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This clip is raw from Camera E-8 on the launch umbilical tower/mobile launch program of Apollo 11, July 16, 1969. This is an HD transfer from the 16mm original. Even more excellent footage is available on our DVDs at our website at spacecraftfilms.com

The camera is running at 500 fps, making the total clip of over 8 minutes represent just 30 seconds of actual time. Narration is provided by Mark Gray (me), Executive Producer for Spacecraft Films.

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Kevin Richter 2 years ago

AWESOME! Totally awesome!!!

I LOVE anything to do with the whole space program, especially Apollo.
sixteenbits 1 year ago

Just might be the greatest 30 seconds ever captured on film...
Joanna of Arc 1 year ago

He better slows the speed of the shutter down, cause he has to talk that quick, that i get seasick.
Oasis Directive 2 years ago

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this!!
romaric maser 2 years ago

Beautiful!
calease 1 year ago

Yes, Mark: thank you for sharing this with us. This evening I shall raise my glass to Apollo 11 and you.
JohnnyRandom 1 year ago

Wonderful! Thanks for sharing and narrating :)
mathew murphy 1 year ago

Awesome. Thanks.
Kert Gartner 1 year ago

Epic!
Sylvain Riou 1 year ago

wow! great ressource for those who work in the vfx field and dynamic simulations , thanks!
Ray Roman 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing!
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Daniel Hayek 1 year ago

Hi Casmir,

Welcome to Vimeo. If you don't have something constructive to share in a tactful manner we suggest just not commenting. Just a thought.

Have a pleasant day.
Morgan Nick 1 year ago

This is why Vimeo is better!
David Katauskas 1 year ago

WOW! Thanks for sharing!
Matthew Brown (Matty Brown) 1 year ago

It's like a volcano erupting. I had to watch on mute, though. :/ Still liked it a lot!!
Hungry Eye 1 year ago

I thought I had seen all of the Apollo 11 launch footage, but this is my first time seeing this.

Thanks for sharing, and thanks for the informative dialogue.
Christina King 1 year ago

Wonderful presentation! I grew up on the Space Coast and watched ALL those rockets go up!
Kent Brewster 1 year ago

No HTML5 version?
David McClain 1 year ago

Most amazing footage I think I've ever seen. Excellent narration too, thanks Mark!
DV:Dreams 1 year ago

Thank you so much for sharing this great footage and not passing it by... I learned and saw something new! Great Job!
Isabelo Pascual 1 year ago

This is great!
langustart 1 year ago

Wow!
Richard Stolinski 1 year ago

excellent doco !!
Robin MORET 1 year ago

Really interesting footage. Thanks for sharing
pat howley 1 year ago

Wow! Truly amazing. I am currently reading The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe so I was especially impressed. Thanks for sharing Mark!
Jeremy Erickson 1 year ago

That's amazing!
Romain Guintard 1 year ago

Wooooow !! ... that's just incredible ...
Kablamo Man 1 year ago

The coolest and most amazing think i've ever seen.
daniel romano 1 year ago

Hi enijoy the video
daniel romano 1 year ago

Hi everyone look just do as we do
Mark Turuk 1 year ago

Fire in the sky, indeed.
Carucage Records 1 year ago

This is awesome.
Ian Kath 1 year ago

Mark, it's your commentary that makes this so engaging.

Thanks for finding it.
Jimmy Nilsson 1 year ago

This is just about the coolest thing I´ve ever seen!!

Also, the commenting just makes it even moore cool since it makes me understand what kind of power we are talking about here and what´s really going on.

So thank you so much for the video.
A Rigged Production 1 year ago

This is what I would imagine Terminator 2 Judgment Day's Nuclear Explosion would look like if you were standing in the middle of it for a split second before imminent vapourisation
cary chang 1 year ago

incredible video and narration, just as a suggestion, the elapsed real time would be addition
Mark Tomlinson 1 year ago

Wonderful and a great commentary thank you for sharing.
Calle Söderberg 1 year ago

Fantastic video and also narration. Thanks!
Niall Flynn 1 year ago

Very cool!
Nahuel882 1 year ago

That's amazing!
⚡⚡⚡ 1 year ago

this is just so WOW!
Thushan Amarasiriwardena 1 year ago

Wow - thank you for this Mark, excellent info in your narration. Looking forward to more of these.
Soundtrackcity 1 year ago

Wow, that's absolute SPACE out!
Ray Addison 1 year ago

This footage is amazing!
NaViTo 1 year ago

Wow Amazing! Thanks for this vid.
Nilz 1 year ago

This is footage is public domain, is there anywhere that the hd transfer is available for download (without the narration)?
Anand V Kumar 1 year ago

just WOW!
Anna Savoy 1 year ago

I am in agreement, this is an amazing and interesting video. It'd be an excellent teaching tool in our schools. In fact, I'm going to post a link so my son can view it.

Thanks for sharing.
Rachel Bastarache Bogan 1 year ago

THAT IS COOL! Being a space nut, it's great to see how this happened, and what had to be done to protect the launch pad for future spacecraft. It's also amazing thinking that while the rest of the world was watching Apollo 11 as it travels upward into the sky, somebody thought about the moments after it launched to create all the mechanisms to protect, contain and even record the moments on the ground. TOO COOL!
Brent Buford 1 year ago

Freaking sweet.
Been Yelling 1 year ago

You must tyrpe a commet firtst
Been Yelling 1 year ago

NOW YOU ALL KNOW I spelled this correctly because i focused!
Been Yelling 1 year ago

its easy when you focus! I
Marc Hamilton 1 year ago

Thanks Mark. This is a reminder of our country's greatness in the not so distant past!
Michael Brashier 1 year ago

Those Nasa guys are clever. The way they use turbine exhaust gas as an insulating layer between the rocket blast the the engine shroud is really cool.
dalas verdugo 1 year ago

I'm dumbstruck by how profound these images are.
Michael Welborn 1 year ago

OH WOW that was fantastic! THANKS so much for sharing!
Juan Antonio Morales Parras 1 year ago

Impresionante!!!
Brian vonKlepper 1 year ago

Amazing video. Thanks for the detailed commentary. What type of temperatures does the launch pad reach after liftoff?
peter harris 1 year ago

thx for posting
toypaj 1 year ago

This makes you really appreciate
the power of the Saturn V,
It's like being on the receiving end of a dragon.
Thanks for Sharing this with us.
Alan Mellor 1 year ago

Great stuff. Love your commentary.
Great 16mm quality as well - amazing to think the film is 40+ years old
Henri-Maxime Ducoulombier 1 year ago

This is absolutely awesome. Thanks a bunch !
LiquidRetro 1 year ago

Great job explaining it.
Szabolcs Gergely (szabiakanich) 1 year ago

That was mind bending. Amazing.
Greg Del Savio 1 year ago

Incredible stuff! Thanks!
Borek Lupomesky 1 year ago

Breathtaking view and at times, surreal.
Jay Bflag 1 year ago

Wow !
I was only 12 y/o :-O
Matthew Oates 1 year ago

AMAZING VIDEO

But he definitely said 'turban' at 2:20!
Arlo Jeremy 1 year ago

Born after the Apollo missions, and will never likely see another human being set foot on another heavenly body. So, seeing this rare perspective on a monumental event is a treasure. Thanks.
ms commerce 1 year ago

Thank you so much for this video. I was a 11 year old in India when the Apollo 11 landing happened and we only had radio, no TV. But I saw a great documentary of the Apollo 11 mission on a 70mm screen a couple of months later and was intrigued by the white plaques falling off the side of the rocket. I thought about it and assumed the paint finish on the outside was flaking off from the intense vibration during launch but I could never be sure all these years.

Now, 40 years later you have solved a mystery for me. Thank you so much!
Christopher Doll 1 year ago

This is just amazing. I love the DVD sets, and this treatment in HD is excellent.
Tamzin 1 year ago

wow!
heroine worshipper 1 year ago

"This video cannot be downloaded anymore today." 40 years later & we still lack the technology to distribute a 130MB file. Torrent?
Thor Melsted 1 year ago

seconded
Serena Steuart 1 year ago

A bit of correction: at 2:38 the exhaust gas is not a mixture of LOX and kerosene. It is the products of burning the propellants in the combustion chamber, so the exhaust is mostly CO2 and H2O. Any unburned propellant would be a great inefficiency.
david bowie 1 year ago

take the emotion out of this and ask yourself why would nasa fake all the apollo missions?

this thing never orbited outside of the van allen, and video reels from nasa show on slates dated them to be on the moon, more than halfway there.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_belt

reason
Serena Steuart 1 year ago

Maybe you'd like to elaborate on that. As it stands your statement makes no sense.
Capeau 1 year ago

2 words: cool stuff!
The Science Pundit 1 year ago

NdGT just tweeted this video out. It's amazing how high speed photography can really bring you into another world. Thanks for the commentary; I learned quite a bit.
Marrock 1 year ago

I love watching those Saturn V launches, just the incredible amounts of sheer raw power pouring out of those engines is an amazing sight.

Who needs a warp drive when you have F-1s?
aek 1 year ago

A detail for Michael Brashier: NASA was the govt agency overseeing the program. The F-1 & J-2 (second & 3rd stage) engines were designed and built entirely by Rocketdyne division of North American Aviation ( the guys that did the P-51 Mustang, the space shuttle orbiter and main engines), now owned by Northrup-Grumman.
Stretch Ledford 1 year ago

WHOA Seven and a half MILLION pounds of thrust, anyone??

I love the part right around 4:00 where we just see the results of the thrust.
Tony Allen 1 year ago

Nice!!!!! Thanks.... :]
Shannon Bowman 1 year ago

That has to be one of the coolest videos of all time.
Trajano Paiva / WPI Filmes 1 year ago

Fantastic filming on slow motion! Engineers can take a good look about what really happens there in a fraction of a second and improve methodology for new launches.
Awesome ! thank you !
MEDIAWEST POST 1 year ago

if you think about it, the technology of using flame as an accelerant is thousands of years old, and no different than the chinese rockets fireworks of many years ago.... where's the molecular transporters??????? cool video...
Joaquim Bel 1 year ago

Completely BRUTAL!!
Jaap van der Velde 1 year ago

Whoever likes this short fragment should get a copy of "For All Mankind", which has over an hour of amazing footage of the Apollo program, with narration by the astronauts themselves.
Elie Khoury 1 year ago

This is the best thing I have seen all week! It just made my day!
eric susch 1 year ago

Very impressive. I don't think I've ever seen this angle of the launch.
Eike Rojahn 1 year ago

Wow.
Shadrach 1 year ago

Amazing stuff!
Voltaire Rico 1 year ago

Was the narration really necessary?
Stephen Bolen 1 year ago

This is nuts. Thanks for sharing!
hart henry 1 year ago

I learned a new word today - ablative material!
Great Video - loved the commentary.
Alex Penny 1 year ago

Oh God this is the most amazing thing I've seen in a while
Popscure 1 year ago

Awesome!
zed melody 1 year ago

amazing! thanks for sharing it!
Danny Willis 1 year ago

Astounding