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Mercury: Exploration of a Planet (1976)

Name: Mercury: Exploration of a Planet
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1976
Duration: 28 min

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Mercury: Exploration of a Planet (1976) is a 29-minute documentary that airs free on Starlite TV's Doc Vault (CH 6) and Space Live (CH 11) channels. It is in the U.S. public domain.

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About Mercury: Exploration of a Planet (1976)

Project Mercury (1958-63) was America's first human spaceflight program. NASA documented every phase on film; as U.S. government works these films are in the public domain.

Animation and photography are used to illustrate the flight of Mariner X to Mercury and Venus.

Quick facts

Year: 1976
Runtime: 29 minutes
Type: Documentary · Documentary
Series: NASA Project Mercury films
Credits (Internet Archive record): NASA; Lewis Research Center
Sound: Original soundtrack

Synopsis from the Internet Archive item page

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Doc Vault - CH 6, Documentary TV
Space Live - CH 11, Space & Science TV

Rights & source

Basis: U.S. federal government work - public domain (17 U.S.C. 105)
Evidence: Produced by a US federal government agency (17 U.S.C. 105). NASA (Mariner 10).
Underlying rights: NASA (Mariner 10).
Source: Internet Archive

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