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Nasa Aeronautics and Space Report Year in Review Skylab Viking Mission to Mars 19184 (1973)

1973 · Short film · 14 min

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This 1973 NASA report covers the organization's accomplishments and highlights from that year which range from manned spaceflight, advancement in space research and applications of that research. The film features footage of Skylab, an American space station launched in 1973. Several astronaut crews traveled to the station and stayed on it for varying periods of time, demonstrating that humans could survive in space. Also seen is Mariner 10, an unmanned spacecraft that eventually reached Mercury's orbit in 1974. It contains video of the preparations for the launch of Viking 1, which landed on Mars in 1976. (01:07) They designed an umbrella-like sun shade replacement (01:26) Three separate astronaut crews lived in Skylab, proving man's ability to withstand travel in space, expanding knowledge of solar astronomy, and taking photos of the earth's surface. (02:25) Footage of a spider web, part of an experiment testing whether a spider can spin a web without gravity (the answer is yes) (02:55) American and Soviet astronauts train for a joint mission (03:21) Drawings of a reusable space shuttle (03:42) Recoverable booster rockets are tested. They are designed to be retrieved after launch. (03:57) Testing the X-24B lifting body (04:15) Artistic rendering of the asteroid belt. Pioneer 10, a scientific spacecraft, was the first spacecraft to pass through the asteroid belt and it passed close to Jupiter in November 1973. Images of Jupiter were broadcast in real-time to American…

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14 minutes
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Ephemeral Films

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