MISSILE LAUNCHES , ACCIDENTS AND FAILURES AT VANDENBERG AFB 3314
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2012
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This rare film shows a series of missile launches and failures at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Among the ICBMs featured are the Atlas, Titan and Minuteman. Vandenberg is a Department of Defense space and missile testing base, with a mission of placing satellites into polar orbit from the West Coast, using expendable boosters. ICBM testing at Vandenberg commenced in 1958 with the IRBM Thor, and rapidly progressed. During the period 1958 to 1963, Thor, Atlas, Titan I, Titan II and Minuteman ballistic missiles were launched from Vandenberg. ICBM testing at the site effectively ended with the LGM-118 Peacekeeper, which last flew out of Vandy in July of 2004.
This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD. For more information visit www.PeriscopeFilm.com
At 12:15 is the first Titan II launch, Nancy 7. A design oversight caused the ground umbilicals to not release at launch, instead they stayed connected and ripped all the wiring out of the missile. There was no guidance control which is why it's rolling. Plus no ground destruct so it kept going.
My father was at VAFB as a Site Activation Engineer working on the Titan II for Martin (before I was born.) That was one of his birds. Never saw footage of it until now. Wow. I hope to heck he didn't get blamed for that.
thanks alot dude i was trying to find it
1:58
Little things like this always impress me. An umbilical door that is closed and (presumably) held closed by dynamic pressure.
That was like listening to a college lecture while on LSD.
AER3106: Introductory rocket engineering and tripping balls. Great course but the exams are hell.
I was in a prison bootcamp ICC.In 1996.at Lompoc..While there we saw 2 Rockdet launches.It was awesome!!!! The Base is close by,so the ground shook..the Rocket was loud and you could hear the crackle of the flames until it reached the atmosphere..as well a see different stages opening up like rings..We would hike up the hills and see tons of jets..as we were in the bases landing pattern.We saw the B-2,C-5 and a ton of trainer and fighter jets.One time we hiked at night to catch a glimpse of a comet passin by CA.it took days for it to pass and was awesome to see.I was in a prison bootcamp.Paying my dues,but in retrospect,it was a great time..I rehabilitated myself.Changed my evil ways.I Had the beautiful scenery of mountainsides and I love Airplanes,so everyday was an adventure,waiting to see what would fly over next..But yea seeing and fealing Rockets launch into space and seeing the B-2 was great!! But being in the boot camp was tough but very cathartic.I'm a better person because of it!!!Thank you Lompoc,CA ICC..Intensive correctional center!!!!
hey Victor! that's quite a blog you posted! wish you all the best. i took a bunch of wrong turns as a young man. almost went to the pen. it took Vietnam, so more hard knocks and lots of prayers to straighten me ouy. then i met Jesus and it's all good now!
+3melendr
Praise the Lord!
Thank you very much!!!
The first Atlas failure early in the video was fascinating to watch, you can clearly see that one of the outboard engines has lost thrust (presumably it ate its turbopump or some similar failure), then the uneven thrust causes the missile to tumble... Boom.
Very cool to watch in slo-mo.
WHEN YOU SEE THE ONE THAT " FELL OVER ON THE PAD"
I, WAS UNDER IT, A MEMBER OF THE USAF CREW THAT LAUNCHED IT, BOOSTER #1 DID NOT LIGHT, THE CONTROL CENTER ON THE ATLAS F WAS OFF THE RIGHT, AND 50 FT. BELOW THE MISSILE, " NO ONE HAD PHYSICAL DAMAGE, HOWEVER, TO THIS DAY, I WILL HAVE A DREAM OF BEING COVERED BY FIRE."
Where was that launch site ? I used to explore all over the place and manage to make it to most of the Atlas, Thor, Titan, BOMARC, SCOUT, and a few other launch pads., to include the destroyed Atlas silo complex located by the old Atlas Ground Guidance complex. I was at Vandenberg from 1998 to 2005.
@@glhx2112 I was with the 394th SMS 1968-72. I saw the destroyed site as well.
This video shows several Atlas failures. The Atlas was a scary rocket if you were watching a Mercury manned launch. So many of them exploded earlier it seemed a big gamble to put a man on one. I managed to see a couple of these on our black and white TV in 1962. It was exciting because of the risk.
Or a nukes for that matter. The Sovs would have probably attacked if they knew what a shitshow our ICBM program was in the early days
@@Zoomer30 The Soviet ICBMs were actually less capable than ours and they had precious few. The R7 was the only one capable of getting here while we had hundreds in Europe and Turkey able to hit targets on their territory. That's why they tried to set them up in Cuba... to balance their shortage with the US. Keep in mind all the failures we had were reported in the news while theirs were covered up. We also had hundreds of bombers, some flying fully loaded at all times and ready to strike. (operation Chrome Dome) While they seemed to be way ahead of us, our military and leaders used this false fear to spend trillions (In today's money) on missiles and the like. By 1970 each side had enough firepower to enable Mutual Assured Destruction. Even an all out attack on one would leave enough left to destroy the attacker... pretty well insuring they will never be used.
The first manned Mercury mission had a 90% chances of success. Alan Shepard was quite courageous to accept that mission.
Okay, what does watching old Atlas rockets blowing up have to do with SETI?
You just know on the last one some dude in the maintenance center is saying to himself, "So that's where this bolt was supposed to go..."
The first failure sort of resembles the breakup of the space shuttle Columbia over Texas.
Mike, SLC6 is used regularly for Delta IV launches now. We launched a Heavy last year, and have another on the schedule early 15
pretty good sounds on this really like it
the sound track is Genus!😃
It had / has to be interesting to live around Vandenberg Air Force Base.
+David Budka I live about 10 miles away and take it for granted. I do wake up any time to see a missle go up and it is cool, but I really should get in the car and drive to a closer spot for launches. There are many places within a few miles where civilians can view launches. Once you are more than a few miles away a good part of the thrill is lessened. From here the roar is just a rumble...
+David Budka: For me, the constant stream of B-52s shooting approaches in the 70's and 80's was the most noticeable (and annoying, living directly under the flight path). Watching as they ferried in the space shuttle Enterprise (OV-101), and made a couple of demo passes around the town, was exciting. (I was soon to start working at SLC-6.) I remember seeing at least one huge cloud of smoke on the base as a kid on the playground, from some failure or other, and hearing the bang eventually. Saw many launches from our back yard. Also saw some spooky things in the night sky that I now think were training for or actual spy satellite photo capsule drop recoveries (e.g. Corona, etc).
+David Budka I lived there in the 80's, and it was interesting. You'd be sitting around watching TV, and you'd hear a dull roar outside, and you'd run out in the back yard and see a rocket flying into the sky.
Sure wish the shuttle had launched out here as they had planned originally!
Great thread
I was. A BMAT, then a DMCCC. I saw a Titan II abort at Vandenberg. I showed the USAF if you put 28 volts to CMG 4 TB2 Pin 4 you would get a Launch Enable. The USAF had the BVLC installed when they found out
The music to this is great.
It's genius! Wish I knew the drug...
Reminds us how hazardous and dangerous (especially in the early days) Aerospace rocket technology truly is.
Specially with a man straps at the sunmit (mercury flights)
I dig the soundtrack!
The fireballs are mesmerizing
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the first Atlas launch in the video must be 76E.
Frank Drake is the narrator you hear, with the "music". You can watch him give a SETI talk or 5 in UA-cam videos. I wonder who thought to add his voice into a stoner song/acid trip?
Great shot of a bird coming out of the launch duck at 11:00.
Was that "Bravo" site?
In all the launch failures after the 13:00 mark, you can hear the cause of the problem. The space washing machine was clearly out of balance on the spin cycle...
What is the origin of this awesome soundtrack??! I need badly to find this - or at least something very similar - as it is an excellent sleep aid (just not quite long enough). The "conventional" sleep music on UA-cam actually keeps me awake.
The Vandenberg blooper reel?
What is the speech in the background?
Talk about old film, this is it.
Any more details on the last failure in that film?
That was a Minuteman I or II, hard to tell. It looks like the solid propellant burned through the skin of the rocket and sent it out of control.....Minuteman missiles are very reliable and failures are rare...
@Thane Mac Yeah, I was focusing on the one starting at 15.57. I'm not sure what that was that just fell over...
Are you talking about the Discoverer (Corona) that tipped over on the pad, no explosion?? That was an Atlas Agena. Atlas used balloon tanks (thin skin of stainless steel-- SO thin that they would collapse like a garbage bag if the tanks didn't remain pressurized to keep the missile "rigid" like a car tire that can hold up thousands of pounds of weight when it's filled with 35 pounds of compressed air, but when the air leaks out it goes flat. What happened was, they were fueling the Atlas and lost pressurization in the upper liquid oxygen tank... too much pressure bled off and the weight of the empty Agena stage and payload up top (probably a Discoverer/Corona or Samos spy-satellite most likely) caused the LOX tank to collapse, and the Agena and its payload fell over, destroying the Atlas. You can see huge amounts of kerosene spilling out onto the pad from the lower kerosene tank of the Atlas as the stage rips apart like tinfoil, so we know that the kerosene tanks were at least partially filled. The upper oxygen tank of the Atlas obviously WASN'T filled or it would have spilled tens of thousands of gallons of liquid oxygen onto the pad and would have resulted in an ENORMOUS fireball from practically any kind of ignition source because oxygen is SO reactive, plus we didn't see the flood of liquid oxygen pouring everywhere (there's footage on YT of a German V-2 test where the missile tipped over and ruptured, resulting in a flood of liquid oxygen and alcohol onto the pad apron just before it exploded). The Agena upper stage was fueled by red fuming nitric acid and unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine, which are storable hypergolic propellants, meaning they're liquids at room temperature, but they ignite on contact with each other. SO obviously the Agena wasn't fueled with propellants or it would have exploded after the collapse.
Atlas missiles and space launchers were transported in special cradles that would keep the rocket from collapsing under its own weight into a pile of scrap stainless steel... the skin was simply too think to support its own weight without the internal tank pressurization. There have been some Atlas missiles on display that have collapsed due to either their stationary air compressors that keep the tanks pressurized failing, or excess leakage of compressed air from the tanks causing the missiles to collapse under their own weight. The liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen Centaur rocket stage used the same sort of "balloon tank" construction, which is advantageous because it's extremely lightweight, but which must be pressurized or in a special handling cradle to keep the stage from collapsing under its own weight. Last time I was at the US Space Rocket Center at Huntsville, Alabama, their Shuttle-Centaur stage, right behind the overhead shuttle mockup stack, which has been there for decades, sounded like its compressor was wheezing and rattling and could give out at any second. It would be a shame to lose it because it's a interesting artifact from the pre-Challenger era when a Centaur stage was designed to be capable of launching from the shuttle payload bay, using a specially designed cradle and platform designed to fit in the shuttle payload bay. After Challenger it was cancelled because it was deemed too dangerous-- the Centaur used cryogenic liquid oxygen, which is dangerous enough as an oxidizer, and liquid hydrogen, which is notoriously hard to seal without any leaks PLUS is SO cold that it will create liquid air (which is 21% liquid oxygen) if air is allowed to touch the tanks or lines or anything not vacuum insulated containing liquid hydrogen. IOW it was putting a huge bomb inside the shuttle payload bay. Additionally, the shuttle was too heavy to land in the event of an RTLS abort with a fully fueled Centaur in the payload bay, requiring the shuttles be modified with a special fuel-venting system to dump the hydrogen and oxygen from the Centaur overboard in the event of an emergency and do it BEFORE the shuttle glided back to the runway for touchdown... Shuttle Centaur ended up being modified for use on Titan IV, but never flew in the shuttle it was designed for! Later! OL J R :)
"oops."
"whadda ya mean by 'oops'?"
"well, uh, was that a '+' or '-' sign?"
"hey, we need to communicate here!"
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question. starting at around 2:12 what is that smaller dark blackish plume coming from the pipe to the left of the engine?
exhaust from the turbo pumps maybe? if thats the case than its safe to say this is from the time before we mastered the use of closed cycle rockets?
closed cycle is one of the main reasons why the soviets were a step ahead of the usa in terms of thrust and efficiency .
+euroaaRON1 Yes, a small rocket engine actually worked the fuel pump. The Soviets developed the closed cycle for the N-1 moon rocket but it failed on each launch attempt so was cancelled.
billinct860 the n1 failed but the engines lived on.
im obsessed with the n1. i wish russia would be more open with it. understand it was an embarrassing ordeal for them but people that love rocketry and aerospace have special feelings with that odd ball behemoth rocket program and would love to be able to dive into the info they are withholding on the whole program.
i get excited when a new picture or short video clip of the n1 surfaces on the internet.
+euroaaRON1 The actual engines that were used on the four unsuccessful N-1 launches did not live on. The 30 NK-15 engines used on each 1st stage of the N-1 were to be replaced on the second generation launcher, the N-1F. It was the N-1F that would have used the improved NK-33 1st stage engines. The 2nd generation N-1F never made it to the pad.
People seem to forget the US pursued LH2/LOX which was more efficient than the closed cycle hypergolic engines of the Soviet Union. The N1 cleared the tower with a higher mass, but Saturn V sent far more into TLI than N1 was designed to send, thanks to cryogenic propellants.
But yes, as others told you a year ago, the "smaller dark blackish plume" is the fuel rich exhaust from the gas generator "rocket motor like" system that drove the turbine pump used to feed the main engines. Fuel rich because the gasses aren't as hot as perfectly mixed or oxygen rich gasses.
The small jets on the side of the booster are "vernier motors." The word vernier is often associated with fine measurement. Remember, the Atlas was an ICBM booster. The vernier motors generated about 1000 lbs of thrust. I believe that's for each motor. After the large center sustainer motor shot off the verniers continued to burn, slowly accelerating the booster. That relatively small push could be timed to land the missile warhead on target. I think if the test warheads landed within ten or fifteen miles of the target it was considered "on target."
Yes turbopump exhaust... Atlas used a weird curved tube to dump the turbopump exhaust out near the booster nozzle to one side. This was filmed with a very dark filter, because it looks like it's just "smoke" but it was actually hot enough and contained enough leftover fuel to burst into flame as it mixed with the air surrounding it... Many rocket engines ingested the turbopump exhaust and used it to "cool" the nozzle extensions, like the F-1 and H-1 on the later Saturn IB's... early Saturn I's used H-1's that simply dumped the turbopump exhaust overboard-- in the case of Saturn I there was a single exhaust duct that came out between the center four engine nozzles, but the outboard four engines surrounding them dumped their turbopump exhaust out the sides. In those old rocket launches, if you see a "lazy" fire just kind of billowing away from the rocket, in contrast to the sharp, fast moving rocket exhaust from the engine bells, that's turbopump exhaust being dumped overboard. Later! OL J R :)
I didnt think Vandenberg had enough land to launch these things.
I think the worse failure is from half of those camera operators. They can't even keep a darn spot in the sky in frame. That's all they had to do and they can't even do that...
Zungruitelbit Ladnaternoche looks like bad cropping on an otherwise adequately shot film. Too much zoom added after the fact
Filming through a telescope with a very narrow field of view, filming a moving missile accelerating at high speed and in these cases obviously either going off course or exploding... Some of these were very early in the space program as well so the technology to accurately track and film the rockets wasn't very good yet either. Later! OL J R :)
Love the ET music. So ridiculous
would be better with dates, i was there but can't remember what's what...
@Mike Smith -- SLC-6 is operational. It's been flying Delta IV, Delta IV mediums and Delta IV Heavys quite successfully. Thanks for asking. ua-cam.com/video/AcexKQAdVnQ/v-deo.html
Hmm I always knew those dudes on the western test range were up to something!
That's the sound of Saturn's magnetic field or was it Jupiters?
I can understand why the Titan Launch sites were so heavily protected and isolated! As much risk of the missiles exploding on launch, as being hit by a soviet missile!
Probably the most annoying film in the Periscope Film library. I hope an immediate change of command occurred at the 1369th Photo Sq. immediately after release of this earworm.
Man that music is annoying.
What?
they would tell us it was comet metro shooting star ect
What's with the weird spaced out shit music in the soundtrack?
bad 50's sifi
Check out the Vandenberg launch that was shot beams of light by a flying saucer. No kidding. The camera operator tells the story on UA-cam
Р-36М 'САТАНА' помните!!!!
:D
What ever happened to SLC-6? The USAF spent billions on that complex back in
the "Ronald Reagan Rocket Ranch" days.
One of the more ridiculous videos you'll find on youtube.
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