Rocket engine nozzle at launching. The engine rises slowly from launch pad. An engineer behind control panel. A rocket launches a captured German V-2 rocket/WAC Corporal Bumper 8 from Pad 3 of Cape Canaveral on July 24, 1950. Two United States Air Force Convair F-106As Delta Dart in flight. Aerial view of launch complexes. Titan II missile is launched. The Titan II missile explodes mid-air. A huge ball of fire from Titan II explosion. A scientist uses a tracking camera during a Titan II rocket launch. Footage from camera shows the first stage separation of the Titan II. The booster blasted away at second stage ignition. Various tracking stations covering the Atlantic missile range. A satellite dish recording telemetry data. Observatory dome with telescope rotating. The USS HH Arnold (T-AGM-9) missile tracking ship at sea. A re-entry vehicle is seen re-entering the atmosphere. A United States Air Force Lockheed JC-130B Hercules equipped with a trapeze structure snatching an Aero kite balloon suspended from a ship. Air Force Missile Test Center and its logo. View of Patrick Air Force Base in Brevard County, Florida (840 Falcon Ave. Building 720 Patrick AFB, FL 32925). Various missiles on display in front of the Air Force Missile Test Center Technical Lab at Patrick Air Force Base. Engineers working in the Air Force Missile Test Center Technical Lab. An engineer examines a magnetic tape from an IBM console in the EDP room. An Air Force Missile Test Center report. A Gemini space capsule is being lowered. NASA personnel watch the capsule. Sign reads “Gemini / Titan II Man Rated Complex Martin Company”. Lt. Colonel John G. Albert Chief of the Gemini Launch division, 6555th Aerospace Test Wing at the entering gate. A blockhouse in the background. Colonel Albert inspects Gemini’s boosters. He is at the launch control in the blockhouse.
A film about missile launches in the United States. U.S. Army 2nd Missile Battalion of 44th Artillery conducts a test under simulated operational conditions. A mobile launcher and support equipment mounted on a half truck moves over a scrub land at Cape Canaveral. A Pershing missile being erected at a firing site. Personnel go through a countdown and check out the missile launch. Tracking of the Pershing missile. The missile being launched.
A film about missile launches in the United States. A United States Air Force (USAF) Boeing B-52 Stratofortress aircraft in flight. A AGM-28 Hound Dog missile drops from the aircraft.
A film about missile launches in the United States. A missile taken on a trailer. The crew at Cape Canaveral checks out the firing of a United States Air Force tactical missile Mace (CGM13B) at a practice launch. Crew members bring equipment for checking. The equipment after being tested is carried away. A digital time recorder. The missile being launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
A film about missile launches in the United States. Scientists place a measuring device for ion band on a payload. The pay load is mated to an SLV-I missile. Men work on communication devices in a blockhouse. The SLV-I is launched. The tracking of the missile.
A film about missile launches in the United States. Personnel insert a Nike, a robing sounding rocket, into a launch tube. The launch tube is raised. The rocket being launched. The Nike Cajun, a two-stage sounding rocket, being prepared for a launch. The rocket being mated to a gin pole type launcher. The launch pad being erected. The rocket being placed on the launch pad. A personnel works on the control equipment. The rocket being launched. Smoke contrails come out. The tracking of the rocket.