Capitol Journal - Space Shuttle - History of Space Program
Capitol Journal - Space Shuttle - History of Space Program
Capitol Journal - Space Shuttle - History of Space Program
Capitol Journal - Space Shuttle - History of Space Program
Back in studio Hodding Carter segues to history of national space program.
Capitol Journal - Space Shuttle - History of Space Program
See also catalog # 355140. Animated b/w newsreel of Russian launch of first space satellite.
Capitol Journal - Space Shuttle - History of Space Program
Astronaut spinning in centripetal force machine
Capitol Journal - Space Shuttle - History of Space Program
Excerpt from Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs. May 25, 1961. President John Kennedy, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.
Capitol Journal - Space Shuttle - History of Space Program
Misc rocket launches
Capitol Journal - Space Shuttle - History of Space Program
President Lyndon Johnson watching rocket launch on TV
Capitol Journal - Space Shuttle - History of Space Program
Burned Apollo space craft from 1967
Capitol Journal - Space Shuttle - History of Space Program
Various good shots of lunar landing, still photos, astronauts bouncing on the moon's surface, ship capsule taking off from moon and floating in space, astronaut driving lunar buggy
Capitol Journal - Space Shuttle - History of Space Program
Apollo 16 Lunar Module taking off from moon. Russian and American astronauts meet at docking during the Apollo-Soyuz mission
Capitol Journal - Space Shuttle - History of Space Program
Various shots of NASA engineers designing satellites - including voyager - computer graphic of voyager floating by Saturn, shots of computer images transmitted from voyager
Capitol Journal - Space Shuttle - History of Space Program
Various shots of NASA prototypes for the Space Shuttle - in illustration, construction and actual test flights
Capitol Journal - Space Shuttle - History of Space Program
The first space shuttle blast off in 1981
Capitol Journal - Space Shuttle - History of Space Program
Various nice shots of space shuttle and astronauts in earth's orbit. Space walk.
Capitol Journal - Space Shuttle - History of Space Program
Excerpt from Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union. January 25, 1984. President Ronald Reagan who says he is calling on NASA to develop a permanently manned space station in the next ten years. We can reach for greatness again. We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful, economic, and scientific gain. Tonight, I am directing NASA to develop a permanently manned space station and to do it within a decade.
Capitol Journal - Space Shuttle - History of Space Program
Space shuttle landing