https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/c7020695-2f4c-4127-a460-d39cc150493f This color film produced by NASA, an Aeronautics and Space Report has four segments. The first is about Apollo 12 just before its launch on November 14, 1969. It opens with a moon rock gathered by the Apollo 11 crew (:36-1:05). The crew of Apollo 12, astronauts Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, and Dick Gordon, are shown walking in their spacesuits (1:06). Conrad will be the command pilot for the ten-day round trip, shown practicing weightless walking (1:16-1:28). Gordon, command module pilot, accompanied Pete on Gemini 11 and is shown floating in space making repairs during that mission (1:29-1:48). This will be the first adventure to space for Bean (1:50-2:00). An animation shows they will fly to the moon, Gordon will orbit above while Conrad and Bean descend to the surface to an area called the Ocean of Storms, approximately 600 miles from the site of Apollo 11 (2:01-2:16). Once there, they will explore, photograph, sample, and set up scientific experiments (2:17-2:23). G. D. Griffin is the Apollo 12 Flight Director and describes the mission (2:27-3:05). This includes walking 1,100 feet from the landing craft to Surveyor 3, an unmanned craft that landed on the moon April 20, 1967, and taking samples from it. A model of it has been studied extensively by the two astronauts (3:10-3:35). The Saturn 5 rocket will use Launch Pad 39a at the Kennedy Space Center (3:40-3:50). The Command Module will hold the men (3:51-4:01) while the Lunar Module serves for landing and taking off (4:02-4:09). The instrument panel inside the Command Module is shown (4:10). The three astronauts pose for pictures (4:16), ready to make the second moon landing for the U.S. The second segment (4:42) is on Wingless Spacecraft. It opens with an artist’s rendition of a wingless craft that could be used for reusable space shuttles (5:07-5:26). NASA’s Flight Research Center in California experiments with this thought, using a B-52 and a HL-10 wingless aircraft / lifting body to simulate the space shuttle concept (5:27-6:47). The third segment is OSO (6:47). It opens with a shot of the 106’ high Delta rocket (6:48-7:18) used to launch the OSO-6 satellite, shown before launch (7:20-7:48), that operated from August 1969 to January 1972. Its mission was to study solar flares (7:49-7:54), and it’s shown in orbit (7:55-7:59). The fourth segment is Lasers (8:01). NASA uses telescope-mounted lasers to track satellites (8:02-8:26). Retroreflectors mounted on the satellites bounce the light back, making it possible to determine its location by measuring the time it takes for the beam to return (8:27-8:59). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. 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 and 2k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQZWu_RKiz0 Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:16:16 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/c7020695-2f4c-4127-a460-d39cc150493f 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.