1937, was among the
first "amphibian" planes,

meaning they could land on
either water or solid ground.

Wonder if it can swim and flap
its wings at the same time?

With everybody flying, the
next generation of fearless

pilots took to the skies to
set new records of speed,

distance, and altitude,
challenging the forces of

gravity, pushing the outside
of the envelope,

tempting the specter of fate.

And loving it!

Chuck Yeager was
an outstanding World w*r II

flying ace who went on to
become a flight instructor

and test pilot.

On October 14, 1947 he became
the first person ever to fly

faster than the speed of
sound.

He did it in an experimental
X-1 plane called the

"Glamorous Glennis." He
was very excited,

but it took an hour for his
voice to catch up with him to

say, "Wowsers! That
was some flight!"

Having cluttered all the

airways, there was only one
way to go.

Farther up, beyond the
earth's atmosphere,

into space.

The National Air and Space
Museum has a lot of space

stuff filling up several
galleries of space.

Artifacts include the Mercury
"Friendship 7" and the

"Gemini 4" spacecraft,
Skylab 4 command module,

lunar roving vehicle and lunar
surface experiments.

They even have moon rocks that
you can touch!

Luckily they don't touch
back.

There goes a hypersonic
rocket,

charting new destinations,
expanding on knowledge of the

entire universe, going where
man has never gone before...

with the keys to my
Gadget-Mobile.

We landed with Lucky
Lindy,

broke the sound barrier with
Chuck Yeager,

and tiptoed through the moon
rocks.

Thanks for flying along.

Join us next time when we
blast-off for another

fun-filled adventure.

Go-Go Gadget Field Trip!

♪♪♪