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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
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
Minuteman II ICBM launch site under construction at Malmstorm AFB in Montana and Vandenberg AFB in California.

A report covering the expansion and modernization of U.S. ICBM force. Site selected for Minuteman II missile launch at Malmstorm Air Force Base in Montana. Car passing through hilly region near Malmstorm AFB. Construction of Minuteman II missile site showing army engineers and men at work. Construction of missile silos. Aerial view of Minuteman base under construction at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota. Control centers and silos under construction. Building missile capsules at air base. Sign reads 'Site Activation Task Force Ballistics Systems Division Air Force Systems Command - Grand Forks AFB No. Dak.'. Exteriors of building. Officer at charts and desks in conference. Flooding at missile base showing heavy equipment operating. Construction of launching facilities at Vandenberg AFB. Test facilities to flight test integrated Minuteman II launchers and missiles. Aerial view of Minuteman II test site at Vandenberg. Officers working in launch control center.

Location: Malmstorm Air Force Base Montana USA
Date: 1965
Duration: 4 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053324
U.S. Air Force personnel mating Agena vehicle to Thor missile and Thor-Agena being raised for a launch at Vandenberg AFB, CA

Thor-Agena orbital launch vehicle being prepared for launch from Vandenberg AFB, California. Entrance of Air Force Ballistic Missile Division in Vandenberg AFB. Truck coming out of the building. Workmen mate Agena vehicle to Thor missile. Thor-Agena being raised to launch position on pad. Interiors of control and data compilation center. Various tracking centers, dish-shaped tracking antenna at Vandenberg AFB, radome at Kodiak in Alaska, TLM-18 antenna at Kaena Point in Hawaii, and tracking vessel at sea.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1968, March 8
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059985
President John F. Kennedy's motorcade drives on Vandenberg AFB roads in California.

U.S. Air Force Airman salutes. A group of children wave. Children and adults accompanied by Air Force personnel and Boy Scouts of America line up in large numbers along Vandenberg AFB road in California, United States. Helicopter covering the event can be seen. Crowd along the route waves and cheers as President John F. Kennedy's motor convoy drives by. Air Force personnel salute as President Kennedy passes by in his plexiglass bubble-top covered Lincoln limousine. Shows presidential convoy of cars and buses traveling along Vandenberg Air Force Base roads.

Location: Vandenberg Air Force Base California USA
Date: 1962, March 23
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028977
Officers watch the preparations of the launch of an Atlas 12 D missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, U.S.

Preparations for the launch of an Atlas 12 D missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States. Strategic Air Command (SAC) Commander in Chief General Thomas S. Power, Commander of the 1st Missile Division Vandenberg AFB Lieutenant General David Wade and Commander of the 15th Air Force Lieutenant General Archie J. Old Jr, and the staff watches the launch. SAC insignia and emblem on Atlas missile in the service structure. The missile on a launching pad. Mark II nose cone on the missile. Base of the missile and the service structure. Number 630 is visible on the missile. Airmen check parts and sections of the missile on the launch pad prior to the launch. Major Ernest E. Bankey Jr. is the officer in charge of the launching pad and procedures. The airmen check equipment and the missile at the launching platform.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1959, September 9
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070420
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