Stepping Stones in Space: Dr. Goddard to Apollo 17
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Presents a chronicle of the conquest of space from the pioneering flights of Dr Robert Hutchings Goodard in 1926 to the lunar landing of Apollo 17 in December, 1972.
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1. Goddard’s “home movies,” earliest rocket tests Roswell, New Mexico, Nazi V2 rocket, mice stuck into rocket, **CLASSIC SHOT**--rocket sled test, pilot’s cheeks stretching/flapping under extreme g-forces**, chimpanzee in rocket test, Kennedy’s speech about landing on moon, John Glenn, rockets lifting off, Gemini, 1st space walk(Edward White), Apollo 7, mission control, liftoff, Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong on moon, Apollo 13, Apollo 15, moon rover/buggy, Apollo 17
2. futuristic spaceship gliding silently through space(like low budget 2001), cartoon spaceman pops out, ALL ANIMATION: pan across town/city/forest w/big moon in sky, zoom in on moon, drawing of solar system planets all in a line, spaceman flies to Venus, rocky alien landscape, Mars, Martian landscape, sun--stylized solar flares, caveman, Egyptian, Chinese, Ancient Greek, etc. all looking at stars, constellations w/cartoon animals superimposed, nebulas/stars floating past(photo montage)
2. futuristic spaceship gliding silently through space(like low budget 2001), cartoon spaceman pops out, ALL ANIMATION: pan across town/city/forest w/big moon in sky, zoom in on moon, drawing of solar system planets all in a line, spaceman flies to Venus, rocky alien landscape, Mars, Martian landscape, sun--stylized solar flares, caveman, Egyptian, Chinese, Ancient Greek, etc. all looking at stars, constellations w/cartoon animals superimposed, nebulas/stars floating past(photo montage)
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