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Space and aeronautics events in 1957 including Sputnik 2 launch with dog Laika, U.S. Vanguard rocket, and NATO missile diplomacy

Major "space race" and defense events of the year 1957. Laika, Soviet space dog prepared for the space flight. Laika takes off in Sputnik 2 in Soviet Union. An animation shows the spacecraft in outer space. In United States, Space Race efforts to launch a small "grapefruit" satellite on Vanguard TV-3 test rocket meet in failure as the rocket explodes at take off on December 6, 1957. View of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. President Dwight D Eisenhower arrives in Paris, France to talk about the development of missiles with other NATO leaders. The French Prime Minister Felix Gaillard with President Eisenhower. View of Atlas missile SM-65A Serial 12A launched successfully from Cape Canaveral pad LC-14 in Florida, United States, on December 17, 1957.

Date: 1957, December 23
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049172
American Astronaut John Glenn takes a NASA Astronaut transfer van and arrives in Mercury-Atlas 6 launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Close up view of John Glenn, wearing his spacesuit. Media reporters taking notes while they watch the astronaut information officer, who is announcing important information about the upcoming launch of Friendship 7. John Glenn, wearing his spacesuit, walking out of the hangar of Cape Canaveral, Florida and waves at military officers. John Glenn gives a short wave. Reporters observe John Glenn closely as he and an entourage of engineers board the NASA astronaut transfer van. NASA scientists and technicians, wearing white jumpsuits and work helmets, make final preparations for the launch of Friendship 7. Shadows of men against wall. View of Pad 14 in Cape Canaveral. Arclight on on Pad 14. View of Friendship 7 on Pad 14 in Cape Canaveral before launch. NASA astronaut transfer van, carrying John Glenn, approaching Pad 14 in Cape Canaveral before launch. Side view of John Glenn inside the NASA astronaut transfer van. View of NASA transfer van wall written with names of animal and human astronauts previously launched before John Glenn- Ham (the chimpanzee), (Alan) Shepard, (Virgil “Gus”) Grissom, and Enos (the chimpanzee). View of hardware inside NASA transfer van. View of NASA transfer van interior roof with “A. Shepard” stenciled. View of clock moving. View of John Glenn looking sideways. NASA transfer van with police escort entering Pad 14 before launch of Friendship 7. NASA scientists waiting for Friendship 7 to launch. NASA transfer van approaching Friendship 7. NASA staff near Pad 14 service tower. John Glenn waits inside NASA astronaut transfer van. NASA astronaut transfer van approaches near Friendship 7. NASA staff watches the launch preparation. John Glenn and entourage of scientists get off the NASA astronaut transfer van. John Glenn shakes hands with NASA employee before getting inside elevator of Pad 14 service tower. Elevator ascends the service tower of Pad 14. John Glenn and the NASA scientists inside elevator of service tower. NASA ground crew in service tower watch the elevator containing John Glenn ascend. A NASA scientist gives his colleague a pat on the back before he and his colleagues accompany John Glenn out of the elevator. Mcdonnell Aircraft Corp crew, wearing white jumpsuits assist John Glenn to enter the Friendship 7. Flag of the United States painted on Friendship 7. View of John Glenn’s eyes blinking. “United States” written on Friendship 7. View of John Glenn’s eyes before launch of friendship 7.

Date: 1962, February 20
Duration: 4 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079057
American labor challenged in the age of space exploration and advanced technology

Portion of a documentary on the history of the Labor Department in the United States.Opening scene shows first successful launch of an American Atlas ballistic missile from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on December 17, 1957. U.S. Astronaut, Alan B. Shepard emerging from the NASA Mercury Freedom 7 capsule on the deck of the USS Lake Champlain, after it was recovered from space flight in orbit and placed aboard the ship. Tape decks operating as part of an IBM early computer room. Machine controlled multiple drills in operation. Earth moving equipment at work on a construction site. Automatic equipment employed remotely in a hazardous environment. Robotic machine elements at work. Chemists in a laboratory. Remotely controlled devices handling radioactive materials in a radiation shielded space. A nuclear test explosion. Coal miners heading to work as they always have, with helmets including lights and their lunch pails. Children of the rural poor in a school yard with dirt paths in a rural area, possibly Appalachian. Automatic equipment speeding industrial production, but displacing unskilled workers. Highly trained technical workers in a company computer room. An older factory becoming obsolete. Large scale coal boring machinery seen boring in a mine, replacing the pick and shovel coal miner of the past. Automated farm machinery replacing the old-time farm hand.

Date: 1963
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063346
Missile at launch pad lifts-off from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

First launch of Atlas prototype in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Missile at launchpad. Ignition comes out. Missile ready for lift-off. Smoke comes out from the missile. Missile lift-off.

Date: 1957, June 7
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021387
X-17 R-25 missile is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and disappears into space.

A missile launch in the United States. An X-17 R-25 missile, designed to study aerothermodynamics of reentry into the atmosphere, is fired from Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States. The missile spins around slowly during its ascent, its four large tail fins visible. Various views of the missile in flight.

Date: 1957, March
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061333
First launch of Navaho missile XSM-64 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

First flight of the XSM-64 Five Flight Program is shown. XSM-64 ready for launch stands vertically on the launch-stand. The missile is fired and it shoots-up. As the missile moves, it's path is first vertical, then it bends and finally it over turns downwards, making a parabola. Clear trail of fire at tail end of the missile as the missile is fired. Engine ejects as missile approaches earth.

Date: 1957, August 12
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027880
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