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Provisions being made for telemetry and radar tracking of NASA Mercury spacecraft during earth orbits.

Equipment being installed to track NASA Mercury spacecraft during earth orbits. A 60 foot dish being positioned on a pedestal by a crane at Eglin Auxiliary Field no.5 at Eglin air force base in Florida,United States. MPQ-31 antenna rotates.

Date: 1961, April
Duration: 2 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038294
Operator works on spacecraft tracking equipment for NASA Project Mercury, at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, United States

Radar tracking units for NASA Project Mercury at Eglin air force base in Florida,United States. MPQ-31 antenna rotating. Operator at control console. An FPS-16 radar unit antenna rotating.

Date: 1961, April
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038295
NASA Project Mercury spacecraft tracking facility at Eglin AFB

Operators at work in NASA Project Mercury tracking facility at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. An FPS-16 operator at control console.Other equipment seen include time signal receiver and time standard equipment. Several technicians are seen, some performing diagnostic testing of equipment.. (Note: The FPS-16 units originally planned for the Project Mercury tracking network did not have adequate displays and controls to reliably acquire the spacecraft during orbit. So NASA had them modified to double their range and also incorporated data-handling equipment to facilitate transmissions from all sites to the Mercury Project computers.)

Date: 1961, April
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038296
A man works on teletype at Eglin air force base in Florida ,United States

A man works on teletype in tracking station for project Mercury at Eglin air force base in Florida,United States. Words being typed on a paper.

Date: 1961, April
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038297
U.S. Air Force Boeing B-52 carrying a X-15 rocket-powered aircraft of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

United States Boeing B-52 Stratofortress takes off from Edwards Air Force Base. The B-52 carries X-15 rocket-powered aircraft. The X-15 rocket-powered aircraft releases. X-15 aircraft in flight reaching 2,905 MPH. The X-15 landing on the dried lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base. Pilot, Major Bob White, seen climbing out of the cockpit of the X-15, and talking to NASA officials.

Date: 1961, March 9
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041457
A civil defense worker uses phone at NORAD Defense Center in Colorado, United States.

Aerospace Force Communication Electronics. A civilian defense worker at a desk speaks over phone at NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) Defense Center in Colorado, United States. He keeps the receiver down and works on a console in front of him. He answers a phone call.

Date: 1961, April 25
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048948