Los Alamos Atomic Energy Commission Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico and mountains in the background. Scientists work with diagrams of nuclear reactors. Different equipment and nuclear rocket designs. Prototype of Nuclear reactor is made. Technicians work with KIWI experimental reactors. Towers and buildings in desert. KIWI reactor is checked in nuclear assembly. Reactor is taken to the testing area on a special rail car. Man works at a remote station to control the car. Liquid hydrogen is pumped into the reactor on rail car from near by storage tanks. Reactor tested on test stand shows flaming torch. Reactor transported for disassembly and inspection on car by remote control. Men use remote control manipulators for inspection. Exhaust gas from other reactor on test stand. Men work on diagrams. Narrator discusses next step as the NERVA program (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications), a combined government and private industry (Aerojet and Westinghouse) effort headed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office (SNPO). Animated nuclear thermal rocket shown with NERVA technology ( Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application), given the letter designation NRX.
A German V-2 rocket is launched and tested at the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. The V-2 is raised into firing position from top of a special elevating trailer or carryall machinery. The warhead of the V-2 rocket. Final firing preparations shows workers standing on a platform at the base of the rocket.
A radar tracking station at a German V-2 rocket test site in the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. The large radar tracking station shows radar equipment in operation. Heavy power lines lead to the station.
A radar tracking station at a German V-2 rocket test site at the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. Various radar equipment in operation including SCR-270 (Signal Corps Radio model 270 radar).
Aero-Medical Field Laboratory tests at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States. A dummy in spinal position 70 degrees moves on a rocked sled. A series of tests conducted on the rocket sled. Cars parked in the background. The head of the dummy comes off in one of the tests.
Aero-Medical Field Laboratory tests at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States. Interiors of a laboratory shows technicians looking through microscopes. An airman operates a balance scale. Bottles on a shelf in the background. A technician places a cylinder in a horizontal position.