Lanzamiento de Apolo - Apollo-Soyuz (TV/BBC Audio)

Video from the channel lunarmodule5 about Apollo–Soyuz, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 5:52. Language: English. Video type: Launch.

Liftoff of the Apollo spacecraft on the Apollo-Soyuz mission, combining the television feed of the launch with the capsule's interior camera, along with the original audio of the BBC coverage. Tom Stafford commands the crew, and the rocket is a Saturn with eight engines on the first stage.

The commentary follows the final countdown. The access arm has already retracted and the rocket weighs about 650 tonnes, almost all liquid propellant that the first stage burns in about 2 minutes and 20 seconds. Then come tank pressurization, the spacecraft's switch to internal power, water poured over the flame deflector, and engine ignition 3.1 seconds before liftoff. After liftoff, the spacecraft performs the roll maneuver, clears the coast, passes through maximum dynamic pressure, separates the first stage and ignites the S-IVB. Shortly after, the launch escape tower is jettisoned. The cabin footage, presented by the commentary as the first from inside an American spacecraft during a launch, shows a crew member checking trajectory data on the computer.

Mission control reports throughout that everything is going well. Capcom Dick Truly confirms the second stage is performing properly, and by the end of the video the spacecraft is about 50 miles high, 80 miles from the launch site and travelling at about 7,000 miles per hour.