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Topic: Footage inside Gemini / Apollo during launch
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Bram Member Posts: 28 From: Tremelo, Belgium Registered: Nov 2005
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posted 11-02-2011 09:33 AM
I have never seen any in-cockpit footage filmed during a Gemini or Apollo launch. Does such footage exist? I don't know if there were cameras present in the capsules during launch as was the case during Mercury. |
hoonte New Member Posts: 8 From: Tervuren, Belgium Registered: Mar 2008
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posted 11-02-2011 10:54 AM
I know of the live ASTP launch vid.. took me some time to find it but there is some footage on YouTube. Enjoy! |
mikej Member Posts: 481 From: Germantown, WI USA Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 11-02-2011 05:32 PM
CM interior footage from ASTP's launch is also on For All Mankind |
RichardH New Member Posts: From: Registered:
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posted 11-02-2011 06:19 PM
Too bad that they switched views when the Saturn IB staged.I really wanted to see how it looked like from the inside during staging (If they were thrown forwards as you see in the Apollo 13 movie.) |
heng44 Member Posts: 3413 From: Netherlands Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 11-03-2011 12:56 AM
At the time of the ASTP launch it was stressed that this was the first time there would be views from inside the spacecraft during launch. I think the fact that the Russians did it also had something to do with it... |
LM-12 Member Posts: 3324 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 11-03-2011 07:43 AM
The ASTP onboard launch video was the subject of an earlier thread. |
Space Cadet Carl Member Posts: 225 From: Lake Orion, Michigan Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 11-04-2011 01:01 PM
To the original question posted, it is interesting there were no DAC cameras (16mm, etc.) running during any manned Gemini or Apollo launches. I'm guessing after Mercury ended nobody felt the need to film astronauts during launch any longer. |
mjanovec Member Posts: 3811 From: Midwest, USA Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 11-04-2011 02:59 PM
quote: Originally posted by Space Cadet Carl: I'm guessing after Mercury ended nobody felt the need to film astronauts during launch any longer.
Or perhaps the astronauts didn't want to be filmed any longer. Might be a good question for the Gemini astronauts attending the ASF show this weekend. |
Dwight Member Posts: 577 From: Germany Registered: Dec 2003
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posted 11-16-2011 10:36 PM
The idea for launch TV coverage was made long before any Apollo rocket flew. Indeed each CSM TV camera had to be subjected to vibration tests simulating those expected at launch.The first time a TV was actually used in the CSM during launch was, as previously stated, on the 1975 ASTP Apollo launch. A similar live feed was planned from the Soyuz spacecraft, but the TV system had technical problems and as such no live video was seen on launch. The Soyuz crew managed to get the camera running prior to docking and so from that point the TV coverage proceeded as planned from bothe spacecraft. Any TV use on Gemini was effectively nixed after the less than spectacular SSTV tests done on Faith 7. All footage made during Gemini in the spacecraft was exclusively 16mm film. |