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President Kennedy watches Saturn rocket launch with Florida Senator George A. Smathers and Wernher von Braun

Crowds gathered in front of the United States Air Force One aircraft (VC-137C SAM 26000) after the arrival of United States President John F. Kennedy at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Honor guard holding the flag of the United States. President Kennedy sits in a car with Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), James E. Webb, and Air Force Missile Test Center (AFMTC) Commander Major General Leighton I. Davis. Later astronauts Major Gordon Cooper and Major Gus (Virgil) Grissom in a quick shot brief the President about the Gemini capsule. The car with the president drives away. President Kennedy, wearing sunglasses, stands at the base and looks upward to see the Saturn Rocket. President Kennedy is accompanied by Florida Senator George A. Smathers and aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun. President Kennedy flies by USMC UH-3A helicopter to the U.S. Navy ship USS Observation Island (EAG-154).

Date: 1963, November 16
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080557
A gantry, a blockhouse and sign boards at a missile test center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Launching of a Pershing missile in Cape Canaveral, Florida. A sign reads: "Atlantic Missile Range, Pershing Launch Area No. 30, Army Ballistic Missile Agency". A missile hangar. Views of a gantry and a blockhouse. Signs read "Cape Canaveral". " Patrick AFB", "Welcome to Cocoa Beach, Space Capital USA", "Atlantic Missile Range, Station No. 1, Air Force Missile Test Center".

Date: 1960, February 25
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072130
Close up of Faith 7 capsule during launch of Mercury Atlas-9 rocket in Cape Canaveral, Florida

NASA Faith 7 Capsule seen in detail during launch of Mercury Atlas-9 mission in United States, with astronaut Gordon Cooper aboard. Atlas rocket on a launchpad. The rocket lifts off. Smoke comes out from the engine. The missile climbs up and contrails left out by the missile. The rocket in flight.

Date: 1963, May 15
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021466
NASA Astronaut Major Gordon Cooper after returning from his 22 orbit flight in space.

The crew of Kearsarge carrier ship goes into action off Midway Island in the Pacific for the return of the Major Gordon Cooper and his 'Faith 7' capsule after his 22 orbit flight in space. Crowd cheering after seeing Major Gordon Cooper. Major walks for a medical check up in the ship's hospital. Major Cooper dining with other officers and flies to Hickam Field in Honolulu. Cooper is greeted by his wife and daughters. View of welcome parade and a large crowd gathered for Major L. Gorgon Cooper. From there he is flown to Florida to attend a press conference at Cape Canaveral where he shares his experiences.

Date: 1963, May 20
Duration: 5 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039124
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
Astronaut John Herschel Glenn orbits the earth in Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 spacecraft which took off from the U.S.

A film on the life of American astronaut John Herschel Glenn Jr. He was the first American to orbit the earth in 1962. Unmanned experimental flights. Launch of a spacecraft. Astronauts at work. Training of the astronauts. American astronaut Alan Shepard in a spacecraft. The Mercury-Atlas 6 mission underway. Men work on a spacecraft. Preparation for the launch of the spacecraft at Cape Canaveral in Florida. The spacecraft on a launch pad. Astronauts prepare for the spaceflight. Men at work in a building. The Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 spacecraft is ready to be launched. John Glenn prepares for the flight. The spacecraft on a launch pad. A U.S. flag on the spacecraft. Glenn takes his position in Friendship 7. The countdown begins. People gather and look at the spacecraft. Glenn in the spacecraft. The spacecraft is launched. Vapors rise from the bottom of the spacecraft at liftoff. It ascends towards the sky. Technicians establish contact with Glenn. Views of mission control stations and countdown clocks. United States Air Force missile range instrumentation ship Rose Knot underway as it follows the course of the spacecraft.

Date: 1963
Duration: 6 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070448