“From the six manned flights of the Mercury program through the ten manned missions of Gemini, the development of manned spaceflight in the United States had proceeded with an elegant logic to the threshold of manned Apollo missions in the second half of the year 1968.”
This progress report covers the Apollo 7 and 8 missions as well as developments in equipment testing and astronaut training for Apollo 9 and Apollo Applications, the latter of which includes the Telescope Mount, Orbital Workshop, and Earth Resources photography equipment. The Lunar Receiving Laboratory at the Manned Spacecraft Center also attained operational status during this period, and we receive another brief overview of the function of and uses for the laboratory.
Date Released: 1969
File #: MSC-69-501
Produced By: NASA/MSC
Program Duration: 23:58
Media: 16mm Film
Reel Length: 864 ft
Audio: Optical, Variable Area
Film Stock: Ektachrome
Film Stock Edge Code Date: 1969