AS-201 - The 1st Saturn 1B Launch 

Saturn I-B - unsung hero of manned spaceflight.

That's a mighty fine prologue for the (hopefully & finally about to happen) launch of ARTEMIS I tomorrow! ❤️

Amazing compilation of footage :) It's work like this that keeps history alive.

This was pad 34 at Cape Canaveral. My husband and I have toured this historic pad and stood right under where the rocket once stood. Took me right back there.

Thanks LM5 Really enjoy your channel More please!!

I remember this one. It was on a Saturday morning during my senior year in HS. It was scrubbed but for some reason I kept my 19-inch black and white on. Minutes later the vehicle was back on the screen with some commentator exclaiming “The space agency has reversed its decision! The space agency has reversed its decision!” Not long afterward, the most powerful rocket in America at that time was off and climbing. It was the only live Saturn 1 or 1B launch I ever got to see. I missed the remaining unmanned test, Apollo 7, all three 1B Skylabs and ASTP. According to Dr. David Baker (of the U.K. and my favorite space scribe), this was actually Apollo 2. Apollo 3 was another 1B launched that summer. That led to Apollo 4, the first Saturn 5 in November 1967. Apollo 5 was a 1B unmanned test of the LM in early 1968. Apollo 6 (with its famous pogoing)was the final unmanned Saturn 5. This sequence was supposedly a tribute to the Apollo 1 crew. Please keep up your usual excellent work!

Interesting that there was live broadcast coverage of this unmanned launch. I recall only a few times for the networks to break into programming for a test launch, the most notable being a Titan IIIC in 1965 and the first Apollo Saturn V stack in 1967.

A through, comprehensive review of this excellent launch vehicle LM5 really sets the standard for these historical events !

Just wait till tomorrow, (assuming that everything is ready and the weather cooperates) when SLS lifts off.

Thank you so much for making this available.

29.8k subscribers who wants to boot this cannel to 30k and beyond? I already have.

Great video as usual, Lunarmodule5!

Fantastic that you were also able to get video of the recovery of the command module! Great pics, too. I’ve long thought that the Saturn 1B plus the Apollo CSM could have been our Soyuz, our regular, relatively safe ride to space, and a lot more economical than the shuttle.

This was fantastic. Thanks for posting. 👍

7:35 the names of the 6 astronauts who are flying the chase planes to observe the launch. So sad when we hear Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chafee included in that list. They were observing what in less than a year would be their deathtrap. 😥

I've seen a Saturn 1B and by themselves they look gigantic but if you see one next to a Saturn V they look tiny.

Really interesting stuff. The graphics were pretty good for the time 😉

Sounds like NBC-TV with Frank McGee in NYC and Merrill Mueller @ the Cape

Jack King was awesome

Most interesting take on this mission (AS-201) - the Block 1 CM lost steering control and re-entry telemetry due to incorrect wiring. Bad wiring would kill 3 astronauts a little less than a year later, in the Apollo 1 pad fire. If the wiring problem on this flight had been more carefully researched, maybe they would have lived.

Another excellent video

5:36 Sacramento Test Site, north side of Douglas Rd, east of Sunrise Blvd. Just got torn down in the last few years. Will be a sea of houses someday.

Thank you Simon for another fantastic addition to space flight history! The space flight teams and management of the '60s certainly weren't perfect... They had to deal with a tremendous tragedy. But all in all I hope that our present space flight teams involved with Artemis can match the dedication and expertise of that era.

This is fantastic!!! Damn I miss Jack King!

Artemis is a much watch tomorrow. 🤞

what an incredible moment in history

I have this launch in my collection from CBS News. It consist of the 1st and 2nd launch attempt.

From this day to today with Artemis 1. 57 years and counting.

Dope

If only the full NBC telecast, in color, could be found!

If im not mistaken, the 4 core engins.were classified. As K4 Engins!??

Was that a Block 1 capsule that was used for this test?

The United States was so-shortsighted retiring the Saturn 1B and Saturn V. Just think were we would have been if this were the case?

This is amazing! How do you get the footage and audio from mission control?

I can't tell if they tested the vacuum restart capability built into the S-IVB's J-2 on this first flight. Anyone know?

I'm surprised that Apollo 7 wasn't preceded by an unmanned orbital test-flight of the Apollo CSM.

What year??

The outer 4 i think were J2's