@kzbxvz, that's actually not true. Apollo had 3 fatalities - the fire that killed the Apollo 1 crew in 1967 - and that set the program back almost two years. The first manned flight, which should've happened early in 1967, didn't occur until October, 1968.
@jedikenneth, the crew of Apollo 13 survived their ordeal - but just. If the explosion had've occurred AFTER they landed on the Moon, the outcome would've been different.
@260KPH, indeed it was. Even before considering the uprate on the F-1 engines, the Saturn V had a 1 million-pound thrust advantage on the shuttle stack.
amazing, simply amazing, humanity, will soon discover the speed of light, and discover many, many alien species, other than ourselves. thank god for the universe creations!
17's the best ! What a great sight it must have been to see the biggest man made machine take off at night ! "The Saturn V is moving off the pad !" Awesome !
@DutchFord86 yeah, at around 4:49 you can see the video camera's auto iris being briefly overwhelmed by the intense brightness of the launch, considering the launch is about as bright as the sun its no wonder it took a few seconds for the camera's to close most of the incomming light so as not to blotch out the entire view
Great vid! I never get tired of seeing theae launches. I was born in 1960 so this is a treasured memory. When I was six or seven years old I talked my parents into a trip to the Cape. Took the Space Center tour saw a Saturn V on pad 39B. Still remember how big it was. It was the non-flight mock-up they used to test and perfect their proceedures. Paint scheme was different from the Saturn Vs that followed. Thanks!
Einstein, Von Braun, German. The guy that patented the 1st television, Russian. Belle & Edison, American. First to build a television was also American. The abacus, Asian. The Antikythera, Greek. The first adding machine, and computer, German. Why give credit to a race for the Saturn V, lots besides rockets made it possible. The chinese made the first model rockets. If not for WW2 distracting scientists with defense, things would be different. Time and resources make great things possible.
@kris120890 Possibly in the same sense that Christopher Columbus didn't discover America, Leaf Erickson did... different people can take credit for different things but that's aside the point. My point is that it wasn't just a rocket that got the U.S. to the moon, it was a collaboration of technology that was invented by different people and organizations, many of which WERE American, and a dedicated team of American scientists and engineers that made it happen.
I watched Apollo 17 too. I was about four miles away (I think) It was absolutely awsome and the emotion of it all brought tears to my eyes.
Even now it takes some taking in that they had the audacity to build something so huge and powerful and it worked every time.
If only they had kept the Saturn V. My tears now are when I think what COULD have been acheived by now. Mars? NASA had plans to set foot there by 1986 !!!!
(the rest): The rocket was so close, I had fear and awe, and was captured in the moment. It was awesome. Having read Tom Swift, Asimov and Clarke as a kid, I never dreamed I would see a rocket go up beside me lighting up the night sky. It was not planned, it was just a lucky moment, one I'll never forget.
On Dec7'72, I was flying commercial, Jacksonville to WPB. The pilot came on and said he had permission to fly through...He said in just a moment, if we looked out the left side of the plane we would see the SaturnV rocket launch on its way to the moon. We all moved to the left side of the plane, and looked out the window. A rumble-crackle-roar shook our plane, the sky lit up, then just in front of us, the rocket came up through the clouds, fire everywhere, immense flames engulfing the night sky!
Thanks, hjdnad...Unfortunately, Saturn V was too much before my time for me to have witnessed a launch, either in person or on TV. But I have seen one of these great machines up close in a museum, and it is breathtaking.
Arthur C Clarke once noted that fuel pumps of the first stage produced 300,000 hp. When I was on USS Kitty Hawk it was pointed out to us the ships propulsion plant generated 280,000 hp. So a power plant capable of propelling an 80,000 ton ship at 40mph couldn't run the bloody fuel pumps of a Saturn V.
When put in that context, it's scary indeed. Of course, Kitty Hawk's propulsion had to always work. The Saturn V used that kind of power for a very brief time before shutting down.
When I posted this montage, I had no clue it would get as many hits as it has. Thanks to everyone who has watched it thus far, and to those of you who will watch it in the future.
These were the greatest times of my life. From Mercury to Gemini to Apollo. This stuff was tops.I still remember my shock and denial of Grissom, White, and Chaffee, in Jan. '67. I remember Christmas 1968-- what a thrill. I remember July 1969. July 1969 was the best time to be a 12 1/2 year old boy. I'm right there with ya Buzz, if any more troublemakers deny your work. I've got a picture of ya standing on the moon. Good job, men.
I don't doubt it... just sounds funny the way he says it so calmly... just another day at the office, traveling @ the speed of a rifle round... and beyond lol
A nuke is louder..........380db.........if you include explosions........but it is not a sustained sound. Anyway........Saturn v was the loudest man made noise that continued to exist after the sound was made!!
The Saturn V rocket set a number of records when it took off the first time.........the heaviest object ever launched into space(6000 tons)......the loudest man-made noise ever made(300Db's!)..........the most powerful engine ever made(F-5)..........and the longest fire-plume ever recorded( 2 miles!)
Ok........you win..........I stand corrected.........the weight WAS 3039 tons...........that makes sense too, because the total thrust was 3500 tons........if it weighed 6000 tons, it wouldnt be able to get off the ground! Each F-5 engine produced 700 tons of thrust, for a total of 3500 tons.........or 35 Meganeutons.
The most amazing thing about Apollo is that it was done with 60's technology. The command module had a computer as powerful as a modern calculator and NASA's main computer could barely keep up with a modern laptop at the very most.
i doubt the main computer could even do that. but yes, it truly is amazing. just goes to show you what humans can do when they put their minds together.
I believe they did. If they didn't, it'd be the most expensive hoax of all time. Besides, the Russians would've told us long before now, because they were keeping tabs on those flights.
It took muscle to get men to the moon and I think that any real distance manned flight will require same. Why not return to a proven design albeit tarted up with a bit of modern technology? Thanks for the video of a grand old lady in action.
Yes I would. Believe me, I'm very familiar with what they had to do to get that bird going. In fact, there are some pretty good books that detail Saturn V development and flight--"Stages to Saturn" by Roger E. Bilstein, and "Saturn" by Alan Lawrie and Robert Godwin are two that are still in publication. If you can find it, "Apollo Expeditions to the Moon" (edited by Edgar M. Cortright) is also an excellent overall text on Project Apollo, through the moon landings.
I have to agree, dannothunder...They did make it look easy. But it would've probably scared me witless to ride that thing. It suffered from pogo--as large boosters are prone to do--and that would've made me think the thing was falling apart.
A few things. The pogo is detected by the instrument stage computer and it would shut down that engine. Beginning with Apollo 14, they implemented a dampening device and almost eliminated the pogo.
The key word there is "almost". But again, as tall as that rocket was, and as powerful as the engines were--1.5 million pounds of thrust on the F1s and 250,000 pounds of thrust on the J2s--that was to be expected to a degree.
Frankly the Apollo guys made traveling to the moon look easy. It's only now, when we're contemplating returning to the moon do we al now realize how tough it really was in the 1960s to actually do it. And the Americans did it. What a country.
The Saturn V was the biggest and fastest of all NASA rocket series. Nothing can surpass it. It was a sure specticle to work with and can not be replaced
Incredible footage.. I was just having a conversation with a friend of mine regarding him being in Merrit Island at the age of 12 when the bird went up, and here is the footage.. Thanks for sharing! :)
NASA plans to launch a manned mission again by 2018 or 2020 in the Ares V. This monster will produce approx. 10.5 million lbs. of thrust at lift-off. When I was 8 yrs. old I saw apollo 8 launch. It was unbelievable, can't express it in words. That,s one xmas I will never forget. Apollo produced 7.5 million lbs. of thrust. I could be wrong but I think apollo 15 was 7.7 million. No way in hell am I going to miss the Ares V.
The Saturn V puts the shuttle to shame! It was the Grand pappy of all Rocketry into space! I am most glad that I watched these live as a kid. It will not be the same again.
To give you an idea of perspective, the Saturn V was 365 feet tall from nose to tail. The umbilical tower that it clears in the videos was 430 feet tall. That's a 36-story building flying past a 43-story building. Incredibly cool.
Oh I agree. I'd have loved to have seen one of these rockets take off.
The lunar missions were just too expensive, although it would have been cool to continue them. The last three Apollo missions to the moon were in the range of $250 million each, and that was in 1971-1972 dollars.
That's impressive, but considering by the time the rocket was going 12.33 km/s by the time they shut of their final engine in orbit, that's about 27,000 mph. 10,000 mph faster than the space shuttle.
I find it a bit painful that I will never witness one of these launch in person. What a sight that must have been.
Don't hold your breathe theres been studied that the shuttle has been less succeful in terms of safty and spce vehicals such as the Saturn V is the better opition. THis baby may well return.
Saturn V was a Monster of a rocket it measured like 3 on the ricter scale when it lauched
Saturn V is not going to return. It'll be the Ares 1 and V. The Ares V will be able to carry up to 6x the amount of mass than any other rocket ever used. The Ares 1 and V are going to be remarkable craft, and NASA is also in the middle of designing craft, that'll one day put them to shame. (the vehicle used to launch the crew to Mars. they are designing plasma launch procedure's for that)
Talk about riding at the top of a huge bomb. No exagerration there whatsoever. Almost seems like so much power is being released that it is right at the edge of explosion. I was 17 when Apollo 11 launched and it left an indelible impression. Something along the lines of holy @*%$. Awesome.
Forgot the most awesome part: the fireball and flametail. They were blinding and enormous, filling up what looked to be a third of the nighttime sky. Even at 3 1/2 miles distance, it was scary close! It got your instinctive hormones flowing. There is nothing more awesome that a big-time rocket launch at the Cape.
Thanks for sharing these great memories, Plutoplatter. It's a thrill to me, and I'm sure to others who take time to read the comments. BTW, I've determined that I'm going to retire to Titusville and become a tour guide at the Cape. I think I'd do pretty good at it.
Thanks, Cag. My wonderful parents gave me that trip to the Apollo 17 launch as a graduation gift. My congressman, Herm Schnebelli, gave me one of his four KFC passes to the VIP viewing center alongside the VAB. The launch was delayed an hour due to a glitch. That made time to see some of the famous people there: Governor George Wallace of Alabama, and Eva Gabor from the Green Acres TV comedy show. Met a beautiful girl there, too, Mary Shaffer from Witicha. Sigh. A night to remember in America!
I was there alongside the VAB for the fantastic launch of Apollo 17. The ignition produced a brilliant, deeply-rich orange fireball that instantly turned dusk into dawn up and down the coast. There was a roar, but it was softer than expected, muffled by the 3 1/2 mile distance to the launch pad. What was not softened was the low-frequency rumble. It was huge! The low-down staccato pounded at your chest and made the ground lightly tremble. A smorgasbord for the senses. Unforgettable...USA! USA!!
I am so jealous of you, Plutoplatter. I would've loved to have seen on of these bad boys take off. I've heard from a number of people here about their experiences; I've also talked to another person who actually worked on some components for it.
Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, the Saturn V blueprints have not been lost. They are kept at Marshall Space Flight Center on microfilm.
The problem in re-creating the Saturn V is not finding the drawings, it is finding vendors who can supply mid-1960's vintage hardware (like guidance system components), and the fact that the launch pads and VAB have been converted to Space Shuttle use, so you have no place to launch from.
I'd think that launch pads are the bigger problem. Considering that they're still flying Atlas, which has evolved from a primitive and unpredictable ICBM into a reliable satellite booster over the years, guidance system components would be a piece of cake.
As for the VAB--well, it's still 545 feet tall and could still easily accommodate a monster like a Saturn V.
In short--we have the technology, we can rebuild it.
That 500 character limit got in the way. The launch pads and VAB have been converted to Space Shuttle use, so there's no place to launch from.
However, I don't believe that would be a bigger problem than the rocket itself. By the time you redesign to accommodate available hardware and re-modify the launch pads, you may as well have started from scratch with a clean sheet design. In stark contrast to the Atlas, the Saturn V was the most reliable heavy lift rocket we had.
As a boy, I saw all the launches from our back yard in Orlando, but I was only 10 miles away when they launched 17. We were at five miles, but the launch had so many delays (due to a computer glitch) and it was so late on a school night that Dad decided to go back to Orlando. Suddenly, over the radio they said they were launching. He pulled over and we saw the sky turn into half day and half night. An incredible sight I will never forget. Thanks for helping preserve those memories!
My pleasure...And I have to say, I'm incredibly jealous. I was just 2 when Apollo 17 was launched, so I really missed a really cool era in our spacefaring history.
All the video footage that you're seeing is at real-time speed. It took about 12 seconds from first motion to tower-clear, which is pretty good for an object the height of a 36-story building.
Actually, the Saturn V did tilt slightly as it rose from the pad, to keep it from hitting the tower. The first-stage engines had gimbals that allowed them to swivel, thus changing the direction of thrust.
auburntaco Gyros operating with the engines.control flight, and stability,engines vector slightly to control attitude based on gyro activity. (In a short answer)
I love lanching model rockets and have a very big onterest in all types of rockets....al shapes and sizes but you gotta think there would be A HELL OF ALOT OF GUN POWERE TO LUNCH THAT THING
That's a very good point. Pogo is virtually unavoidable in a tall booster like a Saturn V. The Titan II used for Gemini space launches also suffered from pogo.
Such an amazing acheivement of engineering and human teamwork and courage. The Saturn V rocket was the only rocket booster in NASA history with a 100% sucess rate-not one ever failed.
I'm looking fowards to seeing if NASA makes good on it's promise to return to the moon by 2012. The new Constellation program looks quite promising, and I'm glad that the Shuttle fleet is finally going to be replaced; it's served long and well, but is sadly outdated.
Although no Saturn Vs were lost in flight, that didn't mean they always got their payloads away completely trouble-free. The unmanned Apollo 6 came the closest to calamity, and there were some issues with Apollo 13's second stage. But you're right, all in all. The Saturn V was a great rocket.
I think Constellation will do wonders for NASA. Not as sexy as a reusable winged spacecraft, but it should definitely be reliable.
YUP, but we're going back to the Moon first, 2012 tentative I believe. Going to Mars is MUCH more difficult than going to the Moon. We can get to the moon in three days. A round-trip to mars would take 18 MONTHS or more. The engineers are still trying to figure out how to protect the crew from possible Solar flares during a Mars mission. Those could be deadly out in space (no magnetosphere to protect the crew out there). That's just ONE of many yet unsolved problem for a Mars mission.
Radiation shielding is one of the easier problems to solve. The larger problem is providing provisions for a crew that long. I'd think that the crew would spend most of its time sleeping--inbound and outbound--to cut down on the amount of consumables to be carried.
Yes, the Saturn V is the most powerful rocket ever successfully launched. The Russians tried to outdo the Saturn V with the N1, but they could never get it to fly successfully.
Space shuttle isn't even worthy of being a chase plane for this big son of a bitch.
IASOU2005 1 month ago
But will it blend?
joachim2464 3 months ago
tower clear
marcopiu82 3 months ago
Saturn V doesn't lift off the pad; it pushes the Earth out from under it...the most magnificent machine ever built!
HaoleTom 5 months ago
the only reason the russians cant do it is because they dont have a satern v
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Futurecop2012E 7 months ago
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Spendude56 7 months ago
should do it again! to mars this time, but would settle for a return to the moon
aAgent86 9 months ago
Not only the most powerful rocket, but also the tallest and the heaviest in terms of both gross weight and maximum payload.
jetfreak4 9 months ago
even to this day, nothing close built. sad.
tonyrosam 9 months ago
The Apollo project never had any fatalites, the Space Shuttle two!
kzbxvz 11 months ago
@kzbxvz, that's actually not true. Apollo had 3 fatalities - the fire that killed the Apollo 1 crew in 1967 - and that set the program back almost two years. The first manned flight, which should've happened early in 1967, didn't occur until October, 1968.
cag1970 10 months ago 3
@cag1970 And don't forget the explosion of the oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13.
jedikenneth 10 months ago
@jedikenneth, the crew of Apollo 13 survived their ordeal - but just. If the explosion had've occurred AFTER they landed on the Moon, the outcome would've been different.
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ourcynic 10 months ago
@kzbxvz The space shuttle had at least 10 fatalities in terms if crew members. Two accidents leading to the loss of two different shuttles.
jetfreak4 5 months ago
I would give anything to feel the roar of the saturn 5!
thewebmaster93 1 year ago
Just awesome
intertr0ns 1 year ago
more thrust than the space shuttle launch!
260KPH 1 year ago
@260KPH, indeed it was. Even before considering the uprate on the F-1 engines, the Saturn V had a 1 million-pound thrust advantage on the shuttle stack.
cag1970 1 year ago
@cag1970 very true...with the F-1A you could probably add another million or more (total)
MightySaturn5 10 months ago
Nature pissed her panties when that thing took off!
tonyrosam 1 year ago 3
@tonyrosam, that's one way to put it, I suppose.
cag1970 1 year ago
Absolutely amazing, thank you so much!
TheApana 1 year ago
@TheApana, thank YOU for taking time to watch it!
cag1970 1 year ago
Simply amazing!
bareknuckles2u 1 year ago
Nice!
JETxstudios 1 year ago
Great Vid, Thanks
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FatFreddy88 1 year ago
La máquina más impresionante jamás creada por el ser humano, lo suficientre para abandonar su planeta. Impresionantre, Chapeau!
equinoxesp 1 year ago
La máquina más impresionante jamás creada por el ser humano, lo suficientre para abandonar su planeta. Impresionantre, Chapeau!
equinoxesp 1 year ago
amazing, simply amazing, humanity, will soon discover the speed of light, and discover many, many alien species, other than ourselves. thank god for the universe creations!
45Mang 1 year ago
17's the best ! What a great sight it must have been to see the biggest man made machine take off at night ! "The Saturn V is moving off the pad !" Awesome !
DutchFord86 1 year ago
@DutchFord86 yeah, at around 4:49 you can see the video camera's auto iris being briefly overwhelmed by the intense brightness of the launch, considering the launch is about as bright as the sun its no wonder it took a few seconds for the camera's to close most of the incomming light so as not to blotch out the entire view
MightySaturn5 1 year ago
that is so cool
starbabe58 1 year ago
bad video quality..
irish89055 1 year ago
@irish89055, the video in this montage was culled directly from some NASA archives. I'm afraid I couldn't control the quality of the video.
cag1970 1 year ago 2
@irish89055 What do u expect? HD video quality on a 1969 video?
arsenal553 1 year ago
Great vid! I never get tired of seeing theae launches. I was born in 1960 so this is a treasured memory. When I was six or seven years old I talked my parents into a trip to the Cape. Took the Space Center tour saw a Saturn V on pad 39B. Still remember how big it was. It was the non-flight mock-up they used to test and perfect their proceedures. Paint scheme was different from the Saturn Vs that followed. Thanks!
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tomtone1 1 year ago
Yes I know that the Nazi's provided Von Braun, but he worked for USA, so it's USA who did it.
barthoedemaker 1 year ago
Einstein, Von Braun, German. The guy that patented the 1st television, Russian. Belle & Edison, American. First to build a television was also American. The abacus, Asian. The Antikythera, Greek. The first adding machine, and computer, German. Why give credit to a race for the Saturn V, lots besides rockets made it possible. The chinese made the first model rockets. If not for WW2 distracting scientists with defense, things would be different. Time and resources make great things possible.
dustinmolieri 1 year ago
Try consulting history books and you'll see most of that is wrong.
kris120890 1 year ago
@kris120890 Possibly in the same sense that Christopher Columbus didn't discover America, Leaf Erickson did... different people can take credit for different things but that's aside the point. My point is that it wasn't just a rocket that got the U.S. to the moon, it was a collaboration of technology that was invented by different people and organizations, many of which WERE American, and a dedicated team of American scientists and engineers that made it happen.
dustinmolieri 1 year ago
i was there for apollo 17 the vibrations from their engines were enogh to make you sick from the vibrations n grd shaking
bleeyes1201958 2 years ago
I watched Apollo 17 too. I was about four miles away (I think) It was absolutely awsome and the emotion of it all brought tears to my eyes.
Even now it takes some taking in that they had the audacity to build something so huge and powerful and it worked every time.
If only they had kept the Saturn V. My tears now are when I think what COULD have been acheived by now. Mars? NASA had plans to set foot there by 1986 !!!!
tpsossff 2 years ago
Incredible footage of a fabulous Machine! Thank you!Btw, I believe any rocket's launch is very impressive by itself!
tifosaurus 2 years ago
that thing is big
wslx0195 2 years ago
thats what she said
MrPLOXPLOXPLOX 2 years ago
at 1:49/1:50 min you see a weird shadow going to the left
jkukd 2 years ago
@jkukd that is the shadow the saturn casts onto the clouds below it. sun sems to be on the right.
timmy322 2 years ago
Thanks to President John F Kennedy, sadly he was murdered. But his words became reality... he put a man on the moon.
barthoedemaker 2 years ago 12
@barthoedemaker Thanks to Nazi Germany for providing the scientists for this great rocket
GoodSmackUp 2 years ago 2
breathtaking!...............there are no words that can describe this machine!
sbmrunning 2 years ago 4
I still own a EL3400 Philips recording from Dutch television, broadcasting the launch :)
DutchFord86 2 years ago 3
What I would give to have been on that plane. sad that the apollo missions were stopped before my time
per1161 2 years ago 9
(the rest): The rocket was so close, I had fear and awe, and was captured in the moment. It was awesome. Having read Tom Swift, Asimov and Clarke as a kid, I never dreamed I would see a rocket go up beside me lighting up the night sky. It was not planned, it was just a lucky moment, one I'll never forget.
liensirrah 2 years ago 3
That sounds like a fate moment for you. What a lucky experience to be airborne with a saturn V. Great story, thanks for sharing it.
Preacher60 2 years ago 4
On Dec7'72, I was flying commercial, Jacksonville to WPB. The pilot came on and said he had permission to fly through...He said in just a moment, if we looked out the left side of the plane we would see the SaturnV rocket launch on its way to the moon. We all moved to the left side of the plane, and looked out the window. A rumble-crackle-roar shook our plane, the sky lit up, then just in front of us, the rocket came up through the clouds, fire everywhere, immense flames engulfing the night sky!
liensirrah 2 years ago 3
This is an amazing and awe-inspiring video! Thank you for putting it together... incredible!
TasLon7 2 years ago 2
Thank you for taking the time to watch it!
cag1970 2 years ago
thanks for such an incredible video
Mikevanhagar 2 years ago 2
Thank you for taking time to watch it!
cag1970 2 years ago
Many many thanks for compiling this ...
What a beautiful experience it must have been to see a Saturn V launch live .
Stiil , I was lucky enough to be around when they were shown live on British TV all those years ago ...... what a great achievement Apollo was !!
The name " Saturn V " always immediately conjures up in my mind something spectacular .
What a shame the Moon flights had to end when they did .....
They were great days .........
hjdnad 2 years ago 4
Thanks, hjdnad...Unfortunately, Saturn V was too much before my time for me to have witnessed a launch, either in person or on TV. But I have seen one of these great machines up close in a museum, and it is breathtaking.
cag1970 2 years ago
Arthur C Clarke once noted that fuel pumps of the first stage produced 300,000 hp. When I was on USS Kitty Hawk it was pointed out to us the ships propulsion plant generated 280,000 hp. So a power plant capable of propelling an 80,000 ton ship at 40mph couldn't run the bloody fuel pumps of a Saturn V.
sundiver137 2 years ago
When put in that context, it's scary indeed. Of course, Kitty Hawk's propulsion had to always work. The Saturn V used that kind of power for a very brief time before shutting down.
cag1970 2 years ago
"this is ground control to major Tom...
... take your protein pill and put your helmet on"
lol awesome
fibreoptik 2 years ago
I remember Apollo!
ftucyk 2 years ago
When I posted this montage, I had no clue it would get as many hits as it has. Thanks to everyone who has watched it thus far, and to those of you who will watch it in the future.
cag1970 2 years ago
These were the greatest times of my life. From Mercury to Gemini to Apollo. This stuff was tops.I still remember my shock and denial of Grissom, White, and Chaffee, in Jan. '67. I remember Christmas 1968-- what a thrill. I remember July 1969. July 1969 was the best time to be a 12 1/2 year old boy. I'm right there with ya Buzz, if any more troublemakers deny your work. I've got a picture of ya standing on the moon. Good job, men.
noacronym 2 years ago
lol...well said noa
MightySaturn5 2 years ago
I LOVE THIS STUFF! The great era in spaceflight IMHO!
The mighty Saturn V!!!
Tommyr 2 years ago
"velocity: 2,195/feet per second..."
holy fuck lol
fibreoptik 2 years ago
When they reach escape velocity, they are going more than 34000 feet per second!
wmoore998 2 years ago
I don't doubt it... just sounds funny the way he says it so calmly... just another day at the office, traveling @ the speed of a rifle round... and beyond lol
fibreoptik 2 years ago
That was a nice video. I sure miss those days.
12348231 2 years ago 3
Nothing more incredible!
Galeati08 2 years ago
trajectory speed of 24500 mph holy shitttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
collapseofthedollar 2 years ago
Thank god they got the fuel shower heads worked out in time! Combustion instability was a problem early on.
stegaflaps 2 years ago
I suspect the footage from the Apollo 11 and 15 launches was from NBC News and footage from their original live TV coverage.
altfactor 2 years ago
I wouldn't doubt that. I simply picked up the footage from a NASA website and cobbled it together.
cag1970 2 years ago
At 2:10 velocity 2195 ft./sec. the speed of a .223 rifle bullet.
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alsayed28 2 years ago
Doesn't that depend on how much gunpowder you use.
wmoore998 2 years ago
From a rifle length barrel, 55 grain .223 is 3300 ft./sec. @ the muzzle.
Cruentus1 2 years ago
A nuke is louder..........380db.........if you include explosions........but it is not a sustained sound. Anyway........Saturn v was the loudest man made noise that continued to exist after the sound was made!!
stegaflaps 2 years ago
Love the way it burns a hole through the cloud at 1:52!
stegaflaps 2 years ago
actually it's @ 1:50
comment fail
fibreoptik 2 years ago
The Saturn V rocket set a number of records when it took off the first time.........the heaviest object ever launched into space(6000 tons)......the loudest man-made noise ever made(300Db's!)..........the most powerful engine ever made(F-5)..........and the longest fire-plume ever recorded( 2 miles!)
stegaflaps 2 years ago 2
I think the Saturn V was the second loudest man-made sound after thermonuclear weapon explosions... In any case, loud enough to kill you.
steele403b 2 years ago
Sorry, stegaflaps. The weight was 3000 tons...
hanseman21 2 years ago
Ok........you win..........I stand corrected.........the weight WAS 3039 tons...........that makes sense too, because the total thrust was 3500 tons........if it weighed 6000 tons, it wouldnt be able to get off the ground! Each F-5 engine produced 700 tons of thrust, for a total of 3500 tons.........or 35 Meganeutons.
stegaflaps 2 years ago
at 1:47 it breaks the sound barrier
sanbsball44 2 years ago
The most amazing thing about Apollo is that it was done with 60's technology. The command module had a computer as powerful as a modern calculator and NASA's main computer could barely keep up with a modern laptop at the very most.
treker2379 3 years ago
i doubt the main computer could even do that. but yes, it truly is amazing. just goes to show you what humans can do when they put their minds together.
nimo21 3 years ago
hey question how to pronounce Saturn v ,saturn v or saturn 5?
ojamapogi 3 years ago
its "saturn five"
the V is roman numeral
NamelessFTW 3 years ago
Thanks for the comments, h1aa...Glad you enjoyed the footage!
cag1970 3 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
In 00:28 instead of
"Apollo 11 was the first manned landing on the moon"
you should of said
"Apollo 11 was the first FAKE landing on the moon" ^^
TonyFirelli 3 years ago
Your entitled to your opinion, TonyFirelli. I don't hold it against you, even though I don't agree with it.
cag1970 3 years ago
Yeah right now I'm thinking did America land on moon or they didn't...
TonyFirelli 3 years ago
I believe they did. If they didn't, it'd be the most expensive hoax of all time. Besides, the Russians would've told us long before now, because they were keeping tabs on those flights.
cag1970 3 years ago
It took muscle to get men to the moon and I think that any real distance manned flight will require same. Why not return to a proven design albeit tarted up with a bit of modern technology? Thanks for the video of a grand old lady in action.
h1aa 3 years ago
best footage i ever seen,good job.
Yottabyte16 3 years ago
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the footage!
cag1970 3 years ago
Good job! The Saturn V was our greatest rocket! LOVE IT!
Tommyr 3 years ago
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the footage!
cag1970 3 years ago
Thank you!
cag1970 3 years ago
Good job!!!!
BasserPeti 3 years ago
You won't believe the amount of diligent engineering and manufacturing that was put into the Saturn V.
icyplanetnhc 3 years ago
Yes I would. Believe me, I'm very familiar with what they had to do to get that bird going. In fact, there are some pretty good books that detail Saturn V development and flight--"Stages to Saturn" by Roger E. Bilstein, and "Saturn" by Alan Lawrie and Robert Godwin are two that are still in publication. If you can find it, "Apollo Expeditions to the Moon" (edited by Edgar M. Cortright) is also an excellent overall text on Project Apollo, through the moon landings.
cag1970 3 years ago
I have to agree, dannothunder...They did make it look easy. But it would've probably scared me witless to ride that thing. It suffered from pogo--as large boosters are prone to do--and that would've made me think the thing was falling apart.
cag1970 3 years ago
A few things. The pogo is detected by the instrument stage computer and it would shut down that engine. Beginning with Apollo 14, they implemented a dampening device and almost eliminated the pogo.
icyplanetnhc 3 years ago
The key word there is "almost". But again, as tall as that rocket was, and as powerful as the engines were--1.5 million pounds of thrust on the F1s and 250,000 pounds of thrust on the J2s--that was to be expected to a degree.
cag1970 3 years ago
Frankly the Apollo guys made traveling to the moon look easy. It's only now, when we're contemplating returning to the moon do we al now realize how tough it really was in the 1960s to actually do it. And the Americans did it. What a country.
dannothunder44 3 years ago
america saturn V is the best biggest rocket in the world than ussr russia rocket
bestamerica 3 years ago
The Saturn V was the biggest and fastest of all NASA rocket series. Nothing can surpass it. It was a sure specticle to work with and can not be replaced
NearSpace01 3 years ago
What about Ares5?
boargrozny 3 years ago
Incredible footage.. I was just having a conversation with a friend of mine regarding him being in Merrit Island at the age of 12 when the bird went up, and here is the footage.. Thanks for sharing! :)
F1Fanatic 3 years ago
NASA plans to launch a manned mission again by 2018 or 2020 in the Ares V. This monster will produce approx. 10.5 million lbs. of thrust at lift-off. When I was 8 yrs. old I saw apollo 8 launch. It was unbelievable, can't express it in words. That,s one xmas I will never forget. Apollo produced 7.5 million lbs. of thrust. I could be wrong but I think apollo 15 was 7.7 million. No way in hell am I going to miss the Ares V.
apollo1268 3 years ago
Let's hope that the Ares series of rockets is as successful as the Saturn series was.
cag1970 3 years ago
These were NASAs FINEST years IMO.
msuber 3 years ago
The Saturn V puts the shuttle to shame! It was the Grand pappy of all Rocketry into space! I am most glad that I watched these live as a kid. It will not be the same again.
msuber 3 years ago
I'm jealous of you! I was born too late for the Saturn V, but I've more than gotten my fill of the shuttle, which is still an impressive machine.
cag1970 3 years ago
Just think... the Space Shuttle is only half as tall as that Saturn V. That really gives you a perspective for how massive it is.
A550RGY 3 years ago
To give you an idea of perspective, the Saturn V was 365 feet tall from nose to tail. The umbilical tower that it clears in the videos was 430 feet tall. That's a 36-story building flying past a 43-story building. Incredibly cool.
cag1970 3 years ago
I'm very envious of any of you witnessed a Saturn V launch. They should have kept it and continued Lunar missions imo !
mashamorgan 3 years ago
Oh I agree. I'd have loved to have seen one of these rockets take off.
The lunar missions were just too expensive, although it would have been cool to continue them. The last three Apollo missions to the moon were in the range of $250 million each, and that was in 1971-1972 dollars.
cag1970 3 years ago
Any of you figure what the speed in mph would work out to for 2,195 fps?
dberger2004 3 years ago
About 1,500 miles per hour, based on my calculations. Multiply 2195 x 3600 and divide that by 5280 to convert ft/hr into mph.
cag1970 3 years ago
That's impressive, but considering by the time the rocket was going 12.33 km/s by the time they shut of their final engine in orbit, that's about 27,000 mph. 10,000 mph faster than the space shuttle.
I find it a bit painful that I will never witness one of these launch in person. What a sight that must have been.
m0ondoggy 3 years ago
Don't hold your breathe theres been studied that the shuttle has been less succeful in terms of safty and spce vehicals such as the Saturn V is the better opition. THis baby may well return.
Saturn V was a Monster of a rocket it measured like 3 on the ricter scale when it lauched
SCI78 3 years ago
Saturn V is not going to return. It'll be the Ares 1 and V. The Ares V will be able to carry up to 6x the amount of mass than any other rocket ever used. The Ares 1 and V are going to be remarkable craft, and NASA is also in the middle of designing craft, that'll one day put them to shame. (the vehicle used to launch the crew to Mars. they are designing plasma launch procedure's for that)
OSU6369 3 years ago
OSU6369
COuld you give me a link via msg me
about the Ares 1 and V, and plasma launch as well
SCI78 3 years ago
Talk about riding at the top of a huge bomb. No exagerration there whatsoever. Almost seems like so much power is being released that it is right at the edge of explosion. I was 17 when Apollo 11 launched and it left an indelible impression. Something along the lines of holy @*%$. Awesome.
dberger2004 3 years ago
Oh yeah, the Saturn V was no joke. What an incredible piece of American technology. Thanks for sharing your experience!
cag1970 3 years ago
Forgot the most awesome part: the fireball and flametail. They were blinding and enormous, filling up what looked to be a third of the nighttime sky. Even at 3 1/2 miles distance, it was scary close! It got your instinctive hormones flowing. There is nothing more awesome that a big-time rocket launch at the Cape.
Plutoplatter 3 years ago
Thanks for sharing these great memories, Plutoplatter. It's a thrill to me, and I'm sure to others who take time to read the comments. BTW, I've determined that I'm going to retire to Titusville and become a tour guide at the Cape. I think I'd do pretty good at it.
cag1970 3 years ago
Thanks, Cag. My wonderful parents gave me that trip to the Apollo 17 launch as a graduation gift. My congressman, Herm Schnebelli, gave me one of his four KFC passes to the VIP viewing center alongside the VAB. The launch was delayed an hour due to a glitch. That made time to see some of the famous people there: Governor George Wallace of Alabama, and Eva Gabor from the Green Acres TV comedy show. Met a beautiful girl there, too, Mary Shaffer from Witicha. Sigh. A night to remember in America!
Plutoplatter 3 years ago
I was there alongside the VAB for the fantastic launch of Apollo 17. The ignition produced a brilliant, deeply-rich orange fireball that instantly turned dusk into dawn up and down the coast. There was a roar, but it was softer than expected, muffled by the 3 1/2 mile distance to the launch pad. What was not softened was the low-frequency rumble. It was huge! The low-down staccato pounded at your chest and made the ground lightly tremble. A smorgasbord for the senses. Unforgettable...USA! USA!!
Plutoplatter 3 years ago
I am so jealous of you, Plutoplatter. I would've loved to have seen on of these bad boys take off. I've heard from a number of people here about their experiences; I've also talked to another person who actually worked on some components for it.
cag1970 3 years ago
Damn, that sounds awesome, would love to go back in time and see something like that. Must of been like going to a 1000 rock concerts all at once.
InternetSavage 3 years ago
I agree with you...I'd love to have seen one of these bad boys take off myself.
cag1970 3 years ago
Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, the Saturn V blueprints have not been lost. They are kept at Marshall Space Flight Center on microfilm.
The problem in re-creating the Saturn V is not finding the drawings, it is finding vendors who can supply mid-1960's vintage hardware (like guidance system components), and the fact that the launch pads and VAB have been converted to Space Shuttle use, so you have no place to launch from.
TheArmoredPanther 3 years ago
I'd think that launch pads are the bigger problem. Considering that they're still flying Atlas, which has evolved from a primitive and unpredictable ICBM into a reliable satellite booster over the years, guidance system components would be a piece of cake.
As for the VAB--well, it's still 545 feet tall and could still easily accommodate a monster like a Saturn V.
In short--we have the technology, we can rebuild it.
cag1970 3 years ago
That 500 character limit got in the way. The launch pads and VAB have been converted to Space Shuttle use, so there's no place to launch from.
However, I don't believe that would be a bigger problem than the rocket itself. By the time you redesign to accommodate available hardware and re-modify the launch pads, you may as well have started from scratch with a clean sheet design. In stark contrast to the Atlas, the Saturn V was the most reliable heavy lift rocket we had.
TheArmoredPanther 3 years ago
That's exactly what I mean. Building the rocket isn't the problem--building the facilities is.
cag1970 3 years ago
I miss that old bird.
thehoaxbuster 3 years ago
I wish I could've seen that old bird in person! Seeing it in a museum just ain't the same.
cag1970 3 years ago
I didn't see it either but my Grandpa did and said it was loud as hell.
thehoaxbuster 3 years ago
Very nice video, great slice of the exciting times of Apollo
belisariusorb 3 years ago
Thanks for watching. Glad that you enjoyed it!
cag1970 3 years ago
Yr very welcome, keep it going
belisariusorb 3 years ago
As a boy, I saw all the launches from our back yard in Orlando, but I was only 10 miles away when they launched 17. We were at five miles, but the launch had so many delays (due to a computer glitch) and it was so late on a school night that Dad decided to go back to Orlando. Suddenly, over the radio they said they were launching. He pulled over and we saw the sky turn into half day and half night. An incredible sight I will never forget. Thanks for helping preserve those memories!
Cantupian 3 years ago
My pleasure...And I have to say, I'm incredibly jealous. I was just 2 when Apollo 17 was launched, so I really missed a really cool era in our spacefaring history.
cag1970 3 years ago
The worlds largest blowtorch...
I love how it burns a hole into the cloud deck as it passes trough.
rudeboyzero 3 years ago
How does it keep from tipping over at lift off?
Is this slow motion?
How fast is it going when it clears the tower?
auburntaco 3 years ago
All the video footage that you're seeing is at real-time speed. It took about 12 seconds from first motion to tower-clear, which is pretty good for an object the height of a 36-story building.
Actually, the Saturn V did tilt slightly as it rose from the pad, to keep it from hitting the tower. The first-stage engines had gimbals that allowed them to swivel, thus changing the direction of thrust.
cag1970 3 years ago
auburntaco Gyros operating with the engines.control flight, and stability,engines vector slightly to control attitude based on gyro activity. (In a short answer)
starview1 3 years ago
I love lanching model rockets and have a very big onterest in all types of rockets....al shapes and sizes but you gotta think there would be A HELL OF ALOT OF GUN POWERE TO LUNCH THAT THING
123scrirock123 3 years ago
It had a 100 percent success rate but launched far too few times to compare it to anything
Every Apollo flight suffered from almost catastrophic pogo oscillations, for example
blochwaves 3 years ago
That's a very good point. Pogo is virtually unavoidable in a tall booster like a Saturn V. The Titan II used for Gemini space launches also suffered from pogo.
cag1970 3 years ago
Such an amazing acheivement of engineering and human teamwork and courage. The Saturn V rocket was the only rocket booster in NASA history with a 100% sucess rate-not one ever failed.
I'm looking fowards to seeing if NASA makes good on it's promise to return to the moon by 2012. The new Constellation program looks quite promising, and I'm glad that the Shuttle fleet is finally going to be replaced; it's served long and well, but is sadly outdated.
systlin 3 years ago
Although no Saturn Vs were lost in flight, that didn't mean they always got their payloads away completely trouble-free. The unmanned Apollo 6 came the closest to calamity, and there were some issues with Apollo 13's second stage. But you're right, all in all. The Saturn V was a great rocket.
I think Constellation will do wonders for NASA. Not as sexy as a reusable winged spacecraft, but it should definitely be reliable.
cag1970 3 years ago
this rocket is massive
saturn v largest production in the saturn rocket famiy and the whole world. great video 5 stars
cupcake2575 3 years ago
i would rate 20 stars if possibe Thanks for posting
sd04276 3 years ago
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
cag1970 3 years ago
YUP, but we're going back to the Moon first, 2012 tentative I believe. Going to Mars is MUCH more difficult than going to the Moon. We can get to the moon in three days. A round-trip to mars would take 18 MONTHS or more. The engineers are still trying to figure out how to protect the crew from possible Solar flares during a Mars mission. Those could be deadly out in space (no magnetosphere to protect the crew out there). That's just ONE of many yet unsolved problem for a Mars mission.
Ghostman1229 3 years ago
Radiation shielding is one of the easier problems to solve. The larger problem is providing provisions for a crew that long. I'd think that the crew would spend most of its time sleeping--inbound and outbound--to cut down on the amount of consumables to be carried.
cag1970 3 years ago
Actually, depending on where the planets are in orbit (Earth relative to Mars), we can get to mars in as little as six months.
rpmartin01 3 years ago
Agree with that, but six months' provisions is still a lot.
cag1970 3 years ago
Total thrust: 33,360,000 newtons (7,500,000 lb) Thats seven million five hundred thousand pounds of thrust. (Poof)
melvinhartwinkle 4 years ago
Yep...Each of the five Rocketdyne F-1 engines in the first stage generated 1.5 million pounds of thrust.
cag1970 4 years ago
The Apollo 15 Saturn V was and still is the heavest of all of them.
thehoaxbuster 4 years ago
isn't this rocket the largest production in the saturn family and the biggest production in the world or something
penguinlordx 4 years ago
Yes, the Saturn V is the most powerful rocket ever successfully launched. The Russians tried to outdo the Saturn V with the N1, but they could never get it to fly successfully.
cag1970 4 years ago
hehe im smart :)
penguinlordx 4 years ago
I think returning to the moon is the greatest adventure of my, our, lifetime!
1310slapmaster 4 years ago