Saturn V Launch Views - High Speed Cams 480p

Saturn V Launch Views - High Speed Cams

Segment #1: Apollo 11 ignition and liftoff (high speed)
Segment #2: Apollo 11 tracking (high speed)
Segment #3: Apollo 8 ignition and liftoff (normal speed)


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The Saturn V was an American human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA's Apollo and Skylab programs from 1967 until 1973. A multistage liquid-fueled launch vehicle, NASA launched 13 Saturn Vs from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida with no loss of crew or payload. It remains the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and still holds the record for the heaviest launch vehicle payload.

The largest production model of the Saturn family of rockets, the Saturn V was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, with Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM as the lead contractors. Von Braun's design was based in part on his work on the Aggregate series of rockets, especially the A-10, A-11, and A-12, in Germany during World War II.

To date, the Saturn V is the only launch vehicle to transport human beings beyond low Earth orbit. A total of 24 astronauts were launched to the Moon, three of them more than once, in the four years spanning December 1968 through December 1972.

The origins of the Saturn V rocket begin with the US government choosing Wernher von Braun to be one of about seven hundred German scientists in Operation Paperclip, a program created by President Truman in September 1946. It was intended to bring these scientists and their expertise to the United States, thereby giving America an edge in the Cold War.

Von Braun was put into the rocket design division of the Army due to his direct involvement in the creation of the V-2 rocket.[3] Between 1945 and 1958, his work was restricted to conveying the ideas and methods behind the V-2 to the American engineers. Despite Von Braun's many articles on the future of space rocketry, the US Government continued funding Air Force and Naval rocket programs to test their Vanguard missiles despite numerous costly failures. It was not until the 1957 Soviet launch of Sputnik atop an R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of carrying a thermonuclear warhead to the US, that the Army and the government started taking serious steps towards putting Americans in space. Finally, they turned to von Braun and his team, who during these years created and experimented with the Jupiter series of rockets. The Juno I was the rocket that launched the first American satellite in January 1958, and part of the last-ditch plan for NACA (the predecessor of NASA) to get its foot in the Space Race. The Jupiter series was one more step in von Braun's journey to the Saturn V, later calling that first series "an infant Saturn".

The Saturn V's design stemmed from the designs of the Jupiter series rockets. As the success of the Jupiter series became evident, the Saturn series emerged.

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[247atkins]

To infinity and beyond!!

[mdr48371]

Tunes by Bear McCreary

[andynz81]

Interesting. I was wondering the same thing. A striking resemblance to a couple of the main songs from the Black Hawk Down score. I would say too much if a resemblance to be coincidental but I'm sure it's all above board.

[screwyou]

Only so far... ;)

[Ben Saney]

Houston, we have a lift off.

Good Bless USA

[Laydon Cooper]

Absolutely amazing!

[AP0CALYPSY]

Better than porn for sure

[Libby Femina]

Please. Our American tax dollars PAID for that. My parents paid for that. My dollars paid for the space shuttle. These spacecraft say USA and UNITED STATES on the side, NOT ISRAEL. Get over your jealousy already and pay for your own space program. Unlike Germany, we weren't prepared to toast von Braun (whose inspiration came from Robert Goddard, by the way). We gave him sanctuary and a JOB. If it hadn't been for us and our money, this rocket would never exist.

[Libby Femina]

"Off its ass insane"

You're damn right it was. :)

[Libby Femina]

Come to Florida, go to Kennedy Space Center, go to the Saturn V center and stand underneath it. It's unbelievable.