https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/e993bf72-f732-48d3-ad44-3cd6301f840d 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 The film titled “STS-3 - One Step Closer” is a NASA documentary from 1982 about the STS-3 mission. STS-3 was NASA's third Space Shuttle mission, and was the third mission for the Space Shuttle Columbia. It launched on March 22, 1982, and landed eight days later on March 30, 1982. The mission, crewed by Jack R. Lousma and C. Gordon Fullerton, involved extensive orbital endurance testing of the Columbia itself, as well as numerous scientific experiments. These included an Electrophoresis Equipment Verification Test experiment to study the separation of biological components, and a Mono-disperse Latex Reactor experiment, to produce uniform micrometer-sized latex particles. Credits (00:08). Views of the Kennedy Space Center launch pad (00:13). Views of the Columbia space shuttle (00:32). “STS-3 - One Step Closer” title banner (02:10). Point-of-view from a flying aircraft (02:17). Northrop Strip, White Sands, New Mexico, the alternate landing site of STS-3 (02:39). A helicopter flying over the site (02:47). Parked helicopters (03:00). A microwave landing system installed on the landing strip (03:08). A structure for hoisting the space shuttle post landing (03:17). Necessary landing equipment being prepared at Kennedy Space Center for transport to Northrop Strip (03:27), by train on the Santa Fe Railroad (03:44), the Southern Pacific Railroad (04:11) and by trucks (04:31). Temporary facilities are constructed at Northrop Strip (04:41). Views of the completed temporary facilities (05:23). Heavy machinery construction (05:32). Space shuttle Columbia launches (05:46). Spectators observe from the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center (07:00). Views of the flight monitors (07:10). The space shuttle separates from the solid rocket boosters (SRBs) and the external fuel tank (07:24). Views of the astronauts Jack R. Lousma and C. Gordon Fullerton inside the orbiting space shuttle (07:42). Views of the open payload bay, where the induced environment contamination monitor begins the performance of various tests (08:21). Views of the flight monitors (09:52). The induced environment contamination monitor conducts further tests (10:05). Views of the space shuttle (10:40). Views of the extended induced environment contamination monitor (10:53). The astronauts move around inside the space shuttle as they perform research on live objects in a weightless environment (11:03). The mid deck stores the instruments used for the research (11:17). The effects of weightlessness are examined on a cage of insects (11:45). The same data is examined on earth for comparison (11:58). The astronauts report their results from space (12:59). The ground crew observes through video call (13:59). The crew performs electrophoresis experiment verification testing and the flight monitors observe through video call (14:17). ‘Thermal soaks’ of the Columbia space shuttle were conducted to test orbital endurance, by exposing the shuttle to extremely hot or cold temperatures (17:44). Blueprints of the Columbia’s structure (18:01). An armadillo figure is used to explain the thermal tests (18:13). The payload bay doors close due to extreme temperatures (18:54). Views of the astronaut crew inside the shuttle (19:07). The payload bay doors open (19:19). Views of the astronauts moving weightlessly around inside the shuttle (19:46). They eat (20:07). They exercise on a ‘zero-gravity’ treadmill (20:20). They shave (20:40). Flight monitors view the astronauts in the space shuttle through video streaming (20:46). Fullerton jokingly throws away a hairbrush meant for his co-astronaut (20:58) and the flight monitors laugh (21:20). Views of Northrop Strip (21:20). Views of the flying space shuttle (21:25). The Northrop Strip is affected by severe wind and dust is impairing visibility (21:58). Views of the flight monitors (22:15). Photographs of the astronauts sleeping in the shuttle (23:18). The flight monitors prepare for the shuttle’s landing (23:39). Spectators and reporters line up to witness the landing (24:22). The flight monitors prepare for the shuttle’s landing (24:32). Views of the Northrop Strip landing site at White Sands Space Harbor (24:56). Mission Control (25:02). The Shuttle is descending (25:16). It lands (26:13). The astronaut crew exits the Shuttle (27:46). Credits (28:29). 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