President Dwight D Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev shake hands in the White House during Khrushchev's visit in America, soon after recent Soviet advances in the "space race." Closeup images of the moon, and of images of far side of the moon recorded by Soviets, and also brief Soviet Russian science fiction animated scenes depicting space ships traveling toward the moon, and another space ship vessel in orbit near the moon. In United States two monkeys are shown, named Able and Baker who were part of rocket testing before human flights took place. View of a monkey strapped into a Jupiter rocket and launch is shown of a Jupiter rocket with the monkeys for their space flight. Seven astronauts of the Project Mercury program are shown in training in a weightless, or zero gravity chamber.
Major events of the year 1959. John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State before his death as he gets down from a car and enters a house. Dulles dies of cancer.
United States Navy divers undergo training. A Navy diver wearing a diving mask climbs down a ladder underwater and descends along a rope to the bottom.
United States Navy diver trainee, wearing a large metal diving helmet, goes underwater during training. The diver adjusts his air regulator and holds onto a rope as he walks on the seabed.
United States Navy divers training. A Navy diver wearing a brass bell type helmet is seen underwater during training. He holds a rope as he remains underwater, and bubbles are seen exiting the helmet.
United States Navy divers undergo training. A Navy diver wearing a scuba-type mask underwater during training. Bubbles rise upwards from the mask as the diver breathes under water.
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