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This informational film titled “Manned Space Flight: Quarterly Report No. 15 October, November, December 1966” was made by NASA in 1966. The film is part of a larger Manned Space Flight series and chronicles the completion of manned Gemini space flights with the Gemini 12 mission and how NASA built upon knowledge from these missions for the Apollo-Saturn missions.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Logo (0:09). Completion of the Gemini Program (0:30). Astronauts James Lovell and Edwin Aldrin arrive for launch of the Gemini 12 (0:37). Preparations for the first Apollo Earth orbital mission and testing of Apollo Saturn 5 hardware (0:47). Command room for the Gemini program (0:59). Astronauts enter the cabin of the spacecraft (1:05). Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) training and preparations of the Gemini 12 pilots including underwater simulations for (1:26). Gemini 12 launched at Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 14 (2:04). The Agena Target Vehicle or Gemini Agena Target Vehicle (GATV) in Earth’s orbit (2:15). First photography of a solar eclipse from space (2:34). Astronaut Aldrin carries out EVA (2:44). Other mission objectives and onboard experiments (3:45). Agena tether and its effects on gravity’s pull (4:03). Retro fire of Gemini 12 and spacecraft’s ascent through the Earth’s atmosphere (4:42). Splashdown of Gemini 12 in the Atlantic Ocean (5:11). Apollo Saturn I program (5:29). Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 34 (5:44). Tests on finished Apollo Saturn I hardware reveals issues with the engines (5:55). Altitude tests in the Kennedy Space Center’s Altitude Chamber revealed the need to change out service propulsion system’s fuel tanks - something similar had happened at North American Aviation in Downey, California (6:37). Issues in the environmental control unit which was responsibility of North American Aviation but had been subcontracted to Air Research Los Angeles (7:06). Crew training for the first manned Apollo flight (7:58). Crew members Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chafee participate in altitude chamber tests (8:08). Additional crew training at the Apollo Mission Simulator (8:28). Preparations for first Lunar Module Mission (8:40). Arrival of launch vehicle components to be erected at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 37 (8:42). Ascent state of the first flight article lunar module was moved into the final assembly area at Grumman Aircraft in Bethpage, New York (8:55). Stages of manufacture of spacecraft and launch vehicles for Apollo rendezvous and docking missions (9:26). Chrysler fabrication work at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana (9:58). Liquid hydrogen tank fabrication at Douglas Aircraft Huntington Beach, California (10:11). Final systems qualification for Apollo rendezvous and coking spacecraft (10:27). First parachute test - footage from onboard camera (10:34). Advanced service propulsion system testing at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility (11:02). Launch and boost vibration tests at Manned Spacecraft Center (11:22). Apollo-Saturn V program (11:31). Obstacles and set-backs to program after testing at North American Downey due to methanol/ methyl alcohol (11:39). Spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center for use on the first unmanned Apollo-Saturn V mission (12:42). Saturn-V launch vehicle manufacturing and post-manufacturing inspection at North American Aviation in Seal Beach, California (12:52). Acceptance testing at NASA’s Mississippi Test Facility (13:41). Firing tests as part of the check-out phase of spacecraft (14:09). Third Saturn V first stage flight article built by Boeing successfully passes its acceptance firing tests at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama (14:49). J2 engine tests at Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tullahoma, Tennessee (15:20). Facilities to handle first Apollo-Saturn V mission being prepared at Kennedy Space Center at pad A launch complex 39 (15:46). Vehicle Assembly Building (16:15). Space sciences to evaluate lunar landing sites by the Lunar Orbiter Program managed by NASA’s Langley Research Center (16:47). Lunar photography obtained by Lunar Orbiter II - close-up view of the crater Copernicus (17:06). Orbital workshop and display of operated Saturn I experimental second-stage displayed at Marshall Space Flight Center (17:18). Construction of developmental airlock hardware at McDonnell Aircraft in St. Louis, Missouri (17:48). Report summary (18:56).
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