Man Will Conquer Space 1952 Part 2 Rockets Newtons 3rd Law John Hopkins University

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It’s hard for any post boomer generation to understand that this campy presentation about space travel was state of the art and exciting for us Boomer kids to watch.

You couldn’t go to the library to study any of this because there were no books written on the subject . At the moment my boomer life was the history was being written.

This three part series created by John Hopkins University is an amazing look back.

Notes: Johns Hopkins Science Review: Man Will Conquer Space (Parts 1-3). October 6, 13 and 20, 1952. Live from WAAM in Baltimore, over the DuMont Network.

In part 2, Francis Clauser discusses how Newton’s third law explains the propulsion of rocket ships. Speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour are needed to escape the earth’s atmosphere and 16,000 miles per hour to put a rocket in orbit around the earth. Fuels that can be used to propel rockets include hydrazine and nitric acid. A model of a three stage rocket is shown to demonstrate how man will begin space travel.

In part 3, Dr. Wernher von Braun, rocket expert, explains and demonstrates a three-stage rocket and its role in the construction of a three-story space station, which will be a launch pad for trips to the moon. He shows viewers both a prototype space station model and moon rocket model and an animated version of the workings of the two.

Other shows include part 1, Dr. John Strong describes the layers of the earth’s atmosphere. Heinz Haber discusses the problems that humans must overcome to travel in space. They will need to surmount oxygen deprivation, depressurization, ultraviolet and cosmic radiation, and zero gravity and weightlessness. Protecting man from these elements must be solved before manned space travel can occur.