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Atlas missile 27E launches with huge explosion on the ground at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
Atlas missile 27E launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Missile ready for the launch. It falls with a large explosion on the ground. Fire and black smoke rises from the explosion.
Atlas missile 27E explodes soon after its launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
Atlas missile 27E launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. View of Atlas 27E ready to launch. Large explosion on the ground soon after its launch. Fire and black smoke rises from the explosion. (Note: This was the ninth E-series Atlas launched and the first from the West Coast. The missile suffered combustion instability in one booster engine, the resultant asymmetrical thrust causing it to tip over and explode on impact with the silo wall. OSTF-1 suffered extensive damage and did not host another launch for nine months.)
Atlas missile 27E ready to launch from a launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
Atlas missile 27E launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. View of a launch pad and Atlas 27E ready to launch.
Former President Eisenhower officially received by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as its most distinguished son.
Former President Eisenhower honored at a ceremony in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Former President Eisenhower in a car. Crowds line the streets. A cameraman takes photographs of the event. President Eisenhower is given a gift. He addresses the people.
Military build up during a war exercise in Virginia, United States.
United States army in forests of Virginia. Soldiers move slowly with rifles in hands. They take positions on ground and fire as belt of bullets move speedily. Rocket launcher mounted on a military jeep. A soldier see through his binoculars. A missile on a truck. Soldiers talk on radio frequency. The missile launch to its target.
Tracking and radar telemetry preparations for NASA project Mercury orbital flights
Animated map showing planned orbital flight paths planned for Project Mercury and associated telemetry and radar tracking installations worldwide. Chart notes some sites operated by the U.S. Air Force Air Research and Development Command (ARDC). Views of telemetry and radar tracking installation at Mercury network station 17, located at site A-20, Eglin AFB. Operator at control console setting azimuth and elevation controls of the Active Acquisition Aid (AGAVE). (This device is designed to receive the spacecraft telemetering signals and automatically track it, in angle, with sufficient accuracy so the radar can lock on to the spacecraft.) The Aquisition Aid quad helix antenna is seen rotating.