BBC coverage, particularly by James Burke, was the best. He explained crucial facts about U.S. moon program better than the U.S. TV reporters I grew up watching, good as most of them were. This is the first time I've seen anything by Peter Fairley, and his work on this film is excellent. I love how he shows the immense scale of the Saturn V rocket by telling us it takes an hour to open the assembly building's door, and showing the stages being transported by river and the massive plane.
@@brianarbenz1329 Burke, Moore, Pardoe, Nicholson, Michelmore, Shoemaker and that BBC Space Unit team were SO good, those hours and hours of coverage of each mission will never be surpassed
If you are a technoligcal cripple then fine, believe the commentary... if you understand technology then you realise this is Anglo Centric Propaganda... YMM.
Absolutely magnificent. This is how i remember the tv moon reporting. Peter Fairley.was the voice I knew first, before I saw the great James Burke. What amazing days they were.
If you are a technoligcal cripple then fine, believe the commentary... if you understand technology then you realise this is Anglo Centric Propaganda... YMM.
The timing of this, a week after the terrible Apollo 1 fire, obviously threw the purpose and tone of the film off. But they did a good job of acknowledging the tragic deaths of Grissom, White and Chafee and yet staying on message.
Great addition to the Apollo archive - good angles on the Vehicle Assembly Building for scale - wow ! So it was filmed week beginning Mon 30th Jan 1967 - the [very] darkest time thus far for the American space endeavour - [Jan 27] to lose 3 in a ground test with a un-fuelled rocket was an abysmal event. So much soul searching & anguish followed - not least for Joe Shea , the brilliant engineer-manager who headed up the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office - it was too much for him and he moved to NASA Headquarters . Harrison "Stormy" Storms was the fall-guy for North American Aviation (NAA) - the builders of the spacecraft .
eddiekulp1241 - He was slated to be - but because of his activities outside of NASA ( he was a keen racing driver amongst other things) there were those that were not happy, and felt that he wasn't applying himself anymore. Consequently, he was dropped. So basically, it was due to his own actions.
I don't ever recall Kennedy stating that there was a race to the moon because we choose to do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard😮😊.
Why are they showing the first stage of the Saturn 1b and calling it the Saturn 5 first stage and the other stages were mixed up too. Shows you the lack of knowledge on these topics.
@@GregoryTuu You certainly say so, so people with as little knowledge about physics and science as You, may think that You know more than all the scientists around the world.
ITN's space coverage was superb back then and Peter Fairley was an excellent reporter,more of this type of thing please!
BBC coverage, particularly by James Burke, was the best. He explained crucial facts about U.S. moon program better than the U.S. TV reporters I grew up watching, good as most of them were. This is the first time I've seen anything by Peter Fairley, and his work on this film is excellent. I love how he shows the immense scale of the Saturn V rocket by telling us it takes an hour to open the assembly building's door, and showing the stages being transported by river and the massive plane.
@@brianarbenz1329 Burke, Moore, Pardoe, Nicholson, Michelmore, Shoemaker and that BBC Space Unit team were SO good, those hours and hours of coverage of each mission will never be surpassed
If you are a technoligcal cripple then fine, believe the commentary... if you understand technology then you realise this is Anglo Centric Propaganda... YMM.
Wow this is incredible footage that I've never even seen before 😮 Well done for uploading 😊
Absolutely magnificent. This is how i remember the tv moon reporting. Peter Fairley.was the voice I knew first, before I saw the great James Burke.
What amazing days they were.
They got the Saturn variants and stages a bit jumbled up, but still great old footage.
Very enjoyable film. I used to watch Peter Fairley on TV at that time.
If you are a technoligcal cripple then fine, believe the commentary... if you understand technology then you realise this is Anglo Centric Propaganda... YMM.
The timing of this, a week after the terrible Apollo 1 fire, obviously threw the purpose and tone of the film off. But they did a good job of acknowledging the tragic deaths of Grissom, White and Chafee and yet staying on message.
Ty for this 👍🚀🇳🇿
They are showing a Saturn I first stage when saying that it is a Saturn V.
Bottom bit of the rocket ? That's British
Great addition to the Apollo archive - good angles on the Vehicle Assembly Building for scale - wow ! So it was filmed week beginning Mon 30th Jan 1967 - the [very] darkest time thus far for the American space endeavour - [Jan 27] to lose 3 in a ground test with a un-fuelled rocket was an abysmal event. So much soul searching & anguish followed - not least for Joe Shea , the brilliant engineer-manager who headed up the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office - it was too much for him and he moved to NASA Headquarters . Harrison "Stormy" Storms was the fall-guy for North American Aviation (NAA) - the builders of the spacecraft .
You are right. The footage is Great but the British commentary is utter effluent from any living thing.
@@transistor754 I take it that English isn't your first language.
The Lunar Module still has a round hatch here. It was only later discovered that the rectangular PLSS would not fit through it.
Didn't think Gordon Cooper was ever an Apollo astronaut
eddiekulp1241 - He was slated to be - but because of his activities outside of NASA ( he was a keen racing driver amongst other things) there were those that were not happy, and felt that he wasn't applying himself anymore. Consequently, he was dropped. So basically, it was due to his own actions.
I don't ever recall Kennedy stating that there was a race to the moon because we choose to do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard😮😊.
Why are they showing the first stage of the Saturn 1b and calling it the Saturn 5 first stage and the other stages were mixed up too. Shows you the lack of knowledge on these topics.
Mixing up the Saturn V and Saturn 1 first stages...fail!
0:09 there you have it.. Working theatrics to fake the moon landing in a studio.
The green men got them
Didn't know the moon was in the Arizona desert
GregoryTuu Can You say a better place to train for a moonflight, than in a desert?
@YDDES Why would I need to say a better place when this is just straight fact.
@@GregoryTuu Maybe Because it may make You sound like a manned moonlanding denier?
@@YDDES I am
@@GregoryTuu You certainly say so, so people with as little knowledge about physics and science as You, may think that You know more than all the scientists around the world.