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Apollo 11 Launch at 500 Frames per Second

 

This amazing video by Spacecraft Films shows the July 16, 1969 launch of the Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the moon. The camera was rolling at a whopping 500 frames per second, allowing the first 30 seconds of the launch to be slowed down into this 8-minute narrated video of pure awesomeness.

(via Boing Boing)

 
 

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  • Kcatmc2

    Faster than light speed travel?

  • http://www.assignmenthole.com Alps

    Im a graduate student, Im no crazy animal, and I would like to kind of agree with mark: moon landings :( cannot be real…

  • Justme_cd

    yeah it’s better to let the asteroid just hit earth than risk anyone blowing up on earth.

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  • http://assignmenthole.com Alps

    With the help of this video we are able to watch the launching of Apollo-11.Good to watch in super slow motion.

  • Emily1leigh

    Omg, why does everything have to turn into a debate??? Moon landing vs not landing, it’s just cool footage people! If you’re not into it, don’t watch it! Derrr!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=711857376 Thomas Antony

    Its already been discussed to hell it seems. But just to add on to it. 

    People back here on earth were able to observe “urine dumps” ( Thats right! Piss being dumped overboard ) from the Apollo spacecraft, using a comparatively small telescopes.
    Many other mission events were tracked and photographed by numerous independent entities. Some amateur radio enthusiasts weer even able to record the audio transmissions.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_evidence_for_Apollo_Moon_landings#Apollo_missions_tracked_by_independent_parties

  • Berry Johnson2011

    Spoken like a true republican. Let me guess, you want to cut education out of the budget too.

  • Evan Sinclair

    the idea that money spent on space is wasted is ill thought out and frankly untrue,
    the money isnt put into rockets and shot off the planet; the space industry is exactly that- and industry. The money spent on space exploration is put into the development of new technologies and education, which means that people are getting paid for the jobs that theyre doing towards space research/technical development, etc. and that money gets put back into our system:those people spend that money on food, mortgages and bills and so on. It doesnt just disappear, and the notion that it does and is being wasted is ludacris.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stacy-Fisher/100000746802865 Stacy Fisher

    It’s like trying to convince small minds that the earth is round. They believe without knowledge.

  • http://www.braintarts.wordpress.com/ MichaelL65

    Yeah, that 8 minutes of tax dollars being wasted…. I am guessing it’s about 8 seconds of the budget spent on the illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • http://www.braintarts.wordpress.com/ MichaelL65

    I’m sure the infamous Mrs. Gorsky would love a word with all those Moon Hoaxers.

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    Wouldn’t this be -500 frames per second?

  • Blair

    Wait what does the white material do, again?

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