The Age Of Space Transportation

A 1970s documentary which takes a philosophical look at man's advances in the field of space transportation. Although rather broad, using various footage to illustrate sociological concepts and general everyday life in the USA, useful material includes: the Kennedy spaceport in Florida, picturesque slow-motion launch footage; in-flight footage of Saturn rocket stage separation; precision manufacture of space components; various in-flight footage of the Apollo missions; behaviour of fluids, crystal formation and biological systems in microgravity; a look at ESA's Spacelab; operating theatre footage with team working in isolation suits, monitoring of premature babies; an illustrated look at NASA's space shuttle and its payload capabilities; transport footage - steam train, horse-drawn coach, cyclists, tram, cars, stills of early flying machines and of Goddard's early rocket construction; various views of the Earth from space; hurricanes from space, forest fires, treating crops, locating fuels; views of space an