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  • Dont know what it is I,m 50 i watched all these rockets take off as a kid still brings tears to my eyes that was a great era !!!!

  • next stop: mars. and beyond. all the way past the solar system, new dangers, new worlds, new galaxies, new planes of oblivion. the emperor of the milky way is assassinated, and there is no heir to his throne. the starfires are burnt out, and mehrunes dagon has opened the oblivion gate, allowing the daedra to pour out into our world. the last heir has been hidden away inside the star of alpha centauri B. only he can relight the starfires, and close shut the jaws of oblivion

  • man when all this was going on no one wouldof thought what was coming next

  • In the Apollo era, NASA was receiving roughly one sixth of the federal budget, and in my opinion it was well worth it. It was a HUGE cold war victory, It inspired a whole generation of young people to pursue science & technology (we can't even begin to measure how valuable that was), It lifted the spirits of Americans in the midst of Vietnam, watergate, the RFK and MLK assassinations, and it reminded the world what the US is capable of when we feel threatened. Sadly, I doubt we'll ever top it

  • 1:53 incredible

  • NASA in it's heyday! Apollo 13, I believe, was NASAs finest hour.

  • Its Tom Hanks

  • We are russians and we are like rockets ;) We appreciate your american space program

  • @Goracio777 We appreciate the competition! If it weren't for the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, nobody would have made it to the Moon. Take care!

  • @Goracio777 We love our Russian friends.

  • This countdown speech is put in Orbiter Sound 3.5 for Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2010.

  • You know, I prefer Jack King doing the Saturn launch countdowns myself.

  • @MarauderOSU Not only Jack King doing the countdowns, but Jack Riley doing the announcing after liftoff. Apollo 11 had the best commentators NASA has ever had.

  • The score they made for the movie fits the launch so perfectly.

  • Why is there chatter in the audio of most launch videos with/instead of the real sound?

  • I pick one cool video of the greatest rocket ever build ascending and even it is full of moronic conspiracy theorists.

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  • 13:13 in Houston

  • 11 ppls are aliens.

  • I thought the launch was 13:13?

  • @CynicalVision Me too. Houston time perhaps?

  • if you unlucky enough to be under the rocket at lift off, would you be crushed or burned to death first

  • oO

  • Sad to think that there are so many who believe it was all a hoax.

    I heard recently that 1 in 3 people in the UK don't believe it happened, amazing stupidity.

  • @WinchesterRanger

    What is behind your bizarre obsession with the UK? Brit steal your girlfriend? Dumped by an English girl? Raped by the Duke of Edinburgh?

    I literally have a room full of people laughing at you, right now. Sitting alone at a PC, surrounded by guns, small circumcised cock, powerless to change anything...you are diseased. What were you? USAF gate-lifter maybe? Perhaps even less than that. Beaten up by squaddies? Doesn't matter - you are the acme of human sadness. Kill yourself.

  • Cant believe how so it looks taking off! And doesnt look big enough to carry all that fuel compared to the shuttles main tank.

  • @wogyy "And doesnt look big enough to carry all that fuel compared to the shuttles main tank."

    Hehe, the Saturn 5 is about twice as tall as the Shuttle stack, and about 20% wider than the external tank.

  • to all the doubters that say USA didn't have the technology to travel to the moon in 1969. Please tell me which technology they were missing. every one says computer power, but you don't NEED a computer to fly in space. Sure it makes things easier but look at the shuttle, it fly's with computeers from the 1970's. your car will have more computer power.as for the van allens belts, even doc van allen said they arn't powerful enough to kill when using apollo's flight plan.

  • @launchsquid Well it is possible to land on the moon, it's just after sifting through all the video and pics of the moon landing, the shadows not matching the sun, crosshairs of a camera behind the astronaut, and now a moonrock delivered to a museum by Neil Armstrong was found out to be DRIFTWOOD. I wish i could believe they went there. Google the "The Faked Apollo Missions" and look for yourself.

  • @MultiJiles Wrong, the shadows were altered by the topography of the moon, even Mythbusters could replicate that. The +'s were overlapped not because there were added later, but because the bright equipment and surroundings would often bleed into the cross. And NASA doesn't really like it when people give away moon rocks, they're suing someone right now for trying to sell lunar dust. So first, this story is likely not true, and second, it is also likely not true, as nothing shows up on Google.

  • @MultiJiles Ah, I found it. Now, were ALL of the gifts petrified wood? If they were, then there's something there, but if NOT, it's likely just a case of "We're out of moon rocks... what do we do now?"

  • @Guywithpants1 Grind 7 million dollars worth of moon rocks into gel. :) Then get cancer from grinding seven dollars worth. Then curse out life for giving you lemons. (COMBUSTIBLE LEMONS)

  • @WhyDidIJustEatThat You got that from a video game, didn't you? lol

  • ok folks this is weird. apollo 13 lifted of on my birthday april 11 1970. and i turned 13 years old. and that was the one that messed up.

  • its cool how the exhaust is a SOLID BAR of fire till it clears the tower

  • @jonalululy I agree

  • The moon i'm chocking on my lunch. youtube astronauts gone wild its pretty funny.If it was a space race why hasn't anyone else been there but us.Why can't they show us the reminisces of us being on the moon. And they must went around the VanAllen belt. 69 the technology wasn't even close to being good enough to get to the moon and neither is it today. Thats why we haven't been back and ain't going back. Oh by the way how's fairy land wish I could be there with you.

  • @pauze3232 Dude, tech is there, it's all pretty simple (if ridiculously high stakes) physics, so the low power computers back then were fine with it. The USSR went to space, so did the USA, USA landed guys on the moon, all the USSR managed was a rover because they ran out of cash. The tech today is enough to allow us to land some humans on mars, then bring them back. Provided we fork over the money needed to buy materials.

  • @pauze3232 As for reminisces, are you blind? There are hours and hours of footage from space and the moon. There are lots of interviews with the various astronauts to boot. Reason it's a spacerace and the USA won= basically, the soviets ran a bit low on cash and spent the rest of it suppressing their citizens and building warheads/other military things. Please, do some research before the next time you claim someone spent billions of dollars -and got hundreds in on the trick- to deceive you.

  • @russianbear0027 K please go youtube Astronauts gone wild. Technology wasn't good enough an still isn't thats why we haven't been back. Go to nasa.com and look at their pictures if you want but when there in the dark side of the moon and take a picture how is the astronaut lit up. Did you realize the moon is 220,000 miles away and a 3 day trip and the van allen belts are 25,000 miles deep. you go do some research and come an let me know cause its a joke.

  • @pauze3232 I looked that up and watched it. It appears to be cut from a longer film, the editing techniques he used made it appear that the reactions in question were instant. However, it's fairly easy to see that he was likely pestering them for a good while, beyond not pausing to let them get a word in edgewise even in the clips shown. Very rude of him. If he'd been polite, explained that he wanted to end the debates (such as ours), then they would have likely acquiesced.

  • @pauze3232 There are no pictures of astronauts on the far side of the moon because no one has landed there as of yet. All the photos you see were taken on the nearside. Yes, the moon is far away. However, the near vacuum of space means there is little to no friction to battle against when accelerating and maintaining velocity, making distance less of a factor. The van allen belts do pose a risk, yes, however, electronics can be hardened against the radiation, which is relatively low on average.

  • @russianbear0027 and can you at least give some satiltte picture of the flags that should still be waving on the moon please.

  • @russianbear0027 quick question i've been looking at the actual footage on the launch's Apollo and don't understand why after the lift off they don't have just one camera view on any of the shuttles all the way through. They show the launch at some point they cut to a different view then next there in space. kind of odd they never show them actually entering space from the earth's atmosphere

  • Beautiful! Im so proud to be an American!

  • I don't think this mission is going to go as planned.

  • Thanks to this economy, we now have to hitch a ride with out countries for space exploration, no more NASA :(

  • OH SHIT, I FORGOT TO FEED MY FISH!

  • Some say JFK was on that spaceship. lol

  • the genius of european Man.

    We went to the Moon. We did it.

  • in the movie it says they cleared the tower at 13:13...(1:13 p.m.) instead of 2:13

  • @crucialconflict02

    13:13 was Houston time (central). Cape Kennedy (Canaveral) is in Florida- eastern time. Thus 2:13pm Eastern (local) was the launch time.

  • @mkp823 oh ok. thanks for clearing that up.

  • the first seconds of liftoff are unbearably slow!

  • I cannot wait until NASA goes back to the moon. The moon missions are AWESOME!!!!

  • @director84: First off, those rockets were built by Germans. But it was us (the Americans) that had the knowledge of what to do with those rockets. Our men were the ones risking their lives to go into space. Without the bravery and intellect of the "Americans"...these events wouldn't have happened. It takes more than a rocket ship to get into space or get to the moon. Get over yourself!

  • @xsxrxvx The rockets were NOT built by Germans. Several former Germans (US citizens) were incorporated in the constructions, but it was US companies that built the rockets in USA.

    The Soviets also had former Germans helping them to construct their rockets. But Russians built them.

    The Swedes used German aircraft technology researche to design their delta winged "Draken" fighters. Nothing wrong with learning from others.

  • Von Braun must have seen the drawing of Saturn V back in the day, and thought holy fuck I'm gonna need some BIG engines :O

  • Is it me or does the tower look like it has a water noise/heat suppression system on it in the second take.

  • Wow, who disliked this video?? Seriously ??

  • @riDDDiculous probably two lunar conspiracy theorists, aka two dumbasses.

  • @edoardomanzireloaded hahaha probably!!

  • @Director84 Wrong: the Van Allen Belt was discovered in 1958 by James Van Allen, and it wasn't a threat: the astronauts, thanks to the alluminium hull of the spaceship and to a calculated trajectory, during the 90 minutes transit through the belt, received an amount of radiation of 4,3 millisievert, equal to the one received by an intercontinental flight.

  • @Director84

    The van Allen belts were discovered in 1958. The outer belts where the Saturn V traversed were comprised of electrons with energies that dropped off at 10 MeV. There are electrons of higher energies in these belts, but they do not contribute much to the overall particle flux. The electrons in the outer belts were readily attenuated by the CM and CSM.

  • @lukequixotesanjose Yes, they explained briefly in the book "Angle of attack" (Grey) that the plethora of dense equipment occupying every nook and cranny of the cm shielded all aboard quite effectively

  • @MightySaturn5

    Exactly. The CM was rated at 7-8 g cm-2. But that does not inlclude all the oxygen tanks in the CSM, the equipment in the CM etc. All those 'bits and bob' increased the overall shielding. I love the way that jarrah White claims that the van Allen belts gives so many rem per hour and simply multiplies that value by the time in the belts.

  • @lukequixotesanjose lol jesus... just stfu and watch.

  • @mnagmobile

    Was I making a comment at you? I was replying to the hoax believer who comment has received too many votes and is hidden. Don't tell me to stfu when I was appreciating the launch and offering a different view to the conspiracy theorist. Just about every Apollo video on YT has the conspiracy theorists trolling on them. It gets irritating to read. So cut the abuse Mr keyboard warrior. What are you, the guardian of YouTube and moderator of comments?

  • @lukequixotesanjose very true...in the book "Angle of Attack" there is mention of North American Aviations concern regarding radiation exposure and the associated weight penalties involved however it goes on to explain that due to the command module being crammed full of life support, navigation, guidance equipment etc. its hull was easily impervious to the radiation it would encounter during Van Allen transition

  • @Director84 As others have pointed out, the greater dumbass (your term) is the one who completely ignores or (more likely) intentionally obscures or misstates scientific facts in favor of pulling stuff out of somewhere the sun doesn't shine as you have done so nicely. As with all things pulled from that place, your pseudo-facts stink!

  • @GumatzPotrzebie yeah, I looked at his page and found a fat german kid with a self inflicted split tounge looking back...he's obviously attention deprived and trying to get some here by going the Apollo naysayer route.

    Considering he's somewhat young and already fighting an obesity issue its only a matter of a few years before he's wheelchair bound screaming in german for his nurse to change his shitty diapers.

  • @Director84 -you must be a fat german retard

  • @MightySaturn5 Actually I am a highly intelligent (IQ 135) German med student. And you must be a fat, retarded American idiot who believes there is no civilization outside of your country, and the rest of the world still lives on trees...

  • @Director84 Just because I accidently wrote my IQ score in jizz across your mothers forehead is no reason to get upset -she was warned about the adverse side effects of peeling the dried remains multiple times...perhaps you can tell everyone the reason your mother has a scar that says 143 is a reminder to all of her typical monthly quota of males that have graced her bed of newspaper within her spacious cardboard house.

    ...if your country has a "fathers day" it must be depressing for you.

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  • @MightySaturn5 Fuck smart people

  • @riDDDiculous 4 fags did

  • @riDDDiculous Soviet russia?

  • @riDDDiculous The soviet russians

  • @riDDDiculous I agree

  • @riDDDiculous conspiracists, i think

  • @riDDDiculous The Russians!

  • In the Movie starring Tom Hanks the launch is set on a sunny day

    but in the real footage of April 11, 1970 the weather is cloudy or hazy.

  • Yes..I was there !!! MAGNIFICENT POWER !!! THUNDEROUS SOUND AND MASSIVE SHOCK-WAVES !! To all the Nay-sayers out there who said it was fake ????HAHAHAHA...YOU WEREN'T THERE TO EXPERIENCE A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EVENT !! YOU ALL ARE JEALOUS !!! Apollo,probably the likes of which we probably won't see again untill we head to Mars and beyond,rests as one of the 7 wonders in the world !!

  • @firehauck Of course the launch was real, nobody will deny that! But have you followed them into the orbit and seen them leave it?

  • @firehauck Yet, when this year is over, you won't even have the space shuttle anymore, and at least in the next decade there will be no American space ship at all. :-P

    Luckily the Chinese will cover for that. ^^

  • @Director84 ...oh Director, just because an American (me) wrapped my shlong around your mothers tonsils and yanked her eyes out through her mouth while simutaneously blasting a pint of frothy DNA towards her face is no reason to hate us creative Americans, even you have to admit how silly you looked as you worriedly ran to her side while bubbling semen poured from her empty eye sockets and lathered your head like a shampoo commercial gone wrong.

  • @MightySaturn5 As I already said, you're confusing my mother with your sister. But seeing how dumb you are I'm not surprised I have to repeat this a few times before you understand it. And that little boy standing by wasn't me, it was your little half-brother whose father you became when you fucked your mother, once when your sister wasn't yet old enough to be fucked by you. Hence before she got rid of the diapers. Given your genes it's quite understandable you've become a pervert pedo...

  • @Director84 ...yeah, trying to deflect the onslaught using confusion as an umbrella won't cut it. Clearly you're not able to deal with American superiority on a one to one basis and it shows through your resentment of the U.S.

    ...don't you understand that adults laugh at the content of your page?

  • @MightySaturn5 What American superiority? You mean that one, that you let German engineers like Wernher von Braun build rockets for you? Or the superiority of your cars in fuel consumption, as there are no cars in the world which can swallow so much gas on a few miles?

  • @Director84 yeah, sounds kind of like a perfect description of your mother

  • @Director84 Wernher Von Braun had been an American citizen for almost twenty five years by the time we landed on the moon. Besides that there were thousands of scientists working for NASA, designing the parts and function. The Rockets had about five and a half million moving parts {more than any mechanical device in human history. It took four Hundred Thousand American Citizens from 12000 different companies to build one rocket. But all your little mind can think is 'the Germans built it.' Cute

  • @Swazi54 I really doubt that such a rocket was of a higher mechanical complexity than for example a mining machine used for coal mining. And regarding the electronics: an average present day car contains more computing power than all computers involved during an Apollo mission (on the ground and aboard) added together. I didn't say the Germans built the rockets, read properly! But you Americans always shoot before you listen. Cute.

  • @Director84 "German engineers like Wernher Von Braun built rockets for you," is exactly what you said. Now, a mining machine and a modern day automobile are not as advanced as a rocket that sends you to another heavenly body. There is a big difference between a mining machine and space craft, they are two completely different things. There is nothing, including the shuttles of US or Russia that even compare to the Saturn five rockets, in scale or complexity.

  • @Director84 This comment also shows how foolish this really is. You have no idea what you're talking about. Read something about this first, get off you damned computer, get some excercise. Go to a public place with a book on the subject. Maybe on your public transportation ride to work. Read something on this. Something indepth before you speak out of your ass. Please, more intelligent coments in the future. STOP SPEAKING OUT OF YOUR ASS.

  • Beautiful. thanks for posting

    

  • @v3c7oR

    Then please explain you dumbass!

    What happened to that 3,039,000 kg rocket after it had been launched?

  • I wish they would try using the Saturn rockets again.

  • @jedikenneth

    We've had to build them from scratch, since the tooling to make them was scrapped.

    Closest plan I saw to them was Atlas 5, Phase 3B.

  • @jedikenneth I don't think it was an option available to them. Unbelievably, the blueprints for the design were destroyed! Can you believe that? You'd think they'd be in some archive or museum. Pity. Beautiful machine.

  • *MIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­

  • THE (ASP)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­

  • LOVELL!!! SWIGERT!!! HAISE!!!! WE NEED YOU!!!

  • THE!!! APOLLO SPACE PROGRAMME!!! FOREVER!!!

    *MIKE SPENCE.

  • LONG LIVE THE!!! (ASP)!!! AND ALL!!! ITS ASTRONAUTS!!!

    *MIKE SPENCE.

  • THREE CHEERS!!! FOR THE, APOLLO SPACE PROGRAMME!!! HIP HIP, HOORAY!!!

    HIP HIP, HOORAY!!! HIP HIP, HOORAY!!!

    *MIKE SPENCE.

  • LONG LIVE APOLLO!!!!!!!

  • we need to get back into space but if we wanna go far we need to build a space station or somewhere to assemble much better space capable shuttles that are able for much longer distances than the ones we cane manage now

  • In the seventies NASA envisioned two space stations; a large one in Earth orbit and another station in Lunar orbit. It was all part of a plan to establish a permanent human presence on the moon or a moon base. Unfortunately the funding for these programs was not available. The space shuttle was never intended nor designed to put men on the moon. However a space shuttle could deliver astronauts to a space station where they could embark on a moon ship.

  • @redmartianresident that's a shame the funding went bad

  • Little did they know what awaited them a few hours later. Thankfully they made it back alive after one slingshot orbit around the Moon. Very very lucky "13".

  • Look at SPEED!!

  • Notice that the rocket for lunar landing is different from space shuttles

  • @SimlishSammy yes, it is very hard to tell, but you are correct....

  • I was there, 40 years ago today. Beyond spectacular. The roar made your insides slosh.

  • @witness2history -that must have been incredible

  • Wow that 3rd view really shows how much the Sat V leaned over during the LUT Avoidance Maneuver. Right after liftout the computers would command the engines to gimbal just a bit to make damn sure the rocket is moving AWAY from the tower, not towards it..

  • I can't believe it's been 40 years now...WOW!!!

    I wasn't even born at that time :/

  • wow i love american SATURN V rocket is the best than ussr russia N1,,,

    i do not like ussr russia N1 rocket

  • @bestamerica the saturn V was the most daring and technically enhanced rocket put togeter with minds across the US it took off the first was a failture but withiut their sacrafice our rocket wouldent be safe and before buzz went into the ship he took out the apollo 1 badges and two ussr medals from people who have died in the ussr and a plaque and placed them ion the lunar surface apollo 13 was a miracle

  • @Daniel55556 Hey Dan, it almost sounds like you were saying the first Saturn V failed however I believe you might mean the Apollo 1 fire that had nothing to do with a Saturn V

  • @MightySaturn5 all sat five launches were flawless... though apollo 12 was struck by lightning....

  • weres tom hanks? this is fake because theres no tom hanks

  • @SpartanW98 tom hanks is in the movie apollo 13 witch fake based on a true story

  • FYI for everybody

    The PAO for this Apollo launch was Chuck Hollingshead.He shared the PAO dutys with Jack King during the

    moon flights.

    King did

    Apollos 4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,14,15

    Holingshead did Apollos13,16,17

  • Not enough feul to get there and back!

  • I was there !! AWESOME SPECTACLE OF POWER AND WHAT THIS COUNTRY CAN DO !!

  • saturn v1 programme, amazing, awesome, i don't think we will ever see rockets as big as this ever leave earth again !!

  • well not if ARES IV and V have anything to say about it

  • well obama killed that for us

  • Indeed. But I think it may be for the best. It still has to pass congress and I bet it will be a fight.

  • hoery shit!

  • Apollo 13 launched at 2:13 pm ET (Cape time) or 1:13 pm CT (Houston time)... 13:13!!!

  • no amount of stars can rate this video

  • I fully agree.

    I wish the world were as exciting as this nowadays. That was just momentous...

  • @Cosmored There's miss interruption of valid data. I've looked at the finger quote "Evidence" and have seen mainly a campaign of miss leading information for self promotion. Bert Sibrel for example. Caught purposely fabricating information. Really it comes down to one thing. Russia hasn't denied we wen't there. The ones having the most to gain from a fake moon landing. Fact is the USSR had a probe at the moon the same day as Apollo 11. Trying to upstage the US.

  • @Cosmored Saw it a long time ago. Once more conflicting data and a sham to promote himself. Just look at his intros.

    Look at teh youtube channel /user/LandingApollo

    That will set the record straight. Also /user/svector. and using just two channels I'd debunked any and all "evidence" you had. Making your case fall apart.

  • I found this old photo of my fathers of a rocket on a launch pad dated Feb. 1970, I think it might be 13. Why on the launch pad so early?

  • Apollo 13 was rolled to the pad in December 1969 and would indeed have been the only vehicle your dad's photo could be of.

    13 was rolled out before the holidays at the end of December and during the time before launch extensive tests of the connections and systems were made, including all-up countdown tests that stopped right before ignition. This was common (and still is) but they would never have found the defective O2 tank on the pad.

  • thanks for the info

  • The real Thing is ALWAYS BETTER than a Hollywood "recreation."

    I hated the "recreation" in the movie, "Apollo 13."

    REALITY TRIUMPHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • amazing.!!!

  • wow

  • Cool video! Rare to see full duration, realtime, unedited pad footage. Now if only there were the actual audio, especially from the shot at :35.

  • don't forget that is the rocket with the most powerfull thusters in history, i think that is very important to know

  • now thats a rocket. they should go retro for the look of the next gen space vehicles

  • I was there for the launch at the VIP section. 3.5 miles away ! Best seat in the house ! Made the Shuttle look like a bottle rocket. It pounded your chest and shook the ground like an eathquake.!! Nothing like it !!it was a sad day when " Nixon " cancelled Apollo !!

  • I would have given anything to be there. I watched every Gemini and Apollo launch on TV. One of my earliest memories is a Mercury launch on TV.

  • @starsalor Must have been an awesome experience! I'm jealous!!

  • @starsalor I lived 20 miles south of the Cape and it rattled the windows in our house. We won't see anything like it again in our lifetime..

  • @starsalor

    Apollo had acheived its objectives. The disasterous decision was to scrap the Saturn V and go down the shuttle route. We could have had a manned mission to Mars by the late 80s.

    Btw ... I watched Apollo 17 lift off. Awsome is a word often misused these days. It was frightening and wonderful.

  • @starsalor you lucky, lucky bastard!

  • @starsalor nixon didnt cancel anything nasa and congress did

  • @starsalor The space shuttle repalced that stuff

  • @deltapunk21 The space shuttle has proven to be an even bigger paperweight.

  • yea hanks would prob pap his pants if he were really strapped to that mighty beast

  • Very cool stuff. When the movie came out, my Dad reminded me that we were actually at the Apollo 13 launch with a news media junket. I would have been about 3 1/2 at the time, and I vaguely remember being at an Apollo launch. I just didn't remember that it was THAT launch. Thanks for sharing this...

  • lol going slow as hell of the tower.

  • As the tail clears the top of the tower, it's already gone supersonic... can't always trust your eyes!

  • LOL no its not. Id say no more that 40mph

  • Ok, now I to prove that both you and me are wrong. Apologies, this contains maths. First stage burn lasted 150 seconds and took the rocket to a speed of 26833m/s. This gives an average acceleration of 179m/s^2. Rocket height is 110m, so the velocity after 110m is 198.4m/s - the speed of sound is 340.29m/s at sea level. Considerably more than 40mph, considerably less than the speed of sound.

    Engineering ftw!

  • Nope no more that 40mph. The rocket is just over 110 meters. It took about 10 seconds from when it first took off to when it cleared the tower. That means on average it was going no faster than just 10 meters per second. It was prob going a bit faster than that when the bottom was at the top of the tower but 40mph is about right.

  • Average speed from when rocket first starts taking off to when it clears the tower about 24mph. Far slower than even my estimate.

    Even more simple maths ;)

  • Just so you can't argue

    110 divided by 10 = 11 meters per second.

    Multilpy 11 by 60 to give you how many meters it goes in 1 min thenagain by 60 to give meters per hour.

    Divide number of meters the rocket goes in an hour by the number of meters in a mile (1,609) to equal just 24 mph ;) :P

  • I am going to argue with you. You are assuming that the camera's are running at normal speed. They're not - you can see that from the speed the exhaust plume when the engines fire, the video has been slowed down. I've done mine by taking the data from NASA's website - not from easily manipulated video. Of course, what they've put in the website could be wrong. As mine was only an average acceleration, I would expect it to be going a bit slower than I said, but not by much.