from Kitty Hawk to Cape Kennedy nasa the
national aeronautics and space
administration presents aeronautics and
space report space highlights 1965 an
eventful year in space
these pictures telecast live from the
moon were recorded by the Ranger 9
spacecraft just before it slammed into
the lunar surface this was the final
mission in the Ranger series a series
which gave us a close-up look at the
moon and clues to its character another
picture taking highlight Mariner fours
voyage to Mars a 325 million mile
journey that returned the first pictures
and data ever gathered close to the
mysterious red planet there were two
tyros weather satellites placed in orbit
tyros 9 and Tyros 10 between them they
spotted five hurricanes and 14 typhoons
their television eyes transmitted
thousands of photographs of the entire
Earth to aid weather forecasters early
bird won the world's first commercial
communication satellite was launched by
NASA for the communication satellite
corporation early bird provides
telephone telegraph high-speed data and
television between Europe and the United
States one of the 14 scientific
satellites launched was an orbiting
solar observatory also to all souls
instruments provided information on the
seething hot gases surrounding the Sun
and how its tremendous energy controls
events on earth and other planets more
than 400 sounding rockets were launched
during 1965 sounding rockets vertically
probed the region between the limits of
balloon flights and the lowest orbital
satellites NASA conducted many of these
launches in cooperation with 16
countries in aeronautical research the
x-15 rocket airplane sword to the
fringes of space more than 30 times new
instrumentation was installed in the
xb-70 2,000 miles an hour airplane these
studies are helping to design this
country's supersonic transport also
tested were vertical takeoff and landing
planes which may someday revolutionize
air travel Saturn won the first
generation in a series of rockets which
will ultimately place men on the moon
completed three successful launching
here being static fired while the
engines which will actually lift the
saturn moon rocket off the launch pad
the Apollo spacecraft also underwent
rigorous testing paving the way for the
flights to the moon astronauts Virgil
Grissom and John Young proved Gemini
ready for longer and more complicated
missions with their three orbits of the
earth next our first long-duration
mission the four days of Gemini 4 with
James McDivitt and Edward white piloting
the highlight of course was White's 22
minute walk in space Gordon Cooper and
Charles Conrad demonstrated that an
eight-day lunar mission is feasible they
spent eight days in orbit in the Gemini
5 spacecraft after an Agena rocket
failure Gemini 6 was reprogrammed into a
combined mission with Gemini 7 for the
final manned space flights of the year
astronauts Frank Borman and James level
left first in Gemini 7 theirs was a
long-duration mission 14 days in space
one meaningful to future manned flights
plenty of time to complete a host of
medical and scientific experiments 11
days after their departure Walda schirra
and Tom Stafford boarded the gemini 6
spacecraft and headed for a rendezvous
with Gemini 7 a rendezvous in which the
four space pilots circled the world in
formation Gemini Ranger Mariner Tyros
orbiting solar observatory these and
many more made 1965 a year of
significant progress in this country's
peaceful exploration of space
this has been an Aeronautics and Space
report presented by nasa the national
aeronautics and space administration