John F. Kennedy Space Center Presents: NASA Time CapsuleVisit the NASA Home page: http://www.nasa.gov |
This movie was created to bring you through the early days of Space exploration and into the future. It begins with the following: "Travel with us...Through the past, the present and the future... The good times, the hard times...See the people who made your dreams come true. NASA." While that text is being displayed on the screen different images are being shown. The past shows you John F. Kennedy; the present, Gus Grissom; the future, an image of a space suited astronaut. The good times shows you Neil Armstrong, and the hard times shows you an image of Apollo 7. When the text displays about the people who made your dreams come true, an image of the Space Shuttle on the launch pad appears.The movie is then completed and you are brought to a screen entitled Time Capsule Gallery. It welcomes you to NASA Interactive Online and asks you to click on the "enter" button. In the next screen, on the right side of the page is an image of a Shuttle launch, and on the left side of your screen the following text is displayed: "Click on the tab next to the dates below and surf through the different decades. Within each decade are a variety of images to download." Across the very bottom of this screen are buttons with the decades listed next to them. To view the images of the decade click on the appropriate button. Once you have made your selection you are taken to a different screen. The decades are listed as follows: 1. 1950 - 1959 2. 1960 - 1969 3. 1970 - 1979 4. 1980 - 1989 5. 1990 - 1999 6. 2000 - Future We will now take you through the decades one at a time, first describing the beginning screen and then the images that are contained within. 1. 1950 - 1960: There is an image of Ham the monkey displayed to the right of this screen and to the left is scrolling text that is an excerpt from a speech by John F. Kennedy given on September 12, 1962. The quote is: "We choose to go to the moon in this decade, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." Below that text is a smaller inserted area where you have the option of selecting three different buttons to take you to three different images that depict this decade. Image 1: A montage of the moon landing, footprint on the moon, Richard Nixon, space capsule retrieval and an astronaut. All of these images are displayed in blue hues, with the exception of the footprint which is in brown colors and found center of the screen. Image 2: Another montage of pictures with a blue hue. These images are of astronauts in space suits and one of them walking on the moon. The center picture again is in its natural color state and shows an actual launch photograph. Image 3: This picture is images of astronauts, M. Collins and N. Armstrong in full space suits superimposed upon J.F. Kennedy's speech about "Making History Happen." 2. 1960 - 1970: On this screen you once again have the option of selecting images to view that depict the decade. There are two different buttons to choose from. On the right side of the screen is shown an astronaut in his space suit climbing in the capsule. Image 1: On a black background with a montage of photos of Neil Armstrong with a blue hue. This image is entitled NASA Apollo. Image 2: This image is a montage of astronauts all in brown tones with the center image of an Apollo Launch. The astronauts that are depicted in this picture are M. Collins and N. Armstrong. 3. 1970 - 1980: The screen once again offers two choices for image selection and a graphic on the right side of the screen of astronaut, B. Aldrin, in space, sitting in the cockpit of Apollo 13. Image 1: This image is a photograph taken of a launch a shortly after sunrise. You see four photographers with their cameras setup on tripods shooting the launch. Image 2: The second image is a full screen shot of Astronaut, B. Aldrin, in cockpit and the text below says, "Apollo 13." 4. 1980-1990: The decade screen here displays a split image picture of the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle. You have two buttons on the left side of your screen allowing you the option of two images of the decade. Image 1: Grayed out images of the International Space Station (ISS) with one colorful image on the upper right side showing the ISS against a backdrop of a line art sketch of the earth. Image 2: This is an image of the Space Shuttle flying "piggybacked" on the specially designed 747 aircraft. It is displayed against a blue grid background. 5. 1990 - 2000: Here we have again two selections for images and one graphic on the right side of the screen that is a close up picture of the International Space Station. Image 1: The beginning stages of the ISS are depicted in this image, which is displayed against a white background with gold colored concentric circles. Image 2: A black background with a sunrise in space with a model of the completed International Space Station. 6. 2000 - Future: This is the decade showing us what is to come, or at least what we envision to be so at this time. The image shown is of an astronaut on Mars. There are two images to chose from by selecting the corresponding buttons. Image 1: The first image is a montage. Its center image is of the X-33 (the next phase of space Shuttle). Also shown are images of a futuristic space station, the earth from space and Mars' surface. Image 2: This is the last image of our time capsule and it depicts a base on Mars, complete with Mars Rover. Also pictured is an astronaut in full space attire. We hope you have enjoyed this tour through history and into the future. Thank you for joining us. |
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