Twenty-Five Years of Progress. Part 1: Birth of NASA. Part 2: The Moon -- A Goal

Twenty-Five Years of Progress. Part 1: Birth of NASA. Part 2: The Moon -- A Goal https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/6c5f9659-acbb-445d-ad92-7718c8cf34ce Historical footage (1958 - 1983) concerning NASA's Space Program, is reviewed in this two-part video. Host, Lynn Bondurant describes the birth of NASA and its accomplishments through the years. Part one contains: the launch of Russian satellite Sputnik on October 4,1957; the first dog (Soviet) in space; NACA Space Research, Explorer-6; and still photographs of various Space projects. Tiros 1 experimental weather satellite, Microgravity simulators, Echo 1 passive communications satellite, and the first U.S. manned spaceflight Mercury are included in part two. The seven Mercury astronauts are: Captain Donald Slayton, Lt. Commander Alan Shepard, Lt. Commander Walter Schirra, Captain Virgil Grissom, Lt. Col. John Glenn Jr., Captain Leroy Cooper Jr, and Lt. Malcolm Scott Carpenter. Also included are an ongoing interview (throughout the video) with NASA's first Administrator Keith Glennan, the first flight in 1961 with Enos, a chimpanzee, President Kennedy's speech in Washington about the Space Program, Project Gemini - the 2-manned space flights, and the recovery of Virgil Grissom from splash down. Jan. 1984 Mirrored from YouTube: https://youtu.be/rPL4ThXYOJ4 Original channel: NASA STI Program Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:45:40 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us Twenty-Five Years of Progress. Part 1: Birth of NASA. Part 2: The Moon -- A Goal https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/ec5edb1e-3795-4978-be4f-c67e98fbc992.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/6c5f9659-acbb-445d-ad92-7718c8cf34ce 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.