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Bram
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posted 11-02-2011 09:33 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Bram   Click Here to Email Bram     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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
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posted 11-02-2011 10:54 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for hoonte   Click Here to Email hoonte     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I know of the live ASTP launch vid.. took me some time to find it but there is some footage on YouTube. Enjoy!

mikej
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posted 11-02-2011 05:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mikej   Click Here to Email mikej     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
CM interior footage from ASTP's launch is also on For All Mankind

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posted 11-02-2011 06:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for RichardH   Click Here to Email RichardH     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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
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posted 11-03-2011 12:56 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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
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posted 11-03-2011 07:43 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The ASTP onboard launch video was the subject of an earlier thread.

Space Cadet Carl
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posted 11-04-2011 01:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Space Cadet Carl   Click Here to Email Space Cadet Carl     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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
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posted 11-04-2011 02:59 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mjanovec   Click Here to Email mjanovec     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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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
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posted 11-16-2011 10:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dwight   Click Here to Email Dwight     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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.

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