I know in this day and age it's easy to become bored with stuff like this, but take just a minute to consider what was happening here. This was the very first time men were going to go beyond earth orbit into deep space. I mean, these 3 guys were heading for the frickin' MOON for crying out loud. What an awesome event this was. I hope that when the first manned flight to Mars takes off, that we are as amazed with that as we were with this.

@Musicman81Indy

3 жыл бұрын

@@geocam2 Yeah i forgot to mention that one.

@electricpaisy6045

Жыл бұрын

How would it ever be easy to become bored with stuff like this?

@Musicman81Indy

Жыл бұрын

@@electricpaisy6045 When I said it's easy to get bored with it, I was definitely NOT referring to myself. I could watch this stuff for hours on end and never get tired of it. But I've watched the reaction of many others when they see this, and they're like, "Yeah, yeah, another moon flight, big deal. Those were the old days. Seen one, seen 'em all". I have a hard time understanding that kind of attitude as well. For me, watching them go to the moon was the most incredible, most fascinating time of my life. I wish i could go back to that time and watch them all over again. I think the entire Apollo program was the greatest single event in the history of the entire planet.

@wildboar7473

10 ай бұрын

did not last long in the old days, Many were bored for #12, perhaps causing #13 historical badluck. And still not much for#14, troubles at least in US during those old days.

@ludwigsamereier8204

25 күн бұрын

@@wildboar7473 I couldn´t agree more. I was 18 at the time and I remember having been intrigued by Apollo 11. But my interest quickly wore off, which I don´t understand now as an old man.

I would give anything to have witnessed the launch of a Saturn V rocket. They were simply AWESOME..

@josephvengen9989

9 күн бұрын

Saw every one on TV..... hands down the MOST AWESOME experiences of my young life. No launch platform to date has come close.

Everytime I watch this, i just can't get over how good this optical tracking is, seriously!

Me and a mate flew from London and landed in NY with less than a couple of hundred dollars between us. In an adventure of a lifetime we worked our way down to the Cape in time you watch 17 go up. To see that 3000 ton mother haul itself into the night sky was the most awsome experience in my life. And we were eternally gratefull to the many people we met on the way who invited those 2 english kids with a mission into their homes and had us sit at their dinner tables.

@russells9687

5 жыл бұрын

Great story Spirit. Skipped three days of law school and drove a thousand miles straight from NY to FL in a crumbling old car to make it to the 17 Press Site at KSC. Only Saturn V to ever fly at night. Only Apollo mission to NOT go on time (two hour delay past midnight for a vent door "glitch"). Last men on the Moon and beyond awesome. Wouldn't have missed it for the world.

One of the most fantastic events in human history. No matter how many times you watch this footage it never gets old.

I was 10 years old at this time. My friends were watching football and baseball, I was watching Gemini and Apollo launches. I still watch every launch I can catch.

I love hearing that one conroller shouting really loud, "CLEAR THE TOWER". You sure don't hear that kind of emotion in todays launches. Everyone is so stiff and unemotional today.

@danielstokker

3 жыл бұрын

Dont forget this was a moment filled with emotion we were about to leave our planet for the first time and whitness another from really close , i get emotionel when i see the apollo 8 launch now let alone of youwere there mak8ng history yourself that day , its the most important launch ever in history certainly after the apollo 1 accident just a year before this needed to go right and it was flawless so many nuts and bolts and it went without a doubt FUCKING UNBELIEVEBLE

@dalethelander3781

3 жыл бұрын

That guy yelled that at every Apollo launch, including 7.

@stevemastnick5034

9 күн бұрын

I always wondered what he yelled.

Well, anyway...this is some excellent footage. I love the way the second stage engines show up so well! Saturn V launches are still inspirational.

It really sucks that Apollo 8 is overshadowed by 11, it’s probably just as significant as the first landing. A lot of people who don’t know much about the Apollo program forget that their was a lot to accomplish. I mean think about it, 8, was the FIRST time people had gone that far out into and to the Moon!! that’s just incredible! I’m so happy we’ll have a repeat of this moment with Artemis 2

@electricpaisy6045

Жыл бұрын

There is a whole documentation about Apollo 8 ending after an hour with the original astronauts commenting the launch scene. I think it gives it a fair amount of credit. And don't forget the famous earth picture and the Christmas speech and all the environment protection demos it caused on earth.

@wildboar7473

10 ай бұрын

True, high risk first outside trip, all the way to Moon!

@alex-internetlubber

10 ай бұрын

And it was launched on a lark. It was literally "the LM isn't ready, let's test in an all-up fashion the entire stack except for the LM, let's go around the moon to test the tracking". Unbelievably bold, Apollo 11 indeed seems (almost) like cakewalk in comparison

@GumballAstronaut7206

10 ай бұрын

@@alex-internetlubber exactly. Literally everything was tested before hand except the actual landing.

@kristiankoski3908

7 ай бұрын

Apollo 8 is probably my favorite mission of all time with Vostok 1. First time humanity truly left Earth.

Two hours later in Earth orbit over Hawaii... "Apollo 8, Houston. You are GO for TLI" [Trans-Lunar Insertion]. Apollo 8: "Roger understand. GO for TLI." And with that the third stage was re-ignited to send the first human beings across the void of space to another world. Trust me, kids, it don't get any bigger than that.

@chatteyj

7 жыл бұрын

The first time man left low earth orbit.

@russells9687

7 жыл бұрын

Strictly speaking, yes. But don't forget the earlier (1966) mission of Gemini 11, which fired the engine of the Agena target vehicle it was docked with to raise its LEO orbital apogee up to 850 miles. It later returned to a lower, circular orbit and came home with some really fabulous photos of a very round Earth far, far below.

@chatteyj

7 жыл бұрын

Ah yes I vaguely remembered something like that, so I guess strictly speaking I'm wrong, Perhaps saying apollo 8 was the first time man left earth orbit is more accurate.

@russells9687

7 жыл бұрын

Ah... I can't resist: none of the Moon flights (including Apollo 8) ever really left Earth orbit either. After all, the Moon is very much in Earth orbit! The way many of the space historians put it is... Borman, Lovell and Anders were the first to leave the Earth to visit another world. All semantics and point of view , I suppose. Whatever SLS is going to do on its first flight, it should be memorable. See you down here in 20 months.

@chatteyj

7 жыл бұрын

Haha yes you're right I suppose I've just finished watching Earthrise: the first lunar voyage, either way it was an awesome accomplishment I wish I'd been around to see it.

this is the first vid i've ever seen where you can actually see the s-II igniting so clearly, well done

To all those who worked on Apollo, one of the greatest goals this country has ever achieved.

This launch is a FILMING, not just a TV network video taping. Gorgeous! Absolutely gorgeous!

I've watched alot of these videos for the Apollo launches and at 57 years of age I still get goosebumps

Wow, the staging is amazing.

This was the first time humans ever rode a Saturn V, and only the third launch of one. This was a huge gamble, albeit a gamble based on engineering knowledge and clear, statistical analysis of the possibility of failure. The more I reflect on Apollo 8, the braver and braver it seems to me. Saturn V was, and still is, the most fearsome, amazing, unlikely, brobdingnagian machine ever to carry human beings. The lunar landings were the greatest achievement, but Apollo 8 was the boldest single move.

This is beautiful clear footage, and I love the radio chatter, the flight director and his team sound quite chilled and cool about the whole thing.

It still blows my mind all the science and engineering that went into getting man on the moon and safely back again. Launch windows, orbital mechanics, new alloys and welding techniques, the on board computers and its programming and all the testing. At the beginning of the century, man conquered powered flight, less than 66 years later, they were walking on the moon. What an achievement.

I was 15 when we went there for the launch. Travelled from Illinois just to see it and watched from the beach at Titusville. Even at 14 miles away, the Saturn V's roar was absolutely stupendous and the sight was utterly staggering. The rocket exhaust was nearly a quarter of a mile long in the thin upper atmosphere before booster separation. I also saw Apollo 13 and two shuttle launches, but Apollo 8 was the most dramatic for me. It was glorious!

50 years!

Agreed - lovely shot of the S2 Stage lighting up ... beautiful clear day helped.

I was there. Watched from Titusville just across the river from the Cape. It took over thirty seconds for the sound to reach us. Even so, it was an absolutely titanic roar that made your insides slosh. That 7.5 million pounds of thrust translated into 160 million horsepower, and it felt and sounded like those horses were all stampeding over us!

@russells9687

10 жыл бұрын

Hey Bob. I was on the riverbank in Titusville that morning (Christmas week, 1968) -- with about one million of our closest friends. Unforgettable event. Later, I watched dozens of shuttle launches from the same spot. It's 11.6 miles from KSC Pad 39A so the sound takes nearly a full minute to arrive -- but you're right: You can't miss it when it gets there !! Maybe I'll see you in T-Town for the first SLS launch in 2017, from Pad 39B. Until then... take care.

@chatteyj

7 жыл бұрын

Is that SLS launch still on schedule for 2017? I never made it to America to see a shuttle launch and I'd sure like to see the new generation of nasa Rockets.

@russells9687

7 жыл бұрын

Devonian: Spoke with a Senate space aide 24 hours ago. One of the things he said was that NASA and its contractors are shooting for the initial SLS launch from KSC in November, 2018. And, as far as we can tell down here, the agency still intends to assemble the first full-size SLS "test article" inside the VAB and roll it over to launch pad 39B for critical "fit tests" before the end of this year. No doubt the videos of THAT will make it onto the nightly network news... : ]

@chatteyj

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot, glad to hear NASA is still active.

@Sherpaful

7 жыл бұрын

I wish I could've experienced that, witnessing a Saturn V launch. Especially Apollo 17

Man, when they get up in the thinner atmosphere during that first stage and the exhaust plumes widen up dramatically, it's so incredible looking. It looks like the rocket is being chased by a giant fireball and it's just managing to stay in front of it. Coincidentally that's exactly what's happening but the visual aspect of it is out of this world. The first time I saw one of these launches and I saw how the plume got so wide, I actually thought their was a problem with the vehicle and that the flame was going to come back over the vehicle and cause it to explode. I was young and didn't fully grasp how all of this worked though lol.

@SwithinFeely

7 жыл бұрын

that is very cool my friend

I love how the first stage starts to looks charred and burnt, just epic.

And here we are, 50 years later!

One of the best parts to me of the Apollo launches, is Staging. "Your Go For Staging" One of my favorate phrases.

Apollo 8, such a major mile-stone in space travel, the first time men had travelled to the moon and looked back to see the earth as we see the moon in our sky. Fantastic. Jim Lovell stated of all his flights in Gemini, Apollo 8 and 13 this was his greatest misson

Beautiful footage of the Apollo 8 launch!! I've seen thousands of footages of the Saturn launches, but this clip really stands out as one of the best!

This was the cleanest launch of a Saturn V I've seen--very sharp...the real time footage of lift off...the unfiltered image of the exhaust flame showing itself as a white/blue ...wow, just incredible, I also love the way you can see the engines acoustic energy causes flashing ripples through the giant smoke plumes. Thanks for putting this up.

Quite right, you gotta love what reduced atmospheric backpressure does to your performance! I also always find it fascinating to watch rockets go up and their exhaust plumes expanding and interacting with each other if there's more than one engine. I was long puzzled by images of Saturn V's aft end being engulfed by flame around 2 minutes into the flight. Fluid dynamics sure are tricky stuff...

Absolutely beautiful.

This is the first time I've really seen the S-II engines ignite, and I think is the best view so far. Now I can really say that my apollo mission simulator just looks like in real life.

Yay, a liftoff sequence in normal time, not in super slow mode for once! thanks!

@ 0:35 CLEAR THE TOWER!!

Beautiful footage. Thank you for posting this!

An Apollo( or Saturn V launch for that matter) launch would have been an utterly awesome thing to have seen in person. Being 25 years old atm, I am far to young to ever have witnessed it in person but that is something I wish all the time I could see. Its hard to grasp the scale of what is happening from just these small videos!!

i was lucky enough to see one when i was a kid and remember every second of it was amazing . during apollo 11 they set up a television in our classroom so we could see history being made . i feel lucky being able to see the great milestones of spaceflight . i still have all the apollo patches i got back then in a case on my wall

I remember watching this when i was a kid it was awesome and exciting everyone riveted to the television . This is incredible footage really cool how the plume from the 1st stage F1 engines 7 million LBS of thrust expands as the vehicle is leaving the atmosphere and then the staging event had to be a jolt to the astronauts to say the least.

I was four years old when was happen... it was THE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT in the dark and convulsed 1968

Man, you could even see the skirt sep. Incredible tracking.

Lovell was actually on the backup crew; Mike Collins was suppose to be the prime CMP for Apollo - 8 but got bumped to 11 due to a bone spur in his neck, which required surgery.

Awesome! One of the mightiest engines ever built by humans. The start of the Saturn V Rocket causes little earhquakes, even registered by seismographs :-)

That was one of the most extraordinary videos I've ever watched here. Thank you so much for sharing!

Best video of Apollo 8 launch I have ever seen...

I never get tired of watching this. Just awesome.

One of the best pieces of raw footage of a Saturn V launch I have seen. I'm so sorry I was not yet alive when these missions took place.

Wow, I've actually never seen this footage before. Awesome new angles!

Best footage of staging I've ever seen, even at 240p. Still, somebody needs to upload a good quality copy of this straight from the source film!!! Probably looks incredible.

It's an abort control mode. It was the last of the Mode 1 abort options, which all used the little ejection rocket on top of the rocket to pull the command module off the rocket. After 1c was done, the escape rocket was jettisoned. Mode 2 used the Service module engine, while Mode 3 involved using the S-IV stage to push the spacecraft into earth orbit.

Of all the Saturn V footage I've seen yet, I think Apollo 8 is by far the best quality. A combination of clear, darker early morning sky and non-turbulent winter atmosphere combined to make the crispiest tracking footage there is. Apollo 12 pad cameras come a close second, slow motion cameras capturing rain visibly falling and acoustic shockwaves producing wavelets of fog bouncing from the ground upward. Spectacular. And then the rocket goes into the clouds and the show is over...

Holy shit this is amazing, thank you for the upload.

50 years ago on December 21st!

@russells9687

5 жыл бұрын

Right you are, FN. And 50 years ago today (December 24th - Christmas Eve), Apollo 8 dropped into Lunar Orbit !! Tomorrow (50 years after they started home) my Christmas dinner is going to be the same as theirs: a hot and yummie turkey, mashed potato and gravy "TV Dinner." : ]

@fromnorway643

5 жыл бұрын

@@russells9687 And one of the most famous pictures in history, known as _Earthrise,_ was taken from Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve in 1968 by astronaut Bill Anders. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg

@russells9687

5 жыл бұрын

@@fromnorway643 Yup. Led directly to the first Earth Day in 1970. I had the Earthrise poster up on my wall at home for nearly 40 years. My girlfriend glued a small piece of paper to it with this quotation (T.S. Eliot, 1942): "We shall not cease to explore... and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

Wow this is probably the best filmed launch up through the modern era of onboard cameras. I don't think skirt separation and tower jettison were visible in any of the other Saturn V launches. The only other winter time launch was of Apollo 12, which took place in a thunderstorm. Here they benefited from the transparent December air. -drl

Video at staging is spectacular. You can really see all 4 S-IC outboard engine cutoff and all 5 S-II engines light.

Jim Lovell said this flight was at the top of his achievement list. I quite agree.

Great Video. 8 is on the greatest achievements in human history.

thank you for this video!

This should have been the first generation of rockets that took humanity beyond our planet, and it would have seemed at the time, it was. Instead, the Saturn V is still the only rocket to take a human to the moon. Once we were a nation that valued and funded exploration and innovation. Now, not so much. I come back and rewatch the launches all the time, often I get misty eyed. It's bittersweet. The Apollo missions and the Saturn V are a benchmark of what we as a species can do, and by contrast, a startling reminder of how much potential is lost when we no longer care to reach. :'(

@gamecrazy911

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, something like a Venus fly-by could've been possible with a standard Saturn V but imagine the sort of potential those planned uprated Saturn V variants with stretched stages and added boosters could've had. If I recall correctly some variant had a LEO payload capability as much as excess of 200 tons. That sounds like a mission to Mars to me.

@SwithinFeely

7 жыл бұрын

there is not enough motivation now its up to the president, funders, or private companies to go above and beyond

If you're actually asking about stuff coming out from the 1st stage after it drops away, that's just the propellants (most likely oxygen) venting out through engine nozzles. The propellant tanks are pressurized to help feed the engines and when the engines quit, the remaining propellants just freely escape because of the difference in pressure to the vacuum outside.

Amazing, thank you.

The Saturn V launch is the most dramatic launch of NASA space vehicles, if I’m asked.

To me, this is the most important launch of the Apollo missions.

Great stuff!! I was 4 years old when this launched! It broke the mould as the 1st rocket/spacecraft to take human beings beyond the earths orbit! Not been repeated since 1972!!(Apollo 17).

We didn't know how safe the Saturns were. They had engineering estimates, but they were really gambling with their lives. They were some of the most complex machines ever built, and almost from launch until splashdown they were in an environment that would kill the astronauts if something failed--whether from speed, temperature, asphyxiation, explosion, fall, drowning, etc. They put the their lives at risk for a noble goal. That is heroic in my eyes.

Wow, this is AWESOME footage! Do you happen to have a higher quality version (pre KZread compression) available? I would love to be able to utilize that from time to time.

Thanks again.

that had to be one hell of a ride great video. best quality i have seen . cant wait for the new aries rockets to be opeational

Very nice video! Thx for uploading :)

@szore I can only feel sorry for not being around at the time to witness one of those launches, even if only live on TV. The feeling of a quantum leap in rocket power over anything that flew previously must have been awesome, especially the first time it happened on that cold morning in November 1967.

It will be hard to ever duplicate that hardware, which is sad. So glad that I did see it live back then. America had heroes, it was wonderful.

well put and agreed -have a great day

This video is really nice quality, really good upload.

beautiful

I love watching the Saturn V fly! I could never understand why the flame appears to move up past the first stage engines and engulf the lower portion of the first stage. It seems like the lower stage is failing before staging.

@lousanto1054

Жыл бұрын

I've wondered that as well.

Very good tracking of the flight by the cameras. Good video.

beautiful!

At a recent anniversary celebration with the three astronauts, Anders mentioned there had never been a person on one of these things, so he didn't know what to expect. When staging occured the astronauts were thrown forward in their seats hard enough that he threw his hand up in front of his face and when the 2nd stage lit it smacked into his helmet causing a big mark. He thought Borman and Lovell would really think rookie, but they did the same thing since they were all Saturn V rookies.

The space shuttle if you ask me was a poor substitute for these beauties. How I wish I'd been alive to see one launch. I wish they were still in service.

And, I should add, thanks for this and all the other uploads ugowar. You and LunarModule5 and zell321 are to be commended for your efforts. Truly spectacular. Perhaps FalconX/Dragon will become enough of a reality to make a return to the moon possible in the foreseeable future.

so damn impressive, mind boggling

It's interesting to hear from people who were not even born at the time to say this event never happened. I prefer the real world over the virtual one ! And this launch was as real as it gets !

Incredible piece of optical tracking

Apollo 8 was a brilliant mission. Saturn V was the best rocket ever designed.

It amazes me that something the size of a skyscraper can be sent into orbit.

@fromnorway643

2 жыл бұрын

The part ending up in orbit (3. stage plus Apollo spacecraft) was a lot smaller, but still almost twice as heavy as an empty space shuttle.

@infinitecanadian

2 жыл бұрын

@@fromnorway643 That's right; I phrased it wrong.

Awesome!

Just unbelievable what we as humans are capable of. It's a terrible shame we let the whole thing go and haven't utilized the great minds that did this nearly to their potential.

I saw every Saturn V ever launched from a distance of 10 miles or less. If you ever saw one of these lift off, you'd have no question that sucker was going at LEAST to the moon. Anybody who thinks otherwise is on the uphill side of the IQ bell curve.

Loved this... Stunning visuals... No hoax here!!!!

@1BustedMyth I loved the one mentioned by ugowar (above) about how they used flamethrowers to make the rockets look more powerful. In 1972 me and a mate flew to NY and hitch hiked down to the Cape in time to watch 17 go up. I remember the flames hundreds of feet long, the noise pounding my chest, the emotion, the two 26 year old women who showed them two 19 year old English kids some real American hospitality the next day ...... but not the US army stood in a circle under the Saturn rocket.

I actually went to the kennedy space center very recently and saw this rocket in person it is so much bigger than it seems its a sight to remember

That was "all up testing" Lunar module was not ready yet... so why not go for a fly by of the moon? Had the vehicle to do it with. That was a BOLD move. Our country did that once upon a time. Made bold moves!

@chatteyj

7 жыл бұрын

If anything that was a first for America beating the Russians to be the first to leave low earth orbit.

@theswagman1263

5 жыл бұрын

I wish people in general, not only Americans, still had this determination to explore

BEAUTIFUL! The Saturn V RULES ALL!

This video is infinitely more awesome when you realize three people are actually riding it.

Correct, 3-axis control on the first and second stages was performed by gimballing the outboard engines. Depending on which direction each of the 4 engines gimballed pitch, yaw and roll were performed. The center engine was fixed and even if it wasn't it would only be able to do pitch/yaw control. Pitch/yaw is performed with all engines nudging up/down or left/right while roll was performed with each engine being skewed clockwise or counterclockwise so their thrust vectors induce a roll moment.

When you see it one minute into this video, the rocket really is pointing slightly downward from straight up. At 2 minutes that angle is already significant. Rockets actually need horizontal speed and they fly straight up at launch just to get out of the atmosphere fast, otherwise the air would drag on the rocket and tear it apart as it accelerates. There is a bit of optical illusion involved with the cameras, but for the most part the effect is real.

@plorch Not just the first to carry humans, the first, period. They hadn't even test flown it, and three brave men decided to fly it anyway. That's courage.

love that in flight footage, never seen that before... was if from aircraft or long range camera on ground?... yeah, that guy is laid back... such an incredible mission to leave earth orbit..

Amazing! ❤️❤️❤️

America used to do great stuff like this. I am glad I got to witness those days!

Crossing the "sound barrier" is just an instant in time it hits Mach 1, it's not a prolonged event. Since the condensation lasts for a few seconds it doesn't mark the exact time of becoming supersonic, but yes, the condensation tends to happen shortly before Mach 1 and lasts sometime later and is roughly centered on the supersonic transition. It depends on actual airflow speed at a certain point around the rocket.