Training of a chimpanzee during Project Mercury at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States. Several chimpanzees in a cage. They climb on the cage. Trainers give food to them. The chimpanzees in the cage. A chimpanzee holds a fruit and eats it.
Training of a chimpanzee during Project Mercury at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States. Trainers walk with a chimpanzee. The cage of the chimpanzee. Several chimpanzees in the cage.
Training of a chimpanzee during Project Mercury at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States. A chimpanzee seated on a spacecraft couch. He operates levers in the spacecraft.
Training of a chimpanzee during NASA Project Mercury preparations at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States. Animal test is conducted as chimpanzee rides a rocket sled on a track. Men walk along the side of the track. Buildings in the background. Technicians check the chimp (not seen) after the rocket sled test.
A film about testing of rocket models at White Sands in New Mexico, United States. Technicians in a room. A car pulls up outside a building with a sign on it that reads 'Supersonic wind tunnel laboratory'. Men at a drafting table as they design rocket models. A technician in a machine shop works on a model of a missile. A model of a rocket being tested in a wind tunnel for flight factors like drag. Technicians observe during a test flight in a compression room. Men work on control panels. Rocket models being tested in the wind tunnel under simulated flight conditions. Huge gauges on a wall as technicians take readings. An image of a rocket model under test on a viewer screen. The pattern of air density being observed. Photographic record of the image being taken. A rocket lifts off and in flight.
Activities the day before the Trinity nuclear test conducted at White Sands Missile Range (USAAF Almogordo bombing and gunnery range) in the Jornado del Muerto desert of New Mexico, during World War II. This is for the the first atomic bomb test; and first ever detonation of a nuclear weapon in history. View of the White Sands Missile Range,the testing site for Trinity nuclear test. Mountains seen in the background. Men aboard a truck loaded with the plutonium core nuclear device nicknamed "Gadget". Men attach the gadget to hook of a crane. Crane hoists the gadget from truck and place it on ground. Men assemble the gadget.