NASA Uploads Hundreds of Rare Aircraft Films to YouTube (gizmodo.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday July 21, 2017 @04:40AM from the good-stuff dept.

An anonymous reader shares an article: NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center is currently in the process of uploading hundreds of extremely rare films to YouTube. And I'd advise you to stop reading if you want to get any work done today. The center has uploaded roughly 300 of the planned 500 films that it will continue to put up over the coming months. And as you can see from the well-populated YouTube channel, they have everything from 1950s experimental aircraft like the X-3 Stiletto to 1960s Lunar Landing Research Vehicle tests (seen in the GIF above) to videos of the time that they intentionally crashed a Boeing 720 in 1984.

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NASA films are so well produced, love 'em by Anonymous Coward · 2017-07-21 05:13 · Score: 0, Flamebait

That series of movies back in the 60s called the Apollo Program or something like that -- what a breakthrough for its time. The actors in the series were spot on, though some of the props they used were fairly unsophisticated and led to some eye rolling moments for the audiences.
With all the garbage Hollywood produces nowadays, it would be nice to see NASA produce another sequel of that series.