Sold Date:
June 22, 2019
Start Date:
June 8, 2019
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Time Life set consists of 6 vinyl LPs and a companion hard cover book of related photographs in a nice slipcase. The recordings cover the history of rocketry and manned spaceflight through Apollo 11, with excellent narration, original recordings, and just enough added music to enhance the story.
Side 1 – Prologue: The First message from man on the moon… The beginning of rocketry . . . Tsiolkovsky.
Side 2 – Prologue: World WAR II ends… US seizes remaining V-2’s and the German rocket team surrenders to the Americans.
Side 3 – Mercury: National Space and Aeronautics Administration is set up under the Eisenhower Administration.
Side 4 – Mercury: U.S. Space Probes… Russia photographs the moon with Lunik III… President Kennedy.
Side 5 – Mercury: Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 makes a successful flight and sinks.
Side 6 – Mercury: Slayton is grounded . . . Ranger 4 to the dark side of the Moon.
Side 7 – Gemini: Russia, three-man capsule . . . Vietnam war escalates . . . Russian spacewalk.
Side 8 – Gemini: Armstrong and Scott dock with an Agenda but tumble end over end and must make an emergency landing.
Side 9 – Apollo: Grissom, White and Chaffee die in a ground test for the first manned Apollo.
Side 10 – Apollo: Schirra, Eiselle and Cunningham… the first manned flight with a Saturn IB.
Side 11 – Apollo: McDivitt, Scott and Schweickart prepare first manned test in space for LM… In Earth orbit, perform crucial docking.
Side 12 – Apollo: At Cape Kennedy during the long countdown Liftoff for Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins . . . Trans-lunar injection . . .Separation of Columbia and Eagle.