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NASA NTRS1962

Historical Footage of John Glenn Friendship 7

The Friendship mission launch on the 20th day of February marked the first time that an American attempts to orbit the Earth. Historical footage of John Glenn's suit up, ride out to the launch pad, countdown, liftoff, booster engine cutoff, and separation of the booster engine escape tower is shown. Views of the Earth, Glenn's manual control of the electrical fly-by wire system, and the recovery of the landing vehicle from the ocean are presented.

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NASA NTRS1991

Space Basics

In this education video series, 'Liftoff to Learning', astronauts (Bruce Melnick, Thomas Akers, William Shepherd, Robert Cabana, and Richard Richards) describe the historical beginnings of space exploration from the time of Robert H. Goddard (considered the Father of Rocketry), who, in 1929, invented the first propellant rocket, the prototype of modern liquid propellant rockets, up to the modern Space Shuttles. The questions - where is space, what is space, and how do astronauts get to, stay in, and come back from space are answered through historical footage, computer graphics, and animation. The space environment effects, temperature effects, and gravitational effects on the launching, orbiting, and descent of the Shuttles are discussed. Included is historical still photos and film footage of past space programs and space vehicles.

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NASA NTRS1990

NACA-NASA: 75 Years of Flight

This document presents historical footage used to recollect the last 75 years of aeronautical and space-related research.

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NASA NTRS1989

Apollo 11: 20th Anniversary

The Apollo 11 Mission which culminated in the first manned lunar landing on July 20, 1969 is recounted. Historical footage of preparation, takeoff, stage separation, the Eagle Lunar Lander, and the moon walk accompany astronauts Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong giving their recollections of the mission.

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NASA NTRS1967

Langley's 50th Year

This video gives an historical overview of Langley Research Center's major achievements in aeronautics and astronautics research between the years 1917-1967. Historical footage accompanies explanation of research into wind tunnel, spin tunnel, and hydrodynamic test tanks for studying aircraft airflow, wartime research into overwater combat ditching, diving, and braking, the X series aircraft experiments with supersonic flight, helicopter and vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft, airport landing studies, and early prototypes for the Space Shuttle.

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NASA NTRS1969

Apollo 11 Highlights

This video recounts the Apollo 11 Mission which took ten years of preparation and the work of over a half a million people, culminating in the first manned lunar landing on July 20, 1969. Historical footage is accompanied by a narrated account of the mission. The footage includes preparation for launch, takeoff, stage separation, docking in space the Eagle Lunar Lander, shots of the Earth and Moon from space, Michael Collins orbiting the Moon in the Columbia Orbiter, Edwin Aldrin and Neil Armstrong walking on the Moon, setting up a Solar Wind experiment, collecting lunar samples, shots aboard the U.S.S. Hornet, retrieval of the astronauts after splashdown, and the parade given in honor of the astronauts.

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NASA NTRS1991

Apollo 13: Houston, We've Got a Problem

This video contains historical footage of the flight of Apollo-13, the fifth Lunar Mission and the third spacecraft that was to land on the Moon. Apollo-13's launch date was April 11, 1970. On the 13th of April, after docking with the Lunar Module, the astronauts, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swiggert, discovered that their oxygen tanks had ruptured and ended up entering and returning to Earth in the Lunar Module instead of the Command Module. There is footage of inside module and Mission Control shots, personal commentary by the astronauts concerning the problems as they developed, national news footage and commentary, and a post-flight Presidential Address by President Richard Nixon. Film footage of the approach to the Moon and departing from Earth, and air-to-ground communication with Mission Control is included.

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NASA NTRS1992

NASA: The State of the Agency

NASA's challenges, accomplishments, and goals are described in this video. Historical footage of man's first lunar walk are shown and there are brief descriptions covering several of NASA's major projects, such as: Skylab; Viking Voyager; COBE; and the 1990 Hubble Space Telescope.

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NASA NTRS1984

Twenty-Five Years of Progress. Part 1: Birth of NASA. Part 2: The Moon-A Goal

Historical footage (1958 - 1983) concerning NASA's Space Program, is reviewed in this two-part video. Host, Lynn Bondurant describes the birth of NASA and its accomplishments through the years. Part one contains: the launch of Russian satellite Sputnik on October 4,1957; the first dog (Soviet) in space; NACA Space Research, Explorer-6; and still photographs of various Space projects. Tiros 1 experimental weather satellite, Microgravity simulators, Echo 1 passive communications satellite, and the first U.S. manned spaceflight Mercury are included in part two. The seven Mercury astronauts are: Captain Donald Slayton, Lt. Commander Alan Shepard, Lt. Commander Walter Schirra, Captain Virgil Grissom, Lt. Col. John Glenn Jr., Captain Leroy Cooper Jr, and Lt. Malcolm Scott Carpenter. Also included are an ongoing interview (throughout the video) with NASA's first Administrator Keith Glennan, the first flight in 1961 with Enos, a chimpanzee, President Kennedy's speech in Washington about the Space Program, Project Gemini - the 2-manned space flights, and the recovery of Virgil Grissom from splash down.

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DOE OSTI2020

Challenges in simulating ground interacting nuclear explosions

This paper summarizes recent above-ground nuclear explosion simulations as part of a broader effort to better characterize conditions within a fireball that may influence the chemical evolution of bomb materials and other materials entrained from the local explosion environment. A critical component of this work is validation against historic footage of atmospheric testing, requiring that we understand how the frequency-dependent sensitivity of the utilized film footage influences data captured in such images. We focus first on the early physics of a nuclear explosion in the atmosphere before discussing some of the technical challenges we seek to capture in late-time models that include more complex emplacement conditions and subsurface features. We discuss required physics packages (compressible hydrodynamics, radiation transport, as well as necessary ancillary tables such as equations of state (EOS) and opacities). Additionally, we note reasonable “shortcuts” one may make and their limitations, e.g., using ideal gas EOS, replacing spectrally resolved radiation with spectrally averaged radiation, and exchanging deterministic transport with diffusion. We then discuss an approach to achieving an equilibrated initial stress state for problems where buoyancy and subsurface lithostatic stress are important. Our methodology is presented in the context of LLNL’s ALE3D multiphysics code but may readily be implemented in other codes. In this paper, we start with a description of the challenges of NUDET simulations, followed by a presentation of the simulated intensity (flux) as it would appear on an analysis of the Dixie test. We then progressively introduce additional complexity in subsequent sections (near-surface burst and gravity initialization) before concluding.

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DOE OSTI2012

Hot Canyon

This historical film footage, originally produced in the early 1950s as part of a series by WOI-TV, shows atomic research at Ames Laboratory. The work was conducted in a special area of the Laboratory known as the "Hot Canyon".

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NASA NTRS1991

Apollo 12: Pinpoint for Science

This video, using historical film footage, photography, and computer animation, describes the launch, flight, lunar landing and exploration, and return flight of Apollo 12, one of the manned lunar missions. The astronauts were Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon, and Allen Bean. Thirty-six seconds into the November 14, 1969 launch, the spacecraft was hit by lightning from the thunderstorm surrounding the launch site. In spite of this mishap, the vehicle and astronauts were not harmed and continued with their mission. The Yankee Clipper (command module) docked with the Intrepid (lunar module) and upon reaching the Moon, the Intrepid disconnected during lunar orbit and descended to the Moon's surface to a landing area previously marked by the Surveyor satellite. After lunar surface exploration, soil sample collection, satellite maintenance, and setting up various lunar surface monitoring equipment (a seismometer and two atmospheric monitors), the Intrepid launched back into lunar orbit, docked with the Yankee Clipper, and returned to Earth. There are both B/W and color photography and film footage, which includes the Earth launch, lunar orbit, descent and ascent of Intrepid on the Moon, return flight, atmospheric reentry, and recovery on the Earth, and ground to air and space communication is shown.

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NASA NTRS1994

Live from Antarctica, Volume 4

In this fourth video of a four part 'Passport to Knowledge Special', hosted by Camille Moody Jennings from Maryland Public Television, children from Maryland and Alaska public schools had the opportunity to directly interact with and ask questions of scientists and researchers from the Antarctic, and learn about the different geological and meteorological research going on in the Antarctic and McMurdo Base at McMurdo Sound. The scientists questioned included: Donal Manahan (biologist from Un. of So. California), who described some of the geological features from Hut Point, the historic hut built by Capt. Scott in 1902; Sridar Anandakrishnan (Penn State Un.) whose research includes ice plate movement of the central ice sheet and earthquakes and how they affect the sheet; and Lt. j.g. Kate McNitt, who spends her winters investigating the trace gases, aerosols, CFC's and ozone levels over the Antarctic area that are affecting the seasonal ozone hole that appears in that region. Historical film footage of Capt. Scott's exploration of the Antarctic is included.

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NASA NTRS1969

Apollo 11: For All Mankind

Historical film footage of Apollo 11 is shown. The pre-flight, launch, module docking, lunar orbit, lunar landing, ascent, and return-to-Earth flight is shown. There are lunar surface shots, Moon views, Earth views from Earth orbit, Earth views from the Moon, and footage of actual moon walk by astronauts. Mission control and space to ground control communication is heard.

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NASA NTRS1992

Standards for excellence

A history of the development of standard units and regulations of measurement are discussed in this educational video. John Aston narrates the historical background, from colonial times to the present, of the need for measurement standardization and discusses the conception of the National Bureau of Standards (1901), of the United States Department of Commerce. Historical photography and film footage is included.

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NASA NTRS2010

Apollo 11 Telemetry Data Recordings: A Final Report

When astronauts landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, the Eagle lander carried a small, unconventional television camera affixed to the inside of the door. It had one mission. Once astronauts opened the door and activated the camera, it would begin shooting live images of the historic event, transmitting the raw footage by way of an antenna to Earth below. There, engineers at three tracking stations would tape the original signals onto one-inch telemetry tapes fpr backup and then also convert the raw feed into a conventional format compatible with American broadcast standards.

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The SCIFLI Airborne Observation of Artemis 1 Ascent

SCIFLI, The Scientifically Calibrated In-Flight Imagery (https://scifli.larc.nasa.gov/), team at NASA Langley Research Center specializes in the collection of multispectral data for space vehicles during Ascent and Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) observations. Multispectral datasets are invaluable across the NASA Agency and to commercial stakeholders for evaluating the performance of launch and re-entry space vehicles and ensuring the safety of the scientific research community. The launch of Artemis 1 marked the initiation of NASA returning to lunar exploration. SCIFLI’s Airborne Multispectral Imager (SAMI) was deployed by the SCIFLI team to scientifically document the historic event and provide the NASA research community with aerial footage of the event in wavelength channels ranging from the ultraviolet (UV) to the visible (VIS) to mid-wave infrared (MWIR). SAMI was designed to spectrally image unique aerothermal phenomena during the Artemis 1 launch. The use of these datasets captured in-flight during the launch will provide insight to research organizations across the Agency; aiding in validation efforts for simulations and modeling that contributed to the kickoff of the Agency’s resurgence to lunar exploration. This presentation will focus on the imagery captured on SAMI by the WB-57 team on November 16th, 2022, during the observation. Imaging objectives were identified and considered beforehand to determine the configuration of the SAMI instrument for the imaging mission. SCIFLI and Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc. (OKSI) performed a thorough review of the datasets collected to identify and characterize aerothermal phenomena occurring during the observation. Additional post-processing was completed to provide quantitatively calibrated temperature images of the rocket during the observation. Some of the candidates were not optimal for quantitative temperature extraction due to common degradation factors, but after various image enhancements they proved useful for qualitatively characterizing different phenomena during the observation.

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