https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/b8091306-07da-440e-81e6-720695be230f Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com “The Saturn 1B Story” is a mid-1960s documentary presented by NASA recounting the February 26, 1966 test launch of Saturn 1B, used to prepare for the 1969 Apollo missions and moon landing. :25 Animation showing a Saturn rocket flying towards the moon. :53 Illustration of three Saturn launch vehicles Saturn 1, 1B, and 5. 01:09 The launch site at George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. Saturn 1 stands tall on the launch pad. The rocket launches and lifts off. 01:34 Illustration of Saturn 1B highlighting the rocket’s first stage: the boosters, eight tanks feeding the engines. 01:44 Saturn 1B in a hanger, engineers work on various parts of the rocket. 02:10 Illustration of Saturn 1B’s 5-story tall second stage. 02:18 The second stage is transported by tractor trailer. 02:23 Illustration of Saturn 1B and Saturn 5 rockets highlighting how the second stage of 1B will be used as the third stage of 5. 02:29 Illustration of Saturn 1B’s instrument unit, a ring between stage 2 and the payload. 02:36 Engineers work on the instrument unit. 02:39 Illustration of Saturn 1B’s payload section, a command and lunar module. 02:54 Aerial view of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. 03:19 Entrance sign of the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. 03:32 Engineers from the Chrysler Corporation assemble the booster stage of 1B. With the help of a central computer system, they quality check the controls, electrical, instrumentation, and propulsion. 04:05 The booster is moved into a transport container and onto a barge. 04:13 Animated shows the barge traveling along the Mississippi, Ohio, and Tennessee Rivers to the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. 04:19 Saturn 1B’s first stage on a launch pad conducting a static firing test as controllers in a control room monitor. 04:33 Animation retracing the barge’s journey back to New Orleans and onto Cape Kennedy in Florida. 04:43 Launch preparation, testing and assembling the various stages of the rocket. 05:14 A tractor trailer transports the first stage to the Sacramento Test Center. 05:20 A static test fire of the engine is conducted. 05:46 The engine is transported from California to Cape Kennedy Florida. 06:00 Engineers work on and test the instrument unit, the brain of the Saturn launch vehicle. 06:34 Man Spaced Flight Center in Houston, Texas. 06:44 Engineers work on the Command Module, Propulsion Module, a simulated Lunar Module, and Launch Escape System. 07:09 A complete non-flight version of Saturn 1B endures shake tests. 07:23 Saturn 1B on the launch pad for a full in-flight nighttime launch. 07:57 Animation showing the planned trajectory of the test flight “lob shot” from Cape Kennedy 5,000 miles into the Atlantic Ocean. 08:14 Animation of Saturn 1B in flight, discharging the first stage, realigning itself for re-entry, separation of the command module, testing engine ignition of each of the stages. The propulsion module separates and the Apollo capsule enters Earth’s atmosphere. The capsule opens parachutes 2-miles above the ocean and lands in the Atlantic. 09:43 The destroyers USS Fletcher, DDE-445 and USS Epperson DDE-719, patrol the recovery area to collect the module. 09:54 An engineer works on motion picture cameras mounted on the modules 10:11 Animation showing the cameras attached to the first stage and how they are ejected at the appropriate time, the spring-loaded flaps that open to stabilize the cameras, reentering the atmosphere, a para-balloon and parachute inflate, the camera capsule floating in the ocean, initiating a radio signal to aid recovery. 11:21 100,000 gallons of liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen, and kerosene are poured into the rocket’s tanks and a countdown proceeds to ignition. Firing teams in NASA’s control center make final checks. The Apollo-Saturn 1B successfully launches, flies, achieves separation, and splashes down. 13:12 Animation of trajectory of test flight. 13:31 END Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. 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, 2k and 4k. 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