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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Browse our products on Amazon: This NASA documentary film is a quarterly report from the Manned Space Flight program that dates to late 1967. The film starts with shots of workers around a launch vehicle as it is readied for take-off (:40). Images of the cratered moon’s surface follow (:49). By the end of 1968, much information had been collected from unmanned satellite missions (:59). Two manned space missions had also been completed as an astronaut is viewed working with a tether outside his spacecraft (1:06). Astronauts practice tests on the ground for in flight tasks and missions (1:16). A massive crawler moves a rocket (1:36). The months to be depicted in this quarterly report are from October to December of 1967 (1:56). The main objective was to ensure Apollo would be ready for man’s first lunar orbit mission and lunar landing (2:12). The lunar module; constructed by Grumman Aircraft is looked to (2:25). Tests are conducted at a large chamber in the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas (2:44). The lunar module; manned by astronauts is moved by crane (2:50). In the chamber it is to be subjected to a simulated space environment (3:03). Safety tests for the cabin were also conducted (3:14). Fires were started in the cabin during these tests (3:37) in order to ensure that the fire would be localized. At NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico (4:22); workers encountered problems with the Lunar Module (LM) ascent engine. Final qualification testing was to begin in early 1968 (5:15). LMs at Grumman Aircraft (5:21). The first lunar module for the manned flight is seen in checkout at Grumman (5:38). This would be shipped to the Kennedy Space Center (5:40) in the spring of 1968. North American Rockwell (5:57) worked on the living quarters for the three man flight crew (6:01). Hardware is prepped for tests (6:12) in a simulated space environment. The Command Module also underwent fire safety tests (6:29). Tests were also conducted in order to improve the Command Module's landing system (6:55). Chutes are seen ripping open in the sky as part of the landing system (7:10). The Command Module (CM) is seen floating down (7:14). Back at North American Rockwell, manufacturing work continued (7:44). The Command and Service Modules undergoing final checkouts (7:48) for the first manned Apollo flight. Modules were also under check out for the larger Saturn V (8:05). Much of the focus was at the Kennedy Space Center’s complex 37 (8:23). The first unmanned lunar module was to be fired into space from here on an uprated Saturn I. The Lunar module is seen undergoing rigorous testing (8:41). The film turns to the Vehicle Assembly Building at complex 39 (9:26). The second Apollo Saturn V prepped for an unmanned launch (9:37). Astronauts are filmed as they practice with the equipment (9:51). For the manned Lunar missions, the most important objective was the study of the moon (10:30). The flight of the sixth Surveyor Spacecraft is simulated (10:44) from Nov., 1967. Early landings were geared towards mapping the moon (10:59). Images of the moon’s surface follow (11:09). Astronauts are shown working with lunar surface experiment packages developed by Bendix (11:28). Lunar rock samples are to be collected (11:56). At a manned spacecraft center laboratory (12:05); these samples were to be isolated and distributed to scientists. Apollo applications equipment was under development in late 1967 (13:08). The uprated Saturn I second stage is seen here (13:16). Workers at McDonnell Douglas (13:26) work to complete a full scale model of the second stage (13:30). New floors, recently installed are highlighted (13:40). At the Marshall Center in Huntsville, Alabama (13:50), space flight conditions are simulated. Engineers float underwater to work with a partial model of the mount (14:25). Solar panels and solar cells (14:46) under assembly. The flight of Apollo IV (15:12) which delivered greater confidence for future programs as it tested the Saturn V launch vehicle which would send astronauts to the moon (15:49). The launch team for Apollo IV is seen hard at work (16:11). A close shot of the Saturn V follows (16:29). The craft takes off as the engines are ignited (16:44). Picturesque shots show the bright blue marble of planet Earth falling behind the craft (17:42) as each stage separates. One of the many tracking stations is shown (18:18). Ships (18:21) and aircraft were also used for tracking (18:26). The Command Module floats after splash down (18:46). Produced for NASA by A-V Corp. (19:30). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
