This episode traces the evolution of spacesuits beginning with the Mercury Program and looking at a live support system prototype needed for the apollo moon missions. In less than five years, an astronaut will be stepping out on the moon to conduct mans first real exploration of our oldest satellite. It will have been a long voyage , carrying him far from his native land by effort into a strange and airless world. To survive he must carry with , him a bit of his familiar environment. Buyer engineers are designing a spacesuit that will support astronauts on a roundtrip lunar mission. That is coming up today on science reporters. Hello, i am john fitch, m. I. T. Science reporters feeding to you from the moon, or a reasonable facsimile thereof. It is actually a lunar landscape mockup of the lunar excursion module from the Houston Command Center where the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are testing and evaluating the performance of the apollo spacesuit. Manally, encapsulating
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Context for todays Public Affairs issues. 1976,rs ago, on july 1, president gerald ford spoke at the opening of the Smithsonians National air and space museum in washington dc. Leading up to the anniversary, reel america is showcasing a series of nasa films. Up next, science reporter suited for space. Half hour nasa tv program, one of 13 produced with m. I. T. And wgbh boston. This episode traces the development of spacesuits, beginning with the Mercury Program and looking at a live support system prototype needed for the apollo moon missions. In less than five years, an astronaut will be stepping out on the moon to conduct mans first real exploration of our oldest satellite. It will have been a long voyage, carrying him far from his native land by effort into a strange native land, planet earth, to a strange and airless world. To survive, he must carry with him a bit of his familiar environment. Engineers are designing a spacesuit that will support astronauts on a roundtrip lunar miss
We accept the risk. We choose to go to the moon and do the other thing, not because they are easy but because they are hard. We have a good many talented scientists but we didnt make an effort for many yores and were behind and paying the price of having the soviet union and mode the propaganda advantage of sputnik. I have marvin caul. Marvin, is there any doubt this happened, the russians put a man in space . Im almost certain the russians did fire a man into the United States. Hes 27. Its a great historic sicientifc state. At that time, we didnt know whether a human could survive in space and here, boom, the soviets send this guy into space and he survived. He was something to the effect american proudness. Now it was first sputnik and now first man in space was russian and you can understand that this was really in the middle of the cold war, there was competition of the great super powers. President , could you give us your view sir of the soviet achievement of putting a man in or
We accept the risk. We choose to go to the moon and do the other thing, not because they are easy but because they are hard. We have a good we have a good many talented scientists but we didnt make an effort for many years and were behind and paying the price of having the soviet union and mode the propaganda advantage of sputnik. I have marvin caul. Marvin, is there any doubt this happened, the russians put a man in space . Im almost certain the russians did fire a man into the United States. Hes 27. Its a great historic scientific state. At that time, we didnt know whether a human could survive in space and here, boom, the soviets send this guy into space and he survived. He was something to the effect american proudness. Now it was first sputnik and now first man in space was russian and you can understand that this was really in the middle of the cold war, there was competition of the great super powers. President , could you give us your view sir of the soviet achievement of putti