"Headquarters Army Ballistic Missile Agency" written on a building in Huntsville, Alabama. General John B Medaris, Chief of Army Ballistic Agency sits in a chair. Wernher Von Braun sits in a chair. A Jupiter Missile shell is towed.
Designs by various international scientists and inventors who have contributed to solving the problems of rocket motor development, based on the German preparatory work. Their combustion chamber designs owe much to the German pioneers in the field. Shown are design sketches by Russian scientist, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (Ziolkowsky) in 1914; French inventor Henri Melot, in 1920; German Friedrich Zander, in 1931; Bull, 1932; The American Rocket Society, with several designs from 1932; and The Cleveland Rocket Society. Views of rocket combustion research activity by Ernst Loebell of the Cleveland Rocket Society in 1933. He is seen outdoors in the snow with his apparatus. View of Loebell's test firing stand, and a picture of an actual test firing, outdoors. Ernst Loebell with model and rocket motor from his spaceship projects of 1934 and at the International Exposition dedicated to Art and Technology in Modern Life held in Paris, 1937. Cutaway views of the spaceship. The rocket motor wrapped in cooling coils. Rocket motor design by John Shesta of the American Rocket Society, from 1934. Design by Rene Armengaud of France, in 1934 and Deich in 1935.
The Aurora 7space capsule on the deck of the U.S. Navy Destroyer, USS John R. Pierce (DD-753), which had recovered it from the sea after splashdown, following the Mercury-Atlas 7 orbital mission. Sailors set hook from derrick onto the space capsule and then steady it with lines as is is raised from the ship and transferred by the derrick onto a waiting flat bed trailer.
Lieutenant Commander John Glenn and Lieutenant Commander Walter Schirra watch pre-boarding preparations for Mercury-Atlas 7 orbital mission, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Technicians prepare capsule aperture for hatch cover.
Technicians prepare the space capsule for launch. United States flag. United States written on space capsule. Space capsule named as 'Aurora 7'. Lieutenant Commander John Glenn talks on telephone. Technicians make adjustments to space capsule.
Mercury Astronauts Scott Carpenter and John Glenn, accompanied by several other persons, walk across a beach on Grand Turk Island. They carry scuba gear; board an outboard motorboat; and head out in the water.
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