I edited this a few years ago when I worked as a NASA Videographer. We, at the Marshall Space Flight Center, spent years converting the original 16mm, 35mm and 70mm films to digital. As a side project, I decided to make the ultimate Saturn V launch and I spent weeks picking the best shots. I know it launches slower than in real life but I wanted you all to be able to lovingly relish each amazing angle. After it was done, I sent it to a friend of mine in Hollywood who is a re-recording audio engineer who has worked on almost 150 films and he added the awesome audio to the silent original films. I am thrilled you all like it as much as I do!
So cool to learn the effort you made to create this fantastic video. Had no idea it was such a challenge. Don't be surprised if it becomes a classic. Good work endures and my congratulations.
@Hey Girl I Like Your Kitchen Romania No, all of the films here silent. My friend in Hollywood used a combination of Apollo, Shuttle and and even some Soyuz.
@Hey Girl I Like Your Kitchen Romania He used the actual archived audio of real launches. As a seasoned Hollywood audio professional, he has an extensive sound library…
@@JayBeeTeeVee Awesome work by you and your friend. Of course, it would be great to have the original audio but I guess most of the film was originally taken for analysis and diagnostic purposes and audio would've been of no use (much like 99% of all atomic bomb footage is actually silent). But that doesn't detract from the amazing video here... what I would give to go back in time and watch one of these launches for real!
I was 11 years old when we set foot on the moon. The Apollo Program was such an influence on me that I still watch video about it. Back then, technology was a lot more nuts and bolts than today. The men working on it had closely cropped hair, wore lab coats with a shirt and tie underneath, often wore black horn-rimmed glasses, and always moved with a sense of purpose while speaking with a masculine voice. Fast-forward to today, and technology is micro-chips and coding. The "men" working on it wear t-shirts and shorts. Their hair looks like they just got out of bed, and are two months past due for a haircut. They move like feminine boys, skate-boarding through hallways and lounging about playing video games while "on break," (which seems to be most of the time) and speak in squeaky, high-pitched voices about Diversity™ and open borders, parroting the Gender Equality nonsense Newspeak required by their employers. My, how things have changed.
1:24 what an iconic shot. Gives me chills every time. That a nation which was barely held together at Valley Forge would less than 2 centuries later achieve the greatest milestone in human development: exploring a world beyond our own.
I witnessed 3 launches from there in Titusville, Florida, as a young boy. The power that we felt....which I could appreciate at 12 years-old, was frickin' awesome.... obviously...
What is sad is for younger generations the Saturn 5 rocket and going to the moon is almost at this point science fiction since it's been so long since we went to the moon. Maybe if we hadn't cut NASA's budget starting in 1970 and kept going to the moon built colonies and went to Mars we wouldn't have so many lunatics now believing the world is flat or that we never went to the moon in the first place.
That rocket weighed 6 million pounds. The amount of thrust needed to get off the ground, and accelerate, is mind-boggling. 53 years later and it's still breathtaking to watch.
@@amateuryoutuber Personally, I think SpaceX can't fight with NASA, just so far, their rockets have been ending up in deserts, they have potential, but won't catch up to NASA anytime soon.
With the technology around today I’d find it hilarious if they sent an aircraft carrier to space just because. I know with aerodynamics it wouldn’t be plausible but f*ck me that’d be a hoot.
As heavy as 10 large airliner ships, as tall as a 40 story building, with a force of 60 million HP blasting out of that first stage. Raw, brutal power unleashed by technology. It’s been more than 50 years, still gives me goosebumps and pride to watch it.
this is why no matter what comes next may it be more powerful or not the Saturn V will remain the DADDY of all rockets it's the fact that this much power could come from just 5 engines and with how energy efficient the world is today the F-1 engine alone will never be equaled, rocket launches these days are like fireworks compared to this - and the Space Shuttle too was also a pleasure to watch and too hear as well. cannot wait for the SLS
Actually, the 5 F-1 engines generated a jaw dropping total of 160 million horsepower, not just 60 million as you said. To this day, still the most powerful single stage engines ever invented by humans. That's 32 million hp per engine...awesome!
@@mr.reality1611 Saturn V still holds the record for weight (3068kg) and payload capacity (140 tons). NASA says that those comparisons are biased and that SLS is the most powerful after all, but to my opinion it's all marketing bullshit. The Starship rocket (Big falcon heavy) will definitely be stronger, however, it's a reusable rocket. It fits in another (and a better) category. Anyway, considering the feats of Saturn V, and the fact it was made 50 years ago, it's the all time best to my eyes.
@@mr.reality1611 The SLS may have greater thrust at launch, but the Saturn V can lift a lot more to LEO and for TLI (delivered to the Moon), which means that the Saturn V is really the stronger of the two. The Russian N1 had even more thrust at launch than the SLS, but it couldn't lift as much as the Saturn V, either. And the Falcon Heavy is smaller than the Saturn V in every way.
@@andrevanderkant6616 That's right, if/when Starship+Super Heavy launches, it will be the mightiest machine, but until then the Saturn V will hold that title and remain the king of rockets. Nothing else humanity currently has planned will surpass it, besides Starship.
It looks slick and modern, even today. Of course they`re much more efficient rockets today in existence, nevertheless it's magnificient to watch the Saturn-V-launch. :)
@Darknees XL Bruh even if the rocket costs 300 billion, in 1969, on a rocket that was built as fast as possible, the most powerful machine, 111 meters tall, fully loaded with damn explotion material, and being shot into the fucking moon.... and that's just the long story short. everybody would shit their ass. You can't even handle a roller coaster, don't act badass lmao, you look so dumb.
If you ever get a chance to go to Kennedy or Johnson Space Center, do it. Go to the Saturn v section of the visitor center and it will blow your mind just how big they really are. One of the coolest experiences ever seeing that for the first time.
STILL TO THIS DAY, 50+YEARS ON FROM THE APOLLO PROGRAM, THE LAUNCH OF A SATURN-V ROCKET IS THE MOST PHENOMENAL SIGHT & SOUND TO WITNESS.....THE GREATEST PROJECT IN HISTORY!!!
150,000,000 combined horsepower from 5 engines that burn 40,000 pounds of fuel every second. That's what I call global warming. If AOC were to watch this video she'd wind up on suicide watch.
@@cll1639 The Saturn V burned hydrogen fuel, which only made water as a waste product. It still wasn’t completely environmentally friendly but hey, at least there was only 13 launched. Although… I’m not sure I should be happy about that.
@@aidanrowland611 Actually only the second and third stages burned hydrogen. The first (liftoff) stage burned RP-1, a highly refined kerosene, with liquid oxygen as the oxidizer. It consumed this mixture at the rate of almost 29,000 pounds per second for about 160 seconds, at which point it was going over 6,000 miles per hour.
I watched several of these launches live on tv but never made it to Florida to experience it in real life. But these videos still take my breath away and makes my heart race. Maybe at my age that's not a good thing, but baby what a way to go! 🤣🤣🤣
1:31 The camera's aperture changing due to the brilliant light coming from the engines so you can still see the details is an engineering feat in itself. You can see the booster go from white then dim to a slight orange. These large format film cameras were super badass.
There was another video about this elsewhere on YT. It was a side-effect of using that kind of film. It's something we can't come close to in digital, for all its other benefits.
The Golden Age of Space exploration. I was 10 when I watched this phenomenal rocket lift from the launch pad. It is still etched in my mind 50+ years later. I talk with anyone that will listen, about this marvel of the 20th century and the technology involved. A truly awe inspiring sight to behold. All credit to those involved in the original camera work, and especially to James for doing such a fantastic job of bringing this footage to life. This is one of mankind's great achievements. Thank you for this.
Stan, I was 18 when the first moon landings happened, it has stuck with me as the greatest achievement of humankind. I find it incomprehensible that some people still believe it was a hoax! I have a friend who is utterly convinced it was all faked. Mind you, his best friends are all dragster driving rednecks. It takes all sorts.
Watching liftoff of Humanity’s greatest achievement gets me emotional. I could watch this on loop and never get tired of it. The camera work is unbelievable. The Saturn V will always be the benchmark for all Rockets and is the granddaddy of them all
I always think of building the great pyramid in 2500bc and going to the moon as the two most incredible achievements of humanity. The national technological and genius level effort behind each in their time are amazing.
Unfortunately the SLS (which I am buying vip tickets to) will only max out @ 180-185 dB Apollo 4, before they had the water deluge sound suppression system, was 212 dB - literally the loudest thing man has made (outside Hydrogen bombs)…. It was SO loud it set grass on fire a mile away and melted concrete: NOT THE EXHAUST, the freakin Sound Wave pressure differentials!
My Dad was a Radar Guidance Engineer with GE and worked at Redstone when Dr. von Braun was there in the mid 50's and then he was thereafter transferred to The Cape in '57 and we moved to Cocoa Beach. I was born in Huntsville and moved to Cocoa Beach as an infant. I saw all the manned shots and most of the many unmanned shots. The first time they lit the Saturn V it cracked the Burger King's then brand new A/C outside eating area sliding glass doors...I have since checked the distance on google maps and it was ~ 12.5 miles. After the John Glenn orbital launch President Kennedy came and there was a parade down U.S. 1 in Titusville and John Glenn and President Kennedy came within about 5 feet of me...no such thing as crowd control in those days. My most memorable launch was Apollo XVII, the last moon shot and the only Saturn V night launch. I was in H.S. then and man was there a party down by the river that night...literally standing room only, the police didn't even try to enforce traffic laws, when the grass areas filled people just parked on the street. When the Saturn V lit it was like sunrise, I still remember it like it was yesterday. Funny anecdote about the Sat V and the 60's/early 70's: The "beach road" in Titusville that went to Playalinda Beach ended right beside 39B and the beach was open even if the Saturn V was on the pad, they only closed the beach when they started fueling. One day I asked my Dad why they let us so close to Saturn V and he said I don't really know son, it isn't fueled but anyone with a .30--06 could just pull over and crack off a few rounds and who knows what it might hit. Just goes to show how different American was back in the 60's around Brevard county (a Ph.D. Aerospace Engineer who works for a large American defense contractor's Missile Systems company.
@Steve Fowler: You and I are the same age (born in 1958), and we have somewhat similar backgrounds. You are a son of the original Space Age, while I am a son of the burgeoning Nuclear Age. Your father was a NASA rocket scientist, while my dad was a nuclear physicist at Los Alamos. I was born and raised in Los Alamos along with the rest of my siblings (my parents moved to Los Alamos in 1950, and both are buried there). When I was a kid, space missions were pretty much all we talked about in town. The Moon program was on everyone's mind. JFK visited our town in 1962; I still remember my mom pointing out Marine One as it flew directly over our house on its way to one of the Lab's facilities. Kennedy was there to meet with scientists working on the atomic-rocket program, Project Rover. You mentioned that your favorite Saturn V launch was Apollo XVII. My dad was there for the launch of Apollo XVII as part of a group of plasma physicists sent by the Lab, recording the spectra of atmospheric plasmas excited by the rocket exhaust as Saturn V flew through the upper atmosphere. The night-time launch provided an ideal opportunity for observing excitation spectra whose signals were too weak to resolve against the background of the daytime sky. While there _were_ night-time launches going on at Edwards AFB, none of the AF rockets there came close to the size of the Saturn V, so it was hoped that a night-time Saturn V launch would offer a unique opportunity to record hard-to-obtain data (I don't know how the experiment turned out). [BTW, I'm a (retired) PhD physicist with 35+ years experience in optics and lasers 😉]
It came close Apollo 12 got hit by lightning coming off the pad. The electronics were scrambled. A young elec. engineer (John Aaron) suggested a reboot. Mission saved.
I am lucky enough to have seen the last one of these go up with my own eyes. I was five years old. We stood in the front yard of a friend we were visiting in Titusville, listing to the countdown on a transistor radio. Dad put me up on his shoulders to watch. What a glorious sight.
@@charliewerchan7252 It was amazing. I remember in my five-year old mind thinking that the rocket would look much bigger, since I was used to seeing movies of it shot through telephoto lenses. So that part was a little disappointing. The way it lit up the sky, though (being a night launch) was astounding. It was like a time-lapse of the sun rising. The sound, too, was imprerssively loud and sharp. Titusville is about 10-12 miles from 39A, as the crow flies, which made it all the more awesome. I wish I'd had an appreciation for the historical context, but that would come later. The first-stage separation downrange looked, as I crall, like a faint silver ring expanding from the brilliant light of the flame a the center. It lookled a bit like a star exploding. The most interesting part for me (and I would watch many more launches in my lifetime), is the way the glow lingered on the horizon for minutes aftward.
I witnessed the launch of Apollo 11 in 1969. I was 12. With my family, we watched it launch from the back of a motel at Cocoa Beach, across the causeway from Merritt Island. I’ll never forget the sound and vibration of the launch. An epochal event.
You have to see this thing in person at KSC to really understand how unbelievably enormous it is. Seeing it actually take off is surreal, like if a skyscraper could fly.
Film is very high resolution, this is the original 70mm that was preserved and scanned in a FHD resolution. Unlike the live broadcasts, this footage was shot on film instead of videotape, so this wasn't seen digitally on tv.
No matter how many times I've seen this, even 50 or so years later it is incredible that these rockets could get that lift. Can you imagine being one of the guys in those amazing things!
I bet that was one hell of a bumpy, explosive, heart pounding, exhilarating, nerve wracking, joyous, and make you almost come out of your own head ride that has ever been produced.
It certainly took a lot of courage to climb aboard that vehicle, especially knowing where it was headed. Huge respect to the astronauts who braved that unique journey.
No matter what rockets are invented in the future, no matter how much thrust they have, there was no greater sounding rocket than the Saturn 5. Especially at 0:31 . The ignition sound is incredible
Pinball Magician likewise... so let’s hope that SpaceX’s Starship with 30-something Raptors engines in its first SuperHeavy stage will bring us some of that same magic! :)
@@trashmail8 Just imagine a rocket 10 m taller than this one, built out of shiny stainless steel, taking off propelled by 39 engines, each one ejecting a blue jet of light... it's going to look like something from a sci-fi movie
This was one of mankind's greatest engineering achievements since the dawn of civilization. The sheer power required to propel this monster was mind-boggling. I can only imagine how it must've felt to ride atop this beast as it took men to the moon 🥲
Each team of astronauts who were strapped into the tiny capsule at the top of these thundering towers and took this crazy ride into space had the biggest balls in human history.
I had the honor of working in the software verification group for the LVDC for 4 Saturn launches including the flight which was the moon landing flight. The things I learned about testing software and debugging really hard problems was invaluable in later projects for the software testing of internal computers in the A-7, F-16 and F-22 aircraft..
@Heisenberg Von Braun was character assassinated by a very specific ethnic interest group within NASA for purely political reasons. It's been all downhill from there.
One of my favorite audio's from a launch is where you can hear one of the astronauts on the CM loop about 1 minute into the flight say "Jesus Christ this thing really MOVES!!!" I think it might have been Edgar Mitchell.
@@dukecraig2402 I have a documentary where one astronaut lets out a "Yahoo!" and another (Gene Cernan?) says something like "I've got a pitch and a roll programme and this baby is really moving!". Even the astronauts didn't fully appreciate the huge thrust until they were actually experiencing it. Bill Anders thought there had been a catastrophe during his launch (Apollo 8) due to the shaking during lift-off. I cannot comprehend how amazing it must have felt and how brave (reckless?!) those guys were. Frank Borman removed his hand from the abort controller during lift-off; he said he would have rather died than make a false abort. Balls of steel. Peace.
@@benjamindover3361 not really there are alot of better rockets out there saturn 5 was noted as a inefficient rocket something like soyuz and falcon 9 are nice and better than this money waste however it's very strong and superheavy Lifter however they could done something much cheaper and much efficient than this
I sometimes try to imagine what it felt like to ride atop one of these behemoths when they ignited their engines. I don’t think my imagination or any movie will ever do it full justice, but it must have been an awe-inspiring moment when those astronauts felt their seats shake as the thousands of tons of steel and fuel beneath them suddenly rose off the launch pad.
Me too. I've seen the KSC Saturn three times, now, and each time has been equally profound. I always knew how big it is, but nothing prepared me for moment when I actually saw it for the first time. When you got off the bus at the Apollo Saturn 5 Center, did you go straight into the main hall, or watch the two video presentations first?
i've seen that one and the one in Huntsville. KSC shows how massive they were, but it's on its side (and stages separated iirc). Huntsville's is standing vertical and you truly get to see how huge the Saturn V is
I just love this audio track! Just added a second 300 watt sub-woofer to my little home stereo speaker set. When the Saturn V engines ignited my walls shook, the floor shook and I started grabbing the sides of my chair thinking I was about to launch!
My parents took me down to Florida for the Apollo 8 launch. We were on the Banana River about 5-6 miles from the launch pad. What I most remember, and this video doesn't do it justice, is the sound...it was more feeling than the actual sound. The waves of sound would wash over you.
Sigh.. Those were the days... I was 11 in ´69. Here in europe as all over the world people were talking just about that. I collected all newspaper and magazine articles that had anything to do with space flight. Somehow that load of paper got lost, I still feel bad about that..
I'm not so sure about that... I saw a shuttle launch in person and it was incredible. Each of the SRBs makes more thrust than a Rocketdyne F1 and the acceleration once it clears the tower and the SRBs increase to full power is absolutely breathtaking. Not to mention, I think the staging on the shuttle is more fun to watch. Make no mistake though, I don't mean to diminish a Saturn V launch and given that they did this in the 60s makes it all the more remarkable.
I’d go so far as to say it was _the_ breathtaking experience of the 20th century. The moment Man left his native planet and traveled to the surface of another orbital body… and then returned to tell the tale.
I grew up around people that designed and made parts for the Apollo launches here in Huntsville. To this day seeing a Saturn V launch live is one of the most vivid memories I have of the 60's.
Wow, the Saturn V rocket is truly incredible! The power emanating from those F-1 engines is simply awe-inspiring. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the video - it was remarkable!
a friend of mine came up with a video of a v8 engine and told me its the most insane sound he ever heared, i laughted a him, gave him a slap and showed him this..... hes still crying
The magnificent Saturn V rocket, currently on display at Cape Canaveral, was so thrilling to me that I burst into tears as my grandson explained to me that it was a twin of the rocket I had watched going to the moon in 1969 on a small 15 inch television--which gave NO sense of the scale of this beauty. The fact that all of it was designed by men with slide-rules, pencils, and analog and human genius... no digital screens, no computers...is a testament to human greatness. Their brilliance, precision and achievement cannot be equaled in this age of simulations and computer design.
This video is iconic. The cinematography capturing the launch from the different levels of the launch tower is as fabulous as anything put out by Hollywood. Even now, 50+ years later, it's incredible to watch, knowing the immense feats of engineering and sacrifice that went into creating the Saturn V and the space program it served. What I wouldn't give to have seen one of these lift off in person.
Totally awesome, Total rush of adrenaline. I sat alone in the living room, 9 years old, mesmerized and overwhelmed. For thousands of years this will be known as a great American achievement. Great video!
I love this history, but I get frustrated with the belittling comments of RU-vid haters. "Buzz Aldrin lied" "Where's the stars?" "Government hoax!" "Flat Earth!" "Tesla!" "Dumont!" "Titanic wasn't Titanic! It was another ship with the same name, sabotaged by Globalist Billionaires from "Jekyll Island!" On and on.
@@michaelkeaton5394 Last year I argued exactly as you did against an ultra-nationalist who thought it was a 100% American endeavour. When I proved that Canadian engineers from Avro Canada (laid off after the Avro Arrow was cancelled) were instrumental to the project, especially the lunar module, he tried to move the goalpost by saying they'd become American citizens before working for NASA (also not true). Toxic nationalism at its worst. All that said, I have no problem with John saying it's a great American achievement. It was spearheaded and fully funded by the American government, the vast majority of the 400,000 workers were American, and the project was specifically made to show America could beat the Soviets to land a man on the moon. I'll happily grant them that point of pride, even if on the whole it marks the high-point to date of overall human ingenuity.
There's a Saturn V on display at the Kennedy Space center in Florida. You don't appreciate how big it is until you stand next to it. It is horizontal and stretches down a long hangar. The five F-1 engines are a sight by themselves.
the 3 stage rocket will probably never be used again, but those Saturns were feckin huge! and to think those little astronauts' are strapped in a tiny command module at the top
@Pauline Gallagher Imagine how loud it must've been for them. People miles away felt it in their stomachs. Even the best Shockwave suppression for the time must've felt like nothing.
Amazing. A beautyful machine, incredible video. You can feel what powerful it is. 50 years and still this is the most impressive dream the man achieved. True emotions. Thank you.
To this day, the single most powerful single stage engines ever produced by humans. Each of the 5 F1 engines producing an incredible 32million hp each, Together, all 5 generated an astonishing 160 million hp. The ground trembled 3 miles from the launch pad for several seconds. Truly an awe inspiring moment in the history of mankind.
I grew up during the 60s and watched almost all of these on TV. Watching the Saturn V liftoff is still inspiring!. Almost as awe inspiring is the crawler that transported it and the lift tower from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the Launch Pad. Incredible stuff!
yes the crawler transporter was quit an amazing feat of engineering in and of itself and it was used to transport the shuttles to the pad as well. I believe it is currently being updated for the SLS
Id give up everything to go back in time and see this with my own eyes. Its literally breathtaking for me to see something like this every time even ina video decades later
I love how people think they could possibly launch one of these in "secret"... The latest conspiracy theory making the rounds. You could hear the launch of a Saturn V froma state away. Seismic meters measured the launch all over the eastern seaboard.
@@faisgaffeimbecile1939 Fluoride isn't what caused that kind of stupidity, here's what happened. Liberals made Congress pull the plug on the Apollo program so the money could be spent on social programs, so now for 50 years the stupid and lazy have been paid to reproduce, now 50 years later we have people stupid enough to believe the moon missions were hoaxed. And that's called shooting yourself in the foot.
@@dukecraig2402 And some of those( if not most) think the 🌎 if a Flat slab in space. No wonder the intelligent are Depressed. These 2000' s truly suck ass, i hate the new century. America is so lost now.
Duke Craig And conservatives funneled more and more money into the military budget while reducing NASA’s budget. Don’t make this a partisan issue, because it’s not. The military budget is more than 30x larger than NASA’s. I’m sure any left leaning people would be happy to take money from the military and put it towards NASA instead.
"The beast" still holds the records for the heaviest payloads into earth orbit and lunar orbit. One of the only rockets that NEVER failed in a mission. Even the Charlie foxtrot unmanned Apollo 6 managed to limp into orbit when 2 of the 5 engines of the SII second stage failed....truly the beast....
