Manned Space Flight Quarterly Report No. 20, January-March 1968

Duration: 13:30

Year Published: 1968

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: This NASA government film begins by describing the selection of potential locations for the lunar landing and then segues into an introduction to the mobile quarantine facility. We next receive an update on the Apollo Applications Program and its Orbital Workshop and then some description of flight crew training, such as a look at Neil Armstrong using a Lunar Landing Training Vehicle Simulator. (Astronaut training largely took place at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston.) At this point in the space program, ground testing of all spacecraft modules and Saturn launch vehicle stages was in full swing, and the film surveys the production and delivery of Apollo modules and launch vehicles for upcoming missions. The report concludes with a very brief review of the Apollo 5 mission—which included the first flight of the Lunar Module and took place in January—followed by a preview of Apollo 6, the second flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle and the final unmanned Apollo mission.