Control panel and central switch board. Two men work at board. Views of machines. Needles on a meter moves. Outlets indicate water temperature. Meters depict pressure and temperature. Automatic mechanism works in emergency. Electric supply. Circulation pumps automatically switch on.
Heavy concrete shield for safety of personnel. Pipeline carries radioactive water behind concrete walls. A man closes gate. Steam generators. Instruments register radioactive radiation. Man observes instrument. High stack through which contaminated air goes outside.
Two man stand on reactor. Hook lower down. Pipelines attached at reactor. Men go outside the room. Sound and light signal work. A man observes. Channel shifted to storage tank. Fixes the channel with the help of a special device. Channel is immersed in tank. New channel is installed in reactor, in place of removed one. Turbo generator and needle of a meter. Sub station, utility supplier and electric Poles. A woman works on a machine. A woman milks cow. Russian newspaper.
Men and women in an early Russian rocket club. Men from the Rocket Club prepare for the launch of a single stage rocket. A concrete bunker with slit for observation, stands nearby. They climb on a supporting structure and slowly lower the rocket into position for launch. A man, wearing protective goggles and gloves, fuels the rocket from a pressure cylinder. Several club member climb trees near the site to observe the launch. A woman sits at a desk in the bunker. A man, standing by the rocket, counts down, and then runs behind the bunker holding a rope. The woman in the bunker actuates a plunger, and the rocket ignites. It burns for a while before finally rising in the launch frame and heading skyward.
A Russian science fiction film depicts the return of a proposed reusable space ship vehicle in the Soviet Union. A satellite gives signals about the space vehicle. Civilians listen to the news about the space vehicle at the conclusion of its trip to the moon. The manned space vehicle returns, flying in for an aircraft style water landing. Officers watch the landing through their binoculars. A boat moves towards the space vehicle. The astronauts aboard the boat. (An early concept for what became the future Space Shuttle program of NASA).
A Russian science fiction film depicts rocket research in Russia. A group of scientists attempts to launch a rocket. A man hides from behind a rock for safety. A man signals to launch rocket. Rocket sets off unsuccessfully. Scientist conducting research on a rocket inside a lab. A rocket motor running in his laboratory explodes. Scientist collapses. The rocket on a launch pad. Two men watch the launch from behind rocks. The rocket seems to fire and launch successfully.