This clip is raw from Camera E-8 on the launch umbilical tower/mobile launch program of Apollo 11, July 16, 1969.
This is an HD transfer from the 16mm original. Even more excellent footage is available on our DVDs at our website at www.spacecraftfilms.com
The camera is running at 500 fps, making the total clip of over 8 minutes represent just 30 seconds of actual time.
My father drove me to watch this. I was 14. We got within 10 miles...It was nutz. Then when Neil walked on the moon, my Grandfather, my father and I together watched on TV...my grandfather who was born in 1899, broke into tears...Momentous. Wonderful video and the greatest commentary. Thank you.
Roland Alfonso very cool Roland. I really hope you get to see us return. I’m hoping I get to see our return to the moon and the first trip to Mars.
@@asifhashimov3202 Moon landing deniers need to crawl back into their caves where they feel safe from reality.
You people need to get your heads out of your asses already. Absolutely was real.
@@bobvogel6844 It would be better than being out of your caves and not to see the truth - blind with eyes wide open.
@@bobvogel6844 - Don't worry, most moon landing deniers are trolls looking for attention. The very few that don't believe are generally psychotic, or got rejected by women and so inferiority complexes.
I watched Apollo 12 with my grandfather. The kids were pretty blase, "We have already been to the moon once already!" My grampa just looked at the tv screen, shook his head, and said, "I remember seeing my first airplane, I was 14." Can you imagine that generation born in the 1890's. They thought a steam powered combine was high tech in 1902. Then they hear about heavier than air powered flight in 1903. They see their first airplane several years later. Then they see news about dog fights during WWI. Then Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic non-stop, alone. Then we see jets and rockets. And 66 years after the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon. Just 66 years from first powered flight to man walking on the moon. Amazing.
I've always looked at it like that. Must of been a few folk around near 100 yrs old mark, 1870's imagine what they thought .
My grandfather, an immigrant born in the 1890s, believed it was a Hollywood movie. He just couldn't accept it as real (like some even today). I'll never forget sitting in the living room watching the launch, and the landing because my parents realized it was history in the making.. and my grandfather in very broken English saying quietly to my grandmother, "datsa holawood magec".
except now we fly 500+ people halfway around the world in 1 aircraft (Airbus A380). Jets are now incredibly more fuel efficient and quieter than they were 50 years ago. We're about to send a car to Mars. Rockets literally land themselves. But sure. we never improved any tech.
Kids blasé? I don't remember it that way at all. The whole world was watching, and everybody I knew was watching, especially little kids, and many wanted to be astronauts, of course. The impact of this on people today is pathetic.
Umm, Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic before WWII.
This description of all the disciplines of engineering just for the launch pad to get humans to the surface of the moon and back relative to the engineering required by the first human flight at Kitty Hawk in so short a time span is breathtaking.
A lot of work must've gotten into just this camera alone. Shooting at 500 fps in 1969 is by itself amazing. The engineering of the camera to spin the film so fast, yet having a shot this clear must've been a challenge to make. It looks so good...
Check out the Rapatronic cameras they used nearly 30 years before this to film nuclear bomb tests. It was @ 1 million frames per second. (They never ran for a full second. More like 0.006 seconds). If it did though, and you watched it at 24 frames per second, it would take over 12 hours to watch the 1 second. It was an amazing piece of technology!
When too need to fool the whole world, of course camera work has to be good. Very impressive cgi
@@kitten_with_bad_breath your brain is actually made out of vanilla ice cream.
@@kitten_with_bad_breath They can't pull a fast one over on you. You are way too smart for 'em!
Imagine Zapruder filmed at that frame speed.
Great video. Even compared to modern high speed cameras, this is fantastic.
almost 6m subs channel but only 5 lıkes ??
@@amerikanpoliskamerasvideol6170 no one stalks a channel and goes to every video they commented on to like the comment
SmarterEveryDay We need this in raw, do a rescan? next stop for me now is Nasa, what do they still have? Technicolor film?
@lucas rem: I dunno -- the quality looks pretty good to a former video tech ... Wonder how hard (and expensive) it'd be to get a copy of that film. Anybody?
Also, a great commentary to put things into perspective as the rockets are firing.
I worked for ITT/Federal Electric in communications at John F Kennedy Space Center from Aug 1968 thru Sept 1972 after a tour in Viet Nam. I am now 68 years old and as I look back at this launch it brings back so many memories! I sometimes wish I could relive those moments! I was the best job that I have ever had in my live and am so proud that I was on the Launch Team to beat the USSR to the lunar landing!
Must break your heart that you didn't and that the ( then) U.S.S.R. not only beat you into space ,they put the first man up there and the first man OUT there ! The U.S. couldn't do any of this before the Russians yet managed the impossible and beat them to the moon? think about it real hard and go back to sleep old man.even Warner von Braun said you couldn't ,nite nite.
jsilence418 Gee. Look at all your OPINION spouted as if it was relevant and actually had any value. Your not the sharpest Anvil in the shed, are you? It must break your Heart that your only perceived as a foolish infant, for a reason. Just my opinion? I'm not fighting-off everyone here with pissed-off intolerance. Look at all those thumbs-up your NOT receiving! Awww. The whole world is against you, little jsilly. Golly. It must be for a reason....... too!
jsilence418 The U.S. had the capability to go to space two weeks before the Russians, but didn't in order to put an escape hatch on the ship, which gave the Russians a window to be first in space. We still went to space shortly after they did, and sent up many more men after that, putting them in orbit around the Earth. We then started the new Apollo program eventually sending man into a mission around the moon and finally with 6 different missions which landed man on the moon. How would you fake a moon landing 6 times? The Soviets would expose a hoax at the first moment available. And why would the U.S. launch enormous multi-million dollar rockets into space just for it to be a hoax? Also *Wernher Von Braun helped to create the Apollo 11, so I have no idea what you are talking about.
Greatings Ronald Welch, thrilled to read from you as a man who was part of the team. I was young (6 years) but I remember looking television with my father. I saw on KZhead a lot of videos regarding moon landing and I am a huge fan. This was a fantastic team work and we can learn a lot from it. So I encourage you to give your memories to the next generation. Perhaps telling in short KZhead-Videos?
The engineering progress during this time period is incredible!! As a Kid I wanted to work for NASA. For me NASA had all the cool stuff!! Much better than Bond's toys! Thank you for your service and everything you did for our wonderful space program! :)
This is by far the best video with such incredibly detailed explaination of any lauch so far. Goosebumps.
2:30, are the launches just in slow motion? or is it just balloon! 🤨 kzhead.info/sun/oLx9l75lb35vdqM/bejne.html
One of the most impressive technical achievements ever. Goosebumps every time these pictures.
This is from 1969? Whut? Amazing!
@@bumblebob5979 From July of 67.
@@stevenrivers8386 Jeezz, talking about lost potential. Why cant we just let smart and just people lead. Today our leaders belong on mental institutions, and people ever more ignorant and rabid. :( what a mess we are.
@@stevenrivers8386 It's from Apollo 11, which is July of 1969 (not 67).
Everyone just takes so much for granted.There was a symphony of things going on here everything thought through to perfection
yeah, the symphony was called space race and cold war. its shameful that a war of systems brought us there and not a combined project, where everyone pulls on one string...
Actually the Russian's rocket motor was much more efficient.
@@minirock000 also it was much more BOOM
Glywnnis Wells You actually believe we landed on the moon?
@@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504 Yes. all the evidence confirms it. Only an idiot would believe otherwise.
Grew up in Cocoa Beach. Dad worked at the Cape. Seeing a Saturn V launch was awe inspiring. Waiting for the rumble. The night launches were incredible. You could literally read a newspaper by the light of Apollo. The sun rose. How proud we were to be Americans . To build such a machine. Those were the days. Grateful I got to see it.
Bruce, what did your father do at the Cape? You should be very proud of your father and everyone one the 400,000 people that worked to send men to the Moon and safely returned them to Earth.
Lucky man! Now you have Trump. I'm not entirely sure that's what I'd call progress .-)
@Rand Kocher I agree. When I train junior Engineers, I often say "...the Americans got to the moon with far less computing power and storage than you have in your phone...along with Concorde, the Apollo program was man's greatest ever Engineering achievement..." Since then I see the bean-counters and accountants taking over from the entrepreneurs and risk-takers. Where I disagree with you is that I don't think Trump is the man to get back to that level of brilliance. But I respect your views. Greetings from the Sandpit!
went up to see the first night test launch of that huge rocket. it was scrubbed for some reason. came back again for the 2nd time and it was worth the trip from WPB at the time. I was awed by the experience. totally humbled. I cried afterwards and don't mind admitting it. Von Braun got us there but hardly nobody knows of this super brained German...yep the "father" of the Saturn 5.
@jubjub247 LOL @ the dumbass.
Used to build the nozzles for rockets. Some of the most interesting and technical sheet metal work I’ve done in my career.
Tony, thanks Sir!! Best from Bavaria!
Which rockets?
Thank you!
Rocketdyne in neosho mo was a manufacturer for some of these engines
How was it ? Please share us some of the experience !
Oh my godd!!! Why cant I go back in time to witness this engineering marvel!!! why !! :(
Shhhhh! You can but that tech is outlawed for a next 73 years. Just bide your time.
As an FX artist, this is pure gold. How, in the beginning, all that fire is spewed out and then sucked right back in is just mesmerising.
Indeed! To think that the camera is running at 500 frames per SECOND, that suction happens in just under one second, not faster than the human eye would detect but still in real-time it appears almost instantaneous. Amazing stuff.
Part of my job was once measuring and mapping fluid flows (liquid and gasses) from rivers to large industrial installations. Some of those flow maps were truly bizarre and unexpected.
nothing can beat Nature
i love the curtaining soot from the fuel turbine pumps around the main exhaust. Its still futuristic today. You need to do an FX of that out of a motor vehicle exhaust. LOL
When Apollo 13 ( movie) came out, someone asked if they’d reversed the film to get that effect, but it was genuine footage ( of a scale model, but the principal remained!)
Born in '49. Some years back got the opportunity to stand on one of the Mercury launch pads. To the new generations I say, do not take the past for granted but marvel at the accomplishments of those who dared dream.
The amount of design and engineering that went into the crawler and the launch tower alone is insane. Ive never thought about the 60 seconds or so that the tower is just getting blasted by the five engines before the rocket gets up and away. Awesome video
Then that pad and crawler took care of 135 Shuttle launches.
watched this in England as a boy now 64 and appreciate the technology and your commentary . super movie. Thank you respect from Suffolk, England . in January 2023
I watched this from 3.5 miles away at the edge of the turning basin. I had been relieved at my console in the LCC at 4 AM, grabbed some breakfast at the cafeteria and went outside to set up my 35mm slide and Super 8 movie cameras. A memorable event, and I was lucky to be a part of it.
I worked on the Apollo 11 launch and have one of the holddown arm explosive bolts still sitting on my bookcase. I was 25 and this was the high point of my career. I saw this footage almost 49 years ago a few days after launch but without any commentary. The narrator is spot on.
highwayvagrant1 I think you need to put some new aluminum foil in your hat.
highwayvagrant1 Ok. The rocket just has to attain a velocity that allows it to overcome earth's gravity. Once in space, that is in a vacuum, it keeps accelerating until it reaches a velocity of around 18,000 mph. It isn't possible, nor would it be desirable for a rocket to reach 18,000 mph to get into space. The heat from friction would burn it up before ever reaching orbit.
I was working at the MILA tracking station during the Apollo Program recording the audio and slo-scan tv . We also recorded all of the Telemetry data that was transmitted back from every event that was performed by the equipment on the different sections of the Apollo structure. We even recorded the ekg, respiration rate of the Astronauts. Yes, this was also my best life experience that I was blessed to be a part of in my working life. Bendix Field Engineering Corp. was my company.
My dream never fulfilled! Glad its one you made happen. Thank you !
@highwayvagrant1 HIS dream happened. Im not a Believer of the Fake Theory. Its just bashing. I know an astronaut. He went he saw he returned. I have no reason not to believe.
As a teenager I watched all the space launches. I remember my Grandmother (who traveled west in a covered wagon) saying how amazing it was seeing pictures through the air of men landing on the moon. She say cars come about , airplanes in their infancy,, radio, and tv. She had two sons who became pilots in WWll . She told me of sitting outside their “Soddy” (house made of turf) in Nebraska and seeing eagles flying thinking how wonderful it would be if people could fly. No generation since will see such a drastic change ,wagons to spaceships.
I was 17 then, and virtually the entire world watched.
Dang you're old
Artemis will do great things!
Yeah, we like to say things like "the whole world watched" or "the whole world is watching". But in fact a very large proportion of the world's citizens were not watching this, many not even aware anything significant was going on. Certainly populations in large sections of Asia, Africa, South America, etc; would have been nowhere near a TV.
@@youtuuba I think the number was about a billion watched it.
Excellent narration no fluff just the right stuff.
+Chris Langdon Excellent turn of phrase good Sir! :)
+Chris Langdon Liked the "right stuff".
I was 11 yrs. old and living in Largo, Fla. at the time. I was obsessed with the space program, so my dad took our family across the state to watch this in person!!!!!!!! Thanks Dad!!! I'll never forget it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I envy you. I'd have given anything to see a Saturn V launch.
Well done Dad, well done Apollo. Thumbs up
Mopartoolman It would have been better if your dad had taken you to the Moon - you would have seen how they landed, and we wouldn't now have to argue about it - you would have been eyewitnesses of this greatest event.
@@asifhashimov3202 I was never on the Moon.... however I had the honor and life changing experience of watching the night launch of the Apollo 17 mission from Patrick AFB....and I will carry that vision to my death bed...end of story.....
@@neilbishop1686 all right, bro. I respect your faith and patriotism. End of story.
I was a chief engineer in charge of final assembly and quality control of the F1 engines of that era and specifically, for this launch. The corners that were cut due to deadlines and cost saving changes that were implemented were astonishing and we all watched the launch with hope more than confidence.
I’ve watched this so many times. It never gets old.
Take this into account- In 1966, NASA's budget reached its peak at 4.4 percent of the federal budget. At that time, there were three revolutionary programs underway- Gemini (building up a pilot corps with spacefaring knowledge), Surveyor (scouting the Moon in advance of people), and Apollo R&D. LESS THAN A TWENTIETH of the federal budget gave us this, at a time when the Vietnam War was warming up. Now the budget's down to half of a percent. Space is there, if we only want it.
***** Hoax? Global temps are up and the ice caps are receding but if want to ignore facts then yeah it is a hoax much like landing on the moon was a hoax.
*****
Dark Star Huh'... We can have, "...nice things." Monsieur Dark Star. And a lot of those 'nice things' are a direct result of the return-on-investment in NASA's space program. By the way, have you ever heard the song, Dark Star, by the 'Dead?
Robert Cornhole Thought I read somewhere that that budget actually was up around 6 % at it's peak.
+Robert Cornhole I'm pretty sure a lot of the budget now is used for routine station maintenance and supplies, and the OSIRIS-REx mission which I can't wait for.
That was crazy. Absolutely the most amazingly coordinated cooperative engineering effort of all time.
haha..and we haven't done it since.....the only time in Human civilization where technology went backwards...
@Hey Girl I Like Your Kitchen Romania Look again..we can go 1000th the distance now as in 1969..the reason..as Buzz himself said...we didn't go there....wake the fk up
@@MSC-Songwriter They did it five times after that. They didn't really go backwards, but changed the priority to the space shuttle, since they had already landed on the moon six times.
I was flying RF4Cs at Shaw AFB, SC on July 16, 1969 and was scheduled for a training sortie at 0930, just as the Apollo 11 countdown was approaching zero 300 miles away. On a whim, we dialed in the coordinates for Canaveral and, on takeoff, headed south, climbing, while listening to the VOA coverage on HF radio. Passing through 20,000 feet, we witnessed the fastest, most beautiful, and most vertical contrail we could have imagined. As the pilot in the backseat upgrading to instructor, my only regret was not heading 5 or 10 degrees off the direct course to Canaveral, as my front seater blocked my view of the contrail's fast appearance and I had to turn quick before I could see it. A great day.
Have you seen the footage of an RF-4 crashing in Philippines? do you what was that accident?
What a story! Many years ago when I was a kid, I got to fly the F4 Sim at Macdill! Many years later a Wizzo gave me an F4 c/d flight manual that I still have and always will.
No Vietnam for you, huh?
@@haroldstrong5723 I returned in 1968 from Thailand and Vietnam.
@@Rama41 Cool
Incredible footage. The event which i heard on a small valve radio in India and decided to pursue my dream in Space Technology. I was 14, then.
My dad had taken me during summer vacation to see the Apollo 11 launch. I was only ten at the time and was in no way prepared for what was to transpire. It felt like someone was pounding on my little kid's chest with two clenched fists. My mind and life was changed forever. I became hooked on the Apollo program and Saturn V vehicle since then spending many lunch time hours in the library with my index cards copying diagrams of the stages and spacecraft itself with side notes. I was already building flying models that other kids only wished they could and fast became a favorite at school launches. I haven't stopped since. : )
My classmate when we were in high school in 1969, after the launching of Apollo 11, after a few days, in our class, he showed us a complete drawing of Apollo 11 in each coupon band how the seperation of its stages of the rocket lift-off from the earth to the moon and back to the earth. He was also hooked on the Apollo 11 that he made an effort to drawing them with color. It was in the Philippines.
Fantastic that you were an eyewitness to that amazing event! I grew up with the space program unfolding around me, and was enthralled, but I was never graced to be in the presence of a Saturn V launch. Although I did see the space shuttle land at Edwards once. And got a close up view of it flying over on the back of a 747 a few years ago. Still not in the ballpark with what you got to see and feel. I'm envious.
To: Thebuilderofthings1 - 11/9/1967 - launch of the first Saturn V as an unmanned test. The pounding on your chest was actually the Saturn V peak acoustic energy at only 7 hertz. Far below the audible range. Plenty of audible, but the 7 hertz stuff was some powerful. That frequency was actually recorded in New York with specially built detectors and did arrive in the time factor expected by the speed of sound. Myself and another engineer were taking measurements stationed on a narrow spit of land on the Cape Kennedy Air force station (now CCAFS) across the Banana River from KSC. We were in an old abandoned auto camera bunker with hearing protectors. Naturally, being still at the "invincible" age, we got out of the bunker and took the hearing protectors off. We timed the first engine flash to the receipt of the first sound and came up with 7 seconds. So we were about 7500 feet away. When the full sound hit us we realized we had made a serious mistake. The effects of the sub audible energy pretty much brought our systems to a standstill. Your internal organs burned, your brain just would not work. The violently shaking ground was troubling. I am now 76 years old and can still remember that stuff vividly. Al Mercier - ancient space guy.
Lucky, Lucky you. I had to be content at 14 with a small TV and a lunar lander model in my hand. Awesome! As an Australian, I suggest go see the movie the dish for our little contribution.
That must have been quite a show. Was it the only time you saw a rocket launch?
I said to myself, there is no way Im going to watch all of almost 9mins of this without skipping forward. I was wrong, great video and explanation.
agree thanks for you comment
+Adolf Hitler Yes, a really great video but it is a really great pity it is only a video.
I even replayed some of it a few times 🤣
Na I skipped, the guy was annoying
Saturn V. Still, to this day, in my very humble opinion, the most incredible vehicle ever built by mankind. Thanks for this fantastic video.
I agree....It's so incredible that it's beautiful
This never gets old
Outstanding narrative and absolutely amazing film footage! A very proud moment for this 10 year old boy (me), watching this in my home with my mom…Dad was on patrol commanding the blue crew on the USS Mariano G. Vallejo, a fleet ballistic missile submarine stationed out of Holy Loch,, Scotland.
This boy was 16 when the Apollo XI mission took place, but I still remember it very clearly. One minor detail, though - it's Holy Loch. "Loch" means lake or sea inlet in Gaelic.
Peter Kendell Thanks for the correction, I should have known that!
What an incredible machine. Humans are just amazing. I love the space program.
Nazis sure did know how to make rockets
+TactileCoder A Scientist who hated the Nazi's engineered this rocket
SOME humans are amazing -- MOST are worthless ignorant pieces of SHIT..
These Saturn rockets are amazing, I was 9 in 69 when everyone watched the launch, such an incredible rocket, huge. Thanks for memory.
Nice! Same here - age. It was amazing!!!
Amazing technology for the time! I still remember it clearly; being sent home from school for the afternoon (Sydney, Australia time) to watch it with my parents on their state-of-the-art black and white TV. Happy days.
Just so awesomely amazing.Just wrap your mind around all of the systems and engineering back in the 60's, What sort of systems controlled these monsters, CNC machining was still in its infancy, no CAD systems,..... I am Awestruck at the science and engineering developed. This was the US at its finest and best.
Totally agree. like the Lunar Module had a computer that was supposed to land it the first time automatically. It had the power of today's scientific calculators and it crashed a few times leaving Armstrong to do a manual landing with few seconds of fuel left. I'm so confused in that we seem to think we have conquered the Moon when we only made it there by the skin of our asses in reality. We need to go back to the Moon to develop the needed technology for the mission to Mars but everyone seems determined to skip that crucial step. I think it's a big mistake. The Moon is where we need to test and develop to be sure of what we are doing with the brave people who travel to Mars. It's reachable and doable so why skip it? Come get some Catspit~!
Apart from the Germans V2 scientist and also the British scientist that NASA employed when the UK closed it's space program.
CAD was available at the time but very limited ... probably never used on these projects ...
And that infuriates the communists who put forth the notion that none of this never really happened. And amazingly so many of the minions in this country buy into the communist propaganda.
As far as I recall, and I was around to be there for Apollo 13 and others as a student at FIT, the Russians never denied that we did what we did. Neither did we deny Sputnik one and two. We accepted each other's accomplishments and raced to be better and faster than each other. In fact, during Apollo 11, when Buzz Aldrin spoke the first words on the Moon, (not Neil Armstrong) the Russians sent a lunar drone to try to land and bring back moon rocks before we could. We succeded, they failed. Their attempt caused their drone to crash into the Moon while Buzz and Neil were already on the Moon' surface. It was a real space race. Oh, BTW, in case somebody was wondering, the first words spoken on the Moon were by Buzz Aldrin. Just before the Eagle landed, one of its landing gear cable extenders (feelers) touched the surface causing a blue light on the LEM's instrument panel to light up. When it did, Buzz Aldrin said "Contact Light". Thus, the first word spoken on the Moon was "Contact". See, "Rocketmen" by Craig Nelson. DPA
Happy 50th Anniversary Apollo 11!!! Remember watching it when I was 8 years old. Will never forget it!!
After the rocket leaves the frame the pad on fire is so beautiful to watch. Outstanding video
The Apollo 11 mission is the greatest scientific achievement in human history. With limited technology the United States landed a man on the moon over 50 years ago. Unbelievable
total nonsense. NASA admits today they cannot get past the VAR belts. LMAO
@@maxsmith695 sad
@@jeffh643 a year earlier they got away with saying 12 shots were fired from an 8 shot gun at rfk without reloading and that was in a crowded hotel
Dream on clown
@@barrydimmock5771 pathetic, dim cock. You have shit for brains.
I remember watching this launch (and the subsequent mission) at 8 years old in the UK. I spent half the nights awake following it all regardless of the fact that I was at school the next morning. Completely blew me away!
The dark engine thrust from 2:05 ---> is AMAZING. Such slow video from 500 FPS, yet look at the speed of that exhaust exiting. One of the most awesome pieces of video I've ever seen.
gets me everytime - the absolute power shown in this section actually puts a lump in my throat..
I was at Redstone Arsenal in 1968 going through missile school (Pershing) for 8 months, & observed several Satern V static engine tests 4 miles ? away on large concrete towers. The ground shaking, smoke & noise stays with me even now, glad I was there.
. A total of thirty-two Saturns of all types were launched; not one failed.
The astronauts said that the peak moment was viewing our beautiful planet from space. "Earthrise" was the name of the photograph taken of the earth which became such an iconic image. Love it or hate it, the Environmental movement really started upon the publication of that photo, our planet appeared as a sole beacon of light, life and colour out in barren space. It really moved people viewing the Earth in that way.
Still amazing 50yrs later
KEVIN MASTERS yea it is
Such a shame they can't do it again🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Zoxz Gerasimov They can but it costs billions dude, they better use the money to settle things in the world rather than wasting for vacume space.
Iván HH I thought we were developing ☹
Nathnael Tewelde The governments on planet Earth would rather spend trillion on war which is why we can't go 😭😭🤔🤔😭😭
This happened 3 days before our wedding, and they landed on the moon the day after our wedding - Makes it easy for me to remember both occasions, even 51 years later.
For some reason you just reminded me of Jimmy Stewart saying that he was going to lasso the moon for his sweetheart.
Astounding quality. Amazed that the lens on the camera stayed clear as long as it did.
Fascinating narration. I'd seen this very footage before but not with the explanation. Very cool
Yeah it was informative
+Bahadır Onur Güdürü Mark Gray "the best on information".
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Yeah, Mark's a really cool guy, nice characters too... just don't disagree with him :)
500 fps in 1969. Wonderful.
Les, I think you meant to reply to another video you were watching. This has nothing to do with the Blackbird. I was waiting for your thanksgiving turkey drop in Cincinnati.
t ytrehalf No, he meant they already had excellent cameras back then. Completely related.
My father was an instrumentation tech working on the Cold Lake weapons test range. They commonly ran 3,000 fps 35mm cameras in the 1960s.
+Mr Zacbot "Not in video form"???!!! Buddy, how do you think films were made back then??
Doc Edgerton - 10,000 frames per second.
Warner Van Braun: How much thrust do you want? NASA: Yes.
Mans said alright if you want thrust you'll get it
This was Werner vonB's pet project since before he got Hitler to sponsor his rockets, W decided how much thrust to use.
and all that thrust barely let the rocket get off the pad shows how huge the Saturn V was... but hey, it is not as hard on the astronauts
NASA: How much thrust do you want? Wernher von Braun: Yes.
Von Braun not Van! Van it’s something that you could spin your ass around into it. Von Braun was a man with big dreams. Not an American nor even a German - he was a human.
My mother who grew up in a strict household was given special permission to watch this launch and mission live at school that day. Even her overboard bonkers parents, my future grandparents, realized what a momentous event this was. Also thank you for taking the time to not only share this video but to explain everything so thoroughly.
Cool comment. At least there is one on here. Some of these people were last in line to board the brain train. LOL
What I always find amazing about this video is how fast the "vacuum" flow happens when the engines fully ignite. This is 500 frames/sec and the "whomp" of the suction happens almost instantly and sucks all of that smoke and flame back under the engines. Gives you a true sense of the insane power of these engines.
I was 8 yrs. and remember watching the launch and feed from the moon. We need to get back there.
+Jerry Long What is really amazing is not that we went to the moon but that we stopped going!!! Very Sad.
***** Bobby D deleted his comments ROFL !!!
***** Ok so I was muted LOL.I was unaware of this feature wow.I guess I was kinda hard on the little guy.I almost feel bad now ...(Deep Breath) ... And the moment has passed hehe. Thanks for the info.
Der Fuhrer I'm sorry could you repeat the question please ?
***** Hahahahaha !
That is stunning footage. Have watched this numerous times and it never gets old.
I'm 66 and grew up watching all the US Rockets launches/missions from Mercury on up. The Saturn 5's were like the ultimate icon of power & might and we were glued to the TV waiting for/watching them, but this is on of the coolest video's I ever seen on them. A slo-mo play by play of those monster fire breathing engines. Loved it!
Fascinating!! I watched this live 50 years ago and am still amazed that man could conceive and execute the incredible achievement. I once read that the programming code that made all this possible was HAND WRITTEN by several women. Further to this, ONE iPhone is capable of handling the programming of 108 MILLION Apollo 11 missions. THAT, in itself, is almost too much to comprehend.
When Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, I lived right next to one of Toronto's major city highways (Highway 27). I still remember a few min before the landing, and looking out and seeing NO traffic, except for one car parked on the side, with the driver I think, listening to the radio. No transport trucks, no cars, nothing. No one outside walking. No kids playing. It was crazy!
The reactions of millions of people worldwide is not evidence of anything actually happening. Their reactions are the result of having been told something was happening. The advent of radio as a mass communication tool was huge. But the advent of "television" blows that away, as the most powerful tool ever conceived for disseminating information (at that time, the 1960's). Just because I saw on my big screen Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in orbit, is not evidence that it actually happened. Simple critical thinking folks.
@@scottalanclymer No, it's not. However, given the number of people who watched the launches of the Saturn Vs, it's a reasonable conclusion that the really, really big rocket went to the Moon.
@@JohnJ469 John, please explain the correlation between the number of people watching and how that "factor" lends itself to the credibility of the event being watched. Better yet, please just tell me that what you're offering as a formula for credibility was a bit of sarcasm and I can breathe a sigh of relief...
@@scottalanclymer You missed my point. while the number of people watching the moon landings on TV does not prove anything, (As the movie example you gave shows) the fact that many thousands stood on the shore and watched the really, really big rocket go up in real life demonstrates the existence of the rocket. From that, it is reasonable to conclude that since a large rocket capable of going to the moon exists, the Apollo went to the moon. Mitchell and Webb explain the situation well. kzhead.info/sun/g5qGf9Kdn3WFiK8/bejne.html
@@scottalanclymer Thanks. Very well said, Mr. Google 'flicker rate' people.
Props to the cameraman! They were brave to film this close footage
Like that guy they left behind on the moon as the LEM lifted off.
@@AV036 LOL 🤣
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@@stratolestele7611 You realise he isn't joking? - he's actually being serious. He really believes that NASA overlooked such an obvious gotcha.
Watched this launch on a 19 inch black and white TV that morning with my Father in Southern California. Then continued to watch all the other highlights of the mission. Exciting summer for an 11 year old somewhat, educational for sure.
The Saturn V remains the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and still holds records for the heaviest payload launched and largest payload capacity to low Earth orbit (LEO) of 140,000 kilograms (310,000 lb). Truly remarkable one wonders if this was the pinnacle of American space program.
And to think the Saturn rockets are almost 60 years old, imagine if we created a new design with our recent technology...hell, the computer system inside the Apollo 11 had the processing power of an Atari, and THAT took us to the moon and back. We could go to Europa if we really wanted to.
+Alex Scott oh my god, why would we want to go to europa when titan looks so much better? you are just a crazy old man. and what type of atari? I had the 400 and the 800 xl, lol.
+curtyuiop 2600.
Alex Scott Extremely powerful computers systems are not needed it's the Mechanical engineering of the vehicle. I would bet modern rockets don't come close to the CPU of the current high end Intel CPU.
+kell490 Dude! the Delta IV has 1,000,000 pounds more thrust (8.5ishM) and we have a space station! Oh yeah; landed on a freakin comet!!! If only NASA had 2% of the nations budget like it did in the 60's; that would be super cool! Now it's like point zero something percent... Stuff takes longer now.
Staggering display of power, and to think this was done in 1969 makes it all the more impressive. Thank you Mark for posting this video and for the commentary. 👍
Why can't we do it now?
@@RandomVideos-kn3pf We... are? SLS is going to be more powerful than Saturn-V.
@@tukus9133 And starship just did 31 Raptors
@@RandomVideos-kn3pf We're on the horizon of a new golden age. Starship.
@@bradstewart7007it just blew up, the design has not improved just more engines and a new shell, they need to take more risks with more fresh methods or ideas
One of my BIL's worked on the design and fabrication for the Saturn Five 'fins'. He had enhanced the confirguration for the C-130's big tail fin. When he was asked to look at a draft design, he asked "how big is this damn plane?" He was at the launch site when Apollo 11 went up.
Incredible how much went into everything going exactly to plan, like how the mechanism would release the rocket at the exact time, Incredible for 1969
Commentary was perfect. Nothing less than that.
Kitler exists!!!
Incredible. Mark, thank you for giving us an added dimension in understanding this historic mission.
I'm watching this again while waiting for Delta IV Heavy NROL-44 to launch...I never get tired of this classic well-narrated footage of massive rocket history!
I was fortunate as a young machinist to work on the exhaust nozzles for Voyager. I find this fascinating to take in. Thanks a bunch for the memories.
Absolutely brilliant footage and commentary - thanks for sharing this with us all.
Mark, Thanks very much for posting this. I realized that there had to be something to see in the after launch sequence at the tower. Simply amazing indeed.
This never gets old. The naration, the Visuals... I get back to this video over and over again just to make sense of the forces involved in this moment of awesome. 👍
I WAS THERE IN 1969 AND WATCHED THIS MAGNIFICENT EVENT TAKE PLACE IT WAS INDESCRIBABLE !
And I will hate you just for this! Just kidding, but I AM so jealous:P.
How many miles close were you?
I saw it from my backyard in Merrit Island. My father was at the Cape, working for RCA.
It's worth remembering, that in all of human history, nothing has unified the entire world more, than Apollo 11 and more-so Apollo 13. No other event in history had the unifying impact of these two events. We need more of them and more often.
Fantastic video, have seen this many times (Am something of a space geek/Apollo enthusiast) but what makes this different is the detailed explanation of everything going on in tandem with the footage. Very well explained, and absolutely fascinating. Thankyou very much!
Amazing clip, and great description of what is going on. I really admire the engineering that went into these launches.
Great narration of an amazing event! Thanks Mark, for posting this.
Absolute stunning insight. Time is relative, this 500 fps footage shows that directly. Incredible. Top notch commentary!
always amazes me how slow the footage is, yet the combusting gasses are still moving so insanely quick. physical interactions are awesome
I was 11 years old and we all sat transfixed around the TV to watch this historic flight. I remember building my first Saturn V model rocket-it was 5 feet tall and took me two weeks. Amazing!
Thank you. I was a kid when my mom and dad woke me up to watch Neil Armstrong take his first steps on the moon. This video shows just a bit of how massive and dangerous that undertaking was.
You mean on a stage, Neil has never left the planet
MrMaenambeach Did your dad also wake you up when cernan said "we're on our way Houston"?
I am always transfixed when I see something like this. Thanks for uploading Mark. Great video.
I wish I could have witnessed a Saturn launch. Onlookers said you felt the concussion in your chest and this was miles away. The F-1 is still the most powerful rocket engine ever launched and the Saturn launch vehicle had a perfect success record. I can't imagine the raw power.
Most powerful liquid fueled engine, but the shuttle and SLS's SRB's are more powerful. I'm sure that seeing an SLS launch would be just as spectacular. I want to do that some day. Maybe for the third launch in a few years.
I was almost 3 when Apollo 11 took off. I don't remember it but I do remember watching some of the later missions in the early 70s. Sparked a lifelong interest in space and it's exploration.
Fantastic video. The commentary was greatly appreciated. It really gives one a small idea of just how much thought and effort has been put into even the smallest of details of our Space Program. well done.
In my language fantastic means 'not real'. Accordingly, you are absolutely right - it is fake.
Well done sir. Apollo was a special era in spcae travel. It need so be preserved and appreciated. Thank you for your efforts. 👍
That was unbelievable to watch. I was a little one when this mission started and always so fascinated by all aspects of NASA . WOW ! THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS. 👍
Fascinating. I never tire of watching the Saturn take off's and have often wondered what happens at ground level once the rocket takes off. Brilliant stuff, thank you.
I am amazed every time I watch this film. Thank you for the narration!
I was at the 3 mile unprotected observation limit for several of these launches, including the night launch of Apollo 17. It was so cool, all you needed to do was write to your congressman to get 'on site VIP passes' that put us in the 'total destruction zone' for watching the launch!!! Nothing even comes close to these events! If you notice in the night launch videos you see what appears to be 'waves' of light pulse thru the exhaust - those are shock waves. What we heard at that distance was NOT a roar, but a crackling, rapid popping sound. Anyone who has stood and watched this craft ignite from only 3 miles away knows that it did go to the moon!!!
AMEN
I am a jelly. ;-;
This is simply breathtaking... Looks so apocalyptical
What a beautiful filmed launch sequence the power of the Saturn Rocket on full display here...thank you for sharing
Excellent description of what was going on, thanks for posting this vid :)
Eight minutes and 42 seconds? This is gonna take forever! (8 minutes later) It's OVER already??
Absolutely beautiful footage and commentary. Great video!
This video randomly Shows up on my recommended from time to time and it makes me happy every time
What an amazing upload! I love this stuff, thank you so much uploader.
I was 8 in 1969 and I still remember watching the first moon landing on our B & W t.v. Something I’ll never forget.
Same here exactly.
My Dad worked for NASA during this time period as an Electrical Specialist on the launch tower. At one point or another he walked that very platform.
So incredible to see, thanks for making this
First time I have ever seen this aspect of the launch. Amazing video!!!!