Some audio had to be deleted to comply with YouTube copyright rules. In this installment of NASA's Aeronautics and Space Report No. 47 we get an inside look at the special training Astronauts got in surviving parachute jumps, and it really looks like a lot of fun! Also we see the world's first space based telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory also known as Stargazer being readied for launch just ahead of Apollo 8 in 1968.
More on the OAO - https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-s-first-stellar-observatory-oao-2-turns-50
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14 thoughts on “Astronaut parachute training and the oao 1968”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jan Tonkens says:

    Please try to limit the noise suppression a bit on future projects as here the ns is far too aggressive. Or just add some generic noise in post.
    But apart from this: lovely series of movies you are archiving for mankind

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ashley Butcher says:

    If this is OAO, and the film is from 1968, I wonder if this is OAO-2 or OAO-B, since OAO-1 would have already been launched two years prior.

    I am guessing OAO-2 which discovered hydrogen around comets, since they say it's soon to be launched (OAO-B was launched in 1970, but due to a failure it did not reach orbital velocity and was destroyed on reentry).

    It's kind of amazing to think how relatively recent so much of our astronomical knowledge actually is.

    Thank you for sharing your film collection with us Fran, they are all gems!

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Justine-Paula Robilliard says:

    Wind producing machine??? Billions of Dollars to waste training "space pilots" but no cash for a grammar check;…

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Lunchpacked180 says:

    I wonder how far way you could see a golf ball with the James Webb Telescope 🤔

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Just Steve says:

    That parachute training look like fun! I wanna go!

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars alpcns says:

    Fran, you're a National Treasure. Its a miracle how you found and collected all this priceless and fascinating material. Thanks!

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Steven Anderson says:

    Yeay!!!🚀

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dingoart says:

    Wasn't what the flying monkey's were chanting…."OAO"…….."OAO"

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Scott Marshall says:

    How come the sound is gated so severely?

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Eliot Brown says:

    "– billions of stars in our solar system -" CUT, cut, cut- you went out for lunch, had three martinis again, right Harry?
    Nice, Fran– it's not all Rolex watches and Mustangs.

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Walter de Freitas says:

    Wow…Very good👍🖖

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars MarcBerm says:

    Ahh, the men and men of the men men men men, men! 🙄

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Heed My Warning says:

    Why can't I pay money to do these things? Looks like fun.

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Fred Patton says:

    Very interesting! When I was a kid, I was absolutely obsessed with parachutes, and was always checking out books on parachutes from the library. I can't tell you how many pictures of these exercises I saw in those book! Very interesting to see movies of them from the same timeframe. Maybe I missed it, but I would love to hear how you amassed this wonderful collection of films. 🙂

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