First National Assembly Elections in France. Buildings. French civilians stands in rows to casts vote. They casts their votes in the ballot box. Media persons and reporters inform and file reports on telephones. Officials and leaders attend the assembly for enactment of a new constitution. Charles De Gaulle wins the election against the opposition party.
The use of walkie talkie hand held two way radios at a hospital in San Francisco, California. A man explains the functioning of the walkie talkie radios to the doctors and the nurses. Operator seated at the switch board. A doctor receives a reporting signal from the early model pager, via a beep, and can hear information from the switchboard operator and respond. A mother hears the wails of her new born baby through the walkie talkie as it serves the role of early baby monitor.
A Russian science fiction film depicts the return of a proposed reusable space ship vehicle in the Soviet Union. A satellite gives signals about the space vehicle. Civilians listen to the news about the space vehicle at the conclusion of its trip to the moon. The manned space vehicle returns, flying in for an aircraft style water landing. Officers watch the landing through their binoculars. A boat moves towards the space vehicle. The astronauts aboard the boat. (An early concept for what became the future Space Shuttle program of NASA).
U.S. astronaut Scott Carpenter arrives at the campus of the University of Colorado. Scott Carpenter and his wife Rene Louise Price in a motorcade wave at the civilians as they arrive at the campus of the university. He arrives in Colorado to receive the degree in aeronautical engineering which he failed to take in 1949. A professor presents the brand new degree and a silver plate to commemorate the occasion.
Newsreel coverage of the successful space flights of Soviet Russian astronauts in Vostok 3 and Vostok 4, during timeframe of "space race" between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. The Russian astronauts Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich climb into manned space vehicles. Massive cloud of smoke arise as space ship lifts off. The vehicles travel through space and orbit around the planet within 24 hours of each other. Views from the spaceships while in orbit. The space crew at controls on the ground in Russia. Many newspaper headlines showing coverage of the Russian advance in space. Civilians in Red Square in Moscow cheer the new space heroes. They hold banners and pictures including a large photo of Andriyan Nikolayev.
Astronaut Walter Marty Schirra Junior being honored at the White House in Washington D.C. President of the United States, John F. Kennedy receives astronaut Walter Marty Schirra Junior and his family. They discuss the 9 hours long space flight aboard Mercury-Atlas 8. Walter Marty Schirra addresses the reporters. His wife and children accompanied him. After the speech Walter and his wife proceed to Pentagon. United States Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth presents Astronaut Wings to Walter M Schirra for his six orbit space flight. Schirra's children wait outside the Pentagon as their father receives new honors from the U.S. Navy.
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