Launch of Apollo 4 first Saturn V as seen LIVE on CBS w/ Walter Cronkite
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- The first launch of the Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center. This is footage from CBS News with Walter Cronkite. This is the famous video of him exclaiming about the roar and "the ceiling is fall down".
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"The ROAR is terrific!! The building's shaking! Look at that rocket GO!!!!"
Now THAT is how you report on something significant.
"Professional detachment" goes out the window when a man made earthquake is trying to destroy the building your sitting in :)
Zoomer30 We who are about to die are… STOKED!
The adrenaline must be immense.
Watch the same scene in "From The Earth To The Moon" - Lane Smith shows similar excitement.
"Look at it going! You can see it.... Part of our roof has come in here..."
Walter Cronkite was almost like a little kid at times during these missions. Enthusiastic, exhuberant, and loving every minute of a launch. He was really into the space programme and it shows.
agreed he was a great actor 'shake this table when I say liftoff ok?'
Um no, that was Apollo 4 that shook that table, that whole hut they were in. That wasn't acting.
of course
LordZontar Yes he was, yes he was.
LordZontar Walter Cronkite was one of the stoic old school newscasters .. he rarely ever got emotional ... which means his experience here was beyond belief, the first launch of the largest vehicle mankind ever built, then and to this day. I can't wait to see the new SLS with boosters launch the first time!
Before the 1800's, the fastest a human being had ever traveled, for hundreds of thousands of years, was about 35mph, or the running speed of a horse. With the advent of the steam locomotive, people could travel at twice that. By 1912, the year the Titanic sank, a human exceeded 100mph in an airplane for the first time. Only 35 years later, man broke the sound barrier at 650mph. Only 10 years later, in 1957, speeds of twice that were possible.
And in 1969, only 66 years after the Wright Brothers first lifted off the ground, the astronauts of Apollo 10 traveled faster than any other humans ever have, at nearly 40,000mph relative to the Earth. An entire generation went to school before the airplane was invented, and then saw the Moon Landing in their old age.
Truly, the 20th century was a miraculous time. One can only hope the 21st can live up to that.
My grandmother was born when horses were still a common means of transport, and airplanes were new. National women's suffrage happened when she was a child. Her first flight was on a biplane, and washing clothes required hand cranks. Her sweet 16 was during the Great Depression. She was in her 20s through WWII, raised a family during the 50s while her brothers helped build the interstate highway system. She had grandchildren during the cold war, and great grandchildren during the digital revolution. To this day, she remains the toughest, most patient, optimistic, and humble person I have ever known.
how about terminal velocity?
miraculous if you believe the apollo movie production
mdimarco87 "how about terminal velocity?"
Might be something to look into. You have already demonstrated terminal stupidity, so that's no longer in play.
mdimarco87 It would be a true miracle, if you were able to describe HOW the Apollo program was faked.
That means every detail.
Cronkite later admitted he was "overwhelmed" by the power of the rocket and the emotion of the moment. His on-air description was delivered without his usual poise and reserve as he yelled above the launch noise into his microphone.
During the Friendship 7 liftoff, with astronaut John Glenn aboard, Cronkite said, "Looks like a good flight. Oh, go baby!"
Someone has copied and pasted wikipedia...
I remember watching this. Such a difference between this launch and the Gemini/Titans. It seemed impossible that such a massive structure could fly straight, let alone into orbit (and beyond). We were all yelling at the TV at the time, and couldn't hear Cronkite's awesome commentary. It's great to be able to listen to it here on CZcams.
Great memories. It would have been such a thrill to sit where Cronkite sat - or anywhere of a similar distance to the launch pad. I've seen rockets launch there, including a shuttle - which was also awesome. But old timers told us that the Saturn V was 3 times the rumble/pressure that the Space Shuttle engines/boosters managed to produce. Almost impossible to imagine that - as the shuttle launch thrashed my lungs and heart about pretty damned hard.
Sadly Conkite was one of the last true journalists too,
I'm proud to say that I worked on the Apollo program at the Cape. Never before or since has there been such an exciting display of this country's power and capabilities, putting men on the moon in less than 10 years.
What were your duties with the Apollo program? I am envious that you were able to be a part of a monumental part of history on so many fronts (scientific, political, and technological). I wish I could say the same.
Holly ,Oh My you worked On the Apollo Program?? I would be honored to Talk to you,I have been A Fan of the Space program starting in 1969 when My grandmother sat me down to watch the moon Launch,Then I began to study the first missions Project Gemini Project Mercury,Apollo Missions,The Space program was ,is So Interesting,I would love to here about your Work on the missions.
Thank you for your service.!!!!
easier to prove it was fake then real. I'm sure they had you slaving away on some widget while they photoshopped this footage.
+mdimarco87 No brain A $$!
So did my Father In Law....he was an engineer with Rockwell. These nut jobs that said it didn't happen are an embarrassment to all the men and women that sacrificed so much in their personal life and families to make this happen.
The Saturn V didn't just shake the air and the ground it shakes history and you can still feel it today.
Well said!
You just made me tear up a little…
True words my friend!
Poetic.
It was the most powerful machine ever built by humans. The fact that our humble species could imagine, design, and build a machine of such breathtaking power fills me with awe even today.
what fills me with awe is that you would rather believe that then this footage was an obvious fake which is far more likely
mdimarco87 Uh, fake? I've seen the launches myself. They weren't fake, I can assure you.
Go away, troll.
Thank You Wernher von Braun! If not for you, and JFK, we would never have made it.
And do it in such a short period of time.
They don't make them like that anymore, i spoke to people who live at Titusville Floria in 1986, they said the Saturn 5 was like nothing else which has flown since. It literally rattled your bones
2021...Spacex building and testing "starship" it will dwarf the Saturn in height, width, power. and to top it of....the whole frigging starship can "land"!!
@@martijndekker9473 Saturn V was created back in the '60s when a computer filled an entire room and had the power of today's handheld calculator. You can't compare the two.
@@ricklepick9148 the hell you can't. the Saturn V still hasn't been surpassed. (03-13-2021)
I lived 90 miles from the Cape. You could hear the Saturn V. None of the other vehicles including shuttle were as loud.
@@ricklepick9148 The guidance computer did not fill an entire room. The Sabre computer built in 1964 didn't even fill an entire room - the only computers that were filling entire rooms in the 60's were supercomputers.
R.I.P. Launch Control commentator Jack King (the man who counted down to liftoff).
"Ignition sequence staaht!" RIP JACK
You need to go to the Kennedy Space Center and see the Saturn v. It is totally awesome. The whole center is great.
would love to check out the largest model rocket ever made. Love rockets.
Steve Baker It was huge! I saw it at both KSC and JSC but in my opinion KSC is better!
yup!!!! 363 feet tall!
Steve Baker I hope so one day.
I have. all 363 feet of it
Looking back as someone who grew up during Gemini and Apollo, it made me remember the genuine excitement that Walter Cronkite had when covering all of these shots.
Its amazing that back in the day, we would show live coverage of an unmanned Saturn 5 rocket that would finally get men to the moon, on interrupted television on all THREE of the existing networks! NBC, CBS and ABC. The 60's were an exceptional time to grow up as a very young kid. I loved every minute of it.
its also amazing how bad video footage fakery was done back then
+mdimarco87 Well, they didn't have to fake anything. That was the quality of video back then... And you are an insinuating idiot!!!
mdimarco87 and that’s the point; they couldn’t fake it, they didn’t have the technology to do so.
Don't feed the flattard.
I know, right?
This still gives me goosebumps. I was born in 59 and saw all the launches on TV. It was like watching a skyscraper with 5 massive engines lifting off that pad. What a sound. These guys were amazing.
Beware of Flat Earthers saying this is fake.
@TheRealCheeser the sound couldn't be faked
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Saw two Saturn/Apollo launches from the mainland, perhaps 10 miles, when I was a teenager in 1970-71. One of the most impressive sights I've ever seen/heard.
I lived just south of Daytona Beach in New Smyrna Beach as a kid and still do. When the Apollo rockets launched you could feel the ground shake and you thought the windows would shatter! There has been nothing that has compared with them yet! I feel extremely lucky to live here and be able to step out my door and watch every launch! Nothing compares to it!
i love it when everyone was excited when the engine ignited, freaked out when they dont know whether something bad is happening because of the loudness and shakiness, and then turn in awe realising how awesome this is.
People were just as excited when Space V landed their booster back on the pad from where it came.
You can actually hear the pressure waves modulating his voice, fantastic!!!
Every time someone tries to tell me how loud it is at NASCAR, I put this on and turn up the volume. The roar at "ignition sequence start" gives me goosebumps. The Saturn V rocket was the largest rocket ever successfully used. It was quite an achievement.
+Scott Anthony In July, 1969, my father and I sat up at 1:30 a.m., listening to the countdown of Apollo 11. Back then, there were none of the high-capacity TV satellites that we take for granted today and so, in New Zealand, live coverage of overseas event was by radio.
So, we heard the count progress to "ignition sequence started", "all engines running", "launch commit" and “lift-off at thirty-two minutes past the hour”.
Then we heard the gigantic crackling roar of the Saturn. The noise filled the room and my mother, who had been asleep upstairs, came down complaining and asking us why we had turned the sound up, but we hadn’t touched it.
Apollo was a a great time to be alive and I will always count myself fortunate to have witnessed it.
@@MarsFKA . And now your guy Peter Beck is launching his orbital rockets out of NZ. He's also built a beautiful modern factory in Auckland. You must get down to see a launch and visit their factory.
@@phil4826 Isn't modern rocket technology great? Small rockets can now reach orbit.
My wife and I were in Napier last May and could see Mahia Peninsula - NZ's "Cape Canaveral" - from our motel balcony. We did a drive to Morere Hot Springs one day, which took us past the turn-off to Mahia Peninsula and briefly thought about driving down the peninsula to see how close to Rocket Lab's facility we could get, but it's a long way and we were running short of time, and no indication of how close to the launch site we could get, anyway.
Launches are visible from Napier, but you need binoculars or high-magnification devices because the launch is 87 kilometres away.
As for visiting their Auckland factory: probably not. I live in the South Island and driving in Auckland, from experience gained in another lifetime, is something I now prefer not to do.
It’s too cool; they should remaster the sound.
Listen to that excitement. Grown men with slide rulers hootin & hollerin’. TV announcers nearly overwhelmed by the power of the moment. A whole nation pumps its fist in joy.
How can you not appreciate that they built a 363 foot skyscraper and then accelerated it to 40,000 mph? That's...fucking...amazing!
+Joe Blow - Well, the whole rocket didn't accelerate to 40,000 MPH. The first and second stages were jettisoned and ended up in the ocean. Only the third stage with the Apollo spacecraft on top accelerated to that speed as they left earth orbit on the way to the moon.
+Joe Blow Even more amazing when you consider that this is nearly the height of the Great Pyramid...which was the tallest man-made structure in the world for almost 4000 years
The first stage got up to 5,113mph. Not bad for a skyscraper, huh?
They didn't go 40,000mph, they went 40,000kmh, or 24,791mph. Having said that, yep, it's still amazing - sort of. As an aerospace engineer for 42 years I jjust see it as "we were given a job and we did it". And that is meant in no way to diminish the magnitude of the accomplishment. To me the most amazing part was that we got over 400,000 people to all agree to and work on the same goal - and this included politicians. Now that IS amazing - especially in today's environment.
Getting the politicians on board was easy, LBJ had the dirt on all of them and it was his pet project, not JFK's!!!
Saturn V was the most beautiful rocket...
It's phenomenal relic of human beings！！！
Until the Falcon Heavy
Saturn V had a massive set of balls.
+David Roberts the one with 30 little engines in it's first-stage that never flew for more than a minute and a half (roughly), ya mean?
i agree.. would be nice if they built another one
My grandfather was head engineer for testing the booster stage at the mississippi testing facility, now called Stennis Space center. All his grandkids called it Pops rocket when we were growing up. Very proud of him. He actually had early renderings of the space shuttle before it was bulit. Because they would be testing thw shuttle engine there. Some of them got destroyed in hurricane Katrina.
If it was fake the Russians would never have bought into that. Too much on the line for it to be faked.
If he was that important, what was his name so I can look him up...
Was he Sonny Morea?
It was unmanned, but seeing it go up like that meant the door to the moon was open for the first time in the history of mankind.
Not so long ago as some Americans can recall, we as a nation accomplished great things. There really was pride in every American heart.
How sad to see what was has become so distant.
TRIPLE AMEN.
spacelevator2020 Agreed. It's all part of the I HATE AMERICA LIBERAL LIE.
MrSmithaustin Funny the most funding to NASA has been from those damn Liberal Presidents...quit watching Fox News.
MrSmithaustin
Yep... *Liberals* throw away money advancing technologies to take American men & women to the stars in the name of *freedom and democracy*...
*Conservatives* throw away money advancing technologies to send American men & women to foreign lands to kill and be killed in the name of *freedom and democracy*...
I guess it all comes down to priorities doesn't it?
MelioraCogito
Trouble is the current lot of Liberals are just throwing away money and not advancing anything, except themselves! JFK would be rolling in his grave at the antics of this lot.
what a marvel of engineering the saturn v was.. especially with 1960s technology. absolutely stunning.
Those were really exciting times for those who lived it. Thanks Uncle Walter! RIP
Why not be excited now? you can buy into the stock rally and the immenent recovery! woo! you would be no less intellegent than the people who believed this in 69.
Takes a special kind of person to know the danger of space flight and still want to do it, could not imagine being strapped in on top of this beast
Watching this whilst waiting for the first launch of the SLS on Artemis 1!!!
THEY JUST DID IT!!!!!!!
It seems as if they werent fully prepared to witness at such close range the first launch of the most powerful rocket ever built.
if you consider a dude shaking a table unprepared then I would agree
@@mdimarco87 Idiot
@@MajDuty
Ding!
The N1 was actually more powerful, but we all know how that went
The first launch of the greatest rocket ever. I cannot get enough of that, magnificient. None of them has ever failed!
That's true. There were 33 Saturn launches, and not a single one exploded, lost it's payload or carried a warhead. It was a rocket system entirely flown for peaceful purposes only.
The passion in the second commentator's voice as he describes the noise. It must've been an extraordinary experience to watch an Apollo launch.
I'm willing to bet some changes in building distance and construction occurred after this launch! One felt as though everything was coming apart from the roar of the engines. great video! I watched many as a child, even staying home from school to see the non stop coverage on all the channels! Thank you for sharing this.
IIRC, the studios were at Mercury/Gemini distance from the pad. They were moved back after this launch.
I was in grade school. They put every student and teacher in our auditorium. They wheeled in four portable TVs, put one on each side in the front and one on each side halfway back. The screens were small, you couldn't see well unless you were really close. The video was not great, but it didn't matter. We witnessed history, and they did it for every launch. It was wonderful.
Fun to hear an old man talk like a young kid out of excitement.
The fear and rapture are both so thick you can reach out and hold it AFTER more than 50 years.
Amazing
A main reason why this launch was so loud as Cronkite referred to the roar, was that Pad 39A was brand new at that time. The water suppression system had been installed, but wasn't ready to be activated when Apollo 4 was launched. The suppression system, which normally would begin spraying water on the pad around the T-minus 15 second mark, works to not only "deaden" the sound volume of the launch, but also keeps the concrete on the launch pad from being damaged by spalling in which the top of the concrete can be chipped and stripped away by a strong force hitting it. At any rate, Cronkite and anyone at the launch site was treated to complete naked noise from the Saturn V's, five F-1 engines when Apollo 4 lifted off. Subsequent Saturn V launches were certainly loud, but the water suppression system was engaged by the time Apollo 8 lifted off the same launch pad a little over a year later. The noise of the launches was still almost unbearable, even with the suppression system in action. Talk to people who witnessed the launches first hand and they'll tell you when the sound hit them it was like someone hammering away at their chest with fists..
I was 9 years old and a space freak. I couldn't get enough. I still can't and I'm now 60. Let's get Human's on Mars!
Anyone here after Artemis 1?
Walter Cronkite being born in 1916 never could have imagined that one day man could land on the moon. My grandfather was born in the eighteenth hundreds before automobiles, so seeing something like this was unimaginable.
what an absolute masterpiece
I can only imagine what is crappy to you.
mdimarco87 Oh man not you.
Walter, almost as great as NASA. It is sad we, the public can't be part of our ongoing space program. These were glory days.
Now that’s some quality reporting! “Look at that rocket GO!” You can hear the excitement in Walter’s voice.
There’s something about space exploration that makes all of us feel like an excited little kid again. I remember when I watched SpaceX launch Starship SN8 with my mother we were both so, so excited. I remember tearing up when I heard mission control say “We’re safe on Mars” when the Perseverance rover landed. I remember just absolutely losing it when I saw SpaceX successfully land Starship SN15. Seeing a rocket lift into the sky just never gets old for me. It’s such an astounding thing.
It wasn't just the visuals or the concept of space exploration that had him excited. The media trailer was literally being shaken apart around them. Chunks were falling down from the ceiling and they were pushing against the window with their hands to try to dampen its vibration because they were afraid it would shatter. That'll get anyone's heart going.
Boy, Walt gets pretty worked up! Good stuff, I wish I was there.
yup he is a natural born actor
mdimarco87 Looks like Buzz Aldrin needs to adjust your attitude with a nice Hawaiian Punch, like he had to do with the other nutcase who called him a liar and a fake :) POWWW! fruit juicy!
In AZ we don't need a permit to carry concealed and we can carry razor sharp swords. Come at me bro!
+mdimarco87 Reported as spam, and troll blocked.
I remember watching the landing of Apollo 11 and Walter Cronkite was covering the event on CBS; When the " eagle has landed, tranquility base here" message was broadcast , Mr. Cronkite was like a kid on Christmas morning . I honestly think that day (july 20, 1969) was one of the happiest days in the history of the USA .
Two iconic voices, Jake King and Walter Konkite, it will never be the same again!!
1:33 That noise! Beast mode activate.
Little history note. The Saturn delievered something like 8 million pounds of thrust, and was damaging the building the tv broadcastrs were in. There was actually a LARGER rocket than the Saturn planned, and it was called the NOVA. It would have generated around 12 million pounds of thrust. One of the reasons it was cancelled was they realized they would have had to rebuild the launch pad everytime they sent one up...
+Hari Seldon Sounds like a good argument for developing mobile oceanic launch platforms, IMO.
Well they also didn't have the funding for it, I mean it was designed for a mars mission,after 11 they didn't even et enough funding to finish apollo 20.
7.5 million pounds
And then there was a Convair NEXUS...
Their original plan was to fly straight to the moon. But there was some engineer (I forgot his name) who convinced von Braun that it would be much easier to have a separate Lunar Module, which would land on the moon and then redock with the command module. This new plan allowed them to scale down the original rocket.
This is a great vid, you can get an appreciation of the absolute power in the guys voice saying the building is shaking.
Awesome!
Walter Cronkite was a real space program enthusiast. I really enjoyed his passion reporting this first launch of the Saturn V. This is the way a major national accomplishment should be reported. I miss Walter Cronkite. They'll never be another like him!
Ken Demers - Not me. I liked Brinkley. Brinkley never lost his cool.
If we could time travel back to 1968 and tell people that in 2016 when an American flies into space, they need to buy a seat from the Russians they would have laughed. They would think you a fool.
exactly, because in nowadays only a fools can believe that really happened ( moon landings)
They certainly would think you a fool. Not only do we pay money to have our Astronauts travel to and from the International Space Station, the round trip costs us $70 million a seat. "You mean that the Amelican vill pay us $70 million dollars a person to go to their own space a'station? Ya right, now pass ze Wodka. Psht, Amelikans pay us? Never happen." Another fact that would get you laughed out of the bar. Dear Soviet friend of 1968: In the 1990's, your country will sell the Weapons Grade Uranium from 20,008 or about 500 tons of your country's nuclear weapons and sell it to the United States. It will be called the "Megatons to Megawatts Program". That 500 tons of Highly Enriched Uranium(HEU)will be down blended to make 15,000 tons of Low Enriched Uranium. This 15,000 tons of LEU will fuel American nuclear generating station reactors from1995-2015 providing the USA with 10% of its TOTAL electrical need over that 20 years.C'mon 2017 so we can get these Commercial Crew Boeing Starliner(due to fly unmanned in June 2018 and manned later in 2018) and Space Explorations Dragon 2(scheduled to fly unmanned in July 2017, then fly an unmanned flight abort test, then a few months later a manned flight to the ISS). Also in late 2018, we will get to see 4 RS-25 (Space Shuttle Main Engines) along with 2 Solid Rocket Boosters light up all at once for the very first Space Launch System unmanned launch from Kennedy's launch pad 39-B. This gap of no American way to get humans into space has gone on long enough(since the last Space Shuttle mission STS-135 in July 2011) Heck even China has the capability to launch humans into space.
hoghogwild
key words in your spitche: "we will"
BALLSBUSTER01 """we will get to see 4 RS-25 (Space Shuttle Main Engines) along with 2 Solid Rocket Boosters light up all at once for the very first Space Launch System unmanned launch from Kennedy's launch pad 39-B. """
Are you saying that the SLS launch WILL or WILLNOT happen? Or are you mocking the lack of space access by the USA since July 201 when the last Space Shuttle landed? Please elaborate?
Keep your conspiracy to you and your tin hat. thanks
I saw two shuttle launches.... one from the VIP (3 miles from pad) and it was STS-127, and the other from the causeway (6 miles) it was STS-133. Neither of them were even close to being loud. A clap of Thunder is louder. The launches I saw were nothing more than a distant rumble. I would have loved to seen a Saturn V launch just to see how it compares to Shuttle Launches.
Even at 3 miles.
@@randygravel2057 Yes.. was not loud at all... just a rumble... maybe because the wind was blowing away from us and not towards us... so the wind direction might have had something to do with it.. but it was not loud at all... I will say though the brightness of the flame was incredibly bright.. even on a bright sunny day, the flame looked like a golden welding arc.
A static firing of just one of the shuttle SRBs from about one half mile was plenty loud.
Walter Cronkite's excitement always brings a huge grin to my face. Sad that I was not around to see this.
The entire point of Apollo relied on this rocket. Imagine how many years, how much blood sweat and tears went into it. How many engineers worked through the issues and solved them. Those cheers give me goosebumps, watching it work for the first time and perform perfectly.
When they launched a Saturn V in Florida, weather stations in New York City could detect the pressure waves from the launch on their barometers. The Saturn V was so powerful that the disturbances it produced in the atmosphere could travel that far.
+Joe Vignolo I've never heard this before. Do you have a source for this?
I don't think so. Maybe seismic disturbances?
I have heard that during fixed static saturn rocket engine testing in Huntsville Alabama, windows were broken in buildings in Birmingham Alabama a 100 miles away.
I lived just across the Indian river in Titusville Fl. as a young boy when they lit the first Saturn V (must have been this launch)...we had a Burger King down at the river on U.S. 1 that had only recently put A/C in their attached outdoor eating area and they had replaced the screens with large plate glass sliding doors/windows...this launch broke the glass...and also broke the glass at the Ford Dealer next door....from then on whenever a Saturn V was going to launch they'd tape their windows.
+steve Fowler Fantastic. How did McDonalds fare?
We didn't have a McDonalds at that time and the one we got a few years later was outdoor eating.
+steve Fowler I thought the comment about Burger King having outdoor air conditioning was quite interesting. In the UK that's the last thing you would want - normally.
The first McDonalds didn't open in the UK until 1974 and in Ireland (where I am originally from), 1977.
EricIrl
The BK was originally just a walk up and eat at a few outside tables, then they built an attached eating area and it was screened in (mosquitoes in the summer, you know), then about '67 they got a/c for the area and put sliding glass doors in...that was Florida in the 60's...I remember when we got our first A/C at home about the same time. fyi, my Elementary and Jr. High School both were unairconditioned....obviously it was/is a wee bit warmer in Florida than the UK or Ireland :)
+steve Fowler
I didn't encounter air conditioning until I visited Texas in 1981. And boy, was it needed. Although I found it strange walking out of a building and having my glasses steam up - on the outside.
In the British Isles, glasses only steam up when you walk in out of the cold.
Thank you for posting this. Those were exciting times when these blast-offs took place and watch when school was not in session. Amazing stuff indeed. I remember listening to Cronkite, describe the risks, dangers and rewards of such ventures with the wonder of a school-child.
Walter Cronkite had tears in his eyes as he reported. It’s doubtful that you will ever see that in a reporter ever again. Cronkite, Huntley/Brinkley - well never have that again.
I love this stuff.
Thank you Dr. Von Braun:}
yup he got you to pay him for making fake videos. Smart guy indeed. Also somehow got away with a cush job in america after being an enemy of war.
No this clip was posted to get you to realize youve been believing a lie 45 years
***** Thanks Dirk Agreed! I never knew such a simple thing as thanking the man responsible for the Saturn 5 would turn into such a dramatic political debate
RFKFANTS67 If people want to think the moon landings were "A Capricorn one" scenario that's fine to. Too each his own. And I'd like to think we've moved passed ww2 ! yes it was horrific and sad. but like someone said ? it was like 70 years ago. Can we not just agree to disagree about some things, and move forward.
RFKFAn..I think you mean, "Thank you Orville and Wilbur Wright."
saturn 5 on its way gives me goose bumps every time, breath taking, beautiful, insanely impressive
Cronkite was like a little kid. What a great piece of TV history. I miss that America.
Saturn V... legendary. That's about all their is to say
'Murica.
Fuck yeah.
The most beautiful delivery he made of that too. Made me so happy to hear that wonder, pride, and awe.
I can only imagine how mind-blowingly awesome seeing this launch first hand, while the building was shaking. Walter Cronkite was one lucky man.
First time humans experienced a human built object of incredible design and power, that wasn't a bomb!
+CaribSurfKing1 The Titanic.
+isukaman That could have been a bomb, haha and released its energy just a little slower and in a more controlled way
+CaribSurfKing1 ..Perhaps not a bomb, but it was a controlled explosion.
"Slow bomb." Blew 'em sky high.
first time? what about the r-7 rocket?
The greatest rocket ever...The Saturn V still holds the all time records for heaviest payload to earth orbit and to lunar orbit. No Saturn V ever failed in flight. Even the cluster f@#k Apollo VI unmanned flight managed to limp into orbit with 3 SII engines...
Starship and it’s heavy booster under development by SpaceX will have twice the thrust of Saturn V. Maybe in service 2021-22.
My Dad was a Radar Guidance Engineer (GE Aerospace) at The Cape and I grew up in Cocoa Beach as a young kid but we had moved to Titusville in ~'64 so I was there for this launch. The Burger King that was right off the Indian River on US1 in downtown Tville had previously had an attached screen dining room outside but they had recently installed plate glass sliding doors/windows and put in AC. This launch was the first time they had lit a Saturn V and it cracked the BK sliding glass doors and the windows to the Ford dealership's showroom which was right next door. Thereafter you could always tell when a Sat V was going to launch as you'd see tape on the dealership's and BK's windows. I believe the distance from launch complex 32 to BK as the crow flies it is ~ 11 miles (a Ph.D. Aerospace Engineer who works for a large American defense contractor's Missile Systems company in central Florida.
This is my favourite video on CZcams. Simply Awe-inspiring.
I hope Orion is at least as half as awesome as the Saturn V. Hopefully the project even makes it that far...
First I thought "Hell, yes!" Then I thought "Oh, you mean the small Orion, not the big one. OK, a bit less awesome." :-D
Chris Wright The Ares V rocket from Constellation programme was supposed to be the successor to Saturn V and Apollo. Unfortunately it was scrapped by Obama so the SLS rocket will have to do. Orion is still in it though.
Orion will be pretty cool, but nowhere near half as exciting. BFR, though, that could get there and beyond.
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1:34 - I bet those tube-based video cameras didn't like that. :P
This was such a beautiful moment from my childhood. I can't even put it into words.
Love the commentator. His excitment is child like and you can tell he loves his job.
also at the same time you can also get a sense of the effort he is putting into stopping his office window from being blown out, inside he must of been shitting himself
Walter Cronkite was like a kid he loved NASA, wish he could have see that ULA Delta IV and the Orion spaceship it's nice. Ha! I think you kids might be going to Mars after all :)
In the late 60's I lived a few doors away om E 84th, his son and I were of the same age group, so we played together. I saw him very rarely, probably because he worked so hard, possibly because I was more interested in hanging out with a boy of my own age.. He was kind, gentle, avuncular, and just about the best grownup a kid might like to meet. .
mars? we aren't even on the moon yet. Mabye you need to look at a map of the solar system to get some scale
mdimarco87
Please stay away from sharp objects and from highly combustible substances.
Real monstrous rocket !!!! I love it. Next : SLS and Orion capsule, USA back in manned mission in space !
Apparently Saturn V was so incredibly loud, it could be heard 100 miles away, something no other rocket, not even the Shuttle came close to. And it made something like 193 db, so it's shockwaves actually exceeded atmospheric pressure, hence the trough part of the sound waves caused a momentary vacuum which caused a special kind of crackling in the sound. I never heard it live, but someone who has may confirm.
Walter Cronkite is a titan of journalistic integrity. What a shame his example is not followed by those today that call themselves journalists.
The year 1967 had.......better-looking cars, prettier & thinner women, and more powerful rockets.
And me! I was born in 1967. Although my "launch" lasted only a little over 3 hours, my Mom was thankful.
Ingleprop Noosegarm Music, yes. Drugs.... I wouldn't know about. Never had anything harder than moonshine. Never wanted to try anything harder than that.
Ingleprop Noosegarm
That is only true for alcoholics. Many millions of people around the world drink in moderation with no deleterious health effect. In fact, moderate consumption of red wine is a net plus for health----again, in moderation.
In contrast, there are NOT many millions of people who are moderate heroin users.
I have made my points, and I wish you well.
I am done with this conversation.
Ingleprop Noosegarm Noose, We don't agree, and there is massive literature in the peer-reviewed journals to back up my point. I am not going to make my conversation with you a third job. We will never agree until Hell freezes over. Goodbye.
bboucharde because USA have ideology and true patriotic leaders that s why mankind are going to space, moon, venus etc. and what now??! what?? stupid iphones and blond hair scum like trump is our president.....only disaster we will have in future. glory to cold war TIMES. glory to 1967 and Saturn 5.😀
What a shame NASA today has not only lost funding, but they seem wayward w/o purpose or vision.
Apollo showed us all what we are capable of with commitment from a leader with vision and American's proud to support such a monumental effort. I seriously doubt with the generation of today with their distractions of iPhones, texting etc...that we will ever achieve this level of selfless dedication. So much spinoff came from Apollo..the Space Shuttle wproduced some spinoff tech, but paled when compared to Apollo.
If you think NASA is wayward and without purpose these days, I think you should really take a look at the things they are doing. Because clearly you haven't.
Ya...we hitch rides with the soviets and farm out leo to private enterprise. Their glory days have passed.
Like I said... You have no idea what they've been up to.
You can't outdo the impossible unfortunately.
Every year, two Billion dollars of NASA's budget is directed at research into so-called "climate change." What a waste.
Look at this launch schedule: www.nasa.gov/launchschedule/ NASA doesn't even launch rockets anymore. They tag along with the Russians or depend upon SpaceX or ULA.
Thanks Obama.
I was under the impression that there were two water releases on Saturn V launches. 1 was the flooding for sound/vibration suppression and the second a spray on the launcher to keep the metal cooler and suppress fire.
I watched the whole launch if Apollo 11 recently and the NASA Public Affairs announcer also said the hold down arms and some other structures were coated with a white paint that was designed to help protect the metal parts from being ruined by the heat.
I also heard that smallish grass fires near the pad were not uncommon with the Saturn 5.
"The building's shaking! ... The building is shaking!... The roar is terrific!!! LOOK AT THAT ROCKET GO!!!!"
Classic stuff.
Hey! Fancy meeting YOU here! What was life like for you 9 years ago? Here's a tip: Stay out of 2020 when you get there.
unbelievable that we allowed this engine to be lost to the sands of time. DOCUMENT YOUR WORK PEOPLE
It's not lost, just like everything concerning the shuttle. Google: "collectspace building a saturn v rocket to work today?". A pretty good thread that explains how everything is stored on microfilm.
It wasn't a very good engine anyway. Way too complicated and inefficient.
Some engineers used modern technology to design an engine known as the F-1B, it is more powerful, more efficient, cheaper, lighter, more reliable, and, especially, simpler. The F-1 had some 5600 parts, while the F-1B would only have around 40. The F-1 was only used because back then it was easier to have a few big engines than many small engines, but nowadays thanks to computers and electronics the second option is just as good, and, in some cases, better.
and Bezos fished them out of the drink a few years back: czcams.com/video/mUqp0ppKxJ8/video.html
I think Walter might have enjoyed that.
Probably
"Look at that rocket GO!" A perfect compliment to his "Go, baby, GO!" when John Glenn lifted off.
The men and women who created this marvel did it not with autocad and supercomputers ...but with slide rules and ingenuity.
Heroes
I think Walter Cronkite was about to soil his drawers! I know I would have!
Wow! I forgot the USA actually did things right at one time.
The Vietnam Conflict and the Space program were in the same era. Yes its done things right. We are human not demigods.
We used to do things right ;......Today we are averse to doing things right.
Kelly oxo see... look at how we hate ourselves now. we are becoming the self hating marxists we fought so hard to keep away from us.
You sound like a LIBERAL or should I say a U.S. HATER.
MrSmithaustin
Clearly you are a toxic idiot who feels a need to be heard. Would you prefer best to be known as toxic, or as an idiot?
We can quibble over just what characterizes a "liberal" (/"LIBERAL" in your jargon). Generally that designation depicts the Democrats among our formal political institutions.
Democrats won the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. You might not have paid attention in civics classes, but it *does* mean something when your aversion routinely loses the election most directly expressive of national will.
I love the USA; I was born here; I live here by choice; I pay taxes; I volunteer; I vote, my forebears are buried here; this is my home. I will not let fascists of your ilk take over without putting up a fight.
I saw this launch as a child. I remember Walter’s commentary especially the part about holding the windows.
that commentary is one of television moments of all time. He just exudes excitement and awe.
Just what kind of rocket would we have eventually created if we had continued onto deep space instead of cutting back the space program? If we could have created something like this with the limited technology of the time we would have been to Mars 15=20 years ago. Now we can't even get into earth orbit since we don't have a spacecraft of any kind to launch. We truly are being lead by a bunch of unimaginative politicians who only care about greed and power. I'm glad i got to see the Apollo in all it's glory as a kid. Now we have generations who have nothing like this to inspire them.
well with ion drive we can push our way to around 300 miles from earth surface.
mdimarco87
300 miles up won't get you very far. Geostationary orbit is just a tad under 36,000 km above sea level .
Idiot.
from what ive heard the highest humans have gotten was 365 miles and they started noticing radiation effects from the van allen belts which they weren't even close to yet, I believe they start at 1000 miles.
Technically nasa was planning on making a rocket called the nova, it had EIGHT F1 Engines and was supposed to be far more powerful then the saturn V, unfortunately that didn't happen.
The Van Allen belts are a bit of a problem, but your only really in danger if your orbit in them for days. The Apollo Command Module gave pretty good protection and the ship was only in the Belts for a couple of hours at most on a Lunar mission. The big problem with deep space flight is solar flares and Galactic Cosmic Rays. These will not be stopped unless you have the radiation protection of a strong magnetic Field, a 7000 mile diameter ball of rock and a 100 miles thick slice of Air (i.e. the Earth). Putting that into a space craft for a Mars mission is kind of impostable.
...And the first stage ran on KEROSENE. Modern technology uses primitive fuel...and it worked! Every time, even before they figured out how to stop POGO! That was truly an amazing, huge craft. And now you can walk around with God only knows how many times the computing power of the command module in the palm of your hand. Maybe all this space flight wasn't for nil.
+Herman Schwartz There's a little more to the Kerosene mixture they used. It was highly purified and refined, with special lubricants, and anti-coagulating additives mixed into it. Sulfur, alkanes, and aromatics were severely restricted or removed in the refining process, making this mix even greener than the consumer level kerosene and even gasoline.
+Nighthawke70 But it was still good, old-fashioned kerosene that put that 363 foot beast into the air. It amazes me to this day. I didn't have the appreciation for all that at the age of 11 when Apollo 7 launched. (Or any Apollo mission, for that matter. I was young for all of them.) For a space-bound vessel to have used a fossil fuel just seems paradoxical. And that stuff is heavy, too. it pretty much had to lift its own fuel weight as well as the massive vehicle. Amazing.
Herman Schwartz
Consider energy density, vs weight vs hazards. Hydrogen, holds the highest energy density, bulks out easily and requires specialized logistical supplies, training, and management.
Hydrazine based bi-propellants like used on the Gemini/Titan II stack, are good, but the hazards double up, and the toxic byproducts are not very healthy. Plus the added expense of exotic materials to keep the chemicals from touching each other or anywhere undesired.
RP1 is a good compromise, with formulations to avoid gelling up from encountering low temperatures, is a cinch for anyone educated in handling petroleum based products in large quantity.
+Nighthawke70 - you have engineering prowess! Thanks for the info.
+Nighthawke70 So...You're simply saying the Saturn V was one badass machine. Yeah, I'll agree with that!
No joke:I teared up watching this. Beautiful!
I miss these days!! I remember watching those launches.
Conspiracy lunatics, did you see it ?
+yvesgomez No. It was pretty lousy video and could even have been spliced together from other bits and pieces.
+bigpardner sigh
+Dillon ferko (Shamrock69) Why the sigh? You disagree? You don't think this is lousy quality video from beginning to end? You don't think NASA would have come up with the highest quality cinematography available for this momentous event? Maybe this is just a bad copy, huh?
+bigpardner you know that moment when I realize what he actually meant....
Shite
+bigpardner This is not NASA. This was the CBS broadcast in 1967. That's what TV was like back then. I'm old enough to remember. And why fake the footage of an unmanned launch anyway? You don't think half of Florida watched it live?
the saturn 5 was the loudest man made object ever built
The sound pressure was fatal at 800 yds.
2nd loudest really behind Nuke weapons.
Overboost44 nuclear explosion doesnt last over 2 minutes generating 7 million pounds of thrust tho.
Overboost44 nukes aren't a sustained engine burn either so they don't count as loudest sound.
so this is how one covers their ass for bieng wrong.
Here we are in August 2022, Artemis SLS-1 is scheduled to launch in about 3.5 hours. I never got to see a Saturn V lift off, but I did manage to see the last shuttle launch. - even though the spectacle and the sound could never equal Apollo Saturn V. Walter did an awesome job with Apollo 4. Thanks for posting!
I simply love Cronkite's reaction from 1:50 and forward. This is what rockets are all about! :)
OK, Here is the scenario.. the Government and NASA or NASA equivalent of your country has randomly picked a handful of regular everyday people (you and me) to hop aboard a modern day version of the Saturn V rocket and take a trip to the moon. This trip includes landing on the moon and staying there for 3 days. It's part of an experiment to see if regular, untrained men and woman of average heath would be able to handle the trip off world. If you are notified that you have been picked, you of course have the option to say no because the trip is _extremely_ dangerous. Question: What would you say? (YES) or (NO) and why? I would say yes in a heartbeat, cause it's a once in a lifetime opportunity and I couldn't live with myself if I passed it up. Even If it killed me.. I would love to see the earth from the moon with my own eyes.
+Blaze0357
Of course I'd say YES!
YES, since the possibility of another opportunity like this in my life is extremely low. Hell yeah!
Dr. VonBraun also designed the rockets that fell on London during WW2, killing scores of civilians
Didn't drop them himself so It's all good
You are right Hugh, and regrettably VonBraun was not tried as a war criminal...but if they want you, they are willing to exonerate you!
I'd say putting a man on the moon makes up for it.
tybo09 I wouldn't go so far as saying the Space Race of the 60s and our achievement in it was worth the human toll created from his designs in WW2. I will say that his effort was a step in the right direction. I just won't fully excuse it 100%.
John Lake
And the British were dropping bombs on Germany, as were the Americans. And Brits and Americans and Germans and Japanese and Russians and Italians and Canadians and many others were all shooting each other by the hundreds of thousands.
But all or most of these nations are friends now, and the same talents which can lead to death and destruction can also lead to great achievements outside of warfare. Spaceflight is what VonBraun wanted to do, and warfare is what he got roped into. But later, he got to do spaceflight, which is what he wanted to do all along.
Walter Cronkite was such a space fan-boy, and he wasn't embarrassed to show it. I get a kick out of listening to him. They don't make 'em like that any more.
Even after all these decades since Apollo, the launch of the Saturn 5 still sends shivers down my spine! I have all the launches of the Saturn 5 on video tape (have not had them transferred to dvds)! Years ago a company made video tapes from NASA Files of the US Space Program, which I bought and still have.
Get 'em transferred to digital SOON. Those oxides only last so long. Well worth doing!