APOLLO 7 launch (1968/10/11)

Video from the channel Retro Space HD about Apollo 7, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 4:07. Language: English. Video type: Launch.

The video captures the launch of Apollo 7 (mission AS-205), the first crewed mission of the Apollo program, atop a Saturn IB launch vehicle, with the original audio from launch control.

The countdown proceeds from T-21 seconds, with power transfer complete and the vehicle, weighing about 1.3 million pounds, ready to go. The eight first-stage engines ignite at the three-second mark, the rocket lifts off and jettisons the tower, after which the roll program starts and ends. The commentary keeps marking flight times with all systems reported go.

Around two minutes into the flight, after a status check with the crew, the spacecraft is cleared for stage separation.