# "BETWEEN THE ATOM AND THE STAR" 1966 NASA BIOSATELLITE DOCUMENTARY FILM BIOSCIENCE 17084

Between The Atom And The Star is a short 1966 NASA documentary film showing what the people behind NASA’s biosatellite program (satellites built by General Electric) hope to learn about the effects of space flight on living organisms. The film opens with graphics of space, stars, and atoms. There is an animation scene of a biosatellite flying into space and orbiting earth (01:08), with a monkey, flower, and eggs inside of the capsule. The film shows images of living organisms (apple, crab, lizard, flower) while the narrator discusses the possible effects of different gravitational forces on living organisms. Viewers see the exterior of the University Memorial Center building at the University of Colorado (03:50). Inside, biologists and NASA officials sit in a large classroom; NASA’s Director of Bioscience Programs, Dr. Orr E Reynolds, chairs the meeting. A Dr. Richard Young speaks to the group about a question on if the gravitational field has a fundamental effect on cells’ ability to divide normally. Footage shows a microscopic view of what appears to be fertilized eggs (frog or sea urchin) dividing into cells. Scientists sit in a laboratory and look at photographs (06:25). A sea urchin egg is shown. A man extracts a frog egg from a frog with tweezers, then he puts it in a petri dish. There is a shot of a device that will inject sperm into a chamber housing the eggs once in space and in zero gravity (08:00). Dr. Allan H. Brown speaks to the classroom of biologists about…

- Kind: Documentary
- Genres: Documentary, Space, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/17084thenasabiosatelliteprogramvwr)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: what its record states (its uploader's public-domain mark, or a licence not shown to be its rights holder's) leaves its US term to decide, and it is dated 1966; under US law a work of that year is free only on facts the site does not hold for it (its US renewal records, or its own country's term on 1 January 1996 for a work published abroad), and otherwise its US term runs to the end of 2061. Unclear is not offered.