Thor-Able-Star rocket lofts three satellites aloft in one shoot in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Illustration of rocket in space where its parts the Greb, Injun, and Transit IV-A depart.
Maiden flight of the first Titan I missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida. America's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) at the launch pad. Engineers and scientists make the readings. The 90 foot,2 stage ICBM being launched. Large cloud of smoke and gases around the missile. Missile moves into the space. Smoke trail seen.
The Monkeys Able and Baker's tour to outer space from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Rhesus monkey Able and Squirrel monkey Baker in the space suits. Scientists place the monkeys aboard the nosecone of the Jupiter missile. Scientists make the preparation and the missile is launched. The monkeys travel for 300 miles in space. The nose cone is recovered at sea. Monkeys are taken out of the cone. A press conference organized at the headquarters of NASA for the space monkeys.
Welcome of U.S. NASA astronaut Scott Carpenter in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The fourth U.S. astronaut to probe the outer space and the second man to orbit the earth, astronaut Scott Carpenter disembarks from a plane. His wife and children welcome and greet him at an airport. He waves at the civilians as his motorcade moves through the streets. At the Manned Spacecraft Center other members of the Project Mercury team gather. Astronaut Carpenter receives the Space Distinguished Medal. He addresses journalists at a press conference organized in his home town Boulder, Colorado. At the conference he elaborates on the details of the flight.
President Dwight D Eisenhower visits Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. President arrives with a convoy of cars. He inspects the Missile placed on the launch pad. The President speaks to The Officer in charge. U.S. Army written on the Missile. President Eisenhower climbs the gantry crane.
Three Apollo I astronauts, Rogers Chaffee, Edward White and Gus Grissom die due to a flash fire at a grounded space capsule in Cape Canaveral, Florida. File pictures of the three in an Apollo command module.
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