Instructional Video6:23
SciShow

Launching Rockets Mid-Air

12th - Higher Ed
If you picture a rocket launch, do you imagine it taking off from a hot air balloon? In this episode, we'll learn how using balloons to launch sounding rockets advanced our understanding of planet Earth, radiation, and how to keep...
Instructional Video3:34
Curated Video

Dark Side of the Moon

6th - 12th
The dark side of the Moon remained a mystery until space travel allowed for circumnavigation. What did the astronauts find? Physics - Our Solar System - Learning Points. The Moon orbits around the Earth and spins on its axis. These...
Instructional Video16:05
Epic History TV

Apollo Program Part 1: Tragedy to Triumph

12th - Higher Ed
This video looks at the dramatic history of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing in response to Soviet success with Sputnik and cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin. We look at how Werner...
Instructional Video24:18
Epic History TV

Apollo Program Part 3" "Houston, we've had a problem."

12th - Higher Ed
A dramatic and information-packed account of the program to put a man on the Moon by the end of 1969.
Instructional Video6:54
NASA

NASA | Earthrise: The 45th Anniversary

3rd - 11th
In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space. But as crew members Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders all later recalled, the most important...
Instructional Video6:46
NASA

Earthrise in 4K

3rd - 11th
In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space. But as crew members Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders all later recalled, the most important...
Instructional Video16:13
Epic History TV

Apollo Program Part 2: One Giant Leap

12th - Higher Ed
A dramatic and information-packed account of the program to put a man on the Moon by the end of 1969.
Instructional Video0:55
NASA

NASA | LRO Brings "Earthrise" to Everyone

3rd - 11th
On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman and crew members William A. Anders and James A. Lovell, Jr. became the first humans to photograph the Earth rising over the moon. Now, the rest of us can see what it was like in a new...
Instructional Video1:46
NASA

Apollo 8 - 50th Anniversary Montage

3rd - 11th
This video is a montage of NASA archival footage from the Apollo 8 mission. Music: "People Can't Stop Chillin'" by Sports; used with permission. Credit: NASA
Stock Footage2:18
Getty Images

Nixon Inauguration

Pre-K - Higher Ed
US Navy sailors marching outside US Capitol Building on Inauguration Day / guests arriving, having tickets checked by police officers and US Marines / cars arriving at ceremony / Inaugural Platform (gallery) / East Front of US Capitol /...
News Clip1:04
British Movietone

VISIT OF THE MOON MAN

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Colonel Frank Borman, Commander of the Apollo 8 crew, begins a nineteen day tour of European Capitals in London. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of...
News Clip7:05
Curated Video

News Item (74f741bf-e349-88f4-80cd-c13429230523)

Higher Ed
00/00/68 c0005715 no dateline: apollo 8 mission: uncut "apollo 8" shows: shots of the rocket coming up and separating then of capsule orbiting in space: then shots of another separation then of the lem descending on the moon: ...
News Clip7:05
Curated Video

News Item (38ae325b-e54c-96f1-bf70-08ac56c2c90a)

Higher Ed
12/16/68 c0003575 / color downey calif apollo 8 mission animation. uncut "apollo 8" shows: title apollo 8 mission: apollo 8 / saturn v liftoff: first stage separation second stage ignition: interstage separation launch escape...
Instructional Video3:09
Curated Video

America's Moon Age: Part 6

Higher Ed
w009455 6928 America's Steps To The Moon Age Roving Report America's Apollo-11 moonshot is the story of the century -the most epoch-making journey since Columbus discovered the New World. The effort began in 1957 when, after the...
Audio
Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Manifold Greatness: King James Bible: Apollo 8 Audio

9th - 10th
Listen to a recording of the broadcast made to the world by the Apollo 8 astronauts on Christmas Eve, 1968, during their mission to the moon. Text is from Genesis, King James Version.