USS Enterprise underway at sea in the United States. A U.S. Navy AD Skyraider aircraft in flight over the aircraft carrier. The aircraft makes an arrested landing. The pilot folds the wings of the aircraft upon stopping. The arresting wire is released and the airplane taxis forward.
U.S. aircraft in flight over a sea in the United States. U.S. Navy A3J Vigilante aircraft in flight. Three F4H Phantom aircraft fly in formation overhead. Bomb hits are made on water surface. The hits are made near a target area. Smoke rises from explosions. U.S. Navy AD Skyraider aircraft makes a diving run. A bomb impacts and an explosion in water. Three A3J Vigilante aircraft fly in formation. Three F4H Phantom aircraft in flight. Four U.S. Navy F-8U Crusader in a formation flight.
Animated representation of signals sent to communications satellite Telstar 1 from the ground station at Andover, Minnesota. Telstar communication satellite at a ground station in Andover. Technicians checking the satellite before launch. View of Telstar rotating within a lit box as the sapphire coated solar cells on its surface are explained by narrator: Solar energy collected by the solar panel cells powers the sattelite's operation. View of the satellite with the equipment that receives data and amplifies and retransmits the data. Telstar prepared to be launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Telstar satellite aboard a Thor-Delta rocket takes off from Cape Canaveral. Officers at the station tracking the satellite. The rocket with the satellite on its path. Animation shows signals sent from from the station to the satellite. Officers tracking the path of the satellite Telstar. The first picture sent by the satellite are of the dome of the station at Andover with the U.S. flag beside the dome of the station. Animation shows future network of satellites that will someday encircle the globe.
View from aircraft landing at Leeward Point Airfield, Quantanamo Bay, Cuba. U.S. troops exiting C-135 transport aircraft. U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) headquarters charting planned airborne alert missions of SAC bombers, during Cuban Missile Crisis. SAC crews in briefing rooms. Aerial view of a United States Navy nuclear submarine partially submerged. Bomb and missiles being loaded on SAC aircraft. Flight of two F-104 starfighter aircraft taking off. B-52 Bomber taking off. B-47 Bomber landing with drag chute deployed. Ground crewman with lettering on shirt identifying location as Air National Guard Permanent Training Site, Volk Field, Wisconsin. Two F-104s parked. Air Force personnel going in and out of Air Field Headquarters building. Door marked: "Headquarters Air Defense Command." A C-121 Airborne Command aircraft, with large radar hump on top, is seen in flight. A sign reads: " Headquarters Montgomery Air Defense Sector" and Air Force personnel are seen at control stations inside. Sign at Langley Air Force Base, in Virginia, reads "Headquarters Tactical Air Command."
The orbital flight of Friendship 7 during project Mercury-Atlas 6 carrying John Herschel Glenn Jr from the United States. Operators in a communication room. Operators speak over a microphone. Operators check weather reports. Operators at controls. John Herschel Glenn Jr wearing a pressure suit in the Mercury-Atlas 6. Camels loaded walk past a tower. Screen shows the path of the Mercury-Atlas 6. John Herschel Glenn Jr inside the Mercury-Atlas 6. Indian ocean as recorded by Mercury-Atlas 6. A ship in the Indian ocean. A communication tower. Operators in control room. A chart shows frequency variations. Control towers at night. Mercury tracking of the path of spacecraft.
The orbital flight of Friendship 7 under project Mercury-Atlas 6 carrying John Herschel Glenn Jr from the United States. A communication tower. Operators speak on a microphone in the communication room. A screen tracks the path traveled by Friendship 7 . A technician writes on a control panel. Technicians communicate with each other. Mercury tracking of the spacecraft shows the path traveled and two circles stop glowing as the contact is lost. A communication tower and control room on a beach area. Mercury tracking system shows Friendship 7 departing from its path and altitude due to failure of the inter system. The equipment on tower to control the path of Mercury-Atlas 6 manually. Cattle walk past the control center at night.