"You see it all. Hear it all... If ever there was a heroic machine, this was it (the Saturn V), and these DVDs do it justice." - George Whitesides, Executive Director, National Space Society, in Air and Space Smithsonian Magazine

Standing 365 feet tall and generating a liftoff thrust of over seven and a half million pounds - the Saturn V launch vehicle remains the most powerful successful rocket ever flown. Built by hundreds of thousands of workers from all over the country, the Saturn V was born of the dream of a man on the moon. In just a few short years the Saturn V was conceived, designed, tested, constructed and launched on 13 successful missions, placing 12 human beings on the lunar surface.

This three-DVD set features incredible footage of the story of the Saturn V. From rare footage of overcoming technological challenges in materials and techniques - to stunning digital transfers of original 35mm pad camera footage - you'll come to know the Saturn V as you've never known it before.

DISC 1 - Main Program and Bonus Materials

This disc set was constructed from film and videotape materials from the National Archives, Marshall Space Flight Center, and Johnson Space Center. Film to tape transfers by Bono Film and Video, Arlington, VA. Thanks to Tim and Bonnie at Bono. Marshall Space Flight Center footage of Saturn V development was transferred in high-definition at Crawford Communications, Atlanta, GA. Thanks to David Warner and Gary Milgrom at Crawford. Saturn pad camera footage was transferred from the original 35mm and 16mm footage at Video Post and Transfer, Dallas, Texas. Video material from Johnson Space Center was transferred by VTI, Houston. Thanks to Kipp Teague, Eric Jones, J.L. Pickering, and Dave Mohr.

Invaluable assistance was provided at Marshall Space Flight Center by Rodney Grubbs, Jerry Berg, and Bob Jacques.

The Mighty Saturns: Saturn V is dedicated to the thousands of men and women who worked and sacrificed so that a vehicle such as the Saturn V might fly, and to the 26 men who flew the Saturn V, and the 4 who flew it twice.

The Mighty Saturns: Saturn V program was written and produced by Mark Gray, with production assistance from Duncan Brown. Special thanks to Saturn veterans Jay Foster, Ed Buckbee, Konrad Dannenberg, Bob Lindstrom, and Jim Murphy. Thanks also to Fred Becker. The Saturn V is narrated by John Willyard. Crawler/Transporter sound from a digital recording by Peter Armstrong, used by permission. Music by Killer Tracks, Los Angeles.

"The Saturn V" - 43 minute program detailing the conception, design, development, testing, and launch history of the Saturn V, featuring exclusive new interviews with Saturn veterans.

"The Saturn V" Chapters

Chapter 1 - The Saturn V
Chapter 2 - Born of a Cold War
Chapter 3 - A Creation of Thousands
Chapter 4 - Flight Ready
Chapter 5 - Men on Saturn

Bonus Materials

500F Rollout - A Saturn V facilities integration vehicle was created to allow the launch crews adequate training prior to processing of a flight vehicle. This vehicle, designated 500F, was painted differently than any Saturn V flight hardware. Features rollout to pad.

S-IC Stage Testing - Marshall Space Flight Center testing of the Saturn V first stage, featuring several views of ignition and burn of the five F-1 engines. Propellants were liquid oxygen and RP-1 (kerosene). Gimbal of the engines (moving them to steer the vehicle) is obvious during this footage.

S-II Stage Testing - Burn of the S-II stage for the full duration of a Saturn V mission. Features ignition and shutdown. Five J-2 liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen engines powered the second stage.

Apollo 8 Pad Operations - Features launch preparation for the Apollo 8 mission in December, 1968. Apollo 8 was the first manned Saturn V mission, sending Frank Borman, Lim Lovell and Bill Anders on the first trip to the vicinity of the moon.

Skylab Workshop Pad Operations - Launch preparations for the final Saturn V launch which place the Skylab orbital workshop into Earth orbit. The Skylab was a converted S-IVB stage modified to serve as a space laboratory. Only the first two stages of the launch vehicle were active on this mission.

Launch Escape System Test - The launch escape system provided the crew a means of escape in case of a catastrophic failure of the Saturn V. A solid fuel tractor rocket would remove the spacecraft from the vehicle up through first stage separation. Shortly after second stage ignition the tower would be jettisoned. This footage shows Apollo boilerplate 22, tested on a Little Joe II solid fuel rocket. No audio.

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DISC 2 - The Missions - AS-501 through AS-513

AS-501 (Apollo 4)
Chapter 1 - TV Launch from T-1:30 - KSC television feed of launch, showing the first-ever launch of a Saturn V rocket.
Chapter 2 - Film 0-377 - From the camera pod flown on the second stage to record the separation of the first stage and interstage. Two distinct separations occur. The first is stage one dropping away, then the interstage separating. This event was executed in two parts to assure the stages did not come into contact with one another at separation. The film was ejected (the motion visible at the end of the film) and recovered.
Chapter 3 - Film 0-378 - Similar to above. View from opposite side of the vehicle in a second camera pod.

AS-502 (Apollo 6)
Chapter 1 - TV launch from T-5:00 through S-IVB stage
Chapter 2 - Tower camera A
Chapter 3 - Tower camera B
Chapter 4 - Spacecraft window onboard (A camera was flown in the Apollo 6 command module)

AS-503 (Apollo 8) - More Apollo 8 on disc 3
Chapter 1 - Medium shot
Chapter 2 - Black and white
Chapter 3 - Closeup base
Chapter 4 - Behind LUT
Chapter 5 - Swing arm 8
Chapter 6 - Below engines
Chapter 7 - Tracking
Chapter 8 - S-IC interior LOX tank (A television system inside the first stage liquid oxygen tank transmitted these pictures to monitor propellant behavior during flight)

AS-504 (Apollo 9)
Chapter 1 - Overall medium shot
Chapter 2 - Static overall
Chapter 3 - Long shot
Chapter 4 - Behind LUT
Chapter 5 - Tracking
Chapter 6 - Tracking behind LUT

AS-505 (Apollo 10)
Chapter 1 - Pad 39B
Chapter 2 - Static medium
Chapter 3 - Medium shot
Chapter 4 - Behind LUT
Chapter 5 - Tracking

AS-506 (Apollo 11) More Apollo 11 on disc 3
Chapter 1 - Through SECO

AS-507 (Apollo 12) More Apollo 12 on disc 3
Chapter 1 - Slow motion
Chapter 2 - Framed S-IVB and spacecraft
Chapter 3 - Framed S-IVB and spacecraft

AS-508 (Apollo 13)
Chapter 1 - TV feed (color LUT camera)
Chapter 2 - Medium shot
Chapter 3 - Static overall
Chapter 4 - Tracking

AS-509 (Apollo 14)
Chapter 1 - Static medium
Chapter 2 - Tracking
Chapter 3 - Long shot tracking

AS-510 (Apollo 15)
Chapter 1 - Medium shot
Chapter 2 - Tracking A
Chapter 3 - Static overall
Chapter 4 - Tracking B

AS-511 (Apollo 16)
Chapter 1 - Tracking
Chapter 2 - Static overall

AS-512 (Apollo 17)
Chapter 1 - Static overall
Chapter 2 - Long shot tracking
Chapter 3 - Tracking
Chapter 4 - Static overall

AS-513 (SL-1 Skylab)
Chapter 1 - Static overall
Chapter 2 - Long shot
Chapter 3 - Tracking

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DISC 3 - Saturn V Quarterly Management Reports & Pad Camera Footage

Pad Camera Footage

AS-503 (Apollo 8)

Tracking Cameras
S-II Tracking - begins on second stage
Long Range - Telephoto tracking
Medium Shot
Long Range B - Telephoto
Through Tower Jet - Follows vehicle through staging

Static Cameras
Tail Service Masts - Closeup showing vehicle release
Level Zero - From the deck of the mobile launcher
Swing Arm #1 - Looking down showing release and launch
Looking Down
Spacecraft - Framed on Apollo spacecraft
Medium shot

AS-506 (Apollo 11)

Tracking Cameras
Camera E76 - Long shot from base of S-IC
Camera E207 - Framed from S-IVB, slow motion
Camera E215 - Framed on S-II, very slow motion
Camera E12 - Framed on S-II, slow motion
Camera E4 - S-IC and S-II, slow motion

Static Cameras
Camera E11 - Framed on S-II, very slow motion
Spacecraft - Framed on Apollo spacecraft
Camera E39 - Looking down at base of S-IC
Camera E8 - Level zero from mobile launcher deck
Camera E61 - From LUT camera target at S-II

AS-507 (Apollo 12)

Camera E43 - From LUT
Camera E9 - Base of S-IC
Camera E47 - From LUT framed on S-II
Camera E50 - Looking down
Camera E6 - S-IC and S-II tracking
Distance wide angle (weather)

These 11 Saturn V quarterly reports are from the Marshall Space Flight Center archives. Having been stored without environmental control, they suffered from "pink fade," a common aging of color motion picture film. They were transferred in high definition and color-corrected at Crawford Communications in Atlanta. The missing reports from the sequence could not been located.

#2 - February - April 1963 - Description, final tooling, fabrication

#5 - December 1963 - February 1964 - Ground test stage construction

#6 - March - May 1964 - Ground test stage construction

#7 - June - August 1964 - Beginning of stage testing

#8 - September - November 1964 - Hydrostatic testing, F-1 production

#9 - December 1964 - February 1965 - Battleship stage testing, ground support equipment

#10 - March - May 1965 - Full power testing, first flight stages

#11 - June - August 1965 - Full duration test, flight stages

#12 - September - November 1965 - Hurricane Betsy, dynamic testing

#16 - September - November 1966 - Stacking first flight vehicle

#17 - December 1966 - February 1967 - Acceptance testing, dynamic testing

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