Piasecki H-21 at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Piasecki H-21 helicopter hovers over runway.
Technicians look at remains of X-15-3 and its XLR-99 engine after explosion on test stand at Edwards Air Force Base. Various equipment kept on a ground. A cockpit of X-15. Ladder on either side of X-15. Technicians look at XLR-99 engine which looks completely destroyed. Front part of X-15 fuselage still intact.
Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight program, in United States. A rocket on a gantry. A sign reads 'United'. Technicians work on a spacecraft. They work on the Redstone MR-2. A ladder in the background. A technician works on a part of the rocket. Different control systems in the spacecraft. Technicians work on different parts of it. A man tests a part of the spacecraft.
Project Mercury program by NASA in United States. Trainees with chimpanzees. A chimpanzee couch. Technicians watch controls as they test a spacecraft in a test chamber. U.S. Air Force airplane delivers the spacecraft to the test center. Men stand in a group and talk. The spacecraft is towed with a tug. A chimpanzee on a couch is taken out from a van. The spacecraft is suspended over altitude chamber prior to the test. A chimpanzee named Ham is taken to the test chamber. It is placed in the spacecraft. Technicians work in a control room. The door to altitude chamber is closed. The chimpanzee in a couch container. Technicians inspect the spacecraft and an impact bag.
Project Mercury program in United States. A Redstone MR-2 rocket is unloaded from the military air transport. It is towed with a tug and is taken to a hangar for service where technicians work on it. It is taken out of the hangar and is raised up to the level of a gantry. The rocket is tied to a rope and men pull the rope to raise the rocket. The rocket at the gantry. Men stand around it. Technician work on a spacecraft. A sign reads 'United States'. The technicians take pictures of the spacecraft. It is brought near the rocket. The spacecraft is hooked and pulled up. A sign reads 'Danger Explosive Installed'. Technicians talk and look up. Men on the gantry. A technicians looks into a book . The spacecraft is attached to a rocket by the technicians.
NASA Project Mercury program in United States. Chimpanzee 'Ham' gets medical check up prior to being strapped onto a couch. The chimpanzee container is unloaded from a NASA van. A sign reads 'No Smoking In This Area'. The chimpanzee container is loaded into a gantry elevator and the elevator ascends. The chimpanzee is taken to Mercury Redston rocket and is put inside it. A sign reads ' McDonnell Aircraft Corp.' A technician at a control panel. Recovery ships leave dock. The space rocket is prepared for launch. Launch team technicians at the NASA mission control center. The countdown starts. The rocket is fueled with liquid oxygen. A tower. Men in a blockhouse. A man with headphones looks at the control panel. The countdown machine. A stand is removed from the rocket at a launch pad. The smoke comes out and the rocket lift-off. The rocket in flight. A technician monitors the respiration and heart of the chimpanzee. A man at a control panel. The mission event board shows the flight status. An airplane in flight locates the spacecraft. Recovery ship converges with the spacecraft. A helicopter retrieves the spacecraft and returns to a ship. The chimpanzee is taken out from the spacecraft and is examined by a doctor.
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