Testing of small scale models for Project Orion, which is the study of a method for propelling multi-ton vehicles into space by series of nuclear detonations. Flight tests with a model weighing 250 pounds. A model going aloft for a three-shot flight and making a successful parachute landing.
Testing of small scale models for Project Orion, which is the study of a method for propelling multi-ton vehicles into space by a series of nuclear detonations, called nuclear pulse propulsion. A successful six-shot flight test of a Project Orion model is seen.
A helicopter takes off, New York City's skyline, the Statue of Liberty, a New York City bridge, tugboats, the ocean liner SS United States and the Greek freighter Isbrandtsen.
Marsh in United States. Marsh boats, flatboats, lake cruisers, barges and rowboats in water.
A helicopter, dirigible and planes in the sky. Helicopter and planes land.
Atomic explosion during nuclear weapons test in Nevada during the Cold War. Smoke forms into a doughnut-shaped cloud as it ascends.