Year

1978-09-11

Video Details

4:43; color; sound; V-185 AA351; S.1239

Description

This film provides a brief overview of the 20-year history of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It includes historical footage of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space programs. There are scenes of a spacewalk, astronauts on the moon and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project of July 1975 when Russian and American astronauts met in space for the first time. This film also features footage of the Space Shuttle riding piggyback on top of a Boeing 747. Produced by NASA.

Contributors

NASA

Corporate Subject

Boeing 747 (Airplane)
John F. Kennedy Space Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Geographic Subject

Cape Canaveral

Subject

Aerospace industry
Aeronautics
Airplanes
Astronauts
Promotional films
Space program
Space race
Space shuttle