"SCIENCE IN SPACE" EARLY 1960s SPACE EXPLORATION FILM SPUTNIK & EXPLORER VANGUARD ROCKET 12494

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This short National Academy of Sciences educational film from the early 1960s, part of the Planet Earth series, gives viewers a look at how satellites are placed into orbit and the importance they play in advancing technology, science, and space exploration. The film opens with footage of a rocket at a launch pad and men in the control room preparing for liftoff. The rocket blasts off into night (01:05). An illustration shows Alexander the Great using griffins to get to space (01:53). Another illustration shows Jules Verne’s space capsule. Viewers see photographs of the rhesus monkey that was sent into space aboard a U.S. rocket. A radar dish tracks a sounding rocket through the air (03:14). A man works on a satellite (04:01). A truck hauls a large rocket (possibly a Vanguard rocket) to the launch site. The rocket is lifted into position and men pump fuel into the rocket. Footage shows a failed rocket launch, as the rocket explodes just after its boosters ignite (05:10). Two men work on assembling a satellite in a laboratory (06:00). One man works on an eight-ounce tape recorder to broadcast noise back to Earth. A man puts on a satellite’s magnesium shell cover. There is an illustration of Sputnik 3 and Explorer 3 (08:00). Another man moves solar cells on the Explorer 6 satellite. Viewers see tests conducted on a rocket’s nose for ejecting a satellite into space. A Vanguard three-stage rocket takes off with a satellite (09:10). Animation is used to show how the rocket continues into space with the various rocket stages cutting out and falling away. A small rocket spins and pushes the satellite into orbit during the final stage. Viewers see an animation depicting how a satellite orbits Earth (11:24). The first Vanguard rocket is launched in 1958 (11:44). A radar dish locates a satellite. Two men sit in a radar station and monitor signals. Volunteers use telescopes to locate and record the paths of satellites in orbit (13:15). The film shows a special camera at one of the international chain of Optical Observation Stations (14:26). A photograph shows the tracked path of Sputnik 3; another shows Vanguard 2 in 1959. At a computing center, men monitor an IBM 704 computer used for computing tracking data of satellites (15:48). There is a shot of what appears to be another Optical Observation Station located in what looks like the southwest U.S. (17:00). Scientists compute atmospheric density in a room (17:45). Animation is used to show how a satellite in orbit records micrometeorites (18:48). The film then shows the first weather image ever transmitted from a satellite, (from Explorer 6), which shows cloud cover over the central Pacific Ocean (19:30). A man goes to sketch the Van Allen radiation belt on a blackboard in a room (21:11). Men watch a space probe launch from inside the control room. A photograph taken by the third Soviet space probe shows the far side of the moon (23:30). The film uses more illustrations and animations to show projections of future lunar missions. A man sits at a control station monitoring radio signals (25:40). A solar physicist uses a large telescope to examine the Sun. The film shows a map of the stars, then another space probe taking off from a launch pad and flying through the air on its way to space, concluding the film.
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[@ebfilho1]

This episode, found just by chance on Periscope, took me back in time (60 years!!!!), when I was a kid amazed by space exploration and science! A wonderful recall of old times...

[@QNFee]

how come the rocket in this video can do 140 miles in 5 minutes after launch ? that is like 1600mph .

[@themodsify]

It's so real boomer! Thank you for leaving us Gen xers such a real world!!

[@booklover6753]

@@QNFee The acceleration is enormous.

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

We know outer space is 100% fake. It's scientificly impossible to put people and objects into a Second Law of Thermodynamics violation.

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

@@themodsify Tons of space bots in these comments. I'm surprised the bots aren't trying to dupe people into buying Bitcoin.

[@marc-andrebrunet5386]

All they said in the last 5 minutes became extremely true ! So beautiful to see this now.. It's like being in the future !🤘👨‍🏫👍

[@mig_21bison]

The man's space journey is soooo incredible...

[@tonyminehan7144]

Born in 1953, I remember sputnik passing overhead and how concerned my parents were. I was fascinated, my older sister said nothing, but you never ask your older sisters opinion !!!

[@charliepearce8767]

Haha...never !

[@DJ-Brownie-UK]

@@charliepearce8767 probably timed it with a known comet or more likely had too explain the test flight burning like an unnatural fireball in the sky

[@DJ-Brownie-UK]

hhaahahahah FIREBALL XL5 was born - u couldnt make it up

[@themodsify]

YES YES!! GREAT JOB BOOMER! THANK YOU FOR BELIEVING IN REAL SCIENCE! YOU CONTINUE WITH THE COVID MASK IM SURE! THANK YOU!

[@romanmartinez3701]

What's more amazing is that you can use KZbin and the comment section. Most older people I know fumble with phones and PCs

[@Limit5482]

I’m still in disbelief of this technological progression was so fast. It’s like a mix of advanced and archaic technology mixed together

[@lilliansteele7165]

I saw this as a small child. And remembered the stuff about willpower and also the theme song.

[@Pgcmoore]

outstanding!!!

[@shyamasingh9020]

One of the best sci-tech documentary film with well articulated conceptual content, connected contexts underlying historical awareness about hidden arts of the hard sciences highlighting pure purpose specific applications domains engineered soft systems analysis and dynamic development integrated production ready environment variegated present state of the affairs shaping anchored approaches aligned futures orbits shifting world viewpoints, values judgements and virtues.

[@allgood6760]

Amazing!.. thanks👍🇳🇿

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[@hckyplyr9285]

I agree with Mark Sykes this is from late 1959. Those pressure suits were really early Mk 1A David Clark models being tested for the X-15 in 1959. The Mercury suits were improvements on that. Might be from early 60 but not beyond that.

[@DJ-Brownie-UK]

fireball XL5

[@dennispickard7743]

Get a life guys ,it’s all bs

[@rogm8577]

​@@dennispickard7743Always some attention seeking idiot isnt there?

[@catsruleacbanonogismanbo6107]

Cool!

[@stevenpilling5318]

And Vanguard I still remains in orbit, the oldest manmade object in space.

[@whirledpeas3477]

I didn't know that 👍

[@bobritasue]

@@whirledpeas3477 lol

[@hdgboy]

I was three and a half months old when the first Sputnik was launched into space in 1957.

[@chasingamurderer]

These are the smartest men that ever lived

[@DJ-Brownie-UK]

sick basterds animal cruelty , the look of dread in that monkeys eyes was devastating :(

[@bobritasue]

its bastard i think and yep < sick ones are media and fake news reporters, covid fans

[@bobritasue]

humans will take over and run earth much better soon

[@swedichboy1000]

Probably just the notion of nostalgia, but the 50s and 60s always felt so far ahead, always optimistic of the future and what awaits humanity. These days, it feels so stagnant and pessimistic, even though our current technology should be superior to what they had in those earlies decades.

[@patsmith6867]

20:43 that looks like Clyde Tombaugh the man who discovered Pluto .

[@DJ-Brownie-UK]

did he have any inspiration from his mate mickey, donald and goofy from the other studio over the road😆😆😆

[@DJ-Brownie-UK]

those tiny electronic components from about the 1990s at 6:08

[@teekaytrailers2270]

I was in still in my dads bag when he was in baghdad

[@DJ-Brownie-UK]

whilst bagging up smack for grandad saddams bank bag

[@LordDeBahs]

satelites can be seen durring twilight by naked eye ? can you post video ?

[@NTRSN-Archive]

A tape recorder in space . I think there gonna be a bit wow and flutter .

[@kraziivan_]

"Today satellites can stay in space...so you can shit post from the top of a mountain in Kenya"

[@gonebamboo4116]

Undersea cables more likely

[@bobritasue]

@@gonebamboo4116 sats not working no more lol

[@marksykes8722]

1959.

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally released in 1960.

[@thomthumbe]

Octal as opposed to todays hexadecimal was king back then.

[@garyrembert5756]

7:40 Sputnik 3, TDIL

[@gonebamboo4116]

Did Periscope have anything on the Van Allen radiation belts?

[@gonebamboo4116]

Woah, there it is @21:00 According to NASA, they haven't been able to figure out how to get a human through that deadly zone.

[@johnbiggscr]

GoneBamboo nasa said nothing of the sort.

[@gonebamboo4116]

@@johnbiggscr My bad, it was "American satellites" @ 21:02

[@gkprivate433]

I remember saturday morning cartoons, space ghost, the fanstastic four etc. Not stupid dumb smurfs. I also remember NASA had short maybe 30 second or 1 minute clips showing high tech stuff that just fascinated me. Who know what actually drove or influenced me, but years later, BS and MS in engineering and math. Air Force Captain, working now for decades in aerospace. Folks do leave some smart stuff and books and encyclopedias or nature books or whatever laying around. Show your kids the starts. Get them a pair of binoculars or small telescope. Give them a chance to maybe get interested in something besides just twiddling thumbs and playing video games

[@ing.pacolh7458]

i was here

[@LordDeBahs]

19:27 wtf lol

[@kiduzimaki2135]

5:05

[@illumencouk]

"Man wants to know. When he ceases to want to know, he is no longer Man." - so it was in the late sixties then?

[@bobritasue]

2020

[@robp3475]

they look like they're doing a garage science experiiment

[@gonebamboo4116]

@ 27:29 " . . . is no longer man." Humanism at is fines.

[@tnwhiskey68]

It's funny how fake everything was done back then and everybody bought it

[@nooberbutter]

what do you mean?

[@robertmcintire9776]

The first American astronauts who went into space ,such as Malcolm Scott Carpenter, wore silver colored space suits.

[@chasingamurderer]

Back when men were brilliant

[@marc-andrebrunet5386]

🎯you right 👨‍🏫👍

[@joeldurrington]

I’m gat

[@SatishKumar-tt4bi]

Real father of rocket is tipu sultan of Mysore the indian king 1779 ADy

[@kywildcat37]

😂😂

[@PatyM00N]

24:46 The reason we could never go to the moon.

[@odoublegfpv701]

Crazy how people used to believe in this stuff

[@animationspace8550]

What stuff?

[@almightyziz]

@@animationspace8550 this stuff

[@JesusFreekJiuJitsu]

Cartoons. Fooling people into believing anything.

[@bombgiggity1460]

The cartoons made me cringe.

[@whirledpeas3477]

How come there's only people like you on KZbin? Embarrassed to share your thoughts IRL ?

[@Spacemanwestside]

The moon and stars used to look fake back in the day because the technology to fake it was shitty. Old cameras is what turned the moon and stars into drawings huh? Ok blind fools

[@booklover6753]

@@whirledpeas3477 Posting on line keeps them from hearing the laughter.

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

@@whirledpeas3477 Because we are not nonsense narrative generator bots. Go dupe some people into buying Bitcoin.

[@proverbs2522]

All right class, can we all say 'propaganda'? Such nonsense, I can't even believe how people have yet to put 2 and 2 together. There is no way the 2nd LAW of thermodynamics can be broken. A gassy atmosphere cannot exist next to a vacuum without a barrier or the gas will suck away from the earth. Gravity is not a reason to deny this law. The vacuum would pull the gas into itself so gravity would have to be fighting that. It doesn't because that isn't what gravity is or does. It is so simple that NASA prays no one catches them on it and demands proof of this vacuum they've lied about. We are all forced to financially support space agencies that have no proof in the claim that space is a vacuum. Nature abhors a vacuum and that has been a scientific fact for millennia. Our physical world doesn't change because a group of people who want God dead in the hearts of the world says it does. Nature abhors a vacuum, plus the 2nd law of thermodynamics states vacuums have to be made and contained in a box or else it sucks the pressure back into it. Common sense people!

[@booklover6753]

Your scientific illiteracy is evident. "Stupid is a condition, ignorance is a choice ". You possess an abundance of both.

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

The amounts of outer space narrative generator bots is insane.

[@mikevarozza403]

Control rooms always look fake. Bunch of random dials and knobs.

[@LiLi-or2gm]

Imagine what they'd think if you walked in with an iPad running a space simulation app! That one tablet could replace 2/3rds of the stuff in one of those control centers.

[@LiLi-or2gm]

Patrick Glaser I beg to differ. My headphones and microphones are definitely analog!

[@QNFee]

and those controll rooms are full with drinks on the consoles , imagine one sliding the papers around and drop a cup of drink during a dangerous space mission kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqbFiXmframCa9E check gene krantz his drink

[@gonebamboo4116]

@@LiLi-or2gm To bad NASA lost all that technology to get to the moon and it's to painful to get it back.