Launch of Apollo 15

This video depicts the launch of Apollo 15, one of the missions to the moon.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• aviation
• space
• rocket
• apollo
• 15
• astronaut
• launch
• NASA
• nasa
• moon
• lunar

[starwarsfanboy]

Dear viewers, The Orchard Music has filed a copyright claim against this video. They haven't done anything yet (and probably won't) but in case they ever do, please view the original [ahem, *public domain*] video in the "media" section of the Apollo 15 article on Wikipedia instead of allowing this trololo company to tarnish your viewing experience. Thanks!

[MissVoodooKitten]

@starwarsfanboy

I really hope you dispute their claim, which is false. Public domain movies, etc. have no copyright holder. They cannot do anything to your video.

[starwarsfanboy]

@MissVoodooKitten Thanks! Well, I did dispute the claim but as it turns out there's no third-party mediator for these little things. They simply confirmed what they were already trolling, and of course I raged beautifully. Whoever was responsible, I curse their ancestors and their extended family and the monkeys that begot them. GRRR.

[ennui2000]

I've seen some video that allegedly was of an N1 launch failure. Pretty impressive chemical explosion, but nowhere near what a nuclear explosion does. The rate of progression of the chemical reaction of combustion just isn't in the same league as nuclear reactions.

[Galeati08]

People need to stop with the faked landing crap, it's junk speculation and a disservice to the courageous astronauts who put their asses on the line to reach the unthinkable!

[zooomfun]

@CosmicTwillight, yes, nice that there are some reminants in the rocket design. But you are giving all credit to German's which is bogus since 99% of the technology there is non-German.

[zooomfun]

@jetfreak4, You're assuming each is accelerating at top speed. Instead, they control the thrust to give a slow, stable launch with less shaking. Saturn V is more powerful so they must slow the thrust down more at launch.. After it reaches a higher altitude they turn the power up to full. But your explanation of the boeing looking slower is also true and comes into play.

[Willysmb44]

I asked Al Worden (command module pilot for 15) about the launch and he said it took 12 seconds for the Saturn V to clear the tower and that it felt like they weren't going any faster than taking off from a red light, it was only once they got higher up it felt like they were speeding up at all.

[irish89055]

Dennis Miller uses this countdown to begin segments on his radio show... John King is the announcer and had a long career with NASA.

[cplsyx]

Every time I see a Saturn V launch I get all emotional - simply for the fact that the greatness we achieved there has never been equalled since.

[ennui2000]

@jetfreak4

That's true, they had no equivalent to the F1 engine. The N1 booster, IIRC, had a cluster of 30 smaller engines in the main stage. The launch failures they had were the result of several of these engines failing and shutting down, which either caused a fallback, or other damage to the vehicle as it tried to ascend.

[jetfreak4]

It wasn't on the level of a nuclear explosion, but it was big enough that it was detected by U.S. satellites and infra-red sensors..that is the only reason the U.S. found out that the Soviets were attempting to build their own moon rocket. The reason we beat the Russians to the moon was that the Saturn V was planned out over a longer period of time and tested sooner than the N1...the N1 was underfunded, and the Soviets did not have the capability to develop an engine as powerful as the F1.