Amazing Restored 1967 Footage Of Saturn V Space Rocket Launch [3 minute video via LiveLeak]

LiveLeak ^ | January 19, 2018 | Liveleak contributor: MR_rusty

[beaversmom]

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"Some truly spectacular recently restored footage of the first Saturn V space rocket..."

[Afterguard]

Half a CENTURY ago! What a country!! (Could we d0 it again?)

[donaldo]

Yes, amazing. The thing weighed as much as a naval destroyer at lift off. I think 90% of its weight at lift off was fuel and oxygen. That 7 & 1/2 million pounds of thrust had it accelerating to over 6,000 mph in 2 & 1/2 minutes. Stages 2 and 3 put it in orbit.

The crew of NASA’s Apollo 10 moon mission reached a top speed of 24,791 mph (39,897 kph) relative to Earth as they rocketed back to our planet on May 26, 1969. That’s the fastest any human beings have ever traveled. If my math is right that’s about 7 miles per second, quite a bit faster than a rifle bullet.

A good link to the Apollo program:

https://www.space.com/26572-how-it-worked-the-apollo-spacecraft-infographic.html

[tbpiper]

I’ve seen 3 Saturn 5 launches, Apollo 16, 17, and Skylab. I was just outside the VAB for the Skylab launch. So I had the VAB behind me as a sounding board and the S5 on pad 39A in front. It was impressive.

[1scrappymom]

I miss our space program. We should have been on Mars by now, but we had welfare rats to feed instead.

[Vinnie]

We used to see them from my roof in Miami. About a minute after launch they would become visible. A pinkish trail of some width. Awesome.

[bruin66]

The Challenger was the only STS launch I saw in person. I was in Melbourne for a meeting at Harris. We broke for a while to go outside to watch the launch. We did’t resume.

[JoeFromSidney]

Years ago I attended a technical conference held at Patrick AF Base, across from the launch area at Kennedy SFC. I was session chairman for one of the morning sessions. We knew there was to be a Titan launch that morning. I kept a radio on, and when the launch as announced I interrupted the speaker and we all ran outside to watch.

Disappointing. Lots of noise, but a Titan doesn't leave a visible trail in daylight. Still, we could say we saw one.

[JoeFromSidney]

Years ago I attended a technical conference held at Patrick AF Base, across from the launch area at Kennedy SFC. I was session chairman for one of the morning sessions. We knew there was to be a Titan launch that morning. I kept a radio on, and when the launch as announced I interrupted the speaker and we all ran outside to watch.

Disappointing. Lots of noise, but a Titan doesn't leave a visible trail in daylight. Still, we could say we saw one.

[JoeFromSidney]

Years ago I attended a technical conference held at Patrick AF Base, across from the launch area at Kennedy SFC. I was session chairman for one of the morning sessions. We knew there was to be a Titan launch that morning. I kept a radio on, and when the launch as announced I interrupted the speaker and we all ran outside to watch.

Disappointing. Lots of noise, but a Titan doesn't leave a visible trail in daylight. Still, we could say we saw one.

[JoeFromSidney]

Years ago I attended a technical conference held at Patrick AF Base, across from the launch area at Kennedy SFC. I was session chairman for one of the morning sessions. We knew there was to be a Titan launch that morning. I kept a radio on, and when the launch as announced I interrupted the speaker and we all ran outside to watch.

Disappointing. Lots of noise, but a Titan doesn't leave a visible trail in daylight. Still, we could say we saw one.