Radar tracking units for NASA Project Mercury at Eglin air force base in Florida,United States. MPQ-31 antenna rotating. Operator at control console. An FPS-16 radar unit antenna rotating.
Operators at work in NASA Project Mercury tracking facility at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. An FPS-16 operator at control console.Other equipment seen include time signal receiver and time standard equipment. Several technicians are seen, some performing diagnostic testing of equipment.. (Note: The FPS-16 units originally planned for the Project Mercury tracking network did not have adequate displays and controls to reliably acquire the spacecraft during orbit. So NASA had them modified to double their range and also incorporated data-handling equipment to facilitate transmissions from all sites to the Mercury Project computers.)
A man works on teletype in tracking station for project Mercury at Eglin air force base in Florida,United States. Words being typed on a paper.
A newsreel titled 'Streamline Ferry launched to ply the Chesapeake' shows Streamlined Ferry named Princess Anne with people on the deck in United States. The ferry is christened and launched to ply the Chesapeake Bay.
A newsreel titled 'Bull calf made into a Unicorn by a Me. Scientist' shows a man pulls a single horned bull calf in Maine,United States. The calf,turned into a Unicorn by a scientist,runs around a field.
New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad trains collide in Atlantic, Massachusetts, injuring hundreds of passengers. Wrecked trains lie at the tracks as people throng the area to look at the accident site.
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