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  • los de la naza

  • 160 million horsepower is a beautiful thing.

  • To make that insanely strong blast hood for the hold down arms to glow like that takes some serious temps.

  • @MightySaturn5 The flames you see licking the covers on the hold down arms and tail service umbilicals are actually due to an ablative paint/coating burning off, carrying heat away to protect the structure underneath.

  • crack out the hot dogs and marshmallows

  • So beautiful and they're sitting on that fire riding it into space! WOW!

  • love the sounds !

  • love the sounds !

  • looks kinda hot

  • sweet

  • my uncle was the cameraman lol

  • Incandescent steel.

  • gotta love that high speed cam.

  • Stunning power.

  • Outstanding footage.

  • Wow that is a piece of art! The quality of the film from the Saturn 5 launches is gorgeous, does anybody know how they protected the cameras? I can see there seems to be a layer of (bombproof?) glass in front of the lens. The pad must have needed a few licks of paint before the next launch

  • musta been pounds?..saw that "million" figure somewhere..Guiness Book of World Records I believe..oh well..was a long time ago but still love the memories..

  • I know, whatever the figures it's still awesome watching these things take off! Cheers.

  • 1,000,000 tons of propellant per minute to launch these suckers..liquid hydrogen and aluminum dust..wanna strap one to my motorcycle and light the fuse..1/4 mile time = one one gillionth of a second..LOL..

  • A million tons/min seems a tad heavy, but it sure would make your motor bike go!

  • thought so too..but being a real "Apollo freak" I checked the wording..and they do say "1,000,000 tonnes"..the fuel by the way..was a combination of liquid hydrogen and aluminum dust..

  • According to NASA'a press release at the time (just to be really pedantic) the total fueled weight was 288,9763Kg (6,357,480 Lbs). Which is 3178 Tons (US).

  • You are incorrect. The S-1C (first stage) F-1 engines ran on highly refined kerosene and liquid oxygen. The S-II (second) and S-IVB (third) stage J-2 engines ran on liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.

  • Hel, that is like, well, just that. That was like Hell. How on EARTH did that camera surive?

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