Launch of Apollo 11 (from gantry)

[nholt]

Obama doesn't care about space people.

[BlazingAngels220099]

42 years and 4 minutes since the launch!

[tiziouzou2000]

apollo 11... 11 spetember...twin towers was built in the form of eleven.... i don not believe in the government of the united states...11 11 11 11 11 11??strange

[laminarwing]

@tiziouzou2000 : And ... 11 neurons in your Brain !! Incredible .

[GlimmerOfLight]

In 50 years we've gone from a country that had the courage to set the goal to go to the moon, to one that whines about its dependency on oil, but has no political will or leader able to say: "I believe we should set the goal for ourselves, before the decade is out, to generate 20% of our energy from alternate sources". 20% by 2020, that's a goal that can have huge payoffs, just like the Apollo program did in terms of advancing the state of information technology.

[TheFightToLive]

My favorite launch vid so far.

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

FAKE!

[nohonoramongthieves]

@BRUTUALTRUTH Does an explanation point make it true in the United Kingdom or is it the capslock?

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

@nohonoramongthieves English, please!

[nohonoramongthieves]

@BRUTUALTRUTH That is English.

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

@nohonoramongthieves The Americans landed on the Moon and the moon is made of American peanut butter. The latter being far more believable! :D

FAKE!

[HaywardSouth]

@BRUTUALTRUTH LOL!! Jealous fool, gnashing his teeth because it wasn't a Brit achievement.

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

@HaywardSouth No..........it was Nazi German techonolgy yer thicko yank ha ha aha

[rpsmith014]

@BRUTUALTRUTH The Saturn V rocket was not Nazi Germany technology, granted they did make great advances in intercontinental missiles.

[RoboticTable]

@rpsmith014 the person who designed the Saturn V was a german defector who left germany after WW2, but the rocket is indeed American made and I personally believe that BRUTALTRUTH needs to get back to his homework before his 5 year old ass gets spanked by his mommy.

[rpsmith014]

@RoboticTable lol 

[RoboticTable]

@BRUTUALTRUTH Get back to your homework before your british 5 year old ass gets spanked by a nun

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

@RoboticTable And you can masturbate over big rockets that were invented my mass murdering Nazis that tortured children and murdered men and women you sick inbred red neck racist piece of shit.

[RoboticTable]

@BRUTUALTRUTH i'll tell you what i told the last person, the rocket was designed by a german defector who left germany after ww2, but the rocket is american made. next time you post nonsense over the internet, find some crap to back it up

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

@RoboticTable Next you will be daft enough to believe that there was actually a Moon landing when all the physical and geological evidence points to a virtual impossibility. Get a life instead of playing being a boy astronaut. FOOL! :D

[RoboticTable]

@BRUTUALTRUTH ok so explain the rocket actually launching, the people who saw it and if the moon landing was fake why is neil armstrong regarded as a hero all across the globe

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

@RoboticTable Oh I see,so you believe TV monitors do you? You gullible ignorant fool. Hate to tell yer - Star Wars too is also fiction! :D

[RoboticTable]

@BRUTUALTRUTH i'm not going to drag this stupid argument on any longer, you can think whatever you want, i just don't care. also when we americans go back to the moon in the next 10 years we'll see whos laughing then :D

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

@RoboticTable Well sonny boy, alleged rockets have traveled millions of miles in space showing alleged other planets and yet none can't show any close-ups of moon landings COZ it never happened! Boy are you in for a shock in ten years time you BETTER start apologizing to me. Get rehearsing!

[RoboticTable]

@BRUTUALTRUTH we'll see...we'll see

[GumatzPotrzebie]

@BRUTUALTRUTH You ignorant jackass. As someone who lost his family because of the time I put into that program and its ultimate success, I'd like to meet you face to face and show you what I think of your flatulent opinons. That would never happen, though would it you cowardly troll? Petulant little imbeciles running their mouth because their brains don't function all that well.

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

@GumatzPotrzebie BULLSHIT FANTASIST. The nearest your family have got to rockets is fireworks., Get a job - RETARD! I would like to meet you too and BELT fucking sense into you :D Now go and watch some gay porn you frustrated Queen! Ha ha!

[uowloo]

@BRUTUALTRUTH - lol, besides the plethora of facts proving the launch did happen, there is one massive fact that cannot be overlooked. It is the fact that the Soviets did not dispute the Americans landing on the moon. The USSR had an equally massive number of scientists and resources to dispute it & it would've been a huge propaganda boost if they knew it didn't happen, yet they didn't make a peep. I'm not an American, either. Also, please site some real sources for "all of [...] evidence"

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

@uowloo And pray what is your evidence? A piece of crappy celluoid film. Sure you can do better than that! :D

[uowloo]

@BRUTUALTRUTH - are you an idiot? Did you even read my comment? My proof has nothing to do with film, it has to do with the Russians not disputing the landing, which they would`ve done if they had any inkling that something was amiss. Hell, even Mythbusters debunked a whole bunch of conspiracy theories about it on one of their shows. Of course, a website written by a 25 year old wearing a tin foil hat is much more believable than scientists from around the world with PhDs proving otherwise.

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

@uowloo So separating fact from fiction is not your strongest of points is it? :D It is actually funny that a bunch of men in NASA can send out grainy black and white images of a pretend desert in the Moon and you sci-fi fans that are freaks of nature ACTUALLY believe. I suppose you think Mork & Mindy is a factual documentary as well! Hee hee :D NASA has fooled you. Be a man and admit you were duped! Ha ha!

[dynagravitomagnetic]

Use a thin-wall hardened copper toroid about an inch and a half in diameter. The pipe loop should be about 18 inches in circumference. Filled with ordinary tap water. Circulating the water inside the copper doughnut will cause a centripetal effect. release the torus, and it will "frame drag" or "float" in mid air for a second. Please google "MARCONI VORTEX DYNAMO" or "SUPER-FLUID GRAVITY CENTRIFUGE".

[857frank]

The photographer on the gantry was the bravest of all of them.

[anteracmacash]

I feel sorry or the earth beneah that rocket engine  :D:D

[dynagravitomagnetic]

about the time of this launch I was building rudimentary gravity engine models. These were the primary investments of the Germans, but we only revealed the rocket to public domain. The sum of their vrill, thule, haun and other gravity drives were brought over under secret cover called "operation paperclip". The number one reason they are secret is they do not use oil or gas, or even combustion. The selling of oil products sustains the dollar, if the dollar falls, so does the status quo.

[Synthetrix]

@dynagravitomagnetic fairy tales.

[samgod]

@dynagravitomagnetic Care to share the basic science behind the combustion-free gravity engines you built? What's their energy source and propulsion method? What are the differences between the vrill, thule, and haun gravity drives?

[dynagravitomagnetic]

@samgod Although most hold animosity to such information, you could easily look up information concerning wunderwaffe technology of German design. You-Tube "NAZI UFO Secrets of WWII" the coler-tech leonatta electrogravitation motor is a reference to the "Col. Hans Coler coil, or "magnetostromapparat". Viktor Scauberger, postulated the "implosion principle" is the key to space/time gravity warp. The first "Plasma Engine" or "Bell Expariment" yielded positive result.

[nosajj12345]

What an amazing feat of engineering and science. Watching this stuff still gives me goose bumps. I am glad to have been alive during the century when we first set foot on another world.

[ShokaLion]

@armando117 The launch tower parts that'd be in the full force of the exhaust were given a special coating that was designed to burn, protecting the mechanisms underneath. Plus the pad and flame pit were deluged in water for the duration of the launch. It still got rather warm, mind you.

[ganymedeIV4]

it costs to much?

how can you put a price tag on increasing the fundamental knowledge of human kind as we know it.

I'll gladly devote 3 cents of my paycheck to get us to the moon or where ever we would want to go.

man thats knowledge, that gives us hope for something better in the future, its something that no matter who you are or what you believe... you can look at that and say....damn thats bad ass.

let alone the technological explosion that would come with a new program : \

[Dilongparadoxus2]

What do you mean? It probably looks different because stages break off the rocket, so only the top bit reaches space

You may also be used to the space shuttle, which is a completely different spacecraft.

[gonzoelrichman]

The rocket was launched, but they never made it to the moon.

[Fartman5166]

My god, people DO believe that bullshit! Amazing what ignorance can do to intelligent people!

[karadan100]

This is really an amazing piece of footage. So iconic. Thanks for posting it.

[tew8197]

I remember watching the launch LIVE when I was 5 years old. To this day, it remains one of the most vivid images imprinted on my mind...and the memory ALWAYS reminds me that mankind can do what they want, WHEN they want to. All it takes is total determination and effort...it CAN be done...⑪

[hobokenplayboy]

@tew8197 Yes, I also recall this launch. It was a truly exciting experience.

[ekg180]

cannot understand they went to the moon back then why can't we go in this part of time now. Since we have better technology now then back then.

[elpergola]

Since cold war was over, there were no more political reasons to keep the race for the moon alive,although scientific reasons still were.

At the final part of the Apollo program with the last flight of Apollo17(1972)social&political scandals in the states were emerging.Public opinion faced against it.Why to spend billion$ to visit that piece of rock?.Even broadcasting of the Apollo17 get low tv audience.See more about coming back 2 the moon(Orion project)scheduled for 2015

[sgtpepper1138]

actually they're working on that right now, I saw the "control module" they are working on and the what was known as the LEM, they're much bigger then they were in apollo, and instead of 2 people landing on the moon, there will be 4

[lapierresucks]

because its not in their program. Besides, theyre returning soon enoughb

[sethtaylor2]

it costs to much

[SGplayer08]

It's not exactly cheap, and I don't know if you're aware, but we [United States] doesn't exactly have extra money to burn on another moon trip. If anything, they should put that money towards a trip or trips to Mars.

[nzoomed]

thats why they are going to use the moon as a stepping stone to mars

[JTMarlin8]

"If anything, they should put that money towards a trip or trips to Mars. "

It takes a year to travel to Mars, less than a week to travel to the Moon. One is chump change compared to the other.

[chriscass1982]

woooo...go baby go!

[Tystatz]

love it.....peep my video ''to the stars'' its a journey from the earth to the universe.. im sure you'll enjoy the song i created for the video.... Ty Statz

[MGR1900]

In 40 years we've gone from a country that could build a machine to take men to the moon to a country where the government has to supply car companies billions of dollars because they can't seem to figure out how to build a car that goes from one's garage to the 7-Eleven without falling apart. Houston, we have a serious problem.

[cpbishurr]

haha your right haha

[finnisawesome]

ZING!!!!!

[hardcorefakes12]

@MGR1900 maybe you should stop buying crappy cars???

[nohonoramongthieves]

@MGR1900 We don't have 7-Elevens where I live but my car will make it from my garage to a 7-Eleven no problem. Ever think you should get a new car?

[MGR1900]

@nohonoramongthieves Don't need to. I have a reliable Japanese car. Thanks.

[nohonoramongthieves]

@MGR1900 Was it made in America?

[MGR1900]

@nohonoramongthieves I think it was pretty much made all over the world. But the final assembly was in the U.S. Why?

[nohonoramongthieves]

@MGR1900 So you basically bought an American car. 

[MGR1900]

@nohonoramongthieves No, I bought a Japanese brand car that has parts assembled all over the world. What's your point, bud?

[nohonoramongthieves]

@MGR1900 My point is it's not a Japanese car if it was assembled in America or Mexico from parts made all over the world.

[GumatzPotrzebie]

@MGR1900 From a generation of brilliant and courageous steely-eyed missle men to the current generation of "me first" posers searching for a superior moral justification for selfishness. I am so glad I was old enough to appreciate this when it happened and glad I'll be gone when the current crop of imbeciles reaps its pathetic reward.

[GlimmerOfLight]

@MGR1900 Your comment is right on. I wish our leaders took notice. We have also become the kind of nation that has lost the courage to make bold investments in research and science, but hesitates very little to give billions of taxpayer's money to bail out banks and help people who contribute little to society pay themselves huge bonuses.

[MGR1900]

@GlimmerOfLight Our leaders have taken notice. Unfortunately most of them are raping the country for their own greed and desires. We now have a con man in the White House who's goal is to bankrupt the country. Yes he can and yes he is!

[vegyrex]

@MGR1900 Bush was a terrible president. He added nearly $6 trillion dollars to our national debt. He spent money we didn't have on two wars, and tax cuts we couldn't afford. Terrible, just terrible.

[MGR1900]

@vegyrex Yes, thank goodness we now have a responsible president who is reducing the debt.

[vegyrex]

@MGR1900 Unfortunately the president tries too hard to accommodate the republicans. He should have said NO with a loud and clear voice to the extension of the Bush tax cuts. The president has to do exactly the opposite of what the republicans have done and want to do.

[MGR1900]

@vegyrex Yea, I guess we need the economy to come to a complete stop before you are happy.

[vegyrex]

@MGR1900 I'm not a teabagger. They seem to be the ones who want to turn the US into a third world country. 

[cyberarmy007]

Saturn V - the most powerful rocket of all time. Great Video !!!!!

[funkydan123]

i think russia built a more powerful one. Biggest rocket, plane, helo, submarine think they might be compensating...

[cyberarmy007]

No other operational launch vehicle has ever surpassed the Saturn V in height, weight, or payload. If the two Soviet Energia test launches are counted as operational, it had the same liftoff thrust as Saturn V, but it never achieved orbit. The Soviet Union has lost, as was always the case!

[465nm]

Had all its launches not been catastrophic failures, the N-1 would have had more total thrust at takeoff. Technically, the Saturn had a better thrust with its F-1 engines, which were markedly superior to the Soviet NK-15 (the Saturn V had 5 Stage 1 engines, the N1 had 30). Also, the Saturns second and third stages used an advanced LH2+LOX, which had a better specific impulse (4,130 Ns/kg max compared to 3,860 Ns/kg max), while the N-1 would have used RP-1+LOX the whole way up.

Saturn V FTW!

[bagelboi66]

They had Sputnik though. Give credit where it's due.

[girolle01]

Also the first space station (Salyut derivative).

[crucialconflict02]

amazing machine. so much raw power..its incredible.

[limput08]

im 13 and sometimes i imagine myself inside that rocket. damn i wanna be like them.

[Ashmansworth]

ace!

[MAXLD]

Really good job by Wernher von Braun and the rest of his team of German engineers from Operation Paperclip.

The race to the space was really an epic one between Sergei Korolev and Wernher von Braun. One putted the first satellite and the first man on space, and the other sent 3 American passengers to the moon.

Oh, and thanks to USA, for finally giving the resources to von Braun, instead of wasting them on the previous U.S. Navy failures.

[AD529]

Wernher von Braun was an architect.

He designed satellites when working for hitler, but nothing got off the ground. After the war went to Caltech and proceeded to disign more as well design rockets. He never directly worked for NASA cause they never saw eye to eye with him. But in the long run, without ideas from Goddard or von Braun about space exploration, we'd still be living in the 40s

[MAXLD]

Wernher von Braun was the man behind the WWII V2 bomb, the first ballistic missile. And when the war was close enough he surrended to the US, because he didn't want to be captured by the infuriated "red army".

He was then sent to USA with other german engineers in secret, with a lot of technical docs.

1957, the US was behind in the race and they decided to join experienced von Braun's team... WWII V2 bombs technology was the base used to crate the Saturn V.

Wrong, he worked at NASA until 1972.

[pompeygill]

Awesome, and some!

[Fergo5555]

just incredible

[montrosepatriot]

MTV used this...

[EndeavourLaunch]

ArmoredPanther, it is possible to use in 2017, after Launch Complex 39A is modified, to use a Saturn V, the Ares V is bigger than the Saturn V.

[jman32940]

The only thing louder than the Saturn V rocket is a nuclear bomb going off!

[TheArmoredPanther]

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.

[401Hammer]

Awsome stuff, I wish I was there to see it. The birth of space exploration.

[myawesome99]

BubbaUK, the answer is easy. We have to spend more and more money on social programs like welfare and all the other bullshit programs that keep people dependent on a bloated govt. It's very sad because back then the computers they used to control the spacecraft can now be found sitting on your desk. Computing power I mean, so just think how far modern technology would take us.

[bubbaUK]

I wonder why all the apollo missions were from 1967 to 1973. Why didnt they continue the lunar missions till today like the shuttle-space missions

[moniker127]

My guess is because they got to the moon, and once they did that, they were like "Woo hoo, mission accomplished, lets all go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes."

[Darkstick27]

The US govt. said "All rightey, done with that!" and took away all NASA's funding (there was supposed to be Apollo 18,19 and 20) and put it into a little country called Vietnam. Same thing is happening today with Iraq. Now pass me a milkshake, please

[ingareinar007]

Saw a program, where it was said that Formula 1-drivers are amazingly quick and bright etc, fighter-pilots allmost unhuman... What about those guys on the top of Saturn 5..?

[weverman2]

It never impresses me what they say in programs. I'd rather see an objective test. Sure formula 1 drivers and pilots have certain skills, but usually it's because of 2000+ hours of experience rather than genetic talent. Astronauts used to be recruited from a pool of test pilots because they were used to fly new stuff, that's your best approach for a qualified employee to fly a metal cigar.

[ingareinar007]

Ok ok, but I`m still impressed by Astronauts.

[rcpmac]

Rent the movie for sound.

[Michaellovesnyc]

I don't think this is Apollo 11; the video looks too crisp; might be Apoloo 13

[kablamo9999]

As I understand it, von Braun had the aim set on the Moon all along, even when he had to design rockets for the Nazis.

[Cre7tiv]

Yes, from V2 to Saturn 5, Wernher von Braun.

[daltonagre]

Where's the sound?

[jbird193]

what u wanta go deaf? really, the only thing louder than that is a Nuclear Wepon

[DracoReincarnated]

An atomic bomb has a decibel level of 245

The shockwave from the sound alone could kill you.

[TonyFirelli]

Sound killing people? O.o

[DracoReincarnated]

Sound killing people? O.o

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UNQUOTE

Yes, anything above 210 decibels, really.

Sound is a pressure wave, and if it's powerful enough, it can do some nasty things to your internal organs. Powerful sounds can cause internal bleeding, collapsed lungs, deafness (of course), and all kinds of awful things.

[TonyFirelli]

Wow

[SportscarBruce]

Beautiful. Thanks for posting.

[graffxtc]

365 Feet Of supreme rocket technology Thanks Mr VonBraun God Speed oyoner J4F crew Chicago

[thegstrings123]

lol and whats ironic is that Von Braun was the engineer behind hitlers V2 rocket program... makes you think

[banduril]

about what?

[thegstrings123]

id love to explain it, only i fear that ill be here for several years