Launch of Apollo 4

The launch of Apollo 4 - 9th November 1967. This is the launch countdown footage from about T-1.30 through to liftoff. I have then added the TV audio of the event. This is all the material I have on Apollo 4. I am expecting to acquire more at a later date. Thanx for the many requests for this footage.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• Apollo
• 1967
• Saturn
• first
• launch
• rocket
• liftoff
• NASA

[ingareinar007]

Thanx for this video. Apollo 4 was unmanned right? It always amazes me to watch footage like this. Hope we can go back to the moon :)

[lunarmodule5]

@ingareinar007 Yep it was unmanned! Though I bet there would have been a few in the astronaut office who would have volunteered to go. The 1st "all up test" of a USA manned vehicle without a previous unmanned test would be STS-1 in 1981. That flight, and this, are, IMHO, quite phenonimal moments in spaceflight.

[DawnWeatherby]

Awesome and impressive. Please keep posting these. Brings back childhood memories of my mother waking me up (California) to watch the Apollo launches.

[lunarmodule5]

@DawnWeatherby Thanx for the comment....there will be more to come...watch this space!

[Starwing1272]

From the sound of Cronkite's voice, sounds like he had a rocking good time (I know bad pun on Rocket but couldn't resist it lol) but still great video of a good launch. I was wondering if there is any video from the 1st flight of the Lunar Module? I believe it was Apollo 3 in which it was flown

[lunarmodule5]

@Starwing1272 It was Apollo 5....flown on a Saturn 1....I will try and get some footage at some point ok?

[durdle1701]

We lived 20 miles south of Cape Canaveral (Cape Kennedy at the time) and it rattled our windows. You should have seen the night launch they did. Don't remember which mission though. Lit up the sky like daytime.

[RFKFANTS67]

Thanks for posting this! I'm 43 and it brings back alot of memories ..more so the later apollo missions as when this bird flew i was like 8 months old..I get annoyed at "some" of the younger generations who claim it was all a hoax..B.S. Much more impressive then the damn shuttle program which to me, was a waiste of time and at a cost of 14 lives for mearly hauling shit into orbit...should have been like the Russians and stuck with the rockets...namley the saturn 1B for going into orbit

[pes2010mrtgnl]

saturn v rocket

[Clitmukis]

I believe that these unmanned launches were weighted with water just as the saturn 1Bs were, the IU and ground operations were in total control of the launch vehicle

[oldfrend]

it defies belief than an unimaginable colossus like this was built by human hands. even to my knowledgeable eye it seems as much alchemy and magic was put into the saturn V's construction as chemistry and metallurgy. tragic that it seems our leadership has lost such dreams.

[rtti88]

what mission made it to the moon apollo burnt apollo 13 didnt make it

[witness2history]

@durdle1701 The night launch was Apollo 17, the last lunar mission

[akkalakakalakka]

After our triumph during WWII, the Korean war, and followed by Apollo, then the downfall of our great nation started

[usaeagle1776]

love hearing Walter describing this...classic. back then, we went places. not so much today.

[railfanatic844]

that is pure power

[moboutmen]

Cronkite in Beast Mode !

[TheBEVERIDGE71]

@ingareinar007 we wont go back to the moon somthing went wrong up there bad enough for us not to back to the moon