I previously transferred my black and white print of this installment of the NASA Aeronautics and Space Report but this 16mm color print is much better. In this reel we see some of the early preparations for the Apollo Soyuz which would occur in 1975 and the first in a series of satellites that would become known as Landsat. As always I transferred this film with my own Telecine and corrected color to taste. Enjoy!
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The ERTS later Landsat is probably the most valued program as it began a program for earth resource monitoring. While gathering data from other planets lot more cool, we can't move to any other (no, we **can't** terraform Mars). But yet Landsat also provides tech development of sensing instrumentation later carried on planetary spacecraft. You make observation on something on earth, then confirm that's what it is. I met someone that interned at JSC in early 70s and he talked about responses from various people about Landsat. NASA promoted this will help farmers get better analysis of their crops and yield, many responded, "yeah, so will my competitors!" He also heard grumblings from certain people that had pot farms in middle of nowhere or Mexican deserts, Landsat provides such data publically.
Apollo-Soyuz, finally Deke Slayton gets opportunity to make a spaceflight. He missed out on Apollo and Skylab, he would have been too old for Shuttle (Deke later became manager for the orbital flight test program). So did whatever he could to get that 1975 flight including learning the Russian language and able to become a real astronaut. In fact every astronaut in the first group flew into space. Some died in airplane accidents in the second and third groups. Later groups had some astronauts that never got opportunity to fly into space.
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The mock-up reminds me of the space book I had as a kid that showed how to make a toy space capsule out of a washing up liquid bottle
I knew that Russia used the Cyrillic alphabet. But it took me decades to understand that CCCP equates to SSSR in English characters then to USSR in English words.
Nobody explains this.
Fran, could you make a video on the Varitone feature on Gibson guitars. What are they made of, how they produce the different tones?? Thanks
I remember watching this on Nasa Tv in the 90s.. great stuff
I trust you've seen CuriousMarc's recent videos on the Soyuz navigation computer his team recovered? Based on the markers on the globe, he thinks it was originally slated for this docking mission.
Apollo 18
Khrushchev: Mr. President, you may be ahead of us in color television. But we have advanced plastic milk bottle design. Why send cow to space when all you want is milk?
I remember watching this back then.
Thank you for the memory
Two formerly great nations working together to explore space. I wonder what went wrong.
Nice work!
There is a modern day version of this still produced by NASA called 'This week at NASA' or 'TWAN'
Remember well watching Apollo Soyuz on TV. The USPS did a twin stamp with both spacecraft on a US and USSR stamp. Don't know if it was really a USSR stamp or just hype?