https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/924eadfd-ca88-4360-8488-6e4b3cebc57d Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com View our Amazon store here: https://amzn.to/3XQHsVD PART 2: https://youtu.be/7dkw04qm98E This rare and informative NASA documentary "Today, Tomorrow and Titan III" shows the Titan III program as well as manned space flight and aeronautic advances in NASA in the mid 1960's. The film details research efforts put forth to manufacture lifting bodies to be used for the Manned Orbiting Lab program including the M2-F1. High speed aircraft are also shown including the X-15. Tests are conducted at the Edwards AFB and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. It touches upon the Manned Orbiting Laboratory space station concept which was a platform to put people into space for military missions. It was announced to the public in 1963. The main contractor for the project would be Douglas Aircraft Company. The Titan III represented a family of launch vehicles derived from the Titan II launched in 1974 and '77. The film opens with images from Cape Kennedy in Florida and the Apollo launch (:09). Large crawler transporters cart the shuttle to the launch pad (:14). The primary object was to ship men and equipment to space and return the three participating astronauts to earth. It was a 20 billion dollar dress rehearsal for a round trip mission to the moon. The objective was to be reached by 1970. An animation follows detailing the launching (1:57) through to the anticipated landing (2:43). A series of scientific journals on space flick by (3:16). This film was presented by 7 Arts Television (3:35). The USAF Titan III complex (4:12) appears in Cape Kennedy Florida. The launch system is discussed (4:23). It was to provide launch capabilities to support future programs. The narrator notes launch vehicles are no longer assembled on the launch pad (4:49) and explains integrate transfer launch procedure (4:52). The division chief of Titan III (5:03) launch operations introduces the Titan 3c space launch vehicle (5:31). A third stage (5:43) and solid rocket motors were added. Scenes are captured from the vertical integration building (6:02). Stages are drawn from the building on a large rail transporter (6:14) for the solid motor assembly building (6:22). Sold rocket motors are pictured under construction (6:29). Stages are mechanically and electrically mated (6:54). Stages are transported to the launching area (7:03). Integrated check outs (7:26) lead to the launch initiation. This is the first manned mission to utilize Titan III; the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory (7:46). The shuttle is launched (7:59). The Gemini program displayed astronauts capabilities of maneuvering space capsules (8:35). They performed rendezvous and docking maneuvers (8:44). An astronaut drops down to Earth at the splash down point (9:04). Navy choppers swing out to recover the returned astronaut (9:13). A desert near LA is used as NASA sought to find a way to conduct landings on earth (10:07). Rogers Dry Lake; home of Edwards AFB, is chosen as the sight (10:21). Milt Thompson (10:48) headed the program. A paraglider is pictured as the replacement for the parachute (10:55). One touches down here (11:14). Engineers chose a shape; the M2 shape and contracted a sail plane company (13:25). The vehicle is tested on the runway (14:10). An air tow is demonstrated (14:17). A view follows from within the cockpit (15:03) over the pilot’s shoulder. NASA research pilot, Bruce Peterson (16:19) discusses a test flight. The film begins to conclude as it looks towards the summer of 1966 (21:04). 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