Aeronautics and Space Report Title Card. Highlights 1970s; solar eclipse. Sun as seen through clouds passing through. Total solar eclipse on March 7th, 1970.
Radar scope showing Earth's cloud cover. POV of Earth from space; zoom in. Two adult Caucasian males slowing moving one of Nimbus' solar panels. Rocket launch.
Adult Caucasian male lowers panel on a computer; another adult Caucasian male turning dials on instrumentation device. Screen provides visual monitor to wake turbulence. Tower emitting colored smoke as an airplane flies past it; smoke creates a visual aid on the effects of the airplane flying past to surrounding air in its wake.
Airplane in process of take-off. Aerial POV from airplane looking down at the post-earthquake damage in Peru. POV from inside airplane cockpit. POV from inside airplane flying past mountains. Adult Caucasian men seated at stations onboard airplane, observing measurements being taken over the Oregon tuna-rich fishing grounds. Motor and sailboats in harbor. Silver Sea boat travelling past adult Caucasian male in FG working a piece of fishing reel or line on his boat.
POV inside Apollo 13 Space Module; James A. Lovell Jr., John L. Swigert Jr., Fred W. Haise Jr. sitting together. Apollo 13 command module parachuting, landing in the Pacific Ocean. Raft around floating command module; adult male on another raft adjacent to command module. Astronauts meet with adult Caucasian Navy officers on red carpet aboard USS Iwo Jima.
Adult Caucasian men and women attending a test firing of engine that lift the Saturn V moon rocket (3pm on September 30th). Four young adult Caucasian men enter a space station simulator for a 90-day confinement test. VS of the men using various NASA equipment during the simulation. Men leave the simulator, shaking hands with adult Caucasian men waiting just outside the simulator.
Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev and Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov de-boarding NASA airplane, greeting adult Caucasian men on tarmac. Pair of adult Caucasian male astronauts in spacesuits. VS of Nikolayev and Sevastyanov at a press conference; elderly adult Caucasian male speaking in-between the two men. POV of Earth from Moon; zoom out.
VS of the full Moon. Mechanical panel lifted, revealing telescope. Re-creation of automated spacecraft traveling to the moon; screen view of spacecraft heading toward moon crater, presumably crashing as screen goes dark.
Detailed view of the full moon.
Detailed, zoomed-in, view of the moon; right, left, and middle portions.
Zoom away from the moon, partially in shadow; Earth comes into view, obscuring the Moon. Surface of the moon; light from the sun pulsing until the sun passes behind the moon, putting the moon in shadow. Surface of the moon; split screen between the Moon's highlands and lunar maria. Moon's rugged highlands. Traveling views over the Moon's highlands, maria, craters. Zoom in to specific feature on the surface of the moon; split screen of crater that appears like a volcano. Impact craters on lunar maria. Lunar mountain range. Symmetrical hills on moon's surface. Faint red glow seen on moon's surface. Meeting point between highland and lunar maria.
VS traveling views of the moon's surface. Overview of phantom crater on moon's surface. Traveling views of valleys and fault lines on Moon's surface. Mass concentrations shown on Moon.
NOT AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING: still of lunar probe on the Moon.
Arm of lunar probe retracting, scooping lunar surface. Moon; zoom in through tree, tree branches in FG.
POV out window of the 'Eagle' Lunar Module as it lands in the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon's surface.
U.S. astronaut descending the stairs of the Eagle Lunar Module on the Moon. Group of adult Caucasian males huddled together around a computer console, examining, discussing data on a computer printout; intercut with astronaut on the Moon's surface using a device to collect samples of the Moon's surface.
Caucasian male child looking through telescope.
Adult Caucasian male, wearing gloves on hands, handles, examines a lunar rock. Lunar rocks in an open container. Lunar rock on a scale. Man examining lunar rock through safety glass, using glove inserts. Man writing on clipboard. Lunar rock held by multi-layered gloved hands. Metal tool used to tap and break lunar rock. Lunar rocks in an open container. Man in a laboratory uses electron microscope to examine moon samples. Lunar samples under electron microscope; extreme zoom-in. Adult Caucasian male, wearing white gloves, placing slide under microscope; intercut with lunar dust particles as seen under microscope.
Adult Caucasian male, through safety glass and using glove inserts, removes the lunar rock from scale; superimposition of crystalline rock. Extreme close-up pan over crystalline rock. Man looking into microscope, writing down observations; superimposition of fragments of breccia rock. Extreme close-up pan over breccia rock. Man working on a large device; superimposition of lunar rock. Zoom in on lunar rock; circular highlights where the rocks have been "pitted". Two men sitting on one side of safety glasses, wearing white shirts and hats; superimposition of lunar rock. Zoom in on lunar rock. Man studying lunar rock. Team of adult Caucasian men on same side of safety glass observing, taking notes, or using glove inserts to handle lunar rocks. VS of men studying, observing, lunar rocks in devices for testing. Two adult Caucasian men observing lunar rocks through container with a window; superimposition of # 13 rock. Close-up pan over of the rock.
Overview of core tube sample of lunar soil. Two adult Caucasian men looking through eyepieces, studying soil samples. Tube sample of lunar soil. Man working with glove inserts on lunar samples. Man looking through microscope. Microscopic view of rock fragments in lunar soil sample. Extreme close-up, microscopic views of rock fragments that have been "pitted". Solar flares emitted from sun horizon. Adult Caucasian male conducting an experiment using a series of connected tubes and heated samples of lunar soil. Sun just above passing clouds. Adult Caucasian male using glove insert to test lunar soil samples for any traces of life. Pair of forceps lifting small sample of lunar soil, placing it into circular slot. Man working behind safety glass, using glove inserts. Tube expelling lunar soil onto Earth organisms.
Four adult Caucasian men, wearing white shirts, pants, and hats, working behind safety glass, using glove inserts. Close-up view of lunar soil being added to the base stem of a plant. Man, wearing glasses, looking down at his work. Ten jars of liverworts; top five exposed to lunar soil. Zoom in to one of the four adult Caucasian male working. Adding lunar soil sample to a jar with a plant inside. VS of lunar soil being applied to plants. Room with glass enclosures containing plants inside; adult Caucasian men using glove inserts to work with plants and lunar material. VS of men observing plant samples. Man pulling a pouch out of an open container using glove inserts. Pouch on a scale. Open container with lunar rocks inside.
Overview of the lunar surface; lunar module in the distance.
Seismograph recording vibration, quake. Adult Caucasian men standing around seismographs, observing data.
Moon coming out from the Earth's shadow.
Full Moon. Flying over Moon's surface; more sunlight hitting surface. Craters on the Moon's highlands. Flying over Moon. "Mass cons" highlighted on the Moon.
Microscopic view of impact crater on a lunar sample. Flying over the Moon; Earth setting over horizon. Shaky overview of Moon's surface. Flying, shaky at first, over the Moon; Earth rising over horizon.
Adult Caucasian men seated together at a press conference; one man speaking. Individual men speaking, or listening. Groups of men, seated at tables, having discussions with each other. Surface of the Moon with impact craters. Red lava shooting up from a volcano; Full Moon in the sky. Zoom in to half Moon seen through the tree.