As a very young man, I worked for a sub contractor for Marion (who made the two 5,000 ton crawlers that carried the Big Saturn 5 rockets to the pad.) I worked on the track pad castings. Not much I know , but I felt as though I helped a little.
I think this and the one about building the infrastructure at KSC are my favorites. I'd never seen either one of them, but they really emphasize the depth of effort behind the public-facing missions. Thank you for preserving these!
Fran doing us a real public service with these videos. Fran really deserves some other awards & titles, being a senior member of IEEE is not enough. Someone give this lady a congressional gold medal & presidential medal of freedom for a career of service to revolutionizing the music industry with groovy pedals & STEM communication.
Nice and colorful film! I was 5 then and the first spaceflight I remember was Gemini 5. I made a paper cutout of the spacecraft to hang on the wall. For 7/6, I had to make another!
This movie is bringing back old memories of my childhood. I was 8 years old when Alan Shepard did his sub-orbital Mercury flight. I often talked my mom into letting me stay home from school on days when NASA launched astronauts.
That was crazy cool, Fran-- the best in your series so far. There's stuff in here I've not seen before. That's hard to to do, or so I thought! I miss those days of constant upward movement and adventure. Today is okay... but big stuff back then was pretty big. Gotta love that lunar astronaut at the end-- with the Dutch angles and Clutch Cargo music!
Fantastic video story. those were the good old days. ever since this government has cut off funds has really gone down the crapper. thank you for sharing.
I was alive during some of this and don't remember it... that may be because we didn't always have a television and I was too young to be interested in a news paper!
I LOVE these old videos - Made in simpler times, when hopes ran high that we could fix things and solve all our problems with technology, not realizing our achievements were based on the unrecognized toil of billions and our prosperity based on the legacy of our forbears and species long gone before us while those in power are still struggling with outdated concepts coming an age when had to kill to survive...
The Ranger program was so bungled by JPL (the spacecraft had serious manufacturing defects) that NASA made certain that the follow-on Surveyor spacecraft was built by a commercial contractor (Hughes) and not at JPL.
I don't know if they overdubbed the sound, but the Titan booster firing up sounds like a really bad car crash. I loved the 'Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons' music at the end. I did tear up a bit on the last lines. No, we wouldn't travel to the vast regions of space, we would abandon the moon and not even think of returning for half a century. Sigh.
Wow. Amazing what man can do with a seemingly endless supply of resources (a few liberated Nazi rocket scientists). Seriously, though, love the quick glimpse of Neil Armstrong in the classroom.
Wally Schirra was 42 years old in this film but he looks like he's 60. That's what an astronaut diet of Jack Daniels and Marlboros will do to your face.
To Space? I assume you mean the Moon. Well, Congress allocates all money for NASA, and around 1970 pressure to divert the billions that were being spent on the Moon program to the war in Vietnam pushed Apollo into the ground. NASA wanted to build the shuttle, but to get the money to do that in the 70's they had to make a pact with the Air Force to get a large chunk of that budget and that also vastly determined the final design of the Shuttle. The Moon race had been won in 1969, and there was almost zero public support for Apollo after 1970. That's it in the smallest nutshell.
Hi Fran I really enjoyed the NASA videos that you've shared lately I have some interesting NASA stuff to share you but I do not know how to get it to you some photos in some history I'd like to try to get it to you via email
Definitely not. Also, this was a year before Star Trek premiered, so Shatner would not yet be associated so heavily with space, although he had appeared on a space themed episode of Outer Limits in 1964 I believe
Fran,I know what is up anymore but you somehow, need to get back to ELECTRONICS and building new projects as that is what made me "dig" you in the first place!!!
As a very young man, I worked for a sub contractor for Marion (who made the two 5,000 ton crawlers that carried the Big Saturn 5 rockets to the pad.) I worked on the track pad castings. Not much I know , but I felt as though I helped a little.
Thanks for the great video, Fran. It shows when NASA was less risk-adverse back in the day than it is now. Thanks Again. :)
not quite, if so, them the Apollo 1 fire would not have happened.
Thank you Fran! Great trip down memory lane!
Yet another fascinating video from your collection.
Thanks, Fran! 😊
I think this and the one about building the infrastructure at KSC are my favorites. I'd never seen either one of them, but they really emphasize the depth of effort behind the public-facing missions. Thank you for preserving these!
What a feat of engineering. That was brilliant. Thank you, Fran.
The sound the Titan rockets make at 23:49 and 24:46 will never get old
Fran doing us a real public service with these videos.
Fran really deserves some other awards & titles, being a senior member of IEEE is not enough. Someone give this lady a congressional gold medal & presidential medal of freedom for a career of service to revolutionizing the music industry with groovy pedals & STEM communication.
LOVE the mid-Sixties "space music". heavy on the echo and reverberation.
Fran, you're an unsung credit to UA-cam! A mighty & hearty kudos to you!!!🥰
Phenomenal color!
Nice and colorful film! I was 5 then and the first spaceflight I remember was Gemini 5. I made a paper cutout of the spacecraft to hang on the wall. For 7/6, I had to make another!
Gotta love the orchestras they used on these educational films !
What a cool video this is. Thanks Fran...
Superb! The history, the optimism, that Buick convertible in the parade!
I love the Gemini series!
Thank you very much Fran :)
This movie is bringing back old memories of my childhood.
I was 8 years old when Alan Shepard did his sub-orbital Mercury flight. I often talked my mom into letting me stay home from school on days when NASA launched astronauts.
The year I was born. Hard to believe how much effort was going into space technology. Even harder to believe how little we have progressed since then.
Blame politics for that,
More, please....Thank you, Fran.
Awesome work of preservation! Looks beautiful
Great content and vivid color, that was most enjoyable.
Amazing! Thanks Fran!
Another winner
Thanks Fran
Hi Fran. A fascinating look at some of NASA's history. Your collection is a wonderful archive. Thank you for saving it and sharing it.
very nice, thank you!
Thank You Fran Very nice and important film
What a show! Thanks again Fran
Fran you are an absolute Saint curating these videos :)
Ah, that was great! Thanks, Fran ~ great print and fine work of telecine!
Thanx Fran!
Outstanding! Keep 'em coming!
I envy your collection, Fran. 🙂
That was crazy cool, Fran-- the best in your series so far. There's stuff in here I've not seen before. That's hard to to do, or so I thought! I miss those days of constant upward movement and adventure. Today is okay... but big stuff back then was pretty big. Gotta love that lunar astronaut at the end-- with the Dutch angles and Clutch Cargo music!
I remember having to make a report presentation on that large solar observatory for school. Made a cardboard model of it too.
You Rock! Big heap of thx to you!
Fascinating stuff I've never seen! thanks Fran love these films
Fantastic film, Fran! What a wonderful collection. Thank you so much.
you gotta expect a premature liftoff signal every now & then when you're rendezvousing...
I recognized Wally Schirra right away! ;)
Of the films you have shown so far, this is my favorite...
That near the ocean, I'd bet corrosion control is a major issue for the space center..
I clearly remember Gemini 7 lifting off on my 7th birthday.
Im digging those astronaut boots!!
Wally Schirra, one of the Original Seven, featured at around 1:00 minute.
Fantastic video story. those were the good old days. ever since this government has cut off funds has really gone down the crapper. thank you for sharing.
Cool, i was a baby in 65. Pretty amazing what they did without all the computers we have today
I was alive during some of this and don't remember it... that may be because we didn't always have a television and I was too young to be interested in a news paper!
Rare docs and rich video
I LOVE these old videos - Made in simpler times, when hopes ran high that we could fix things and solve all our problems with technology, not realizing our achievements were based on the unrecognized toil of billions and our prosperity based on the legacy of our forbears and species long gone before us while those in power are still struggling with outdated concepts coming an age when had to kill to survive...
@@CharlesHess D'Uh!🙄 Sorry for using the improper word for these films 🙄
That announcer seems to have trouble pronouncing several common names. "Gal-a-Leo"! Are you kidding me. SLAP! "Gem-in-knee" SLAP
Great color, and all the music left in - win!
Also I'm halfway through and I believe all people are men in this.
That was amazing. Such vivid color, and so much detail. To think how far the tech has come since this was made some fifty years ago... wow!
Fascinating! I think I'm starting to catch the bug.
A 1965 green screen text display. I want one.
The Ranger program was so bungled by JPL (the spacecraft had serious manufacturing defects) that NASA made certain that the follow-on Surveyor spacecraft was built by a commercial contractor (Hughes) and not at JPL.
Did anybody count how many times he said Gemini? Because that's how many times my eye twitched. :P
Thanks for another great film, Fran.
I thought it was just me. 🤣
I don't know if they overdubbed the sound, but the Titan booster firing up sounds like a really bad car crash. I loved the 'Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons' music at the end. I did tear up a bit on the last lines. No, we wouldn't travel to the vast regions of space, we would abandon the moon and not even think of returning for half a century. Sigh.
That was the sound. The Titan used hypergolic hydrazine and the turbines really whirred a whine as it ignited.
The music bed under the beginning of the film was later used over the opening credits of "Night of the Living Dead"
Neato!
18:14 Neil Armstrong
25:02 Anyone recognize the music?
Ren & Stimpy. "Call the police!" ^^
❤️
Wow. Amazing what man can do with a seemingly endless supply of resources (a few liberated Nazi rocket scientists). Seriously, though, love the quick glimpse of Neil Armstrong in the classroom.
I wonder what Frans IQ is and if it's value is more properly expressed with exponents.
McDivitt was on Brady Bunch
Where is Roger Wilco!?
Fran, how much do you think your archives are worth?
Even barter, I'd put it up against any garage full of random crap anywhere.
@@FranLab Random crap is great.
Wally Schirra was 42 years old in this film but he looks like he's 60. That's what an astronaut diet of Jack Daniels and Marlboros will do to your face.
If you look very closely, you might see two guys from andromeda
Why do you think they didn't go back ?
(Honest question)
To Space? I assume you mean the Moon. Well, Congress allocates all money for NASA, and around 1970 pressure to divert the billions that were being spent on the Moon program to the war in Vietnam pushed Apollo into the ground. NASA wanted to build the shuttle, but to get the money to do that in the 70's they had to make a pact with the Air Force to get a large chunk of that budget and that also vastly determined the final design of the Shuttle. The Moon race had been won in 1969, and there was almost zero public support for Apollo after 1970. That's it in the smallest nutshell.
20:38 What was that? A Pregnant Guppy?
Hi Fran I really enjoyed the NASA videos that you've shared lately I have some interesting NASA stuff to share you but I do not know how to get it to you some photos in some history I'd like to try to get it to you via email
Now where have I kinda heard that tune before. Cheeky rip-off of the dambuster's theme from a decade earlier?
Is that narrated by Shatner?
Definitely not. Also, this was a year before Star Trek premiered, so Shatner would not yet be associated so heavily with space, although he had appeared on a space themed episode of Outer Limits in 1964 I believe
@@TucsonAnalogWorkshop I believe you, however they do sound a lot alike.
The speaking cadence. Maybe Shatner used this for his inspiration for Kirk.
Year of my birth
HOLY SHIT MF DOOM MOMENT
Meti-roids???
Fran,I know what is up anymore but you somehow, need to get back to ELECTRONICS and building new projects as that is what made me "dig" you in the first place!!!
It will be months before the lab is back in action next year after the move.
@@FranLab fair enough and I wish life were not so tough.Til then keep on keeping on as we all love your song! Fran you rock!!!!
Lost count of the number of male pronouns in the first 60 seconds.
@palpatinewasright - Thankfully, they weren't concerned with such nonsense in those days.