Project Mercury program in United States. A Redstone MR-2 rocket is unloaded from the military air transport. It is towed with a tug and is taken to a hangar for service where technicians work on it. It is taken out of the hangar and is raised up to the level of a gantry. The rocket is tied to a rope and men pull the rope to raise the rocket. The rocket at the gantry. Men stand around it. Technician work on a spacecraft. A sign reads 'United States'. The technicians take pictures of the spacecraft. It is brought near the rocket. The spacecraft is hooked and pulled up. A sign reads 'Danger Explosive Installed'. Technicians talk and look up. Men on the gantry. A technicians looks into a book . The spacecraft is attached to a rocket by the technicians.
NASA Project Mercury program in United States. Chimpanzee 'Ham' gets medical check up prior to being strapped onto a couch. The chimpanzee container is unloaded from a NASA van. A sign reads 'No Smoking In This Area'. The chimpanzee container is loaded into a gantry elevator and the elevator ascends. The chimpanzee is taken to Mercury Redston rocket and is put inside it. A sign reads ' McDonnell Aircraft Corp.' A technician at a control panel. Recovery ships leave dock. The space rocket is prepared for launch. Launch team technicians at the NASA mission control center. The countdown starts. The rocket is fueled with liquid oxygen. A tower. Men in a blockhouse. A man with headphones looks at the control panel. The countdown machine. A stand is removed from the rocket at a launch pad. The smoke comes out and the rocket lift-off. The rocket in flight. A technician monitors the respiration and heart of the chimpanzee. A man at a control panel. The mission event board shows the flight status. An airplane in flight locates the spacecraft. Recovery ship converges with the spacecraft. A helicopter retrieves the spacecraft and returns to a ship. The chimpanzee is taken out from the spacecraft and is examined by a doctor.
Animated scenes of a rocket launch in United states. The scenes depict a rocket in flight. Smoke comes out from the rocket. Tower jettison. Separation of a spacecraft from the rocket. Parachute deployment, descent, splashdown and recovery.
Animated scenes of a rocket launch. The scenes depict a rocket in flight. Smoke comes out from the rocket. Tower jettison. The separation of a spacecraft from the rocket. Parachute deployment, descent, splashdown and recovery.
Officer fires artillery outside the Pekan police station in Pahang, Malaysia. Naval officers march while dignitary reviews them. Officers dance with women. Malaysians perform the traditional dragon dance.
Northrop Aircraft Company,Inc. Anaheim Division building in California, United States. Interiors show the precision grinding of glass lenses on various grinding and polishing machines. Technician examines glass with the help of a microscope. Woman works and looks through a magnifying lense.
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