NASA: 50 Years of Space Exploration

Come aboard Freedom 7 to witness astronaut Alan Shepard's historical journey into space. Included in this intriguing film are on board activities, voice communications and intimate observations by America's first man in space.

John Glenn's historical flight, the first American to orbit earth. Man's dream of journeying into space becomes a reality. You will see sunrises and sunsets that are breathtaking and the parachute deployment as the spacecraft gently descends to Earth.

Astrounaut Edward H. White is shown strolling in space, the first spacewalk by an American. Several onboard cameras capture outstanding photographic records of thes breathtaking spacewalk. In the following days, the astronauts work, eat, sleep and perform 11 measurements and photographic experiments during the 62 revolutions of Gemini 4.

Following the Gemini VIII crew as they complete historic first docking in space with the Agena target vehicle. Camreas record the harrowing experiances of the astronauts as Gemini VIII wildly gyrates through space following major malfunction. The spacecraft is separated from the Agena and is miraculously brought under control, and re-entry is achieved.

An estimated 1 billion people on Earth watched, you can be there too! Relive the spectacular vayage of Apollo 11 as the first man sets foot on the moon in this awardwinning video of footage never before seen! See what goes on behind the scenes of mission control! Ride down alongside the astronauts aboard the Eagle as it touches down on the lunar surface at Tranquility base. Be there at lunar take-off, the trip home and all the excitement.

Let this awardwinning video take you along the ill-fated vayage of Apollo 13. From those first chilling words, through the tension packed long flight home. You are there! Watch scenes never before released as the astronauts determine the cause of their lifethreatening problems, solutions and plans to return to earth. In the final analysis, this is not a story of failure, but a shining example of the human spirit to overcome adversity that you will want to watch againg and again!

The oustanding documentary of Apollo 15 includes such features as the stand-up spacewalk, the three traverses of the lunar surface, film taken from the Lunar Rover, Astronaut Alfred M. Worden's spacewalk and the tension-filled splashdown with one parachute collapsed.

This exciting close-up of the Apollo 16 mission details the landing and the Three Lunar Traverses in the Highland Region of the Moon near the crated Descartes. Included in this docementary is an extraordinary astronaut's eye view from the Rovert, the Lunar Grand Prix, the fascinating discovery of the house-sized rock, lunar lift-off and the spacewalk 173.000 miles above the Earth. Microphones and cameras in Mission Control record the emergency problemsolving during a tension-packed pre-landing crisis and the reactions of scientists on Earth as the astronauts explore the Moon.

Astronauts: Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans and Harrison H. Schmitt. Launch date: December 6, 1972. You have just come aboard the Apollo 17 journey to Taurus - Littrow, the final lunar landing mission in the Apollo space program. You will witness the highlights of the mission and how it will relate to Skylab, the Apollo/Soyuz link-up and the Space Shuttle. You will relive this flight with the astronauts.

The precedent setting mission between the United States and the Soviet Union. The film treats scientific and technological achivements and stresses the spirit of cooperation and friendship. It concludes with a projection on the future of international cooperation in space over scenes of the Space Shuttle and the European developed Spacelab.

This film records the launch of unmanned Skylab 1 on May 14, 1973, and the missionthreatening problem resulting from the loss of the meteroid heat shield. The fabrication of materials and the equipment used in the repair operation is grapihically documented, followed by the installation of the parasol after the lauch and docking of the manned SL-2 with the SL-1 workshop. Also included are onboard sequenses of the daily work routines and some of the experiments.

Skylab was the first United States manned space station, man's boldest step toward future colonization of space. This is the very story of the threee missions, the nine astronauts and thier 171 days in the manned laboratory. Criss-crossing 70 percent of the Earth's land area. Skylab's sensors gathered information about many features on Earth. Perhaps one day mankind will be ordering a new home in space with four rooms, Earth's view.