Space Probes - Exploring Our Solar System

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1964

Creator: Encyclopedia Britannica Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Uses animation, live photography and models to relate the story of man's efforts to explore space since the launching of Pioneer 1 in 1958. Explains the problems involved in collecting and relaying information. , With teacher's guideUses animation, live photography, and models of spacecraft and instruments to tell the story of man's efforts to explore the outer regions of space from the lauching of Pioneer I in 1958 to the current program for gaining more information about the moon, the sun, and the solar system. Examines the problems involved in collecting and relaying the information from space probes and explains how such problems are being, or will be, solved in preparation for manned space expeditionsAuthor and consultant, Willy Ley

Complete Record: Uses animation, live photography and models to relate the story of man's efforts to explore space since the launching of Pioneer 1 in 1958. Explains the problems involved in collecting and relaying information. , With teacher's guide Uses animation, live photography, and models of spacecraft and instruments to tell the story of man's efforts to explore the outer regions of space from the lauching of Pioneer I in 1958 to the current program for gaining more information about the moon, the sun, and the solar system. Examines the problems involved in collecting and relaying the information from space probes and explains how such problems are being, or will be, solved in preparation for manned space expeditions Author and consultant, Willy Ley, Space Probes: Exploring Our Solar System. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films. Made By Haberstroh Studios. 11 Min., Sd., Color, 16 Mm. Eastman Color. © Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc.; 30jun64; Mp14388. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.