Apollo 11 Part1: All Engines Running

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NASA Apollo countdown, launch, staging, translunar injection (TLI), lunar module extraction, and interior tour of the docked Command and Lunar Module. All modeling was done in Blender. Smoke simulation with KHAOS. Scenes 1 through 15 done with the Cycles render Engine. The rest were done in EEVEE.
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Summary of revisions at the end.
Major scenes include:
1. Tour launch complex 39, launch pad, launch umbilical tower (LUT), and Saturn V stack.
2. Walk across swing arm number 9 to the White Room
3. Retract Saturn V Damping, Retract, and Reconnect System (DRRS) and rotate the Colby Crane out of the way.
4. Retract all LUT swing arm extensions and retract swing arm 9.
5. Retract swing arm 2 and 3 at T-19 seconds.
6. Retract swing arm 1 at T-10 seconds (F-1 ignition at T-8 seconds)
7. Tail Service Mast retraction at T-0 followed by closing of the hold down arm blast hoods.
8. Retract swing arm 5 and 6 close up at T-0.
9. Retract swing arm 7 and 8 close up at T-0
10. Look Down shot of swing arms 4 through 8 retracting at T-0
11. Close up of 5 Saturn V F-1 engines.
12. First Stage S-1C separation. Second Stage (S-II) ullage burn and and 5 J-2 engines light. Includes interstage separation. The interstage held the 4 solid ullage motors used to settle the second stage fuel.
13. Closeup of second stage J-2 engines.
14. Launch Escape Tower (LET) jettison removing the command module boost cover. Note that the jettison mode uses a solid rocket motor towards the top of the LET. Using the LET for an abort would use the much larger motor towards the bottom of the LET (with the 4 nozzles at the base)
15. Second Stage (S-II) separation with retro burn. Third Stage (S-IVB) ullage burn and ignition.
16. Third Stage TLI ignition
16. Command Module transposition, docking, and extraction.
18. Tour inside the docked Command and Lunar Module.
This revision in response to very positive feedback in the comments and other things I wanted to fix. The list of changes includes:
1. Added intro screen...hope you like it.
2. After clearing the tower added a new scene which removed the black smoke. Also added vapors coming off the rocket. And I now show the 18 degree roll to proper heading. It is hard to see because it is only 18 degrees. At launch, the spacecraft hatch faces directly east.(090) but the spacecraft needs to turn to head northeast (072). Rolling 18 degrees (90-72) while vertical, makes the horizontal maneuver into a pitch only maneuver.
3. First Stage staging is all new and this time includes the retros on the first stage. And also removed all the smoke effects.
4. Second Stage staging is all new with smoke effects removed
5. Added new scenes depicting Trans Lunar Injection...at least the ignition phase.
6. Transposition and Docking redone. In actuality it is a very slow maneuver. I have greatly speeded it up. I now slow the SLA doors blasting free. I did add some reaction control system (RCS) burns more for illustration. In reality you would rarely see the RCS burns. And they would be more bang bang in nature as opposed to the longer burns that I show. Also added the COAS in the CM forward left window (window 2) for this maneuver. But I did not put the collimated target on the COAS glass. I also removed the music.
7. Reshot the tour through the CM/LM. The biggest change is that I removed the fish eye and instead use a more standard 50mm lens. In the CM model, I recolored the locker edges to make them not look as washed out as they were. The path through the CM is the same as the original, but the camera path through the LM is different and I think shows off the inside a little better.
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