Manned Space Flight Quarterly Report No. 21, April-June 1968

Duration: 15:13

Year Published: 1968

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: This NASA government film reviews developments in its space program betwen April and June 1968. It begins with an assessment of Apollo 6, the second unmanned flight of the saturn V launch vehicle, and the problems it encountered. Next, preparations are made for Apollo 7, the first manned mission since Apollo 1, as well as the Saturn V launch vehicle and Apollo spacecraft for future missions (Apollo 7 would use a Saturn 1B launch vehicle). Finally, we receive an update on the Apollo Applications and Earth Resources Survey programs, the latter of which is run through the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston and seeks “to determine how man in space may best acquire data for more efficient utilization and management of the resources of our Earth.” The examples given in this film are infrared photographs of farm land in south Texas.