“ SHUTTLE POWER “ 1980s ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL / NASA SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM PROMO FILM 94634

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This color public relations film from Rockwell International dates to the early 1980’s, and addresses the need for and development of NASA’s Space Shuttle program. Viewers are taken through all the reasons the Shuttle’s satellite-placing capabilities will help our relationship with the planet Earth (from resource detection to hurricane tracking), and then presented with a showcase of Rockwell International’s contributions to rocketry and space travel, including building and testing the Shuttle’s three main engines. Written and directed by Robert Durham, cinematography and editing by Brainard Miller, narrated by Mario Machado. Produced by Rockwell International’s Rocketdyne Division. The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Spac