# " THE SPACE AGE " ROBERT GODDARD JOHN PAUL STAPP SPUTNIK EARLY SPACE RACE FILM 50834

Presented by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, this is a 1965, black and white film that traces the early space age from Dr. Robert Goddard through Project Mercury. It opens on Main Street in front of a movie theatre in 1919, 2:14. Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. Goddard successfully launched his rocket on March 16, 1926, ushering in an era of space flight and innovation. He and his team launched 34 rockets between 1926 and 1941, achieving altitudes as high as 2.6 km (1.6 mi) and speeds as fast as 885 km/h (550 mph). Dr. Goddard writes on a chalkboard, 1:50. Dr. Goddard launches his test rockets, 2:30. The Goddard workshop in Roswell, New Mexico is shown, 2:55. Goddard’s home movies are shown with his rocket firing experiments, 3:25. Rocket is launched, extends parachute and floats neatly to the ground, 4:39. Dr Goddard launches a 15 foot rocket, 5:00. The first supersonic rocket is launched, 5:15. A sea plane takes off, 5:56. Nazi Germany launches a liquid fueled rocket, 6:34. Headstone of Dr. Goddard is shown, 7:20. Scientist prep mice for flight in space, 7:40. Rocket launch, 8:00. Mice are shown in zero gravity, 8:12. Colonel John Paul Stapp (July 11, 1910 – November 13, 1999), M.D., Ph.D., was an American career U.S. Air Force officer, flight surgeon, physician, biophysicist, and pioneer in studying the effects of acceleration…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Space, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/50834-the-space-age)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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