A collection of important images demonstrating man's exploration and exploitation of space. The video [which focusses mainly on European ventures] starts with early projects - Sputnik, Yuri Gagarin, the Apollo missions - goes on to catalogue the formation and progression of ESRO and ELDO in the 1960s, and provides extensive coverage of ESA's recent, contemporary and future space missions.
Chapters as follows: From The Space Race To The Fall Of The Iron Curtain; A Tour Through ESA In The Nineties; A Comprehensive Programme For Europe's Space Effort; Facts About ESA.
A comprehensive script accompanies this video.

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10:00:00:00 ESA copyright clearance
10:00:08:01 ESA opening title
10.00.39.15 ESA Logo
10:00:54:24 Sputnik Launch, 4 October 1957
10:00:59:17 Sputnik deployment graphic
10.01.08.10 Sputnik orbit graphic
10.01.17.24 Sputnik newspaper report
10:01:22:13 Title: Yuri Gagarin
10:01:24:19 Baikonur launch control
10:01:30:06 Vostok launch
10:01:37:12 Baikonur control room
10.01.43.04 Vostok launcher lift-off
10:01:59:22 Gagarin profile
10:02:02:04 Gagarin meets Khrushchev at airport
10:02:30:09 Crowds
10:02:32:07 Gagarin walks through streets of Moscow
10:02:45:14 Crowds
10.02.50.08 Gagarin in car
10:02:55:2 Gagarin on balcony in Red Square
10.03.03.06 Crowds with Gagarin banner
10:03:06:16 Gagarin on balcony in Red Square
10:03:09:03 Title: America Responds...
10:03:11:03 Freedom 7 rocket
10:03:19:01 Spectato