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First 25 years of NASA - early space travel 1958 - 1983

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BOF6284695
Video title
First 25 years of NASA - early space travel 1958 - 1983
Date
1983 AD (C20th AD)
Video description

Historic footage of the first 25 years of NASA- the successes and the failures. Interviews provide valuable insight into the motivations behind our space race with the soviets. The launch of Russian satellite Sputnik on October 4,1957; the first dog Laika (Soviet) in space; NACA Space Research, Explorer-6; and still photographs of various Space projects. Tiros 1 experimental weather satellite, Microgravity simulators, Echo 1 passive communications satellite, and the first U.S. manned spaceflight Mercury. The seven Mercury astronauts are: Captain Donald Slayton, Lt. Commander Alan Shepard, Lt. Commander Walter Schirra, Captain Virgil Grissom, Lt. Col. John Glenn Jr., Captain Leroy Cooper Jr, and Lt. Malcolm Scott Carpenter. Also included are an ongoing interview (throughout the title) with NASA's first Administrator Keith Glennan, the first flight in 1961 with Enos, a chimpanzee, President Kennedy's speech in Washington about the Space Program, Project Gemini - the 2-manned space flights, and the recovery of Virgil Grissom from splash down.

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BOF AMERICAN HISTORY FOOTAGE / Bridgeman Images
Video keywords
1950s / 20th century / 1960s / 1970s / 1980s / astronomy / cosmonaut / colour / discovery / speech / space (the) / USA / North America / America (continent) / star / rocket / inventor / invention / Kennedy John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) / moon / satellite imagery / research / science / travel / galaxy / launch / spacecraft
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Largest available format 640 × 480 px 4,295 MB
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