Space research programs of the National Aeronautics And Space Administration (NASA) in the United States. Saturn rocket at a launch pad. A gantry is removed. The rocket is launched on a major flight test. Men at work in Mission Control station. Rocket scientist Werner von Braun is seen smiling and rubbing his hands. View of a Mission Control workstation. Group of astronauts for the Gemini and Apollo programs are seen on a visit to Cape Canaveral, Florida. Major Gordon Cooper holding a coffee cup and talking to other astronauts. They discuss a chart and work on space projects. Close up side view of Roger Chaffee. A rocket on a launch pad. Point of view shot from a camera on board a rocket, pointing down toward earth, as the rocket lifts off, showing the earth recede quickly below the rocket as it soars toward space. An astronaut inside a capsule in full space suit. Night time view of a NASA rocket on a launch pad in Cape Canaveral Florida.
The U.S. Destroyer, USS Barton (DD-722) underway slowly in the Cape Canaveral Ship Channel, Cape Canaveral, Florida. She is one of the ships in the Mercury-Atlas 7 orbital mission recovery task force.
Gantry at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Signal light near gantry. Workers open the gantry. Mercury Atlas 8. '113D' and 'United States' written on Mercury Atlas 8. 113D flight readiness firing test at Cape Canaveral. Mercury Atlas 8 creates thrust during launch.
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.
Welcome and honor of American astronaut John Herschel Glenn Junior in Cape Canaveral. John Glenn disembarks from an aircraft at Patrick Air Force Base in Cape Canaveral. Glenn is greeted and welcomed by his wife, children, mother and father. They arrive at Cape Canaveral town from the air base. Civilians greet and welcome Glenn. The President of the United States John F. Kennedy presents the Space Distinguished Service Medal praising his courage.
Close up view of NASA engineer. NASA engineer peers through a periscope. A row of arclights ignite to light Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 14. View of Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 14, the launch site of Friendship 7 spacecraft. NASA engineers watch the launch from outside. Closeup of zipper on space suit closed after pressure suit fabric tucked inside. American astronaut John Glenn puts on his space helmet. View of scientist looking down as he helps John Glenn with his helmet. Scientist smokes a pipe. Scientist adjusts John Glenn’s spacesuit gloves. Scientist ties John Glenn’s glove laces. John Glenn closes his fist to make sure the gloves were securely tied. The scientist smiles. John Glenn, in his helmet, smiles back. John Glenn prepares for insertion by getting into his capsule couch mold.
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