Shuttle-C Video

 history, projects, rockets, spacecraft, youtube
Aug 102011
 

A 1989 propaganda video describing the Shuttle-C expendable cargo launcher:

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Be entertained by the clumsy, smarmy “for the children,” the over-use of Holsts’ “The Planets,” the badly outdated computer graphics, the fear of the Soviet Union and the ginormous workstations that could probably be replaced with an Ipod.

 Posted by at 12:12 pm

  4 Responses to “Shuttle-C Video”

  1. Michael Holt says:
    August 10, 2011 at 1:16 pm

    Was this intended as a PBS spot, or for high schools?

  2. Pat Flannery says:
    August 10, 2011 at 6:45 pm

    I like the ” Moscow takes lead” part… by the time those children finish elementary school, either Shuttle-C could be operational… or they could be speaking Russian.
    It’s up to you, the American taxpayer, to decide which of those scenarios happens.
    Filling buckets with sand on a beach…or filling buckets with salt in a mine in Siberia?

  3. Michel Van says:
    August 10, 2011 at 8:34 pm

    strange Propaganda video…eehh i mean PBS spot
    it’s clearly from 1989, but it feels like 1959
    the CGI look on level of 1982…

    • Pat Flannery says:
      August 11, 2011 at 1:15 pm

      NASA always had to turn these videos out on a pretty shoestring budget, so the special effects were never state-of-the-art.

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