Washington Goes To The Moon Part 2
Series: Washington Goes To The Moon
From: Richard Paul
Length: 00:58:55
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This is part 2 of the documentary series "Washington Goes To The Moon." It is called "Trials and Fire" and it looks at the fire on board Apollo 1 that killed three astronauts and nearly derailed the space program. Today we understand better than ever that the exploration of space is a risky business. The explosions of the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003 made that clear. But in 1967, most Americans saw space as nothing more than a big adventure. The danger seem beyond imagining. In this program we go back to the disaster that almost derailed the Apollo Program and America?s drive to put a man on the moon; the tragedy of Apollo One. We look at how the fire revealed deep flaws in a NASA management structure that businesses and governments around the world viewed with envy and how NASA's attempts to cover-over those flaws fed into Congressional distrust that almost crushed the Space Program. Apollo 11, Apollo 1, John F. Kennedy, Howard McCurdy, NASA, May 25th, 1961, Roger Launius, landing a man on the moon, authorization bill for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Robert Seamans, James Webb, Virgil Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee, Apollo 204 fire, Apllo One fire, Mondale, George Mueller, Pure Oxygen, North American Aviation, Sam Phillips, Lee Atwood, Harrison Storms, Senate Aeronautical & Space Sciences Committee, Paul Dembling, Phillips Report
Transcript
MOVIETONE NEWS: One of the year's most graphic filmings. (explosion) the failure of
this Atlas missile in California was discounted by many later US successes.
No one ever questions that the exploration of space is a risky business.
MOVIETONE NEWS: Watch as, just clearing the 20 feet from its sunken pad called a
"coffin", the missile (explosion) is exploded.
Human beings sit atop what are essentially huge Roman Candles. Giant tubes filled with highly combustible mixtures of gases ... designed to send them hurdling millions of miles. And everyone involved in the space program, at least in theory is always prepared for the worst. As space pioneer Verner Von Braun put it
(Von Braun: This reminds one again that we are not in the business of making shoes.)
(MOVIETONE NEWS ANNOUNCER: The Atlas which was to be the first of its type to be launched from the new test tu...
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Timing and Cues
CLOCK
:00-:01 Billboard IN: I'm Lisa Simeone (music)
OQ: ... this hour's news (music decay)
:01-:06 (silence)
:06-:21 Program Segment I IN: From Soundprint and WAMU at
American University
OQ: we'll be right back (music decay)
:21-:22 Cutaway (music)
:22-:41:30 Program Segment II IN: You're listening to 'Washington
Goes To The Moon
OQ: we'll be right back (music fade)
:41:30-:42:30 Cutaway (music)
:42:30-:59 Program Segment III IN: You're listening to Washington
Goes to the Moon
OQ: for listening. I'm Lisa Simeone (music sting)
Additional Files
- Script (Scriptshow2.txt)
- 30 sec. promo (ParttwoPromo.mp2)
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