*Welcome back!* Last week we were busy uploading new videos to the site. We will continue adding new videos this week while we also work to get some new features out. What would you like to see or do on this site? As always, we welcome your “feedback”:mailto:feedback@internationalspacearchives.com.
h2. New This Week
Famous narrators of space documentaries:
* *Ricardo Montalbán* (1920-2009) narrates “Space for Women”:http://www.internationalspacearchives.com/assets/952 (1981). Montalbán, who died this past week, is perhaps best known for his role as Mr. Roarke in the television series “Fantasy Island”. He also played roles on Star Trek. “Space for Women” features interviews with Astronauts Anna Lee Fisher and Kathryn Sullivan as well as other women working at NASA.
* *William Shatner* (1931-) narrates “Universe”:http://www.internationalspacearchives.com/assets/850 (1976), a 26-minute documentary about the evolution of the universe. Directed by Lester Novros, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
* *Burgess Meredith* (1908-1997) narrates the whimsical “History of Flight: A Man’s Reach Should Exceed His Grasp”:http://www.internationalspacearchives.com/assets/595 (1972). Among other roles, Meredith played Rocky Balboa’s trainer in the movie “Rocky”, the The Penguin in the television version of “Batman”, and starred in four episodes of “The Twilight Zone”.
Space and science videos for classrooms:
* All 30 Episodes of the “Starfinder”:http://www.internationalspacearchives.com/assets?query=%22starfinder%22 series are now available. The Starfinder Project used discoveries enabled by the Hubble Space Telescope to create the series which teaches beginning astronomy and space science at a level appropriate for junior high, high school, and introductory college classes.
h2. 42 Years Ago This Week
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(Apollo 1/204 Astronauts, left to right: Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee Credit: NASA)
On January 27, 1967 tragedy struck on the launch pad during a preflight test of Apollo 204, which was scheduled to be the “first Apollo manned mission”:http://www.internationalspacearchives.com/assets?query=mission_hierarchy%3A%28Moon+Missions%2FApollo+Program%2FApollo+1%2F204%2A%29, and would have been launched on February 21, 1967. Astronauts “Gus Grissom”:http://www.internationalspacearchives.com/assets/1031, “Ed White”:http://www.internationalspacearchives.com/assets/379, and “Roger Chaffee”:http://nasaarchives.imagefortress.com/assets/1030 lost their lives when a fire swept through the Command Module. Showing remarkable resiliency, the Apollo program continued forward and launched its first manned mission (”Apollo 7″:http://www.internationalspacearchives.com/mission_patches/234) the following October. This “documentary”:http://nasaarchives.imagefortress.com/assets/617 begins with the Apollo 1 tragedy, but shows highlights from NASA’s accomplishments that followed in 1967 and 1968.
h2. How to Help
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