Argentine journalists covering the launch of the Apollo XI - 1969

USA: Journalistic note at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on the latest preparations for the launch of the Apollo 11. Report where journalist Monica Mihanovich comments: "This is the imposing launch ramp with the Apollo XI. of launching cost around 21.500 million dollars in construction, on the right side we see the darkest mobile maintenance structure that measures 122 meters and weighs 4,444 tons, 100 meters from the launching ramp, all the cameras are placed We will take the details of the launch of day 16. As you can imagine, none of these cameras will have cameras, they are automatic and they are placed all around the launching ramp Apollo XI with the Saturn V is 109 meters high , weighs 2,800 tons when it is full of fuel and only 195 tons without fuel, at this moment the last preparations are made, cos days for the big day, the day July 16, at 9:30 in the morning. The bridges 8 and 9 that you can see up there, give directly to the lunar module, and for those bridges cross the 3 astronauts every day when they go up the elevator to work in the lunar module. The cabin that you see up there is placed next to the Apollo and is a safety escape; If there were any kind of problems the 3 astronauts would enter that cabin that comes down from the wires at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour, because it has no brake and they reach down here. In this tank that we have behind us is the liquid oxygen necessary for the fuel of Saturn V and behind us is the other tank that has liquid hydrogen, also necessary for the combustion of Saturn V. The kind of ramp that you see in the middle, that it would look like wood, but it is made of metal, it is equal to the one that is placed under the rocket and that separates the two fuels for the two flames of the fuels, so that it does not make a huge hole in the earth. This launch ramp identical to that of Apollo XI, which at this time we can not approach for safety reasons, was used for the Apollo X. The slide that I have behind me, closed, is used by astronauts in case of an accident and that leads directly to a room where they can get out from under the ground and escape from any explosion. The tubes that we see hanging there at this moment, are the connecting tubes where water, energy, electricity or fuel comes out at the moment of the launch. Behind the enormous supports on which the Saturn and the Apollo are supported. And down here the inside of the launching ramp. What we see here is the fuel separator that we saw on the other ramp and that at that time was new and clear, and that now is black and burned because it was used in Apollo X. "(Mónica Mihanovich)
Date: 7/14/1969
Duration: 4 minutes 16 seconds
Code of the film: C-01596

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