Laboratory area at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville. Men move towards a room. They are checked at the entrance and then allowed in. They enter the room. Men move in corridors of the building. A display board fixed on wall is also seen.
"Headquarters Army Ballistic Missile Agency" written on a building in Huntsville, Alabama. General John B Medaris, Chief of Army Ballistic Agency sits in a chair. Wernher Von Braun sits in a chair. A Jupiter Missile shell is towed.
A Jupiter missile erected on a stand in Huntsville, Alabama. Static firing of Jupiter Missile at night. Flames appear at the base of the missile.
A Jupiter rocket covered with tarpaulin towed on a roadway on a flat truck in Huntsville, Alabama.Jupiter missile erected on a stand. 'Liquid Oxygen' written on a container. Men wearing helmets turn a wheel to fuel a missile with liquid oxygen. A Jupiter missile is test fired. It rises up. Shows trail of fire at the tail end of the missile during the flight.
An animation showing mountain peaks and 20 km marked on a vertical line. Picture of sky with moon and stars. Animation showing distance between moon and earth, 400000 km marked on a straight line plotted between moon and earth. Demonstration of rocket principle in nature using plants. Cotyledons of a seedling is touched from among a pot of seedlings. The cotyledons frees with a jerk.
Robert H. Goddard with the first flight of a liquid fuel rocket on March 16, 1926, in Auburn, Massachussets. He stands next to the rocket perched high on a launching frame. Goddard uses a long pole and can of benzene to fuel the rocket. Photogaph of his camera and barograph used on July 17, 1929. An 18 meter tower being prepared. A 6 meter high test stand. The barrel could be filled with water and serve as ballast. Picture of a Performance recording device. A man in a protective bunker 15 meters from the launch point for tests in New Mexico. A man using a telescope to observe from a shed 900 meters from the launch point. Another with a telescope and recording device on a tripod. Pictures from the first gyro-controlled rocket flight on April 19, 1932
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