Calada News Gathering Services collection of video recordings and other material relating to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1969-2002 [manuscript]

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Calada News Gathering Services collection of video recordings and other material relating to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1969-2002 [manuscript]

The Calada News Gathering Services Collection of Video Recordings and Other Material Relating to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, includes National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) publications, photographs, and video recordings related to a variety of projects and missions. Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz, and Space Shuttle missions are all represented. Related materials from NASA contractors are also included in the collection. Photographs depict space craft and crew members, as well as images from space. The majority of the videos contain press conferences, mission highlights, or television programs. Many of the titles in the collection are represented in more than one format.

116.5 linear feet (16.5 archival boxes, 59 reels, and 99 cartons)

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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established as an independent agency of the executive branch on October 1, 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act (72 Stat. 426), approved July 29, 1958. It superseded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). NASA conducted redsearch on problems of flight, developed aeronautical and space vehicles, explored outer space, and participated in international programs for the peaceful development of space technology....

Project Mercury (U.S.)

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Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the U.S. Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty unmanned developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury...

Apollo Soyuz Test Project

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Project Apollo (U.S.)

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The Apollo program was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returnin...

Project Gemini (U.S.)

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Avrut, Don.

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Calada News Gathering Services.

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Calada News Gathering Services moved to 407 Hancock Street in New Bern, North Carolina, in 1996 from the previous location at 2501 McDuffie Road in Houston, Texas. The owner and executive producer, Don Avrut, collected the majority of the materials in this collection between 1995 and 2002. From the guide to the Calada News Gathering Services Collection of Video Recordings and Other Material Relating to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1969-2002, (Special Collections...

Skylab Program

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Space Shuttle Program (U.S.)

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