Launch of Apollo 4 first Saturn V as seen LIVE on CBS w/ Walter Cronkite

The first launch of the Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center. This is footage from CBS News with Walter Cronkite. This is the famous video of him exclaiming about the roar and "the ceiling is fall down".

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[dsparentsr]

I just want to tell you both good luck, we're all counting on you.

[klatu1956]

Thats right Walter that god dam building is shacking and that motherfucker is going to the moon!

[maxred222]

Made the shuttle launches look like a single propeller plane taking off. Huge Rocket.

[emtpilot132]

Holy shit thats a lot of power!

[Danhtran1122]

Newer is not always better, think about music, classical and modern music etc... I think in the pass there are not much distract things.

[YDDES]

None other saw any reason to attempt ANY manned spaceflights. So, it wasn't "failing". at all.

[jameshisself]

True, but failing includes not even attempting in the first place. Just like life although no one likes to admit it.

[joecapitano]

...and I bet his reaction was along the lines of "Oh, NOW you tell me!"

[Nathaniel Lewis]

Although, we've never built anything more power than the Saturn. I think it is very interesting that now that we are considering taking man beyond Earth again, NASA is actually pulling engines from Saturn V's in museums and 3D scanning them. To think that a machine we built 40 years ago still has engines more complex than what we have today. It like we lost the technology in time.

[YDDES]

"all others" who failed was just one: Soviet Union. None other even tried to go to Moon.

[MarsFKA]

When the shock waves from the launch hit Cronkite's studio at the press site, ceiling tiles fell out of their frames and the big picture window vibrated so much they thought it was going to break. Cronkite and some of his staff braced the window with their hands to stop it breaking, but after the launch, a NASA technician came in and told them not to touch it as it had been made to vibrate and stopping it doing that might make it break.