Saturn V: The Most Powerful Rocket Of Its Time | The Saturn V Story
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2024
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Half a century later ... and the "children of Apollo" continue to be astonished at the engineering and operational prowess. Dare I say, this vid should be mandatory viewing for all Engineering 101 courses.
I totally agree with this.
Not because there are not better vehicles, but because of numerous technological limits those amazing engineers faced back in the days, the Saturn V is still the best, the most amazing and most beautiful machine people ever made to this date. ❤️
A remarkable time of system development . ‘…. not because they are easy, but because they are hard.’
Unlikely source😂😂😂😂nazi germany😂😂😂
It’s amazing to think that most of the engineers that were used in the space program developed the systems and the rockets only with the aid of slide rules
I lived in Huntsville from 1959 till 1968. All my friends dads worked for NASA. MY father built homes for the majority of the people in my neighborhood. Everything then was NASA this or NASA that. When they tested the rockets, I could sit on the grass off the patio and see the black smoke as the sound rumbled far from the test site.
Despite he did not work for NASA, your Father was part of something big and special. It's funny because you are a child of Apollo.
ALL of us from Huntsville are from a “special” place. My happy place. I was lucky enough to make a career in the USAF and the airlines. But, Grissom, Bailey Cove and Green Mountain Rd are still my love. Will be forever. Rock on!
Brilliance at its best of the best engineering😳
What a pleasure to watch this great documentary. I was born just at the right time, back in 1959. and thus was able to witness all Gemini and Apollo missions. What a great time iz was, the most memorable part od my childhood!
Saturn V was a beast. I never thought we would see a rocket that big again but now in 2024 we have Starship that is not only larger but over twice as powerful with 16.7 million pounds of thrust compared to the Saturn V's 7.75 million. Absolutely mind bending.
Yes. But it uses 33 engines to achieve that tasks. What makes it impressive is the plan to manufacture one Starship a day.
@@TheQuietStorm6000 Curious Droid explains in his video "Why Does SpaceX Use 33 Engines While NASA Used Just 5?" Different requirements, different goals, different capabilities. Never one thing although it seems ridiculous will be unthought or baseless.
@@michaelmera2846 Correct. I do not remember who explained it (it might have been curious droid) but the F1 engines are too powerful to be a reusable rocket configuration. Starship engines are right sized as far as engineering. In the end 1 engine out of 33 failing versus 1 out of 5? I take the 1 to 2 out of 33 engines.
more than half a century development between Saturn V and Starship. Only 20 years between V2 and Saturn V
The Rocketdyne F-1 used in the Saturn V first stage is still, to this day, THE most powerful single chamber rocket motor ever built. There are more powerful rockets today, but the F-1 has never been equaled.
failure is never an option. the Germans always said failure is a learning curve
Iconic voice of Jack King on the countdown.
Don kings cousin right ?
I've watched many documentaries on this magnificent machine. This one really gives the Saturn V and the people who made it fly the attention and respect they deserve. Well done!
Rocketdyne F-1. STILL the most powerful single chamber rocket motor EVER built. Nothing has ever equaled it.
SpaceX Raptor V3: hold my beer 🍺
160 million horsepower. Crazy.
Absolutely fantastic presentation 👏👏. I remember when Saturn launched, and when Starship launches, I feel the same excitement 👍👍
Rocketdyne, owned by North American Rockwell, built the F-1 engines, not Boeing.
My dad was an Industrial Engineer at Rocketdyne during the Apollo program.
My 10th grade physics teacher worked at Rocketdyne. He gave us an 8 week course in rocket theory, along with actual F1 parts. That was the first time I ever heard about the instability problem. He also taught us how to use a slide rule too, to give us a better idea of what they accomplished.
That was 1979.
A damn good rocket engine too. If you made that engine today it would hold its ground which is saying something. One engine was tested 20 times for a total of 2,256 seconds. Another was tested 34 times for a total of 2,913 seconds. That's 48.5 minutes of run time which is insane
by coincidence i just saw the fly me to the moon movie after seeing this excellent documentary !
Brilliant !! Indeed it is a true testament to the engineering ability and imaginasion of us all. There is no " can do it myself " in this. If we all work together look what is possible ... wonderful stuff . Lets all think how we might make a difference tomorrow just helping someone or saying hello. More powerful than you might think...
As for JFK, I was at recess when we were told to line up and recess was over. On the way back to my classroom, every nun I saw was crying. I soon found out why. School was cancelled for the day. And yes, my mother was crying when she came to get us. I was 6 at the time.
I remember in 1957 being told "there are now 2 moons around earth". I looked but didn't see another one. I was mystified. lol
About a quarter of the way through this quite wonderful documentary and I am struck by The comparisons that are being presented to the audience, not directly through comparable reference, maybe more through my own imagination/and the facts from the past and those of the present. What I’m thinking about is SpaceX and the combination of other companies that are working towards a vision that is seemingly so unsurmountable that it feels like science-fiction. The notion of, or the reality of, the majority of the goals and aims that Elon Musk’s company and the people that work tirelessly for it, have placed upon their collective vision - for me really draws a lot of comparisons to this amazing period in (not just in America - note I am not an American) but in overall technical, engineering, aeronautical, computational, life sciences etc. Etc challenges (I am no expert in these things.) minds and actions of people working on it - there are really a lot (in fact SO MANY - just that I know of & have read about) of components that make up the whole that are similar in not only there/their vision as well as audaciousness - just to get through massive levels of experimentation, the feats and the failures.
I am only up to 1963, the Mercury Period in NASA (and all those other groups and companies) and the assassination of the American president, Kennedy at the time - who set the goal of putting Man on the moon by the end of the decade of 1960. Also to mention at this point that I was born in 1969. - the rolling joke over the years being when Men was on the moon I was in the womb.😊
And the Starship is the next Generation of Rockets.
Bigger and stronger than SaturnV.
The future will show what other powerful rockets SpaceX will develop...
But they will always remain children of Saturn V...
More than twice the power of the Saturn V. Takeoff weight of Starship is over 5,000 tons. :)
Saturn V was, is, and still will be the most amazing and most beautiful vehicle people have ever made. 😊
Isn't that a clip of Grissom during the Shepherd flight segment?
Wow, Mr.Brown
this makes me want to go back to KSC stat
the latest and greatest Apollo program documentary!
🙏🙏Blessings forever GOD loves y'all too forever tell everyone you know and don't know. Jesus loves y'all too forever. Teach everyone how to see and enjoy their blessings too forever😊.
@@ChargersCity Let's see you solve making Mankind a space faring species by saying "god/jesus is truth."
Shoot, let's see you solve Nuclear fusion/Cancer/stop crime/nanotechnology/A.I./Quantum Computers . . . any outstanding unsolved Mathematics problem - the Riemann Hypothesis/the Langlands Conjecture and the Hodge conjecture . . . by saying 'god/jesus is truth."
Say abracadabra - "God/Jesus is truth" and have all the above problems with the snap of god/jesus's fingers. Since, they are infinitely powerful, they should be able to solve all these things with a snap of their fingers; just by uttering the words "god/jesus is truth.
Do it now. And when these problems are not solved by saying abracadabra - god/jesus is truth" then that means your god/jesus does not exist.
What are you talking about?? It's old, and on available on UA-cam in several different titles.
@@override7486 I thought that I had watched this before. Thank you for confirming my suspicion.
If you want a fresh new take on space documentaries, try Homemade Documentaries on UA-cam. It's not rebranded crap, but new stuff by a young guy in his twenties. Best docs I've watched in years.
The original "Moon Machines" series does a better job of this.
It was the most powerful, heaviest, largest flying object ever built for over 50 years, only surpassed today by NASA’s SLS and SpaceX’s Starship.
The second stage was a liquid oxygen/hydrogen. The first stage was not. The second stage was also made of a material that got harder when cold than weaker.
This is what men do when inspired and challenged.
i thought the F1 engines were built by rocketdyne....not boeing????
True
18:09. Why is Boeing building Rocketdyne's engines?
Why is Rocketdyne building fuel tanks, instead of F-1
engines?
steve
They screwed up. You are correct that it was Rocketdyne. Boeing built the first stage, North American Aviation built the second stage, and McDonnell Douglas/IBM built the third. I don't know how they could have got those wrong.
@@dr4d1s Saturn V also isn't the most powerful rocket ever created. Before Starship that goes to the N1 rocket which was nearly 30% more powerful than the Saturn V
@@snakevenom4954 I think you replied to the wrong person.
@@dr4d1s I'm just adding more information they got wrong is all. Which is funny since a 5 minute Google would correct these mistakes
@@snakevenom4954 I have a feeling that this documentary was actually filmed a long time ago before Starship was a thing and they have just recycled the old footage. I imagine the licensing or rights to older documentaries like this is pretty cheap, so they can buy the rights to post it and put it on UA-cam. The uploader is probably betting that the revenue from their channel will bring them a return on what they spent on the footage. The N1 was a bit more powerful than the Saturn V but it never made it far from the launch pad, so while you are technically right they probably didn't include it because it never flew a successful mission.
55 years on and where are we. Well were still here and that's where were going to be for the foreseeable future. The world was full of dreams an hopes after Apollo which have since turned to dust. Did we just dream it happened.
Right, we should have learned from this simple fact and take care of our only sustainable spaceship: earth.
In fact the Apollo program did exactly what it was designed for: Beat the Soviets to the moon.
Afterwards the problems were #1 Reaching the moon ended the Space Race. #2 No ambitious follow space program (because of #1) we got Skylab and the space shuttle. #3 The public was thinking in the early 1970s yesterday the moon, tomorrow Mars, next week the stars - forgetting that going to the moon is like putting your big toe in the ocean and for Mars and the rest you really need to learn to swim.#4 More and more funds going into the Vietnam war and getting nothing in return.
By the way yes, in a couple of years we will return to the moon. IF the nutters in Russia and China don't start aglobal war first.
I often think about what we could have achieved if NASA got to keep the same budget after the Apollo missions.. Who knows what could have been done between then and now. It's unfortunate that NASA has to operate on a shoe string budget compared to other federal spending. It makes me happy that after all these years the space industry is eating up again, and we have began a new space race of sorts now that all these commercial operators are getting into the game. We're launching so many rockets now that it can be hard to keep up!
OMG! I'm half deaf and use the captioning with regularity, but I feel there may be a possible typo in our midst. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think a retraction and correction is in order here.
According the the captioning, Neil Armstrong's comment at the 51:07 mark of this remarkable video states "We'd like to give a special thanks to all those Americans, those who built those spacecrafts, who did the construction, design, death, and put their fart and all their abilities into those cfts, to those people tonight we give a special thank you'. Wawazat??
Boeing didnt make the F1, they got that image wrong
Their submitted designs were missing bolts ...
as of today 7/6/2024, what he says at 49:23, is no longer the most powerful rocket ever built, but it is still the second most powerful rocket. All of their effort has seeded the dreams for an even greater future in space exploration. They were also a Band of Brothers.
They never should have put Yuri at risk again
Perhaps someone didn't want him around.
6,000,000 pounds
363 feet tall
50 feet wide at the fins
7,500,000 pounds of thrust.
EVERY ONE BUILT WORKED.
NO FAILURES.
Take that space x😅😅
People complaining about NASA should question the government of the USA and why they always invests more in wars than science. If NASA would have even 1/3 of the US army budget, things would look completely different. Still, NASA and their friends from ESA, continues to achieve some amazing missions like JWST, Perseverance, Artemis, etc. Unfortunately, science is always overlooked.
Just a little note. Alan Shepherd wasn't the first American in Space. It was really John Glen. Alan and Gus were both sub-orbital. Meaning they only reached the edge of space. Their final altitude was roughly 116 miles. John Glen rose to 162 miles. Still, an amazing feat which spurred on NASA. It's sad to see the decrepit condition of NASA today.
Alan Shepherd was the first American in space however he did not orbit the earth.
Shepard did not reach orbit but he did achieve an altitude of 187 kilometers so yes he was definitely in space, way above either Nasa's definition of it or the official Karman line of 100 km. Both are a bit arbitrary really. By the way a German V-2 rocket reached an altitude of almost 175 km in 1944, going straight up.
Reaching space isn't that difficult. Staying in it is.
Leave out the music
Turbo Charge
Correction - Starship is now the most powerful rocket ever built.
Still the most powerful rocket... SLS has strap-on boosters that fall off... but the Saturn V was self-contained using its own rockets in a core... no ad on boosters. IF SLS Core used only its own rockets (4 RS 25) it would NEVER be as powerful as five F1 engines of Saturn V.
Super Heavy+Starship
What you are saying about the SLS is true, but the Saturn V isn't the most powerful rocket anymore. SpaceX's Starship stack makes 16.7 million pounds of thrust compared to the Saturn V's 7.75 million. I remember seeing the Saturn V in person and thinking that was huge and that we will never see another giant liquid fueled rocket like that again, but fast forward to today and Starship is even bigger than the Saturn V! Exciting times.
SpaceX may have a more powerful setup, but until they successfully complete a full mission in its entirety, they still cannot hold a candle to the Saturn V. You can make all the claims in the world about better designs, but until the rubber meets the road, and the rockets return for reuse (as many as 15 to 20 times for a moon mission, and a preposterous 500 round trips to put enough fuel and oxidizer into space for a mars mission) you have nothing but a useless pile of scrap. Enough with the "learning". We did this in a few decades back in the 50s and 60s. That we can't even return to the moon speaks volumes about the skills and knowledge which were lost, and may never be rediscovered. We have the ability to design, model, and simulate with some of the most advanced tech that folks with only slide rules could only dream to have. And we have advanced no more in the direction of the moon, or even mars. The moon was always about politics and always will be, but in my mind there is no reason to go back, and Mars is a death sentence.
It really is a shame that President Kennedy couldn't be there to see this amazing machine
"But in 1963, NASA has little idea..." how to build such a rocket".
Well, THAT'S not true, as its later admitted that the F1 rocket was in development in the 1950s.
And..
"Just five months after Kennedy 's pledge..." NASA launched its first multistage Saturn I.
And, no, this didnt push science to its limit. It did push engineering through
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
And look at NASA today 😢.....
and Boeing 😭
It is because NASA does not have challengers anymore. In 1969, they had the Soviet Union.
@@MdRejowan-kf6pm Xi’s CNSA about to lap NASA Human Exploration starting next year. Next flag will be the CCP’s
@@TOlds-gy4qn Get back here in early 2025, will you?
I often think about what we could have achieved if NASA got to keep the same budget after the Apollo missions.. Who knows what could have been done between then and now. It's unfortunate that NASA has to operate on a shoe string budget compared to other federal spending. It makes me happy that after all these years the space industry is eating up again, and we have began a new space race of sorts now that all these commercial operators are getting into the game. We're launching so many rockets now that it can be hard to keep up!
We need a return to the Golden Age of Space when it was something that everybody focused on.
After 50 years, we still don’t have a permanent space colony in space or on a planet .
We can and should colonize space and the planets, and we have the technology to do so. Our Species is too fragile to spend another 50 years without doing what’s necessary for the survival of mankind.
Lol won't happen for another two hundred years. I'll come back to check this comment to see if I am right😂
I often think about what we could have achieved if NASA got to keep the same budget after the Apollo missions.. Who knows what could have been done between then and now. It''s unfortunate that NASA has to operate on a shoe string budget compared to other federal spending.
@@DarkNightDreamerAgree. Look at the budget of the US army and you will see the problem. Science is unfortunately always overlooked. I think NASA still continues to achieve great things like the Perseverance rover on Mars, James Webb telescope, Artemis missions, etc.
Ohne Farben bitteschön
Ich gehe Schritt für Schritten um der Schädigenden weniger Aufwands brauchen...............................................
Man only wanted to believe in something greater than himself
21:09 Baffles didn't balance the fuel flow.
Ist Brave Kind schwierig Lernen oder Studieren..............................,...................?
Seeing the video title, and reflecting on the importance that some people seem to attach to issues of size (🙄), I'm tempted to remind that bragging windbag 'rocket-man' Ego Muskrat that it's not the size that matters - it's what you DO with it.
So... Apollo successfully getting men to the Moon = quite interesting.
Much, much bigger vanity project blowing up, crashing repeatedly and generally failing to meet goals and live up to promises and expectations = 🤔.
Musk is looking to send more than just men to Mars, his goal is to build a colony that can sustain human life. That requires a rocket that can lift as much payload into space as possible.
As for things blowing up, the Starship and Superheavy booster are prototype vehicles being designed and built like no other rocket in history. Will this be successful? NASA certainly hopes so, and so do I.
@@randal_gibbons Why?
@Hanbolo-wv8pg Perhaps we will go to Mars and plant a flag.O.K. But the notion that we can mine recourses from Mars or the Moon is fantasy. Re entry is as much a problem as the fuel requirements to lift one pound into orbit ($25,000 per pound).The notion that we ,as a species can consider Mars as a plan B if we spoil Earth is flawed. People are destined to profit from the promise of being a multi world species but destiny? We went to the Moon under the leadership and cooperation of government. We don't have a functioning government today .Perhaps China will plant there flag.
Yeah except Starship is coming along just as planned and all test flights so far have met expectations. And deriding it just because we don't like Musk discounts the immense achievements of a team of hundreds of engineers that made the new largest rocket ever happen.
Musk’s company vehicles haven’t even left LEO after 12 years for Christ’s sake. Whats so impressive about that ??
Starship has been in development longer than Saturn V now. Lol
(Some guys in England.) "It is still the strongest
single rocket ever built."
Elon Musk. "Well, we can disagree."
steve
Thats not what they said.
1963 F1 to Musk’s 2020 Raptor v2: Hold my 🍺
Linden Johnson had Kennedy assassinated. Johnson was corrupt, power hungry, and greedy!?? He stood to gain a lot with Kennedy out of his way.
Johnson had a rocky, and sketchy past.
What a total goddamn waste of money
Meanwhile SpaceX has been hoodwinking NASA with little idea of how to go back... Starship my foot
ok I see a lot right about this video and a lot wrong or just silly. For one thing a man keep saying von Braun like BROWN but it wasn't pronounced that way (as another man says it right later) it was (is) pronounced (sounds like) Brawn .. kind of difficult to spell it like it sounded, however, you catch my drift. Another just kind of funny thing is @14:30 and beyond- the guy stated the original space craft von Braun had planned -or the upper stage that would land on the moon - would've been so heavy they didn't know/think the moon could handle the weight? Seriously? Come ON, it is and was a type of planet. How in the heck could they think they could build ANY space craft that would be too heavy for the surface of the moon! I had to laugh at that. I'm aware they didn't know much about the moon or space in general but I find that statement and thought to be ridiculous!
The notion of a lunar lander being too heavy was NOT ridiculous.
At the time, lunar scientists had the quaint expectation or at least concern that there might be wide and deep dust lakes on the moon. If you don't believe me, Arthur C. Clarke even wrote an early sci fi novel about it. In ''A fall of moondust'' (1961) a lunar tourist surface vehicle gets cought in a deep dust lake and completely disappears below its surface.
@@Emdee5632 well I am no scientist for sure! I was saying that they talked about the moon itself not being able to handle weight which seemed odd to me that's it. There were SO many things they didn't know back then and I certainly understand that. You are talking about the surface I was talking about the entire moon. BTW I am a fan of Arthur C. Clarke and all his ideas and imagination. Great man. I wasn't even close to old enough to have read his novel from 1961.. would've been some years after that before I could have read. I have gotten interested in him in the late years of my life. I haven't read much of what he wrote but I know he had a great imagination and some fantastic ideas that weren't too far off from what ended up coming to be in the last few decades.
Anyway, have a nice day!
at the 41 min mark I finally had to leave,,I kept wanting to tell somebody to shut that DAMN MUSIC OFF...
The threat is not the political world... It's US! Our beliefs and our lack of unity are our downfall! We NEED to start looking after each other and start working 'together'! this is what Kennedy wanted! It's what Gandhi wanted ... It's what Churchill wanted... It's what Martin Luther King wanted!!!! It's what everyone who wants our species to 'survive' wants! If you don't want our species to continue... Go take a walk off a cliff because you are insane! Time to start looking after ourselves... to start looking after 'each other'. I hope this message is a start to bring unity to our species! I'm one voice!!! I need others to join me! (Reaches out to the human race) Can you help?
Xi’s CNSA will show how cooperative work under CCP is a more progressive and productive approach to govt programs
Mankind's greatest achievement will be when we finally walk on the surface of the Moon.
You forgot the word ''again''.
Wie meine Tiere auf der Balkon Empfindlichkeit gegenüber können ........................................................................
Saturn 5 is the third most powerful rocket ever launched.
Oldfashioned
Operation paperclip. War criminals walk across the Canadian border to freedom
The joke is on them. Canadia isn't free anymore.
All these people combined are just a fifth of Elon Musk.
One person vs. an entire country.❤
It's not one person though. You seriously think it's just Elon, alone, designing everything then building everything himself? He's just the front man, SpaceX's achievements are that of a massive team of talented engineers. And it's disrespectful to them to assume Musk is doing everything.
Plus, NASA engineers did this in the 60s, with primitive computers and analogue tools; with no precedent of this ever being done before. and still didn't lose a single Saturn 5.
I'm a supporter of SpaceX but this comment is just idiotic.
LoL. SX’s cute FH hasn’t even left LEO.
NASA has just been using them as taxi service, whats the big deal of that?
Elon Musk might be a space visionary (or not...) but he is building on the shoulders of work done by idk how many tens or hundreds of thousands of dedicated people during half a century and more before him. Let Musk time travel back to the 1920s or 1930s and propose his ideas to Goddard!
Musk just has lots of money. He uses other people’s ideas and innovations. “Star” ship is still just a relatively primitive rocket burning hydrocarbons and cannot reach the moon nor make a landing there, a mere 240,000 miles away. It’s name is grandiose beyond it’s capabilities and doesn’t represent progress expected since the 1950s
Funny😂😂😂