United States Air Force personnel work at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Two United States airmen seated at front of console. They conduct preflight checkout in blockhouse. Display of readings on screen.
The launch of Polaris missile from Cape Canaveral in Florida. A truck hauls the Polaris missile container. Hatches of the USS George Washington (SSBN-598) opened. A man rotates control wheel of the submarine. The hatches of the submarine are closed. A fire control crew operates switches on a control panel. Men watch through binoculars. The two Polaris missiles launched from the submarine underway at sea.
View of ground data collections at Cape Canaveral, Manchester, England, Singapore and Hawaii. Atlas D Missile on dolly. C-133B with its cargo doors open parked in the background. Atlas-Able 5A on launch pad. Aero jet General technicians work on the launch of second stage of Atlas-Able launch. Technicians manning consoles at missile block house. Atlas-Able 5A ignition and lift-off. Tracking station radar screen. Atlas-Able 5B on launch pad at prior dawn hour. Missile being launched with its lift off and climb. Atlas-Able 5B second stage explosion in air. Personnel in a meeting. Recovered missile parts.
Astronaut Alan Shepard in procedure trainer, he operates it. He talks on headsets. John Glenn at test control panels talks on headsets. Astronaut Alan Shepard exits the procedure trainer. Technicians operate consoles. Astronaut Shepard and technicians talk. Alan Shepard reenters into trainer. Inside the trainer.
Views of what appears to be a smooth launching of a Titan missile. The service structure erector is released and the missile takes off. The camera tracks it as it moves ever higher, with rocket motors burning smoothly. As its image begins to get quite small in the distance, at TC:01:26, the missile begins failing, and explodes in a huge fireball. (Note: This was Missile C-4, the ninth Titan I launch and the second Lot C missile. The guidance compartment collapsed from aerodynamic stress 52 seconds into launch, causing missile pitch down followed by Range Safety destruct. The falling object is the second stage, which separated intact and inadvertently began firing. With no attitude control, it tumbled end over end until shutting down from propellant starvation and impacting the ocean several miles downrange.) This was Missile C-4, the ninth Titan I launch and the second Lot C missile. The guidance compartment collapsed from aerodynamic stress 52 seconds into launch, causing missile pitch down followed by Range Safety destruct. The falling object is the second stage, which separated intact and inadvertently began firing. With no attitude control, it tumbled end over end until shutting down from propellant starvation and impacting the ocean several miles downrange.
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.
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