Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch Camera E-8 July 16,1969
 

Video shot at 500 frames per second so we get to see the incredible power of the Saturn 5 rocket :cool1: 30 seconds of video stretched to an awe inspiring 8 minutes of American ingenuity.

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I watched an IMAX movie of a launch at Cape Canaveral. The amount of water they flood the launch pad with is amazing.

Cool.

My dad worked on the F1 engines for Rocketdyne. I still have a few rocket bolts. About 1-1/4” long. They were all replaced after ground testing.

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Did you lose your nuts? :) LOL

j/k

Seriously cool.

I wasn't alive for the launch. I was born just before they left the moon.

Always felt a closeness to NASA and space exploration. Now I work for them.

Thanks for posting this... just awesome footage. Watched every second.

Had to be some really smart people to pull off the Apollo 11 moon landing with the technology they had in the 60's.:cert:

Wow. A friend was an underwater demolition man in the Navy and he became an early Seal. After retirement, he went to work at the Cape. I wondered why he went there and he told me that rockets were just conrolled explosions and his background was perfect.

Makes more sense after seeing that.

my wife's dad worked for NASA, eventually becoming an associate administrator. later wrote a book on the history of hydrogen as a fuel. interesting read.

https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4404/contents.htm

I loved touring that place. I remember walking into the building and when they opened the door you are greeted by the 5 engines of that puppy.

They also took us school kids on a tour of Huntsville, AL. around the 6th grade. Wish I had applied myself to a career like that field.