This film contains an assembly of NASA “Aeronautics and Space Reports” presented by NASA and advertising agency McCann-Erickson, Inc. These date from 1965 and throughout the late 1960s. The films include missions, accomplishments, research, astronaut training, satellite education, etc. provided by NASA in the 1960s.

Footage of the first powered flight in 1903 where the Wright Brothers took off in their Kitty Hawk Flyer (00:07). The Kennedy Space Center (00:13). A rocket flying (00:15). The moon (00:19). Title banner (00:21). “Space Highlights 1965” title banner (00:31). Live telecasts from the moon recorded by the Ranger 9 Lunar probe spacecraft (00:42). Pictures taken by the Mariner IV of Mars (00:56). TIROS-9 and TIROS-10 spin-stabilized meteorological satellites (01:08). Early Bird I commercial communication satellite (01:25). OSO (B)2 (01:39). Sounding rockets launched in 1965 (01:57). The North American X-15 hypersonic rocket (02:12). The North American XB-70 Valkyrie supersonic strategic bomber plane (02:18). Testing of vertical take-offs (02:28). Saturn I rocket (02:35). Testing of the Apollo spacecraft (02:52). The astronauts Gus Grissom and John W. Young of the Gemini 3 mission (02:57). Gemini 4, manned by James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White II (03:08). Gemini 5, manned by L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and Charles Conrad Jr. (03:18). Gemini 7, manned by Frank F. Borman II and James A. Lovell Jr. (03:28). Gemini 6, manned by Walter M. Schirra Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford (03:55). Recap footage (04:07). Credits (04:26). New footage countdown (05:10). LTV XC-142 tri-service tiltwing experimental aircraft (05:18). Aeronautics and Space Report intro-segment (05:19). “Teaching via Satellite” title banner (05:32). The Rocky Mountains (05:35). A site for NASA’s satellite educational service (06:07). Educational television programs being viewed by students in rural Blanding, Utah (06:13) transmitted via satellite from the Federation of Rocky Mountain States Television Production Center in Denver (06:35). Antennas (06:47). San Juan High School in Blanding, Utah (06:50). Teachers in Denver interacting with students in Utah (06:59). Teachers receiving a satellite transmitted course (08:35). Recap footage (09:20). Credits (09:33). SMPTE countdown leader (10:05). “First U.S. Space Station” title banner (10:39). Dr. Wernher von Braun explaining the planning of the first U.S. space station (10:43). Astronauts training underwater at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama (11:42). Astronaut scientist Dr. Donald Holmquest enters the practice tank and explains his underwater training (11:48). Explanation about the electric rocket engines and research (13:09). A rocket launching at the Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 10 in California (13:25). Powered electric rocket engines (13:32). The launch of the operational meteorological satellite TIROS-M at the Space Launch Complex (13:55). Recap footage and credits (14:30). New footage countdown (15:23). “Rehearsal for Moon Landing” title banner (15:31). The Apollo 9 mission, manned by James McDivitt, David Scott, and Russel Schweickart (15:35). Glynn Lunney, Apollo 10 flight director, explains Apollo 10 mission objectives (16:13). Apollo 10 astronaut Thomas Stafford (17:15). Apollo 10 astronaut Eugene Cernan (17:36). Apollo 10 astronaut John Young (17:56). NASA rocket scientists building and readying the Apollo 10 spacecraft (18:20). The completed Apollo 10 spacecraft (19:01). “Astronaut Survival Training” title banner (19:22). Astronauts partaking in jungle training exercises in the Panama Canal Zone (19:27). Jungle animals including big cats and snakes (20:12). Astronauts trek through the jungle (20:19). They meet with local Indians (20:32). (20:38). Astronauts participating in a desert survival training course (20:43). “Bataan Retired” title banner (21:54). General Douglas MacArthur arrives in his personal Lockheed VC-121A ‘Constellation’ named ‘Bataan’ in New York City in 1951 (21:58). The ‘Bataan’ serving as a simulated spacecraft (22:10). The Bataan is prepared for retirement to take place at the US Aviation Museum (22:58). “Mariner/Mars 69” title banner (23:34). Views of the Mariner spacecraft (23:37). Views of the photos of Mars taken by the Mariner spacecraft (24:03). “Jet Propulsion Laboratory” in Pasadena, California (24:39). Dr. William Pickering speaks about the Mariner/Mars 69 (24:48). “Vertical Take-Off Planes” title banner (25:24). Views of the VTOL Ryan XV-5B Vertifan aircraft (25:27). Views of the VTOL Hawker Siddeley P.1127 aircraft (26:53).

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