Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Now Witness the Firepower of This Fully Operational (and slow motion) Saturn V

 
 

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via Universe Today by Nancy Atkinson on 4/26/10

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo.

This is so cool – and impressive, most impressive! A 16mm camera located near the base of the Saturn V rocket captured incredible detail about the ignition and lift off of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. The high-quality video slows down 30 second of footage to about 8 minutes, but it's worth every second to watch! The narrator explains it all in great detail. You'll see the first moments of ignition where the flames light and expand, then get sucked back into the flame trench; and fire and ice all in one video. It really is awesome!

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