Apollo 17 a terrific launch, Can not forgotten, 40 years ago, I was at the Press-site at the Kennedy Space Center accredited by NASA to witness with the greatest journalists of the time of the last Apollo lunar mission. Since December 3, I visit the facility launches, assembly and training. I attend all the press conferences (Alan Shepard, Rocco Petrone etc.). Also several photo shoots of the Saturn-5 day and night. It's been two days that I have not slept and around me, there is Walter Cronkite of CBS, Jules Bergman of ABC, Ralph Morse of Life magazine, whoops! Whener Von Braun passes before me. It is hot and humid as a summer night. After over 2 hours late, I am now with photographers on the side of Banana River, which separates us from the rocket launch to 3 miles. I stand by with a camera Bell & Howell Super 8 with Filmosound. Everyone is looking forward and hope that will not another disorder technique because the launch will be postponed a month. You will hear during the countdown and launch of clicks after all these cameras and you have the sound of a large transistor radio coverage with the launch of Apollo 17 in directly to a station. Now it's 0:33. In - 4 secs. ignition of five F-1 engines are visible with a big blinding flash of light. The sound is absent, but the ground shakes, it's an earthquake! At 0 sec. The rocket rises slowly to the ramp. The flame grows bright! This is a sunrise orange with light effects in the fire of diamonds. One can see bursts of shock waves that appear around the rocket. This is absolutely amazing! Everyone is hysterical. With more than 11 secs. The launch tower is clear and the sound comes from a violent blow, rumbling low frequencies and multiple clicks clear, as dozens of lashes. The rocket takes an angle in the sky and the sound becomes louder and extremely heavy with thunder in the tens to the second. We are totally overwhelmed by the noise. It's like a situation out of control and too impressive at the same time. Sound, we shot the belly and we hammered the entire body. Nothing can be comparable. The sky became illuminated like daylight, but like orange on Mars. Fantastic! Wonderful! Before me, the men went to the moon. This is wonderful and memorable ... I was 16, I was very serious, very aware and well documented to live this historic event. Dan Beaumont report. Pierre-Paul Beaumont photo.

ATTENTION APOLLO 17 : " A terrific launch ". EXCEPTIONAL REAL SOUND LIVE, Dan Beaumont film, December 7, 1972 VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yIvOYFOm6c

LIFE photo, source Google/Life 2008 (Free). Saturn -5 rocket launch with apollo 11 spacecraft. Apollo 11 astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont

The huge, 363-foot tall Apollo 11 Spacecraft 107/Lunar Module 5/Saturn 506) space vehicle is launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), at 9:32 a.m. (EDT), July 16, 1969. This view of the liftoff was taken by a camera mounted on the mobile launch tower.

The bozo in the photo lab ~48 years ago didn't notice/care that the image is reversed...ugh. Good help is/was hard to find.

See:

archive.org/details/S69-39963

“APOLLO 11 PRE-LAUNCH COUNTDOWN—--The crewmen of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission leave the Kennedy Space Center’s Manned Spacecraft Operations Building during the pre-launch countdown. Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, rode the special transport van over to Launch Complex 39A where their spacecraft awaited them. Liftoff was at 9:32 a.m. (EDT), July 16, 1969.”

Per the “non-S-69-39956”-numbered (black & white) issuance:

“KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.,—The Apollo 11 crew leaves the Manned Spacecraft Operations Bullding and prepares to enter a van which will take them pad 39A. At the launch pad astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. and Michael Collins entered their Apollo 11 space vehicle, which lifted off at 9:32 a.m. EDT to begin the first manned Iunar landing.”

Title: Saturn SA-5

Catalog #: 08_01239

Additional Information: Launch Vehicle

Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

"108-KSC-69P-641" description: Apollo 11 mission officials relax in the Launch Control Center following the successful Apollo 11 liftoff on July 16, 1969. From left to right are: Charles W. Mathews, Deputy Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight; Dr. Wernher von Braun, Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center; George Mueller, Associate Administrator for the Office of Manned Space Flight; Lt. Gen. Samuel C. Phillips, Director of the Apollo Program.

"MSFC-6901183" description: NASA officials, (left to right) Charles W. Mathews; Dr. Wernher von Braun, Director, Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC); Dr. George E. Mueller, Associate Administrator for Marned Space Flight; and Air Force Lt. General Samuel C. Phillips, Apollo Program Director celebrate the successful launch of Apollo 11 in the control room at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on July 16, 1969. Boosted by the Saturn V launch vehicle, the Apollo 11 mission with a crew of three: Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. Aldrin, made the first manned lunar landing. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) under the direction of Dr. von Braun.

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