“ WITHIN THIS DECADE “ 1960s ERA SPACE FLIGHT NASA GEMINI & APOLLO PROGRAMS 19204z

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This film “Within this Decade“ draws its title from John F. Kennedy’s speech, which challenged America to land a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s. The movie presents a summary of NASA’s progress and traces the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. The film opens with shots of the Moon’s cratered surface (:25) and the title screen (1:25). Unmanned space crafts were tested and developed in NASA’s research centers (1:58). The footage shown was collected from unmanned space crafts (2:12). A new family of satellites had been developed. They were to initially carry instruments, and later carry life, into space in order to understand how it would react to the space environment (3:20). NASA also sought to explore for other signs of life (3:49) and therefore sent an unmanned craft to view Venus’s surface (3:58) as well as deep space probes to visit Mars (4:34). New in