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Promotional video for the Columbia shuttle launch that took place on April 12, 1981. Features the launch, work on board the shuttle, mission control, and the shuttle's return to Earth on April 14, 1981 after orbiting the Earth 36 times.
Gen. Thomas Darling, Air Force, Vietnam (A&M Class of ‘54) (Interviewed Sept. 27, 2006) From the summer of 1987 to the summer of 1996, Major General Thomas G Darling served as Commandant of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets. But his years of service to our country started long before that, 33 years before to be exact. As a member of the class of 1954 -- two months after graduation he was active-duty Air Force. He learned to fly and fly he did it, more than 7000 hours, 500 of those piloting the giant B-52 on some 46 combat missions in Vietnam.
Gen. Thomas Darling, Air Force, Vietnam (A&M Class of ‘54) (Interviewed Sept. 27, 2006) From the summer of 1987 to the summer of 1996, Major General Thomas G Darling served as Commandant of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets. But his years of service to our country started long before that, 33 years before to be exact. As a member of the class of 1954 -- two months after graduation he was active-duty Air Force. He learned to fly and fly he did it, more than 7000 hours, 500 of those piloting the giant B-52 on some 46 combat missions in Vietnam.
Thomas Hatfield, Rudder Author (Interviewed March 4, 2011) It was natural that Thomas Hatfield would write the definitive biography of General Earl Rudder. Afterall, as a student he worked summers at the Texas Land Office when General Rudder was its commissioner and later served in an Army reserve unit that was under Rudder’s command. But that’s not why Thomas Hatfield wrote the book “Rudder: From Leader to Legend”. You see Thomas Hatfield is a life long educator and like General Rudder, was a college president and now is one of the foremost historians on World War II and military history. He is a senior research fellow at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas and is director of its Military History Institute.
Performance of a work that is an adaptation of Georges Méliès. 1902 film, Le Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip to the Moon). This project deconstructed and developed Méliès’ film into a work of devised theatre that investigates, converses with, and intervenes in the original work. The goal is not to exactly replicate the film or simply adapt it for the stage, but to understand what the film and its creator are saying and craft a response using some of the same aesthetic and contextual language. What does the film articulate now, two-hundred years after its release? Combining biographical, autobiographical, historical, and generic elements, the resulting performance piece explores questions of identity, exploration, memory, the medium of film itself and our relationship to it.
Tom Browning, Army Military Police, WW II Interviewed Feb.1, 2006 As important as any military detail of World War II was the Military Police -- providing personal protection for those conducting the war, and from time to time dealing with those soldiers whose behavior might undermine the unity of a mission. Sergeant Tom Browning of Bryan was a member of one of the very first military police battalions of the US Army, as a member of the 503rd and 504th MPs, he was quickly promoted from PFC to Corporal, then to Sergeant then First Sergeant and as a result of his duty, was in December 1944, awarded the Bronze Star Medal for what his Captain called meritorious service in connection with military operations against an enemy of the United States and France. Later, as a member of the 512th military police, Sergeant Browning was attached to General George Patton's 3rd Army.
Ty Newton, U.S. Air Force, Vietnam (Interviewed March 28, 2007) Ty Newton of College Station could have pursued a pro sports career if he hadn’t loved flying more than he loved baseball. He was pretty good at both but flying was in his blood. He was an instructor pilot both before and after his 4 1/2 years of service in Viet Nam, and even pulled duty as then Congressman Lyndon Johnson’s personal pilot in the late 50’s. Ty Newton flew C-130s during Viet Nam... at the time classified missions that included everything from re-supplying the Laotian Army to dropping flares for U.S. Fighters to better see their targets. It was a mission he could not talk about then, but can now.
Tyson Voelkel, U.S. Army, Iraq (A&M Class of ‘96) (Interviewed Oct. 10, 2005) Tyson Voelkel was a proud soldier of the 82nd Airborne, a graduate student at the George Bush School of Public Service, who also taught at West Point in 2007. It was a quick path from Texas A&M Corp of Cadet Commander to Iraq, Company A commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment. He was a paratrooper. His unit attached to the Army's 1st Armored Division, working for a time in the Al Rashid district of Baghdad. He was there for two tours.. Today Tyson Voelkel is the Executive Director of the Texas A&M foundation.
Ronald Reagan's speech given on January 28, 1987 to commemorated the Challenger 7 disaster. The captured video quality reflects the quality of the original object.