“Only one day per lunar month is suitable for launching.”
Bookended with baroque, classical music and given a stylistic flourish with simple animations set to elaborate backgrounds, this film explains how NASA picks launch days. So brush up on your “Earth-Moon geometry” and learn how azimuths, apogees, trajectories, and spacecraft engineering come together in deciding when a launch will deliver an Apollo spacecraft to a specific spot on the Moon, and back again.
Date Released: 1967
File #: MSC-67-336
Produced By: NASA/MSC
Program Duration: 19:43
Media: 16mm Film
Reel Length: 719 ft
Audio: Optical, Variable Area
Film Stock: Ektachrome
Film Stock Edge Code Date: 1966