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In the top picture, the 'bubble' midway down the rocket is a 'sonic bubble'. That is where the rocket is passing through the sound barrier.

I watched a program on this last night. When they were in orbit they called back to mission control to ask where the last jettisoned section was in relation to their current position. They asked this because they were seeing lights that were tracking their cockpit and thought i was the last section, but it was over 6k nautical miles away.

Great pics. Thanks for sharing this with us. When was this taken??

Tal

Amazing pics

Man we should have rockets still like this not crumby stuff.

Have you guys seen the orion nuclear rocket they studied - its huge.

I get a kick out of the plume in that second pic - pre-calculated to the nth degree.

The russian lunar rocket was the N1 - it had like 80 engines and vibrated to bits on lift off.
Which is a shame as the space race would have gone much further with the competition.

Lets face it the apollo/saturn rocket is the coolest spacecraft of all time.

The new NASA designs are just as cool though

there was this Buzz that Nasa is going to have some new pictures released this anniversary, are these the ones???

what cracks me up is that these were built and flown in a time when calculations were done on pencil and paper or on computers that would be dwarfed by an iphone.

Very neat pictures of Apollo, I really like the first one the most.

We've got those old things laying around everywhere here it seems...

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/21117543

Never see anything footage like that on the news.