Apollo launch

Footage of the Apollo 11 launch with comments from Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins and other Apollo astronauts. From 'In the Shadow of the Moon'.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• NASA
• Space
• Moon
• Apollo
• Documentary

[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

[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.

[jarviss64]

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

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.