Apollo 17 lift-off

[nunchuckerz]

watching one of these go up would be on my all time bucket list, if i had a time machine

[mapukmapuk]

next rocket engine generation is plasma fuel

[astrofrk]

We cannot afford to spend billions on manned space exploration but we can afford to spend trillions on multiple wars thousands of miles away! We can't afford to find planets to colonize on but we sure can afford to bang up the one we live on now. Apollo was the best America ever did but towards the end, no one even cared. Were it not for the USSR, it never would have happened and that's a sad statement about us.

[kzbxvz]

Next year it will be 40 years since a human mankind have walked the Moon suface!

[mnbalfour1985]

Search VASIMR in Wikipedia and in New Scientist magazine

[mnbalfour1985]

technology. We may get that in something called VAriable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) designed and being tested by the Ad Astra Rocket Company. If powered by a small nuclear reactor in the spacecraft it could get Astronauts to Mars in 39 days.

[mnbalfour1985]

OLED screen technology), ruthenium (electronics, catalysts, future Dye Sensitized Solar Cell technology), indium (electronics and computers). Thirdly, a manned mission to Mars, because it is whole new planet there for our taking, one that we may be able to terraform over a couple of centuries, which will provide us with a second planet just in case the Earth cops an asteroid or comet impact, supervolcano eruption, flood basalt eruption etc. Unfortunately, we seriously need new super fast rocket

[mnbalfour1985]

What should NASA's priorities be? Firstly, they need to perform an experimental robotic mission to a near Earth asteroid and test the various methods of deflecting away from the Earth so that we don't go the way of dinosaurs, Secondly, a manned mission to an asteroid would not be frivilous thing at all because asteroids have shit loads of rare and extremely useful elements in them, like gold and silver (used in electronics and computers), platinum (catalysts), iridium (catalysts, and future

[LunarTuner]

I saw this launch from the roof of my neighbor's house in Miami. I remember may parents getting mad once they discovered I was on his roof in the dark of night. We watched it for quite a while until it disappeared over the horizon as a tiny star. Awesome.

[cassius969]

I miss the Saturn V. The Germans knew how to do it.

[ColonelPhillipGreen]

Oboma has killed the Manned space programm, we need to vote him out and have a visionary in his place, like Kennedy!!!

[stber321]

this is the most important of all apolo missions what was acomplished here was greater than the crew of apollo 11 could have ever imagened

[buroburo9]

@stber321 what was accomplished here?

[garyegray]

@buroburo9 What was accomplished? Do we need to ask what was accomplished when Columbus discovered the Americas? Do we need to ask what was accomplished when Galileo made his astronomical revelations? Do we need to ask what was accomplished every time a new scientific frontier is opened? Open your mind.

[tpsossff]

@garyegray

I was nineteen when I saw this at the cape. Great hopes for the future and so much optimism. 38 years later I see mankind, especially the western world, heading for a huge fall as we live our unsustainable lifestyles. I do not envy kids of today for they may see it happen and when it comes all will pay the price.

Sorry this sounds depressing but manned spaceflight will not help our planet one bit.

[niggersideabc]

what a lift off... GREAT !!! only real the Apollo´s can this

[Omnislash89]

Excellent grammar.

[ideastoday]

Notice how slowly the Saturn V lifts off the pad. The Shuttle comes up much faster. Of course, the Saturn V also had 5x the payload capacity of a Shuttle.

[John19182004]

shuttle weighs 4.5 million pounds, has about 7 million pounds of thrust. Saturn V weighed 7.3 million pounds, and had 7.7 million pounds of thrust.

[Chrisjr2007]

37 years ago today.Very Very very very HISTORIC!!:)

[Daisyno2]

The luach was delayed for awhile. My asshole brother and father would not let me stay up

[AssemblerGuy]

YEEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! (*Apollo-beep*)

[MightySaturn5]

The video cameras used here were able to face the sun and automatically reduce the light intensity to normal visual levels.

In Jesse Kerchavals book "Space" she explains how as a teen her sister and her were on the roof of their house (about 12 miles away) when Apollo 17 went up...she said that the sky instantly turned a perfect, ordinary daytime blue while dogs started barking at the sudden shock of instant daytime...when the sound hit she said it was by far the loudest she ever heard

[oisiaa]

This is amazing! I have been fairly close during B-1 engine runs (~200') at full afterburner, but that is a measly 120,000lbs of thrust compared to 7,500,000lbs for the Saturn V. Plus the exhaust velocity is much higher for the F-1. This was surely a sight to behold, something that I wish I had been alive to witness.

[Aaron13084]

I wish I could have been there too... state of our space program is pretty sad today.

[vitoduval]

Yes, I remember Gene Cernan saying the pad guys got their pinkslips after this launch, the final shuttle launch is this year too....

[BigKwell]

It was like I remembered it when Apollo 17 took-off on Pearl Harbor Day in 1972. My family had gotten our first color television that year after our Magnavox B&W crapped-out that year (I found out later that Dad had the set fixed after he and Mom broke-up).

[AgroMaxxLLC]

I saw this launch from my front yard in Rockledge, FL when I was a kid.

[FrioFrijoles]

My father was at this launch. He was born just before Sputnik, and was a big space enthusiast when he was a kid.

One day I hope to interview him at one of those StoryCorps booths so my children and theirs can hear it in his words.

Humanity must return to the moon. As the plaque on the Eagle reads: "For all Mankind"

[TroyLindley]

I think it is high time for man to return to the moon.

We've been away long enough. New manned moon missions will inspire an entire new generation.

[Roncace]

And this time there are of bunch of countries working together on the new moon project

[heound]

YES !

Project Constellation FTW :)

[tpsossff]

@TroyLindley

I watched 17 go up. I flew from London to NY then hitched, bussed and bummed my way to the cape with a freind. It was a great adventure and very emotional to feel the raw power from three miles away. Yes we were very inspired but you are wrong about going back. 38 years later we have so many that do not accept we went there no matter what evidence we give and the world is as shitty as it always was. Spend the billions saving the rainforests that is more important to mankind.

[datzfast]

@TroyLindley sure lets fund that. tell you what, you shoot all the old people and use the money we spend on thir health care to send you to the moon and we leave you there. deal

[Mozart1220]

@datzfast We can do both, but first we need to cut subsidies and tax breaks for billionares and oil companies. Then we end two useless wars. We'd have enough money to fund two Apollo programs and still have enough left over to fix our infrastructure and build a few hundred new schools.

[datzfast]

@Mozart1220 tax increases to the wealthy are imediatly passed to the middle class wage earner, that why we have the tea party that is against taxing the rich. either you know this already or you didnt know it. i think all liberals belive the ignorat should pay taxes out the wazoo. and so do you.

[Mozart1220]

@datzfast The tea party is against taxing the rich, because they have been brainwashed into believing that ALL government is bad, and that corporatins are GOOD. They vote against their own best interest because Fox news has convinced them to do so. In the 50's under Eisenhower (Republican) the highest tax rate was in the 90+ % range. Guess what? PROSPERITY. We need to punish greed, not reward it. Remeber when greed was one of the "seven deadly sins"?

[datzfast]

@Mozart1220 the tea party believe this government is bad. cooperation are good and they are. vote for the interest of workers, we need to reward politicians that agree and thats what is happening. the future looks very good. yes very good indeed.

[Mozart1220]

@datzfast Really? Is that where you are going? I make reasonable, intelligent statement and you suggest "shooting old people"? Wow.

[datzfast]

@Mozart1220 i wouldn't want to put a suggestion into your head, the space race has been won by the tax payer.

[Mozart1220]

@datzfast Well, if you mean we got somethng important and positive for the money, I would say yes we did. But you can't put a price on inspiration, and that alone is worth ten times what we paid. We put so much more money into new and better ways to kill each other, and mere pennies reletively speaking on positive ventures.

[datzfast]

@Mozart1220 its over for NASA. sorry you lost your job

[Mozart1220]

@datzfast Really? That's where you go? I don't work for NASA, and NASA isn't "over". They just don't NEED the 30 year old shuttles anymore now that the ISS is done, and given their limited budget, they can't move forward and keep the Shuttles going at the same time. I was trying to keep a positive attitude with you. Where do you get your negative one? Who pissed in your Cheerios? You said you were a space freak. Who stole your inspiration? That's who you should be attacking.

[25445799]

@TroyLindley watch the trailer for apollo 18 and you know why we havent gone back

[northernrhone]

I read somewhere a neat analogy to convey just how impressive was the success of the Saturn V, where the time to develop the Saturn V would be like going from the Wright Brothers airplane to the Concorde jet in about 15 years. I would love to see a set a blueprints for the Saturn V; and to think this was in the days before computer drafting.

[northernrhone]

Doesn't the Shuttle develop 7 million pounds of thrust?

[roguewarrior5]

It produces about 6 million Saturn V is 8 million and is still the most powerful engine output on earth

[MightySaturn5]

True rogue...and to think Rocketdyne had already perfected the F-1A, this would have easily given the Saturn over 10 million lbs. of thrust without without any type of bulky solid strap on's (like the Ares V will need).

[krazycitizen]

was there (why i searched this)...the air was filled with small planes circling around (what a view THEY had) they looked like moving stars....i , and many others, were on other side of Indian ? river

[ReneeNme]

I was 11 living in Orlando at the time and we were all watching pre liftoff preparations for Apollo 17 on T.V. When we heard " we have a liftoff " everybody in the neighborhood ran out to the streets to watch. It was glorious.

Indian River ? Hahahaha...Been there many times. A little side note : My sister works for NASA and has for YEARS. True !!!

[TopThrillDan]

The Saturn V is the most powerful machine ever built, 20 tons of fuel a second. All the Saturn V launches a beautiful.

[stormrider62033]

Saturn 5's are no fakes they were cleared for almost any weather take off

[elkinsinbox]

It usually takes longer for the Saturn V to clear the tower than it does the Shuttle. That's because the Saturn V was the largest and I think the heaviest launch vehicle ever built.

[buster757]

363 feet tall and the engines develop 7 million pounds of thrust! Almost 40 years later and it's still the most powerful machine ever built!

[00394994]

US engineers, workers and astronauts can do anything.

[Frye666]

Ah ja...Werner von Braun and his team would agree lol.

[curea229]

Ha ha, true.

[CharitableView]

That Saturn 5 is obviously fake! A night launch of the world's most powerful machine, ever. Wish I'd seen it but I was actually born in the middle of this mission - Dec 16 1972.

[QuarterPounder4]

That is bright, loud, and fast! Must be one heck of a ride.

[asa0207]

I was 17 and lucky enough to be 3 miles away when this happened. What a tremendous experience that was. If anyone thinks we didn't go to the moon, try seeing this monster leave the earth!

[VMFA134]

i wish i could have been there...that looks SOOOOO cool!!!!!!!

[chersch5]

Wasn't Apollo 12 lifted at night?

[joshatkins94]

No, launched at 3 PM Eastern Standard Time (14 November, 1969).

[noaanhc]

Josh

Apollo 12 was launched at 11:22 am EST on November 14,1969.I watched the launch live

on TV when I was 7 years old.

[joshatkins94]

Oh, sorry, my fault (I'm not familiar with US time zones, should've looked it up better). Thanks for correcting it.

[mason104]

Great video!

[newtotal66]

Beautiful. I remember watching this live when I was 10.

[Bipolarvideos]

that would make you 45 now?