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Major Leroy Gordon Cooper in Faith 7 aboard MA-9 and dining ceremony at an officers club in the United States.

A film about missile launches in the United States. Major Leroy Gordon Cooper, an American astronaut, suiting up. He puts on a space helmet. He goes to a NASA( National Aeronautics and Space Administration ) transfer van followed by others. Cooper goes to an elevator and the elevator lifts up. McDonnell technicians shake hands with the astronaut. He squeezes into a Faith 7 capsule. An MA-9 on a launch pad. The ignition, lifting off and climb up of Mercury-Atlas 9, the last U.S. Mercury spaceflight manned space mission (Atlas 130D), on 15th May, 1963. National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) cameramen at work. Major General Leighton I. Davis, Commander Air Force Missile Test Center (AFMTR), observes the launch. The capsule splashes down. A navy recovery team on USS Kearsarge (CVS 33), as the capsule is hoisted aboard and Major Cooper egresses from Faith 7. A band plays as Cooper walks. A dining ceremony at Officers Club on Patrick Air Force Base honoring astronauts and Dyna Soar pilots on 2nd March, 1963. Colonel Henry Dittman Base commander, Dr. Kurt Debus, Major General Leighton I Davis, The Secretary of Air Force Eugene M. Zuckert, Colonel Swanson, Walt Williams, Lee S Harding and Brigadier General Harry J. Sands Jr. seated at a front desk. Immediately in front of the head table are honored guest, astronauts and Dyna Soar pilots: Major Donald K. Slayton,Captain Virgil I Grissom,Major Leroy Gordon Cooper,Milton O Thompson,Major James W.Woods, Major Russel J. Roggers, Major Henry C. Gordon, Captain Edward H. White II,Captain James A. McDivitt. The Secretary of Air Force Zuckert speaking.

Date: 1963
Duration: 4 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067243
The Cuban Missile Crisis. The Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

October, 1962, U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, tail number 56-6707, of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, lands at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas. View of Photographic evidence, brought back by the U-2, showing Soviet missiles being set up in Cuba. President John F. kennedy broadcasts to the nation about the crisis on October 22, 1962, announcing measures being taken by the USA to address the situation. A B-58 Hustler bomber landing. Airmen removing camera from nose of a reconnaissance aircraft. Air Force Sergeant, photo interpreter, reading wet film in a base laboratory. U.S. Naval officers and sailors in Command Center viewing large wall map of the world. U.S. Air Force SAC B-52 bombers taking off. View of United Nations Headquarters building in New York City. On October 25, 1962, U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Adlai Stevenson, confronts Soviet Ambassador Valerian Alexandrovich Zorin about missiles in Cuba.He looks at Zorin, and says,"Don't wait for the translation, yes, or no." Zorin smiles as the room fills with laughter. He then responds. View of a Soviet ship bound for Cuba being monitored by a U.S. aircraft overhead. Pilot in cockpit of the aircraft. View from U.S. aircraft flying low past a Soviet ship. Crew in cockpit of the aircraft. Soviet ships turning away. Helicopter flying over sandy beach area of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. The helicopter parked and Undersecretary of State, Averell Harriman, steps from the helicopter and is later seen with President Kennedy, and Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, at the President's Weekend White House. Harriman reports on the successful negotiation of a limited nuclear test ban treaty. Glimpse of Moscow. U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, Soviet Foreign Minister,Andrei Gromyko, and British Foreign secretary, Alexander Douglas-Home, are seen signing the document for their respective nations, August 5, 1963.

Date: 1962, October
Duration: 5 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037573
U.S. Air Force band prepares for arrival of NASA astronaut Major Gordon Cooper

U.S. Air Force band prepares for arrival of NASA astronaut Major Gordon Cooper, soon after his successful Mercury flight in Faith 7. A view of the airport with planes standing. View of VC-137C taxi left at Andrews Air force base. People getting out of the plane.

Date: 1963, May 21
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025269
Luncheon at Bolling AFB celebrating the 1929 flight endurance record of Fokker airplane named Question Mark, and 1963 speed record of a B-58 bomber.

Opening scene shows large group of retired Air Force officers seated at a number of tables in the Bolling Air Force Base Officers' Club. Closeups of General Carl Spaatz, Lieutenant General Ira Eaker, Lieutenant General James Ferguson (Deputy chief of staff for research and development at Headquarters Air Force), and Major Sidney J. Kubesch (who, in October 1963, was aircraft commander of the B-58 bomber that set a speed record, flying 8,028 miles from Tokyo to London in 8 hours, 35 minutes and 20.4 seconds). Old time aviators, Colonel Harry Halverson and aviation mechanic, Sergeant Roy Hooe, who both flew on the Question Mark, are also seen. Closeup of a model B-58 Hustler bomber sitting on a luncheon table. Closeup of a model of the Fokker C-2A "Question Mark" next to old log book. ( This clip also shows two unidentified women participating in the luncheon.)

Date: 1964, January 29
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027444
MAC aircraft transport and deliver relief material, bring back prisoners of war, and transport dignitaries

A man talks about American MAC medical missions from the MAC command headquarters. A map shows the path taken by a medically equipped C-141 from Irkutsk to Yokota Air Base hospital, Japan. Ground crewmen signal to a United States Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) aircraft. MAC planes deliver relief material to people during the floods in Pakistan. Men move towards the helicopter along with supplies. Supplies delivered during the famine and drought in North Central Africa. Men carry sacks of China rice. Destruction caused due to an earthquake in Guatemala. Cartons of clothes and other supplies loaded into a MAC plane. Plane taxis and takes off. Pilots talk on radio. U.S. prisoners of war brought back from Vietnam during Operation Home Coming. U.S. President Jimmy Carter exits a helicopter at Andrews Air Force Base and shakes the hand of a general. President Jimmy Carter climbs steps to Air Force One and enters the aircraft. Air Force One takes off from Andrews Air Force Base.

Date: 1978
Duration: 3 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021086
Retired veteran aviators share Luncheon at Bolling AFB celebrating Air Force record-setting flights in 1929 and 1963.

A large group of retired Air Force officers are seen seated at a number of tables during a luncheon celebrating the 35th anniversary of the 1929 endurance record setting flight of the Fokker C-2A aircraft named "Question Mark." The event is in the Bolling Air Force Base Officers' Club. Closeup of General Carl Spaatz, addressing the group from a podium. Colonel Harry Halverson and aviation mechanic, Sergeant Roy Hooe, who both flew on the Question Mark, are listening, along with Major Sidney J. Kubesch (who,in October 1963, was aircraft commander on the B-58 bomber that set a speed record, flying 8,028 miles from Tokyo to London in 8 hours, 35 minutes and 20.4 seconds). Lieutenant General Ira Eaker addresses the group next. Closeup of him and of General Spaatz tilting his head to hear. The audience applauding. Sergeant Roy Hooe then addresses the group. The clip ends as the luncheon ends and the participants socialize.

Date: 1964, January 29
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027445