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Topic: Video: Vanguard 1 launch with audio
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Richard Easton
Member Posts: 110
From: Winnetka, IL USA
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted April 21, 2009 06:34 PM
  
It must have been a long couple of seconds for the folks in the blockhouse before it took off: |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1246
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted April 21, 2009 07:49 PM
I love the repeated exhortations "Keep goin', boy!" and "Keep goin', baby!" you hear in the background! |
Richard Easton
Member Posts: 110
From: Winnetka, IL USA
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted April 21, 2009 07:56 PM
My dad recently told me that they'd all been up all night and were exhausted by the time of launch. |
art540
Member Posts: 429
From: Orange, California USA
Registered: Sep 2006
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posted April 22, 2009 01:45 PM
Thanks for the video, Richard. Never heard the blockhouse commentary before. It seems like the time of umbilical drop/ignition to full thrust and lift off was 5 seconds. You can see the roll jets on the first stage come on just after liftoff.I came home from school on that Monday and the afternoon newspaper headline read: VANGUARD HITS SPACE ROAD. Many thanks! |
Charles Boyer
New Member Posts: 4
From: Raleigh, NC USA
Registered: May 2009
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posted May 06, 2009 02:38 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Richard Easton:
My dad recently told me that they'd all been up all night and were exhausted by the time of launch.
My grandfather's description was "puckered up." He was one of the telemetry guys for that particular flight. |
Richard Easton
Member Posts: 110
From: Winnetka, IL USA
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted May 08, 2009 09:24 PM
Charles, what was your grandfather's name? I would like to forward it to Vanguardians. |
dwmzmm
Member Posts: 82
From: Katy, TX USA
Registered: Dec 2006
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posted May 08, 2009 09:52 PM
Wow, great video! The only Vanguard clips I've seen is the very first one (that falls
back and explodes on the pad). The Vanguard does have a very graceful, fluid motion as it's moving through the atmosphere. ------------------
Dave, NAR # 21853 SR.
Challenger 498 Section
NAR Advisor |
Charles Boyer
New Member Posts: 4
From: Raleigh, NC USA
Registered: May 2009
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posted June 30, 2009 11:45 AM
V. L. Pinson Sr., Richard.He was at MILA and then the Cape from 1954-1969. |
rafefour
New Member Posts: 2
From: Palm Springs, CA
Registered: Aug 2009
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posted August 04, 2009 10:54 AM
Thank you for the video and audio blockhouse commentary. I was a senior in high school and only ever saw Vanguard failures. I am happy to know, at last,the success of the rocket and the work of the engineers. It is still exciting to see and experience. |
art540
Member Posts: 429
From: Orange, California USA
Registered: Sep 2006
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posted August 10, 2009 11:19 PM
As Time magazine wrote so aptly one week later: "Vanguard's farewell roar reverberated across the Cape". |
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