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SAMOS 3 aboard the Atlas Agena-B rocket explodes during an attempt to launch it from California, United States.

The Atlas LV-3A/Agena B rocket on a launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States. SAMOS 3, a U.S. Air Force first generation photo surveillance satellite, aboard the Atlas LV-3A/Agena B. The rocket blows up. Smoke columns rise as the rocket catches fire. Several views of the smoke rising. Electrical towers and lines in the foreground. The launch pad as seen through the smoke. (Note:One of the pad umbilicals did not properly detach at liftoff, cutting off electrical power to the Atlas. The booster fell back through the launch stand and exploded. SLC-4E was fully repaired in only nine weeks and hosted Samos 4's launch two weeks after that.)

Date: 1961, September 9
Duration: 5 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067228
Launches of German V-2 ,Titan II from a missile test center in California, United States.

Rocket engine nozzle at launching. The engine rises slowly from launch pad. An engineer behind control panel. A rocket launches a captured German V-2 rocket/WAC Corporal Bumper 8 from Pad 3 of Cape Canaveral on July 24, 1950. Two United States Air Force Convair F-106As Delta Dart in flight. Aerial view of launch complexes. Titan II missile is launched. The Titan II missile explodes mid-air. A huge ball of fire from Titan II explosion. A scientist uses a tracking camera during a Titan II rocket launch. Footage from camera shows the first stage separation of the Titan II. The booster blasted away at second stage ignition. Various tracking stations covering the Atlantic missile range. A satellite dish recording telemetry data. Observatory dome with telescope rotating. The USS HH Arnold (T-AGM-9) missile tracking ship at sea. A re-entry vehicle is seen re-entering the atmosphere. A United States Air Force Lockheed JC-130B Hercules equipped with a trapeze structure snatching an Aero kite balloon suspended from a ship. Air Force Missile Test Center and its logo. View of Patrick Air Force Base in Brevard County, Florida (840 Falcon Ave. Building 720 Patrick AFB, FL 32925). Various missiles on display in front of the Air Force Missile Test Center Technical Lab at Patrick Air Force Base. Engineers working in the Air Force Missile Test Center Technical Lab. An engineer examines a magnetic tape from an IBM console in the EDP room. An Air Force Missile Test Center report. A Gemini space capsule is being lowered. NASA personnel watch the capsule. Sign reads “Gemini / Titan II Man Rated Complex Martin Company”. Lt. Colonel John G. Albert Chief of the Gemini Launch division, 6555th Aerospace Test Wing at the entering gate. A blockhouse in the background. Colonel Albert inspects Gemini’s boosters. He is at the launch control in the blockhouse.

Date: 1963
Duration: 5 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067233
Preparations before the launch of Titan III and the launch of Atlas 134F at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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.

Date: 1963
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067234
Unsuccessful launches of an LGM-30 Minuteman and a Polaris missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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.

Date: 1963
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067235
The USS Wallace L. Lind underway and launch of a Polaris missile from USS Andrew Jackson at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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.

Date: 1963
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067236
Crew checks out the firing of Mace (CGM13B) missile and its launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida, United States.

A film about missile launches in the United States. A missile taken on a trailer. The crew at Cape Canaveral checks out the firing of a United States Air Force tactical missile Mace (CGM13B) at a practice launch. Crew members bring equipment for checking. The equipment after being tested is carried away. A digital time recorder. The missile being launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Date: 1963
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067239