Name: This is Mission Control
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 25 min

Unique news and information programming including 24-hour coverage of important political events from Washington DC and around the nation. C-SPAN2 covers the US Senate.

CSPAN 2

President Gerald Ford gives remarks and presides over a ribbon cutting ceremony to open the Air & Space Museum on the National Mall.

Reel America

1976 Air & Space Museum Dedication Ceremony

Narrated by Ricardo Montalban, this 1981 NASA film features women employed by NASA in a variety of specialized fields.

Women Working in NASA's Space Program - 1981

1979 NASA film about the history of efforts to explore Mars including the 1964-1971 Mariner fly-bys and the Viking landings in 1976.

Planet Mars - 1979 NASA Film

This NASA film showcases the Skylab space station mission that ran from 1973 to 1974. Astronaut crews conducted scientific experiments on board Skylab to test whether humans could live and work in space.

Skylab Mission

This NASA film documents the June 1965 manned space flight by James McDivitt and Edward White; the mission included the first American spacewalk.

Four Days of Gemini IV

This NASA film shows what is involved in working in mission control during space missions. The film includes how Mission Control in Houston brought the Apollo 13 astronauts back home, averting disaster.

This is Mission Control

This NASA film looks back at the Apollo spaceflight program (1961-72) and its achievements, including landing men on the Moon.

The Time of Apollo

This NASA film details the February 20, 1962, Mercury Friendship 7 mission when John Glenn became the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the earth.

The John Glenn Story

Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin flew the final Gemini mission before the Apollo program's first mission; check out this NASA film to see what they did on their mission including docking maneuvers and space walks.

The Final Gemini Mission

On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American to enter space. This NASA film chronicles Shepard's short flight into space.

Mercury Freedom 7

In December of 1972, Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt became the last men to walk on the Moon. This NASA film shows how the Apollo program closed out its Moon missions.

Apollo 17

This NASA film documents the sixth manned Gemini mission in 1966, which was the first to dock with another craft in space. An emergency required the astronauts to cut short the mission.

A Crisis in Space

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