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Gymnasts compete at West Point to qualify for the 1959 Pan-American Games

Gymnasts compete at West Point to qualify for the United States team in the 1959 Pan-American Games in Chicago, USA. Garland O’Quinn of the United States Military Academy at West Point Gymnast Team shown in semi-slow motion on the parallel bars. Brilliant performances on horizontal bars, trampoline, and parallel bars. Los Angeles schoolteacher John Beckner demonstrates in the finale. Group of people assembled to watch their performances.

Date: 1959, August 13
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040727
Military officers pay last salute to United States airmen killed in Soviet-Armenia, during their funeral in Virginia.

Military honors for United States airmen in Virginia, United States. The crewmen were killed when the unarmed American transport was shot down over Soviet-Armenia. Military personnel carry the coffins of the from a chapel. The coffins are borne to Arlington National Cemetery. A soldier plays a bugle. Other military officers and dignitaries pay last salute to the dead airmen.

Date: 1959, February 9
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055758
Soviet achievements in space race in 1959; NASA Astronauts trained for space flight in United States.

President Dwight D Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev shake hands in the White House during Khrushchev's visit in America, soon after recent Soviet advances in the "space race." Closeup images of the moon, and of images of far side of the moon recorded by Soviets, and also brief Soviet Russian science fiction animated scenes depicting space ships traveling toward the moon, and another space ship vessel in orbit near the moon. In United States two monkeys are shown, named Able and Baker who were part of rocket testing before human flights took place. View of a monkey strapped into a Jupiter rocket and launch is shown of a Jupiter rocket with the monkeys for their space flight. Seven astronauts of the Project Mercury program are shown in training in a weightless, or zero gravity chamber.

Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049182
U.S. Army hosts high school boys in mass shoot of home made model rockets at Camp A.P. Hill in Virginia, United States.

A U.S. Army sponsored model rocketry shoot at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, United States. High school boys gathered at the Camp A P Hill with rockets they designed and built by themselves. They prepare for the shoot of missiles. Army men aid the boys in rocket launching. A boy talks over a phone during a launch countdown. The boys watch as the model rockets are being shot.

Date: 1959, March 9
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055761
The testing of the parachute mechanism of a capsule during Project Mercury at a testing ground in Virginia,United States.

Project Mercury in Virginia, United States. A missile is launched from the testing grounds. A full scale model of a capsule is released which will carry America's first space man into orbit. A parachute opens and the capsule is recovered at sea.

Date: 1959, April 30
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055773
United States astronauts of Project Mercury visit the Langley Research Center in Virginia.

United States astronauts seen at the Langley Research Center in Virginia. Astronauts of Project Mercury inspect the developments in satellite programs. The group smile and pose with one astronaut in a space capsule seat, being held in the air by the other astronauts ( Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton.) They were all chosen the prior month for America's man in space program. They are shown in a high altitude training flight experiencing zero gravity conditions.

Date: 1959, May 9
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055793
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