Manned Flight Awareness / 1969: Year of Fulfillment
Manned Flight Awareness / 1969: Year of Fulfillment
Master 1808 - Tape 1 Edited program regarding the numerous technological & scientific advances ushered forth by NASA efforts, all the while hedging futures on advances down the pike, especially the inevitable Apollo lunar landing. Please don't cut our budget, Mr. Congressman! Features wooden introduction by Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman.
Manned Flight Awareness / 1969: Year of Fulfillment
FO/FI CU NASA seal. MSs Apollo 8 commander, former astronaut & USAF Colonel FRANK BORMAN wearing blue suit & black tie, standing beside battered space capsule, speaking to the audience: "Hello, I'm Frank Borman. Before we see the regular feature for today's program, I'd like to spend a few minutes & thank all of you on behalf of Jim Lovell, Bill Anders, and myself for the remarkable piece of machinery that you provided us in which we flew around the moon last December." Frank Borman briefly praises the NASA program, says he looks forward to the impending lunar landing of Apollo 11. "And now, let's take a look into the current activities of the Apollo program." Zooming (out) TLS crescent moon in night sky to pedestrians, billboards, signs, lights of Times Square, New York City; panning MS pedestrians walking along sidewalk, Christmas trees bedecked in lights in BG; MSs newspaper stand, people buying newspapers; TLS scrolling news ticker on building relating news of Apollo 8 lunar mission. Nice zero-g MS Apollo 8 astronauts working in space capsule. Aerial shot of lunar surface, horizon. View of earth from space, zoom in to tighter shot. Funky funhouse mirror effect (distortion) MS "astronaut" in sleek silver spacesuit walking to space capsule; rear view MS "astronaut" walking into large open hatch; panning rear view MS technicians attending to consoles in red-lit control room. Interesting MSs object flying down otherwise dim tube, hurtling toward hatch. Great sideview MS rocket afterburners kicking in. Zooming (in) MS scientist working on rocket model in cordoned-off room. CU scientist wearing protective glasses, watching extreme heat test experiment. TLS scientists removing silver cover from platform. MS test dummy buckled in capsule crashing to ground in safety test / experiment. Rear view MS two white men wearing heat shield helmets; cool MS extreme heat experiment, covering melting away; CU man welding, wearing welder's mask. MS three white men working on space capsule. MS industrial printing press printing newspapers, edition of New York World-Telegram hurtling toward camera w/ headline, "Reds Win Space Race With Man-Made Moon." MS printing press moving folded newspapers, edition of New York Mirror hurtling toward camera w/ headline, "Baby Moon Launched By Reds," followed by New York Times w/ headline regarding Sputnik launch. LS U.S. Capitol Building (Capitol Dome), overhanging tree limb in FG. TLS Eisenhower press conference, reporters standing as President DWIGHT EISENHOWER (Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ike) enters, takes to podium. Panning high angle LS Joint Session of Congress. TLS NASA suits (middle management) wearing white hard hats, looking over shoulder of working engineer. Semi-silhouette LS rocket on launch pad, dawn. Rear view TLS NASA mission control room. TLS rocket in hangar. MS red warning light on pole swirling, dawn. LS/TLSs rockets blasting off from hangar & launch pad. MS U.S. President JOHN F. KENNEDY (John Fitzgerald Kennedy, JFK) speaking to Joint Session of Congress, Vice-President LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON (LBJ) looking on, 1961. (No audio of speech)
Manned Flight Awareness / 1969: Year of Fulfillment
MSs succession of clean-cut, upstanding red-blooded American white men walking toward camera, entering building. MS/CUs men working, one sporting slick hair & white t-shirt (blue collar look). Nice MS engineering plans being unrolled on table, toward cam. MS/CUs engineers working at tables in office, using calipers, rulers, etc. Tilting MS white men (w/ one African-American & one Asian-American) dressed in suits, sitting silently-- too silently. Aerial skeletal construction site. TLS/MSs grim-faced NASA suits (mid-upper management) sitting in meeting. Panning TLS white collar men working in massive room (office). MS/CU scientist using microscope, lowering lens head. MS?CU red-hot shaped steel rolling from steaming industrial press. H/a LS engineers, drafting tables in massive open room. H/a LS/TLSs computer rooms, testing stations; TLS white men manning large computer console. MS scientist conducting experiment, taking notes. Panning MS men assembling at work stations. MS/CUs metal object spinning slowly in sphere. CU hands on drafting ruler, table. MS white women & children checking out Mercury or Gemini space capsule in space museum; MS dummy astronaut in capsule. Brief view of earth horizon from space, audio of telemetry. Zooming (out) TLS Saturn V rocket on gantry. Panning rear view LS mission control room. Traveling sideview MS white men manning consoles in mission control. Panning h/a LS men, consoles, mission control. LS Saturn V rocket on gantry. Tilting TLS rocket. TLS men walking down gantry stairs. TLS/MS hard hat men exiting launch pad gate. L/a TLS rocket on gantry. L/a MS rocket boosters. FO/FI LS rocket on gantry, dawn, gorgeous reddish-orange sky in BG. FO/FI excellent h/a TLS Saturn V rocket blasting off from launch pad. TLSs unmanned command module being hoisted from sea onto carrier deck (space craft recovery). TLS Saturn V rocket boosters during blastoff. MS astronaut ALAN BEAN wearing flight suit, walking along plank in hangar; TLS/MSs module space simulation chamber, engineers working. TLSs final systems testing, capsule upside down.
Manned Flight Awareness / 1969: Year of Fulfillment
TLS strange, oblong, puff-shaped four propeller airplane ("Aero Space---") taxiing. TLS/MSs NASA men working on capsule in hangar. Rear view MSs two astronauts in blue flight suits & bubble helmets working in capsule model. TLS Complex 34 Saturn 1-B Launch Site. MS "Warning! Controlled Area" sign on chain-locked fence gate at Cape Canaveral; nice CU chain on gate, Stop sign in BG. TLS/MSs empty gantry, building entrance, parking lot, control room at Cape Kennedy. TLS/MSs large mothballed flight equipment in hangar, security guard ambling by. TLS Apollo 8 astronauts in flight suits walking to transport taxi, 1968; TLS NASA employees & well-wishers standing, applauding; TLS NASA transport driving away. Great fast-moving aerial view of earth horizon from space. MSs Apollo VIII astronauts working in zero-g. Nice tilting TLS rocket tip to moon, night. Nice tight traveling aerial shot of pock-marked lunar surface (moon, craters; with audio of dialogue between module crew & mission control). TLSs lunar module test in space. TLS/MSs Saturn V rocket assembly in hangar. TLS/MSs U.S. Vice-President SPIRO T. AGNEW speaking to NASA mission control, using handheld transmitter. MSs U.S. President RICHARD M. NIXON (Richard Nixon, Dick Nixon, Tricky Dick) touring NASA facility, viewing outdoor exhibit, press photographers in tow. Nice swish pan. Traveling TLS employees wearing clean suits, working in clean room. MS rotating electronic rotor. Model of aerospace plane, wings extending like a F-14.
Manned Flight Awareness / 1969: Year of Fulfillment
Excellent MSs nerdy white male teenagers loading & firing off toy rocket in field, their heads craning to the sky during blastoff. Behold the technological advances partly initiated by NASA! CU medical monitors being taped to chest of white man; MS doctor using stethoscope on patient in hospital. MS nerdy white man in business suit inspecting early fuel cell. TLS white male farmer operating fuel cell powered tractor on farm. MS/CUs flammability tests being conducted (inc on arm of white lab coat while man wears it!) MS life-support system test being conducted on lunar set. TLS white men working in computer room populated by large bulky mainframe computers & data tape machines; MS finger dancing on colored light buttons; CUs Memorex data tape spinning on machine; MS print-out (printout) being produced; MS nerdy white man loading data tape computer. TLS/MS communications satellites spinning in hangars; MS white man positioning tube camera marked Sveriges Radio. MS switcher operator.
Manned Flight Awareness / 1969: Year of Fulfillment
DO NOT SELL: Satellite feed of 1968 Olympic games
Manned Flight Awareness / 1969: Year of Fulfillment
CU switcher operator. MS astronauts giving the thumbs up. Nice MS electronic capsule being subjected to centrifuge, cam mounted on centrifuge arm to dizzying effect. CU colorful fast-moving swirls on grid scope; MSs electrical engineer working at table. MS/CUs engineers working on electronics in lab. Nice low angle MS train traveling slowly along tracks, over camera; TLSs freight train pulling in rail yard (freight yard). TLS freight being loaded onto freighter ship. TLS/MS freight, packages being loaded onto cargo plane, ground loaders using conveyor that carries packages into belly. Excellent CU/ECUs precision electronic boards & circuitry. CU montage industrial drills, sanders, lathes in operation. Nice satellite photos of earth, sun passing & cloud systems moving. Time lapse LS clouds over flat field. CU radar screen. CU image of the earth on computer screen. MS man monitoring computer equipment.
Manned Flight Awareness / 1969: Year of Fulfillment
DO NOT SELL: Nifty geological satellite photos of earth land masses & bodies of water. Infra-red satellite photos of earth.
Manned Flight Awareness / 1969: Year of Fulfillment
MSs industrial scientist conducting steel experiment in lab. Interesting MS hundreds of "perfectly-shaped" ball bearings rolling on rotating plane. MS scientist displaying new space-age alloys. MS two white men wearing clean suits lifting satellite mirror in lab. MS light beaming through opening in observatory; MSs white men looking through large telescopes. MSs traditional scientists conducting experiments (beakers, flasks, test tubes, etc) in lab. MS/CUs Asian-American woman lifting lid of centrifuge, placing in test tubes. MS/CUs white male chemist using Bunsen burner, conducting experiment. TLS/MSs two white male NASA employees walking up steps to Saturn rocket under construction in hangar, entering early prototype model space station, one manning fuse box, the other sitting on futuristic seat & taking out package of processed space food. TLS solar telescope in hangar. Shaky but visually interesting shot of sun rising over earth's orbit (view from space). Color NASA illustrations of space stations in orbit. MCU scale model of rotating tube-like space station. Excellent biomedical see-through illustration of man sitting in chair, circulatory & nervous systems highlighted, followed by just the brain.
Manned Flight Awareness / 1969: Year of Fulfillment
DO NOT SELL: Satellite photo of nebula.
Manned Flight Awareness / 1969: Year of Fulfillment
Great LS sun flares erupting from the sun: elegant orange flames projecting from blackened surface. Microscope view of single cells dividing, multiplying. Color NASA illustrations of solar powered man-made satellite, followed by enormous cylindrical space station. Scale models of rockets & boosters on display, black BG. Scale model of space transport, followed by color illustration (moderately futuristic). MS/CUs machine test being conducted on transport model. Various wingless lifting body aircraft in flight: h/a MS lifting body falling from carrier; air to air shot of lifting body deploying from B-52 carrier; over the shoulder MS pilot manning controls of wingless craft; air to air shot wingless craft in flight; TLS lifting body landing; great rear view MS pilot during rapid landing of wingless craft. Photo of planet earth as viewed from moon. MS model of moon rover & astronauts on lunar set. Interesting rear view MS astronaut model standing, rear projection of traveling shot of lunar surface. Color NASA illustration of sub-surface moon station. Jump frame traveling shot (tight frame) of impact craters on moon. TLS/LSs Saturn V rocket on gantry being delivered to launch pad. NASA seal.