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| The Kettering Group | Tyneside, UK 2021 Jan 31 Sunday, Day 31
Maintained by: Robert Christy Zarya Home Kettering Group Home Kettering Group Chronology 1966 ATV Today Interviews 1966 Flight Int'l Plesetsk Letter 1966 "Pentagon Signals A Hit" 1966 Film Snippets 1967 First Sheldon Report 1968 Panorama 1977 Archive Film 1978 New Scientist 1985 "The Kettering Connection" 1991 Philatelic Commemoration 1993 The Wonderstuff 1995 The Express Story 2010 BIS 'Spaceflight' 50 years 2015 - Obituary, Derek Slater 2016 - 50th yr Celebration 2018 - Science Museum The Kettering Tracking Station Radio Frequencies Members and Reminiscences Kettering Group on the Web: "Cytringanian Farewell" Extract Book published on closure of the School Sven's Space Place Kettering results, history, exploits and accounts 'Time' mag on Plesetsk 1966 Contemporary Article Project Kettering website Geoff Perry item Human Spaceflight Telemetry Soyuz & Salyut - article by Geoff Perry Demolition of the School BBC News Feature | BBC Panorama 1968 - "The Seventh Continent" Prior to the Christmas 1968 Apollo 8 mission to the Moon, the BBC current affairs programme "Panorama" that went out on December 16 interviewed NASA acting Administrator Dr Thomas O Paine. Instead of a straightforward face-to-face session with the reporter, Michael Charlton, the questions were put by pupils of Kettering Grammar School. The interview was created by the questions and answers being relayed between the School's Lecture Theatre and a Washington studio by a voice link. Camera crews filmed each side separately for later editing into a seamless trans-Atlantic production. The title of the report is slightly puzzling in that the Earth already had seven continents at the time it was made. Did someone at the BBC drop a clanger? This contact sheet was created by John Marshall, one of the teachers at the School, from screen shots of the finished programme. It has suffered a little in 40+ years having been on display, unframed, in Bob Christy's parents' house. People discernable in the photos are listed below the image. The time sequence runs left-right and bottom-top. NOTE - Dr Paine succeeded James Webb in 1968 and was named acting NASA Administrator. The Senate confirmed his permanency during 1969.
Row | Frame | Names
1 | 1 | Graham Coleman
| 2 | Derek Slater, Geoff Perry, Russell Gladden (teachers) and Vic Rowe
| 3 | Chris Gregory
| 6 | Astronauts Frank Borman, Bill Anders, Jim Lovell
2 | 1 | NASA Adminstrator Dr Thomas O Paine, BBC reporter Michael Charlton
| 2 | Toby Manning
| 3 | Toby Manning
| 4 | Brian Dix
| 5 | Bob Christy
| 6 | Chris Gregory
3 | 1 | Arthur York
| 2 | Dr Thomas O Paine, Michael Charlton
| 3 | the question panel
| 4 | Mick Boughton
| 5 | Mick Boughton
| 6 | Dr Thomas O Paine
4 | 1 | Dr Wernher von Braun
| 2 | Michael Charlton
| 4 | Dr Thomas O Paine, unidentified
| 5 | Dr Thomas O Paine
| 6 | unidentified, Arthur York
5 | 1 | Jim Lovell
| 2 | Frank Borman
| 3 | James Mossman (BBC journalist)
| 4 | Dr Thomas O Paine
| 6 | Dr Wernher von Braun
6 | 1 | Dr Wernher von Braun
| 4 | Bill Anders

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