We’re continuing the Apollo spacesuit story. After exploring how these suits came to be, we’re now looking at how they actually worked, with a closer look at the engineering behind them, the details that made the biggest difference, and how every element helped keep astronauts alive on the Moon.
As you can see, I have close to double that amount, mostly from one video, and I don't even have 1k subs yet.
Long story short, my audience shifted and the video went outside my niche, but if I was able to do it, you probably can too.
My opinion is that 8k hours shouldn't be something scary. In fact, if you're looking to make your channel feasible and eventually earn from it, you'd probably need hundreds, if not thousands, of watch hours every month anyway. I don't know much about shorts monetization, but I assume it would be similar.
But if you add up 12 months, 8k hours is far from impossible for a successful channel that consistently puts out quality videos.
I hope my experience shows that anything is possible, even with the current conditions and actual competition across all social platforms.
Good luck everyone!
The Lunar Roving Vehicle. Lunar Flying Units. Now, the Moon suit.
The Apollo series continues with the story of how NASA built one of the most remarkable pieces of engineering ever created.
NASA almost sent Apollo astronauts to the Moon with jetpacks instead of the Lunar Rover. Discover the forgotten Lunar Flying Unit, the engineering behind NASA's lunar jetpack concepts, why they seemed possible, and the critical safety risks that ultimately led NASA to choose the iconic Lunar Roving Vehicle instead.
For decades, scientists believed the Moon was completely dry. This video explores how Apollo samples, Clementine, Lunar Prospector, Chandrayaan-1, LCROSS, LRO, and SOFIA gradually revealed the presence of water on the Moon and transformed our understanding of lunar science.
Hey everyone,
With Flight 12 marking the debut of Version 3, I wanted to create a complete visual history of the Starship program that feels like a real documentary rather than a simple compilation.
It tracks the entire evolution from the early pad explosions of Flight 1 to the Mechazilla catches and the latest V3 milestones.
I put a lot of care into this in the hope it will be something meaningful for other people too. Please feel free to check it out, and thank you as always for the support!
A cinematic tribute to humanity's return to the Moon.
I started doing videos mostly about the Apollo program, and since Artemis II flew and it was truly something special, I wanted to make a video that brings these two programs together.
I hope you enjoy it, and that it captures why space exploration remains one of humanity's greatest achievements.
For almost two decades, the US Air Force officially investigated over 12,000 UFO sightings under a program known as Project Blue Book. In this documentary, we trace the full story of unidentified flying objects. From the first reports in 1897 to the landmark year of 1947, when the term "flying saucers" was born, through to the official closure of Project Blue Book in 1969. Secret military aircraft, thousands of witness accounts, declassified Air Force files. We uncover what was really in the sky, the science behind the investigations, and the 701 cases that were never solved. #ProjectBlueBook #UFOHistory #coldwar #militaryhistory #aviationhistory
The story of the three machines that made the journey to space possible for 60 years:
Saturn V, the rocket that took humanity to the Moon and was never truly surpassed.
The Space Shuttle, the workhorse that built our presence in orbit over thirty years.
And SLS, the Space Launch System that carried the engines of the Shuttle and the ambitions of Apollo, all the way back to the Moon.
After 1.5 years of slow growth, one of my videos suddenly hit 100k views in about a week, and it completely changed how I see YouTube.
I recently got accepted into the YouTube Partner Program (first level, 500 subs), and I wanted to share what happened because I’ve been reading a lot of posts here over the past year.
About a month ago, I finally reached ~1k watch hours in 365 days. That alone felt like a big milestone, especially since most of my content before was getting very low views.
The main change I made was shifting from pure deep dives to a more cinematic storytelling style.
I started making videos about the Artemis II mission (space niche). At first, they barely got any traction, a few hundred views at best. For context, my previous “best” video had around 10k views.
Then I made a full mission video. For a couple of days, it was almost flat… and then it suddenly took off.
In about a week:
~100k views
~8k watch hours from that video alone
Today I got accepted into the YPP, and even though the video is slowing down now, it’s still bringing more views weekly than my entire channel used to.
Some of my older content is more historical (Apollo-related), and I was starting to see slow but steady organic growth there (2–3k view videos over time). But this recent spike completely changed how I look at analytics and progress.
Now I’m trying to understand how to turn this kind of spike into consistent growth.
Has anyone else experienced this kind of “delayed breakout” after months of slow progress? And did your next videos benefit from it, or was it more of a one-off?
Also curious how you balance evergreen content vs trending topics, where did you find it works best?
After 1.5 years of slow growth, one of my videos suddenly hit 100k views in about a week, and it completely changed how I see YouTube.
I recently got accepted into the YouTube Partner Program (first level, 500 subs), and I wanted to share what happened because I’ve been reading a lot of posts here over the past year.
About a month ago, I finally reached ~1k watch hours in 365 days. That alone felt like a big milestone, especially since most of my content before was getting very low views.
The main change I made was shifting from pure deep dives to a more cinematic storytelling style.
I started making videos about the Artemis II mission (space niche). At first, they barely got any traction, a few hundred views at best. For context, my previous “best” video had around 10k views.
Then I made a full mission video. For a couple of days, it was almost flat… and then it suddenly took off.
In about a week:
~100k views
~8k watch hours from that video alone
Today I got accepted into the YPP, and even though the video is slowing down now, it’s still bringing more views weekly than my entire channel used to.
Some of my older content is more historical (Apollo-related), and I was starting to see slow but steady organic growth there (2–3k view videos over time). But this recent spike completely changed how I look at analytics and progress.
Now I’m trying to understand how to turn this kind of spike into consistent growth.
Has anyone else experienced this kind of “delayed breakout” after months of slow progress? And did your next videos benefit from it, or was it more of a one-off?
Also curious how you balance evergreen content vs trending topics, where did you find it works best?
I made a cinematic Artemis II edit using onboard footage and the crew’s reflections after the mission. It focuses more on the human side and the experience rather than just summarizing the mission.
I’ve put together a cinematic timeline (2:44) covering 80 years of Earth "selfies." It starts with the first grainy frame from a captured V-2 rocket in 1946 and ends with the high-def footage from the recently concluded Artemis II mission. No fluff, just the technological progress of our perspective.