The Mightiest - Tribute to the Saturn V Rocket

ATTENTION! I have added a version with more "calming" music for people who think this music is kind of over the top and loud. You can view it here.    • The Mightiest - Tribute to the Saturn...   I hope you can still appreciate the amazing accomplishment of this wondrous machine just the same with either version. 😊 Please read the description regarding why I didn't just remove the music entirely

NOTE: SpaceX's Starship is being tested at the moment and will overtake Saturn V as the most powerful rocket. The most recent test exploded a couple of minutes into the flight. Once it gets a full orbit and can land, I'll probably change the title to The Mightiest Of Its Age. Or something like that.

Apollo IV - November 9, 1967 - The first flight of the mighty Saturn V

I was inspired by hearing some Public Service Broadcasting songs off of their Race For Space album. It's great stuff so I wanted to make my own tribute. The Saturn V rocket seemed perfect. Specifically the first flight of the Saturn V, Apollo IV. I wanted to make something that started off rather subtle but had a beat. It gets loud and the beat starts pumping a bit closer to launch.

I used dozens of clips for audio and video. I just took it from wherever I could find it. It was particularly hard to mix all the various audio clips into the song. Each broadcast had it's own sound that needed some EQing. At any rate, after about 20 or so versions, I finally landed on this one and I'm going to move on to my next project; Apollo XIII.

This was a labor of love and it's not perfect but it's my way of showing my deep fascination and love for space and science. I'd like to also note that Jack King was the iconic voice of Apollo countdowns. In a way, I feel like this is my tribute to him as well. He'd mentioned Apollo IV and how fond he was of that mission. There was so much uncertainty. It all looked good on paper but would it work as planned? Did it ever. The rest, as they say, is history.

All clips and audio used in this video are purely for artistic and creative purposes. If some of the clips land me in hot water, I'll just make a picture show.

I hope you like it.

If you want to learn more about the development of the Saturn family of rockets, you can learn more here: https://bit.ly/3JrFPHF (It's the wiki page) The history of rocketry is fascinating.

NOTE: Some launch clips are from other Apollo missions. The quality of video available for Apollo IV was sparse. I didn't want bad video clips to take away from anything. That said, some clips are high quality and some aren't. I had to work with what I had. :)

If you want to hear a slightly different version of the song you can find it here. Once I'd uploaded this video I couldn't change the audio. I like the mix on my SoundCloud version just a bit better. ;)   / the-mightiest-first-flight-of-the-saturn-v...  

Credit given where credit due:
Some clips were taken from Lunar Module 5 videos. Awesome channel for anyone that's a space nut.
   / lunarmodule5  

I used a few from Mr Dan Beaumont's Channel. Another great channel for the space enthusiast.
   / mrdanbeaumont  

I hope they don't mind that I used clips; both audio and video. :)

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