Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Browse our products on Amazon: This film titled “Manned Space Flight: A Year of Qualification Testing” was made by NASA sometime in 1965. The film is part of a larger Manned Space Flight series and chronicles NASA’s efforts in qualification testing of techniques and hardware needed for Apollo and Saturn spacecrafts to put men in space. NASA logo (0:10). History of manned space flight - beginning with the Mercury program, filling hardware pipelines, then testing of major space vehicle systems for Gemini and Apollo programs (0:35). Next phase - qualification of the hardware and the development of operational techniques (0:59). The Gemini Program (1:28). Flight operations (1:38). Gemini spacecraft by McDonnell Aircraft St. Louis, Missouri and launch vehicle by Martin Company Baltimore, Maryland under USAF contract (1:46). Footage manned Gemini mission - separation first st
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