Apollo launch

[ER160990C]

man, to have been in control of that much power...must've been a hell of an experience

[dizzypilots1]

thank you wernher von braun for letting us catch and surpass the soviets.

[jeffamarie]

WOW.

[TrickyEmu]

Can you imagine. We made it to the moon with technology that doesn't even come close to simple calculators.

[heros2110]

conspiracy theorists have a common problem: they mistrust people and what they are able to achieve. Somebody who can't even believe the garage really changed the engine oil of his car at the last service ... why should he believe that man walked on the moon?

I look at the moon every time i can, and say to myself ... oh my god, and there we were. Just great.

[crucialconflict02]

beautiful machine. absolutely beautiful.

[MightySaturn5]

Gene Cernan always delievers the emotional end so well

[Titankilla1982]

we need somthing of this magnitude in our lives today to give us hope and enthusiasm for the future. mars baby ... thats the new frontier

[bsod4u2]

That is one massive flame...Saturn V a true monster among rockets!

[FTMJarra]

I visited the Kennedy Space Centre 2 weeks ago........it was simply breathtaking, such an awe inspiring experience....The Apollo program is the greatest feat of human engineering ever accomplished.

[plasticitto]

love to watch the Apollo launches and listen to the interviews of the astronauts. These are American heroes that risked their lives to explore for us. Congrats to all those folks who worked to make that program happen, including the German scientists headed by Werner Von Braun who brought their expertise to America after the war. A great moment for America!

"In the Shadow of the Moon" is a great movie which captures this moment well.

[nosajj12345]

Amazing accomplishment!!

[RJY4356]

Some of the audio dubs are out of synch but the music is terriffic i these launch scenes.

[flypilot992]

i live this stuff

[flypilot992]

i live this stuff

[Osaka13]

Beautiful scene

[woodman19]

People leaked UFO information and that would be far more secret then a moon landing hoax, yet there are no leaks there...

[llandudnoboy]

All these daft twits who think the Apollo Moonlanding was a hoax will prabably tell you all these Saturn V rockets were faked aswell.

Get real it all happened just over 40 years ago and i can just about remember it happening.

[CrowServo3000]

the problem with conspiracy theorist is they dismiss all explainations as more "lies" so you can never actually tell them how it all worked, they are proud graduates of "Google University" and think they know better

[UNTC321]

@CrowServo3000 Please inform me, how was there enough fuel to slow down upon rentry, 30,000 mph then a parachute opens.

[austinluebke1]

@UNTC321 Easy, you don't. You have some retro rockets to slow you down a little bit, but other then that you use the Earth's atmosphere to slow you down by coming in at an angle of 5.5-7.5 degrees, and then you dig into the atmosphere then you com back up to relieve some of the heat then you come back in, and then rotate the CM then you are slowed down enough to drop straight down, then the parachutes take over and you land in water at roughly 20 mph. Also, they are NOT going 30,000 mph.

[UNTC321]

@austinluebke1 NASA's own numbers show 35,000 mph

[austinluebke1]

@UNTC321 The fastest any of the Apollo missions went was on Apollo 10 which only got up to 24, 790 mph but when that is converted to km/h it is 39,897 km/h. That is the number you are possibly referring to. But even at those speeds the heat shield could withstand the heat loads pressed upon it.

[UNTC321]

@austinluebke1 Thanks, but I'm almost certain NASA claims an avg. speed of 35,000 mph. I'll double check NASA's data.

[austinluebke1]

@UNTC321 I went through the numbers and think i realized your error. NASA does not use mile per hour as a unit, it is not the standard unit in the English system. We engineers use feet per second when talking about velocity. So when you convert the 24.7K mph to ft/s it comes out to be right ar 36K so an average speed of 35K ft/s is probably a good number.

[jarviss64]

@austinluebke1 and if you're in an advanced country we use metres, kilograms and seconds. Even the English use mks so I'm buggered if I know why the Americans persist with imperial measurements.

[austinluebke1]

@UNTC321 if you search history.nasa.gov and search 'Apollo 10 fastest speed' and have History (main) as domain the first article should be a summary of the mission and the speed is located in the Tranearth Phase section

[jarviss64]

@UNTC321 it was 35,570 feet per second, altitude 177 nautical miles.

[andrespace1979]

Absolutely incredible the humilty and passion that these men putted into this mission...when Collins speaks about TLI, consider that you're setting sail for the Moon at more than 35000 ft/sec...touching

[icollectstuffdude]

Great footage! Brings a tear to my eye.

[DSCH4]

"I found out from the Flight surgeon later on that my heart beat was 144 at liftoff. John's was 70." - Charlie Duke "Yeah. Well, I told him mine is too old to go any faster. Yeah." - John Young :D

[AbortFlight]

@DSCH4

Wasn't he the commander on STS-1 as well?

[DSCH4]

@AbortFlight Yes. According to Wikipedia, his fifth and next-to-last space mission. (Six missions: Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9.)

[sardoniclysane]

You can't even spell astronaut, and you expect us to take anything you write seriously?

You're an idiot.

[fanbutton]

Whether or not you take anything I say seriously, the fact remains that the "Moon Landings" were all faked. Open your eyes you delusional nitwit, or maybe you believe that Santa Claus is real too. Too much radiaton up there for starters.

[sardoniclysane]

Actually, there isn't. There are very few spots where in the VAB that could be deadly, and the Astronauts avoided those spots. We already knew about them, thanks mainly to the Russians, and of course, Van Allen himself. Van Allen refuted any claims that the radiation would be too much to survive. Remember, they traveled through the lowest plotted points of radiation, in a SHIELDED vessel.

So exactly where is this abundance of deadly radiation coming from?

[fanbutton]

Very few spots where the VA Belts could be deadly? Yep you are right....like over the poles. Nice spot to inject a translunar flight, except the return trip would leave an spacecraft and astronaut about 1.5 million miles behind the Earth's orbit around the Sun.

What are you, some kind of misfit authority on radiation?

[sardoniclysane]

Misfit authority? What kind of drivel is that? Anyways...I admittedly am not an expert. But the Russians who continually did experiements concerning the Van Allen belts, and again, VAN ALLEN HIMSELF, would be. They concluded it was actually safe to do so.

Speaking of that... if America had faked all of this, don't you think all the amateur astronomers who followed their telemetry through space and the Russians (who were you know, racing against us) would have notice something was up?

[sardoniclysane]

I mean, no one blew the whistle? No one? Every single one of your tin-foil hat wearing conspiracy theories has already been shot down using REAL SCIENCE. You're either insane, or just trolling for responses.

[fanbutton]

Talk about dribble?!! Where does it say that Dr. James Van Allens said that it was safe to traverse the radiation field that surrounds the Earth? This ought to be interesting.

[CrowServo3000]

i take it you got your information from a website written by a conspiracy theorist who makes money by selling their crap to people like you, i find it hilarious that the majority of people who claim the moon landings were fake have no background at all in the science and technology feild and just repeat what they heard some guy on tv say

[CrowServo3000]

NASA was well aware of the radiation belt and plotted courses to the moon that went through the weak points of it, you should really research this stuff from realiable sources before you think you know what your talking about, most people who claim the moon landing was fake are seriously misinformed and just take the word of some random person who just states their opinion as a fact

[stormrider62033]

there is a very good colection on a 3 dvd set thats 18 hours on the building of this wonderful giant rocket

[chandlerh2]

i was lucky enough to see these magnificent rockets launch on tv when i was a kid and remember evrey one of them . it was very inspiring , makes it even better when you hear what it was like from the men who rode them . i have also seen the saturn V on display in cape when you see how huge it is then you can see why it burns 2 tons of fuel a second awesome machine

[Roncace]

that is a massive rocket!

[sovietspyguy]

It's hard to get a sense of scale from these videos. If anyone has the opportunity to visit Cape Canaveral. They have a real Apollo rocket there in a huge auditorium. The thing is monstrous. Each rocket nozzle is the size of a house. They are HUGE.

[tzooner]

what is name of the song?

[ComingWithStyle]

"The Launch" by Philip Sheppard

The soundtrack from this movie is also on itunes

[ospmaverick]

35,570 feet per second!! Thats almost 7 miles per second. Awsome!! About 12 times faster than a bullet.

[CharitableView]

17,500 mph only unfortunately into Earth orbit. But it weighed as much as a navy destroyer! 35,570 feet per second is the velocity required to escape earth orbit and go to the moon - around 24,000 mph.

[ospmaverick]

Yes, 17,500 in LEO but going to the moon (or TLI)they increase to 25,000 mph. If you listen to the video again you can even hear houston state their speed at 35,570 per second which is 24,252 mph. Thanks for trying though. Apollo 10's return from the moon has the world record for a manned vehicle. They were just over 25K mph.

[wmoore998]

Apollo 10 has the record for the highest speed attained by a manned vehicle: 39,897 km/h (11.08 km/s or 24,791 mph). The speed record was set during the return from the Moon on 26 May 1969.

[ospmaverick]

Yes. Thats exactly what I said. I didnt have the exact speed in front of me but got the mission correct and that it was the return trip.

[wmoore998]

No, you said they were just over 25000, in fact they were under. No human has ever been at escape velocity.

[ospmaverick]

OK, I see that. I said just over but meant just under. But escape (Earth Gravity) velocity was obtained everytime we left earth and went to the moon.

[wmoore998]

That's a common misconception. We have been very close to escape velocity. You wouldn't want to be at escape velocity because you would never come home. A free return trajectory requires by definition that the speed has to be less than escape velocity.

[ospmaverick]

A free return trajectory is one of a very small sub-class of trajectories in which the trajectory of a satellite traveling away from a primary body (for example, the Earth) is modified by the presence of a secondary body (for example, the Moon) causing the satellite to return to the primary body.

[ospmaverick]

2-This method has been used by spacecraft and was somewhat popularised by its use during the Apollo 13 mission, though this trajectory was actually a hybrid, requiring some minor adjustments.

[ospmaverick]

3-If performed correctly, a true free return trajectory is completed without the assistance of any mid-course corrections or maneuvers. The free return trajectory allows a great distance to be covered relatively directly without the use of additional fuel to return the satellite to the primary body, thus the term free. The satellite or spacecraft will not actually be captured by the secondary body without the use of its rocket engine to slow the craft.

[ospmaverick]

So, I dont know where you are coming from with the Apollo space craft not reaching escape velocity. Read up on it.

[ospmaverick]

Oh yeah, and your Navy destroyer comment is correct, but that was at lift off, not the weight of the hardware that went into orbit.

[CharitableView]

Yep. No arguments here! I guess it shed weight at an incredible rate, ditch everything no longer of use, all the way to the moon and back, until the CM which eventually splashed down was probably less than a small light airplane. Makes you proud of humanity! Just amazing.

[dunlrock]

5:35

[ComingWithStyle]

at 8:03 you hear someone on the radio say that they are going "35,000 feet per second." A bullet only goes 3,000 feet per second.

[dunlrock]

wow!

[dunlrock]

5:25- 6:35

[raidenzero]

What a beast!

[CharitableView]

The most powerful machine ever built - but not that loud on the top due to sound dynamics etc. What would you give to have ridden a Saturn 5 to the moon?

[plasticitto]

I've watched this clip over and over...what a thrill it would have been to experience that ride!  A great moment for America amidst all the problems of that era.

[woodman19]

especially once it breaks the sound barrier,  sound cant travel up to the capsule once it does

[dunlrock]

5:39-5:55 is the most beautiful sight of the Saturn V.

[MightySaturn5]

Yes dun -that flame is incredible in its length, probably about 1400 feet long at this point of the flight.

[thehoaxbuster]

this is slightly sped up. I can tell because the pitch is a bit lower on the DVD.

[woodman19]

this was a excellent documentary!

[Smacked980]

Some morons actually believe this was all a hoax. I never get tired of the sight of that Saturn V lift off :-)

[johnsidicouplay]

Yes, but even if you totally believe that man did walk on the moon just as I do, it is actually completely self evident from the valid arguments that the non believers put forward that they are simply not moronic. As moronic people could not put forward such sophisticated arguments.

[AshyKnucks]

@Smacked980 The Saturn V liftoff is one of the most impressive things I've ever seen. (on video that is)

[petebkr]

athensathens

It's from the Ron Howard directed "In the Shadow of the Moon". Available on DVD and there's a website.

[RJY4356]

@petebkr Also it's on here in 10 parts if you look for it you can watch the whole thing on You Tube.

[athensathens]

What video does this come from please?

[athensathens]

Beautiful. Perhaps the greatest physical accomplishment of humanity.