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Beginnings
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Moon Landing
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Skylab
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Columbia
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3 mins 8 secs
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2 mins 29 secs
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2 mins 38 secs
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4 mins 6 secs
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This is a Four Part - 12 minute
21 second video clip - Click on each section in turn to watch in order...
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Astronaut
Alan B. Shepard receives the NASA Distinguished Service
Award from President John F. Kennedy on May 1961, days
after his history making Freedom 7 flight. Shepard's wife
and mother are on his left and the other six Mercury astronauts
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Second by second breakdown and analysis
of the video clip
0:00 - 0:11
4 October 1957
The surprise launch of Russia's Sputnik 1 provokes the US into an
ambitious space programme..
0:11 - 0:35
5 May 1961
Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space. A Redstone rocket
launches his capsule, Freedom 7, on a sub-orbital hop above the
atmosphere.
0:35 - 0:48
25 May 1961
President John F. Kennedy commits the US to a heroic task - landing
men on the Moon within nine years.
0:48 - 1:20
20 February 1962
Launched atop an Atlas rocket, John Glenn is the first American
to orbit the Earth. His flight, in the capsule Friendship 7, lasts
for a total of 4 hours 55 minutes 23 seconds.
1:20 - 1:44
3 June 1965
Pioneering American space-walker Ed White floats freely outside
the Gemini 4 capsule.
1:44 - 2:22
11-22 October 1968
A Saturn 1B rocket blasts the first three-man Apollo crew into Earth-orbit.
Their tests of the Apollo moon-capsule are described as "101
percent successful."
2:22 - 3:08
21-27 December 1968
Apollo 8 is the first manned mission to fly to the vicinity of the
Moon. As they look back towards Earth on Christmas Day, the crew
are moved to read from the Book of Genesis...
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