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This 1970 documentary narrated by Frank McGee, gives viewers a look at the Apollo 11 mission as well as a brief history of early space exploration leading up to the 1969 moon landing mission. The film begins with Frank McGee talking to the camera about the beginning of mankind’s space exploration. Viewers see an illustration from a Jules Verne novel and clips from several early motion pictures showing people traveling to the moon (02:58). The film shows a photograph of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (04:19), as well as Robert Goddard. Footage shows Goddard working in a laboratory and then testing a rocket launch in New Mexico. Nazis test V2 rockets at the Baltic Sea test site Peenemunde (05:14). At New Mexico’s White Sands proving ground (06:03), a rocket is launched. The film shows an undeveloped Cape Kennedy (06:31), followed by a failed rocket launch sometime later (the rocket explodes right as it takes off). The film then shows Sputnik, civilians looking at space through telescopes, and footage of the failed rocket launch of Project Vanguard (07:40). American astronauts train using an accelerator machine to test how many Gs a man can withstand (09:15). Alan Shepherd speaks to the camera about being first man to go into space (10:07). The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbits the earth in 1961 (10:57). Shepherd climbs out of a transport van and rides an elevator at the launch pad (11:45). Men help him climb into the space capsule (11:45). John Glenn boards a transport van and then is shown climbing into the spacecraft at launch pad 14. The rocket takes off from the launch site and footage shows Glenn as he moves into space. People cheer on a nearby beach. Footage shows Glenn as he rides in a parade at Washington, DC followed by a ticker-tape parade in New York City. Viewers see the new spacecraft being designed for Project Gemini (14:53). Footage from space shows a spaceship docking and what appears to be Edward White during the first space walk (16:12). A capsule parachutes into the ocean. Several astronauts climb out of a plane and greet family members (16:50). In January 1967 at Complex 34, the Saturn I-B launch site (17:11), Edward White and Roger Chaffey take part in a full-scale simulation for the Apollo space mission. Footage shows the charred cockpit where the men died from a fire that broke out during the training simulation. Viewers see the funeral service for the astronauts. Footage shows engineers working on parts of engines and spacecraft to be used in the Apollo 11 mission (19:17). A new space capsule lunar module is towed out of a hanger. There is a good shot (through a telescope) of the moon (20:50). Animation is used to show Russia’s Luna in orbit, followed by pictures of the lunar surface from NASA’s Ranger. Viewers see a Surveyor on the surface of the moon. A manned Apollo 8 rocket takes off and orbits the moon, giving viewers a look at the craters on the surface. This is followed by footage taken during Apollo 10’s mission. There is an aerial shot of Apollo 11’s launch pad (14:43). Viewers then see the men of the mission: Michael Collins, Edwin Aldrin, Jr., and Neil Armstrong. The astronauts ride up the elevator at the launch pad. Rocket boosters ignite and the spacecraft takes off. Crowds watch the rocket as it ascends into the atmosphere. Footage shows the astronauts inside the spacecraft as they travel to the moon. The lunar landing craft Eagle unlocks from Columbia and moves towards the moon (27:48). Footage from the point of view of Eagle shows Aldrin and Armstrong as they guide the ship to the lunar surface. Armstrong descends a ladder to the moon’s surface (29:52), where he says his immortalized words, “one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” Aldrin follows Armstrong onto the surface of the moon. There is footage from the camera on the ship that shows as the two astronauts remove the commemorative plaque from the ship that says, “We Come In Peace.” The men then raise the American flag (32:55). President Richard Nixon speaks on the phone from the Oval Office to the two astronauts as they wait on the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility at Tranquility Base (34:04). Footage from the point of view of Eagle shows the spacecraft taking off from the Moon’s surface (35:11). Footage shows Eagle in space, orbiting the moon, followed by photographs of the moon’s surface, concluding the film.
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28 авг 2019
