" A YEAR OF QUALIFICATION TESTING " 1965 NASA FILM PREPARATIONS FOR APOLLO PROGRAM 19104

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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 stage captured by tracking camera on ground (2:01). Crew training procedures (2:41). Operational flexibility increase exemplified by flights Gemini VII and Gemini VI (3:04). Gemini VII launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Complex 19 (3:22). Erection Gemini VI on the same launch pad (3:49). Houston Mission Control Center built by Philco. (4:06). Worldwide Tracking Network under NASA’s Office of Tracking and Data Acquisition for conducting two simultaneous missions - data cycle NASA’s Office of Tracking and Data Acquisition, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mission Control Center (4:18). Comparing Gemini missions to Apollo Lunar Mission and reentry with Mercury Spacecraft (5:10). Reentry illustrated by footage from early Gemini flight (5:33). Recovery Gemini VII and VI by Navy Recovery Units (5:41). Accomplished program objectives (5:51). Apollo VII astronauts Wally Schirra, Walter Cunningham, Donn F. Eisele (5:59). Development of Saturn I - ground testing (6:13). Sensing and valving equipment for propulsion systems (7:18). First-stage propellant behavior illustrated by onboard camera footage (7:29). Use of liquid hydrogen engines, separation of first-stage and ignition and burning of liquid hydrogen engines illustrated by onboard camera footage (7:39). Saturn I and launch of Pegasus Meteor Detection Satellite (7:53). Role of data from the Pegasus used by NASA’s Office of Advanced Research and Technology (8:03). Apollo Uprated Saturn I launch John F. Kennedy Space Center Complex 34 (8:25). Objectives of mission (8:36). Extensive testing of Uprated Saturn I at North American Aviation Downey, California facility - water-drop test of command module (9:35). Static firings at White Sands Test Facility New Mexico (10:04). Manufacture and qualification of big parts by Collins Radio Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Marquardt Corporation Van Nuys, California, Honeywell Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Rocketdyne (10:12). Apollo Launch Escape System tests at Army’s White Sands Missile Range (10:42). Chrysler qualification tests at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility New Orleans, Louisiana (11:13). Unit vibration tests Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, Alabama (11:25). Qualification of small parts manufactured by IBM and Air Research Phoenix, Arizona (11:38). Spacecraft and launch vehicles manufacturing and pre-flight check-out (12:15). Accomplishments in preparations for Apollo Saturn V (12:37). Development and qualification work for subsystems by Pratt & Whitney East Hartford, Connecticut, AC Electronics Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Bell AeroSystems and TRW Buffalo, New York and Redondo Beach, California, Grumman Aircraft (12:52). Prototype Apollo
spacesuit testing at Manned Spacecraft Center (13:22). Suit assembly by International Latex Dover, Delaware (13:41). Ground testing for Saturn-V program at Boeing and North American (13:52). Saturn V static firings (14:22). Structural and dynamics testing at Marshall Space Flight Center, Douglas Aircraft, North American (15:19). Manufacturing flight hardware (16:20). First Flight Lunar Module manufactured Grumman Aircraft, Bethpage, New York (16:43). Saturn V static firings at Marshall (16:57). Ground support facilities (17:22). Damaged exterior of Boeing testing facility by Hurricane Betsy (17:39). Transformation Mississippi test facility (17:50). Kennedy Space Center’s Industrial Area (18:16). Central Instrumentation facility (18:31). Saturn V launch complex (18:42). Launch control center (19:04). Launch pad A and B (19:14). Umbilical towers (19:23). First mobile servicing structure (19:27). Future Planning Lunar Exploration Summer Conference Falmouth, Massachusetts (19:57). Summary (20:16).
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[@mjproebstle]

these videos are amazing!! it is awesome to be able to see sub systems and support equipment as everything quickly came together. a lot was going on at once. cheers!!

[@drmarkintexas-400]

🏆🏆🏆👍🇺🇲🙏. Thank you for sharing

[@ZacVaper]

I never heard it called Gem_a_knee; I always knew it as Gem_a_nigh.

[@8wayspeed505]

Crazy speak

[@ZacVaper]

@@8wayspeed505 I know, right!

[@mjproebstle]

we are the knights who say…..NEE!!

[@8wayspeed505]

@@mjproebstle LMAO

[@user-zc8sd8jx8s]

the soviet "big encyclopedic dictionary" provided both variants btw.

[@jaminova_1969]

What is so impressive is that in 60 years, humans went from "Manned Flight" to "Space Flight"! Thank You for preserving these historic films!

[@marvintpandroid2213]

Orville Wright lived to see the speed of sound broken.

[@ausstraya9120]

Even more impressive is walking on the moon 53 years ago and not being able to return. Hmmmmm

[@MrMisterock]

God bless their souls.

[@rdallas81]

Amen

[@rdallas81]

God bless you for blessing.. That reveals your Faith. We are living at the end of the age. See whats happening everywhere across the world? Perilous times are among us.. Wars and rumors of wars and nations rising against nations and kingdoms against kingdom and plagues and pestilences and famine are here. The age of communication connects the world making us "all neighbors". The Gospels are being preached amongst all nations:

[@EdwinYuen]

I don't think this film is from 1965. It shows footage from the Gemini 7 Gemini 8 rendezvous which occurred in 1966 and the lunar lander configuration is one after 1965.

[@dennismartin4659]

Gemini 7 and 8 didn't rendezvous? That was 6A and 7 in December 1965. Gemini 8 was Armstrong/Scott rendezvous was with Agena, a mission with critical failure of the stuck thruster that Armstrong saved by early manual firing of RCS ring.

[@minirock000]

So what does that tell you? The people labeling the videos don't know what they are talking about. They also expect people to pay money to use the footage which is stupid. These are government videos, in the public domain anybody can have them. They are lazy and are trying to make money from something freely available that they didn't spend any money on nor did they make them.

[@carlhull8276]

Folklore were smarter then... they had to be

[@tumbleweed2240]

Too bad NASA destroyed the plans on how they got to the moon 😅😂

[@tumbleweed2240]

@@CNCmachiningisfun I’m doing quite well, actually. Get a brain and think critically.

[@ausstraya9120]

Yes indeed. 53 years later and they still can't return. Such BS all of it.

[@tommunist10]

You realize they returned multiple times in the late 60s and early 70s, and have footage of them driving a rover driving around the moon in ‘71 during Apollo 15, right? “They haven’t been back in 53 years mannnn.” Lol. This dude doesn’t have any interest in this whatsoever. Straight up just *doesn’t* know about other Apollo missions, yet he’s calling BS as if his word has *any* weight whatsoever. The internet, man.

[@tumbleweed2240]

@@tommunist10 are you serious??? 😂🤣🤣

[@larry7124]

Not only that NASA or the new NASA has forgotten how

[@asep.acep..junaedi9005]

INA No AT Number.

[@thomasprendergast6315]

The military jargon and presentation. Yikes

[@ricardo8891]

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[@rolandgo6744]

Imagine people are made to believe that men went to the moon and back? We couldn't even explore the deepest sea just barely 10 miles deep how much more the moon quarter of a million miles away in complete vacuum of space, with a rudimentary computer and guidance system that time?

[@8wayspeed505]

Lies lies and more lies. All built on a lie and a multi billion dollar budget. All compartmentalized to hide the bullshit

[@darinpringle5611]

Surprisingly the sea is much harder to explore. Even military submarines can't go more than 500m deep before imploding. Airspace the pressure of goes from 1 atmosphere to 0. That's overcoming a pressure difference of 1 at the most. But in the sea the pressure can get to over 1000 Depending on depth. Also "exploring" the sea means you have to search and map the whole thing. "Exploring" space means getting somewhere specific. If we use "explore" the way we use it for space but for the sea, by getting to the bottom of the Mariana trench, I can confidently say we've already done that. And if you do the calculations for space you just need to get up to speed and at the right angle and you're pretty much good. I'm overly simplifying. And I'm no expert but this combined with the funding And interest that NASA was given at the time. Makes sense to me

[@tumbleweed2240]

It’s become an iconic lie to so many ignorant Americans who refuse to look at any criticism of Apollo.

[@tumbleweed2240]

@@CNCmachiningisfun the Apollo 11 news conference.

[@8wayspeed505]

@@CNCmachiningisfun dude it's kinda mute point, here is a proof Buzz Aldrin to 8yo kid "We Didnt Go"

[@asep.acep..junaedi9005]

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[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

If man was meant to go into outer space, he would have been born with rockets on his back. 😎🙃

[@Krzysztof.Polerowicz]

Ciąg dalszy bajek sci-fi dla naiwnych

[@0neIntangible]

I understand that the pork barrel politics were necessary for these programs to be approved & implemented, but it seems that so much money was just plain wasted and caused many mistakes and delays.