"THE BIG CHALLENGE" 1967 JOHN F. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER NASA DOCUMENTARY 67614
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The Big Challenge is a 1967 NASA documentary on the construction of the John F. Kennedy Space Center, showing the development of the site on Merritt Island, FL and the construction of Launch Complex 39, including the construction of the Vehicle Assembly Building, Launch Control Center, launch pads and tracks. The film begins with footage of President John F. Kennedy speaking to Congress about putting a man on the moon; this is followed by audio of his “We Choose to Go to the Moon” speech at Rice University on 12 September 1962. Animation depicts lunar landings (01:20). Viewers see the building that houses NASA headquarters in Washington, DC, followed by the John F. Kennedy Space Center and an aerial view of the launch site for the Apollo 5 mission (01:52). Dr. Kurt H. Debus, who conceived of the idea of mobile launch vehicles and was the first Director of the Space Center, sits behind a desk in his office (02:35). A Saturn I rocket sits on a launch pad at Cape Kennedy. Men examine a large launch vehicle and service structure (03:18). There are shots of the interior of the Command and footage of a Saturn I rocket taking off. Illustrations show the development of the complex (04:24), including the vehicle assembly building, the track used to move rockets to launch pads, and a service structure. A study group discusses lunar landing launch sites in 1960 (05:30). An aerial view shows the land near Cape Kennedy that will be the home of the launch site. Viewers see the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Canaveral District office (06:27); there are signs depicting the various private contractors used for building the complex. Men lay the track line for the new space center. A bulldozer moves earth, and a large roller compacts the ground. Men lay asphalt for a new road (07:57). Viewers see a pump station, pipelines, and women operating the telephone switchboard at the space center. Pipes pump water onto the site for a canal. Tubular steel pilings are placed during the foundation stage of constructing for the vehicle assembly building (09:43). Viewers see the steel frame of the building being built. 11:48 The final steel beam is placed (11:48). Metal panels are bolted onto the building for siding. There is a look inside the massive building, starting with a view of the low bay, followed by footage of a bridge crane (13:20), and the upper bays. Next, the film shows the Launch Control Center at Complex 39, with shots of the exterior as well as inside the building: viewers see one of the four firing rooms filled with hundreds of monitors and consoles. Then the film shows the construction of the launch service towers (17:30) and shots of the launch deck and the massive transporter vehicles. A man monitors the diesel motors inside one of the transporters. There is a shot of a Saturn V rocket at a launch pad on the mobile launcher (19:37). There is a great bird’s eye view of “Crawler Way,” followed by footage of the construction of the pathway, including its surface covering of river rock. A mobile service tower is built (21:00), which is moved by transporter to the launch pad. Footage shows the site for Complex 39 as it looks prior to construction (22:02). Crews lay sand and earth to create ground. Men weld steel for launching stands. Cranes move buckets of concrete for pouring the launch stands. Electricians pull wire off spools. Viewers see the massive fuel tanks that surround the launch stands (24:20). The film features more aerial shots of the finished complex and the industrial complex five miles south, which will support the lunar landing project. Viewers see inside some of the buildings, including administrative offices and a maintenance and repair shop. Men harvest oranges and grapefruit from citrus trees on the property (26:02), people enjoy the ocean beach and surf the waves, and tourists visit the new space center. An astronaut climbs into a training apparatus (26:56). There is a final shot of the vehicle assembly building, which concludes the film.
The John F. Kennedy Space Center is one of ten NASA field centers. Since December 1968, the KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of human spaceflight. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS).
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why can't we make documentaries like this anymore? I hate the reality-TV documentary format, they waste so much time with personal testimony and other distractions. These old-format documentaries are so optimized to deliver knowledge, you learn so much more in much less time.
The structure that created this type of information would today be reviled as "fascist" or "racist". These films were meant to uplift and uplifting society is now illegal.
I always say the same thing. I’m not interested in personal interviews.
Just narrate the story!
@@TheLocoUnion Expository Mode documentaries:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_mode#Expository_mode
@@rappar9673This information is outstanding! Thank you very much!!!! Wow!
Didn't realize how complex this building was
I remember going to jfk space center when i was younger. Maybe 13.
One of the best field trips in my life.
Best thing I have seen Periscope thanks!
I visited CAPE CANAVERAL twice once in 1965 just before the start of PROJECT GEMINI and again in 1995. I've been a believer in our NASA Space Program ever since Project Mercury when I was in kindergarten. My support for NASA has never ever wavered.
The scale of it all, amazing!
What a great documentary! I wished i had seen this before my first visit to Space Center
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I wish I’ll eventually get the chance to visit both Cape Canaveral, and Vandenberg Air Force base. (Before it’s too late.)
@@BoHolbo whatchu mean to late?
American ingenuity at its best! Nice film to share thank you.
Yeah but we were so racist at the time it doesn't really even count. Like those black ladies in Hidden Figures like singlehandedly got us to the moon and got NO credit. Mmmm hmmm
@@fresatx A shallow assessment. Their work was hugely important but they didn't do the job singlehandly. Thousands of scientists and engineers contributed to the success of the program, most of whom received little or no credit for their work, in the public eye that is. Let go your racial hatred. The people who were in charge back then are long gone.
@@booklover6753 I was not serious....their work was not really important at all. It could have been done by lots of people. If we were at ALL dependent on those lovely people to get to the moon
.. We simply would never have gotten there. BTW... When the Chinese get there.. It will be without any help from them either.
@@booklover6753 It was more PC garbage revisionist history (their favorite flavor)
It is no wonder that, with such massive infrastructure expenditures, this was the golden age of the Working America economy.
the vab is still an amazing site, looking forward to the new sls and the future
Luv the videos
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IIRC the Apollo programme employed about 400,000 people at NASA, various contractors, subcontractors and suppliers through the US.
Thank you👍🇳🇿
A fantastic NASA movie-short about the U.S. manned-spaceflight launch center on Florida's east coast. Thanks a lot, PeriscopeFilm!
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Everything about this entire space program amazes me until this very day!
The
United States spaceport is at
Cape
Canaveral, Florida.
Nobody back then would have thought of that it would be possible to carry a computer in your pocket let alone that it would also make phone calls take pictures and watch video from.
Dick Tracy and Star Trek had the idea first!
Factories were spread across
America.
19:37 - the Saturn V displayed was the SA-500F ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-500F ).
at 15:15 the narrator states that at the time of construction the VAB was the largest by volume building in the world. I am going to assume it was the assembly building for the Boeing 747 in Everett, WA that surpassed it?
Kelly Collison You are correct
Imagine if gerald bull had tracked launcher pads and development funds he could've made LK 1000 look like childs play..any one can see!! It's possible..funny...101221 thanks periscope
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Is there any footage of the crawler pulling away from the pad? For instance, 4:34 is the only time I've ever seen any indication the same crawler used to move the launch tower might be used to move the service tower to and from the launch tower. Sure, it's not that exciting, but this is a details oriented audience who finds excitement in the things most people do, and beyond.
The audience for this can never be described as detail-oriented. They certainly can be described as fantasists.
An Absolutely amazing time to be an American
Great engineering
That was unbelievable!
Where is Major Nelson, Major Healey and Jeannie?
People from every corner of
America came to
Florida.
Sad they gave zero mention to the men of Apollo 1
So your telling me that in 2024 we are just now being able to launch more weight then they did back in 1967! What the hell happened?! We should already have been on Mars with reusable Launch Vehicles!😳😲🧐😞
12:23 CCCP? XD
lol
At least you could smoke around the nitrogen tanks.
I wonder if some of the people listed in the credits work (or worked, past tense) in Canada. My boss was a guy named Dan. I never knew he was into architecture [and NASA]; maybe rug(s) and there are places around here with business listings as back as 1971, or earlier. Maybe related. Pretty weird.
We need a leader like JFK again with balls that put us ahead of all the world in technology thank you To those leaders of that day not like the ones we have now
What’s wrong with demagoguery, wedge issues, conspiracy theories, race-baiting, religious bigotry, gridlock and pseodopatriotic white nationalist MAGA Trumpscab fruitcakes? WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA 🤣😂 lol
Biden got no brains , I'm sure no balls either.
You know the Saturn 5, was just 1 of 3 low-mid sized rockets designed in the mid 60's. There's 2 or 3 rocket designs that were bigger. They were never built, as further moon and theoretical mars missions never panned out. There were 2 missions, later which were very interesting, and did not require a manned component. Venus and Mercury. The Mariner probes to mars, also put a considerable delay on any human missions to Mars - as did Radiation measurements above the lower atmosphere.
Did they ever use all 4 bays at once? Seems like overkill.
It is one building not 4
Not that I am aware of. Although they built the four bays, the fourth has always been used for storage and pre-assembly’s. I read somewhere what the thinking was but I neither remember why or where I read it.
There were plans for a 3rd launch pad (39C), as well, but it was never built.
@@Bill_N_ATX And with only three mobile launch platforms they couldn't stack another vehicle anyway.
@@MagicaLucem Yes, but there are four "bays" within the Vehicle Assembly Building in which to stack the Saturn V launch vehicle and Apollo spacecraft, and all of them can be used simultaneously, if needed.
I still can't believe there is flat Earth's among us. May the force be with them
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I'll be the first to say for all those conspiracy theory, people who think we never landed on the moon. Why would we put so much money and technology on the ground if we weren't going to go all the way to the moon? Come on you guys wake up 😑
Loved the film. absolutely hated all the commercials. Worse than a 30 minute TV sitcom.
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SpaceX faces constant government interference and disruption. If only, SpaceX enjoyed the support of the mighty Apollo missions garnered.
What a shame! Maybe if Kennedy had lived to see it through they would have completed the trapeze for this circus show.
What if JFK had lived, become a 3 term President and kept the US out of Vietnam?
Not possible without an amendment to the Constitution. After FDR, a two term limit was implemented. As for Vietnam, Kennedy sent more troops there - albeit not the scale of Lyndon Johnson.
@@dougball328 On?y because he was being pressured to.
@@jaminova_1969 That is debatable. The "no three term" is not debatable. It was, and still is, the law.
We need more ICBM’s instead of flashy moon shots. A LOT more ICBM’s.
Ahhhh a time when throwing an endless supply of money solved everything.
Except landing on the moon before the Russians of course, but “you yanks” finally beat the Russians after dragging behind their achievements..
Sorry, but I just couldn’t help myself.. 😆
@@BoHolbo lol Russian rocket achievements (if you can call it that) were made the same way ours were... from German scientists who were clearly 2 generations ahead of either. We owe all of our early accomplishments to the Germans & God only knows how many Concentration camp Jews & others forced to work deplorable conditions & died as a result. Its a crying shame German scientists & engineers who worked on the V2 were quite well aware of the slave labor on site yet both Russians & Americans saw Rocket technology as more important than any perceived war crimes they may or may not have committed we'll never know, no investigations of that either. We were too busy competing with the Russians offering outrageous deals to each for their political asylum. But hey we landed on the moon, getting there first means nothing.
How we went from a great leader like JFK to pure garbage trump is still one of the biggest mysteries of this country.
Not really. In a large bowl, add 1 part racism, 1 part illiteracy and 2 parts gullibility. Mix well and spread liberally over millions of rubes and there you have it. A country neatly divided for Russian and Chinese consumption.
The magnetosphere blocks anyone from traveling to the moon then AND now. However, I feel another multibillion dollar "home movie" is near. Propaganda IS NOT cheap.
Your knowledge of physics is obviously limited to one word.
@@dougball328 But that doesn't make me wrong.
@@paradisemace1 Another fine display of your ignorance. Keep going, it's quite hilarious.
@@dougball328 THEN how about THIS? I pushed Humpty Dumpty!
@@paradisemace1 LMAOOOOO !!
If you believe so
Lots of money spent on a hoax
Idiot.
abundantYOUniverse good one government education done good
@@diggLincoln Like I said. Idiot.
It’s not a hoax at all
It's the final card they're gonna play and we'll see this deception ...
One of the bigger lies