As the U.S. studied the moon landing

NASA has published hundreds of videos with the test aircraft. The us space Agency has uploaded to his YouTube channel lots of rare videos, covering events since 1940-ies.

Documentary footage, which was conducted by NASA over many decades, the frames contain the most important tests of various kinds of aircraft and devices, including the Bell X-1 first plane to break the sound barrier, testing of the landing stage of the lunar module; transport shuttles, etc.

It is about five hundred short videos, digitized by the staff of the flight research center Armstrong, located on the territory of the air base Edwards in California. In principle, many materials have previously been available on the website of the center, but on YouTube they certainly look much larger number of viewers.

"NASA has a lot of digital content typically does not fall on the eyes of the General public, — said Rebecca Richardson, Manager of social networking from the center of Armstrong. — Posting this content to more accessible platforms, we hope to attract more attention from the media and those interested in the history of NASA".

Here are some examples:

This little 48 second video clip of 1969 gives an idea of the so-called Lunar Landing Research Vehicle. You can see how the device is managed by a brave pilot takes off and hangs over the earth. The moment the landing is not shown. Development LLRV allowed the astronauts "Apollo" successfully landing on the moon, but required a long and hard training, because planting was carried out manually.

33-second video, 1963 captured the tow on "Pontiac", and then weird flying the M2-F1 "flying bathtub" as it was dubbed in the press. M2-F1 was a precursor of a remarkable series of wingless flying vehicles that contributed to the improvement of technologies, used in space shuttles.

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