MISIÓN LUNAR APOLO 15 Y HOMENAJE A ROBERT GODDARD 72902
Video from the channel PeriscopeFilm about Apollo 15, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 14:19. Language: English. Video type: Archive footage.
What it shows
Contemporary newsreel-style report on mission AS-510 (Apollo 15) linking it to rocket pioneer Robert H. Goddard. It opens with a brief sequence on oil prospecting in Alaska, moves to home movies of Goddard's launches and tests of the German V-2, then returns to the Moon with the mission's television: the lunar rover circling the Falcon module, core-sample drilling, Scott's fall, and the hammer-and-falcon-feather experiment, which fall together in tribute to Galileo.
When and where it was filmed
The Goddard footage is from 1930 in the New Mexico desert. The mission footage is the television broadcast from Hadley and communications with Houston. The piece closes with sponsorship by Atlantic Richfield and cooperation from school authorities.
Background
The narration recalls that Goddard launched the first liquid-propellant rocket on March 16, 1926, in Auburn, Massachusetts, was supported by Charles Lindbergh, and died on August 10, 1945. On Apollo 15 it notes that Scott and Irwin spent about 67 hours on the surface, 18 and a half hours outside the module across three rover-assisted excursions, before rejoining Al Worden in orbit.