Saturn V Launch Video

[korg20000bc]

Saturn V Launch Views - High Speed Cams 480p - YouTube

I found this video strangely moving.
Beautiful music from the Battlestar Galactica series sound track.

[Sleepy]

Impressive beast the Saturn 5. Awesome amount of thrust.
Great video Korg, thanks for sharing.

I always watch this stuff and it continues to amaze me this was mostly engineered with slide rules and pencils - the computers available had less computing power than my iPhone. The Yanks were very clever....(well, and the German Americans too ;))

[korg20000bc]

Yes, absolutely amazing.

This is a great video too.
Space Shuttle Launch Audio - play LOUD (no music) HD 1080p - YouTube
awesome sound

[stallie]

Thrust....

According to the Saturn V flight manual I have here, the max is over 9.1 million pounds of thrust passing through 140 000 feet. Here's the manual if anyone wants to read it. Saturn V flight Manual (http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19750063889_1975063889.pdf)

The figures in these manuals are so hard to remember as they are so far beyond comprehension. And as said above, designed with a slide rule. Amazing.

Ive also just noticed how much cleaner the Saturn V's rockets seem to burn than the shuttle's but the propellants are the same. Saturn V was about 50% heavier too...?

[Sleepy]

While we are at it, the Lunar Surface Journal (http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/frame.html) is a wonderful site if you have an interest in this stuff.

Not the most user-friendly site but hunt around and there are thousands of Photo's in high res and interesting reading.

ALso check out this one too. The Project Apollo Archive (http://www.apolloarchive.com/)


https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/04/1169.jpg

[ramblingboy42]

I have been to Johnson Space Centre and seen one of these things on display. The size of it needed to put 200kg of people on the moon is just mind boggling. I also had the opportunity to see the last module fitted to the international space station being completed and the engineering required is almost beyond comprehension.
Now, if the yanks would stop spending money on wars and get back to spending on space research it would be interesting.....but they may never again pick up where they left off.

[korg20000bc]

I have been to Johnson Space Centre and seen one of these things on display. The size of it needed to put 200kg of people on the moon is just mind boggling. I also had the opportunity to see the last module fitted to the international space station being completed and the engineering required is almost beyond comprehension.
Now, if the yanks would stop spending money on wars and get back to spending on space research it would be interesting.....but they may never again pick up where they left off.

That'd be great to see.
I cannot see the US leading the way in space exploration again. I just read how their debt repayments now exceed their total defence budget.

Their buggered...

[Ferret]

Their buggered...

Probably true, the cost will force more co-operative efforts in the future with others but human nature being what it is I wonder how it will all turn out when the agenda changes from exploration to exploitation.

The next Mars lander will be a test for them -the most complicated yet. I hope it goes well.

How the Curiosity Mars Rover Will Land and Navigate - YouTube

Somehow I can't see North Korea taking over leadership in that area any time soon. :p

[korg20000bc]

Probably true, the cost will force more co-operative efforts in the future with others but human nature being what it is I wonder how it will all turn out when the agenda changes from exploration to exploitation.

The next Mars lander will be a test for them -the most complicated yet. I hope it goes well.

How the Curiosity Mars Rover Will Land and Navigate - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KLxmGLZQSY)

Somehow I can't see North Korea taking over leadership in that area any time soon. :p

Absolutely! Co-operation would be nice but nations would have to be pretty choosey about their partners. And, with parts contracts going to the cheapest provider in whatever country there'll be perhaps some unwitting partnerships. Maybe that's just the conspiracy theorist in me, though.

I remember reading something a soldier recalled from a sergeant who was giving advice- "Remember, when the **** hits the fan, that your equipment was provided by the cheapest contractor..."