Launch of Apollo 4 first Saturn V as seen LIVE on CBS w/ Walter CronkiteMatthew TravisUploaded on Nov 10, 2010The first launch of the Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center. This is footage from CBS News with Walter Cronkite. This is the famous video of him exclaiming about the roar and "the ceiling is fall down".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uoVfZpx5dY?t=001
Quote from: catdlr on 09/29/2016 03:58 amLaunch of Apollo 4 first Saturn V as seen LIVE on CBS w/ Walter CronkiteMatthew TravisUploaded on Nov 10, 2010The first launch of the Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center. This is footage from CBS News with Walter Cronkite. This is the famous video of him exclaiming about the roar and "the ceiling is fall down".Are you positive this is the CBS News footage? It looks more like the NASA feed as seen in Spacecraft Films.
Launch of Apollo 4 first Saturn V as seen LIVE on CBS w/ Walter CronkiteMatthew TravisUploaded on Nov 10, 2010The first launch of the Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center. This is footage from CBS News with Walter Cronkite. This is the famous video of him exclaiming about the roar and "the ceiling is fall down".
I think there was some sound suppression water.
Saturn V didn't use water for sound suppression. It was only to protect the ML
They had a similar problem on STS-1 with high noise and vibration during launch, so it appears that NASA somehow forgot the lessons from Apollo 4 regarding noise suppression.
This was a huge gamble NASA was taking, because nobody had ever tried flying a complete launch vehicle on the maiden flight (you added components/upper stages as you went along). That it all worked perfectly too amazed everyone, especially the Soviets, who could not believe such a thing was possible.