A film about missile launches at Cape Canaveral, Florida. A model of Titan III, a United States Air Force space booster. Titan III launch facilities under construction. Atlas missile on a transport being backed up a ramp to a pad. The missile being prepared for launch by 6555th Aerospace Test Wing personnel and research package is placed in a scientific passenger pod. Atlas 134F with CS-IFT nose cone. Military and civilian personnel gathered to observe the launch of the missile on 1st March, 1963. They watch at launch as the missile lifts off. A minuteman transporter arrives at the launch pad.
A film about missile launches at Cape Canaveral, Florida. 6555th Aerospace Test Wing personnel talk. A person directs a minuteman transporter. The transporter erector being moved. The missile being lowered in a silo. Personnel around the missile. A blockhouse silhouetted against rising sun. An LGM-30 Minuteman, a United States nuclear missile, launched at night on 16th July, 1963. The missile blows up and flaming debris falls. The personnel work at consoles checking books and a telemetry tape in the blockhouse. The launch and the destruction of a Polaris missile. The pieces fall into an ocean.
A film about missile launches at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Aerial view of a submarine in a harbor. The USS Wallace L. Lind (DD-703) underway. Three United States Navy officers talk. USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619) submarine underway. The launch of a Polaris missile on 26th October, 1963. A navy man speaks into a microphone.
Atlas rocket LV-3B 130-D in a hangar and test of an engine in Cape Canaveral Florida, in advance of NASA Mercury-Atlas MA-9 mission. Technicians work on the missile in a hangar. They assemble the outer body parts of the missile. A technician stands on the missile and the other technician helps him to put on the outer cover of the missile. They run tests and check out the vernier engine at Cape Canaveral. They work on the engine. A technician with a paper in his hand. Various tools on the table. The vernier engine on a test machine. A man at a control panel.
Atlas 130D rocket on a transporter in Cape Canaveral Florida. The missile on a transporter backs up on a ramp to complex 14 and it is then attached to a launcher. Two men walk along with the transporter and direct it. A man looks back from the door of the transporter. A sign reads 'United States'. Technicians on missile work on a machine. The transporter in front of a gantry. Major Gordon L. Cooper climbs up steps to a launchpad and watches the erection of Atlas 130D with General Dynamics officials and C. Flower. Major Cooper talks to C. Flower. The missile in the background. Atlas 130D being erected in the gantry for use in NASA Mercury Atlas MA-9 mission. An elevator goes up the gantry. Technicians stand on the gantry
Major L. Gordon Cooper climbs into Faith 7 capsule for his first NASA space flight, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, during the Mercury Atlas MA-9 mission. McDonnell technicians work on a spacecraft. Major Cooper, wearing a flight suit and helmet, arrives in the White Room and salutes Padleader Guenter F. Wendt, who returns the salute. Major Cooper talks with the McDonnell technicians and shakes hands with Lt. Commander Malcolm S. Carpenter and Walter M. Schirra. Commander Alan B. Shepard in white coveralls. Major Cooper climbs into the capsule. Technicians help him getting in. The hatch being secured. A technician with headphones.