Reaching into Space

Duration: 22

Genre: Educational | Historical

Year Published: 1960

Creator: Inc

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Surveys, using animation and live-action photography, the history of a man's attempts at flight with emphasis on rockets and discusses some of the uses of rockets in modern space research. Historically traces the contributions of Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, and the ancient Chinese to flight and rocketry. Newton's Third Law of Motion is related to rocketry by animation and demonstration. Uses of space research cited include weather surveys, scientific measurements, world-wide communications, and manned space flight. Photographs taken of the earth by satellites and rockets are presented.

Complete Record: Surveys, using animation and live-action photography, the history of a man's attempts at flight with emphasis on rockets and discusses some of the uses of rockets in modern space research. Historically traces the contributions of Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, and the ancient Chinese to flight and rocketry. Newton's Third Law of Motion is related to rocketry by animation and demonstration. Uses of space research cited include weather surveys, scientific measurements, world-wide communications, and manned space flight. Photographs taken of the earth by satellites and rockets are presented., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.