Browse Exhibits (2 total)
Doctors in space
13 episodes, 1958, KUHT (Houston)
From WNET:
"This timely series explores what is now known about flight into space and resultant medical problems and includes the latest scientific developments in space medicine. Much stock footage from US Air Force films is included, and experts in missile development and space medicine appear on the programs. (Biographical information of the special guests is included in the description of each individual programs.) The basic aim of the series is to inform the public about the advances made in space flight, the problems encountered there, and the medical research going on to enable man to fly in space. In this age of dog-bearing satellites, National Educational Television viewers will be interested to learn of the possibilities of trips by human beings into outer space. Produced by KUHT, Houston in co-operation with the US Armed Forces, “Doctors in Space” has been cleared by the Department of Defense."
Frontier to space
26 episodes, 1957, New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
From WNET:
"This series of 26 fifteen minute programs deals with the fundamentals of rocketry and associated problems, attempting to present for the average intelligent layman some of the basic problems of jet propulsion and capabilities and limitations of rockets in the present status of rocket development. Considerable use is made of films of actual rocket tests and preparations, much of this material coming from official files at White Sands Proving Ground. The series was developed for the Center by the Physical Science Laboratory of the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. White Sands Proving Ground (Fort Blass, Texas), the Applied Air Research Center at Sunspot, New Mexico, and Holloman Air Force Base also cooperated in the production. Narrator for the series is Dr. Russell K. Sherburne of New Mexico A&MA. It was produced by Paul Rader and Fred Lawrence."