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1972 - NASA, Documentary: Apollo 17 - On the Shoulders of Giants (JSC 603)

Reel Number: 221035-03

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1972

Country: USA

Location: cape kennedy [ canaveral ] florida,Houston,Texas

TC Begins: 10:29:36

TC Ends: 10:42:31

Duration: 00:12:55

Pt. 1 of 2 Night shots Apollo 17 on launch pad. VS astronauts Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans board Apollo; CUs astronauts in suits. Excellent night shots Apollo on launch pad. Titles. 10:31:05 INT top of gantry as it moves away from sealed rocket. Night shots Apollo on launch pad; voice over Houston Control "we have a cut off at T- 30 secs". Dr Rocco Petrone explains why the "sequencer" stopped the launch; shows interiors of mission control - WS across bank of control panels / monitors - CUs men working, talking into headsets etc. 10:32:10 Excellent night shots of 07Dec72 launch. Leaving Earth orbit. 10:33:10 Command Module America moves into dock with lunar Module Challenger. Interiors Mission Control room; launch simulation of Skylab - run through by Don Puddy? for future project. Dr Christopher Kraft re: Skylab. 10:34:37 10Dec72 Apollo 7 in orbit round the moon - Good shot. 11Dec72 Cernan & Schmitt enter lunar module. Lunar module undocks - views from window of moon's surface. CU Houston controller. PoV Moon's surface approaching - v/o reads altitude. “The Challenger has landed!”. 10:38:00 Challenger on surface of moon - astronauts on surface of moon; shot of moon rover - exploration vehicle. Astronaut plants US flag - Good. Interiors mission control. Schmitt carrying scientific experiments package. 10:38:53 Houston - scientists watching. Astronauts leaping across Moon’s surface - setting up experiments - drilling into surface of moon intercut with shots of scientists at mission control watching monitor, including piece to camera by Dr David Strangeway about experiments. 10:41:07 Good shots astronauts on moon's surface & singing "I was strolling on the moon one day" as they return to the module. Engineers working on Apollo/Soyuz joint mission - includes piece to camera by Dr Rocco Perone and animation Apollo/Soyuz. Space Race; 1972; Moonlanding; Eleventh & Final Manned Mission; NB Sound quality poor. NOTE: Any continuous 14 minutes of entire film sold at per reel rate.

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