This informational film titled “Manned Space Flight 1965: Paving the Way” was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sometime in the late 1960s. The film chronicles NASA’s Apollo lunar mission and all of the manufacturing and testing components that went into developing spacecraft capable of manned space flight.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) logo (0:11). Opening credits (0:14). Aerial view of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s launch complex 39 pad A at the John F. Kennedy Space Center (0:25). Montage of scenes of steps and components behind the Apollo Lunar Mission (0:51). Scenes from Complex 39 launch pad A where the Apollo Saturn V transporter was constructed (1:24). Construction of the Vehicle Assembly Building (1:46). Another aerial view of Launch Complex 39 (2:02). NASA headquarters office building in Washington DC (2:16). Montage of aerial views of three field centers: The Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, The Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida (2:20). Contractors at work on the project in Downey, California, Bethpage, New York, New Orleans, Louisiana, St. Louis, Missouri, Daytona, Florida, Burbank, California, East Hartford, Connecticut, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (2:34). Map of the United States displaying the location of contractors (2:55). Government industry teams at work in manufacturing and testing of the Gemini spacecraft (3:07). Final assembly at McDonnell Aircraft Corporation (3:21). Fabrication of the Gemini Agena target vehicle (ATV) in Sunnyvale, California and eventual static firing at Santa Cruz, California (3:39). Progress with the Apollo program by North American Aviation (NAA) in Downey, California (3:56). Dropping of test vehicles from aircrafts to test Northrop Ventura parachute earth landing systems (4:12). Tests of Pratt & Whitney fuel cells (4:26). NASA, Chrysler Corporation, and Douglas Aircraft complete manufacturing of Saturn 1 vehicles (4:40). Final acceptance test for the Saturn 1 (4:49). Work on the second phase Apollo Saturn 1b (5:02). Subcontractors assembling components of systems made by Honeywell, Rocketdyne, and AVCO (5:33). First Saturn 1B flight test launch vehicle on assembly line at the NASA Michoud Assembly Plant near New Orleans, Louisiana (5:49). Douglas ships the Saturn 1B to the NASA Marshall Space Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama (6:45). Douglas made second-stage ground test vehicle in Sacramento (6:53). First hot firing of the Saturn 1B (7:05). NASA and IBM begin development tests of things like the radar (7:25). Accomplishments of the Apollo Saturn 5 (7:40). Mock-up of model made by Grumman Aircraft Corporation (8:08). Another mock-up by Boeing (8:21). First static firing of the Saturn 5 (8:57). Next stage of static firings at the new Seal Beach, California facility (9:37). Tulsa Oklahoma plant begins fabrication of the first flight tests second stage work for the Saturn 5 (10:02). Check-out equipment stations i.e. one installed by GE (10:35). Aerial shot of the Spacecraft Propulsion System Development Facility at the NASA White Sands Operation in New Mexico (10:42). Environment chambers at the Manned Spacecraft Center (10:50). Test facilities (10:56). Unmanned flight tests with first launching from the Air Force Eastern Test range at Cape Kennedy (12:11). Unmanned gemini in space (12:36). Recovery of spacecraft by US Navy and Air Force in the Atlantic Ocean (13:20). Gemini approved by NASA and installed at Cape Kennedy (13:30). Test for Apollo at White Sands and Cape Kennedy (13:57). Remaining Saturn 1 spacecraft to launch Pegasus Meteoroid technology satellites (16:09). Photographs of the Moon’s surface from the Ranger 7 (16:57).

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