English subtitles for clip: File:1946-01-31 Radar makes Round Trip To Moon.ogv
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1 00:00:05,828 --> 00:00:09,032 The vivid imaginations of H. G. Wells and Buck Rogers 2 00:00:09,032 --> 00:00:11,818 never cooked up a more fantastic experience than the 3 00:00:11,818 --> 00:00:15,069 army engineers at their laboratory in Belmar, New Jersey. 4 00:00:15,069 --> 00:00:18,692 Banks of instrument panels control a radar installation 5 00:00:18,692 --> 00:00:23,034 that gives man his first actual contact with the Moon. 6 00:00:23,034 --> 00:00:28,003 An amazing round trip of over 477,000 miles! 7 00:00:31,230 --> 00:00:33,041 Ready to shoot the moon! 8 00:00:33,041 --> 00:00:35,689 The radar antenna is pointed directly at <i>Luna</i> 9 00:00:35,689 --> 00:00:37,987 and the thrill of a lifetime is in the making. 10 00:00:50,155 --> 00:00:52,662 Three two-and-a-half-second trips up and back. 11 00:00:52,662 --> 00:00:54,961 If you're ready for another trip to the Moon, let's go! 12 00:01:02,740 --> 00:01:06,594 That was a 180-cycle note, just about like your home radio. 13 00:01:06,594 --> 00:01:10,542 It opens up unlimited possibilities for interstellar experiment, 14 00:01:10,542 --> 00:01:14,234 according to Colonel DeWitt who supervised the project. 15 00:01:15,580 --> 00:01:18,715 <i>DeWitt:</i> Calculations showed that radar equipment could be 16 00:01:18,715 --> 00:01:22,430 put together which would reach the Moon and return. 17 00:01:24,241 --> 00:01:26,563 If one allows the imagination free reign, 18 00:01:26,563 --> 00:01:30,279 many future possibilities appear: 19 00:01:32,368 --> 00:01:37,523 Spaceships, carrying passengers at thousands of miles per hour, 20 00:01:37,523 --> 00:01:42,469 can be controlled and communication established with their passengers, 21 00:01:42,469 --> 00:01:46,811 for we now know that the Earth's atmosphere can be penetrated.