Born in 1992. My favourite toy was a replica Space Shuttle, which included a separable orbiter with a functional Canadarm, and possibly a satellite? I still envy you though; I would have loved more space-related toys.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver I recall mine was emblazoned Columbia all over the box. You can still get the '40th Anniversary' kit which is the Columbia, but it's almost as if printing the name on the box is disrespectful. It's a shame the newer iterations of the Revell shuttle kits have either labelled them as Discovery or Atlantis, but to be fair they do allow you to create other versions and offer decals of Challenger and Columbia. I only wish I had bought more of them at the time - always had that, I'll get it later mentality. You can get other kits still in production from the 70s but space seems to have fallen out of favor. Gemini being an example.
My dad was born in 1967, I have seen a video of him when he was barely a year old. Considering the fact that this video is as old as that, I’m quite impressed by the clarity.
The video was recreated, placing new copies of the original footage (most of it in HD) over the original. It is cut the same, respecting original editing. Framing was adapted for 16:9 when possible, without cropping any important image details.
Beautiful re-creation! Couldn't help but notice how defensive of "manned" spaceflight the narration is. Robotic satellites can take photographs of the Earth, too. Planning for the first Landsat was probably already underway.
@@RetroSpaceHD From a purely pragmatic point of view, the principle justification at that time for putting human beings in orbit was that they know whether or not it would be worth photographing what they are passing over. Corona was supposed to bring back pictures of Soviet installations, but mostly they brought back blurry images of clouds. Blue Gemini was a secret program to militarize Gemini for intelligence gathering, which is why many photographs from the public civilian program are still classified. (They were testing how effective orbital espionage could be, utilizing various targets, etc.)
Between 1966 and 1967 NASA sent five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft to the Moon. The image was taken of crater Copernicus on 24 November 1966 by the Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft.
@@fredamber8238 Lunar Orbiter 2, wow! My guess was an early Surveyor mission. Thanks for the input... I'm on my way to look up more of the Lunar Orbiters' images.
"Lt. Gen. Tom Stafford - Project Gemini" is a YT video wherein Stafford compares the rides on different launch vehicles, inc. Titan II, Saturn IB and Saturn V.
Yes it was interesting from engineering point, it was magnificent piece of work. I have somewhere on my old HDD blueprints how they sealed it, from what i recall most pressure seals are nowadays constructed in similar way.
@shannonjaensch3705 - Swivel bearing joints on pressure suits were not unusual. SR-71 crews have always used this feature on their suits since the '60s, as well as U-2 pilots.