Apollo 6

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Apollo 6 - "The Greatest Weightlifting Effort Ever" - All The Launch Films

Oct 22, 2024
Apollo 6 - "The Greatest Weightlifting Effort Ever" - All The Launch Films
All the currently available launch films for Apollo 6.
Sourced from The US National Archives

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For you, Apollo 6 fans, lunarmodule5 will release his Full Mission video later today. I'll post it when he makes it available.  All of the originally posted videos from Jeff Quitney have died due to his departure from YT due to copyright issues, so we are fortunate that lunarmodule5 has created his own version of almost all the Apollo missions.

Here is a hint of the upcoming video.

This video covers the countdown, launch, orbital flight, and recovery of Apollo 6 - April 4th, 1968.

The mission lasted 9 hours, 57 minutes, and 20 seconds, and the video lasted 4 hours and 5 minutes.

Video Timeline
00:00:23 T-1hr 30
00:04:42 Quarterly Reports
00:11:02 SII Arrival at KSC
00:18:05 Rollout Views
00:36:48 MSS Service Structure
01:12:23 Inside Launch Control
01:25:24 T-5 minutes
01:30:16 T-10 seconds
01:32:55 SIC Cut-off
01:37:21 SII 2 Engine Out
01:42:55 SIVB Shutdown
01:48:37 SII Camera Pod Retrieval
02:11:48 SIVB Re-Light Burn failure
02:12:10 SIVB/CSM Separation and CSM SPS Burn
02:36:19 Apogee and Descent
02:54:38 Re-Entry Manoeuvre
02:56:11 CM/SM Separation
02:59:24 Re-Entry
03:15:16 Splashdown
03:15:39 Recovery to USS Okinawa

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Apollo 6 - The Full Mission

This video covers the countdown, launch, orbital flight and recovery of Apollo 6 - April 4th 1968.

Mission duration was 9 hours 57 minutes 20 seconds - Video duration is 4 hours 5 mins.

Video Timeline
00:00:23 T-1hr 30
00:04:42 Quarterly Reports
00:11:02 SII Arrival at KSC
00:18:05 Rollout Views
00:36:48 MSS Service Structure
01:12:23 Inside Launch Control
01:25:24 T-5 minutes
01:30:16 T-10 seconds
01:32:55 SIC Cut-off
01:37:21 SII 2 Engine Out
01:42:55 SIVB Shutdown
01:48:37 SII Camera Pod Retrieval
02:11:48 SIVB Re-Light Burn failure
02:12:10 SIVB/CSM Separation and CSM SPS Burn
02:36:19 Apogee and Descent
02:54:38 Re-Entry Manoeuvre
02:56:11 CM/SM Separation
02:59:24 Re-Entry
03:15:16 Splashdown
03:15:39 Recovery to USS Okinawa

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Kennedy Space Center: "Bridge to Space" 1968 NASA; Apollo 6 Saturn V Launch

Jeff Quitney
Published on Jan 26, 2018


A tour of NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC, NASA Kennedy) culminates in an unmanned test of the Saturn V launch vehicle (Apollo 6); the final unmanned Apollo test mission. This film was shot in Panavision anamorphic 70mm by director Robert Gaffney.

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Originally a public domain film from the US National Archives slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).

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Update: Alternate video source to replace Jeff Quitney former YT account that was suspended.
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=0UIqLJjST44

Here's the original  Bridge to Space video at a hopefully longer lived location: https://archive.org/details/34182BridgeToSpace
[Edit: though I should note that it is in Spanish]

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Here's the Structural Anomalies Report

F=ma

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The Camera That Rode the Saturn V Rocket: A When We Were Apollo Story

Aug 13, 2025
The film of the Saturn V stage separations from the flight of Apollo 6 is one of the most iconic shots in the history of human spaceflight. Behind it was Shelby Jacobs — an engineer at Rocketdyne and North American Aviation — tasked with the seemingly impossible: mount a 16mm camera to the rocket to prove the stages were separating as designed.

No easy task, in the pre-digital era, this meant capturing the moment on film, ejecting the camera mid-flight, letting it splash down in the ocean, retrieving it by Navy helicopter, and developing it before anyone could even see the result.

Originally interviewed for the feature-length documentary 'When We Were Apollo,' in this exclusive story, Shelby shares his journey — from “the back of the bus to the front” — and how it led to creating one of the most beautiful and enduring images in space history.

Sadly, Shelby passed away in 2022. But his legacy and contribution to NASA, Apollo, and the history of human spaceflight endures. An exhibit dedicated to Shelby and his contribution to the Space Program remains at the Columbia Memorial Space Museum in Downey, California.

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Apollo 6 Launch High-Framerate Cameras - Tracking, Staging, Real Speed, Multiple Views, 60fps, 4K

Sep 18, 2025
High-framerate tracking and onboard camera views of the Apollo 6 launch presented at real speed.  60 fps 4K resolution was used to take advantage of the original footage at high frame rates. No motion interpolation or artificial frame generation was used. Colors were adjusted between the different cameras for a uniform look.
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CHAPTERS

00:00 Tracking camera A
02:08 S-II stage camera (Staging)
02:24 Tracking camera B
05:21 Tracking camera C
08:17 Tracking camera D
11:12 Tracking camera E
14:01 Multiple Cameras

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Apollo 6 Pad Cameras - Multiple Views, Real Speed, Saturn V, Lift-off, Rocket Launch, 4K

Oct 9, 2025
Pad camera angles of the Apollo 6 launch presented side by side and isolated, at real speed. No motion interpolation or artificial frame generation was used. Colors were adjusted across the different cameras to achieve a uniform look.
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CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro
00:29 Multiple Views
02:57 Isolated Views