CBS Reports: "109 Days to Venus" - 1962-12-12

Name: CBS Reports: "109 Days to Venus" - 1962-12-12
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[0:08] this is Walter cronite for CBS reports

[0:11] it was mid July

[0:13] 1962 Russia had just announced

[0:15] resumption of nuclear testing Europe and

[0:18] the United States were watching the

[0:20] first International television by a tell

[0:22] star the senate had just voted to kill

[0:25] Medicare myy Wills had stolen his 48th

[0:28] base for the Los Angeles Dodgers and

[0:31] most Americans were making plans for

[0:33] trips to the mountains Beach or the

[0:35] ballpark but other Americans were

[0:37] preparing for a voyage of another kind

[0:40] and most of those vacationing Americans

[0:42] would be home long before this Voyager

[0:45] would reach its destination the planet

[0:47] Venus 36 Million Miles Away for this was

[0:51] man's second effort to reach his closest

[0:54] neighbor in the solar system his longest

[0:56] journey on the new ocean of space the

[0:59] Soviet Union had tried it the year

[1:01] before but the Russian Explorer Venus 1

[1:04] lost its radio voice 15 days out and was

[1:07] heard no more now it was the turn of

[1:10] Mariner the

[1:11] 447b space traveler with six scientific

[1:15] experiments aboard experiments which

[1:17] would seek to solve the mysteries of

[1:19] Venus and provide information on the

[1:22] conditions in the Deep reaches of space

[1:24] which man himself hopes to navigate

[1:26] launch time came in the darkness of

[1:28] early morning on July 22nd at Cape

[1:31] canavero with tension heightened by the

[1:33] record of Soviet successes in orbiting

[1:35] men around the earth this was the

[1:37] opportunity to demonstrate again the

[1:39] superiority of American Technology and

[1:42] instrumentation in probing deep

[1:51] space the liftoff was perfect in the

[1:54] first 3 minutes Mariner was nearly