Posted on 01/19/2018 11:07:08 PM PST by beaversmom
"Some truly spectacular recently restored footage of the first Saturn V space rocket..."
"...Saturn V..."
It must have been absolutely amazing.
It took over 15 sec for the sound to reach you because of the 3.5 mile safety limit.....started as a low rumble you felt through your whole body. After it cleared the tower the crackle literally beat you in the chest. It was loudest as it pitched over....I mean oh my God beat you loud...nothing more spectacular.
Some day we will do such things again.
Beautiful. I’m covered with goosebumps.
One thing I always wanted to see in person but never got the chance. Had to settle for watching launches on TV.
My blue eyes are green with envy. You’re so lucky to have been able to experience a launch in person. I always wanted to.
Dad was involved in putting man in space but I don’t know exactly what he did. His work was top secret so he couldn’t discuss it.
But he certainly instilled the interest in all things space in me as I grew up.
We just saw the Saturn V on display at the Kennedy Space Center a few days ago. Its size is truly amazing.
When I was looking up to see if the LiveLeak video was on YouTube, I came across this:
Restored Saturn V Rocket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvugajQ4ss
I haven’t watched it yet.
I cannot imagine how loud spacecraft launches must be if attended live.
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204db at the source.
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20120003777.pdf
Some amazing footage here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXh3YRtTiGg
I saw two shuttle launches when I was a child. The sound was amazing. It is not a smooth sounding thrust. It is more like a machine gun of explosions,one after the other, Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! If you have good speakers, some youtube videos have an accurate sound.
Those five F-1 engines combined burned 15 tons of propellents per second.The turbo pumps feeding the engines were rated at over 50,000 hp. Much has been written about the voracious appetite of the Saturn V’s S-IC (first) stage engines: They could consume the propellant equivalent of a backyard swimming pool in 10 seconds. They could empty an Olympic-size swimming pool in about 2 ½ minutes. The liquid oxygen (LOX) alone is equivalent to 54 railroad tank cars.
It took a lot of hard work to solve the instability of combustion in the F-1s. It was finally resolved by a system of baffles on the injector plates.
Make that propellants.
I was lucky to have been able to see one of the space shuttle launches. It was just before dawn and right on schedule. Amazing!
Excellent footage, thanks.
Norman Mailer has an excellent description of the Apollo 11 lauch in his book Of A Fire On The Moon.
Apollo: Race to the Moon By Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox is the best book I’ve read on the Apollo program.
Make that launch. I wish we had an option to edit our posts.
SpaceX Falcon Heavy will have close to the power of Saturn V, and BFR will be bigger.
Was this the first test launch?
I can recall Walter Cronkite covering the first test from an outdoor studio at what was then called Cape Kennedy.
The vibrations from the launch were so intense that the plate glass window in Cronkite’s studio collapsed inward, and Cronkite had to do his whole broadcast holding up the window so it wouldn’t fall on him.
As I recall, they had to rebuild the launch pad to allow more exhaust to vent horizontally, and, again from memory, on the next test launch they used multiple high velocity water jets at the base of the pad for the first time to suppress or dissipate vibration.
I once saw a night shuttle launch with my family. We were on the beach. From miles away, it lit up the beach like bright daylight. Amazing experience.
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