Spacecraft Films: Apollo 17 - The End of the Beginning Disc 1

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Disc One description:

EVA Training - Astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt training for their lunar EVAs. Audio from the post-flight crew science debriefing, January 8, 1973.

Geology Training - Boulder City, Nevada. Astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt practicing sampling and exploration procedures.

The Vomit Comet - 1/6th G training with LM hatch, LRV in KC-135 aircraft.

Altitude Chamber - CM America run with Cernan, Schmitt, Evans. LM Challenger run with Cernan, Schmitt.

Equipment Checkout - Flight hardware checkout with crew - LM and LRV and CM.

Rollout - Rollout of last manned Saturn V for AS-512 mission. Also features crew during photo shoot in front of Saturn V on the pad.

Ready to Go - Pre-launch dinner, suitup, transfer to pad and ingress.

Night Launch - Apollo 17 was the first and only night launch of a Saturn V.

Transposition and Docking - 16MM data acquisition camera coverage of the docking of the CSM America with the LM Challenger. After extraction from the third stage of the Saturn V, the combined spacecraft would coast to the moon, making only midcourse corrections. This operation was to have been televised, but the delayed launch caused cancellation of the TV configuration.

16MM Onboard Film - Includes SIV-B Tracking - 16MM DAC of the spent SIVB stage, Moon and Earth Views, footage of life aboard Apollo 17, America and Challenger undocking before lunar descent, sextant views - 16MM film of the lunar surface through the CM telescope, and documentation of the heat flow and convection experiment.

NOTE: I got these from someone else and there are a couple of issues. I have been unable to convert them to any other format without the picture ending up scrambled. (If anybody downloads this and is successfull please let me know how you did it.) On the long segments there is no duration time noted in whatever player I use and therefore cannot fastforward. Maybe this is because I'm an idiot but I have tried numerous programs to decrypt and convert to no avail. I was able to burn them to a dvd and they worked okay. However, it is totally worth these few hiccups for the hours upon hours of video footage. Any Apollo fan will love these.

Enjoy!

KM1