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Launching of SNAP (Systems Nuclear Auxiliary Power) 9A generators in space.

Rocket carrying SNAP (Systems Nuclear Auxiliary Power) 9A generator is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. SNAP-9A generator in space center and men working. By animation it is explained how satellite operations are carried out in space by making use of chemical and solar energies but with limitations. It is further explained how SNAP-9A generators work by means of nuclear energy. Animated versions of Thermocouple and Radioisotopes are shown. Shows Atomic Energy Commission men working and Nuclear generators installed at two different sites on earth.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1963, September
Duration: 5 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039685
Launch of Systems Nuclear Auxiliary Power 9A generator after successful tests.

Technicians work at AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) facility on SNAP (Systems Nuclear Auxiliary Power) generators to be launched in June and November months of year 1961. Design of SNAP generator is explained and shows generators at a pole and carried by a rocket in space. SNAP 9A modified by an added AC-DC converter. AEC personnel in fields to test missile launch effects of SNAP 9A. Simulated missile explosions are carried out to check if fuel capsule can withstand fire and explosions. After successful tests, SNAP 9A is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1963, September
Duration: 4 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039686
Launching of Thor-Agena vehicle flight as C-119 recovery unit makes practice snatch of parachute and capsule.

Thor-Agena orbital vehicle being launched from Vandenberg air force base, California. Missile launch crew in blockhouse prepares for launch. Thor-Agena engine ignition, lift-off and climb. Launch crew in blockhouse after Thor-Agena firing. Animation depicts flight of Thor-Agena including second-stage separation. Agena pitches to horizontal position and ground radar antenna receives signal from Agena. Second stage ignition and cut-off, and nose cone separation and re-entry over the Pacific. U.S. Air Force RC-121 aircraft in flight. U.S. Air Force C-119 recovery unit makes practice snatch of parachute and capsule. C-119 Flying Boxcar planes in flight. Recovery unit in the Pacific. C-119 aircraft equipped with trapeze. Us Air Force Captain speaks at Vandenberg AFB. He stands beneath a dish shaped radar in operation. Agena vehicle travels through star-studded sky.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1968, March 8
Duration: 5 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059986
United States of America and Britain test Nuclear Weapons.

United States of America and and Britain test Nuclear Weapons. The Titan II missile undergoes its first test at Vandenberg Air Force Base in a shoot from an underground pad. The missile gets destroyed in air with an explosion. The British unveil their Blue Steel, a nuclear air-to-ground bomb designed to fill the gap left by the scrapped skybolt. View of Royal Air Force V bomber taking off.

Location: Vandenberg Air Force Base California USA
Date: 1963, February 18
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039127
Launching of Atlas D intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

Coverage of missile squadron training at Vandenberg AFB, California. Staff car driving to Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star airplane on flight line. Two colonels getting out and talking. T-33 (with SAC riband) taking off. Colonel in staff car. Car comes to halt. Driver opens the door of car. Atlas D with Mk II and Mod II nose cone erect in coffin shelter. Atlas assembly line in factory with workers at work. View of Atlas during engine ignition, lift-off and climb. View of launch control building. Airmen working on Atlas instrumentation pod. Airmen studying target maps, then airmen inserting cards in sorter to obtain target data.

Location: Vandenberg Air Force Base California USA
Date: 1968, May 8
Duration: 7 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053319
The launch of an Atlas 12 D missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States.

Preparations for the launch of an Atlas 12 D missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States. A service structure is backed away from the missile. The Mark II nose cone on the top of the missile. United States Air Force personnel operate control panels in the launch control room. The countdown clock and TV monitors in the background. The missile on the launching platform. LOX vapors stream from the missile. USAF personnels at the launch control panels and watch TV monitors. A countdown clock. Personnel at the control panels of the consoles. Atlas on launch pad. LOX vapors around the missile.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1959, September 9
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070421
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