15 Seconds and counting Guidence is internalTwelve,ElevenTen,nine ignition sequence start, six five four three two one,zero all engines running Lift off! we have a lift off! thirty *two* minutes past the hour liftoff on apollo eleven. Sound familiar?
“Ten, Nine, Ignition sequence start, Six, Five, four, three, two, one, all engines running. Liftoff, We have liftoff! Thirty-Five minutes past the hour, liftoff on Apollo 11.”
Engines are large enough to stand upright inside and not touch any part of it - they are BIG. And during development, they were looking for areas to save weight - removing those 'fins', which are useless of a rocket that large, would have saved almost a TON. But hey, rockets gotta have fins! Right?
@@paulmoffat9306 The fin are indeed useless for controlling the rocket since they have no elevons. However during critical engine failure they keep the rocket stable to give the launch abort system enough time and the right position to safely carry the capsule away.
for years this saturn 5 was laying on its side in florida near the vab on display, you could crawl all over the thing, stick your hear in the f1 engines. touch it, really experiance it. i feel lucky to have gotten to be so up close to this bird.
Rockets aren't measured in hp, rather pounds of thrust, newton seconds and specific impulse. Horsepower as a unit of measurement was used to compare internal combustion engines, and even then, no engineer would "measure" HP directly or in a meaningful way. They either want to capture torque and rotational velocity or force and linear velocity.
The first time I was there, which was over thirty years ago, the Saturn V was laying on it's side for display. Trivia moment. Each of the three NASA facilities (Houston, Huntsville, Cape Kennedy) all has a Saturn V laying on it's side for display. Truly humbling when you see how large it is, and then fully appreciate the bravery of the crews who rode up over 300 feet of fuel to sit down in a cramped capsule and wait for the pipes to light. Phenomenal.
The liability insurance on that from someone falling 33 stories would be astronamical. (Not to mention that "Saturn V" is just a shell.) They have a complete Saturn V laid on its side next door where you can walk between the stages and get a closer look at all of the components.
Since this video was posted, the rocket has received a facelift, and is much cleaner. The finish really gleams in the sun. Also, inside the museum, is the true Saturn V rocket, with all the stages separated, so that the structure of each connection is visible. That one actually sat on the pad, and was test fired. The upright exhibit outside is a hollow mockup.
@@goobynub96 if you were to hypothetically be strapped to the side, I’m pretty sure we would die due to a bunch of shit? I’m no space expert but I’m guessing… high speeds, leaving the atmosphere to no oxygen, I’m sure you would fall off too.
One flight that was fortunate not to be aborted during the initial stage of it's ascent was Apollo 12, as not once but twice the Saturn booster was struck by lightning, induced by the exhaust plume from the F-1 engines, and one unusual command read up to the crew was "Try SCE to Auxilliary" it worked and shortly there after, all their operating systems were restored, Phew a very close call indeed
The most powerful flying machine ever! 7 million pounds thrust. Equivalent to standing a World War Two destroyer on its stern and sending it twenty miles into space without breaking an egg in the galley. Remarkable
I went here a few years ago with my school to go to the space camp there, I remember being able to go into the hall next to the Saturn V at night with no one around, a truly amazing experience.
Not flying this, and the two others, on Apollo 18, 19 & 20 saved a whopping $80 million dollars. Out of $25 billion. So for an expenditure of 0.0032% of the whole budget we could’ve had 50% more landings..
its weird.....more dollars equivelent to money today, and 1000 times the tech went into designing your hyundai.....and your hyundai only travels on smooth roads for a few years at best.
When I first see My eye- they just put the real Saturn v out there. WTF? My mind- Nah!! This is not possible..that must be dublicate.. Super confuse 🤔 Then when I see another ,I believed that this is a duplicate..
The one outside is sheet metal over a hollow frame. The real Saturn V (1 of only 3 still in existence) is inside the Davidson Center on it's side and segmented for your education. There area also "old guys" in white coats that walk around the building. They are retired engineers that worked on the Saturn program that are there to answer questions from first hand experience. I am not only from Huntsville but I still live here, am an aerospace engineering major and I drive past this everyday going to work. Videos cannot describe the massive size of this rocket.
NASA actually had plans for a rocket so big, it needed to be launched from water because it would obliterate anything below it. It was called the Sea Dragon.
Its an amazing historical craft, when you compare it to the modern concept SpaceX "Starship" , it was also massive, most of its weight was at the bottom booster cones, giving it balance leverage, during those times, the Saturn V had no resource to inventions like a gyrosoptic gear, or a the complex drone navigation robotic controls, it would have made a great modern reconnaissance external, like the base and 2nd phase mounting to any final phase chamber. heading to a long range place like Mars or any Saturn Moons, with newly fossil power advantage.
United States Space and Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville Alabama, you can see this saturn v coming up on the highway on your way there (from where i live)
I knew a guy in high school named Matt Miller... interesting. I'm surprised you did not mention the standing one is fake but the real one is in the Davidson Center. I'd like to see the other 2 that exist at some point in my life.
Boing built the first stage , they reckon it used more fuel in the first 2 minutes from launch then all the cars in America on the road at that time .😮🗼
This is a replica I believe, note the injector plates are not in the F1 engines. The horizontal one is authentic (but not flight stages). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V#Saturn_V_displays
Fun fact: If you go to Florida in the Kennedy space centre you can see the apollo 11 on its side and it has it split into its stages so you can see the inside of the Apollo 11
I used to be able to see this from part of the schoolyard of my old Elem School.....Madison Pike Elementary on Bob Wallace ave,later renamed Louis J.Morris? (Longtime principal)
Saw this on my recent trip up there. They have a shuttle, mercury-atlas, the bottom half of a mercury-redstone, an a-12... All are recreations afaik except the A-12. Cant possibly miss the place if you go by!
I’ve seen this first hand and went to the camp there. In fact my profile pic was taken in a field right next to it. 10/10 recommend. Btw the rocket is a fake version, real one is inside
This upright one outside is a reproduction. Inside the Davidson Center there is a real Saturn V, but it's made up of test stages, not intended to fly missions.
