“ RACE FOR THE MOON ” 1965 NASA APOLLO PROGRAM SPACE RACE DOCUMENTARY TV SPECIAL XD49994

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This 1965 black and white documentary TV special (part one of two) offers viewpoints on the value of NASA’s Apollo space program, evaluating the risks and technological advancements driving the Soviet vs. United States “space race” of the 1960s (TRT 26:14).

Opening titles: “Race for the Moon. Reported by Bill Stout. A David L. Wolper production” and an animated Timex sponsorship logo (0:08). Dr. Martin Schwarzchild speaks passionately to Dr. Philip Abelson in an office setting (1:03). Dr. Edward Walsh estimates 50/50 odds for the space race (1:38). Senator Paul Douglas expresses his view that a moon landing would be nothing more than a costly stunt (1:46). Edwin Diamond, the Senior Editor of Newsweek emphasises a greater need for space research (2:02). Dr. Robert Seamans in closeup (2:23). Bill Stout hosts (2:36). A model of the moon against a starry background looms closer (3:26). Slow-motion footage of the Soviet launch of Sputnik. An animated illustration of the first satellite’s deployment (3:47). A cosmonaut training in a centrifuge. A white cosmonaut space dog in a spacesuit (4:00). A Russian scientist examines a video monitor. A Soviet space dog. A countdown clock (4:14). The United States launch of Explorer 1 in 1958. The Russian launch of Vostok 1 in 1961. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin being greeted by Nikita Khrushchev upon his return home (4:23). U.S. Commander Alan Shepard receives a medical examination and dons a spacesuit. The launch of the first Project Mercury flight, Mercury-Redstone 3, aka “Freedom 7.” Television cameras. The rocket in flight (5:09). President John F. Kennedy speaks in a special session of Congress circa 1961 (5:38). In February of 1962, Col. John Glenn boards “Friendship 7.” The launch of Mercury-Atlas 6 from Cape Canaveral LC-14 and Mission Control, then “Mercury Control” (6:43). John Glenn in flight. The booster rocket separates from the space capsule (8:11). Glenn returns home, waving to onlookers, meeting President Lyndon B. Johnson in a motorcade (8:45). Russian engineer Valentina Tereshkova in training, flipping on a trampoline and a swing. Tereshkova and Soviet cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky in flight, and upon their celebratory return (9:05). Bill Stout reappears (10:28). Children on a space-age Houston, Texas playground with a rocket-shaped jungle gym. A planned suburb of residential housing (11:23). NASA’s manned spacecraft center under construction. Workers in hardhats take a break inside a massive, half-formed vacuum chamber. Christopher C. Kraft of Project Mercury leads a tour of the Houston Mission Control center. Magnetic tape computer memory drives (12:00). An exterior view of the building with NASA engineer Dr. Joseph Shea (13:52). A rocket test. An Apollo capsule testing a docking system (14:40). Precision instruments, microchips, electronic equipment. The launch of a Viking rocket. Another rocket explodes mid-flight (15:06). Feet walking on a treadmill. A man wired to electrodes. Scientists take readings (16:12). Engineers rotate a Ranger space probe. Animation illustrates JPL’s Ranger program in action. A photo of the moon’s surface. A prototype of NASA’s robotic “Surveyor” in a demonstration of its drilling abilities (16:39). Testing a Gemini space capsule. Astronauts climb aboard. A bag of freeze dried food, reconstituted with water (17:32). Titan II rockets in production. A Gemini capsule is lifted to a launch tower at Cape Kennedy (18:25). A Gemini splashdown test into a pool of water (19:05). Three astronauts climb into a Gemini spacecraft in closeup. An escape rocket simulating an aborted launch (19:23). Zero gravity training on a Lunar Excursion Module or LEM at Grumman Aircraft Engineering (20:14). Testing rendezvous between the LEM and command modules (20:50). Stationary rocket testing in Huntsville, Alabama. A Saturn rocket booster in transit. A man in a hardhat checks Saturn V tail sections. Missile expert Bernhard Tessmann tours the test site, expressing confidence (21:11). Marilyn Van Derbur announces a Timex “holiday in Hawaii,” commercial against a Polynesian backdrop. Hawaiian tourists enjoy a beachside cookout before a pitch for waterproof Timex watches (23:42). A rendering of the imagined lunar landscape (25:21).

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