Skiers carrying their ski boards climb up Mount Hood in Oregon. They ski down the snow covered slopes of the mountain as people cheer them on.
United States Army Material Command headquarters in Fort Belvoir, United States. Technicians manufacture military equipment at a plant. Personnel work on Univac automatic data processing computer system. Researchers and scientists conduct research and development work in labs to come out with advanced military equipment. (This film also shows a CH-37 helicopter and a CH-54 helicopter, as well as an early MGM-52 Lance missile.)
Animated map showing planned orbital flight paths planned for Project Mercury and associated telemetry and radar tracking installations worldwide. Chart notes some sites operated by the U.S. Air Force Air Research and Development Command (ARDC). Views of telemetry and radar tracking installation at Mercury network station 17, located at site A-20, Eglin AFB. Operator at control console setting azimuth and elevation controls of the Active Acquisition Aid (AGAVE). (This device is designed to receive the spacecraft telemetering signals and automatically track it, in angle, with sufficient accuracy so the radar can lock on to the spacecraft.) The Aquisition Aid quad helix antenna is seen rotating.
Equipment being installed to track NASA Mercury spacecraft during earth orbits. A 60 foot dish being positioned on a pedestal by a crane at Eglin Auxiliary Field no.5 at Eglin air force base in Florida,United States. MPQ-31 antenna rotates.
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.
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