https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/6683027a-7272-4e77-9b84-9122b78f1ba7 This footage was rescued from the archives of Republic Aviation and was discovered in a Long Island storage locker. It contains raw footage intended to showcase the planned Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL). See below for more about this program. The various segments in the film include a look at a zero G shower (4:05 and following) that dates to 1969, with water attracted and contained due to electromagnetic forces. At 21:00, an astronaut puts on a space suit for a test. At 22:47 he enters the M.O.L. mock-up and shows how he would maneuver inside. At 25:01 more detail is added to the M.O.L. mock-up. At 25:18 a Gemini capsule mock-up is shown with USAF markings. At 25:23 the M.O.L. module is shown outside a Republic hangar. At 27:30 the mock-up is moved by truck past the Republic Aviation plant. At 28:41 an astronaut suits up inside the M.O.L. mock-up and then proceeds to do some maneuvering tests inside. At 31:20 what might be a mock-up of the zero-g shower is shown being installed in the M.O.L. mock-up. At 32:54 the interior of the Gemini capsule mock-up is shown. The film ends with shots of the fully erected M.O.L. mock-up with the capsule and escape system atop it. The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), originally referred to as the Manned Orbital Laboratory, was part of the United States Air Force's manned spaceflight program, a successor to the cancelled Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar military reconnaissance space plane project. The project was developed from several early Air Force and NASA concepts of manned space stations to be used for reconnaissance purposes. MOL evolved into a single-use laboratory, with which crews would be launched on 40-day missions and return to Earth using a Gemini B spacecraft, derived from NASA's Gemini program. The MOL program was announced to the public on December 10, 1963, as a manned platform to prove the utility of man in space for military missions. Astronauts selected for the program were later told of the reconnaissance mission for the program.The contractor for the MOL was the Douglas Aircraft Company. The Gemini B was externally similar to NASA's Gemini spacecraft, although it underwent several modifications, including the addition of a circular hatch through the heat shield, which allowed passage between the spacecraft and the laboratory. MOL was cancelled in 1969, during the height of the Apollo program, when it was shown that unmanned reconnaissance satellites could achieve the same objectives much more cost-effectively. U.S. space station development was instead pursued with the civillian NASA Skylab (Apollo Applications Program) which flew in the mid-1970s In the 1970s, the Soviet Union launched several Almaz military space stations, very similar to the MOL in intent, but cancelled the military program in 1977. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLjLsQjtC1s Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:24:54 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/6683027a-7272-4e77-9b84-9122b78f1ba7 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.