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me 'n my big
friend |
near one that's
been felled... |
... and under
one that's vertical. |
One ready for
launch! (full height view) |
| It was big, it was powerful, it was how we got man to the moon before the Ruskies
(who gave up soon afterwards). Each of the 5 first stage F-1 engines had
1.5 million pounds of thrust -- enormous when compared to each of the
Space Shuttle's 3 main rocket engines at 0.4 million pounds of thrust
per. Here
it is, the Saturn V and it's use on the Apollo and Skylab programs... |
Tech
write-up of the Apollo / Saturn program...
Now, on to the pix!
Development:
Gemini
8 practicing of LEM extraction; failed to open!
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program
overview briefing to President Kennedy
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President
Kennedy with Dr. Wernher Von
Braun, Director of Marshall Space Flight
Center
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practicing
riding the lunar mini-bike in the zero-g "Vomit Comet" (mini-bike
concept later abandoned)
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capsule launch
abort rocket testing
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VAB construction
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setup
of Mission Control
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mission
controllers (lower left = Gene
Kranz)
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wind tunnel
testing @AEDC
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Apollo 1 fire
remains, under guard
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Apollo 1 fire
remains
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Apollo 1:
cockpit, post-fire
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wind tunnel
testing @AEDC
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Mission execution:
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Booster (museum)
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Booster
(production)
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Booster
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Booster
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Booster
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Lunar Module
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Lunar Module
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Command Module
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stacking up in
the VAB
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stacking up in
the VAB
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rollout
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rollout
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rollout
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rollout
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rollout
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rollout
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crawler to pad
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crawler to pad
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crawler to pad
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crawler to pad
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crawler to pad
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crawler at pad
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great base shot
showing tail service masts
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great overall base shot
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the
rocket hold-down mechanism
(one of 4 per
pad)
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rocket hold-down
mechanism schematic
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hold-down
mechanisms assembly
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hold-down
mechanisms, another closer view
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tail service
masts assembly
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tail
service mast Figure
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ready for launch
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Apollo 11
astronauts board
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activity in
Mission Control
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ignition
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ignition
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Saturn V liftoff
(Apollo 8), another awesome video -- this time from the LUT deck in
ultra-slow motion. You
have to see this to believe it, 7.6 million pounds of liquid-fueled thrust.
(full
AVI, 28.3 MB)
(trimmed
large WMV, 12.6 MB)
(trimmed
small WMV, 4.5 MB)
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OK,
same shot, Apollo 11
(full
AVI, 60.1 MB)
(trimmed
large WMV, 32.0 MB)
(trimmed
small WMV, 12.0 MB)
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OK,
even closer, Apollo 12
(full
AVI, 40.7 MB)
(trimmed
large WMV, 35.3 MB)
(trimmed
small WMV, 14.9 MB)
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ascent,
low altitude (note flame trail is ~1000 feet long)
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ascent,
mid-altitude
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ascent, high
altitude
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staging
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staging
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on
the way to the moon, looking back
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splashdown!
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capsule recovery
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capsule recovery
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post-Apollo... Skylab missions:
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the Skylab
module
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starting the
stackup
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Skylab 1
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Skylab 1
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Skylab 1 launch
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Skylab 1 launch
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Skylab 1 launch
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composite shot
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double-exposure,
Skylab 1 and subsequent (shortened) Skylab launches -- using the same
gantry via a "booster seat"
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Saturn IB
booster in production
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Saturn IB
booster being set to vertical, for stacking for a later Skylab launch
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Saturn IB booster stackup
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later Skylab on
pad
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