1967 NASA AERONAUTICS & SPACE REPORT LUNAR ORBITER 5 SPACECRAFT SATURN V MOVES TO PAD 39 XD10534

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Browse our products on Amazon: This color newsreel from the “Aeronautics and Space Report“ highlights the mission of Lunar Orbiter 5 and progress on the Saturn V rocket, as one is assembled and moved to Pad 39 at Cape Kennedy on the huge transporter. This is copyright 1967. Opening titles: NASA presents Aeronautics and Space Report - Lunar Orbiter (:18-:46). The Moon. Photos of the moon were taken by the Lunar Orbiter 5. Animation of Orbiter as it floats by the moon. NASA's Langley, VA center where the pictures are processed and viewed (:47-1:26). NASA engineers look over the pictures for landing sites for the Apollo missions. Crater features are studied. Mountains and craters on the Moon including the Crater Copernicus. In a previous mission, Lunar Orbiter 2 reviewed the crater from another angle. Multiple photos of the lunar surface put together as a mosaic (1:27-2:46). Title: