- Title: VM-706
- Summary: APOLLO 9 SPACE DUET SPIDER & GUMDROP: MEN IN SPACESUITS WALKING SLOW MOTION. ASTRONAUT COMMAND MODULE "GUMDROP" (PILOTED BY AND LANDING MODULE "SPIDER", COMMANDED BY RUSSELL SCHWEICKART, AND COMMAND MODULE "GUMDROP"COMMANDED BY ASTRONAUT DAVID SCOTT, ON 10 DAY MISSION AROUND EARTH. ASTRONAUT JAMES MCDIVITT WILL BE IN COMMAND OF BOTH GUMDROP AND SPIDER.MISSION IS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED FOR A LATER LANDING ON THE MOON.
- Description:00:31:32 - HARDHAT ENGINEER ENTERS ELEVATOR AND RISES TO TOP OF ROCKET WHERE SPACESHIPS "SPIDER" (LUNAR MODULE) AND "GUMDROP (COMMAND MODULE)" ARE ATTACHED. 00:31:56 - 3 APOLLO 9 ASTRONAUTS IN FULL GEAR, PREPARE TO CLIMB INTO COMMAND MODULE "GUMDROP". 00:32:07 - CU LUNAR LANDING MODULE (SPIDER) PILOT ,ASTRONAUT RUSSELL SCHWEICKART. "SPIDER WILL LAND ON THE MOON AS "GUMDROP" CIRCLES ABOVE. 00:32:12 - CU FACE SHOT (BEHIND FACE MASK) COL. DAVID SCOTT,PILOT OF COMMAND SHIP "GUMDROP". 00:32:19 - WORKERS HELP ASTRONAUT GORDON JAMES MCDIVITT BOARD "GUMDROP". CU FACE SHOT, MCDIVITT. HE WILL HAVE CONTROL OF BOTH SPACE CRAFTS (SPIDER AND GUMDROP) AND THE TEAM OF 3. 00:32:36 - EACH ASTRONAUT (IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES) EXPLAIN THE DIFFICULTY OF THE MISSION. ESPECIALLY THE CROWDED CONDITIONS. 00:33:55 - MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS SIMULATOR ( A SMALL SCALE VERSION OF "GUMDROP")IN WHICH ASTRONAUTS PRACTICE DOCKING 00:35:30 - ASTRONAUT IN CRASH HELMET SITS IN LUNAR LANDING VEHICLE . VEHICLE LIFTS STRAIGHT UP LIKE HELICOPTER MANEUVERS AROUND, AS ASTRONAUTS AND OTHERS SHIELD THEIR EYES FROM SUN AS THEY WATCH FROM GROUND., 00:36:08 - ASTRONAUT IN CRASH HELMET, IS PUSHED OUT OF TOWER, SLIDES DOWN ROPE, TO GROUND. 00:36:24 - MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS, ASTRONAUT WITH LONG PARACHUTE TRAILING BEHIND, IS PULLED INTO SEA BY SPEED BOAT , WATER SKIS WITH HEALS OF FEET, THEN BECOMES AIR BOUND. HE IS THEN DROPPED INTO SEA. 00:37:11 - ASTRONAUT SCHWEIKHART IN FULL GEAR WALKS TO AND ENTERS WHAT LOOKS LIKE SPACE VEHICLE, BUT TURNS OUT TO BE A WATER TANK, WHICH HE SLIPS INTO, JOINING THE OTHER TWO. 00:38:21 - SCHWEICKHART HAS INDEPENDENT LIFE SYSTEM TO BE USED BY THE FIRST MAN ON THE MOON, ATTACHED TO SHOULDERS, WHICH HE WILL ALSO TEST OUT. 00:38:34 - MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS , PHOTOS EACH ASTRONAUT, WITH HIS WIFE AND KIDS. 00:39:45 - MONTAGE CU AT NEWS CONFERENCE, EACH ASTRONAUT, IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES, COMMENT ABOUT THE STRANGENESS OF THE VEHICLES (AS SHOWN) THEY WILL COMMAND 00:41:30 - MONTAGE APOLLO 9 ON PAD READY TO LAUNCH 11:40 AM, MARCH 3RD, COUNTDOWN BEGINS. VARIOUS CU SHOTS ASTRONAUTS IN VEHICLE. LS VEHICLE ON PAD, "25 SECONDS AND COUNTING". 00:43:24 - CU VARIOUS SHOTS HUGE BLAST WITH HEAVY SMOKE AND FIRE, AS LIFT OFF BEGINS. ROCKET LIFTS OFF, TRAILING SMOKE AND FLAME. 00:45:31 - MONTAGE LS ROCKET IN FLIGHT TRAILS FIRE AND SMOKE. UNTIL SEPARATION OF ROCKET FROM SPACE VEHICLE "GUMDROP" AS IT FLIES INTO ORBIT. 00:47:39 - VARIOUS VIEWS OF SPACE AS SEEN BY THE ASTRONAUTS AS THEY BEGIN THEIR 10 DAY ORBIT. 00:48:10 - ASTRONAUTS INSIDE "GUMDROP" THE ASTRONAUTS PREPARE FOR SCHWEIKHART, THEN MCDIVITT TO TRANSFER FROM GUMDROP TO THE "LEM" (SPIDER).. THE ASTRONAUT FLOAT AROUND IN WEIGHTLESSNESS. . 00:49:01 - THE 2 ASTRONAUTS PASS THROUGH THE TUNNEL TO ENTER "SPIDER". MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS SCHWEIKHART, ON 4TH DAY, SPACEWALKS ON THE EXTERIOR OF "SPIDER". 00:53:52 - VARIOUS SHOTS, REMNANTS OF SPIDER, WITH 2 ASTRONAUTS THEREIN, RETURNING TO SPACE SHIP "GUMDROP" AND DOCKING, AFTER SPIDER DROPPED PART OF ITS SHIP ON THE MOON. 00:54:39 - FACE SHOTS ASTRONAUTS AFTER SUCCESSFUL DOCKING. VARIOUS SHOTS OF VALUABLE EARTH PHOTOGRAPHY WHICH WENT ON FOR 5 DAYS BY ASTRONAUTS, BEFORE RETURNING TO EARTH. 00:55:18 - VARIOUS SHOTS "GUMDROP" AS IT RE-ENTERS ATMOSPHERE. 00:55:21 - VARIOUS SHOTS PARACHUTES LOWERING SPACESHIP INTO OCEAN AN HELICOPTER PICK-UP.. 00:56:19 - 3 ASTRONAUTS TRIUMPHANTLY EXIT HELICOPTER AND WAVE TO ALL. EACH MAKE PHONE CALLS TO THEIR FAMILIES. 00:56:47 - CU SHOT OF BURNED AND BLACKENED "GUMDROP", WHICH WILL NEVER FLY AGAIN. 00:57:22 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1960
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: VM-706