This film titled “Manned Space Flight: A Year of Qualification Testing” was made by NASA sometime in 1965. The film is part of a larger Manned Space Flight series and chronicles NASA’s efforts in qualification testing of techniques and hardware needed for Apollo and Saturn spacecrafts to put men in space.

NASA logo (0:10). History of manned space flight – beginning with the Mercury program, filling hardware pipelines, then testing of major space vehicle systems for Gemini and Apollo programs (0:35). Next phase – qualification of the hardware and the development of operational techniques (0:59). The Gemini Program (1:28). Flight operations (1:38). Gemini spacecraft by McDonnell Aircraft St. Louis, Missouri and launch vehicle by Martin Company Baltimore, Maryland under USAF contract (1:46). Footage manned Gemini mission – separation first stage captured by tracking camera on ground (2:01). Crew training procedures (2:41). Operational flexibility increase exemplified by flights Gemini VII and Gemini VI (3:04). Gemini VII launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Complex 19 (3:22). Erection Gemini VI on the same launch pad (3:49). Houston Mission Control Center built by Philco. (4:06). Worldwide Tracking Network under NASA’s Office of Tracking and Data Acquisition for conducting two simultaneous missions – data cycle NASA’s Office of Tracking and Data Acquisition, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mission Control Center (4:18). Comparing Gemini missions to Apollo Lunar Mission and reentry with Mercury Spacecraft (5:10). Reentry illustrated by footage from early Gemini flight (5:33). Recovery Gemini VII and VI by Navy Recovery Units (5:41). Accomplished program objectives (5:51). Apollo VII astronauts Wally Schirra, Walter Cunningham, Donn F. Eisele (5:59). Development of Saturn I – ground testing (6:13). Sensing and valving equipment for propulsion systems (7:18). First-stage propellant behavior illustrated by onboard camera footage (7:29). Use of liquid hydrogen engines, separation of first-stage and ignition and burning of liquid hydrogen engines illustrated by onboard camera footage (7:39). Saturn I and launch of Pegasus Meteor Detection Satellite (7:53). Role of data from the Pegasus used by NASA’s Office of Advanced Research and Technology (8:03). Apollo Uprated Saturn I launch John F. Kennedy Space Center Complex 34 (8:25). Objectives of mission (8:36). Extensive testing of Uprated Saturn I at North American Aviation Downey, California facility – water-drop test of command module (9:35). Static firings at White Sands Test Facility New Mexico (10:04). Manufacture and qualification of big parts by Collins Radio Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Marquardt Corporation Van Nuys, California, Honeywell Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Rocketdyne (10:12). Apollo Launch Escape System tests at Army’s White Sands Missile Range (10:42). Chrysler qualification tests at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility New Orleans, Louisiana (11:13). Unit vibration tests Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, Alabama (11:25). Qualification of small parts manufactured by IBM and Air Research Phoenix, Arizona (11:38). Spacecraft and launch vehicles manufacturing and pre-flight check-out (12:15). Accomplishments in preparations for Apollo Saturn V (12:37). Development and qualification work for subsystems by Pratt & Whitney East Hartford, Connecticut, AC Electronics Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Bell AeroSystems and TRW Buffalo, New York and Redondo Beach, California, Grumman Aircraft (12:52). Prototype Apollo spacesuit testing at Manned Spacecraft Center (13:22). Suit assembly by International Latex Dover, Delaware (13:41). Ground testing for Saturn-V program at Boeing and North American (13:52). Saturn V static firings (14:22). Structural and dynamics testing at Marshall Space Flight Center, Douglas Aircraft, North American (15:19). Manufacturing flight hardware (16:20). First Flight Lunar Module manufactured Grumman Aircraft, Bethpage, New York (16:43). Saturn V static firings at Marshall (16:57). Ground support facilities (17:22). Damaged exterior of Boeing testing facility by Hurricane Betsy (17:39). Transformation Mississippi test facility (17:50). Kennedy Space Center’s Industrial Area (18:16). Central Instrumentation facility (18:31). Saturn V launch complex (18:42). Launch control center (19:04). Launch pad A and B (19:14). Umbilical towers (19:23). First mobile servicing structure (19:27). Future Planning Lunar Exploration Summer Conference Falmouth, Massachusetts (19:57). Summary (20:16).

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