Apollo 4 & 6: First Saturn V Test Flights - Historical Footage, 1967, A-type missions, CSM, NASA

[@nicholasmaude6906]

I love these old NASA project Apollo films.

[@arricammarques1955]

16mm films look better than digital.

[@bobolulu7615]

I cannot get my head around all the infrastructure that was built to do this project. There was some serious engineering done.

[@tomgriffin3800]

Yeah, no kidding. It was done so quickly too. A lot of it is still in use with modifications such as the VAB, crawlers, launch control room and pads 39 A &B. Quite a feat of engineering that you have to admire.

[@wrightmf]

There is footage of construction in early sixties at The Cape. Armies of construction crews, backhoes, bulldozers, cement mixer trucks, cranes. All sorts of digging, lotsa wood construction of concrete forms, rebar everywhere. Top managers have done this before during WW2 overseeing major projects done with wartime urgency, and NASA had endless supplies of money.

[@smacdonald3229]

Nothing like this has been done before or since. I don't think anything like this will be done at least in my lifetime. Astounding achievement.

[@mickywanderer8276]

Not just the amount but how fast it was built and made operational.

[@gregguiltner8764]

When I was in grade school, one big treat was a visit to the film room. We'd all sit in rows on the floor and they showed us 16mm films very similar to this. I can still smell the distinctive oder the hot projector lamp created. I'm glad to watch this great historic content, and I'm grateful I don't even have to sit on the floor!

[@ericcommarato7727]

I was 9 years old in 1969. We lived in Picayune, Mississippi about 30 miles from Stennis Space Center. I distinctly remember the firing of the POGO test as it was equal to about a 5-6 magnitude earthquake lasting for a 9 year a very long time. Many windows in the city of Picayune were broken even 30 miles away, it was exhilarating to say the least.

[@timtripp4222]

Was your area given advance warning about this test? Seems like a terrible thing to do without notice. Panicking the area, I would think, acceptable?

[@ericcommarato7727]

@@timtripp4222 You know Tim, I can't really recall, I know since news outlets were probably limited back in the late 1960's and early 1970's, it was probably printed in the local paper the Picayune Item. It may have also been broad cast on local radio. But our local T.V. stations which would have been based out or New Orleans, or Mississippi Gulf Coast, WLOX in Biloxi, I doubt they were ever notified. It mostly probably went by local word of mouth as there were many that worked at Stennis Space Center, and still do.

[@robinac6897]

was aged 5 living a 100 miles away in Nassau Bahamas.

[@HailAnts]

I've never seen any of the 'in-capsule' footage before. Outstanding!

[@mikehindson-evans159]

Thank you for creating this very important historical document. Your efforts are much appreciated.

[@gasgaslex_photos]

More great content. I miss these old school narrators, their voices commanded attention, todays spaceX commentators sound like a high school drinking fraternity

[@Nghilifa]

Right? English isn't my first language, so these guy's way of speaking also makes it a lot easier to understand as well. Clear and concise.

[@billnickless]

Maybe it’s because SpaceX commentators-unlike their Apollo counterparts-aren’t long term cigarette smokers?

[@sethfoulk6990]

I TOTALLY AGREE with gasgaslex

[@andersnielsen4390]

Agree with gasgaslex.

[@Inception1338]

True. How can you take anything seriously these days.

[@andyburk4825]

We , the general public, didn't see films this detailed back in the day. We got the watered down for TV versions.

[@crazyaces4042]

yep

[@josephjackson7269]

I’m 73 yrs old and was near Cape during launch. The power of the Saturn scared my mom who covered head with a towel. We were half way between Orlando and the Launch. It was all new then and had no previous videos to watch to prepare for 1 st launch. The crackling sound you hear on film did not sound that way when there. Smooth flat rumble that was continuous then gradually softening as Saturn went further away.

[@glencrandall7051]

I am 88 now and had the privilege of working on the ground launch computers for Apollo 4 and Apollo 8. These computers handled communications between the engineers in the Launch Control Complex (LCC) and the rocket on the pad. I was also present for the Apollo 6 launch and can assure you the crackling sound of those big F-1 engines was spectacular. They were not only loud but at 3 miles from the launch pad they could be felt. It was like someone was hitting me on my chest.🙂🙂

[@AndrewGrey22]

Why it always kills me to hear people say we never went to the moon when so many people saw and felt all the Saturn launches.

[@chucknelson7187]

​@@glencrandall7051😊

[@crazyaces4042]

you were so lucky to have been near there! I would've loved that! I'm almost 63. I lived in California until a few years ago now I'm in Arkansas (totally different!). Glad you got to be near it. wow!

[@crazyaces4042]

@@glencrandall7051 AWESOME! And now you have all those wonderful fantastic surreal memories! GOOD JOB! Now, they USA and other countries) can't even get it together much at all to launch simple missions let alone manned. Odd isn't it.. no one is even trying to get a person on the moon any more.. or maybe they can only MAYBE get an unmanned craft to land correctly. LOL YOU should be so proud of being part of history that will never be again. WTG!

[@altfactor]

Most people who recall the Apollo 4 launch remember it because the ceiling and picture window of the CBS anchor trailer caved in on Walter Cronkite.

[@robinwells8879]

I bet that his famous delivery hardly missed a beat. Different breed in those days. ❤

[@ralphe5842]

Yea I remember that well and yea Walt never missed a beat

[@GregJGreen]

My dad was thrilled with the space program, but he only lived to see Apollo 4 and 5. Apollo 6 flew on the day of his funeral.

[@ph_stuff]

AND we´re about to see this again with Artemis 1 launch. Can't wait to see this!!!!

[@eugenelane3291]

Forgetting about the rockets themselves, inventing, engineering, constructing, and testing all the supporting equipment and testing equipment was an enormous job just in itself. All in just a few years

[@Nostradamus_Order33]

NASA getting the job done back then. The difference between then and now? Von Braun.

[@Rick1959]

A remarkable achievement that stands the test of time 🙂

[@davidmichael9342]

@@Nostradamus_Order33 Werhner was the man!

[@HammerOn-bu7gx]

@@Nostradamus_Order33 And Chris Craft!

[@robinac6897]

@@HammerOn-bu7gx Kraft

[@okankyoto]

Around 21:10 you can barely see a blip on the bottom of the Saturn V's silhouette that is part of an SLA panel failing and tumbling down the rocket. It is thought to have been due to structural failure in the aluminum and starting with Apollo 7 had modifications done to the panel design and inspection.

[@moboutmen]

Perhaps due to the insane vibration the beast was enduring.

[@josephstevens9888]

Looking back, it was incredible the engineering that took place on the Saturn V launch vehicles back in the time of the slide rule.

[@andrewstamford1988]

And with mostly analogue technology for flight systems too. The Instrument Unit was a fascinating structure.

[@xmaseveeve5259]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!! Dream on.

[@paulward4268]

​@@xmaseveeve5259 So is that meant to be a clever reply then??

[@xmaseveeve5259]

@@paulward4268 Wouldn't waste my time, shill.

[@paulward4268]

@@xmaseveeve5259 Hahahah🤣 I'm the one that's laughing FE.

[@jaycarlson927]

Lots of film i have never seen before. And thank you for using the actual footage where possible instead of just inserting some random footage.

[@debott4538]

Great summary and collection of historical footage. Thanks! I find it quite interesting how Apollo 4's and 6's mission objectives were so similar, even without 6's partial failure and subsequent in-flight mission change. I guess Nasa wanted to make absolutely sure the Saturn V was safe, and thus ordered some redundant testing. Which turned out to be the right call, considering the pogo issue. Plus, with the ambitious all-up maiden flight of 4 some extra testing was probably wise anyways.

[@petermcgill1315]

Wish we had a little of the communication loops between the flight controllers and the flight director for 6. It’s classic NASA understatement. “You’ve lost the engines?” In an audible “oh, shit” tone. That affirm, Flight…

[@KrustyKlown]

in the 1960's, this was an Accomplishment beyond belief .. we were amazed.

[@arricammarques1955]

Legendary technology & budgets made this a reality.

[@KrustyKlown]

@@arricammarques1955 And those big budgets paid back many times over in economic growth, creating many new tech industries. Politics is an economic handycap, making very short sighted choices.

[@ohheyitskevinc]

Never knew Gordo did that test after Apollo 4. Great video as always. Edit: just goes to show how important test flights are. Apollo 4 was a perfect flight but I always look at 6 as the perfect failure where they learned of existing issues with pogo, crossed wires and spark igniter propellant line issues in a vacuum.

[@lronbutters5688]

Good point

[@MrSimonw58]

15:30 .... Ggggggggg orororor dddddd onononon

[@allangibson8494]

Apollo 4 wasn’t perfect - the F1 Engines had serious problems with combustion instability that were finally solved by a full redesign of the injection plate with added baffles. They didn’t discover the fact the command and service modules almost collided during re-entry until the first manned flight.

[@ohheyitskevinc]

@@allangibson8494 the combustion instability in the F1s was found and resolved 4 years before Apollo 4 around August 1963. Apollo 4 was Nov 1967. The divergent ring baffled injector was redesigned to correct oscillation within the thrust chamber following a static firing at Marshall. I say around August 1963 as that’s when the Marshall quarterly report came out, reporting the redesign. Someone like Sonny Morea might recall when exactly, but it was 1963 sometime.

[@spacexrocks1041]

This is exceptional. Really appreciate the extra effort you're doing on so many videos. Anybody can scan & post videos, it takes extra work to make a documentary like this. Well done!

[@alfavulcan4518]

My son went to Moscow in 2019 and went to the very nice space museum there. He was surprised to see a very large Saturn V model and 1 of the Apollo space suits, I believe it was Michael Collins’s

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

A sure were all friends now, well until 6 months ago.

[@jaybee9269]

I am not too surprised they appreciate Saturn V; it’s an amazing accomplishment. N-1 was remarkable and might have worked if Korolev hadn’t died.

[@paulward4268]

​@Phil Failla if Korolev had lived, and the inter departmental arguing had been overcome, the N-1 would have become a superlative launcher. Too many engines? No. N-1 first stage 30 -- Starship Super heavy 33.

[@paulward4268]

@Phil Failla About what? I don't know what history you're referring to, but it's incorrect.

[@juneflynn854]

@@jaybee9269 They say the greatest achievement of the old Soviet Union was the success of the Apollo program if you get the drift

[@RevMikeBlack]

You've done a great job of incorporating NASA archival materials into a solid narrative about these two underreported missions. Thanks!

[@RetroSpaceHD]

Thanks. I like this format, because I can merge a more general narration with details from technical reports, and provide context for the footage.

[@ricky-6657believe]

I have a comment. Born in 1957 I then and still today at 66 find the whole thing amazing. Absolutely wonderfully amazing.

[@muzzdeni28]

@11:24, run it at 1/4 speed and watch the camera module being jettisoned after the trans stage.

[@andrewstamford1988]

Farewell and R.I.P. Col R. Walter Cunnigham - Jan 03, 2023. Though he didn't fly on these missions, he was one of the first to fly a manned Apollo vehicle, the first to fly a Saturn 1B for that mission. As we lose each and every hero from the Apollo programme, history becomes a little more distant. Good health and God Bless the remaining Apollo astronauts who so boldly thrilled us all with their brave flights into space, ultimately to the moon. You may be few in number and the last of your group, but know that we will never forget you or your achievements when the last of you takes their final journey into the unknown as you did once before.

[@zam6877]

This was was fascinating I didn't know about the range of testing of various systems by mimicking what it takes to get to and back from the Moon Like accelerating the command module toward earth to test reentry...thanks!

[@nicholasmaude6906]

3:10 -Glynn Lunney ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glynn_Lunney ) died on March 18, 2021 at the age of 84, he had a good run.

[@alexclement7221]

25:53: "Failed to perform the translunar injection burn.." That mean that, a few months later, when Apollo 8 headed for the moon, the translunar injection burn had NEVER been successfully done by an Apollo craft.

[@allangibson2408]

Apollo 4 had relit in orbit. The Apollo 6 third stage was damaged by the Pogo…

[@PatrickNelsonMusic]

Bravo on these edits. 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 Keep ‘em coming!

[@garfieldirwin]

Waxing nostalgic ... harkening back to a time when USA technology was unsurpassed and leading companies co-operated to accomplish things that have yet to be equaled so many decades later. A testament of what is possible if mankind can only get it's head out of its a$$.

[@jaybee9269]

Well, yes.

[@cowboybob7093]

"A source of major developmental problems." 11:30 - One reason S-II had problems was NASA had a lunar lander weight problem and they kept shaving weight off S-II to compensate. The S-IVB and S-IC designs were set and they wouldn't monkey with them. But even with the weight saving defense the S-II was somewhat a problem child functionally and NASA considered moving it from North American Av.

[@jaybee9269]

This is cool; I also like the Walter Cronkite audio for this launch! 🚀

[@debott4538]

"THE BUILDING'S SHAKING!"

[@citizenblue]

Just think. 50 years from now it's gonna be videos of the Starship program produced by KZbinrs like NASA Spaceflight, CSI: Starbase, and Everyday Astronaut that will teach future generations about the program that got us to Mars.🤯 Edit: I know I could have mentioned MANY awesome Space KZbinrs, leave your favorite in the replies!

[@ienjoylife]

Wow… a time when success was measured by completing the mission flawlessly, not just hoping the rocket clears the tower before blowing up.

[@ralphe5842]

I remember watching this Walter Cronkite was the announcer and the whole studio was shaking incredibly impressive

The only people who can really appreciate the scale are farmers and the guys who put up the grain silos.

[@kurtfrancis4621]

Back when America was AMERICA, not what it has devolved into today.

[@ultrametric9317]

Nice video! it is remarkable that the extremely serious problems on Apollo 6 in April were completely solved by Apollo 8 in December, even without another test flight. And from then on, all the Saturn Vs performed nearly perfectly, with one small issue on Apollo 13 being the only anomaly.

[@okankyoto]

Skylab was kind of a nightmare though- the cascading events from the fairing failure caused the interstage to fail to jettison properly. Thankfully it is likely that some of the same damage that prevented it from separating also knocked holes in it which prevented the SII from overheating. Despite everything though, the Skylab S-II hauled itself, the interstage adapter AND the workshop into orbit! (And then the sep motors blasted the loose solar array off the station)

[@wimkuijpers1342]

Small issue ??????

[@pjimmbojimmbo1990]

@@wimkuijpers1342 Center Engine on the Second Stage cut out early. The Saturn had nothing to do with what happened during the coast to the Moon

[@pjimmbojimmbo1990]

@@okankyoto I recall reading that Orbital Insertion was achieved with less than 30lbs of Fuel and Oxygen remaining in the Second Stage.

[@ultrametric9317]

@@wimkuijpers1342 The fault that created the real crisis was not in the booster. The center engine of the S2 stage shut down from pogo disruption, much as on Apollo 6. That required running the remaining engines longer. That was unrelated to the service module explosion that created the crisis.

[@sjTHEfirst]

Always amazed me how we did all this in such a short period of time and in the open for the world to see, triumphs and tragedies.

[@briananthony4044]

100 billion dollars helped and the need to beat Russia to the Moon.

[@Nostradamus_Order33]

NASA: “Fins are unnecessary remove them” Von Braun: “If it didn’t have fins then I’m gone” NASA: “ok daddy, whatever you say”

[@kellyweingart3692]

😂😂😂😂

[@crazyaces4042]

thank you for this upload. I was only 6 years old back then. I don't even remember much about any space stuff. When Apollo 11 landed I know I saw it (or tried to on our old small black and white tv with the rabbit ears (yeah you young folks are so spoiled now 😁😎). I vaguely remember trying to see it but didn't really understand it except there was an issue of some kind waiting to see Armstrong come down off ladder. I also remember watching one of the missions when I was in school and we had been in the cafeteria but I don't remember what year it was except it was nice out and all of us kids just wanted to go play for recess! 😁 It was in color I know that. Schools use to put the tv's on carts to move them around and it was in the cafeteria and that's about all I remember except I was the last one out the door. I also remember at about age 9-10 my girl friend and I were talking about it and she was saying it was all fake. Yes, even back then it was being said and kids learned that stuff from their parents. I didn't agree with her that's all I remember is one of our long hot walks back and forth to each others houses in the country talking about the Astronauts etc. I wish so much I had those memories on video or something.. I only have them in my mind and what I remember of those years. LOTS of long walks and bike riding and horse riding and going into the orchards to get cooled off and finding wells to drink from. Also remember walking by fields picking tomatoes and eating them right then and there. THOSE WERE THE DAYS! Oh, how I miss them sometimes.. all that country sunshine and fresh air and FAMILY that are all pretty much gone now. Mom was happy on our little Ranch and for a little while, most of us were. WOW did this bring back memories! In 1967 we lived in a small country house next to a chicken ranch and it was HORRIBLE! The smells, the flies.. ugh. Moved out when I was 8. What I wouldn't give to go back even for a little while-just to see my mama again on her horse... so happy and peaceful and loving it. BTW home made ice cream after big bbq's was the BEST!

[@ffletch5277]

Glenn Lunney is an amazing director. He gets very little credit but it was on his shift (not Gene krantz) that when he helped save Apollo 13 power and eecom. Glenn Lunney you are the best sir!

[@melamspacher5755]

Thank You for letting us know... I never knew of Glenn Lunney before... Gene Krantz is the only name I remember.... thank You, Glenn Lunney !! wherever You Are....

[@mikealvord55]

Krantz came on the next shift. It’s all in Andrew chaikans book

[@georgevila1778]

Retro Space HD : Apollo - 5. The first major test of the Lunar Module, should be posted here on this channel.

[@daviddiscenza3187]

One of those narrators sounds like the voice of Robbie the Robot from "Forbidden Planet".

[@robertmorwell5052]

Will never forget Cronkite yelling at the top of his lungs as the temporary building he was in began to fall down around him from the sonic battering by Apollo 4.

[@Poorschedriver]

55 years ago we put men on the moon with using less computing power than a 2000's cell phone and a skyscraper filled with liquid hydrogen. Absolutely wild.

[@dannysenkow7306]

Today's launches into orbit are covered by PC crews. With the SLS launches costing over 4 billion, we simply cannot afford to return to the moon. America owes 34 trillion, we are broke in many ways.

[@mitchdaytonam3]

The difference in tech used in Houston, and quality of cameras between here and later Apollo missions is noticeable, the rate of technological progression back then was crazy.

[@timwinn3904]

Wach Apollo 6 launch in person it looked perfect and awe inspiring little did we know the troubles they found never forget how powerful the Saturn 5 was

[@techdefined9420]

160 Million horsepower launching into the sky. The Saturn V was the loudest man made machine with 209 dBm. Apollo 4 takeoff could be detected in New York.

[@christopherhill4209]

CM footage at 20:30 can't be from AS-502. L/V engine status lights are for a S-IB(cluster of 8 lights).

[@DPImageCapturing]

I was born 8 days later on November 17th! I have a 3 foot tall Saturn 5 in my living room.

[@jaypharmon]

Wish we had a voice like Apollo’s Jack King instead of the whiney “gee, that’s like, cooool” commentators today

[@Andy-qv9tb]

wow, a very interesting video, thanks from Germany 👍

[@av_kovko]

Good luck NASA and ESA in Artemis I launch.

[@kamakaziozzie3038]

Back in the days where we would just dump our first stage into the ocean. We have come a long way.

[@KC2MFCs]

Any chance you could source the films which were used in this montage? I've been trying to find footage for the Apollo 6 mission, but I've struck out so far.

[@TheRokko66]

The transporter is called crawler and still in use today :)

[@glennw.husseysmcc8264]

I'm a premium KZbin member and a patreon contributor to this channel so why am I seeing ads? Withdrawing my Patreon support immediately!

[@pulsartcreative4349]

It's interesting to think that this is the stage NASA is currently at with the ARTEMIS programme. Soon to launch! 2022

[@artysanmobile]

It’s 1967 and NASA launches a robotic simulated astronaut with a 6 million pound rocket assembly on which all 5 first stage engines were required to work fully. Not afraid.

[@leokimvideo]

Back in a time when stuff got done with purpose. No half measures or cost cutting to achieve a goal. Sadly we now live in very different time where doing what was achievable is now incredibly difficult.

[@richmanwisco]

That comment is so vague and general as to lack any kind of meaning. Half measures? You mean like those that killed the Apollo 1 crew? And cost cutting? The Apollo program as a percentage of GDP was far greater than at any time for any program since.

[@WizzRacing]

@@richmanwisco No it wasn't. The cost to produce the B-29 was more then that of the Manhattan Project. And they were done in less then 4 years. Which was $3 Billion in 1944.. The cost of the Apollo Program was $25 Billion over 14 years adjusted for inflation. The cost was 4% of GDP.. Why this generation is the most ignorant ever produced. They know everything about everything. Just ask them. they will tell you they do. And their source of Knowledge is Google. As they don't read books. They should ask the schools for refund. Then punch their teachers in the stomach. They failed to educate them. I would add. I can read the post and understand it. As they simply are saying. The younger generation is not willing to put in the Time, Labor and Effort to accomplish this today. As they avoid hard work like the plague. It will be their undoing. As it's the blue collar worker that. makes sure you got power, water, food and clothes. As these are the people that take all the risk. Just so people like you can make shit up on the internet.. So how about your generation actually produce something that benefits the world. As most the ones I meet. They only value their stuff.

[@hubbsllc]

Point of fact, it was incredibly difficult then too.

[@383Iron]

It’s not cost cutting but grifting by government contractors that’s the problem.

[@WizzRacing]

@@383Iron BS.. It always falls on Management. Ask them how they lost 2 Space Shuttles. As they thought they knew more then the engineers. None of which had anything too do with cost cutting. It was shear incompetence. As they killed two crews for knowing everything about everything. Yet not one had nay experience in Space Shuttle Design or there limits. Same for Boeing.

[@u2mister17]

I was 13 years old and loved all of it. The world watched 11 land on the Lunar surface live and felt a common goal was achieved by all humans.

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

Why cower behind a fake name if you are a real adult in your 60s? Grow up.

[@u2mister17]

@@MichaelKingsfordGray (well) Aren't you a ray of sunshine.... Maybe a little self worth would help.

[@jaybee9269]

I’m jealous you saw it live. I saw CBS replay their footage on the 20th anniversary.

[@patkennedy2620]

@@MichaelKingsfordGray You post this a lot! Psychiatric issues? It’s very odd. Poor guy…….

[@patkennedy2620]

@@u2mister17 He posted this at least 4 times recently. Don’t upset yourself. I also remember the sheer excitement of Apollo 11 moon landing, at 13, watching it in a hotel bar in Spain. Ah, wonderful night…

[@Browncoat66]

19:17 left picture is a Apollo capsule on a Saturn 1B not a Saturn IV. Note the eight engines on the control panel instead of five F1's.

[@maxfan1591]

Wow, good spotting!

[@debott4538]

Yes, I noticed that, too! However, it might be from a Saturn V after all, and they simply left the S1B dashboard in. There was no crew after all.

[@johndyson4109]

I didn't know the 3rd stage couldn't do a second burn...That stinks... Errors help them figure out fixes so we could go to the moon.

[@aemrt5745]

Yep. The joys of flight test!

[@AndrewGrey22]

The early Apollo flights are the most interesting.

[@weasel3791]

Engineering this kind of craft in those days when a 4 k memory module and a high precision electrical actuator were cutting edge tech is nothing short of IMPOSSIBLE. Simply amazing.

[@Hans-gb4mv]

It wasn't impossible, they did it!

[@u2mister17]

As a retired plumber.....hell with the electric, the pipe and valve pressures and temperatures.....fuck me.

[@thomash4447]

And its almost criminal they way the non-believers crap on all this. Massive disrespect.

[@basfinnis]

Great graphics for the time. Really interesting video 😘

[@rustymaximus9179]

Our country used to do great things. Now the blue hairs rule..

[@johnvanstone5336]

A brilliant expose of the Apollo program

[@lilblackduc7312]

Boy, oh boy! You did a good job restoring & editing this one. Thank you...

[@godfreycarmichael]

I was 9 years old when we landed on the moon. I was absolutely obsessed with it.

[@StereoSpace]

These are excellent. I'm really enjoying these.

[@earth2006]

Over 50 years later, this fall, we are do this again.

[@johnstewart579]

This was an era of bold exploration and national pride. NASA actually received an appropriate budget to do it's job and do it well

[@helloitsmehb]

1% of the nation GDP, While people here starved and poverty were at all time highs and 50k died in south east Asia. It was nothing more than a political arm wrestle

[@willoughbykrenzteinburg]

@@helloitsmehb People didn't starve because we went to the moon.

[@johndyson4109]

The Engineers are the real heros in a way..

[@tomcline5631]

Gordo Cooper! The last American to fly alone. Went further and faster than any other person til later Gemini flights.

[@craigmahon1303]

"Historical narration underestimates the flight problems". That's an ironic understatement- the "pogo" effect/vibration was so bad it was later determined it would have killed a crew.

[@geoffreylee5199]

What about Apollo 5?

[@AM-rd9pu]

Apollo 5 was launched on a Saturn 1B rocket. It put an LM into earth orbit to perform testing.

[@moboutmen]

They really glossed over the problems of Apollo 6. The thing was a vibrating wreck.

[@cgirl111]

Slide rules and paper. These people were heroes.

[@betaorionis2164]

There already were computers in 1967.

[@dannysenkow7306]

And duct tape.......

[@stephenpage-murray7226]

And rooms full of mainframes

[@krashd]

And black women with calculators.

[@cgirl111]

@@krashd I went to navy nuclear operator school in 1974. My first class was how to use a slide rule..

[@tinkmarshino]

oh damn what great memories of the endless summers and the space race.. which all innocents ended on my 6 1969.. when I joined the U.S.M.C.

[@charleslord2433]

Excellent job putting this together. Thanks!

[@michaeltaylors2456]

Equivalent to a navy destroyer weight wise ? Good grief, the lengths the PTB will go to. Thanks for posting !

[@brokensoap1717]

Watching ahead of Artemis 1

[@DJP-ph7yj]

Is this one of the narrators from the Atomic bomb movie. Sounds ubiquitously like one of the 1950-60s commentators of military documentary films.

[@robertducanis4448]

To me he sounds like Robby the Robot from 'Forbidden Planet'

[@tedpeterson1156]

A couple packs of Lucky Strike filterless before work, and your voice is ready to go for narration.

[@BobGeogeo]

17:25 Planned altitude of 279,000 miles above earth? I think they mean trajectory instead of "planned." The next burn with the CSM rotated 180 deg then decelerated to max out near 11,000 miles in the mission.

[@campbellmays9900]

8:06 that exact shot is used in the Marooned movie

[@ronaldtartaglia4459]

3:06 the absolute legend Glynn Lunney. R.I.P. to an absolute giant of the golden era of space travel.

[@readmore3634]

These guys can do all this and can't get my kids to shut off the lights when they're done.

[@scomo6767]

Back when NASA could get a rocket off the pad....

[@izzonj]

Apollo 6 was launched the day that Rev Martin Luther King, Jr was killed.

[@johnned4848]

Great video. Never knew about these unmanned test flights.

[@ouwebrood497]

I knew they were launched but beside that I learned a lot from this video.

[@maxwellwalcher6420]

Thanks I Love the space age.

[@sblack48]

Anyone know why Apollo 6 has worse pogo than Apollo 4? I always wondered.

[@debott4538]

Pogo occures only occasionally and with a very varying intensity. Many other rocktes/engines had (and still have) this problem. Apparently, even Apollo 4 suffered from Pogo, but only minorly. www.nasa.gov/history/50-years-ago-solving-the-pogo-effect/

[@incargeek]

14:23 somebody has dubbed-in the audio from a shuttle SRB camera during entry…

[@sirmicro]

No footage or credit to the designer of the rocket Von Braun? Surely he was a significant figure present at launch day.

[@oo0Spyder0oo]

He was a criminal that should have been tried at Nuremberg with the rest of them.

[@davidmichael9342]

Yeah, Werhner's there....he's the guy in the dark shades.

[@davidmichael9342]

It looks like Apollo 6 was launched the day of Martin Luther King's assassination! That morning before he was shot! What a day....April 4, 1968

[@peterwilson7532]

Great video, excellent work.

[@josephgibbons1631]

Now that is a proper test flight. No explosions. No burn up upon reentry. Still the largest SUCCESSFUL rocket launch.

[@jgtrx]

Only difference is starship is going to mars, and also is reusable, and can carry literal dozens of crew. Not to mention this was the 5th flight and every flight until 13 were considered “Not complete successes”