NASA Space Shuttle
NASA Space Shuttle
On PREVIEW CASSETTE# 201643 Don't let the title mislead you. Though this has something to do with NASA it has virtually nothing to do with the space shuttle program. Instead it is about the Missile 12-A, part of the Atlas Weapons System program. Some shots withing include: low angle MSs of ground crew at work, air horns against blue sky, and traffic signals... LS of the Missile 12-A as the holding lattice is pulled away... liquid oxygen transfer: LS of tanker; MS of operator; CU of frozen pipe... LS inside control center as men smoke cigarettes and appear quietly busy... LS of blockhouse: CU man looking into a periscope-type device; MSs inside the blockhouse control center; CUs of mens eyes as they anticipate the launch; CUs of electronics gear and countdown clock... MSs of film camera crews on tarmac, including great MS of man in a swinveling crane armed with several cameras (film crews and cinematographers preparing to shoot the lauch)... LS of a giant radar dish... more CUs of the ground control team, of buttons, of equipment panels... LSs of the rocket taking off successfully.