Various tests being conducted at the Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. A pilot under goes a reaction test as he moves up and down on a vertical accelerator. Another pilot undergoes a test on a vibration table. A breathing apparatus checks for effect on pilots' lungs. A pilot wearing a MC-2 full pressure suit inside a heat chamber. The pilot being tested under extreme temperature and pressure conditions.
Basketball game between the Boston Celtics and the St. Louis Hawks during the NBA (National Basketball Association) championship at Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis, Missouri. The game in progress. Spectators cheer. Bob Pettit of the St. Louis Hawks scores 21 points in the first half. By the end of the game, Bob Pettit scores a then-playoff record of 50 points. The St. Louis Hawks defeat the Boston Celtics with a score of 110-109.
Sled tests conducted at Edwards Air Force Base, California. North American test Pilot Al White dons X-15 pressure and space suit. Wind blast tests being conducted on rocket sled with the help of a dummy. Rocket sled run with dummy wearing an X-15 space suit testing the ejection escape system. Dummy inside X-15 nose section during another test. Pilot jumps with a parachute in case of an emergency. Fabrication and assembling of X-15 at North American Aviation Company. Technicians operate control panel. Engineers check the aircraft parts at the center. Pilot Scott Crossfield undergoes g-force training seated inside whirling centrifuge. (Early in NASA space program)
Roll out ceremony of American X-15 aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. United States Vice President Richard Nixon gives a speech during roll out ceremony of X-15. American X-15 comes out of the hangar. Photographers take pictures. Pilot wearing space suit gets into the cockpit of the aircraft. Technicians and engineers check the aircraft and take readings on instruments.
U.S. Reconnaissance Unit marines receiving underwater training at the U.S. Navy submarine school, New London, Groton, Connecticut. Inside the Buoyant Ascent, Submarine Escape Training Tower, marines equipped with breathing apparatus and flotation collars, are seen rising to the surface of the tank. Glimpse of a submarine on surface of water. Inside the submarine, marines in a platoon, assigned to a team, are briefed by an officer. Then the NCO in charge, carrying his swimming flippers, leads his team into the escape trunk, for their first training mission. View of the marines as water rises around them. Then they are seen making buoyant ascents from the submarine, with bubbles trailing as they rise. View at surface as the team members reach it. The team swims toward shore, pulling their equipment in waterproof bags. They land on a beach, and sweep away any landing marks in the sand. Inland, a team member removes a submachine gun from its waterproof bag. He gives the gun to another marine, fully dressed in camouflage fatigues,
A sail boat race competition off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island. Several American yachts in water competing during the preliminary trials for the America's Cup. The yachts sailing in the ocean waters. A British yacht among the yachts. Men on the yachts.
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