NASA Apollo Digest Series, period filmstock - Saturn V, Command Module, Service Module, Lunar Module

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Apollo Digest Series:


The Lunar Module

The Lunar Module A description of the LM’s components for descent and ascent from the moon with period animation. Also featured: thirteen antennae for communication and maneuvering, propulsion systems and variable thrust.
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Testing Apollo

Testing Apollo The short film covers the testing of the Apollo V rocket and its elements, from the engines to the Command Service Module, Lunar Module—even the launch escape system on top of the capsule. Astronauts even tested the individual segments that went to the moon in a vacuum chamber.
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Spacecraft for Apollo

Spacecraft for Apollo This covers the various elements of the Saturn V and Command Module, Service Module (the “basement”), and Lunar Module. These were the portions critical for the descent and landing on the moon.
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Saturn third stage

Saturn third stage assembly and testing of the Saturn third stage. 20,000 gls of liquid oxygen at -273F, and 63,000 gls of liquid hydrogen at -423F. The J-2 engine during a test run at full throttle—200,000lbs static thrust. This is the stage that put the crew into orbit, then reignites and sends the CM, CS, an LM on their way to the moon.
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Mission Control

Mission Control Overview of NASA’s mission control in Houston, as well as other facilities in the US and around the world. Roles and activities are discussed. “One of the world’s” largest computing complexes collects and sends data to Mission Control to direct evert phase of the Apollo mission—at “three times the rate of earlier systems!”