Other titles:HET VERHAAL VAN DE RAKET (Dutch title) [Alternative Title]
NATO DOCUMENTARIES [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: A history of rockets, invented by the Chinese seven hundred years ago, including their development and use in peace and war, on earth and in outer space.
Description: After a brief prehistory of the rocket, with its invention by the Chinese, the film concentrates on the modern development of the rocket, with reference to many of the pioneers of solid and liquid fuel rocketry in Europe and America: Fritz von Opel, Robert Goddard, Johannes Winkler, Wernher Von Braun, Reinhold Tiling, Gerhard Zucker. The German rocketry programme in the Second World War - V1 and V2. US missiles: Redstone and Viking. The Soviet rocket programme. The Jupiter-C sounding rocket and the Redstone ballistic missile. Polaris. American nuclear defence missiles in Silos. Final sequence uses animation to illustrate the the various phases of the proposed manned flight to the moon.
Alternative Title:HET VERHAAL VAN DE RAKET (Dutch title) [Alternative Title]
NATO DOCUMENTARIES [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:NAT 2046
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM NATO
Featured Period:
Production Date:1966
Production Country:
Production Details: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Information Service (Production company)
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Production sponsor)
NATO INFORMATION SERVICE (Production company)
Sandoz, Henry (Production individual)
Baxter, Raymond Frederic1922-01-252006-09-15Family origin: England, GB (Production individual)
