Satellite Ride (1962)

Duration: 0:40

Year Published: 1962

Sound: silent

Description: This news segment for Houston’s KPRC-TV, broadcast on August 7, 1962, shows children lined up at Houston’s Palms Center to take part in free “satellite rides.” In the footage, kids climb into a makeshift metal “spaceship,” which is then driven around the parking lot. The attraction coincided with the exhibition of a Project Mercury spacecraft at the Palms Center.