Race to the Moon

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1703A

Date Released

25 Jan 1962

Date submitted

22 Jan 1962

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Rugby Stalemate
2. 2Make ‘Em - Model ‘Em!
3. 3Islanders in the News
4. 4Best Plays and Players
5. 5Race to the Moon

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mercury Project. DESCRIPTION: The race to put the first men on the Moon is a race between the United States and Russia. Certain stages have to be accomplished before a moon-shot, and a Russian had already orbited the Earth, when American astronaut, Lieutenant-Colonel John Glenn prepared for his attempt. His mission now was to orbit the Earth three times in about five hours. Training involved going through the motions time after time. Another stage in the American programme was to crash-land a TV-carrying capsule on the Moon. Our pictures show how it should go. SHOTLIST: Atlas rocket being taken from plane. Rocket on truck being towed to launching site. Glenn looking over rocket. Rocket being raised into gantry. Capsule being towed to rocket. Hoisting capsule to top of rocket. Lt Colonel John Glenn, Mercury 6 astronaut, on platform. Glenn looks equipment over. Glenn climbs into capsule. Glenn in capsule checks equipment. CUs Glenn. Control room and equipment.

Keywords

Space; Exploration and explorers

Locations

Florida; Cape Canaveral

Footage sources

United States of America

Card file number

83775

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

111

Story extras:

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