Atlas rocket LV-3B 130-D in a hangar and test of an engine in Cape Canaveral Florida, in advance of NASA Mercury-Atlas MA-9 mission. Technicians work on the missile in a hangar. They assemble the outer body parts of the missile. A technician stands on the missile and the other technician helps him to put on the outer cover of the missile. They run tests and check out the vernier engine at Cape Canaveral. They work on the engine. A technician with a paper in his hand. Various tools on the table. The vernier engine on a test machine. A man at a control panel.
Major L. Gordon Cooper climbs into Faith 7 capsule for his first NASA space flight, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, during the Mercury Atlas MA-9 mission. McDonnell technicians work on a spacecraft. Major Cooper, wearing a flight suit and helmet, arrives in the White Room and salutes Padleader Guenter F. Wendt, who returns the salute. Major Cooper talks with the McDonnell technicians and shakes hands with Lt. Commander Malcolm S. Carpenter and Walter M. Schirra. Commander Alan B. Shepard in white coveralls. Major Cooper climbs into the capsule. Technicians help him getting in. The hatch being secured. A technician with headphones.
Launch of NASA Mercury Atlas-9 in Cape Canaveral, United States with astronaut Gordon Cooper aboard. The rocket on a launchpad. A gantry in the background. Smoke comes out from the engine of the rocket and it lifts off, climbs, and creates condensation trail in the sky. The Atlas rocket LV-3B 130-D in flight.
X-15 first powered flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California. B-52 Stratofortress with chase planes in flight. Contrails left out by the planes. X-15 in flight and climbs up. Contrails left out by the X-15. A chase plane behind it. The chase plane flies above and over X-15. X-15 flies over mountains. It lands on a dry lake bed and taxis. An unidentified plane taxis in background.
U.S. 5th and 6th Marine Regiment depart for rest camps in France during World War I. U.S. Marines leave the trenches at Montreuil and depart for the rest camps. Trucks and cars loaded with U.S. Marines. The troops on a road. Marine officers including Captain K.E. Rockey, Major T. Holcomb and Lt. C.B. Cates pose. Trucks loaded with U.S. troops.
A national television report on the newly appointed U.S. Vice President Lyndon Johnson, broadcast after the assassination of President John F Kennedy in the United States. A correspondent interviews President Lyndon B Johnson. They discuss Johnson's flair for politics, his father as a Public Representative and his grandfather as a State Representative. Johnson talks about his work experience in Johnson City during World War I and the time he decided to enter politics. The correspondent questions him regarding his giving up the Majority Leadership in the Senate to become the Vice President.
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