ELECTRIC PROPULSION 1960s NASA SPACE RACE ELECTRIC THRUSTER CONCEPT ANIMATED FILM XD44974

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1960s color film (Ref. #HQ-96) produced for NASA’s Division of Educational Programs and Services by Technical Communications, Inc. of Los Angeles, California relies on limited animation to illustrate hypothetical means of early space exploration. Produced prior to the Apollo 11 moon landing of 1969, this educational short underscores the potential benefits of electrical propulsion engines over chemical and nuclear options and visualizes as-yet unrealized goals of the U.S. space program. (TRT: 23:32). Animated illustrations: A starscape. Earth, with a spacecraft’s orbit encircling the planet before exiting the frame (0:07). A triangular spacecraft carrying a satellite dish antennae. A direct path of flight leads the slower second craft to reach Jupiter first (0:39). An artist’s rendering of a foreign planet’s surface (1:26). The NASA logo and opening titles: “E