Montage for Twenty-Five Years of Progress Episode 2 of 25 (NASA 25th Anniversary)
The Moon, A Goal Pt. 2 of 3.
23:40:25 President Kennedy off plane & greeted, touring Cape Canaveral & looking at rockets.
23:40:51 25May61 JFK enters Congress & outlines proposal to go to the moon. “... I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and retuning him safely to the Earth ...”
23:41:40 Glitch - black frames.
23:41:47 Lynn Bondurant commenting on Kennedy’s goal.
23:42:04 Model of two-man orbital spacecraft, Project Gemini. Views of astronauts in testing on ground.
23:42:54 Astronauts & engineers looking proposals of companies. 29Nov61 NASA accepts proposal of North American Aviation to be prime contractor of the Apollo spacecraft.
23:43:32 Launch w/ chimpanzee seen in capsule. Explorer X in still photo. Explorer X1 illustration shown. Illustration of Aug61 Explorer XII launch in elliptical orbit.
23:44:30 Virgil Grissom into capsule, engineers, launch, capsule re-entry. View of board showing path, helicopter & Grissom gets out and in water as helicopter tries to lift capsule partially water filled. Grissom hoisted into second helicopter; first drops the capsule and its lost.
23:45:57 LS of rocket launch and gantry falling away. 13Sep61 Unmanned Mercury put into orbit. Spacecraft returns.
23:46:38 Chimpanzee Enos arrival at Cape Canaveral, in capsule w/ bio-sensors. Up gantry & loaded into Mercury. Technicians in control room. Rocket firing & lifting off. Australian tracking station. View of earth in speeded up film. CUs of worried engineers. Antennas. Earth spinning & view from capsule returning to earth. Capsule in water & view from helicopter.
23:49:30 Press Conference that afternoon at Cape Canaveral & John Glenn & Carpenter as back-up posing.
History; US Space Program; Moon Probes; Testing; Space Race
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Montage for Twenty-Five Years of Progress Episode 2 of 25 (NASA 25th Anniversary) The Moon, A Goal Pt. 2 of 3. 23:40:25 President Kennedy off plane & greeted, touring Cape Canaveral & looking at rockets. 23:40:51 25May61 JFK enters Congress & outlines proposal to go to the moon. “... I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and retuning him safely to the Earth ...” 23:41:40 Glitch - black frames. 23:41:47 Lynn Bondurant commenting on Kennedy’s goal. 23:42:04 Model of two-man orbital spacecraft, Project Gemini. Views of astronauts in testing on ground. 23:42:54 Astronauts & engineers looking proposals of companies. 29Nov61 NASA accepts proposal of North American Aviation to be prime contractor of the Apollo spacecraft. 23:43:32 Launch w/ chimpanzee seen in capsule. Explorer X in still photo. Explorer X1 illustration shown. Illustration of Aug61 Explorer XII launch in elliptical orbit. 23:44:30 Virgil Grissom into capsule, engineers, launch, capsule re-entry. View of board showing path, helicopter & Grissom gets out and in water as helicopter tries to lift capsule partially water filled. Grissom hoisted into second helicopter; first drops the capsule and its lost. 23:45:57 LS of rocket launch and gantry falling away. 13Sep61 Unmanned Mercury put into orbit. Spacecraft returns. 23:46:38 Chimpanzee Enos arrival at Cape Canaveral, in capsule w/ bio-sensors. Up gantry & loaded into Mercury. Technicians in control room. Rocket firing & lifting off. Australian tracking station. View of earth in speeded up film. CUs of worried engineers. Antennas. Earth spinning & view from capsule returning to earth. Capsule in water & view from helicopter. 23:49:30 Press Conference that afternoon at Cape Canaveral & John Glenn & Carpenter as back-up posing. History; US Space Program; Moon Probes; Testing; Space Race