Launch Windows for Lunar Landing (1967)

Duration: 19:48

Year Published: 1967

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Bookended with baroque, classical music and given a stylistic flourish with simple animations set to elaborate backgrounds, this government film explains how NASA picks launch days. So brush up on your “Earth-Moon geometry” and learn how azimuths, apogees, trajectories, and spacecraft engineering come together in deciding when a launch will deliver an Apollo spacecraft to a specific spot on the Moon, and back again.