I remember a staging clip like this during the telecasts of the Gemini mission 1st stage separations. I always thought they used an animation, but I'll bet it was this footage.
What you see is from a camera attached to a piece of blown-off rocketry, a metal skirt that has about 50 seconds more to live before it burns to death through the atmosphere.
Actually, that's the SI-B from one of the Saturn 1B flights. You can tell because of the fact that there are three ullage motors on the SIVB stage instead of two like there was on the Saturn V version.
spacecraft films has all this. and they are excellent.
uzimodem 9 months ago
Cool footage.
Synthetrix 1 year ago
This was the Apollo 4 footage, which I think was going on (unmanned Apollo tests) during the Gemini program.
rando991 2 years ago
I remember a staging clip like this during the telecasts of the Gemini mission 1st stage separations. I always thought they used an animation, but I'll bet it was this footage.
rando991 2 years ago
Upon J-2 ignition that SI-B really starts moving.
MightySaturn5 2 years ago
Its incredible how efficient the J-2 was.
You can clearly see how fast the SI-B is going and thats just the beginning of its burn
MightySaturn5 2 years ago
It's Apollo Flight 202, 25th of August 1966.
rooftop06 4 years ago
What you see is from a camera attached to a piece of blown-off rocketry, a metal skirt that has about 50 seconds more to live before it burns to death through the atmosphere.
rooftop06 4 years ago
Actually, that's the SI-B from one of the Saturn 1B flights. You can tell because of the fact that there are three ullage motors on the SIVB stage instead of two like there was on the Saturn V version.
babgab 4 years ago 2
Also if you look at the forward skirt you can tell that is cylindrical rather that conical like in the S-II.
apollosaturn5 4 years ago