The Breathtaking Capabilities of the Saturn V Space Rocket
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- On December 21st, 1968, NASA's Saturn V lifts off for the Moon, rocketing astronauts Frank Borman, Bill Anders, and Jim Lovell, out of Earth orbit and into the history books.
From: SPACE VOYAGES: The Moon and Beyond
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If you're not astounded by the Saturn V, you know little or nothing about it. Arguably the greatest machine ever built.
Roger Mouton
I was across the river when this thing took off. I watched the sound waves comes across the river. A friend of mine scoffed, “is that all?” But I was watching his pant legs flapping and there was no wind. When the hit it was like hundreds of tiny firecrackers hitting. The air shook and your diaphragm moved on its own. The “roar” is thousands of firecrackers going off. The rocket “walked” sideway while building power. it was truly deserving of the word “awesome.”
Linda Terrell that was the best description of the launch I think I’ve ever heard 🇺🇸👍🏻
Andrew Rehnert
Thank you. I forgot to mention that it doesn’t look like the shuttle going off. It’s all golds and reds and oranges. And it climbs so slowly.
Linda Terrell
Outstanding
Sam Mencia Well starship + super heavy is estimated to be >200klbs to LEO, and should go up once spacex starts exploring past stainless steel into other lighter materials that suit the thermal capabilities required
These guys all need statues in a hall. Not the politicians who say anything and do nothing, but these guys, with cajones the size of coconuts need our admiration for their intelligence, curiosity, and dedication for a most daunting mission.
That's the difference between men like this and politicians. These men don't brag about it. They explain it how it was, but they don't make it all about themselves.
Apollo 13 as well was probably the highest point of the entire Apollo program. How so many thousands of people involved came together and brought the 3 astronauts out of the jaws of certain death and back home again. The Astronauts are the focal point, the tip of the iceberg. Supported by all the engineers and technicians below. They recognize them more than anyone.
Can you imagine willingly going with odds of little better than 50/50? That took a LOT of GUTS. The Right Stuff indeed!
Fighter pilots
Charles Martel just stop. There are enough morons in America today. Don’t admit you are one of them.
@Charles Martel probably not the time or place. Just admire the Apollo program and let it go at that.
over 50 years later and still "the undisputed heavyweight champion" of rockets
Then Elon musk found out
But the new Artemis is s'pose to be more powerful than the Saturn 5! Can't wait til the 27th of May to see it go up for the first time!😁 as a matter of fact I'm putting that on my bucket list to see a live blastoff !
@@darreloutland4604 I'm going to Cocoa Beach to see the launch. It will be the first rocket launch I've seen in real life. I only live a 158 miles away from Cocoa Beach.
@@marcusaureliusregulus2833 Then his battery ran flat
@@marcusaureliusregulus2833 So far, SpaceX has nothing near to the capacity of the Saturn V.
"I figured our chances of coming back at a little over 50%". THAT my friend, is the very definition of Courage!
Willing to gamble with their lives for the advancement of humanity. True heroes indeed.
@@mreknijn I thought the same thing... those are gambler's odds. I think he and everyone working on the Apollo program knew they were doing something special and that the odds were a lot better.
Frank Borman said that at the time many of his best friends were doing tours in Vietnam flying combat missions. He said that what he was doing as an astronaut was probably safer in the long run than flying over enemy territory and getting shot at every day.
Apollo 4 was a successful test of the Saturn V with no astronauts. But then Apollo 6, also with no astronauts, had problems that raised doubts about the Saturn V. It was an enormous leap of faith to put astronauts onto Apollo 8 and send it to the Moon, with no LM for a lifeboat and with lunar trajectory software that had been developed in just a few months prior to the launch. Apollo 8 was truly the mission that put an end to the Moon race with the Soviets.
I was 14 years old when Apollo 8 launched. I can still remember watching in amazement on our 19 inch black and white TV. The Saturn V was amazing technology for the 1960's. Actually, its still impressive tech by 2020 standards.
0:47 Lovell gives the odds. That's why these men will always be heroes.
One of the greatest explorations ever made.
And all with the computing power of a modern cellphone!
THE greatest so far
@@scottmaloney7198 way less than the computing power of a modern cell phone. The Saturn V had a bunch of 14 kilobyte memory units that were stitched by hand.
When I was 14 years old I received a signed photo from the Apollo 8 crew, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders. I still have the Photo ofcourse. I am still a great fan from the Apollo Spaceprogramm, 65 years young and living in the North of the Netherlands. Thank you very much Frank Borman, William Anders and Jim Lovell for what you and all the 400.000 workers for this great achievement. Ed Bouwman , Groningen, the Netherlands.
While all the astronauts are equal, Lovell is more equal than others.....He was first on top of that thing and commanded Apollo 13, without his leadership it most likely wouldn't have made it back to our wee blue ball that they pictured so well......
Apollo 8 is my favorite Apollo mission!
Both Borman and Lovell are 92 years of age, separated by a few days with Borman slightly older. They, along with Bill Anders, are iconic heroes of the age of manned spaceflight. The Apollo 8 & 9 crews are the only fully-surviving crews of the program.
I saw Borman a little over a year ago. He's still sharp and mobile.
So if they are , we can forget about the van allen belt from now on.
Wow I didn't know that
McDivitt passed away October 13 ,2022 from Apollo 9
Thanks.
The size of a Navy destroyer moving as 7 times the speed of sound. Gives you chills. I was born in May of 69 and I still remember those Saturn V launches in the early 70s. Still my favorite rocket. Can see them headed up and being bright lights. I think they are responsible for my love of science, space, and scifi.
In my opinion the most importan and the greatest of all human missions ever.
100% with you on this one.
With so many firsts, 8 was as dynamic as 11- and then reading to the world passages from the Bible on Christmas Eve in orbit around the moon... By far, my favorite Apollo mission.
Makes you wonder why NASA copied the original films used for apollo. It's kind of like using the back of the original declaration of independence for a shopping list
8 greater than 11
1:53 I always loved the bit where the letters U........S...........A slowly go past the camera. And I'm not even American
We have our problems, especially now, but we've done a cool thing or two!
@@lewiszim with hope we will achieve those ideals on which the United States was predicated. You know, the "all men are created equal" part.
Definitely some problems currently, all generated by your politicians. But by god you guys have achieve some great stuff in the past.
Same! Indian here. This inspires me more than private rockets
I remember those days. The excitement of the space-race, and Star Trek the future dreams. Great time to be growing up in the U.S.
Still the most incredible machine ever constructed, IMHO.
Highly recommend the book Apollo by Catherine Bly Cox and Charles Murray.
Thats so crazy. There was always that chance of mis calculation of trajectory or fuel that could have sent them into space and never return
Saturn V, you really were the greatest sight, stretching out on a summers day...
Jim Lovell is such a badass. Was on the first human Apollo flight, and then also on the Apollo 13 flight that had the near disaster in space.
Apollo 7 was the first crewed Apollo flight.
soxnation1000 - He meant the first Saturn V that carried humans.
An absolute beautiful picture and description of American technology, risk and achievement. Gladiators of the modern era, fantastic US of A
Seeing that rocket on display is mesmerizing.
I watched this on TV! Amazing, wonderful, terrifying. Great Rocket, Great Men with Testicles the size of Texas! American Heros!
I was in grade school when Apollo and Skylab was happening. I remember my best friend (and fellow space nut) and I bemoaning the fact that the first men on Mars would get there before we were old enough to be astronauts. Who knew? Salute to Apollo and cheers for the SpaceX manned Dragon.
You'd have thought so. The shuttle derailed NASA for thirty years.
These videos need more views
1:03 man look at them muscle cars!
God bless all the Apollo Astronauts!!
I have always held these men in very high esteem.
Jim Lovell: what a charming man
The courage of these astronauts is extraordinary. As Chuck Yeager is quoted as saying in The Right Stuff, "Monkeys? Think a monkey knows he's sitting on top of a rocket that might explode? These astronaut boys, they know that, see? Well, I'll tell you somethin' - it takes a special kind of man to volunteer for a suicide mission, especially one that's on TV."
The greatest and most memorable Rocket ever built
No longer the greatest in terms of lift-off power, but definitely the most memorable. It will for ever be the first vehicle to bring humans to another world.
It's weird, when I was younger I was obviously astounded by the Saturn V but mostly just because it gets people to space. Now, closing in on 30, I'm an engineer and what impresses me most is the sheer performance of the fuel pumps being able to supply those enormous F-1 engines. I guess because I work around industrial pumps now and know how powerful they are, and they aren't even close to this thing. Just a remarkable feat of engineering. Can't wait to see what the future holds.
I've stood right next to the one intended for Apollo 18. Ir's on display at Space Center Houston. Awesome machine! HUGE and powerful. Those gentlemen had courage!
These guys truly had balls of steel
Would have loved to had heard more from Lovell than the narrator.
I just wish I could have witnessed an Apollo launch in person I watch them on TV. I have seen the Saturn at Cape Kennedy in the museum and it's incredible it was such a beast
One of the greatest achievements in history !
Absolutely bloody marvellous!!!!
0:20 in: If Chris Kraft was talking about what America hadn't done before then that's accurate; but the Soviets got an unmanned probe to leave Earth orbit (achieving escape velocity) when their Luna 1 missed the Moon by just under 6000 km, and ended up orbiting the Sun. That was launched on 4th January 1959, and Luna 1 is still in orbit around the Sun. (When it missed the Moon and became the first artificial 'planet' [something that orbits a star], it was renamed as "Mechta" which means "Dream".
Saturn V is the one of the greatest things built by humankind. Nothing quite compares to this beast of a machine.
Simply amazing. A true test of human engineering and American engineering.
0:21 in: But no, I kept reading Wikipedia's Timeline of space exploration and the US first got its man-made object out of Earth orbit in March 1960, which was the first ever Solar probe, and also achieved heliocentric orbit. So maybe Chris Kraft was talking about Firsts for manned space vehicles, coz all the Firsts he mentioned were done by robot probes, some with plants and animals on board (like Zond 5, which was the first to circumnavigate the Moon and return is living cargo safely on board, on 21 September 1968).
Back when we made history. Now people tear history down. Sad.
Watch "When We Left Earth" 'Saturn V Launch'. When We Left Earth is a documentary that is really a awe inspiring
"Chances are a bit better than 50/50 that you'll return. Wanna go?" "Ummmmm....."
When I die please dress me like Superman and blast me into space standing on top of the Saturn V.
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OMG!!!! Just knowing you could literally explode at any minute is TERRIFYING.
I have that fear anytime on an airplane.
WOW!!!
In retrospect, it was unfortunate that the Saturn rocket program ceased development in 1972 and resources directed toward the Space Shuttle instead. The Saturn designs could have evolved to offer cost savings and mission flexibility and there would not have been the years-long gaps in the U.S.A.'s human spaceflight capabilities both prior to the Shuttle getting off the ground and after it had stopped flying.
The apollo missions were awesome, everyone unique and everyone doing stuff that had never been done before. when apollo 7 went up, it was a first, then apollo 8 was a first, at this time the LEM lunar excursion module hadnt yet been built or tested. apollo 9 with the LEM was a first as it undocked, then rv then docked again with the command module all in earth orbit, apollo 10 was much the same scenario but in moon orbit, so that was a first, and then apollo 11, the moon landing itself, all of these missions apollo 7 to 11 were all firsts, never been done before but needing to be done so the next stage of getting to the moon could be attained. no matter what ever happens in future, the apollo missions pioneered most of the tasks needed in getting to the moon, ofcourse we cant forget gemini and mercury, without them there would be no knowledge of how to get to orbit, how to reenter earths atmosphere, no knowledge of rv, docking, undocking, crew exchange, space walks etc. all of these firsts were extremely dangerous and with very high risks. then there is the saturn v rocket, it amazes me where they got the power from to push it into space.
imagine the balls on these guys in the 1960's just leaving earth behind. must be some of the most soul wretching moments anybody has ever endured. Just sitting there well knowing that anything that goes wrong, means they will have no way of coming back. crazy
Compare this to what we saw today with the Falcon 9. 50 yrs of tech advancement is remarkable.
I remember Apollo 11 which i saw lift off . Apollo 8 my family waited for Apollo 11 which that made history.
Whenever I’m asked the question “If you could go back in time to witness any event in all of human history...” people look at me with a strange look when I reply “Any Saturn V launch from within 10 miles.”
I watched Apollo 17's night launch from about 20 miles away. It was almost a religious experience.
Years later I watched a Space Shuttle daytime launch from the same distance. It was impressive, but nothing close to the Saturn V.
My reply would be the same as yours!
Amazing story!!
Wonderful!
its beautiful
Saturn V is a launcher.
Apollo 11 is a mission.
Apollo is a a rocket and a program
CSM is a spaceship.
LEM is a spaceship.
CSM/LEM is a couple of spaceship.
CSM is the Command Module connected to the Service Module. The Service Module contains all the fuel, electrical system, breathing oxygen and the SPS engine for maneuvers in deep space. This includes getting into and back out of Lunar Orbit as well.
Apollo 8 was probably the riskiest flight of them all, because it carried no lunar module. If they had an accident the likes of which happened on Apollo 13, it would have been certainly fatal.
Apollo is not a rocket. It's a Project just like Gemini was and Mercury before it.
Werner Von Braun. The father of NASA and the Saturn V.
Amazing what a few guys and a slide-rule can accomplish!🤓
Gordon Dahle - They also had calculators.
This is not a video about capabilities. Capabilities is for example how many standard sized water melons it can bring to LEO. Or how fast it can go and so forth.
So why is it that all our engineering marvels were conceived back in the 60 and 70s? Sr-71 blackbird, concorde, Saturn V
Two words: political will.
When the USA puts its mind to something truly worth doing only because it is worth doing it is the greatest nation on the planet. I say that as a Brit and I wish the USA would recapture that pioneer spirit.
Amazing! How hard would you hug your wife before you left on that mission?
One of the astronauts said that he thought his chances was 100% or else he wouldn't have gone but his wife said they thought the odds were 30% and that was great odds I've got the astronauts name on one of my Saturn recordings and if I can find it I'll edit and put his name up but I've got about 8 hours of Saturn launches recorded, but one thing is certain everyone who sat on top of a Saturn rocket is a hero and everyone should be immortalised in stone
Apollo was more exciting than the space shuttle
And safer
And better
NWEMNA 239 - The Apollo program killed three astronauts in fifteen missions. The Shuttle program killed 14 astronauts in 135 missions. Do the math. Looking at it another way: Apollo had a failure resulting in loss of crew in 1 of 15 missions. For the Shuttle, 2 in 135.
Lovell was on Apollo 13 too, right? Did he ever set foot on the moon?
No he didnt.
He retired after 13.
The balls on these blokes back then!
Now dats wat I call a ROCKET !
I remember this many people were saying a lot more could be done for man yet they couldnt even do a heart bypass then
That was back when we could do anything. We wanted a space station, so we built one. It weighed 80 tons, the rocket's takeoff weight was almost 4,000 tons and we put it into orbit with one launch. Look how far we as a country have fallen. Without challenge, mankind would devolve into petty bickering, war and eventually die off.
This is real American engineering and ingenuity. Anything is possible - we are the USA! Come on fellas - 🇺🇸 we need to lead again and be United in our endeavors. Unite, innovate and lead. USA!
Man, the commies would have given their back issues of Mad magazine to have THIS rocket in their stable.
Their version, N-1, repeatedly failed on test launches, 4 times. So they eventually scrapped their Moon program.
Still think it is a pity. The longest N-1 launch was a 100 seconds and not too far from a full burn on the first stage. The engines were state of the art and was later used by the USA.
@@Rubensgardens.Skogsmuseum 30 engines was too much for the Soviets' flight computers to coordinate. Maybe if Korolev hadn't died in 1966...
strange, I would assume the moon is in earth orbit
Of course it's in earth orbit. But the moon is about 239,000 miles away and takes 27 days to complete a single rev around the earth. What should fascinate and amaze you Patrick is to consider the physics: The earth and the moon and the spacecraft are all in motion. When the Apollo astronauts did their translunar injection burns, the weren't aiming at the moon. They were in orbit around the earth and aiming for where the moon would be in five days. So not only did the flight dynamics troops at NASA have to figure out exactly where to point the spacecraft and how long to burn the engine, and the motion of the spacecraft and the moon, but also the gravity that both of those objects would exert on the coasting spacecraft as it made it's way through cislunar space. How precisely did those engineers nail that Keplerian math? On the flight plans, the timeline would say something to the effect of at 123 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds mission elapsed time, the moon will be visible through command module window #2. And at EXACTLY the time specified, the crew would get their first look at the moon. (Their "coast" was with the spacecraft facing the earth, they weren't able to see the moon until the burned their engine and were established in lunar orbit.) If you're interested in learning more about Apollo, "Last Man on the Moon" is currently streaming on Netflix. It's a good watch for the curious. Take Care!
💝💝💝💝💝💝💝THE BADDEST ROCKET EVER 💯👈
Who in their right mind would want to sit atop a freaking missile...only Slim Pickens...and these truly brave men.
Back they can still smoke pipe in the control room.
I wonder why Werner Von Braun is not mentioned, without him and his German team the Saturn V wouldn’t exist.
That's probably because no name is mentioned at all :)
Basically, they launched a skyscraper into space moving FASTER then sound not knowing what would happen BTW with three men strapped to it! If that isn't BADASS enough for you I don't know what is!!!! WOW!
Not shown in the video but orbiting the moon must have been something.
I listened in awe as on Christmas eve, from far away, the crew read from Genesis.
The weight of the Saturn V is comparable to the weight of over 2,000 motor vehicles, it height is 45 ft higher than Big Ben in London & the launch uses 20 tons of kerosene per second, probably equivalent to at least a master bedroom full of fuel.
Not meaning to be pedantic but Big Ben is a bell measuring 7 feet 6 inches tall and 9 feet in diameter. It is the Elizabeth Tower that houses it that you are referring to.
Thank God for Werner Von Braun
They never left earth orbit. Even when they got to the moon, they were still inside of earth's orbit. The moon orbits the earth. 🌍
Technically true
hehe. Well yes, and no. What they mean by left earth orbit is that the spacecraft itself initiates a burn that shoots it out and away from earth, countering the force the earth has on the vehicle, when this is done, the spacecraft will no longer orbit the earth, it will just fly into space forever or until some heavy object brings it into another orbit. When the spacecraft arrives at the moon, another burn is initiated to slow the spacecraft down so that it can go in orbit around the moon, and when it orbits around the moon, you could technically say it also orbits the earth and the sun and the galaxy center and what not, but the spacecraft then orbits the moon, the moon orbits the earth, earth orbits the sun and the sun orbits the galaxy center.
Isn't the moon orbiting earth?
(neat video & technology...sketchy ending statement)
It is , why are you asking ?
Iowa599 Statement is wrong anyway. Apollo 8 had the first humans leaving the earths orbit and got to the moon.
Wow!! Mach 7!
That was just the start.
After the second burn of the third stage, the speed was about Mach 35.
Kerosene rocket fuel?
Yes, and?
LOX
It's not an ordinary Kerosene fuel, it's called the RP-1 , it's a refined type of kerosene, much more explosive than usual commercial airplane jets. That was the fuel that the F1 rocket engine was burning along with it's oxydizer which was the LOX , liquid oxygen!
It is still the most powerful engine ever made by humans. It was conceived on paper by Werhner Bon Braun in the late 1950's and was the engine selected for the Saturn V 1st stage in project Apollo by Marshall space center at NASA. The contractor that was given the built of the F1 engine was Rockedyne . Many problems and obstacles had to be surpassed to make it work flawlessly, with many failures at the beginning. It flown with 100% success on every flight. Back in the 60's was drawn with slide rules and it is still a piece of amazing technology and a legendary machine !
FUEL BURNS!!!
These were real men.
Anyone else looking for tinfoil hats russling?
0:32 in: "We had never gone into orbit around another planet." And you still haven't because our Moon is not a planet, it's a moon by definition, because it orbits a much bigger natural body and that body orbits the Sun.
pinhead.
We’re going to need some different, much more advanced tech, if we ever want to explore space and deep space. Burning dinosaur fuel isn’t going to take us there...
The thumbnail looks like Mark Wahlberg
They orbited the moon, which in turn orbits the earth, so did they really leave earth orbit?
Yes. They were an independently traveling body, though they never left the Earth's sphere of influence.
No they did not, was a curious error in the video. In order to leave Earth's orbit you need to reach escape velocity (11.2 km/s), the trans-lunar injection burn gets the crew up to about 10.4km/s, so even if the moon wasn't there they'd just be in a highly elliptical orbit around Earth. No human has ever reached escape velocity, yet.
The size of a navy destoyer....what?
363 feet tall from LES to F-1 engines.
I believe it was actually the MASS of a navy destroyer.
I don't believe the Saturn V was the first rocket to orbit another planet :)
The rocket had to be that size in order to lift the payload of the guys onboard balls!......It is a ridiculously expensive and complicated fast flying piece of superb engineering......Murica!......
would beating this 60's dinosaur today seem like a achievement? no chance, beat this with a 5 engined rocket then i'll take you serious
No doubt, it's cool. But isn't first man in three space is couplet?
It was much more risk, no one was in space before him.
Andrey Pavlov if your asking who was first into space, it was yuri gagarin. A Russian cosmonaut.
2:05 I legit thought that the dude's name was Jay Barbeque.
You're not the only one! 😁
The Apollo Program, started when I was 3 years old (OCTOBER 27, 1961) and ended in 1972, ARE YOU KIDDING ME, where have we advanced in technology. THE SATURN V, GREATEST EVER. I see many all excited about SPACEX which is great, but then again, the GREATEST GENERATION, were that clearly, the GREATEST GENERATION, (DEPRESSION, TECHNOLOGY, AVIATION, SPACE). PUT HUMANS ON THE MOON, OVER 50+ YEARS AGO, and SPACEX is starting with technology from 1961. I did the MATH, and one of the five rockets on SATURN V was equivalent to the first SPACEX. I am thankful to TESLA for continuing technology because we HUMANs have shown, WE NEVER LEARN FROM HISTORY. This is HISTORY IN YOUR FACE FROM THE GREATEST GENERATION. signed Bobby Boomer (as with other generations, we are not as great as the GREATEST generation or previous).
Social justice warriors call themselves brave 😂😂
I was born in the 1950s. There is a disconnect with reality today with the younger generation. There is an entitlement and false assumption that life is guaranteed.
And the generation that came back from WW2 said that same thing about the boomers...
@@chrisdell5679 Exactly. Explains the progressive failer from the baby boomers to the present. To many have lost their way. They believe in everything and nothing.
@@rickhale4348 Your inclinations on this might be correct, but they are not rooted in fairness. A lot of younger people are motivated and creative. Think of everyone behind the scenes on Apollo 11. All the engineers, physicists NOT getting the glory of walking the moon. That same demographic of high thinkers in today's generation has to balance the understanding of pursuing the same goals with the very real fact they will be with insurmountable debt as a price of higher education and trying to better oneself. It's a foregone conclusion and highly problematic for any participant in the American dream right now.
@@chrisdell5679 Actually I agree with you. I have much empathy for young Americans. The massive problems facing the current generation are great and it makes me angry how America's leaders are failing us and have been for some time. Older generations like mine have the advantage of an appreciation and love of country, God and family. The current younger generations deals with massive distractions from the internet, phones that mesmerize, and woke nonsense. They believe fraudulent claims that their very existence is in jeopardy from global warming and the Chinese communist virus covid.
I guess, if the Bible has anything to say about it, Enoch (father of Methuselah) was the first to leave Earth orbit, and the prophet Elijah did the same in a chariot of fire many years later. Difference is, those guys never came back. The Apollo 8 crew did.
I think the narrator means; "to leave (LOW) Earth orbit"!
Guess they forgot that THE MOON IS IN EARTH ORBIT!!!
They went to the moon. Men. Orbited the moon. Yes, we all know the moon is in the gravity of the earth. Have you accomplished anything even close to this in your entire life?
all thanks to German scientists