Watch Apollo 11's Saturn V rocket launch on its anniversary

Credit: NASA

[annm]

We watched this with our parents when we were kids, and now I'm watching the video 50 yrs later. ☺️👍🚀

[Metropolis-ghbc]

Cool! I remember watching this stuff in real time. Now it's history!

[mf]

This happened on my 16th birthday, i was a very stoked kid; two days later i got my drivers license : ). So many bad things happened during the 60's- but the space program ( mercury, gemini, and apollo was to me a shining star within all the gloom of that decade.

[omni]

Didn't know it launched on my birthday. That's amazing.

[hopsta]

Aahh, the memories of this launch and the excitement that went with it, it was a thrilling event followed by men actually walking on the moon, as a 10yr old kid who was absolutely mad on anything to do with space it was a very special time.

[harmgregory]

Love it! I was 16, spending the summer in Clear Lake City, TX, my Dad working for the mission planning and analysis part of NASA as a consultant from the University of Michigan,
a GREAT place to be that summer! Where the ACTION was! <3

[stardude]

Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever.

- Igor Tsiolkovsky

[jimhowland]

If there was one thing I could do in my life it would be to go back in time to see and HEAR this launch in person.

[alexblaze]

Ponder this for a moment: the wright brothers flew the first plane in 1903...and a mere 66 years later we accomplished a moon landing.
The massive amount of technological advancement that took place in those years is probably the fastest technology has ever progressed!

[svenacorn]

I wasn't even born in 1969, but i love science. I didn't even know about this but that was incredible. Well done NASA

[paulym]

Me and my little brother used to go out in our driveway and play in our car acting like astronauts in a rocket going to the moon, we would hang upside down in the front seat with our heads underneath the dash and our feet up in the seat. I was older, so I was the main pilot on the drivers side lol, and he was my co-pilot on the passenger side. With the wire harnesses and things under the dash, we would act like we were clicking and switching buttons as we called out each item and would say "Clear or Check" and then would do the count down from 10 to lift off....lol :) Great memories

[thespectator]

This was 50 Years ago, this is just fantastic. :)

[johnschaefer]

I was watching this live when I was 10 never get tired of seeing it. Imagine if we had a video of Columbus’s ships leaving in 1492. How lucky those of us are to have watched this live and be able to see all of the Apollo missions. It is with great interest I’ll be watching the Artemis upcoming missions. Cannot wait!

[davidmoultry]

Incredible! I watched with rapt attention. What an truly amazing feat. To think about it- man engineered a shuttle that allowed them to leave the planet and venture off into space. But what is more fascinating the trust that it (shuttle) would enable them to return to earth.

[Aristotelezz]

I'm Dutch and was nearly 9 years old when this happened. To me it's chilling to watch especially the last five minutes of the countdown with commentary. It's epic!

[witchblade]

Mankind at it's best. We need more.

[GESSO]

I can only imagine what it must've been like to stand there and watch this fifty years ago.

[jamesmartin]

Please understand, with all of that infrastructure and all of those people who worked on it and all the time and resources applied to it; as magnificent as the Apollo program was, it was by definition the barest minimum of the technology required to get to the moon. That we found a way to make it work six out of seven times is amazing. That we saved the crew the other time is perhaps even more amazing. There are moments in history where humanity truly rises beyond itself. Would that they were more common. Light-hearted aside, I always say that the fact that we made this happen is why aliens won't touch us. You do not mess with crazy people.

[Deliquescentinsight]

11-61 like a rocket trip in itself, congratulations!

[eaglemri]

Who would have thought 50 years later...and here I am watching the Apollo 11 launch on my phone?