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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This color film from the early 1980’s addresses the need for and development of NASA’s Space Shuttle program. We are taken through all the reasons the Shuttle’s satellite-placing capabilities will help our relationship with the planet earth (from resource detection to hurricane tracking), and then presented with a showcase of Rockwell International’s contributions to rocketry and space travel, including building and testing the Shuttle’s three main engines. Written and directed by Robert Durham, cinematography and editing by Brainard Miller, narrated by Mario Machado. Produced by Rockwell International’s Rocketdyne Division. The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011, launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Operational missions launched numerous satellites, interplanetary probes, the Hubble Space Telescope, conducted science experiments in orbit, and participated in construction and servicing of the International Space Station (ISS). Four fully operational orbiters were initially built: Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, and Atlantis. Of these, two were lost in mission accidents: Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003. A fifth operational orbiter, Endeavour, was built in 1991 to replace Challenger. The Space Shuttle was retired from service upon the conclusion of Atlantis's final flight on July 21, 2011. Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate involved in aircraft, the space industry, defense and commercial electronics, components in the automotive industry, printing presses, avionics and industrial products. At its peak Rockwell International was No. 27 on the Fortune 500 list, with assets of over $8 billion, sales of $27 billion and 115,000 employees. The conglomerate ceased to exist by 2001. 00:17 FOCUS frames with Rockwell International logos 00:23 Apollo Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), Earth viewed from Command Module 00:53 Aerial view of crowded urban area, vehicle traffic 01:14 Flora and fauna 01:43 Space Shuttle Columbia on launchpad 01:56 Mission control, countdown begins 02:18 Shuttle lifts off 02:27 TITLE CARD 02:33 Saturn V rocket on launchpad, taking off 02:41 Skylab in orbit 02:46 Scientists, engineers design Space Shuttle 02:54 Saturn V rocket S-1C separation 03:07 Animation of Space Shuttle in orbit, reentry 04:05 Shuttle landing 04:10 Engineers perform maintenance 04:31 Astronauts aboard Shuttle in zero gravity 04:50 Narrator demonstrates Shuttle model 05:30 Animation of satellite being placed in orbit 05:38 The planet Jupiter 05:41 Engineers assemble satellite 05:46 Satellite imagery of earth 05:54 Workers drill for oil, man inspects pine tree 06:23 Cargo ship at sea 06:31 Satellite imagery of hurricane in Gulf of Mexico 06:45 Peaches picked, crated 06:53 Boeing-Stearman Model 75 crop dusting 06:59 Fishing boats in harbor, men hoist fishing nets 07:09 Man looks through microscope 07:17 Scientist works with beakers 07:25 Space Shuttle gliding down after reentry 07:46 Narrator returns 08:03 Engineers monitor computers, equipment 08:26 Narrator stands beside the largest rocket engine ever built (the F-1) outside Rockwell International’s Rocketdyne Division in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California 08:51 Rockwell engineering achievements; F-1 engine, J-2 engine, LEM in orbit above the Moon 09:01 Atlas, Thor, Jupiter, Redstone rockets launching 09:20 Man at computer aided design console designs Space Shuttle engine 09:30 Shuttle engine testing, gimbaling 10:19 Shuttle engine components manufactured at Rocketdyne 11:23 Narrator and technicians in lab wearing lab coats, hats 11:45 Man dozes while floating in backyard pool, awakens in empty pool 12:06 Amtrak EMD SDP40F locomotive pulls passenger train around bend 12:30 Shuttle engines testing at Rocketdyne’s Santa Susana Field Laboratory, and National Space Technology Lab (Stennis Space Center) 12:10 Engines installed in Shuttle at Kennedy Space Center 13:21 Space Shuttle on crawler-transporter moving to launch site 13:56 CREDITS We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? 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
