“After man himself follows his mechanical predecessors to the Moon he will return to Earth to find waiting a mobile quarantine facility.”
This quarterly report begins by describing the selection of potential locations for the lunar landing and then segues nicely, if awkwardly, into an introduction to the mobile quarantine facility. We next receive an update on the Apollo Applications Program and its Orbital Workshop and then some description of flight crew training, such as a look at Neil Armstrong using a Lunar Landing Training Vehicle Simulator. At this point in the program, ground testing of all spacecraft modules and Saturn launch vehicle stages was in full swing, and the film surveys the production and delivery of Apollo modules and launch vehicles for upcoming missions. The report concludes with a very brief review of the Apollo 5 mission—which included the first flight of the Lunar Module and took place in January—followed by a preview of Apollo 6, the second flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle and the final unmanned Apollo mission.
Date Released: 1968
File #: MSC-68-465
Produced By: NASA/MSC
Program Duration: 13:18
Media: 16mm Film
Reel Length: 495 ft
Audio: Optical, Variable Area
Film Stock: Ektachrome
Film Stock Edge Code Date: 1967