Apollo 11 Launch - Alexander de Seversky ’Home Movie’ (sound added)

The historic launch of Apollo 11, seen through the eyes of iconic aviation pioneer Alexander P. de Seversky. 1:00 - Cloud piercing! Apollo 11 punches a hole into a whispy cloud layer, casting a shadow onto its topside Alexander de Seversky is with, and around, some very famous people: 2:21 - Barry Goldwater 2:51 - Johnny Carson 4:26 - Gene Cernan, first to pilot the LM around the Moon 4:29 - Tom Stafford 4:40 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the USA This edit is given “in medias res“, starting with the Saturn V launch itself. After that, the original film is played in its entirety from start to end ...but the launch audio is continued well into that pre-launch filming. All of the footage of people is prior to the launch. COPYRIGHT - MIT has this film marked “©2011“ at the very end. Perhaps this is the year that this film was digitized. The original film is silent, with no audio track. That source vid is here, at the MIT YouTube channel (posted on Aug 6, 2013): The launch audio was taken from the vintage Apollo 11 documentary film ’Moonwalk One’, which is available many places, including . That 1970 film is in the public domain. To get a better understanding of the man behind the camera, Alexander P. de Seversky was better known by his 1943 Walt Disney documentary where he explains what must be done for the United States to win WWII: Victory Through Air Power It is fitting, because this Kennedy Space Center launch he is attending was the defining moment for the USA in the Cold War. This video was created, and is being posted on the 114th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first successful flight at Kitty Hawk. Today is also the 45th anniversary of astronaut Ron Evans’ deep space EVA on the return trip from the Moon during Apollo 17, the final time that any human has ventured into deep space, beyond Low Earth Orbit. Only 3 deep space EVAs have ever been done (on the last 3 Apollo missions). And Evans did his on the 69th anniversary of the Wright Brothers. That first flight by Orville Wright on Dec 17, 1903 was 120 feet. If the Saturn V was laid on its side, this flight would have spanned 1/3 its length. As an excellent tribute to ’firsts’, when Alan Shepard, America’s first astronaut, flew to the Moon, he nicknamed his spacecraft Kitty Hawk.