Watch All The Apollo Saturn V Rockets Blast Off At The Same Time

Watch All The Apollo Saturn V Rockets Blast Off At The Same Time
  • Apollos 4 and 6 were uncrewed test flights.

  • Apollo 9 was an Earth-orbit flight to (principally) test the lunar module.

  • Apollo 8 and 10 were both flights around the moon (with no lunar landing).

  • Apollo 13 was originally scheduled to land on the moon but famously experienced a dangerous explosion that forced the astronauts to come back to Earth early -- but safely.

  • Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 safely made it to the moon's surface and back.

  • Skylab's launch was also uncrewed; the Saturn V was used in this case to send a space station into Earth's orbit that was used by three crews in the 1970s.

  • You don't see Apollo 7 pictured here because it did not use the Saturn V rocket; it instead used the Saturn IB. It was an Earth-orbiting flight and the first successful manned one of the Apollo program. (Apollo 1 was the first scheduled crew, but the three men died in a launch pad fire.)

  • All Saturn V Launches At Once from Spacecraft Films on Vimeo.

    Elizabeth Howell