Apollo 4 & Apollo 5 Missions (1968)

About Apollo 4 & Apollo 5 Missions (1968)

Apollo was NASA's program to land astronauts on the Moon, which it did six times between 1969 and 1972. NASA produced a documentary on each mission from the astronauts' own film and the agency's cameras; as U.S. government works they are in the public domain.

Launch date: January 22, 1968 - Unmanned Follows the successful testing of the Lunar Module, the spacecraft in which man will make his first landing on the Moon. Tracking stations around the world track its position with pinpoint accuracy as the Mission Control engineers test the many systems onboard. Lunar Module 1 - not designed to return to Earth - tumbles through space until destroyed by the atmosphere of the Earth.

Quick facts

• Year: 1968
• Runtime: 33 minutes
• Type: Documentary · Documentary
• Series: NASA Apollo films
• Credits (Internet Archive record): NASA/JSC
• Sound: Original soundtrack

Synopsis from the Internet Archive item page