" MAN IN SPACE TODAY TOMORROW AND TITAN III " NASA LIFTING BODY DOCUMENTARY Part 1 of 2 30482
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PART 2: • NASA LIFTING BODY DOCU...
This rare and informative NASA documentary "Today, Tomorrow and Titan III" shows the Titan III program as well as manned space flight and aeronautic advances in NASA in the mid 1960's. The film details research efforts put forth to manufacture lifting bodies to be used for the Manned Orbiting Lab program including the M2-F1. High speed aircraft are also shown including the X-15. Tests are conducted at the Edwards AFB and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. It touches upon the Manned Orbiting Laboratory space station concept which was a platform to put people into space for military missions. It was announced to the public in 1963. The main contractor for the project would be Douglas Aircraft Company. The Titan III represented a family of launch vehicles derived from the Titan II launched in 1974 and '77. The film opens with images from Cape Kennedy in Florida and the Apollo launch (:09). Large crawler transporters cart the shuttle to the launch pad (:14). The primary object was to ship men and equipment to space and return the three participating astronauts to earth. It was a 20 billion dollar dress rehearsal for a round trip mission to the moon. The objective was to be reached by 1970. An animation follows detailing the launching (1:57) through to the anticipated landing (2:43). A series of scientific journals on space flick by (3:16). This film was presented by 7 Arts Television (3:35). The USAF Titan III complex (4:12) appears in Cape Kennedy Florida. The launch system is discussed (4:23). It was to provide launch capabilities to support future programs. The narrator notes launch vehicles are no longer assembled on the launch pad (4:49) and explains integrate transfer launch procedure (4:52). The division chief of Titan III (5:03) launch operations introduces the Titan 3c space launch vehicle (5:31). A third stage (5:43) and solid rocket motors were added. Scenes are captured from the vertical integration building (6:02). Stages are drawn from the building on a large rail transporter (6:14) for the solid motor assembly building (6:22). Sold rocket motors are pictured under construction (6:29). Stages are mechanically and electrically mated (6:54). Stages are transported to the launching area (7:03). Integrated check outs (7:26) lead to the launch initiation. This is the first manned mission to utilize Titan III; the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory (7:46). The shuttle is launched (7:59). The Gemini program displayed astronauts capabilities of maneuvering space capsules (8:35). They performed rendezvous and docking maneuvers (8:44). An astronaut drops down to Earth at the splash down point (9:04). Navy choppers swing out to recover the returned astronaut (9:13). A desert near LA is used as NASA sought to find a way to conduct landings on earth (10:07). Rogers Dry Lake; home of Edwards AFB, is chosen as the sight (10:21). Milt Thompson (10:48) headed the program. A paraglider is pictured as the replacement for the parachute (10:55). One touches down here (11:14). Engineers chose a shape; the M2 shape and contracted a sail plane company (13:25). The vehicle is tested on the runway (14:10). An air tow is demonstrated (14:17). A view follows from within the cockpit (15:03) over the pilot’s shoulder. NASA research pilot, Bruce Peterson (16:19) discusses a test flight. The film begins to conclude as it looks towards the summer of 1966 (21:04). The heavy weight vehicle was delivered and final preparations were conducted for the acid test (21:09).
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I love this stuff. Mom worked on Apollo and I did a tiny bit of Shuttle.
Great stuff - the lifting body program itself should be far better known. The msuic at 10:30 is just like the theme from the British Gerry Anderson show 'Thunderbirds'...
Ah, the Golden Years.......
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Danm that was good!! Remember when Saturn 5 and other rockets were I big deal..we all got around the tv and watched...maybe someday we'll be doing the same thing when were going to mars, to bad I'll be a old fart by then unless they go in the next 20 years, I doubt we will since we have this thing called money...Anyways thanks very much for posting that!! You have a great collection of videos! Keep up the good work!
Reduced cost through land recoverable and reusable vehicles was supposed to be realised by the space shuttle...bu that was a very expensive program as well.
R. McNamara cancelled the X-20 Dyna-Soar because the M.O.L. would provide the same capability.
Yeah, _that_ did not quite go as planned...🙄
Well, in fairness, MOL was outdated before it left the drawing board. Unmanned spy satellites were growing by leaps and bounds in capability and technology, and the results were outstanding. One thing above all that had been learned in the unmanned spy satellite program was that VIBRATION in the satellite was far and away the largest problem. Camera mechanisms had to be very carefully designed, engineered, and built in order to minimize vibration which could blur the pictures and taint the results or render them useless. Placing a Dorian spysat camera system in the back end of a 10 foot diameter manned station topped by a Gemini capsule, as MOL was designed to do, wasn't going to get better results than just making an automated spy satellite using the same technology. Astronauts bump into things floating around in the station, and the extra pumps and motors for air circulation, cooling/heating, pumping water/coolant around, etc. made for a very 'noisy' environment vibration-wise... the worst thing you can have on a photoreconnaissance satellite. Plus being manned its a LOT more expensive and limited in lifetime compared to an unmanned satellite. SO MOL ended up canceled in the end anyway.
The Soviets had the same idea and flew their own "Almaz" (diamond) spy satellite stations in the 70's, besides their Salyuts. They found out basically the same thing-- any "benefit" gained by having cosmonauts aboard to monitor and photograph "targets of opportunity" or something that came up suddenly of interest that they spotted or the ground wanted photographed, was far outweighed by the detriment of having extra vibration screwing with the optics, and the costs and difficulties and limitations imposed by having to support a crew. So they flew IIRC two of them and cancelled the program.
Pity that Dyna-Soar didn't fly, though... it certainly would have made informed decisions about some of the assumptions made about the Shuttle, which turned out to be wildly optimistic I might add. Again the Soviets had experimented along the same lines as this; their "Spiral" mini-spaceplane, though unmanned, was a test-bed for the concept, much like the USAF X-23 PRIME vehicle IIRC... Later! OL J R : )
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The seeds of a deep space capability after 1970.... Yeah you could see deep space from the shuttle window in low earth orbit ...
*_EPIC COMMENT_*
Got politicians to thank for that.
Yep all that wings and landing gear being dragged along really kills what you can do... Shuttle could barely stagger to about 250-275 miles altitude IIRC... I know the Hubble missions were basically as high as the shuttle was capable of going. You carry all that weight along with you that you only need in the last couple minutes of the flight... Why all the new spacecraft have pretty much gone back to the capsule design-- simpler, easier, and cheaper, and now with pinpoint landings, the whole "half the Navy has to stay on station for possible emergency recovery as long as they're in space" argument is out the window. Pity that SpaceX gave up on the propulsive landings on a landing pad for Crew Dragon. Still hope they do it one day if only as a testbed to prove it's possible. Later! OL J R :)
At 7:58, there are some very late umbilical's to release. Stretched tight umbilicals ,, maybe ripped out umbilicals. Yikes!.
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"Landing could be made at Will." Never heard of the space base called Will..
It sure was nice of them to name a base after me.
@@kernals12 haha good one!
🤣 Delete your account... now
@@kernals12 >>> And the bases where they were _not_ allowed to land were called _WILL NOT._ 😉
Will probably welcomed the change, helping with landings, rather than being fired at all the time…. :)
I got a blow out in damper three @3:43 I can't hold her...she's breaking up, she's breaking...."Steve Austin Astronaut, a man barely alive"...."Gentleman we can rebuild him, we have technology.....We can make him better than he was...Better, Stronger, Faster" Sorry...The Northrop HL-10 made me a little Nostalgic. Films like this is why I get so annoyed with Flerf's; They really think we went from prop planes to (Hoax) Apollo 11. They're so willfully ignorant to ignore the work of NACA; The X-15; Redstone; Atlas; Titan; Saturn; Mercury; Gemini; Apollo - all the steps, and hard work it took to land on the Moon and return - 7 Times. Denying it all with "THEY Don't Want Us To Know" and a stream of Emoji's to show their self assured superiority.
What’s a “flerf”…?
Unfortunately we know how it turned out... Colonel Steve Austin crashed in one and lost an eye, an arm, and both legs... Gentlemen, we can rebuild him, we have the technology... we can make the world's first bionic man... Cost-- $6 million dollars... Later! OL J R :)
And then 50 years later people forgot about conquering space and started castrating themselves and talking about "muh gender"
This.... exactly! OL J R :)